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  On 3/9/2024 at 10:36 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

I have to give you credit... for the consistency of the utter drivel that you continue to post. 

 

The selection policy for UK athletics was published in January

 

EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ROME SELECTION POLICY ANNOUNCED – UK Athletics

 

Sure the team will be small - let's be honest it's a stupid idea to have a continental championship in the same year as the Olympics so for the vast majority of our top athletes, it's probably not going to be on their calendar but to suggest that no British athletes are going to apply to compete in Rome is simply you spouting yet more rubbish.

 

For the sake of everyone's sanity, can you please stop spamming the threads with this nonsense. 

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Well I’ve been told by someone who knows someone who could make that criteria but most likely not Paris that they have been told they might not be much of a team as finances are bad bad bad. 

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  On 3/9/2024 at 8:58 PM, TeamGB said:

If this is true, this is really frustrating, you'd think they would at least be able to send a team of development athletes, or even the ones that they don't think are good enough for the olympics despite having qualified.

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I don’t they there is any money to spend on development athletes or taking those not worthy of the Olympics. 
 

 

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No team at Rome apparently according to my source. 

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BBC article about Cindy Ngamba.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/68471061

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Even if no medals are won surely it can’t be worse than Atlanta with two boxers who both lost their first fights. 

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  On 3/8/2024 at 12:48 AM, Rafa Maciel said:

Given the incompetence of Home Office I doubt she'll be getting her passport through before Olympics.  

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In fact I could see the Home Office being slow on purpose to avoid being accused of rushing it through. 

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  On 3/5/2024 at 1:09 AM, Rafa Maciel said:

I think we are probably heading for the smallest GB boxing team since Beijing. For the last 3 games, GB have had at least 10 boxers qualify - at the moment I can't see us getting into double figures for Paris. In Beijing, we had 7 and we might even struggle to match that this time. Having said that, probably worth bearing in mind that the number of places available in boxing has dropped for Paris - there's about 40-50 fewer quotas available. 

 

Perhaps more worrying is the lack of an obvious medal favourite in the squad - if they don't come back with any medals from Paris then GB Boxing will likely see their funding cut significantly. 

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Probably removed entirely. Even the successful sports are preparing for cuts particularly if the narrative of the entire games is a big decrease in medals. 
 

There needs to be golds in the primetime sports of swimming and Athletics and I’m not sure either will produce a gold.

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I do wonder if she will she retire unless she is aiming for LA. British cycling have never cared that much about anything but the Olympics. 

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One if the poorest performances from Laura Muir I’ve seen for a while. 

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The BBC clearly not happy with the size of the team this morning. 

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I do wonder if we going to start losing athletes who have dual nationality to other countries because of some of the selection policies in some of the sports.