Athletics Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Road to Paris 2024

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50 minutes ago, Dragon said:

US NCAA Regionals

Men 100m

 

 Louie Hinchcliffe 10.00 (0.8w)

Unusually it's Hinchliffe, Dragon.

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Damn these freak spellers...

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On 5/21/2024 at 11:29 PM, rybak said:

Another new low for us, for the first time since Seoul 1988 we will not have any male marathon runner in Olympics, this is too much....

Has Poland got a national lottery?

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3 hours ago, Dragon said:

Has Poland got a national lottery?

Yes, lottery where you can win award of the biggest downgrade in last years 

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1 hour ago, rybak said:

Yes, lottery where you can win award of the biggest downgrade in last years 

Before Britain funded its athletes with a national lottery - 20 years, 23 gold medals.

After Britain funded its athletes with a national lottery - 20 years, 89 gold medals

 

It seems to work...

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24 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Before Britain funded its athletes with a national lottery - 20 years, 23 gold medals.

After Britain funded its athletes with a national lottery - 20 years, 89 gold medals

 

It seems to work...

This happened after Atlanta 1996? Then the UK received a booster in the form of London 2012, which they used well, which cannot be said about for example Athens 2004.

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3 minutes ago, copravolley said:

This happened after Atlanta 1996? Then the UK received a booster in the form of London 2012, which they used well, which cannot be said about for example Athens 2004.

It actually started in 1994 but the effects of it didn't start happening until after Atlanta

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3 minutes ago, Dragon said:

It actually started in 1994 but the effects of it didn't start happening until after Atlanta

So it was back in Thatcher's time?

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3 minutes ago, copravolley said:

So it was back in Thatcher's time?

Very much the idea of her successor John Major.

Thatcher didn't care for sport at all

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1 minute ago, Dragon said:

Very much the idea of her successor John Major.

Thatcher didn't care for sport at all

Generally, I have the impression that in such turbo-liberal economic governments as under Tacher, sport is having difficult times, especially the Olympic sport, which requires public subsidies. Football will always survive on private sponsorship.