I really wish world athletics took a stronger position on this aspect of Bahraini athletics, they just kind of added it on the end to appease people without really addressing the problem. When your entire athletics team is made up of naturalised athletes you must be doing something wrong. For me, the worst case has to be Salwa Eid Naser, who changed her name to compete for Bahrain from Nigeria. You can't blame the athletes because they are doing the best for their careers, but to me it send out the wrong image for the athletics community.
Any idea how to rewatch today's afternoon session? UCI just points to this thing, but that's only from yesterday and even with Google Translate it's nearly impossible to navigate this 'website'.
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destroyed in the gold medal race of the men's Team Pursuit and recorded an amazing new junior world record, 2.5 seconds better than yesterday in the quali and semis (when they rode twice almost the same time)
beat for bronze
and will face each other in the women's TP gold medal race, after beating and respectively in the semis
Lucas Menanteau won the men's Scratch
Ever had a really bad day? Even your worst is not as bad as this guy.
A Russian tourist who was gored while allegedly trying to rape a cow after he was dumped by his girlfriend now faces being conscripted to fight for Putin against Ukraine.
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