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sending the A Team Men's endurance: Matthew Bostock, Josh Charlton, Michael Gill, Mark Stewart, Josh Tarling, Charlie Tanfield, Will Tidball Women's endurance: Katie Archibald, Meg Barker, Josie Knight, Maddie Leech, Anna Morris, Jessica Roberts Men's sprint: Harry Ledingham-Horn, Matt Richardson, Joe Truman, Hamish Turnbull Women's sprint: Lauren Bell, Rhian Edmunds, Emma Finucane, Iona Moir, Rhianna Parris-Smith And TV Coverage in Blighty is mostly streaming, with highlights on Sunday on BBC2 2025 Track Cycling World Championships: How to follow the action live on the BBC - BBC Sport

And I am sure a lot more athletes can go to a 20 minute ceremony rather than one that takes three hours, security checks, bus travel etc etc.

Have no fear; even countries with only one athlete will have enough relatives of the Minister of Sport to keep many parades covered.

More live Curling FTA this weekend on Eurovision Sport, Grand Slam event from Alberta Schedule | Eurovision Sport

And secondly, on Sunday, the One Loop event from the Olympic Stadium, Munich Biathlon body aiming to reach younger audience with event in Munich Which will be live on Eurovision Sports Watch Biathlon Live | Biathlon Championships & IBU World Cup | Eurovision Sport

Would you believe we have a biathlon double bill this weekend? First up the SAMSE Summer Tour from Chambery on Saturday and Sunday, live on the 1.Sport YT Channel 1. SPORT - YouTube

Oh, Lordy another bobsleigh brakeman, this time Frencesco Friederich's occasional partner Simon Wulff Report: Friedrich to lose World Cup title due to brakeman's doping *Actually this was news from last month - what changes was just the revised results of some races.

Also wonder if this will be a kick up the backside for the BBC who nowadays see the CWG as some kind of imperialist episode best ignored.

India awarded the 2030 Commonwealths, Nigeria still keen to do 2034. Commonwealth Games 2030: India's Ahmedabad set to host centenary Games - BBC Sport

World Athletics early nominations for track athlete of the year. WOMEN Beatrice Chebet Faith Kipyegon Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Melissa Jefferson-Wooden Femke Bol MEN Noah Lyles Rai Benjamin Emmanuel Wanyonyi Cordell Tinch https://worldathletics.org/awards/news/nominees-announced-track-athlete-year-2025

Reading between the lines, I'm guessing Team GB are going to be financing one or other of the youngsters going forward, rather than 29-year old Carlin. Hence the decision.

British cycling track sprinter Jack Carlin. Long career, lots of medals, but just never beat the Australians or Dutch for that big gold. Olympic Games: Team GB cyclist Jack Carlin announces retirement - BBC Sport

More schedule roundup https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cyv8p6m7ldno And in full https://www.glasgow2026.com/schedule/day-by-day

It definitely does exist. I have my pension invested there. Pays a 10% return.

Lombardia today & it is every bit as exciting & unpredictable as we expected. Plenty fans out tbf. And the very second I post it, idiot tifosi get into Evenepoel's way. No harm done though.

Kona Ironman World Championship this weekend, live on Youtube.

Competition for the award going to be hot this year. First cyclist Victor Legelotti wins a World Tour race & now tennis player Valentin Vacherot beats Ðoković and makes a Masters semi. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cz696pywwnlo

Plenty of 800m runners have won relays, used to be a standard thing.

Athlos meet tonight from NYC starts in a few hours. Unlike your actual New York sandwiches, it's going to be lots of bread and very little filling. Other big event of the weekend will be the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, which is live on.Discovery etc.

No, I'm sure they'll finish up the comp because ranking points are also important for other events, but it means that the other teams now have only 3 places to play for.

Damn, there goes my pitch for a 13-part series on the Discovery Channel! The ancient Roman grave marker recently found in the back yard of a New Orleans home had evidently been inherited and left there by the granddaughter of a US soldier who fought in Italy during the second world war. In statements that all but solved an international historical mystery, Erin Scott O’Brien told two local media outlets that her grandfather, Charles Paddock Jr, kept the 1,900-year-old artifact in a display case at his home in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood before his death in 1986. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/roman-grave-marker-found-in-new-orleans-yard-left-there-by-us-soldier-s-granddaughter/ar-AA1OcZbf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e8eecdb93946249fb6c87c72ab48c0&ei=12

In one single day, according to UNRWA, Gaza goes from famine to having three months food reserves.

Dunno if anyone here is, as I used to be until recently, an expired player of Lord of the Rings Online. Well, they have just introduced a feature whereby you can revive your characters from the old, non-functioning servers, to the shiny new modern servers.

bobsled pusher Arran Gulliver gets a 2 year ban for ostarine. Seems to have got off a bit lightly - although his personal results are all wiped, the team medals won with him have not been anulled. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c5yk188e7jno

Suddenly nobody is starving in Gaza or needing boatloads of food delivered by bad-tempered Swedes.