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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.

Good luck to all of our readers, who must be desperately praying that President Macron does not nominate them as Prime Minister of France tomorrow.

Olympic Diver Grace Reid. 3 times Olympian, Commonwealth & European.Gold, but like many divers just could not crack the Chinese. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/articles/ced53vl8l04o

And so tough in Norway, am guessing from the timing she's just bern told she's not A Group.this year.

Nice story today. Zeb Kyffin started the season in the Div 3 British St Pirrin Team, did well at the Tour of Britain, got a pro contract & this morning got his first big win at the Tour de Lankawi!

Košice marathon on Sunday -not the most famous or most prestigious but absolutely one of the World's oldest. https://www.kosicemarathon.com/

And if you fancy some early-season curling this weekend, good coverage on YT. Not quite live, but very close. https://m.youtube.com/@curlingcanada/videos

Just look on wikipedia. she is the heir to some huge fortune.

Yeah, but she started with $2billion......