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Anyway, the good news for him is that he’s now in a bit of a group with some other sprinters falling off the back. Can look forward to a night on glucose drips though.

Has been vomiting apparently - not shown. Eurosport reckon the time cut for today will be around 40 mins so barring catastrophe……

Uh oh Cavendish in trouble on the first climb. Is already 2’30 down on the peloton, so we’re looking at timeout territory.

We are off with the actual start. Jan Hirt in a crash even before the depart fictif! As usual spectators watching their cameras, not the race.

Another couple of FTA National Champs FPAtletismo TV - YouTube Hungarian Athletics - YouTube

So I think it's fair to say that President Biden must have been a bit disappointed with his performance last night.

Wonderful article here about the single greatest moment in the history of the old unlamented Communist . Antonin Panenka: The Euro 1976 penalty that killed a career and birthed a feud - BBC Sport

Championships / Trials start tomorrow evening, on FTA.

But 28 days - 4 weeks to the first Day -2 Action. Men’s Rugby Sevens & Football.

Time to start posting about National Championships/Olympic Selections - lots this weekend, including a couple starting tomorrow, some more on Friday and much more on Saturday/Sunday. Can we post as many non-geo-blocked links as we know about? is Saturday / Sunday but the bad news for the non-Brit point of view is that coverage from outside the UK is probably going to be difficult to see since it's all on BBC online service. BBC Sport - UK Athletics Championships, 2024, Day One

Agree, this has always worked best on other boards I have been on. One new thread for each day, with the opening post, or at least one of the first page ones, being the day's timetable (OK, not so vital as it was for the games set in Asia) and the Brits in Action roundup.

Aha, possibly. World Athletics were, for the first time, pretty sceptical about last minute miracles in the weeks pre-Tokyo.

They always run it over two weekends. Maybe goes back to the day where athletes regularly doubled up at Olympic events.

Unlike hot dog eating, nettle eating is perfectly vegan. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/23/nettle-eating-championship-dorset/

Gonna fail every drug test ever invented though.

Have been watching in international tournaments since 1974 & this ALWAYS happens.

No, no, Contador's defense was that one of his team staff had to make a thousand kilometre round trip to his favourite butcher shop in Irun to buy a couple of steaks.

Would depend on how many individual qualifiers you had. If everyone was there anyway, fine. But if it’s five extra people….

No, I think this is just a ranking error in the software which is based purely on Sort by Time & not incorporating the rule. Anyway, I’m told that are putting a race together at their Nationals next week, so if you know anyone at the KNAU….. Reminds me of when I had to produce the Final Exams Results spreadsheet & students never understood Excel’s rounding rules.

Too bad, but they did have two excellent chances in Bermuda and Rome so...... The Swiss have definitely got the right idea, they hold 4x100m races at all three of the big international meets they host every year so both the senior and age-group teams always keep their World Ranking refreshed.

Bad news already for the 4x100m team - it is pouring down in Geneva. They win but ……38.75

Turbo Gran!

Wow! The Championships of the Small States of Europe, live from the Rock of ! 2024 Championships of the Small States of Europe (youtube.com)

And in fact there are watch-them-quick-before-the-cops-notice clips on YT.

Also it is the first weekend of the US Olympic Trials this weekend, but that's all very firmly locked away on Pay TV. Results from Day 1 last night are here, no finals. 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field (usatf.org)