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I do think, if you want a conspiracy theory, that the IOC seem to spend a lot of time promoting Powerlifting recently, so if they drop the IWF from the Games, they’ve got a ready-made replacement on hand.

For safety reasons, there is a 3km crash limit before the end of the race. Because he was caught up in a crash, he lost no time. If the crash had been 10km from the end, he would indeed have lost time.

Jakobsen messed that up, got stuck on the second line.

Oi, big crash at 10k to go. Someone’s going to lose time.

There’s nothing showing yet on the Euro version of the Olympic Channel, but these things often slot into place at the last moment.

Never knew there was Indonesian cricket. It certainly exists in Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, but mostly among the various expat people or people educated in English-style schools.

Local hero Magnus Cort Nielsen off on a long solo ride for KoM points. He only needs one to guarantee keeping it.

Team . The Women’s 1500m runner, Adelle Tracey is a recent transfer from Women 100m: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Kemba Nelson, Elaine Thompson-Herah 200m: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Elaine Thompson-Herah 400m: Candice McLeod, Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Charokee Young 800m: Chrisann Gordon-Powell, Natoya Goule, Adelle Tracey 1500m: Adelle Tracey 100m hurdles: Britany Anderson, Megan Tapper, Danielle Williams 400m hurdles: Rushell Clayton, Janieve Russell, Shiann Salmon High jump: Lamara Distin, Kimberly Williamson Long jump: Chanice Porter Triple jump: Shanieka Ricketts, Ackelia Smith, Kimberly Williams Shot put: Lloydricia Cameron, Danniel Thomas-Dodd Discus: Samantha Hall 4x100m: Remona Burchell, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Kemba Nelson, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Briana Williams 4x400m: Roniesha McGregor, Candice McLeod, Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Natalliah Whyte, Stacey-Ann Williams, Charokee Young Men 100m: Ackeem Blake, Yohan Blake, Oblique Seville 200m: Yohan Blake, Akeem Bloomfield, Rasheed Dwyer 400m: Nathon Allen, Jevaughn Powell, Christopher Taylor 800m: Navasky Anderson 110m hurdles: Orlando Bennett, Rasheed Broadbell, Hansle Parchment 400m hurdles: Jaheel Hyde, Kemar Mowatt, Shawn Rowe Long jump: Tajay Gayle, Wayne Pinnock Triple jump: Jordan Scott Discus: Fedrick Dacres, Treves Smikle, Chad Wright 4x100m: Kemar Bailey-Cole, Ackeem Blake, Yohan Blake, Conroy Jones, Oblique Seville, Jelani Walker 4x400m: Nathon Allen, Karayme Bartley, Anthony Cox, Javon Francis, Jevaughn Powell, Christopher Taylor Mixed 4x400m: Junelle Bromfield, Akeem Bloomfield, Tiffany James-Rose, Gregory Prince

Ok, I appreciate not many people here understand cricket, but everyone understands a disaster. Stuart Broad serves up the single worst spell of bowling in about 150 years of international cricket. What makes it even worse is that Jasprit Bumrah is a specialist bowler, not a batsman at all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/62021370

Barriers cause another crash!

I’d be terrified, those barriers are no height. Uran wins the Battle of the Bridge, manages to get back on. Mind you, I think the peleton dialled back after they saw the height if the barriers. We have seen riders go over walls that size many times.

Uran crashes in worst possible place. And another! Lampaert down.

Ivan Fedotov also drafted, but not in the same way. A Russian ice hockey star who signed a million-dollar contract with an American team was rounded up by Russian plain-clothes policemen and taken to an army enlistment office yesterday before he's expected to be sent to fight in Ukraine. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10975571/Russian-ice-hockey-star-signed-play-forcibly-drafted-Putins-army.html

It once happened to Chris Froome in, I think, the Delhi Commonwealth Games when he was representing .

Another classic battle in the eternal rivalry of v in the women’s bronze medal matchup in the Villars. This time take it. not even in it.

Two possibilities. 1. Nothing happens until last 300m. 2. Race is torn to pieces by ferocious Baltic gales. I’m going with 1.

OK, our version is kind of cheap & cheerful anyhow. Would have hated to lose Cheerleading, Breaking & Korfball. Not that I ever watch them, but if ever I was stuck in an iron lung, for example….

That’s bad news, I suspect that will be global.

Honoré slips literally on a banana skin! This is not the moment he dreamt of when he was a small boy.

We are seeing a lot of pictures of fortifications but none of them helped when Lord Nelson paid a visit in 1801. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801)

Lampaert takes it!

Double jinx, cause Robbie McEwan was saying exactly the same thing. “Commentators’ Curse - the most powerful force in the known universe” - Andrew Fox, Australian Rugby League commentator.

Word is the rain is stopping, so possibility of an upset. `Ganna & Pogačar both fast! van Aert faster! That must be the win for WvA.

We’ll just see how Ganna & van Aert get on, but after him I think vdP can start practising his victory interviews.

That’s three times van der Poel has almost been into the barriers. Sets the early time to beat.