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Fine. There is still a victim. A woman from Oceania or New Zealand will be unable to fulfil her Olympic dream because a third-rate county-level man has stolen her place.

How is he a “victim”? He had his sporting career. He wasn’t very good. Along with seven billion other people. Now, at age 43, he wants to steal someone else’s career? He’s not the victim, Feagaiga Stowers is the victim. She has had her Oceania gold medal & Olympic place stolen from her by a selfish, greedy, second rate man. He deserves all the hatred he gets. Feagaiga Stowers, say her name.

Ultimate commentators curse moment for Donovan Brazier in the US 800m trials. Had been getting mega-hype all week, flopped in the final. Meanwhile Clayton Murphy won with a 1:43.17 WL, almost unnoticed.’

He was 8th & probably injured so no way really. Women’s 800m is next weekend.

Mixed news on the doping cheat front. Brianna McNeal made it, Gatlin broke down.

Not often you get athletes lapped in a flat 3000m, but managed it.

Slovakian triple jumper only just makes the sandpit.

His tail is….no suitable for children.

Seems a strange time to be holding the opening ceremony, about halfway through day 1. Plus I’m not very happy with the mascot.

Blowing a gale now.

See, if they’d held it in Nova Zagora everything would be fine, but in Stara they’re still relying on monks writing things down by hand. Meanwhile, for the First League nothing works at all.

Now all the world knows the name of his home town - Boring, Oregon.

US Olympic Trials are on this YouTube channel. My advice is to watch them quickly, because when NBC’s Californian Lawyers get out of bed this morning, it’s going to be nuked. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAf4Hzu643kUeJW_QtNnb7A

Incredible throw, almost 0.12 furlongs!

Sadly, I think this is a case of reversion to old personal demons.

Yeah, but if the investigation finds they have been breaking the rules……so yes, it is not my word against yours. It does mean that every single Olympic event is potentially a 4x400m relay race, where can get Gold if they can convince the jury that one runner from had their toe over the line.

Remember the era when a second false start by any athlete would be an automatic DQ? Think that was Beijing 2008. It quickly got to the point where you could tell which 100m runner in a heat - invariably the fifth-ranked by time - would do the first false start. So I don’t share your faith in sporting honesty.

I can see THIS initiative going badly wrong….. Athletes have been told they can snitch their rivals and get them thrown out of the Olympics for breaking Covid rules. The International Olympic Committee have published new regulations which states that 'any person' may inform them of an alleged infringement of the Games playbook by a competitor, which would then trigger a disciplinary process https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9696499/Tokyo-2020-Athletes-rivals-THROWN-Olympics-break-Covid-19-rules.html

Ok,I’m going to officially start getting excited now. Was holding off before because I thought it would all be cancelled but now….

Over on the athletics forum I’m on, everyone is convinced this is a broken wind gauge. Watch the flags at halfway.

Does she ever ride in full road races? I’ve only ever seen her in TTs.

To do well in triathlon now you need to be international standard in at least one of the three elements, so it’s difficult for small nations to divert people if they’re needed in their primary event.

gets a retrospetive 4-Man World Cup Gold, our first ever, after a Russian Doping Ban. Shame it has come too late, our teams could have done with the funding & recognition this last few years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/57513365

Hey, steady on old boy, we don’t go around mocking Indian wrestlers, do we?

Well, not so much her underperforming, as there being new competitors emerging.