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Gabby Thomas withdraws - going to have a lot of implications for the US team & throws open medal chances for others. Olympic champion Gabby Thomas ruled out of Tokyo World Championships

/ / professional boxer Joe Bugner. Fought many of the greatest names in heavyweight boxing in the early 70s, an era in which there was no messing, no posing and no mismatched fights. Win or lose, you have to be very good just to get out of the Ring in one piece. Joe Bugner: Former heavyweight boxer - who fought Muhammad Ali - dies aged 75 - BBC Sport

seems to have disappeared from the sport - they had big plans a few years back.

Bit more like it today. Probably still going to be a procession, but..

I guess we'll have to see what happens, because there can't be many venues with a 50m pool just a few minutes walk away from a venue suitable for hosting all the other things.

This just jaw dropping. Every actor in the Netherlands must be phoning their agent right now.

Main problem was - which is why I gave up on it - that the refereeing was always different and harsher for the Olympics than it was for the regular season World Cups.

Dunno where this is from, but you have a contender for the greatest women's beach volleyball point of all time right here.

Khalil & Guzi safe, three way run for bronze. Tognetti gets it.

Martinescu fading now., Guzi absolutely charging.

Doing all right so far! Khalil long way in front Guzi now challenging.

And after the Swimming Khalil 867 Karbownik 841 Martinescu 835 So looking very good for Khalil with going for the other medals.

Change after the Obstacle Course Khalil 592 Karbowniak 581 Tognetti 566

Views have picked up. Top 3 women after the frncing. Green 250 Follett 244 Khalil 238

Gold Mohamed Silver Rochat Bronze Lukeš Canadian Gold Hulme

Gold & Silver decided foot race for bronze

Battle for bronze between Lukeš & Hulme.

Bovenzi struggling Mohamad & Hulme chasing, Rochat looking relaxed.And Mohamad the best runner takes the lead after 2 shooting.

Bovenzi dominates the swim! Rochat 912 Bovenzi 912 Mohamad 896 Into the Laser Run - 1 point = 1 second's lead. A deficit of 30 or 40 seconds can certainly be made up. A great shoot is about 7 seconds & anything over 15 seconds is trouble.

Some changes After the obstacles Rochat 611 Hulme 596 Bories 595

So after the Fencing round the top 3 is Puronas 250 Rochat 244 Popov 238 Obstacles now!

Oh well maybe, just looked to me like a short pool.

Not any more: the idea now is to have all the finals in one place, so this week we are in a 25m pool. Now you can hire a 25m pool.

I imagine the WR/PB refers to the points score gained in that discipline. So even although the apparatus is slightly different, the points score would be consistent. So the WRs in the Swimming Discipline will probably stand for decades, because they were set in 50m pools (25m pools now standard) and after a much longer rest period.

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