Nickyc707

I presume your reading between the crumbs rather than the lines right now! Yep, the document is quite explicit that it is a maximum of two entries per gender per NOC

Ah, but can you do things he can't?

Ethan Hunt trying to match James Bond circa 2012?

If this is the weaker of the two elements from his perspective as you intimated in your preview this looks like a very decent performance.

You do know the French organisers included this "sport" just to annoy you don't you? For now all you can do is lie back and think of LA.

And the 2nd fastest time in the world this year suitably run at the Mary Peters stadium.

And the 2nd fastest time in the world this year suitably run at the Mary Peters stadium.

As far as GB is concerned will this lead to a repeat of 1314 and see football banned to encourage men to concentrate on honing their archery skills?

You don't fancy archery Parthian style then?

Difficult to be certain given that it will be based on results at the trials but apparently Tom Daley won't be competing in the individual event so he won't be doubling up. Others like Spendolini-Sirieix and Laugher are certain to if they meet the selectors requirements. Even teams with full quotas - and that includes China - rarely take a squad of more than 11-12 divers and I'm sure that'll be the case here, so 4-5 will likely be doubling up. There are a few divers like Tokyo gold medalist Mattie Lee who are out with injury so there's some diminution in competition although he competes in 10m platform where GB has a lot of options anyway.

has selected these pairings for the synchronised events in Paris. Men's 3m - Anthony Harding & Jack Laugher Men's 10m - Tom Daley & Noah Williams Women's 3m - Yasmin Harper & Scarlett Mew Jensen Women's 10m - Andrea Spendolini-Sireix & Lois Toulson The individual competitors will be selected after the British trials near the end of this month.

You're not including the race walkers relay then? I'm pretty sure that neither GB or the US will qualify for that one.

In the aftermath of the London Marathon Team GB has confirmed that the squad for Paris will be: Men - Emile Cairess, Mahamad Mahamad and Philip Sesemann. Women - Rose Harvey, Calli Hauger-Thackery and Charlotte Purdue.

Do you know when Lizzie Bird last ran as she was out injured for most if not all of last season?

Difficult to disagree with you Dragon, although I'd offer up two more memories to vie with Hemery's gold and WR in Mexico City as the fifth choice. Firstly, Mary Peter's gold in the pentathlon in Munich at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1972, despite the IRA'S death threats against her. Sport was one of the few areas in which the communities could sometimes be brought together at that time as epitomised by people like George Best and Alex Higgins who enjoyed support across the sectarian divide. It's a memory that has often been repeated on the Beeb. Secondly, Daley Thompson winning his second gold medal in the decathlon in Los Angeles in 1984. The back flip on the pole vault mat sticks in the memory and has often been repeated on TV.

The Team Skeet silver will also be a challenge given that they haven't actually qualified a male skeet shooter yet. On the other hand Gracenote has underestimated GB's medal total at the last three Games so their value has to be taken with the proverbial pinch of salt.

Looking across the last three OG even the teams with the greatest strength in depth haven't taken more than 12 divers to fill the 16 quotas freeing up spots for others. China: 2012 - 12, 2016 - 12, 2020 - 10 GB: 2012 - 12, 2016 - 11, 2020 - 12

Didn't Austria's qualification as European Games winners represent the continental quota in the duet, Josh?

I wouldn't discount Eden Cheng getting in ahead of Tolson in the individual platform.

Depends where you are. In 2012 hockey was second only to football in terms of crowd attendances among the team sports.

I think you have Ice Hockey way to high.

How much does that equate to in tyre width?

The Olympic sprint programme has changed since 2004 and the men's squad did medal in the kilo that year as they had four years earlier. It would be fairer to say that it would be the first blank since 1996 if they don't pul something out of the hat in Paris.

Reading the threads on Swimswam the concensus seems to be that Ceccon has broken the breaststroke rules repeatedly at this meet. Have no idea if this has been the case in previous events and don't pretend to know whether they are correct or not although I would say that they are mostly longstanding contributors to the publication and do seem to know their swimming.

There doesn't seem any will to succeed off their own backs. They constantly make demands for money and complain about the financial support given to other sports while ignoring the fact that unlike basketball they've actually done something to earn it. Basketball just doesn't seem willing to put in the hard yards despite being a professional sport with the advantages that brings. Perhaps if the clubs stopped filling their ranks with American also rans rather than developing British qualified players it might help. I went to a school with a long history of providing women (field) hockey players to Leicester, England and GB. It encouraged fresh generations to aspire to do the same thing. The same applies to the local football and rugby clubs, particularly Leicester Tigers. Basketball needs to develop a similar culture if it is going to have greater success and build a place in local communities as football, cricket and rugby of both codes have.