Dragon

It should mean that highlight programmes will be guaranteed on free to air TV but I do worry that the lack of interest for what is a minority TV channel might kill off the Commonwealth Games forever

BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime achievement award - Thierry Henry Football World Sportsman on the Year - Mondo DuPlantis pole vault Coach of the Year - Serena Weigman England women's football team Young sportperson of the year - Michelle Agyemang football Team of the Year - European Ryder Cup team BBC Sports Personality of the Year podium. 1 Rory McIlroy golf 2 Ellie Kildunne rugby 3 Lando Norris F1

GB votes are in

Isn't Weston-Webb's father from England?

Welsh Sports Personality of the Year The winner was Paralympic rowing champion Ben Pritchard who edged out world champion cyclist Josh Tarling for the award

McIlroy is the betting favourite

Some of the small nations have competed in the past but usually lost 30-0 to the Aussies

Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee ran 2h 6m 38 seconds in the Valencia marathon. He's now the fastest European born marathon runner of the year although 5 African born Europeans are still faster than him.

Back to the Paris Olympics for this one. Eleni-Klaoudia Polak got sent home from Paris for a positive dope test. Ok, the Greek never reached the final of the pole vault so getting sent home wasn't a big punishment. Then we learnt that the test on July 29 was thrown out because she had a legitimate medical use for the drug. Now we find out that she also tested positive earlier in July and gets banned for 4 years.

http://www.olympedia.org/ Now being updated again

Hockey player Imran Sherwani died today aged just 57 after developing Alzheimer's disease very young. Most famous for scoring two goals for GBR in the 1988 Olympic Final and inspiring one of the great lines in commentary with GB's third goal.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test Footballers test positive for the pitch

Olympedia update. The IOC did pull out of the deal because of "budget reasons" but we compromised by accepting less money and just updating 2024 and not Milan-Cortina for the time being. The result is that the contract was signed this week and we just need to transfer our private data to Olympedia and then it will be back up to date. Unfortunately not all our members were happy with the IOC's behavior and some may leave us because of this.