Dragon

Gracenote predictions are usually good but they do have some weaknesses. They underestimate good performances by sportspeople breaking through to top level competition at a young age and, where certain parts of the world have a big advantage over other continents, they rely too much on older global results over newer continental results

Well, all Amy has to do is to change "sporting nationality" rather than gain a "legal nationality" but yes, it is odd

Sorry that makes it sound like Ngamba is on the Team GB squad? Is that a typo?

Speaking as someone who is 1.64m tall I'm in favour of that rule

OK. Something odd seems to be going on. Somebody sent me a message that World Taekwondo are showing Jade Jones as being "suspended" in the Olympic Rankings. No one knows anything about this. Is this a big story or a mistake from WT?

Outside chances of medals in both medals in men's and women's events but there are other countries who are better prepared/

OK, If this was anything but clay there would be a reasonable chance of a medal. But this is clay and Britain are not good at clay. Maybe the men's doubles has a reasonable choice at a medal. Nothing else seems a good chance.

Russian doping news from 2012. CAS has ruled that Yekaterina Poistogova-Guliyeva is to be stripped of her silver medal from the London Olympic 800m following evidence from the Moscow lab database

It's being reported this was a UWW decision and not the IOC

Russian climbers will miss the qualifying competitions for the Olympic Games in Paris. Thus, athletes will not compete at the 2024 Olympics. “ The only opportunity for Russians to qualify for the Olympics is a series of tournaments organized by the International Olympic Committee in Shanghai and Budapest. Russian athletes will not take part in them, so there will be no Russian climbers at the Olympics in Paris ,” TASS quotes the press service of the International Federation of Sport Climbing

Not completely sure

Finally "Even earlier, the leadership of Russian artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, diving and weightlifting declared their reluctance to perform at international competitions and specifically at the Games in Paris in a discriminatory status. So it is already obvious that in Paris, if we see neutral Russians, it will be at a minimum."

Archery "A few days earlier, Russian archers, who, we recall, won two silver medals at the Tokyo Games in 2021, abandoned the Olympics in Paris. “Firstly, our leading athletes represent Dynamo or CSKA. We interviewed the entire team. The team said that without a flag and anthem, in a gray uniform, they have no desire to participate in the selection and in the Olympic Games. "

Sailing "In sailing the situation is almost similar. True, according to SE information , only Russian champions in the Nacra 17 class Elizaveta Zherebtsova / Mikhail Ushkov, who now live outside our country, are going to the Olympic selection. But, let's say, on my own initiative. The first numbers all refused to go"