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Six Nations Rugby Championship 2018 Weekend #1 Wales 34 Scotland 7 France 13 Ireland 15 Italy 15 England 46

What they usually do in cycling is use all the new parts over the year before the Olympics but only use them all together at the Olympics. Not sure that can work in Skeleton?

Maybe I was wrong https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1061021/vatican-city-delegation-to-attend-ioc-session-for-first-time-at-pyeongchang-2018

If I could I would increase the women's field to 30 and cut the maximum entries per country in some of the skiing events from 4 to 3

Case #85 (Morocco #1) Athlete: Aimane Bouriga Sport: Athletics Duration: 6 Months Expiration: March 17th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #86 (Belarus #1) Athlete: Lyudmyla Kovalenko Liakovich Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: October 30th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #87 (Ukraine #2) Athlete: Oleksei Semenko Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: July 25th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter

Case #81 (United States #13) Athlete: Jonathan Sanford Sport: Athletics Duration: 12 Months Expiration: June 1stm 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter IAAF Case #82 (United States #14) Athlete: Kenna Wolter Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: December 12th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter IAAF Case #83 (United States #15) Athlete: Vikas Patel Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: January 26th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter IAAF Case #84 (United States #16) Athlete: Tori Polk Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: April 24th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter IAAF

Irony here - after a successful day for Winter Olympians. A bad day for Russian summer Olympians as they take a big lead in the doping race Case #75 (Turkey #1) Athlete: Serif Derli Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: March 12th, 2020 Substance: Test Refusal Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #76 (Russia #15) Athlete: Tatiana Andrianova Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: February 24th, 2018 Substance: Biological Passport Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #77 (Russia #16) Athlete: Kiril Sukharev Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: October 26th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #78 (Russia #17) Athlete: Yulia Zaripova Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 3rd, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #79 (Russia #18) Athlete: Evgeniy Borisov Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: September 28th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #80 (Russia #19) Athlete: Anna Chicherova Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: June 30th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter

There's more to come from that source. I'll add the totals when I finish adding more names.

I was really surprised so many of them cleared. Remember this was nor based on "beyond reasonable doubt" but "balance of probabilty" - meaning they just had to prove it was more likely that they were doping than not, The story coming out is that the judges didn't accept the evidence that the bottles had been tampered with and said that traces of other peoples DNA in the samples could have come from contamination. The IOC are likely to appeal to the Swiss courts.

Case #72 (Ethiopia #1) Athlete: Haile Tolussa Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: May 14th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #73 (Jamaica#1) Athlete: Jason Livermore Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: February 8th, 2019 Substance: Test Refusal Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #74 (United States #12) Athlete: Ryan Bailey Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: January 7th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter

A BBC documentary from 2014

Case #67 (Ukraine #1) Athlete: Dmytro Harnyk Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 10th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #68 (Italy #16) Athlete: Marco Moletto Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: December 3rd, 2021 Substance: Test Refusal Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #69 (Great Britain #2) Athlete: Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi Sport: Athletics Duration: 24 Months Expiration: January 7th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case#70 (Kenya #2) Athlete: Sharon Muli Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: December 5th, 2020 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter

Case #62 (Tanzania #1) Athlete: Mohamed Ikoki Msandeki Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: January 1st, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #63 (Kenya #1) Athlete: Benjamin Ngandu Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: November 21st, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case #64 (Tanzania #2) Athlete: Eliya Daudi Sidame Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: October 17th, 2020 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case#65 (Australia#1) Athlete: Cassie Fien Sport: Athletics Duration: 9 Months Expiration: May 8th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter Case#66 (Italy#15) Athlete: Gaetano Di Franco Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: October 10th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: IAAF January Newsletter This is going to take a while - 30 new cases today,

When Juan Samaranch was head of the IOC he came under pressure from the Spanish government not to allow Gibraltar to join the IOC because Spain claimed it as part of their territory, So they changed the rules.

And the Vatican City. Although I doubt we'll see the Pope competing in Greco-Roman wrestling for some time...

Must be a mistake and they've mistaken him for Sergei Chudinov, the coach for luge

Case #57 (Italy #14) Athlete: Daniele Mariani Sport: Athletics Duration: 12 Months Expiration: October 24th, 2018 Substance: ? Source: http://www.nadoitalia.it/it/home-it/news/archivio-comunicati/12461-prima-sezione-daniele-mariani-csain-inibito-1-anno.html Case #58 (Russia #13) Athlete: Ekaterina Vysotskaya Sport: Athletics Duration: - Expiration: Warning Only Substance: Ostarine Source: http://rusathletics.info/89207 Case #59 (Russia #14) Athlete: Sabrina Kadasheva Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: November 27th, 2021 Substance: Trimetazidine Source: http://rusathletics.info/89207 Case #60 (United States #10) Athlete: Craig Webb Sport: Cycling - Road Duration: 48 Months Expiration: November 4th, 2021 Substance: Test Refusal Source: https://www.usada.org/craig-webb-accepts-doping-sanction/ Case #61 (United States #11) Athlete: David Less Sport: Cycling - Road Duration: 24 Months Expiration: October 13th, 2017 Substance: Test Refusal Source: https://www.usada.org/david-less-accepts-doping-sanction/

http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/fancy-bears-claims-get-crazier-pyeongchang-2018-approaches/ Interesting reply to the story

Disappointing that the reigning European champions haven't entered this year.

The one possible problem is if the Bogota gang deliberately agreed to all go slow together to fix the FIS points scoring

What happened to France?

https://www.tv2.no/a/9643727/ Uh-oh. This looks bad

Been told Jamaica will announce their male skeleton slider will go to the Olympics.