Dragon

Who replaces Berdych and Raonic?

Only 2. I did check before I wrote that though. 13.25 was the exact time needed to reach last year's World Championship final

The ultimate in bad timing David Omoregie 13.25 for the 110m hurdles today. Maybe a good enough time for the Olympic final - but 5 days too late as he did not have a qualifying time before now

There is a story in the Russian press about a draft letter from the head of the US Anti-Doping Travis Tygart. The letter was due to be released after the release of the McLaren Report but has been leaked. It says that USADA "request the removal of the Russian team from both the Rio Olympics and Paralympics" because "the McLaren report has proven Russia has broken the Olympic Charter and the rules of the IOC and WADA". It goes to say that it has proved the Russian Ministry of Sport and other parts of the Russian government interfered with the anti-doping system. If this is genuine (and we don't know know it is yet) then this story just got very, very serious for Russia.

Romania and Belarus have been banned from Rio for "systematic doping" New allocations will be revealed on Monday

Brazil and Ireland inherit their places

AIBA confirm tripartite places in the men's tournament to Fiji, Jordan, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Zambia

New withdrawals Men Jordan Speith Angelo Que KT Kim Victor Dubuisson

It's fairly certain who he is. A runner who has been successful in a minor way in international competition. But it is not somebody who has won medals at Olympic or world level. Name will revealed in next few weeks or months.

Jumped 5.72 at Highlands Ranch, Colorado 26 Jun 2016

All of the boxers on the entry list have arrived in Venezuela. They don't care about the punishment from the IBF now. Interesting to see that the boxer from Thailand only lost his professional world title in May. Also the IBF will not punish them, They will lose in court if they try

From yesterday The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has still yet to announce the list of professional boxers that will compete at the World Series of Boxing (WSB)/AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Olympic Qualification Tournament in Vargas, despite the event being due to start in just two days' time. Following a historic ruling, passed unanimously at AIBA’s Extraordinary Congress in Lausanne on June 1, National Federations will be able to register all non-AIBA professional boxers for the tournament according to the criteria for registration of professional boxers. An AIBA spokesman told insidethegames last month that the names of boxers competing would be announced by the international governing body on June 23, which was the closing date for entries. It has now been confirmed, however, that the definite list won’t be announced until after tomorrow’s draw in the Venezuelan state, where 26 quota places for this year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be up for grabs over six days of competition.

Tommasone and Ballisai are professional champions, correct?

Jamaica allows a medical exemption only for those ranked in the top 3 in the world at the time of the trials. Bolt is fine with the 100 but he has no ranking this year in the 200m. Rules say he's not allowed to compete in the 200 in Rio (unless Jamaica change the rules) UPDATE Been told the 2015 ranking will count for Bolt. He just has to prove fitness before July 18

Anybody know why Asli Cakir Alptekin is back competing again despite there being another 4 years until her doping ban ends? Ran a 1500m last night in Istanbul. There has been no announcement on her return

USA

According to AP News. Russia has been disqualified from the men's quadruple sculls for a doping offence at the qualifier and will be replaced by New Zealand

Well we have no reports from this year's European Championships yet

Also you remember IWF said there were 10 positives from 2008? So far they only reveal 7...

Not certain when the ban for KAZ, RUS. BLR will start. I know journalists are trying to discover this tonight.

The IWF Executive Board has decided that National Federations confirmed to have produced 3 or more Anti-Doping Rule Violations in the combined re-analysis process of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games shall be suspended for 1 year. Countries thus subject to suspension are: KAZ, RUS, BLR.

The IWF Executive Board unanimously voted the withdrawal of 11 quotas to the additional 2 that were already withdrawn from Romania and Uzbekistan. Two (2) quotas were withdrawn from Azerbaijan (1Man – 1Woman) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period One (1) quota was withdrawn from Belorussia (1Man) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period Two (2) quotas were withdrawn from Kazakhstan (1Man – 1Woman) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period Two (2) quotas were withdrawn from Moldova (2Men) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period Two (2) quotas were withdrawn from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (1Man – 1Woman) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period Two (2) quotas were withdrawn from Russia (1Man – 1Woman) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period One (1) quota was withdrawn from Romania (1Man) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period (19.11.2015) One (1) quota was withdrawn from Uzbekistan (1Woman) due to the multiple positive cases in the qualification period (19.11.2015)

Weightlifting London 2012 The IWF reports that as a consequence of the IOC’s reanalyses of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games, the samples of the following Athletes have returned Adverse Analytical Findings: AUKHADOV, Apti (RUS) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Drostanolone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) KOSTOVA, Boyanka (AZE) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) PODOBEDOVA, Svetlana (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) SAZANAVETS, Dzina (BLR) – Drostanolone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) SHKERMANKOVA, Maryna (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) KALINA, Yuliya (UKR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ZHARNASEK, Yauheni (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethytestosterone, Stanozolol, Oxandrolone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) MANEZA, Maiya (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ILYIN, Ilya (KAZ) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) CHINSHANLO, Zulfiya (KAZ) – Oxandrolone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)

Be very worried that two of the Russians have come back negative on the B sample of their retests. If it happens to two samples it might be happen to many more

2008 "WADA list, while not naming methylhexanamine specifically, included it under a broad category with - "tuaminoheptane and other substances with a similar chemical structure or similar biological effect(s)".