Dragon

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The IWF Executive Board unanimously voted the withdrawal of 11 quotas to the additional 2 that were already withdrawn from Romania and Uzbekistan.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)".

http://nada.by/spisok-sportsmenov Belarus are reporting that both Aleksandr Venskel and Nastassia Novikava have been disqualified from their 4th place finishes at the 2015 World Championships. This is case 3 and 4 of the Olympic qualifying period for Belarus and should mean a quota place is removed from them

I wonder if Ghrimes has qualified for Rio now? 1st was Arjaoui who may be disqualified 2nd Nigeria qualified 3rd Tunisia qualified but turned down the place in Rio 4th Cape Verde qualified after Tunisia declined to go to Rio So is 5th place given to the man who lost to the gold medalist Arjaoui? That would be the Algerian

Turkish websites are reporting that middleweight Adem Kılıççı is one of those who have failed a drug test from the London Olympics. He had already qualified for Rio

Turkish websites are reporting that middleweight Adem Kılıççı is one of those who have failed a drug test from the London Olympics. He had already qualified for Rio

Big story from France. 17 members of the Belarus canoeing team failed tests for Meldonium during a training camp in March and April. When anti-doping agents raided them later they also found "heavier drugs". http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-olympiques-rio-2016/article/2016/05/26/les-gloires-du-canoe-bielorusse-coulees-par-les-agents-de-l-antidopage-francais_4926694_4910444.html

I give an example. There is a drug called GW 501516. It works well at helping with endurance so some cyclists and athletes take it. One Olympic champion has been banned for taking it. Trouble is that research on the drug for medical use was stopped when it is was found to cause cancer in rats. Basically if you legalize doping you have to accept that sportspeople will take anything that helps them to win. If you have children then a parent must accept that the only way your child will become successful is to feed him or her massive doses of steroids or EPO or whatever drug which may effect their health or even kill them, If a person is happy to do that then they really should not be allowed to have children, Anti-doping today is bad but the thought of people taking anything they want to take scares me. If that ever happened I hope all sports would be banned forever.

I think that could be a mistake Maybe 90 seconds...

2 new names have qualified for the GBR team in Rio. In the women's 10000m Jess Andrews won the trial race breaking her personal best by 90 minutes. Beth Potter finished in 2nd to also make the team, European champion Jo Pavey struggled with illness and finished far behind. Andrews is due to marry Irish cyclist Dan Martin later this year

What we know at the moment is this; Australia, South Africa and Great Britain have denied any of their athletes are involved. Most cases come from "the usual countries and the usual sports". Athletics and Weightlifting are involved. One report says some are from Russia. B samples will be tested in June, results of those tests and provisional suspension will follow quickly afterwards. Next week the IOC will announce results of the retests from London 2012 samples.

Is that now 7 Russians in the qualifying period?

I think Russia just lost a quota place because of Lovchev being banned. 4th Russian to be banned since qualification period began. ???