Dragon

I know from friends who are experts in athletics that he has a superb reputation within the sport

Doesn't Alfons organize that fantastic meeting in Ostrava?

Hary's time was accepted as a world record at the time as World Athletics only required electronic timing for records from 1977 onwards

https://worldnomadgames.kz/en/page/sportivnaya-programma I call these Games very not Olympic...

It seems that what I was told was mostly correct.

https://olympics.com/ioc/paris-2024-individual-neutral-athletes Updated

Weekend weather for Manchester. 18 c, light rain and light wind all the time

He pointed me to this article https://babel.ua/en/texts/99475-russian-judokas-are-going-to-the-european-championship-in-a-neutral-status-some-of-them-are-active-military-who-support-the-war-and-putin-personally-investigation-by-babel

Told to me privately by a journalist who has links to the IOC

Unconfirmed as yet but the rumour is that the whole Russian judo team (or at least 90%) have been rejected by the IOC

"The Belarusian Wrestling Federation reports with great regret that 9 out of 10 wrestlers selected for Paris will not take part in the Olympic Games by decision of the IOC, Abubakar Khaslakhanov will become the only representative of Belarusian wrestling."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6akiGRcL8

You may think that. I could not possibly comment...

Somebody more famous than Rasmussen

Some of you may know this story but I'll repeat it anyway. Imagine a well-known European cyclist goes to train at high altitude in Mexico before he starts the season. Many months later he fails a dope test at one of the biggest races of the season. So what happened? Well, the theory is that he ate contaminated beef when he was in Mexico then had blood taken and frozen. In the middle of the race he had the blood returned to his system via transfusion and of course that where the positive test occurs. He tries to argue that his food was contaminated but since he was in Europe where the drug he tested positive for is illegal in cattle. He lost his case. You may have guessed who I'm talking about...

Here it's 14 c and raining...

Before yesterday I had winning by around a second and a half with and very close for silver. Archibald's injury may cost 2-3 seconds lost for GBR

In almost all of Europe it is illegal to give these drugs to cattle.

I still expect plenty of medals from the cycling team though, without Katie, less in the way of gold

""I tripped over a step in the garden and managed to, somehow, dislocate my ankle; break my tibia and fibula; and rip two ligaments off the bone. What the heck," said Archibald."