Dragon

News of the new mixed relay in walking. The 22 best teams of the Antalya 2024 World Team Championships (April 20-21) qualify for Paris 2024 There will be no disqualifications for red cards but there will be time penalties for infringements. World Athletics have invented a totally new sport called running...

Ponzio always seemed to me like he was a nice guy but this looks like he was either a total cheat or, more likely, a complete lazy idiot.

This suddenly becomes a lot more serious for Halep. It's even possible she could be stripped of her Grand Slam wins.

Remember that Russia's problem was that the state and their doping agency were protecting their athletes. If they find evidence that's happening in Kenya I'm sure they will be banned. But until then I'm not sure there's anything they can do to the country's athletes.

Only a few years ago this was the man supposed to be the future of Kenyan running for the next decade...

Easily the best male British cyclist of the late 70s and 80s.

That's all about this dispute https://www.flotrack.org/articles/6307275-tori-bowie-in-limbo-after-dispute-at-olympic-training-center

Well, whatever you think of Killips being allowed to compete in women's races, his behaviour in cyclocross races over the winter proved him/her to be a complete arsehole as a competitor.

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/ Suprised by the coverage in this Belgian newspaper

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. It seems that, at the 2022 World Championships, his date of birth was recorded in the "American Style" with the month before the day.

Jim Fox, a member of Great Britain's 1976 gold medal modern pentathlon team, died yesterday at the age of 81. He had been suffering from Parkinson's Disease for nearly 30 years

Rugby

This was unexpected...

Do they really have any alternative though? Many of us on this forum come from countries who fought Germany and Japan in World War Two. If sport was still possible in 1942 I'm sure anybody wishing to play sport alongside enemy nations would have been considered traitors. Isn't that what Ukrainians would have to accept? You compete alongside Russians then you're seen as being in favour of your family and friends being killed?

Jenson Button drove that car last month. So the caption is only three weeks late.

Do you think France might be completely cancelled? And if it was there would a really nice ocean between Belgium and Spain where you could hold Olympic surfing instead of having to go to Tahiti.

I'm really tempted to know what Totallympics members would use as their b-boy and b-girl names.

"A breakaway international governing body for boxing is set to be announced tomorrow by a group of National Federations tomorrow in a bid to save the sport's place on the Olympic programme. A group of countries, led by the United States and Great Britain, will officially confirm they are quitting the International Boxing Association (IBA), led by Russia's Umar Kremlev, to launch a new organisation called "World Boxing". An online briefing is due to be staged by tomorrow and will be attended by four "boxing leaders" with representatives from USA Boxing and GB Boxing joined by a group of European countries. They are promising to make a "major global announcement regarding the future of Olympic boxing". "Four boxing leaders will be available to answer questions about this worldwide development which is designed to secure boxing's on-going place at the heart of the Olympic Movement and deliver a better future for the sport," read a statement from the organisers."

So @Rafa Maciel does this mean that @Phelps admits that even a below strength team is better than ?

OK, it's happening. The USA and "some European nations" will resign from the IBA tomorrow. The game is over for the IBA.

What if you come from Tahiti? Is that Western Europe because it's part of France or very,very,very,very Eastern Europe because of where it really is?