Dragon

The US Olympic Commitee contacted their swimmers to tell them to expect gold medals but it turned out they jumped the gun by a long, long way.

https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-reports-that-three-turkish-weightlifters-have-committed-anti-doping-rule-violations-within-a-period-of-12-months/ Does this trigger a ban on Turkish lifters for Paris?

A question for @bestmen Djemel Sedjati of Algeria may be the favourite for the 800m Olympic title but what do we know of his history before 2021? Can we be sure he is not a drug cheat?

The following athletes are confirmed to receive their Olympic medals at Champions Park on August 9 2024 because of disqualifications due to doping: Sydney 2000 – Athletics, Women’s 200m Bronze: Beverly McDonald (JAM) Beijing 2008 – Athletics, Women’s Long Jump Bronze: Chelsea Hammond-Ross (JAM) London 2012 – Weightlifting, Men’s 85kg Bronze: Tarek Yehia Fouad Abdelazim (EGY) London 2012 – Athletics, Men’s High Jump Gold: Erik Kynard (USA) Silver: Derek Drouin (CAN) London 2012 – Weightlifting, Men’s +105kg Bronze: Sang-Guen Jeon (KOR) London 2012 – Athletics, Women’s 1500m Bronze: Abeba Aregawi (ETH) London 2012 – Athletics, Women's 400m Hurdles Gold: Lashinda Demus (USA) Silver: Zuzana Hejnova (CZE) Bronze: Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

I still haven't seen the fight so I can't comment on the merits of the case. But if you ever want to see an example of how not to phrase your appeal then this is a perfect one.

Miguel Angel Lopez - cycling - banned for 4 years

Would not surprise if he "defects" to that Enhanced Games thing being held next year

It's a four year ban though and I assume he'll also lose his scholarship to his American university

It's been noted....

dressage rider Elliott Patterson has died of injuries sustained in a freak accident some weeks ago. His horse panicked, slipped and landed on top of him causing severe head injuries

This time last year he was going to be a new star in sprinting. Today his career is almost certainly over.

Event rider Georgie Campbell has died after a fall at the Bicton 3 day event in Devon, England

OK, that's interesting. Not been picked for the individual event so far

Been confirmed as a suicide.

he got injured on training camp in South Africa and is out for the season sadly

Just got worse for @heywoodu Niels Laros misses Paris

BMC Manchester Women's 800 1 Phoebe Gill (ENG) 1.58.08 2 Ciara Mageaan (IRL) 1.58.51 3 Erin Wallace (SCO) 1.59.21 All OLY QT

Men 100m Jeremiah Azu 9.97s (legal wind)

To quote from musical theatre "it's not where you start, it's where you finish..."

Wow. Ok it was slightly windy but Hinchliffe just ran 9.84 for the 100

Brendan Boyce - walking - hamstring tear

Josh Zeller 110m hurdles

In fact one of the reasons that Thatcher lost popularity was her idea that people had to register to become "fans of football" and not to be seen as hooligans. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/18/seven-deadly-sins-thatcher-tories-football