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Well, unless he's appealed to CAS and we don't know about it yet, I think the case might be over

https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/disciplinary-process/en/Latest-Sanctions-DEC-22.pdf https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/krzewina-suspended-by-cas-for-15-months-for-whereabouts-failure-poland-news/article66030785.ece

It is, he lost all his results since March 2021 so I assume Poland also lose their 5th place in the Olympics because he ran in the heats

replace the men's team award with an "open team" award?

I think the Polish men's 4 x 400 relay team in athletics have now been disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics?

Dupont is not hugely known outside Britain, Ireland, France and Italy although personally I think he's a massive talent and one of the best sportsmen to emerge in Europe for a couple of decades

Happy New Year everyone when it comes. Also, especially, for all for you in Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal and West Africa, remember that part of the deal of living close to the Greenwich Meridian is that the rest of the world can't celebrate a new year until we say it's time to do so...

My moment of the year. The Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup Final and the French assistant referee makes it clear that he does not agree with the main referee's decision to award a try to England

Currently watching International Under 14s Potato Painting from the Hilton Hotel in Rangoon followed by Strip Sumo Wrestling from the Budokan in Tokyo then Exxxtreme Monster Truck chicken farming from Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago. I should warn you, I may have waited until the last day of the year to make myself sound more exciting than I am

Actually that reminds me, it was a very flat highway wasn't it? I withdraw the prediction for the women's race

This is the week of fat Welshmen, fat Englishmen, a fat German, a bald Dutchman and a perfectly normal looking Belgian battling for the title...

The races would have been much different tactically. How about this? Men 1 Raab 2 Ludwig 3 Bauer Women 1 Canins 2 Longo 3 Twigg

And if you know how Kiribati is pronounced in English you'll realise that's a fishing equipment shop in the west of Ireland

I wonder what the results would look like if they could have retested the urine samples.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. If you don't then please have a good week anyway...

Other awards Young Sports Personality of the Year: Jessica Gadirova Gymnastucs Lifetime Achievement Award Usain Bolt Athletics Helen Rollason Award “for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity” Rob Burrow Rugby League for campaigning for charity despite being weakened by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_neuron_diseases Special Award: Kevin Sinfield for rugby league for doing all he could for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_neuron_diseases World Sport Star Award: Argentina Lionel Messi for Argentina's victory at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Team of the Year: England women's national football team Coach of the Year: Sarina Wiegman, coach of the English soccer team

This has been removed after 2012. One of the competitors in 2016 was Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam who had 26 pro fights and held a world title before he returned to the Olympics However some of the professional boxing organizations will ban boxers who compete at the Olympics for getting a world ranking. Basically it's very complicated...

Similar question - baseball players who play in the US major leagues? Olympic or non-Olympic?

Question - are professional boxers and rugby players who only play 15 player rugby eligible for the non-Olympic award?

The BBC sports personality of the year awards 1st Beth Mead (football) 2nd Ben Stokes (cricket) 3rd Eve Muirhead (curling) Youth award Jessica Gadirova (gymnastics)

For the men I go for Foss. For the women I go for somebody who isn't even an option for the poll. The world junior champion Zoe Backstedt of Great Britain.

In the UK there were 19.3 million watching the game (already the figures usually rise a little in the following days) 15 million on BBC, just over 4 million on ITV. The record is 32 million back in 1966...