Dragon

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/belgian-racing-pigeon-auction-record-price-b1723237.html You sure it's not Belgian?

Liang Wenbo Age: 36 Ranking: 72. Finalist in 2015 UK Championship Given a lifetime ban and ordered to pay £43,000 in costs. He was found guilty of fixing or being a party to fixing five matches, trying to get other players to fix nine matches, betting on snooker matches, threatening another player, deleting messages and asking other players to, failing to cooperate with the enquiry. Li Hang Age: 32 Ranking: 71 Given a lifetime ban and ordered to pay £43,000 in costs. He was found guilty of fixing or being a party to fixing five matches, trying to get other players to fix seven matches, betting on snooker matches, deleting messages and asking other players to. Lu Ning Age: 29 Ranking: 65. Semi-finalist at the 2020 UK Championship Given a ban of five years and four months, reduced from eight years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He was not found guilty of inducing others to fix matches. He accepted charges of fixing four snooker matches he played in, betting on matches and deleting messages. Yan Bingtao Age: 22 Ranking: 23. First player born in 2000 to turn professional, won 2021 Masters Given a ban of five years, reduced from seven and a half years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing four snooker matches he played in and betting on matches. Zhao Xintong Age: 25 Ranking: 11. Won 2021 UK Championship and 2022 German Masters Given a ban of one year and eight months, reduced from two and a half years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of being a party to another player fixing two matches and betting on matches himself. Zhang Jiankang Age: 24. Ranking: 93 Given a ban of two years and 11 months, reduced from four years and five months after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing a snooker match he played in, betting on matches and not giving the WPBSA information. Chen Zifan Age: 27. Ranking: 104 Given a ban of five years, reduced from seven and a half years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing or contrived, or being a party to an effort to fix or contrive the result or score of three snooker matches that he played in. Chang Bingyu Age: 20 Ranking: 88 Given a ban of two years, reduced from three years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing a snooker match he played in. Zhao Jianbo Age: 19 Ranking: Amateur Given a ban of two years and eight months, reduced from three and a half years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing a snooker match he played in - and betting on that match. Bai Langning Age: 20. Ranking: 130 Given a ban of two years and four months, reduced from four years after his early admissions and guilty plea. He has to pay £7,500 in costs. He accepted charges of fixing a snooker match he played in.

"How do they decide who gets entered in the men's doubles" "And who gets seeded in the mixed event" Etc. Etc.

I've already thought of comments to make that should really be banned from Totallympics.

Only if Soucisse can get Irish citizenship before 2026

Further news on Halep suggests she could be in very deep trouble.

Terry McDermott, 1964 US Olympic speed skating champion, died over the weekend at age 82 He's also famous for appearing on the TV show which attracted the biggest audience in American history. Although it's probable that fewer people were interested in his interview than they were with the first US TV appearance of the Beatles.

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?