Dragon

No - he was raised in the Netherlands but his mother is English and has had duel nationality since birth

He can't complain about the third false start but the other times...

The IOC will never authorize any game with a war component to be an official Olympic Esport. It just looks so wrong.

Probably not in Ukraine though...

I know how popular it is , but since the esport is exactly the same as the real life sport isn't the "e" part completely redundant?

Why chess?

Mark English out of the men's 800 due to illness. Would have been a medal contender

Two questions. 1 - What the chances either Canadian team gets relegated to the B division? 2 - Canada can never have played in the B division at any level in the entire history, right?

Phyllis Perkins, British athlete who set 1500m and 3000m world records before those races were part pf the Olympic programme has passed away at the age of 89

The International Boxing Association has opened disciplinary proceedings against five officials, including USA Boxing executive director Mike McAtee, after being accused of "inciting a boycott" of the Women's and Men's World Championships. McAtee, Boxing Canada President Ryan O'Shea, Czech Boxing Association leader Marek Šimák, Swedish Boxing Association chair Per-Axel Sjöholmv and and Boxing New Zealand President Steve Hartley are under investigation by the IBA's Boxing Independent Integrity Unit. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1134286/iba-disciplinary-five-officials-boycott

This attitude worked well when Buckner was head of British swimming. Really not convinced if it'll have the same success in athletics

Men's T20 result 10 all out 13-0 from 0.2 balls (first ball was a no-ball) New world record low score for men's cricket

Evans not Evan. FIG made a mistake

Whether right or wrong the decision to censor didn't come from a liberal point of view. It came from the publishing company's very conservative view that they would sell more copies of his books if they cut out some of the phrases parents would object to.

To Pavel Sivakov (Cycling) To Robert Shwartzman (Motor Racing)

To Aleksandra Maksakova (Dressage) - Olympian Egor Shchibrik (Show Jumping) Vladimir Tuganov (Show Jumping)

@rafalgorka Will you be doing the same type of thread for Moscow 1980?

Question on the walking events. Is it possible to post an Olympic qualifying time in a race where all the judges come from the same country as the competitor?

https://downloads.european-athletics.com/d9f70a26-f909-49b2-a4b1-688513dd803b/EICH 2023 - Final Entries Athletes List By Event and SB.pdf The entry list

1500m finalist - Rio.

So today the IBA published the rules for Olympic qualification. Even though they are banned by the IOC from holding Olympic qualification tournament. They really, really want to be thrown out of the Olympic movement, don't they?