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Cricket, breaking, baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport federations invited to submit applications inclusion at 2028 Games

It's the big problem for the mixed 4 x 400. Who you pick affects the performances of the men's and women's 4 x 400s. For better or for worse.

One point we should make is about the IOC President Avery Brundage, who was powerful in US sport even before he got the job with the IOC. He was noted to be very discriminatory towards Jews, black people and native Americans and competed against Thorpe at the 1912 Olympics. It's possible Thorpe would have got his medals back 50-70 years ago if Brundage hadn't been in charge.

In 1982 the original doucuments from 1912 were found in the IOC archives. The rules stated that 30 days after the Games ended, if no appeal was made, then the results could not be changed. Thorpe was not stripped of his medal until 1913. Also I'm told that today's decision would not have taken place if any of the relatives of the Swede and Norwegian who were upgraded to gold in 1913 would have objected.

Interestingly Thorpe was only reinstated as joint champion in 1982 when it was discovered that the IOC broke their own rules when they disqualified him.

Edinburgh winning over Chicago and Medellin on the "not getting murdered" tiebreak rule. Which I'm told that some people think is important

Also what's your prediction as to how long the opening ceremony will have gone on for before this song shows up

Any idea who the oldest and youngest competitors are?

And the answer was - he resigned this morning

.Question now is whether Boris resigns tomorrow, Friday or gets voted out of office by his own party next week

For those of you who have never seen this. Bjorn Lilleien's commentary on the Norway - England football in 1981 is a classic

Lucky Nelson wasn't riding a bike though. I wouldn't have thought he'd have much of a chance to win, knowing his limitations...

Nah, just talked to somebody who works with the Olympic Channel. It's US/NBC that's closing their version of the channel down - not the IOC

You'd have thought he'd be too busy managing Everton to win a stage of the tour....

More of a case of which sports won't you be watching (at least in the USA)

Let's see if I can be controversial... Aquatics Can't think of a reason to drop or add anything Archery Same - although the thought of an indoor compound archery event is intriguing Athletics OUT - Women's heptathlon, Mixed 4 x 400, walking mixed relay thing IN - Women's decathlon, M & F pentathlon, M & F 50k walk Wild Idea - an Athletics version of cycling's Madison race (The mixed 4 x 4 has got boring since the teams worked out which order to run the men and women to maximum effect and it affected the quality of the other relays) Basketball Not a fan of 3x3 but prepared to give it another chance in Paris Boxing Add 1 more weight for men and 2 more for women, or if the IBA are still going to be useless the drop the sport completely Canoeing Add M C1 200m , F C1 1000m, Slalom Mixed team event Cycling Add M & F Individual Pursuit, M & F Kilo TT, M & F MTB downhill Equestrian No Change Fencing OUT- M & F Epee, sabre, foil team events IN - M & F Combined weapons team event Football OUT - M U23 tournament IN - M Open age tournament (OK, FIFA and the big clubs would block it but you can dream...) Gymnastics IN - M & F Tumbling Golf IN - M & F Team match play Handball No Change Hockey No Change Judo OUT - Team Event Modern Pentathlon Tempted by a relay event but, for now, no change Rowing In - M & F Lightweight Single Sculls Rugby No Change Sailing OUT - Mixed 470 In - M & W 470 Shooting In - M & W Double Trap Taekwondo No Change Tennis No Change Triathlon No Change Volleyball No Change Weightlifting Either add 3 more weights for both M & F or drop the sport completely Wrestling OUT - Greco-Roman IN - 3 more Freestyle weight categories for M & F Climbing I found the speed event interesting in Tokyo but the other two disciplines quite dull. But if you're going to include it you might as well had all three events separately Skateboarding No Change Surfing No Change Breaking OUT - If the judges don't know what the rules are, then why should we care?, "Dude"

North Carolina South Carolina West Carolina East Carolina Christmas Carolina Some Dakotas, at least seven Virginias and a Hawaii. Have I got them all?

You know Brazil's national cricket team played their first international match 25 years before Brazil's national football team's first game?

Even more strange is that preceding the B-Boys we have a live game of Shinty from Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/scotland/61938099

Togo and Gabon was part of the French Empire for a long time and the King of England owned big parts of France in the 13th century. Simple

"B-Boy world championship finals" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/61312586