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Dragon

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  1. Are there updated lists of qualifiers now that the Colombians have been reduced?
  2. He's provisionally selected (fair enough, there's no one to take his place) but he faces an enquiry before he can go to Tokyo. https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/a-further-65-athletes-nominated-to-represent-team-gb-at-the-2020-tokyo-olympic-games/ Team of 72 so far
  3. The announcement of the GBR team has been delayed because the 5000m runner Andy Butchart has been accused a faking a COVID test to get back into the country
  4. Does anyone know whether Simon Martirosyan of Armenia has been cleared to compete at 109 kg in Tokyo?
  5. Jasha Sütterlin out of the tour because of the Allezopi-Omi woman...
  6. I'm sure he will retire from serious athletics although he'll probably run a few marathons for the money.
  7. By the way if you want to educate yourself on how the British conservatives were hypocrites, and just plain shits back then, google "The D'Oliveira Affair"
  8. The year when left wing students protested so much that the Labour Party changed their policy from tolerating South African sporting visitors to actively opposing them,
  9. No, you're wrong. The Labour Government in 1977 help draft the Gleneagles Agreement helping to isolate Apartheid South Africa from international sport. At the same time, the Conservative party were still taking large contributions from people involved in the South African government,
  10. Absolutely right. GBR were one of the worst culprits but that's the problem with having a very conservative government back then, They were too cowardly to put honest sport over dirty money.
  11. Back at the start of the 80s the South African Apartheid government used to squeal about keeping politics out of sport. Forty years later people on both sides of the argument now accept the sporting boycott of South Africa was very important in stopping the subjugation of black people in the country and allowing Mandela to become President,
  12. If you change the word "politics" to "morality", would you still agree with that statement?
  13. You're forgetting the world class drizzle...
  14. It was based on this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHgCNP0G/do-you-live-in-the-british-tornado-alley
  15. "the UK gets an average of 30-50 tornadoes a year. That’s more tornadoes per land area than anywhere else in the world (except – weirdly – the Netherlands.)" One of the strangest facts I know...
  16. No, they've just withdrawn to help Ireland qualify a place
  17. Boxing Men's s-heavy Justis Huni Injured hand suffered during a defence of his Australian professional heavyweight title earlier this month
  18. Athletics Women's 1500m /5000m Melissa Courtney-Bryant
  19. So I decided to give this report the headline that would be most helpful to the IWF. I went for: "IWF not accused of killing cute little puppies to make fur coats for billionaires" Because they're accused of almost everything else... https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/06/ITA-Final-Report-on-IWF.pdf
  20. Looks like it. Also Cam Norrie, who reached an ATP final last week.
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