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  1. 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"
  2. 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,
  3. 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,
  4. 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.
  5. 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,
  6. If you change the word "politics" to "morality", would you still agree with that statement?
  7. You're forgetting the world class drizzle...
  8. It was based on this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHgCNP0G/do-you-live-in-the-british-tornado-alley
  9. "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...
  10. No, they've just withdrawn to help Ireland qualify a place
  11. Boxing Men's s-heavy Justis Huni Injured hand suffered during a defence of his Australian professional heavyweight title earlier this month
  12. Athletics Women's 1500m /5000m Melissa Courtney-Bryant
  13. 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
  14. Looks like it. Also Cam Norrie, who reached an ATP final last week.
  15. All the results from the Uzbekhistan Open Championships in April just got thrown out by FINA. https://sportstar.thehindu.com/swimming/indian-swimmer-sp-likith-alleges-manipulation-timing-uzbekistan-open-championship/article34379120.ece
  16. Have you noticed the US show jumping have included a horse called "Contagious" in their entries. That could lead to all kinds of misunderstanding...
  17. https://www.sportpferde-damarishof.com/english/about-us/michael-bugan/ Aspiration Tokyo Olympics 2020 with "Presi"
  18. The Swiss Federal court can't rule on the evidence, they can only rule on whether the case was held properly according to Swiss Law. If they rule it wasn't the case the case goes to back to CAS.
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