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Top 8 teams from 2020 World Relays plus 8 top teams in the world rankings at end of June that are not already qualified

Not sure what you mean here. Have they changed the qualifying process for relays?

New Zealand will withdraw their world champion women's lightweight double sculls from Tokyo https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/tokyo-olympics-2021-rowing-new-zealand-withdraw-world-champion-boat-from-games/25LDYPQ736N2LARAW4BAY5OEOQ/

"Benoit Paire has been excluded from selection for the Olympic Games in Tokyo by the French Tennis Federation for ‘repetition of deeply inappropriate behaviour’. In a statement, the FFT revealed they spoke to Paire in March after finding his ‘unsportsmanlike’ conduct in a match against Francisco Cerundolo in Buenos Aires, as well as previous incidents, to be in breach of their Code of Ethics. Paire apologised for the behaviour and expressed his desire to improve in a letter, but the FFT followed up on the issue after the Frenchman’s “deeply unethical” words following his defeat to Jordan Thompson at the Monte Carlo Masters this month. “Responsibility, for our sport and for France, on a proposal from the DTN and in consultation with Sébastien Grosjean, the Comex has decided to exclude Benoît Paire from the future list of players who will represent the FFT and France this summer at Tokyo,” said Gilles Moretton, president of the FFT. “His behavior, which has been deeply inappropriate since the start of the year, seriously undermines the values of sport, such as tennis, and is totally incompatible with the Olympic spirit. “I repeat, it is the duty of each player and each high-level player to respect the values of our sport and it is up to them to be exemplary on the court as well as off, especially vis-à-vis the young people of our country.”

Arthur Abele (European decathlon champion) Shoulder

He used to be known as Abdelrahman Elgamal and competed for Egypt

Is it Russia and Romania or Russia and Larissa?

And now there's only 4 teams left. Real, Barca, Milan and Juve...

Yesterday Manchester United shares were worth $250 million more than Sunday. Today they are worth $300 million less than they were on Sunday.

Juventus now denying Agnelli is resigning

If only German had to word to descibe "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune"....

Reports that Manchester United have decided to pull out too. This is dead, dead, dead now

Reports that Athletico Madrid are pulling out too...

Wolves beat Honved in 1954, a year after Hungary had smashed England at Wembley, when both teams were national championships. Wolves won 3-2 but it might have helped that the pitch was a heap of mud...

Well,if the Super League had been invented in the 1950s they might be as big a club as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus today...

The problem will be "false positives". A lot will miss their events and then be cleared to compete a few days later

https://www.irozhlas.cz/sport/atletika/anezka-drahotova-doping-zavodni-chuze-antidopingovy-vybor-nalez-latka_2104201021_mim

Liverpool are almost certainly one of them. The rumour is that 95% of their supporters are against the idea.

This is scary news about one of the best known coaches of the last 50 years

Do you need an assistant? Happy if they only pay me hundreds of thousands