Dragon

Interestingly so far this year there are more Japanese in the top 25 male marathon runners than Kenyans and Ethiopians

Just did a quick calculation. 87% of all the member countries of World Athletics have a national marathon record that's above 2 hours 8 minutes

He's been living in Sweden for some years, his wife and children are Swedish citizens.

The Swedish authorities did speed up the process once before. For Ludmila Engquist who won a gold medal in 1996.

Tsegay ran 2.06.53 last week. He applied for Swedish citizenship last year

Unless the Eritrean living in Sweden has his citizenship application accepted.

Or Dan Evans syndrome as its known in my house...

Can you ignore this result please. I really f****d up this up for my team...

I'm conflicted. Can't say I liked Canada's song but Canada is the only other country I have a strong family link to - so well done intoronto

It's either the Gin, the pineapple juice or the corn flakes next

I am both

51 years ago the GB entry would have been Tangerine

Yes, I have a South African Sauvignon Blanc that needs drinking too...

Tomorrow night I'll be live streaming me shooting my own foot live on facebook... Would still be better than what happened to the Otters tonight.

I'll edit it...

Women's 100m hurdles - Gainesville Tiffany Porter 12.62 Cindy Semper 12.62 Sisters with identical qualifying times! But the big news was Jessica Camacho-Quinn 12.32 - 7th best of all-time

I blame the person who picked the teams...

great britain SWEDEN 12 FINLAND 11 UNITED STATES 10 NETHERLANDS 9 DENMARK 8 SLOVAKIA 7 FRANCE 6 TUNISIA 5 SPAIN 4 ARGENTINA 3 POLAND 2 INDONESIA 1 And in the end I gave 0 points to either Ireland or Canada so you can't accuse me of being biased... Thanks to Rybak and company for a fun contest

great britain FINLAND 11 UNITED STATES 10 NETHERLANDS 9 DENMARK 8 SLOVAKIA 7 FRANCE 6 TUNISIA 5 SPAIN 4 ARGENTINA 3 POLAND 2 INDONESIA 1

great britain London Calling, This is London Calling. Here are the results of the UK Jury Let's try to make this exciting... UNITED STATES 10 NETHERLANDS 9 DENMARK 8 SLOVAKIA 7 FRANCE 6 TUNISIA 5 SPAIN 4 ARGENTINA 3 POLAND 2 INDONESIA 1

Before I vote I have two things to say. Firstly, the things above are both true. I live on the west coast so Dublin is 100km closer than London and my great-grandparents lived on Vancouver Island. Secondly, I'd like to apologize to my team mates for drowning the otters...

I think I know how this will end...