Dragon

We have a new qualifier! Women's 20k walk - Alytyus Birgit Virbalyte (1.30.54)

And one English team playing in the Welsh system

As for Gibraltar's entry in the next song contest. Did you know flamenco-metal was a thing?

These are the latest rules from World Athletics (updated in 2019) Alternatively, an athlete may represent another Member with the approval of World Athletics, which approval shall be conditional upon: a. the athlete observing a waiting period of three years from the date that the application for approval is made to World Athletics (during which period the athlete must not represent any other Member in National Representative Competition or compete in any Other Relevant Competition); and b. the athlete demonstrating that as at the end of the waiting period: i they are or will be aged twenty or over; and ii they are or will be a Citizen of the Country or of the parent Country of the Territory which the Member represents; and iii they are or will have a genuine, close, credible and established link to that Country or Territory (e.g., through Residence there).

18 year old British runner with the 2nd fastest time in the world this year

Anchorage was close to being awarded the 1994 WOG

These are some impossible choices but Auckland, Liverpool and Ostrava

With golf it's important to remember how popular golf is in Japan - which means a lot of top golfers are sponsored by Japanese companies who want publicity in their home country.

Best over 800m at the moment - but potentially both 800 and 1500 by 2021

I hope she has the ability to win from 400m out and in the final sprint but we'll have to see how she performs.

Suntans are illegal in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Reekie might well be a potential Olympic champion if she keeps improving like she's been doing

Cross-country is very boring in hot, dry weather

https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/allsport_agency/2809858.html A Russian website is also doing a day-by-day forecast of Tokyo 2020 There are links to each individual day so far on the right of the page

So what happened to Indonesia then? What happened that they rejected the Dutch specialities?

Gracenote are doing a day by day prediction for The Mail newspaper in the UK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-8561567/Virtual-Olympic-Games-Jade-Jones-claims-Team-GB-gold-medal-taekwondo-star-makes-history.html A little too focused on GBR results perhaps,

In 2016 there were 38 Chinese born players competing for other countries in table tennis. 40 in London,

Unlikely but not impossible. We wit to see what will be published later today https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/16/covid-19-vaccine-what-have-we-learned-from-oxford-phase-one-trial

Let's see what the FIA are doing at the moment

Albon should get penalized for his team drying his grid position before the race. Could even get disqualified.

The stories in the Russian media seem to be that she was forced to retire from skating after suffering an epileptic seizure that nearly killed her very early this year. Unable to find a job within skating, she had been working as a stripper. Of course, I don't know how much of that is true.

Marquez so wide he was nearly in Portugal.

Czechoslovakia only competed because Australia, The Netherlands, West Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Argentina, Ireland. Japan and Fiji withdrew or declined an invitation

Well, De Coubertain is quoted as saying sport would "calm the uncivilized races of Africa" and he didn't like women competing in most Olympic sports. The big difference between him and Brundage is the change of general attitude between 1900 and 1972 (when Brundage retired). DC's views were just those of an average French/European in those days - Brundage's views were already discredited when he was still president,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Canadian_Paul/Olympics has been replaced by https://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~ptchir/ Same person runs it.