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Official announcement for Simona Halep will carry their flag in Tokyo This was announced by the President of the Romanian Olympic Committee,

I hope bestmen is celebrating with a glass of lemonade...

Very similar to the BBC London 2012 opening titles

If you have a good female racehorse it can cost you $200,000 for her to visit one of the best stallions. So it becomes very tempting to take a shortcut.

Potentially BIG news. The former governor of Rio has accused two sporting legends of taking bribes to help Rio host the 2016 Olympics - Sergey Bubka and Alexander Popov

Women's pole vault Lausanne city centre event Holly Bradshaw 4.72

One more entry from me, Let us see if I can ruin the British run of victories.

WADA has identified the 298 "most suspicious" samples from the Moscow Lab

Where I am - Summer is 16 c and sunny, winter 10 c and raining and every other time 16 c and raining...

After 3 brilliant Olympics in a row I predict a major decrease in medals for Great Britain. I think around 45 medals will be won with the number of golds being cut to 12 or 13,

Women's 200m Amy Hunt 22.42 - age 17! Wind reading 1.9 Mannheim, GER WORLD u18 RECORD

Although for Rio, the women sevens team qualified as African champions - but they were withdrawn by their Olympic Committee

1 May - except marathon and walks which began 1 January

Edging west - by 2059 it'll be hosted by Greenland

I know nobody much uses the word as a racist insult anymore but it still feels odd to hear it.

For "sambo wrestling" shouldn't we used the term "sombo" when reporting it in English?

Official IWF statement from https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1081046/doping-violation-by-self-exiled-transgender-weightlifter-will-take-armenia-over-sanctions-limit-for-tokyo-2020#.XQ5ksj2hUzU.twitter Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia and Belarus are restricted to two athletes, one male and one female, for Tokyo as they already have more than 20 positives from the “counting period” that started at the Beijing Olympics. Armenia will join them when the Daluzyan case is closed and the 12 nations with 10 to 20 positives, who can send a maximum of two men and two women to Tokyo, are Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine (all 16 and all with one Olympic violation ongoing), Uzbekistan (15 with one violation ongoing), Egypt, Turkey (both 13), Iran, Moldova (both 12), India (11), Albania, Malaysia and Thailand (10, but Thailand have withdrawn). Venezuela is on nine, one short of the sanctions limit.

Why do I get the feeling this will be me when the Pan-Am Games begin...

In the final picture we see that Minsk is well prepared for an attack by giant alien mosquitoes. The 20 metre high fly swatters are a clever idea.

The UK rights are with the BT Sport channel. Sometimes they get a million viewers for big Champions League football nights. I'd be surprised if they got 50,000 for this event

Sally Conway (judo) carries the GB flag in the opening ceremony