Dragon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cgkg6zyr0v2o A 14 year old wonderkid...

Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, the 7th Baronet of Balindean died early this month aged 72. He was a bobsleigh Olympian for Great Britain in 1976 and 1980. Proves not even aristocrats can live forever...

Another five years and we may have a world champion... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/snooker/article-14582715/Snooker-sensation-14-Ronnie-OSullivan-World-Championship-record.html

Also this from a journalist friend who asked the IOC about whether the mixed tennis event would be mixed doubles or a mixed team event. Simple answer - they don't know yet. The ITF are still to decide

To point out a mistake in the document. They say Artistic Swimming is back to being a women only sport. That is not true, men are still allowed to compete

This is going a very tricky decision for the ICC. You can't really use the current world rankings because ranking points will be won or lost against teams that are not eligible for the Olympics. I think that any country who fails to qualify because will launch an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and probably win. So here's what I suggest for the six. 1 Possible host country place - USA - but only possible - what you do is recalculate the ICC rankings and take out all points gained against non-Olympic teams. Then once you done this and taken out non-Olympic countries like West Indies and either England and Scotland then if the USA are in a high enough ranking position they qualify. This position could be as high as 10th or as low as 20th depending on how important the IOC and ICC see their presence in LA. (I'm assuming that, like in curling and women's soccer Great Britain would nominate either England or Scotland as their official qualifying representatives) USA are currently 18th 2 2026 World T20 champions 3 and 4 Asia-Pacific qualifying tournament winners and runners-up 5 and 6 Euro-Africa-Americas qualifying tournament winners and runners-up (7) If the USA don't meet the qualifying standard then a play off between the 3rd place teams in the 2 above categories decides the final qualifiers The qualifying tournament would be held under IOC eligibility rules not the ICC rules

Football and boxing is quite popular though

Lacrosse has a very similar lack of depth and will be held in LA...

Only the world championship results. World Cup should be safe because the positive happened at the start of this month.

There's a famous quote from Winston Churchill. "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

Jade O'Dowda heptathlon has a brother who plays football for and her grandfather was a famous Irish singer

Probably the best born athlete of heritage ever to win gold for

Yes, she's had a poor campaign

The rumours about the IOC election is that Samaranch and Coe are clearly the favourites now

French athlete Yvonne Curtet-Chabot has died. She was 104 and the oldest Olympian.

Evan's a fantastic athlete but an even better person

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ydg04xezo

Billy Joel song "Only the Good Die Young" includes the lines; "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"

I think chances of a medal may be falling away...

Joe has Welsh parents

Hammerstein's a Londoner. The fact she went to Cheltenham Ladies College suggests she's not short of a few quid.. Father might be a German aristocrat

More Skeleton success. GB1 won the mixed team event yesterday

Are we all looking forward to next week's barbeque event?

Skeleton update Marcus Wyatt wins World Cup bronze and European Championships silver. Matt Weston finishes 9th but clinches the overall World Cup title with Wyatt taking 2nd place.