Dragon

Great win for the British B team... Once they get their good riders competing they might be a good team....

Plus Edwin Mosquera (Colombia-Weightlifting) and Inkululeko Suntele (Lesotho-Boxing) 2 murders, 1 car accident, 1 accidental drowning and 1 illness

Looks like a Thai married to a German with a Polish name who lives in the USA...

From the IOC's Director of Communications. Looks like a serious bid

The hottest driest summer in Britain for 60 years and now...

Case #453 (Russia #53) Athlete: Egor Musienko Sport: Non-Olympic (Powerlifting) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 19th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #454 (Russia #54) Athlete: Vasily Polenin Sport: Non-Olympic (Powerlifting) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: June 15th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #455 (Russia #55) Athlete: Nikolay Busygin Sport: Non-Olympic (Powerlifting) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: June 15th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #456 (Russia #56) Athlete: Alexander Soldatenkov Sport: Bobsleigh Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 23rd, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #457 (Russia #57) Athlete: Nikita Yashin Sport: Non-Olympic (Sambo) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 13th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #458 (Russia #58) Athlete: Polina Kovalyova Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Duration: 24 Months Expiration: March 1st, 2020 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/

Case #448 (Russia #48) Athlete: Aisil Fahertdinova Sport: Ski Jumping Duration: 48 Months Expiration: February 20th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #449 (Russia #49) Athlete: Mohammed Happaev Sport: Weightlifting Duration: 48 Months Expiration: March 30th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #450 (Russia #50) Athlete: Artem Shcherbakova Sport: Non-Olympic (Sambo) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: May 24th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #451 (Russia #51) Athlete: Natalia Stepanova Sport: Non-Olympics (Para Athletics) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: June 15th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #452 (Russia #52) Athlete: Victoria Knysh Sport: Non-Olympic (Powerlifting) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: April 10th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/

Case #442 (Russia #42) Athlete: Vasily Kopeikin Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: May 4th, 2021 Substance: ? Source: http://rusathletics.info/97257 Case #443 (Russia #43) Athlete: Evgeny Slyakovskiy Sport: Non-Olympic (Powerlifting) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: November 23rd, 2021 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #444 (Russia #44) Athlete: Elizabeta Goncherova Sport: Cycling - Road Duration: 18 Months Expiration: April 4th, 2019 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #445 (Russia #45) Athlete: Vladislav Bondarenko Sport: Non-Olympic (Sambo) Duration: 24 Months Expiration: March 26th, 2020 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #446 (Russia #46) Athlete: Yury Permyakov Sport: Non-Olympic (Sambo) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: March 26th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/ Case #447 (Russia #47) Athlete: Gadzhi Gamzatova Sport: Wrestling Duration: 48 Months Expiration: March 26th, 2022 Substance: ? Source: http://rusada.ru/news/disqualification/

I trusted Wikipedia when it said this was their first match, Stupid mistake to make.

Lucky there's no cricket this time.. India v Indonesia would be... interesting.

This is Malaysia's first ever competitive match...

The world indoor 60m hurdles record. It seems to be that Kallur's time was overlooked by the people who ratify the records,. I gather this rule will be changed next year.

Mondo Duplantis's pole vault will be recognised as a new national record for US rules say that if you are a US citizen it doesn't matter if you compete for another country - you can still set American records.

Introduction to BBC coverage of Beijing...

1 - If I make a mistake I don't waste time making small ones. 2/3 - Somebody who has the capability of being the best in the world (or at least being close to the best) but is not yet well known outside their own country unless you follow junior sport very closely. Jakob would have been in this category at the start of 2018 but. obviously, he got very good, very quickly. Probably people who have already won medals at senior level can be excluded - but I think the "rules" don't have to be too strict either.

Case #438 (Great Britain #13) Athlete: Adam Fedorciow Sport: Weightlifting Duration: 24 Months Expiration: July 14th, 2019 Substance: Coclaurine, Higenamine Source: https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/ Case #439 (Great Britain #14) Athlete: Harry Reardon Sport: Non-Olympic (Rugby League) Duration: 48 Months Expiration: November 29th, 2021 Substance: Norandrosterone Source: https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/ Case #440 (Great Britain #15) Athlete: Joanna Blair Sport: Athletics Duration: 48 Months Expiration: July 19th, 2021 Substance: 17β-hydroxy-17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one Source: https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/ Case #441 (Great Britain #16) Athlete: Ashley Johnson Sport: Non-Olympic (Rugby Union) Duration: 6 Months Expiration: August 6th, 2018 Substance: Hydrochlorothiazide Source: https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/

To be fair deleted themselves.

Olympic champion from Hemel Hempstead European champion from Newtonards. That's a bit like the two best cricket players in the world coming from Zagreb and Belgrade...

Aren't there Croat handball players playing for Qatar?

It's absolutely right that somebody can change countries but it shouldn't be easy. A bad example is the Kenyan who arrived in Turkey and was competing for his new country 12 months later despite having spent a lot of those 12 months back training in Kenya. And it doesn't matter that athlete was from Kenya, it would be the same if he was from Sweden or the UK or Japan or Morocco or any other country, If there's no family link to the new country then they should live in that country for at least three years - maybe more

Scotland...

Don't exaggerate - it's only 38

Although remember that, although Farah was born in Somalia and has a Somalian mother, his father was British so Mo has been a British citizen since he was born