Dragon

A journalist friend of mine is trying to find details of the Montenegro team, Has a list of the team been published anywhere?

According to ARD tv in Germany "the biological passports of 11 biathletes, including 6 Russians, strongly point to doping having taken place". This is from the investigation into the IBU staff receiving bribes to cover up the story.

What we know. Boxing will take place in Tokyo 2020. AIBA will not run the tournament or the qualifiers. The qualifying will run between next January and may. There will be 8 weight categories for men, 5 for women. What we don't know. Who will run the tournament or the qualifiers. What are the weight categories. What and where will be the qualifying events. Whether professional boxers will compete. Where the referees and judges will come from.

Some people on other forums are calling for the British athletes to be banned too. Just want to make it clear there were no British runners in this case. The journalist invented a training group from the UK to trap Rotich.

Delayed for another 30 minutes

Press conference imminent

Thomas Bach is giving a press conference in 10 minutes time. Edit - 40 minutes time. It;s been delayed

The IOC decision on AIBA and boxing at Tokyo 2020 will be announced withing an hour.

Some random songs that the rest of the world will not be familiar with

There's a 10 year limit.

Olympic marathon silver medal 2016 Kirwa

European 100m champion Zharnel Hughes ran an Olympic qualifying time in Guadeloupe 10,03

https://swimswam.com/filippo-magninis-4-year-ban-upheld-santucci-acquitted/

San Marino will finish ahead of the UK and Germany in the final.

The Dutch have a very bad habit of entering a good song into the contest. Spoils the competition...

That's a fair point...

I'm afraid will be there just because of the controversy.

Algeria is a member of Eurovision. I wonder if they will ever compete. I'd like to see what effect this would have on Bestmen

I think I posted that comment before she started singing,,,

I think we all agree that we would rather be stuck in an elevator with the Greek singer than the Portugeuse guy?

I thought BDSM was a football club in Belarus?

Go home Iceland, you're drunk...

Translation Russia's leading skateboarder, Maxim Kruglov, is disqualified for four years and lost his chance to compete at the 2020 Olympics due to ignorance of the anti-doping rules. Such a TASS opinion was expressed on Tuesday by Margarita Pakhnotskaya, Deputy Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). The disqualification of an athlete is counted from February 7, 2019. The 30-year-old Kruglov was found guilty of violating clause 2.3 of the All-Russian Anti-Doping Rules (evasion, refusal or non-appearance of an athlete in the procedure for taking samples). “Note that an athlete is disqualified for four years not for having found prohibited substances in his doping test. According to his explanations, he used one substance shortly before the testing procedure. And when he learned that they would test, he was afraid that in the urine, and refused to pass control, "- said Pakhnotskaya. "He was summed up by the ignorance of the anti-doping rules, in which it is written that exactly that substance is considered doping only if it was used during the competition period. If Kruglov had appeared for doping testing, then he would not suffer any punishment. Inspector RUSADA who tried to test, he persuaded this athlete for a long time not to avoid taking the test and told about the serious consequences after the refusal, but all the words were in vain, "the TASS interlocutor noted. Kruglov is the winner of the tournament Adrenalin Games (2011), DC Banks Grand Opening (2011), Simple Session (2013) and other major competitions. Skateboarding is an Olympic discipline, the first time this sport will be presented at the Games 2020 in Tokyo. Kruglov claimed to participate in the Olympics 2020.