Dragon

I think what worried Paddle UK was the video Kurts posted of him "performing a sex act on an aeroplane".
I just hope he wasn't the pilot...

At the moment that would be
 
Men





(New Zealand could overtake Australia but the others seem safe to qualify)
 
And one
from







and whoever wins a tournament between the countries in the 
 
Women





 
and one from







and whoever wins a tournament between the countries in the 
 
 
 

https://www.cricketfj.com/
"The qualification process for the six-team men’s and women’s competitions at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has all but been agreed upon.
As I first reported last year, the cricket competitions will comprise the top team in the regional rankings - Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa - along with host nation United States, who would represent the Americas.
The final spot will be determined by a single global qualifier likely to be held in 2027 and feature the highest ranked eight teams who did not automatically qualify. Specific details will be shared at the next meetings."

To be fair, they didn't eat ALL of him. 

At the age of 15 Michal Szubarczyk  becomes the youngest player to win a game in the qualifying rounds of the World Snooker Championships

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/central-american-cricket-championships-2026-1529373/mexico-vs-brazil-final-1529382/full-scorecard
Brazil's men have won the Central American Championship beating Mexico in the final

Sorry to all Italy

Sorry to all Italy

Sorry to all Italy

30% of all currently unfinished Olympic doping cases are to do with Egyptian weightlifters

One of the strangest facts in sport is that, despite having the biggest team in F1 for over 60 years, Italy have had no drivers world champion since 1952

A Celtic hero

Yes, GB for example, have players who are only eligible because of the following rules.
 
The player has one parent who is, or if deceased was, a citizen of the nation the team represents.
The player has one parent who was born in the nation or territory the team represents
 
GB's best player, Jazz Chisholm, only qualifies because his father was born in the Bahamas when it was still a British colony and had a "British Overseas Citizenship" until the Bahamas became independent. Jazz will never gets a true UK passport because the government citizenship laws do not  allow it.

4 groups of 3 teams
3 games in each group.
Group winners to semi-finals.
Medallists would play 5 games.
Add 3 reserve days for the weather. Average is less than a day of rain in LA in July
All over in 8 days.

4 groups of 3 teams
3 games in each group.
Group winners to semi-finals.
Medallists would play 5 games.
Add 3 reserve days for the weather. Average is less than a day of rain in LA in July
All over in 8 days.

Somehow I've managed to combine lambing season on my farm with the best Winter Olympics in GB history.
May I just say **** **** **** and also ****

We only added her to the Olympedia database 30 minutes ago...

We only added her to the Olympedia database 30 minutes ago...

Frankly, GB has never gone into a Winter Games with so many medal chances.
A bad Games could see just a handful of minor medals, an absolutely perfect Games might see Britain at the bottom end of the top 6 countries in the medal table.
Probably the truth will be in between.

Great choice if you want to test that your printer is working...

Great choice if you want to test that your printer is working...

Nice to see my Olympedia colleague being mentioned at the end of press release

It would make sense for him to be picked as British Biathlon made an effort to get him to move from France to Britain.
I have much more doubt about the quota of a British woman 

Team GB confirm Jacques Jeffries and Shawna Pendry take up the quota allocations for Biathlon.
 
With that, Team GB are sending a total of 53 athletes to the 2026 Winter Games.