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  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58256515 More shoe debate.
  2. Mboma and Maslingi are going to be the story of Athletics in the coming year. I can’t see WA not wanting to try and have them out before Eugene.
  3. Canada is effectively 50/50 atm. The election result might well decide if Team Canada turns up. Way too many people are convinced a boycott will not happen.
  4. The IOC would never scrap one of the most popular sports no matter how corrupt and doped the governing body is.
  5. It seemed reasonably popular in the UK as the BBC had two dedicated commentators cover the highlights of every final including the majority that had no British participants. For some sports like Artistic Swimming the highlights used OBS commentators.
  6. Slovakia might well get to replace Canada who look fairly likely to withdraw from the games because as it looks I think the next PM of Canada is pro boycotting the games on safety grounds.
  7. I can’t see it coming back after it is axed. It will be a bit awkward due to the French political pressure to reinstate Karate to then axe a sport after saying the programme is fixed.
  8. I imagine they will be a big reaction in China as it will surely make it very hard to displace the USA from the top of the table.
  9. Max Whitlock was asked on Instagram yesterday if he thinks a mixed team event will come one day to Gymnastics and he said it would be an interesting idea.
  10. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1111722/iwf-crisis-old-guard Looks like Weightlifting won’t be in Paris.
  11. Some like Holly Bradshaw are targeting the WCH, Commonwealth and Europeans. Pole Vault through is an event where competing a lot through the season is usual.
  12. Looking at the world rankings I doubt would have won any medals even with a full team.
  13. Through Northern Ireland is probably the area that least needs things like this to help improve the Union - everyone there is firmly committed one way or the other on this issue and things like this will change no one’s mind.
  14. If he was able to persuade a lot of the public through that he was a victim of contamination or even poisoning it could make him and the others seen as martyrs who lost due to poor labelling in a Japanese factory or an anti British plot. Back during the last Winter Olympics one of the BBC presenters described Alan Baxter who lost his medal as having it still in spirit.
  15. Shubenkov is the oddest. How as a Russian he managed to get off and even get an apology I don’t know.
  16. Well it might get his ban reduced from 4 to 2 if he provides the supplements and he can prove they were contaminated with both substances but it won’t save his teammates medal or his chance of representing GB again without further legal action.
  17. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58216873 Ujah finally speaks and effectively tells us we looking at a contamination or poisoning defence which will fail. Can’t see many in Britain backing him at all considering the Times has done a no smoke without fire article today on some of his teammates and anyone backing him will get that treatment.
  18. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1109434/sun-sights-on-paris-2024-doping-ban I suspect the last thing FINA want is him swimming at Paris.
  19. The times have found a link between Blessing Okagbare and CJ Ujah. Insusoect this will see more than one CAS case - the lifetime ban on representing GB is bound to be challenged as it was previously and there is no evidence CAS has changed it’s views on the issue.
  20. A very complicated web with lots of athletes being de facto accused in that article.
  21. This is why i suspect we will not see any NHL Players in Bejing.
  22. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58193282 Jacobs break is not due to injury according to his coach.
  23. https://swimswam.com/news/coronavirus-news/ He pulled a contamination defence.
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