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  1. Orangehair43
    I think by the end of the Games GB Athletics will look worse than the rowing as i think the amount of finals reached will likely be the lowest ever and leaving without medals is plausible.
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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/29/russian-olympics-success-slammed-great-britain-lose-medals-tokyo/
  3. Orangehair43
    It’s hard to see anyone but the top three medaling.
  4. Orangehair43
    She just looked a bit out of form. And that possible injury to Asha Philip is bad news for the GB Women in the 4 x 100 Unless she recovers quickly.
  5. Orangehair43
    If they can’t prove they were framed and get the original charge dismissed then that’s tough.
  6. Orangehair43
    I think in Dressage even big mistakes are not easily to notice to untrained viewer. In some other judged sports big MAK takes are more common and clear to notice. like in the final of the individual Schneider made lots of mistakes but it was hard to see how she went from possible medal contender to finishing 15th.
  7. Orangehair43
    Why shouldn’t Lily King speak out about a cheater being in the race?
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    ROC (nor any team) shouldn’t contain anyone with a doping ban in their past.
  9. Orangehair43
    I think Dina Asher Smith won’t make the final on her heat performance. She doesn’t look in her best form.
  10. Orangehair43
    Yuliya Yefimova has served a ban and was very lucky to avoid a second.
  11. Orangehair43
    But there is proof Russia should have been banned from these games and none of their athletes should be there even if Rylov himself has never been directly accused nor has had a notably suspicious career.
  12. Orangehair43
    The final swimming relays will be explosive now. Russia v USA might see podium protests and more and more accusations of Russian doping. Here in the UK the British media are already counting any medal denied by Russians as an honorary medal.
  13. Orangehair43
    Most athletes are pretty good at avoiding positive tests now a days (including probably many British and American ones).
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    https://www.newsweek.com/roc-olympic-star-wants-journalist-removed-question-russia-doping-scandal-daniil-medvedev-1613889
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    https://swimswam.com/two-russian-olympic-swimmers-provisionally-suspended-for-doping-violations/
  16. Orangehair43
    And that is what can seen as suspicious, Rylov was already at a pretty decent level before the exposure of the State Sponsored Doping. German TV said virtually every single Russian at the 2012 Olympics was on something.
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    Biles and Osaka have meant the head of GB Rowing will always be sacked if there is any accusations of mental health damage. Did Katherine Grainger get on with him or not - Thornley did so I presume so but different members of the same crew can have different perspectives of the same events and person. It was reported that some other rowers didn’t rate Paul Thompson’s coaching of Grainger and Thornley in 2916
  19. Orangehair43
    I would be surprised if FINA really want to take on the Americans.
  20. Orangehair43
    It won’t get any better for GB Rowing as the likes of Osaka and Biles have made it toxic for any claims of mental health problems to be ignored by UK Sport.
  21. Orangehair43
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9842525/Jurgen-Grobler-accused-destroying-Team-GB-athletes-former-oarsmen-Josh-Bugajski.html The reasons for the failure of GB rowing.
  22. Orangehair43
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/how-can-a-terrorist-win-gold-korean-criticises-ioc-over-iran-shooting-victory-javad-foroughi
  23. Orangehair43
    Apparently afterwards Murphy Clarfired he wasn’t accusing Rylov or any other participants of individually doping. I doubt any Russian would want to Sue over doping allegations - Russian sport stars usually only really care about what people in Russia think - and very few of them will believe a American and Brit who have just lost saying you doping.
  24. Orangehair43
    Konta’s parents moved to the UK when she was 14 but she was mostly in Barcelona. However despite this she has lost all traces of her Australian Accent and now sounds fully English and is accepted. In the UK accents are very important in terms of being accepted - if you sound British when you talk you are immediately accepted.
  25. Orangehair43
    That’s true. And it doubt he would have said it he was gold - I am not sure he would have done a Lily King as Rylov has never tested positive himself unlike Effimova.
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