Orangehair43
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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/
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Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020
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It’s hard to see anyone but the top three medaling. -
Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020
Orangehair43 replied to Totallympics's topic in Athletics
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. -
If they can’t prove they were framed and get the original charge dismissed then that’s tough.
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Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2020
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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. -
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.
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Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020
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I think Dina Asher Smith won’t make the final on her heat performance. She doesn’t look in her best form. -
Yuliya Yefimova has served a ban and was very lucky to avoid a second.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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
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I would be surprised if FINA really want to take on the Americans.
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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.
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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.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/how-can-a-terrorist-win-gold-korean-criticises-ioc-over-iran-shooting-victory-javad-foroughi
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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.
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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.
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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.
