Orangehair43

Eh. I think that if medals are not reached that pressure would exist anyway. GBR have won at least 3 medals at each of the last 4 Games in Boxing. If they don't match that I'm sure the pressure will be intense.

Just correcting this - looks like Hall was promoted to the team when Whitlock withdrew and Whitehouse became the British individual athlete. 

I’m sorry, but I can’t take any of her results seriously when she was one of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for TMZ…

WADA and the Chinese have admited the positive tests happened 

WADA and the Chinese have admited the positive tests happened 

If you can't beat them, make fake sensationalist story about them. 

WADA are going to have to be dissolved if they fell for China’s claim it was contaminated. 

So quite possibly the second cleanest throw ever as I do not trust any  or  performance. . 

To those of us of a certain vintage, British gymnast (or Irish for that matter) was an oxymoron on the level of a Samoan luger. Sure, it was technically possible, but they weren't gonna win much. Neil Thomas was legendary for his seemingly lone bid to make British gymnastics actually mean something, until the arrival of Beth Tweddle, who probably ought to have ben the first Olympic gold. But for Max to be sitting on 3 Olympic golds, 6 medals including an AA medal, and be in the conversation for the greatest pommel worker of all time...
 
He will be missed.

All medalists are tested.  So by default.. yes, they did

And not just in Poland.   Gymnastics legend Max Whitlock will retire after Paris.  Cannot tell you how unlikely a British Olympic Gold Medallist in Gymnastics seemed back in the 70s and 80s, but he got there.
 
Max Whitlock to retire after Paris 2024 Olympics - BBC Sport

I think I'm beginning to come round to the idea that Bird is on the team - I'm currently sitting at 31 and that includes Bird, Anderson, Cox, Hanlon, Guy and Peters. 
 
If Blocksidge gets the time this evening that would definitely complicate matters - but it would be a fantastic complication to have 

Who'd have thought that the first athlete to get an Olympic standard inside UK Athletics "form window" would be a field athlete? and a  too 

No, Dan Jervis got the time at last year's trials and actually missed the BST by 0.01. I think he's a certainty to do this in Paris, and probably got confirmation from the selectors beforehand that he'd be allowed if he wanted to - hence why he didn't enter. 

Considering Medi's situation it would hardly be crazy. Most people were surprised that she even took part in these champs at all.

Depends on how expected you think. The only one that has probably exceeded expectations thus far has been Bird. Dean was fine tonight but nothing special. Others (Brooker, Adam, Williams, Mildred etc) have been outperformed by others. Very few of the Bath swimmers have matched their seedings thus far. 

Colbert just looks like such a strong swimmer across all strokes. Down to a 4m 34 flat and a real contender to everyone except Summer in Paris

Juniors across the board have been on pretty good form today, posting some impressive drops to their PBs. 

A number of the evening sessions are sold out which is really positive, alongside the TV pick ups from BBC and C4.

Given that the women's 200m free is in the same session as the men's 200m free, the latter is likely to distract people from other events that evening, at least from a British point of view.
 

The French government are cowards. They could announce no Russian or Belarusian will be given a visa to compete and the IOC will have no right to interfere 

Tom Pidcock hospitalised after a fall during his prep for Tour of the Basque Country. 

Another win for Charlotte Bankes in