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Katir banned for four years for tampering

Leon Marchand will also train with Boxall for a few months starting in January. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/swimming/he-s-dubbed-the-next-michael-phelps-and-he-s-heading-down-under-to-train-with-our-best-coach-20241220-p5kzy1.html

Basically every swim is near the top of all time age rankings. Some by quite a large margin.

Gout Gout has been making waves the last couple of days at a national school meet in Australia

Some more Russians including Evgeniia Chikunova and WJR holder Miron Lifintsev have been approved to compete as neutrals but still no Kliment Kolesnikov.

The NFL are pushing had to develop flag football in Australia in hopes of getting it included in 2032. I hope they fail tbh. Single gender sports fail the gender equality requirement so netball is out unless they can rapidly fix their gender problem. World Netball not so long ago was refusing utterly to sanction men's international netball or even support the growth of men's netball so they kind of sabotaged themselves and are only changing courses out of self interest because Brisbane was awarded the Olympics. It doesn't even make sense to propose Aussie rules given how poor the participation is outside of Australia.

And another one bites the dust. Kenyan runner Emmaculate Anyango given 6-year doping ban

Could the exemption for clubs funded by the military help them? Or are they more involved in the military? See this article posted by SwimSwam today.

Italian media reporting that Thomas Ceccon will train with Boxall at St Peters Western next year. https://www.oasport.it/2024/11/thomas-ceccon-si-allenera-in-australia-nel-2025-sara-seguito-da-un-tecnico-eccentrico/

Gout Gout started the new season with a bang. Doesn't turn 17 until the end of December so there's still a chance he can get down to Bolt's age record of 20.13

Quite an impressive World Cup series with numerous world records. Sets the stage for what could be the fastest short course worlds in history even with Australia sending a half-assed team.

Anyone know when Sifan Hassan's next marathon will be?

Now that the election has passed I think they'll go for a new stadium in Victoria Park. They were only being non-committal about their plans because building a new stadium in Brisbane is a vote loser in the northern part of the state. Rebuilding the Gabba just has too many problems including making AFL and cricket homeless during the rebuild.