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Article about one of the shadiest stories in athletics history, the story of teen phenomenon Mary Cain and her relationship with Albert Salazar and the whole Nike setup.  Happy ending - like several other athletes who never quite made the transition from teen success to adult, Mary is now on the way to being a medical Doctor.  
 
‘Like cutting the head off a hydra’: how Mary Cain exposed Nike’s disgraced coaching team | Athletics | The Guardian

To give some insight into how ridiculous Angharad's time was, the mixed relay that includes her, the infamous female breaststroker, is one second quicker than the four that includes Adam ****ing Peaty.
 
It's VERY rare your quickest mixed 4 includes your female breaststroker - the slowest stroke also creates, generally the biggest 'sex' gap. But if your male stroker is relatively very weak (think USA Tokyo 2020) it can be explained.
 
When your male stroker is Adam Peaty, backed up by Filip Nowacki, its insane.

You're right - not sure how I missed that given it was the last race of the night. I should avoid posting at 4am 

I agree - it was a very positive set of results in what has been a pretty decent season for the  team so far.
 
I've actually got hopes that we could qualify a decent sized judo team for LA - and go to see that we've got a couple of weight classes where we're likely to have some decent domestic competition including W70Kg, W57Kg and M73Kg.
 
First key indicator of the team's ambitions will become evident at Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam in June. This is the first ranking event for LA and at the same event in 2022, we only sent 7 athletes (6 men and 1 women) but this tends to be one of the weaker Grand Slam events so is actually a great opportunity to pick up some big points early on in the process.

Jamie Murray - British Tennis player and Doubles Specialist.  Won the Davis Cup, 7 Grand Slams and 34 Tour Titles and was ranked World Number One so probably the best Britain have ever had in that discipline.
 
Jamie Murray: British doubles legend retires from tennis - BBC Sport

A Celtic hero

I think what worried Paddle UK was the video Kurts posted of him "performing a sex act on an aeroplane".
I just hope he wasn't the pilot...

Joking aside, apparently discussions are ongoing with ECB and CI for some kind of euro 6 Nations in T20 cricket - apparently the idea at this point is automatic qualification for England, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, while the final two places will be decided at a Tri-series in which Italy will be the only automatic entry, more or less guarnteeing Italy entry - from there, its two parallel Tri series with a finals day. Apparently inspired by the rise of Nepal and the Asia Cup, English cricket think they can make a short sharp tournament of this sort financially viable, as it would involve only three T20 games over 5 days in the early season, and they could rest the biggest players while getting some goodwill from ICC - previously they had not shown interest in a comp the Scots and Dutch have always wanted.

ioc operates under Swiss law
is it illegas in ?
no
so, it's as simple as it looks: no test? no professional sport (at least those sanctioned by ioc)
end.
 
being an Olympian wasn't ordered by the doctor, if you don't like the ioc rules, just don't take part in ioc sanctioned sports/events
 

Hey, no fair.
 
It's a rugby monolith too!

Sorry to all Italy

It is by far the biggest ticket sales of any sport at the Olympics - even 70% full stadia means about 58 matches with 30-40,000 odd crowds - even the athletics rarely sells that many tickets (usually across 18 sessions full to the brim, the equivalent of about 36 matches of 30-40,000.) and no sport other than track and field comes close. Moreover, it tends to create an easy win for 'spreading' the Olympic bounty, and rarely requires any meaningful new build, unlike Athletics. You are talking, when you add in VIp ticket sales and the usual venue add ons, generating revenue in the $200-300 million range - Revenue which, unlike most of the money from the Games (TV rights, sponsorship, branded merch), goes to the host organiser, not the IOC.
 
The thing about being an Olympic fanatic is that we often get here precisely because we rejected to some extent or other the overwhelming soccer culture that exists everywhere outside North america and the antipodes. So we aren't Olympic football's target audience. Casual fans who like football - of whom there are a LOT - are.
 
I do wonder, in all sincerity, if Brisbane might be better doing this with cricket than soccer - or if LA would have been better doing it with baseball.

It is by far the biggest ticket sales of any sport at the Olympics - even 70% full stadia means about 58 matches with 30-40,000 odd crowds - even the athletics rarely sells that many tickets (usually across 18 sessions full to the brim, the equivalent of about 36 matches of 30-40,000.) and no sport other than track and field comes close. Moreover, it tends to create an easy win for 'spreading' the Olympic bounty, and rarely requires any meaningful new build, unlike Athletics. You are talking, when you add in VIp ticket sales and the usual venue add ons, generating revenue in the $200-300 million range - Revenue which, unlike most of the money from the Games (TV rights, sponsorship, branded merch), goes to the host organiser, not the IOC.
 
The thing about being an Olympic fanatic is that we often get here precisely because we rejected to some extent or other the overwhelming soccer culture that exists everywhere outside North america and the antipodes. So we aren't Olympic football's target audience. Casual fans who like football - of whom there are a LOT - are.
 
I do wonder, in all sincerity, if Brisbane might be better doing this with cricket than soccer - or if LA would have been better doing it with baseball.

Honestly, I don't really like these team sports that only have 6 teams. I understand there's a limit on the number of athletes, but it should be at least 8 per gender. 
 
 

Exactly the other example I thought of.
 
I genuinely think there's an issue with those two sports  - in Diving the rise of GB prevented somewhat embarrassing back to back to back clean sweeps; they would be well advised imho to seek to add mixed synchro, team and high dive events, which could be done faguely cleaply with relatively little rise in total quota (14 fr the high dive - the rest could be found from existing competitors), and uses only another reasonably cheap venue (Basically scaffolding with wrap, a big pool which you can reuse, and temp seating near the beach) - given the increase in beach based events - volleyball, but more so coastal rowing and beach sprint canoe, and possibly triathlon and open water swimming, there's no harm adding a nice spectacular high dive event with about 24 quotas total (12+12) - the advantage being the Chinese are not so into high dive so it automatically jazzes up your medal table - in a way its a pity Gymnastics aren't having a beach based flying rings competition which has a long Venice Beach tradition.
 
Don't know how we fix Table tennis, truth be told - it is simply 'their' game, in a way not even diving is - they have tables in railways stations and everything.

There are only 10 gold medals. A spread of 6 winners i frankly pretty good - you should try Diving...

I am embarrassed that I knew that 

5 individual medals was exactly the same as Paris, despite injuries to two of GBs best prospects, Caudrey and Kerr. Hunt's medal was a revelation, wightman's a vindication, while KJT's felt a bit valedictory, although O'Dowda had an excellent two days - the big news out of it, however, was the continued rise of Anna Hall and Kate O'Conner - the event felt very much like a signal for the end of what has been the Nafi-KJT era, or even the Nafi-KJT-Ennis era if you want to go all the way back to 2009.
 
The relays were the issue. They were, let's be honest, appalling. I could be mistaken, but as i understand it MHS has some mental issues that make relays a bit of an ordeal unless he runs first leg. The wheels certainly came off at this champs, but if they are coming off, this is the champs for it to happen. I would still add Charlie Dobson to your list for this cycle, in a similar position to Burgin. I would add Amber Anning to that.
 
I have felt like we're on the downslope with both Daryll and Dina for a while now. I'm not sure how in love with the sport Dina is any more, her other passions seem to be asserting themselves, and the move to America really only set her back, after enjoying the culture to begin with. Daryll has not had a great couple of years, and Imani seems to be an injury casualty now. That generation may have had its time, not unlike the great Gemili-Hughes-Mitchell-Blake cycle a few years earlier...

Very good news is that the financial problems of the last few years seem to have been resolved.
 
UK ATHLETICS DELIVERS FIRST SURPLUS IN SEVERAL YEARS AS FINANCIAL TURNAROUND CONTINUES – UK Athletics

Annabele Fasuba is a brilliant young teenage sprinter. Her father Olusoji Fasuba is a former Nigerian sprinter who was the African 100m record holder who then joined the British Royal Navy so Annabelle was born in Plymouth in Devon
 

Divine Iheme is the fastest 14 year old over 100m in the wordd. Both his parents are Nigerian and his mother served in the British army

once again, you've chosen the wrong example
 
Kipketer lived in Denmark for years before he could even ask for the Danish citizenship, he married a Danish woman and got through the entire process as any other foreigner extra-EU, waiting 7 years and more before his request was accepted and started representing Denmark in global events
 
if there's an example of fair decision to live in and represent a Country different from the one he was born, that's it
 
no purchase happened in this case, not at all

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Tyrrell Hatton gets a half point so Europe win the match

And STILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL reigning and defending champions of europe beating austria, who rocked them at the world games competition a couple of months back, 

The men finished 4th