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what is the forum's view if you're banned permanently from here? 
 
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Go away. It's tedious now.

Go away. It's tedious now.

Laugher and Harding win World Cup gold in Men's 3m synchro. GBR 2 from 2. Chinese did not compete, obviously.
 
As Toulson has not travelled, the run for GBR will come to a halt in the Women's 10m synchro in about an hour.

That was probably the death blow for the games. 
 
Don't mean to sound like a certain user however 

Agreed that hearing your anthem is a big deal and if any AIN athletes win gold, they'll be deprived of that.  Wouldn't necessarily call that humiliating though.  Russia's flag and colors and anthem deserve no place in Paris.  So I'm fine what that aspect of this

I just hope that we are able to keep both of them in the sport. We seem to have quite a few young athletes that were touted as the next big name for British athletics only for them to struggle to make the breakthrough into the senior ranks, get injured and ultimately disappear without a trace. 
 
The domestic competition level is pretty tough across a fair few events now and it is pushing everyone involved to raise their game - just a shame that there doesn't seem to be much of a high-class domestic circuit for the public to be able to enjoy these match-ups. 

As it stands I think you have to take Becky on the uneven bars and hope she makes the final.

Women's Team Sprint 

Mixed bag of results for  in Hong Kong
 
Great win for the women's team sprint - I think we've got our squad set for Paris now with Marchant, Capewell and Finucane. I'm not quite ready to jump on to the "they're the favourites for the Gold" bandwagon, but the team has to be regarded as the strongest medal chance in the velodrome. 
 
Men's elimination - great gold for Will Perrett who never looked in trouble but not sure it will be enough to get him a spot on the team for Paris.
 
Men's team pursuit finished in 6th. Sure it is disappointing, but this is definitely not our top team and they still did enough to finish ahead of Belgium and China so it's done no harm to Olympic quota spot. 
 
Men's team sprint continues to be the runt of the litter. Sure they didn't have Jack Carlin in the squad but I'm not sure that he would have made much of a difference.  have come on so far in the last 12-18 months that I don't see GB getting on to the podium when we get to Paris.
 

If they were willing to share a few events with Singapore, or even Brunei, that might work even better.

To be fair, she's been an integral part of the GB Boxing set up for a while - the federation refer to her as a sparring partner, but they've given her the same exposure as all of the boxers within the team. Add to that, the guys who are likely to be doing the commentary for BBC in Paris including Steve Bunce already regard her as part of the British team. Having said that, her back story will undoubtedly feature quite heavily in the BBC coverage. 

No - that's pretty much how it was for him during the early part of his career. It got a bit better after 2012 but he basically embodies the typical vision of a sour-faced Scotsman. 

Of course, but as an Irish Olympics fan we understand all oo well this process of BBC adoption!

Of course, but as an Irish Olympics fan we understand all oo well this process of BBC adoption!

No, She'll fight for the refugee team. BBC will just make sure you know she's a multi time British champion!! Fans of Irish sport have some experience of this kind of 'adoption'!

She just won’t be British. She’ll stay with the refugee team. 

If they were willing to share a few events with Singapore, or even Brunei, that might work even better.

Not been a great advert for non-IBA event, this comp - it feels like the problems simply run too deep to be easily fixed.

Remember all those posts by me defending judging and saying 99% of complaints about robberies were just moaning
 
DISREGARD ALL OF THAT
 
Poor Grainne Walsh

Not all favourites.  Woolley was number one seed
 
Thankfully he’s off to his second Olympics now 

M -58kg Quotas 

Delighted to see Jack Woolley qualify today 

He's talking sh**e! The selection policy was published in January - there's no trials, so it will largely be down to the individual athletes expressing an interest in attending. So, whilst we are unlikely to have a huge team full of our big Olympic medal prospects, there will be a British team in Rome.
 
EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ROME SELECTION POLICY ANNOUNCED – UK Athletics
 
 

Strange, Jemma Reekie said she wanted to run the 1500m there.