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Excluding, perhaps, pre WWI Olympics, there must be very few who have competed at the Olympics in the individual/open 100m and HJ?

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I am not in favor of introducing a decathlon for women. The casualty list would grow even...

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Yes it is a potential double whammy. On one hand, you could end up awarding a gold to the first non-GDR finisher who was an undetected PED user. On the...

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When I first read this post, I thought "If Bert Cameron is her husband, why does she use the name Herah?"...

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While I can see that might be a good idea from KJT's point of view, I'm not sure if someone who's just coached his daughter to Olympic silver would take...

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Great stuff! I bet he never made the Christmas Card list of the likes of Avery Brundage.

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Cameroon is another country that joined in the 1990s despite never having been a British colony....

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It would be a bit of a flaw in the system if they weren't tested. Otherwise, they would effectively be free to spend 2 years taking whatever they wanted...

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I did like Victoria Wood and maybe she may have influenced me in some way to always think of Smethwick in a Brummie accent. Then again, I tend to do the...

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There was also the Paris marathon today. While the women's race was of relatively modest quality, there were 5 men under 2:05 and Kenenisa Bekele's course...

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Eurosport showed highlights and there was a group of about 20 (including some pacemakers) at halfway at just over 62 minutes.

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I see it's in Smethwick. This is an area I don't know but I always pronounce in my attempt at a Birmingham accent....

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I don't think hippos are hunted that much. I'm not sure if anyone eats them or uses their skin and there is no ivory for poachers. They are actually rather...

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I believe we are still looking for an athlete with the initials MW who was born in 1923? I also think they were involved in WWII and the Korean War and...

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I saw a YouTube interview with Ryan Crouser who felt that the limit was 24m which I make nearly 79 feet. Obviously that is with a different technique...

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Ireland is a notable example of a country that opted to leave sometime after independence. Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, all athletes...

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For consistency, you would have to say the same about the Ibero-American Champs, although that is just track & field. Colonization is the reason all...

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Having seen another photo, I don't think it is....

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Much of Australia and the North of England would heartily disagree with this inclusion!...

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I notice from the Athletics Kenya website linked to above that they have cancelled the first 2 rounds of their cross-country series as a mark of resp...