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Another US whereabouts ban - LJer Omar Craddock

https://twitter.com/insidethegames/s...286025217?s=21

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Very good women’s race just now. No spoilers. Not what Steve or Paula would call a “real cross-country course” though. 😆

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If.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase...

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Kenya’s 2017 world 1500 metres champion Elijah Manangoi has been banned for two-years after missing a series of drugs tests.

https://www...

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Another instance of how lottery funding will now be used to push a socio-political agenda rather than sporting success.

https://www.bbc....

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Agree with what’s been said, but in Mo’s defense I would say that when you get to his age you are far more likely to burn out through over-training...

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Yeah, Laps is right. UK Sport - the Lottery - funds elite Sport. Sport England, Scotland etc. funds grassroots. But now elite sport won’t be medal...

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It is a universal rule of life that if you gave quangocrats a choice between doing one difficult thing - winning medals - and one easy thing - looking...

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Problem is that FloSports seems to have locked up all the good NCAA Cross-Country events.

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Uk Athletics moves to a “More Eilish McColgans, fewer Dina Asher-Smiths” strategy. I’m sure a greater focus on athlete well-being and less on winning...

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I think it could happen but.....effectively it would require athletes to go into a quarantine so prolonged that many of the small. poor countries would...

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More on Coleman

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/54712149