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    Tennis

    Wrong animal. It was dog food. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/12/serena-williams-dog-food-italian-open What's that about athletes checking everything they put into their mouths in case of contamination or spiking?
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    Tennis

    Anything fishy in the Serena cat food story? (pun intended) :D
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    Paula Radcliffe to run london marathon in April

    Alan Carr, Chatty Man.
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    Brits don't dope?

    It never fails to amaze me how both athletes and governing bodies fall for these snake oil salesmen like Darren Foote. Here we have Rhys Williams, disappointed with his generic supplements and seeking something more 'specific'; along comes Foote with his military background and his diploma in...
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    Paula Radcliffe to run london marathon in April

    Journalists will have conditioned themselves to believe that any British athlete on a list like that must be on it in error. See the reaction to all the nandrolone positives in the late 1990s. Even Linford Christie gets a pass from most on the BBC; the only problem they have is with Dwain...
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    Brits don't dope?

    @Freddy, McMaster never actually tested positive did he? I can't remember many British athletes being popped until the early 1990s: Modahl, Paul Edwards, Janine Whitlock etc before the floodgates opened with the nandrolone positives. Didn't McMaster wear a wire to try to get a confession from...
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    Brits don't dope?

    The 1980 final was the slowest since 1956 (although I'm not sure what the electronic time from 1960 was), however Wells ran 10.11 easing up in his quarter final. The final was run into a headwind. Wells was definitely helped by the boycott, but the fastest American that year - James Sandford...
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    books on the history of the bicycle?

    Rob Penn's, 'It's All About the Bike' while not a history, gives plenty of historical detail and is an excellent book.
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    Question Should triathletes be allowed on bikes?

    ^ 34 Chainring 30 sprocket? Those bars look too stretched out for even an Obree superman position.
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    Doping in other sports?

    I can definitely go with the idea that Bolt is too big to fail, and obviously virtually all his competition bar Blake have tested positive, but I can't see that it answers my question. Marita Koch ran 47.60 in 1985. In the 29 years since this, there has been only one run (by Marie-Jose Perec...
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    Doping in other sports?

    I can't see anyone beating the womens' sprint records from the 80s any time soon. Serious question: if doping is all that is responsible for the improvement in mens' sprint records this century, why has no woman (not even a juiced Marion Jones) come close to the records of Griffiths-Joyner and...
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    Trailer for the new documentary on Paul Kimmage

    Kelly or Earley? Jorg Muller might be a possibility as well.
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    Tennis is ridiculous

    Then they take the rubber tie, wrap it round their arm and shoot up.
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    Eurosport commentary

    The BBC have dumped Hugh Porter as commentator for the Worlds in favour of Simon Brotherton, who is absolutely clueless. At the moment Rob Hatch is working on the ToB for BBC Radio 5 Live. Why couldn't he get the gig?
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    Eurosport commentary

    That's how I knew it :) I remember well the lengthy discussion between them on the use of a small rear mudguard. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it.
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