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I am pleased to be attending my 16th
@Olympics
- eighth Summer - at
@Paris2024
. It would be good to catch up with old friends and colleagues, although unusually many of you will be far more busy than I am during these 17 days! But if you do have time either send me a DM or email
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Thanks to everyone for their support, concern and encouragement after it became known how much abuse myself and
@michael_pavitt
have received since
@insidethegames
broke the story about
#KamilaValieva
. Everything is fine. We remain committed to providing the best coverage we can.
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Just completed first full day back at work since March 16 after a period of inactivity caused by viral pneumonia and related-problems. Thanks to everyone who kept
@insidethegames
going so well in my absence. If you've tried to contact me lately, sorry for not getting back to you
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🇮🇸 1-0 Iceland, Thorsteinsson finish from 20 yards. Walker having a word with Foden, it seems, for allowing creator to run off him. Stones could have done more to stop shot & Ramsdale will be disappointed, too.
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There have now been a total of 116 positive drugs tests at
#London2012
, easily making it the "dirtiest"
#Olympics
in history, beating the record of 86 set at
#Beijing2008
. And there is still more than three years for
#IOC
to conduct further re-tests...Could potentially top 150
Olympic champions among five weightlifters suspended after more London 2012 retests
@iwfnet
#Weightlifting
#London2012
#AntiDoping
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Average crowd for 3 night's athletics is 50,000 - get product right and they will come. Yes, athletics has problems but still an absolutely fantastic sport that people associate with like no other. Well done
@SvenPres
for helping put on a great show.
BREAKING: Crowd for
@EuroAthletics
Championships at
@berlin_2018
for tonight announced as 42,350. Follows crowds of 48,000 on Friday and 60,500 last night
#athletics
#EuropeanChampionships
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Remember last October when
@ANOC_Olympic
allowed
@Olympic_Russia
President Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who has encouraged Russian athletes to fight in the war against Ukraine, show a propaganda video at its General Assembly in Seoul?
@Olympics
.
@ANOC_Olympic
has criticised the Ukrainian Government after they announced the country's athletes would not feature at
@Paris2024
qualifying events against Russian competitors
@iocmedia
#Ukraine
#Russia
#Paris2024
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Currently doing my three-day quarantine in my hotel after arriving in Tokyo on Thursday for my 17th
#Olympics
. I remember when you used to come to these events and they gave you a nice bag as a souvenir. Now they give you your own pharmacological lab in a box...
#Tokyo2020
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BREAKING NEWS that the IAAF have decided to keep the 50km racewalk on the Olympic programme for Tokyo 2020. Victory for those who campaigned
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Anyone who thinks doping started and ended with
#Russia
should read this piece by
@MaryOrmsby
about how a group of track-and-field athletes from the US and Britain avoided punishment at the 1988
#Olympics
in Seoul despite positive drugs tests
#doping
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I've been covering
#Olympics
for 30 years and have attended hundreds of these events. I've never seen anything so remarkable and jaw-dropping. In the space of 20 minutes, she exposed the lie about the Olympics being "politically neutral". What a huge embarrassment for the IOC.
#Beijing2022
spokesperson
#YanJiarong
dismissed claims of human rights violations in Xinjiang as "lies" and insisted Taiwan was part of China during a remarkable daily press conference at the
#WinterOlympics
today
#Olympics
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It is great to see a legendary name like
@MJGold
not just talking about what's wrong with athletics but actually trying to do something about it.
He today launched his new Grand Slam Track League with "Track" being the operative word as there are no field events included.
There
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Needs to be clear that
#KamilaValieva
has NOT been cleared of doping. She's just been cleared to compete in the
#Olympics
at
#Beijing2022
. She will still likely face a full doping hearing after these Games and could be banned, meaning she could be stripped of any medals she wins
UPDATED STORY:
#KamilaValieva
cleared to compete in the
#Olympics
at
#Beijing2022
as
#CAS
decide against reimposing suspension by
@michael_pavitt
in Beijing
@wada_ama
@ISU_Figure
@Olympic_Russia
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Never thought I would see a Briton win the Tour de France. Never thought I would see a British man win Wimbledon. Never thought I would see a Briton win the Olympic 10,000m. I definitely never never ever thought I would see a British skier win at Kitzbühel
@daveryding
@fisalpine
The 35-year-old
#DaveRyding
posted a combined time of 1min 41.26sec across two runs as he pipped
#Norway
's
#LucasBraathen
and
#HenrikKristoffersen
to the victory
#AlpineSkiing
#Kitzb
ühel
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I've long thought IOC approach to major world tragedies is dysfunctional. How, for instance, do you decide which terrorist attacks to condemn or not? For instance, why do they put out statements about attacks in Spain or France but haven't said anything about events in Sri Lanka?
#IOC
has got its priorities wrong by donating so much money to help restoration of
#NotreDame
, says
@LMorgan21
in his latest blog
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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I am waiting for my in-box to be flooded with apologises from Russia, instead of the death threats I have been receiving from there for the last two days! 😀
#Olympics
#Beijing2022
#KamilaValieva
#Russia
Very odd that multiple publications either dismissed our initial reports or said we were not a "reliable source" on this subject. Glad to be vindicated by this.
Great work from
@michael_pavitt
and
@Duncan_ITG
and glad to see a follow-up on their exclusive stories.
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It was 20 years ago today
#KonstantinoKenteris
pulled off one of the great Olympic shocks by winning
#Olympic
200m at
#Sydney2000
. Three years later he called me "a coward" and said he would sue me for $100m after I outed him as a drugs cheat.
#athletics
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Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to contact me and
@midsummer100
since it was announced in October we had left
@insidethegames
. Your kind words are appreciated. There is a brief summary of my thoughts and what I am planning for the future at .
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Some personal news. Along with Sarah Bowron, I have today left
@insidethegames
after 18 years👇
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Already 2021 is beginning to look like a re-run of last year. The Japanese Government and IOC are insisting that the
#Olympics
will take place as planned, despite the overwhelming evidence that the
#coronavirus
is still far from beaten
#Tokyo2020
#Tokyo
reported 783 new
#COVID19
cases today, as Governor Yuriko Koike was among four prefecture leaders to request that
#Japan
's Government declare a state of emergency
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#Paralympics
@ecoyuri
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What does
@Olympic_Russia
need to do to get banned by
@iocmedia
? Encouraging Russian athletes to fight in war against Ukraine didn't do it, several attacks on
#ThomasBach
hasn't done it...Perhaps accepting Ukrainian territories illegally annexed as members of the NOC will do it?
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After 10 years of lecturing us on how the
@iocmedia
follows good governance, that is about to all go out of the window to serve the personal ambitions of
#ThomasBach
, it appears
@Olympics
BREAKING:
@iocmedia
members propose
#ThomasBach
should be allowed to stay on as President beyond current term when it ends in 2025, reports
@Duncan_ITG
from
#Mumbai
@Olympics
#Olympics
#IOC
#
#IOCMumbai2023
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"Please, please give peace a chance",
#ThomasBach
keeps telling conferences he's addressing. Perhaps if
@Olympics
under his leadership had stood up to Russia sooner,
#VladimirPutin
wouldn't have become so emboldened he thought he could invade
#Ukraine
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Wonder who thought it was a good idea to invite
#MaryDeckerSlaney
, banned for testosterone when coached by
#AlbertoSalazar
, to the launch of the 2021
@iaaforg
World Championships in
#Eugene
?
@usantidoping
@Nike
Launch of 2021 IAAF World Championships overshadowed by closure of NOP as banned
#AlbertoSalazar
-coached runner attends ceremony
#Nike
@iaaforg
@usantidoping
#athletics
#drugsinsport
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After 3 days in quarantine since arriving in Japan, was finally been allowed to leave the hotel and come to the
#Tokyo2020
Main Press Centre for first time. My fears about transport largely unfounded but did get caught in massive thunderstorm which delayed me somewhat
#Olympics
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Having read through judgement, decision to impose four-year ban on
@Markdry
seems very harsh. Rightly or wrongly,
@ukantidoping
gaining reputation for being harsh on people like Dry and amateur rugby union players but soft on big names like
@Mo_Farah
,
@chrisfroome
and
@Tyson_Fury
British
#CommonwealthGames
medallist banned after
#UKAD
successfully appeal decision to clear him
@ukantidoping
@Markdry
@BritAthletics
@aiu_athletics
@wada_ama
#athletics
#doping
#MarkDry
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Proud to lead a team that, for the fourth year running, it is officially confirmed that sport's leaders turn too first everyday for their news
@insidethegames
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Oh how wonderful! First
#Olympic
gold medal of
#Beijing2022
won by a convicted drugs cheat...
@FISCrossCountry
@wada_ama
Therese Johaug has won the first gold medal of
#Beijing2022
, in the women's
#skiathlon
. It is the Norwegian's first individual Olympic title, having missed the last Games through a doping ban. For more, head to our Live Blog
#ThereseJohaug
#WinterOlympics
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This is absolutely ridiculous and it’s certain if it happened outside Britain top officials at
@ukantidoping
would be crying foul
@wada_ama
@BritTaekwondo
@worldtaekwondo
@Olympics
@Paris2024
@TeamGB
British Double Olympic taekwondo🥇 Jade Jones refused a drug test in December.
It was accepted that Jones was mentally impaired from dehydration. She will not be banned by UK Anti-Doping.
"she became irrational, suffering a complete loss of her cognitive senses".
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I remember a few minutes after
@Tokyo2020
won its bid to host the
#Olympics
at the
#IOC
Session in 2013, a senior member of the
#Istanbul2020
team told me, "One day people will find out how Tokyo really won." I think it is fairly clear now.
@Olympics
@WorldAthletics
#LamineDiack
Consultancy firm Black Tidings reportedly transferred $370,000 to
#PapaMassataDiack
around the time Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
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Problem is
#IOC
like to position itself as organisation playing big role on world issues when it suits - think coronavirus when it claimed
#Tokyo2020
“would be the light at the end of this dark tunnel" - but accept no responsibility on issues like human rights in China
#Olympics
As human rights groups accused
@iocmedia
of holding a "genocidal games" in the form of
@Beijing2022
President Thomas Bach hit back claiming the
#IOC
was not a "super-world Government"
#Beijing2022
#Olympics
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I've been covering athletics since 1988 and for most of that time
@BritAthletics
has either been in crisis or on the brink of a crisis. Amazing really that British athletes manage to be so successful so consistently when the structure supposed to support them is so bad
#athletics
#UKAthletics
is in new turmoil as chief executive Joanna Coates and performance director Sara Symington have both resigned, with Symington joining British Cycling to lead its Olympic and Paralympic programme
#Athletics
#TeamGB
#TrackAndField
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John Regis was
@dwainchambers
agent when he tested positive for banned drugs in 2003. When I called Regis just before I broke the story in the
@guardian
about Chambers failing a drugs test he warned me I was making “the biggest mistake” of my career and he would sue me if
Knighton's agent, John Regis, explained last month that it was the athlete's choice that he wasn't running races currently.
We now know that this was a misdirection - he was provisionally suspended.
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Terribly sad news about
@SvenPres
, who I had known for 31 years. A great human being who did so much for athletics. RIP Svein
@EuroAthletics
@WorldAthletics
BREAKING: The President of
@EuroAthletics
Svein Arne Hansen has died today at the age of 74
@SvenPres
@WorldAthletics
@sebcoe
#athletics
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To my friends in the Russian media. The
@insidethegames
team of
@michael_pavitt
,
@geoffberkeley
,
@mick_demarco
and
@pbarkersport
at
#Beijing2022
is happy to speak to you about
#KamilaValieva
. But please, could you introduce yourself first before accusing us of "fake news".
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Everyone in the Olympic Movement may be expressing "full confidence" in
#Tokyo2020
happening but having studied the trajectory of
#coronavirus
for nearly a year now it's hard to believe we are going to be back to everything approaching normal by the time the
#Olympics
are due
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I may have been the journalist who exposed
@dwainchambers
as a drugs cheat but he's an athlete I have come to admire. Happy retirement Dwain
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Great news that
@insidethegames
has been shortlisted again for Best in Sports Media by
@SportBizAwards
. Well done
@danpsport
@NickJMButler
@Daniel_Etchells
@LMorgan21
@michael_pavitt
@thomas_giles_uk
@dodo938
@MikeRowbo
@brianroliver
@pbarkersport
for all your outstanding work.
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Just as former
@iocmedia
President
#AveryBrundage
is remembered for his racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism,
#ThomasBach
will be remembered for being totally in thrall to
#Russia
and
#VladimirPutin
, whether it be over doping or its aggression. History will not judge him well.
#Finnish
#Olympic
Committee President
#JanVapaavuori
feels the
#IOC
"as an organisation and its office in Lausanne has been confusingly pro-Russia throughout the war"
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This seems incredibly unfair, not only
#KamilaValieva
should she be cleared, but her rivals who will be on the medals podium and are innocent bystanders in this whole sorry circus
#Olympics
#Beijing2022
#skating
@ISU_Figure
@Olympic_Russia
BREAKING: No medal ceremony will be held at
#Beijing2022
should
#KamilaValieva
secure a medal in the women's individual event, due to her positive test
#WinterOlympics
#FigureSkating
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#Sydney2000
is still the best and most enjoyable of the 16
#Olympics
I have covered since 1992. I think it deserves the accolade of "Greatest Olympic Games ever"
Watch the video message from
@CathyFreeman
as the
#Sydney2000
cauldron is re-lit 20 years on
#Olympics
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When you see these figures - over 200
@Olympic_Russia
athletes sanctioned, another 73 charged and further 182 cases under investigation - really hits home extent of state-sponsored doping programme in
#Russia
. Yet, still wasn't enough for
@iocmedia
to take proper action. 🙅♂️
According to
#WADA
, 203 athletes from
#Russia
have been sanctioned following the
#OperationLIMS
probe into the Moscow Laboratory, while another 182 cases remain under investigation
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Appears
#Russia
heading inexorably to ban from major international sports events as
#IOC
President
#ThomasBach
desperately scrambles to be on right side of history. Many would argue Bach and
#Olympics
has precipitated situation where
#VladimirPutin
thinks can do what he wants
BREAKING: The
#IOC
has urged International Federations to strip
#Russia
and
#Belarus
of all sporting events and ban their flags and anthems, in response to the invasion of
#Ukraine
which broke the
#OlympicTruce
#Olympics
#Beijing2022
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No press releases from
@AcnoaAnoca
in 18 years of editing
@insidethegames
and suddenly get two professionally written and presented in two weeks supporting
#IOC
position to let athletes from
#Russia
compete in
@olympics
at
@Paris2024
. What's the odds on that?
#UkraineRussiaWar
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More news on story we reported on earlier today.
@insidethegames
can now confirm that skater at centre of legal dispute causing the delay in the medal ceremony for the
#Olympics
team figure skating competition at
#Beijing2022
is teenage sensation
#KamilaValieva
BREAKING:
#KamilaValieva
is skater at centre of legal dispute which caused delay in the medal ceremony for the
#Olympics
team figure skating competition at
#Beijing2022
,
@insidethegames
can exclusively reveal
#skating
#russia
@Olympic_Russia
@ISU_Figure
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Imagine the outrage if the anti-doping agency in Russia or China had come up with this "compromise"? Does not reflect well on
@ukantidoping
.
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Great work from
@danpsport
,
@LMorgan21
,
@Daniel_Etchells
,
@michael_pavitt
,
@JamesDiamond0
,
@Nancy_Gillen
,
@dodo938
,
@MikeRowbo
,
@pbarkersport
,
@brianroliver
,
@NickJMButler
and
@thomasmgiles
. Thanks all for your hard work at
@insidethegames
#olympics
.
@insidethegames
enjoyed record figures in 2018, receiving 20,795,085 visitors from 215 countries and territories. Between them, they read a total of 140,085,252 pages. That is why we are the world's number one independent Olympic news website
#olympics
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Why do
@iocmedia
keep claiming that
#PierreDeCoubertin
believed in sport for all? They know this is not the truth.
For one, Coubertin believed that women should be excluded from the
@Olympics
.
He claimed that an Olympics with women would be "impractical, uninteresting (and)
The idea that sport is a basic right that every person should enjoy was central to
#PierreDeCoubertin
's vision as he revived the modern Olympic Games. This vision of sport for all remains a key part of our
#OlympicAgenda
.
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This is one of athletics' biggest PR problems. Too many athletes - particularly sprinters - who fail drugs tests are then allowed come back and start coaching the next generation. It inevitably leaves a cloak of suspicion on whoever they are coaching
#athletics
@WorldAthletics
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It is now clear that
#Ukraine
will boycott the
@olympics
at
@paris2024
if
@Olympic_Russia
are allowed to compete in any form. What a PR disaster that would be for
@iocmedia
#Olympics
#Paris2024
@OlympicUA
BREAKING:
#Ukraine
announce will boycott
#Paris2024
qualifying events where Russians are participating
@Olympics
@Paris2024
@Olympic_Russia
@OlympicUA
@iocmedia
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I know argument is Kenya is different to Russia because it's not state-organised but surely we're getting close to point when only severe punishment is going to make athletes and officials in that country realise severity of this situation?
@aiu_athletics
@WorldAthletics
Former world junior 800m champion
#AlfredKipketer
joins list of suspended Kenyans
@aiu_athletics
@WorldAthletics
@OlympicsKe
@ADAK_KE
@athletics_kenya
#athletics
#Kenya
#Olympics
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Seems unfair that other countries have previously been forced to compete under banner of "Independent Olympic Athletes" but Russia, whose offences are far more serious, are still allowed to use acronym of the NOC
@wada_ama
@Olympic_Russia
@rusada
#Olympics
#Tokyo2020
#Beijing2022
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Seems to me
@sebcoe
decided standing up to
#Russia
more important than becoming
#IOC
member. I think I know what will serve his - already considerable - legacy better. Coe, remember, warned the IOC about dangers of doping at its Baden-Baden Congress in 1981
#athletics
#olympics
BREAKING:
#Russia
warned by
#IAAF
and
#IPC
bans will not automatically be lifted following
@wada_ama
decision to make them compliant
#athletics
#paralympic
#olympics
#WADA
#vladimirputin
#drugsinsport
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Shame there is no statue at the London (Olympic) Stadium to mark "Super Saturday", the fabulous Opening Ceremony or the fact that London is so far the only city in the world to have hosted three editions of the Olympic Games
#Olympics
#WHUFC
A statue of three former
@WestHam
and
#England
legends is to be erected outside the
@LondonStadium
, the main venue for
@London2012
@noordinarypark
#Olympics
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The
@bwfmedia
join sports refusing blindly to follow
@iocmedia
orders and re-admit
@Olympic_Russia
athletes. Heading for situation in
@Olympics
at
@paris2024
where will be federations who've allowed
#Russia
to compete, while others haven't. It's total mess created by
#ThomasBach
.
BREAKING: The
#Badminton
World Federation has announced the continued suspension of athletes from
#Russia
and
#Belarus
from its tournaments
#Olympics
@bwfmedia
@Paris2024
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If
@iocmedia
has any doubts about how closely
@Olympic_Russia
, particularly its President, is intertwined with military in Russia, then perhaps these photographs will end them? What exactly does Russian Olympic Committee have to do to get suspended by the IOC under
#ThomasBach
?
.
@Olympic_Russia
President
#StanislavPozdnyakov
, an ex-lieutenant colonel in the army, has celebrated the close links between the military in
#Russia
and the
@Olympics
with a special award to mark the centenary of a club known as the "Red Army Team"
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A total of 46 - FORTY SIX - Russians tested positive for doping at
#London2012
, during
#Olympics
or retrospectively. That's 46 out of a team of 436 - or 10.55 percent. They've been stripped of 17 medals, including 9 in athletics
@rusada
@Olympic_Russia
@wada_ama
@IntTestAgency
Natalya
#Antyukh
will be stripped of her
#Olympic
gold medal from
#London2012
after not appealing the
#AIU
decision in
#October
, meaning Lashinda Demus is to be named the champion
#athletics
#Russia
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#China
has gone from winning one medal in five previous appearances at the
#WinterParalympics
, to collect a staggering 61, including 18 gold, at
#Beijing2022
- more than the next two countries combined. If you don't think that's suspicious, I have a bridge to sell you...
@wada_ama
#China
has won 18
#gold
, 20
#silver
and 23
#bronze
medals the
#WinterParalympics
#Beijing2022
#Paralympics
#TogetherForASharedFuture
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Basically, the anti-doping authorities have messed up one of the most high-profile drugs cases of recent years
#Olympics
#Beijing2022
@wada_ama
@ISU_Figure
@Olympic_Russia
CAS sec gen Matthieu Reeb offering something of a rebuke to anti-doping authorities in his statement, saying he wouldn't have been there had anti-doping procedures been completed in time
#Beijing2022
#WinterOlympics
#FigureSkating
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Update to a story I did yesterday. The original drawing of the Olympic rings sketched by Pierre Baron de Coubertin in 1913 sold for €183,000 at auction in Cannes today - nearly double what it was estimated it would fetch
#Olympics
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So sad at this news. Alan gave me my first job on a national newspaper at the
@ObserverUK
over 30 years ago and continued to support me and
@insidethegames
right up until the end. I'm sure he's already up there catching up with his old friend
#MuhammadAli
, recalling good times
At
@insidethegames
today, we lost a great colleague and a brilliant writer following the death of
#AlanHubbard
, a journalist whose 70-year career saw him report on
#MuhammadAli
, shake hands with
#NelsonMandela
and cover 16
@Olympics
, writes
@pbarkersport
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Big breaking story from
@michael_pavitt
at
#Beijing2022
. Seems may be a problem with one of Russian skaters who won
#Olympics
gold medal in the team skating event
@wada_ama
@IntTestAgency
@ISU_Figure
BREAKING: A drugs test conducted on an Russian skater before
#Beijing2022
is behind the delay in the medal ceremony for the
#figureskating
team event, insidethegames understands
#WinterOlympics
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I remember having a drink two years ago with
#ValentinBalakhnichev
in Moscow. If only 10 per cent of the stories he told me are true then there's a lot of people in
#athletics
who better hope he never turns up in the witness box...
#Olympics
#Russia
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This is another amazing achievement from our outstanding team and we're expecting record figures from our team of
@LMorgan21
,
@michael_pavitt
,
@danpsport
,
@geoffberkeley
,
@MikeRowbo
&
@pbarkersport
at
#Tokyo2020
. Read the news as it happens at
#Olympics
@insidethegames
remains the world's leading independent
#Olympic
website with record numbers of over 2 million visitors from 218 countries & territories in June, including more than 1 million unique visitors
#Olympics
#Tokyo2020
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I am sure as I get older, these Olympics get closer...Anyway, I am really looking forward to
@Tokyo2020
. I am sure my Japanese friends will put on a fabulous
#Olympic
and
#Paralympic
Games
@Olympics
@Paralympics
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#Serbia
's President
#AleksandarVu
čić is on rocky ground when he accuses Australia of playing politics when his country have consistently breached the Olympic Charter by refusing to allow
#Kosovo
to compete in a number of international events
#NovakDjokovic
#Olympics
#Serbia
's President
#AleksandarVu
čić criticised Australian Government lawyers of "simply lying" in the case against
#NovakDjokovic
#tennis
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What would have happened if
#ThomasBach
and
#NenadLalovic
had been in charge at time of South Africa and apartheid? Would they've not taken action because it wouldn't be fair to "punish athletes of country just because they live under a particular political or judicial system"?
Citing a desire not to punish Iranian athletes and its inability "to change the laws or political system of a sovereign country",
#UWW
has downplayed the chances of
#Iran
being suspended over the execution of Navid Afkari
#NavidAfkari
#Wrestling
@wrestling
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Amazing eulogy from
@IanRidley1
at funeral of his wife
#VikkiOrvice
today, hit all the right notes and there can't have been a dry eye in the church by end of it (Although, of course, Vikki had to have her say too). Glad to have been able to call Vikki a friend for 20 years. RIP.
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It seems a long time ago that the
#IOC
wanted London 2012 to move the shooting venue from Bisley because they thought it was too far away....
@Olympics
@Paris2024
@ISAsurfing
#Olympics
#surfing
#Tahiti
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#ChristianColeman
will escape punishment as one of his alleged no-shows has been pushed back to the first day of the quarter and subsequently out of the 12-month window. One could only imagine the outcry from
@usantidoping
if this had happened in Russia...
#athletics
#antidoping
#ChristianColeman
free to race at World Championships after
@usantidoping
drop whereabouts charge
#athletics
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A mystery how the
@Olympics
will quickly threaten the NOC's of USA and Italy with sanctions if their Governments want to introduce oversight measures but allows the hated President of
#Belarus
to continue as head of his country's National Olympic Committee
Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne said there may be "additional sanctions" for National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus President
#AlexanderLukashenko
#Belarus
#Britain
#Canada
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Breaking news!!
@pbarkersport
has completed his 14 days self-isolation he was forced to undergo because of suspected close contact with someone who had
#COVID19
and is heading to the Main Press Centre at
#Tokyo2020
. Looking forward to see you Philip!
#Olympics
#freephil
Happy to say heading on bus toward the Main Press centre at last thanks to all for the good wishes
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It was so obvious that
#ThomasBach
was going to engineer it so he could stay on as
@iocmedia
President. Perhaps, like some of the world leaders he loves mixing with so much, he has ambitions to be leader for life?
@Olympics
#IOCMumbai2023
It wasn't so long ago
@iocmedia
President
#ThomasBach
believed term limits for International Federations were sacrosanct and urged
@FIFAcom
to follow them and adopt them. Why not have a look and see what he said during the 2015
#IOCSession
#IOCMumbai2023
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So consumed with appeasing
@KremlinRussia_E
and
@Olympic_Russia
, it seems the
@iocmedia
cannot see the obvious that is visible to everyone else.
@yelenaisinbaeva
links to
#VladimirPutin
are well established and, until now, she's made no secret of her links to the Russian military
The
@iocmedia
claimed there's no reason to ban
@yelenaisinbaeva
as she has no links to the military in
#Russia
, but country's Sports Minister claimed it's "absolutely unambiguous" that she held senior ranks in the army, writes
@Duncan_ITG
@WorldAthletics
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Disgraceful treatment of a member of the "Olympic Family" that
@pbarkersport
is expected to live in these conditions for 14 days with no help from
#Tokyo2020
or the
#IOC
. If this was an IOC member they would not be treated like this
#Olympics
#freephil
Journalist
@pbarkersport
remains in quarantine after being identified as having had contact with someone who tested positive for
#COVID19
on his flight here.
@Tokyo2020
&
@Olympics
have still not contacted him to offer help. Colleagues have been banned from taking him breakfast
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@loobylins
@justingatlin
If Linford Christie turned up in stadium today the same people who booed Gatln would cheer him. He never showed any remorse either.
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Wonder if executing an athlete given 2 death penalties, on what's widely reported to be trumped-up charges, would put
#Iran
in breach of the
#Olympic
Charter? Nothing else the country does seem to force the
@Olympics
to take action against them
@wrestling
@WorldPlayersUtd
@Judo
The
@WorldPlayersUtd
has called for the head of the Iranian judiciary to grant an immediate stay of execution to champion wrestler Navid Afkari, who faces the death penalty tomorrow
#NavidAfkari
#Iran
#SaveNavidAfkari
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Who gave
#ThomasBach
the idea that he could stay on as
@iocmedia
President, even though the Olympic Charter he co-wrote says he should step down after a 12-year term?
@insidethegames
has drawn up a short list...
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Hungary's Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic gold medallist, turns 100 today! Read about her extraordinary life in this Big Read
@MikeRowbo
did to celebrate the centenary of this remarkable woman
#AgnesKeleti
#Olympics
#gymnastics
@gymnastics
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Easy to criticise Thomas Bach for much that he's done since becoming
#IOC
President (and I usually don't miss an opportunity) but the Refugee Olympic Team is a brilliant initiative. My only hope is that one day it will not be needed
#Olympics
#Tokyo2020
A total of 10 athletes competed at
#Rio2016
when the Refugee Olympic Team made its debut. The squad for
#Tokyo2020
is set to be announced tomorrow and will be 3x bigger
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1108765/refugee-olympic-team-for-tokyo-2020
#Olympics
#refugees
#UNCHR
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Been great to see the development and progress made by
@LMorgan21
and
@michael_pavitt
during the last six years. They have made an invaluable contribution to the success of
@insidethegames
. Thank you Liam and Michael!
Congratulations to chief senior reporter
@LMorgan21
and senior reporter
@michael_pavitt
who joined
@insidethegames
on this day in 2015. Thank you for all your hard work during the last six years!
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Absolutely shocking news from
#Iran
.
@Olympics
President
#ThomasBach
must come out and condemn what has happened, as must
@wrestling
head
#NenadLalovic
, who has been silent on the matter so far.
#NavidAfkari
#Olympics
#wrestling
State media in
#Iran
have reported
#NavidAfkari
was executed this morning, despite widespread calls for clemency
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"Congratulations also to the members of the Executive Board in your own hard-fought unopposed elections," says doyen
#RichardPound
in closing speech to the
#IOC
Session at
#Tokyo2020
. Once Pound goes next year there will not be any members prepared to stand up to
#ThomasBach
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That awkward moment when you think that Russia may have a point here...
@ukantidoping
@rusada
@usantidoping
@wada_ama
#UKAD
criticised by
#Russia
after refusing to give over
#SirMoFarah
samples for
#AlbertoSalazar
investigation
@ukantidoping
@rusada
@Mo_Farah
@wada_ama
#athletics
#Olympics
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How long can
#IOC
justify continuing to push ahead with plans to hold the
#Olympics
in
#Tokyo
when the majority of the public are consistently against it? Will Japanese Prime Minister
#YoshihideSuga
pull the plug if he thinks it will cost him election later this year?
#Tokyo2020
Nearly 60 per cent of people in
#Japan
want the
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
and
#Paralympics
cancelled, according to a latest poll
@Tokyo2020
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Imagine the chaos if this happens at
#Tokyo2020
. There are a lot more people involved in the
#Olympics
than at the
#AustralianOpen
...
#tennis
BREAKING: A positive
#coronavirus
case at a tournament hotel has forced hundreds connected to the
@AustralianOpen
into isolation ...
#tennis
#AustralianOpen
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#KobeBryant
was big supporter of
@LA2028
#Olympic
bid. Remember speaking to
#PatrickBaumann
, head of the IOC Evaluation Commission, morning after he had met Bryant at a dinner in May 2017 to promote bid and how excited he was. Cannot comprehend that both are now dead so young
UPDATED STORY: Double Olympic gold medallist
#KobeBryant
killed in helicopter crash
@Olympics
@TeamUSA
@LosAngeles2028
@FIBA
#LALakers
#basketball
@NBA
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Hypocrisy of
@iocmedia
President Thomas Bach telling
#SirCraigReedie
"you had to go through some of the most difficult periods of this organisation" when referencing
@wada_ama
. Yes, most of those "difficult periods" were caused by Bach trying to stop WADA taking against Russia
Former
#WADA
President
#SirCraigReedie
of
#Britain
and The
#Gambia
's
#BeatriceAllen
were presented with
#Olympic
Orders due to have been awarded in 2021, and
#NorthKorea
's Chang Ung and
#Poland
's Andrzej Kraśnicki also received the honour
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Fantastic to be part of team that work so hard and produce such outstanding work day in, day. Congrats to
@midsummer100
,
@LMorgan21
,
@AJBell109
,
@michael_pavitt
,
@Nancy_Gillen
,
@sportingpat
,
@Daniel_Etchells
,
@danpsport
,
@dodo938
,
@MikeRowbo
and
@pbarkersport
. And thank you
@FISU
Delighted to announce that
@insidethegames
has won the Best Media Partner award! Congratulations to
@midsummer100
@LMorgan21
@AJBell109
@michael_pavitt
@Nancy_Gillen
@sportingpat
@Daniel_Etchells
@danpsport
@dodo938
@MikeRowbo
@pbarkersport
and thank you to
@FISU
.
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Some big news coming out of Australia this morning. This had long been talked about but is now official - Queensland will bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games
@AUSOlympicTeam
BREAKING:
#Queensland
confirm bid for 2032
#Olympic
Games
@AUSOlympicTeam
@Olympics
#Brisbane
#Australia
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The IOC don't half claim some nonsense but this stuff about
#PierredeCoubertin
promoting women's sport may top everything.
The founder of the modern
@Olympics
actually believed "an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper."
Does
Despite the patriarchal times he lived in, during
#PierreDeCoubertin
’s presidency of the IOC, the number of women taking part in the Olympic Games grew sixfold.
We’ve come a long way since then, reaching 50:50 gender parity for
#Paris2024
, driven by the
#OlympicAgenda
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If anyone is in any doubt about whether
@OlympicUA
will boycott the
@Olympics
at
@paris2024
if
@Olympic_Russia
are allowed to compete, then the speed at which its sports are withdrawing from competitions where
#Russia
are re-admitted should dispel them
@Judo
#UkraineRussiaWar
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.
@justingatlin
was treated unfairly at
#London2017
. Still believe if fans going to boo him should have booed all the other cheats as well
Justin Gatlin offers apology to fans who booed him at
@iaaforg
World Championships
#London2017
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Any British journalist at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 (36th in the medals below Greece and Algeria) could never have imagined that one day there would be a debate going on in the UK that sport and the funding in pursuit of medals has become too important in Britain.
Clive James wrote this is 1976 (via
@pkelso
)
In my view it should be pinned on the door of UK Sport to remind them of their priorities
And sent to (some, not all) BBC commentators
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Have to admire organisation that flies people halfway round world for a meeting where decision already taken lecturing us on sustainability
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Congratulations
@JaynePearceJP
and
@PearceIntSport
on their appointment to help
@Paris2024
. You know if Jayne is involved then the media will be looked after properly
#Olympics
#Paris2024
The company set up by
@JaynePearceJP
the former press chief of
#London2012
, has been appointed as media consultants for
@Paris2024
- a decision welcomed by those who work in the industry
@PearceIntSport
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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Watching world sport keep awarding major events to
#Russia
so soon after its doping ban was lifted by
@wada_ama
is like watching that scene in Dallas when Bobby Ewing stepped out of the shower and pretended the last year had never happened...
#volleyball
#olympics
#drugsinsport
#Russia
awarded 2022
@FIVBVolleyball
Men's World Championships as continues to add major events to portfolio after doping ban lifted
#volleyball
#WADA
#olympics
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A few years ago relations between the IOC and IPC were so strained I seriously wondered if the Olympics may stop supporting the Paralympics. But, after this latest development, they are bound closer together than ever. Be interesting to see who benefits the most...
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Always a massive disappointment to me that Britain with its rich Olympic heritage, including London being only city to host Games three times, does not have its own Olympic Museum
@TeamGB
@sebcoe
@Olympics
@olympicmuseum
New exhibition opens at
#LakePlacid
#Olympic
Museum to celebrate 40th anniversary of Games
@OlympicHistory
@Olympics
#LakePlacid1980
#MiracleonIce
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