On China: Despite repeatedly saying they had no reason to suspect delibrate doping, WADA investigations head Günter Younger wrote in 2020 about historic use of "allegedly undetectable levels" of TMZ in China. He has not mentioned this report at all publicly in recent weeks

Surely this line is not going to hold for long... Strategy of essentially passing the buck to IFs for years on this issue has blown up spectacularly. On other hand, some valid points here about IBA/ their process

Spare a thought for the two boxers involved in all of this. They’re human beings. Made to look like criminals or worse. Some of the comments are out of control.

Excellent thread about situation going on in women’s boxing, focusing on facts/specific context rather than hysteria

It’s been days and IBA still hasn’t provided any details about what it did to disqualify the two women from the boxing world championships. This is not fair on them or opponents. Creates horrible situation ahead of this afternoon’s bout. Not how a governing body should operate

Never seen this before in 11 years of covering Thomas Bach press conferences. Maybe worth him bearing in mind as he considers ripping-up the term limits to extend his Presidency

Belgian press reporting triathlete Clare Michel is sick with a bacterial infection (E.coli) and that the Belgium team (with no named female reserve) will forfeit tomorrow’s Olympic mixed team relay. Michel placed 38th in the individual race on Wednesday.

China wins gold in 4x100 swimming today. Pan who produced the first world record in 100m by blitzing his opponents in a barely believable style was at it again. Swam his (anchor) leg in 45.92. No other swimmer broke 47 secs.

Seemingly impressive implied comment not just ignoring the past as is much easier for athletes to do

Peaty questions China relay win amid doping row: "To the people that need to do their job - wake up and do your job." bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics…

This is so embarrassing. Cult of personality alive and well in Olympic sports after a ridiculous 31 years as President of modern pentathlon world body

Jade Jones has questions to answer about doping case, but will she face them? thetimes.com/article/ca5a07…

More whataboutary from WADA to try and deflect from how they handled - or chose not the handle - multiple Chinese cases. Also appears a strange fight to pick given USADA's action in this case makes a lot of sense

Over 1,000 athletes competing in Paris have not been drug tested this year. Prediction from former WADA boss that only "dopey dopers" will be caught during the Games

Touching way to commemorate 20 years since the Kenteris/Thanou motorcycle crash before Athens 2004

Wide-ranging and very interesting interview from ARD colleagues with Caster Semenya. About how she feels she was unfairly treated, ongoing women’s boxing furore, current 800m runners, her World Athletics Presidential ambitions + more sportschau.de/olympia/caster…

For those wondering what’s going on in ant-doping. WADA is pissed USADA questioned Chinese anti-doping situation So they are trying to smear USADA without context It’s political mess. But that’s WADA. They want to win political game with IOC. They don’t care about clean sport

Britain of course also won 65 medals at Tokyo 2020...before they lost one for doping

Jannik Sinner tested positive twice for the steroid clostebol after ingesting the drug accidentally during a massage. Sinner is the 5th 🇮🇹 tennis player to test positive for clostebol. In May, I investigated why we are seeing so many clostebol cases. 🔗 substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/hones…