Recent content by ArnoldRimmer

Nobody likes it when the floor comes sooner than it was supposed to.

It's a Christmas miracle.

Exactly. It doesn't even have to be the BBC either, long as it's freeview. I know it's going back a bit but think how good the Channel 4 Paralympic coverage was in 2012, and what a positive impact it had. I still remember the first time I saw the trailer.

Whose exceptionally shit idea was this?

I get the impression a disproportionate number of the ones who go on to do something non-gym related go into jobs relating to how bodies work. Makes sense when you think about it.

Yes, probably safest.

Fully agree. It would've looked more natty on the legal paperwork next time they get taken to CAS too.

That surely must've had some impact, but it looks like Romania at least were probably doing this before. There's no rational explanation for them changing Szabo's DOB but only enough to make her 14 in 1981 otherwise.

Mmm, I've wondered in the past if any of the other Eastern Bloc countries were at it too. After all, it's never been looked at and half the countries had stopped existing by the time the first official fake DOB case happened. On the Soviet point, do we have any information on how long they...

Yes, and that was even before much social media existed. It would probably have been even more intense if twitter had been widely used, for example.

Well, punished up to a point. China have certainly got away with more than they were sanctioned for! But this is why the whole situation is so batshit. We know for sure that at least those 4 countries faked DOBs, and they've all had at least one instance that went unaddressed (I say at least...

A shame.

If only 2 scores were needed per round, surely Brazil and Belgium would be on the list as well? The latter had 2 men and 5 women, the former 3 men and 2 women. I know Derwael didn't do AA so they didn't have 2 full WAG scores, but they'd still have been eligible to attempt qualifying had they...

Hadn't realised he was still a thing. I felt sure such a brave and patriotic young man would've been off to the front lines.

There won't be more Olympic spots allocated specifically for mixed team competitors. It's pretty obviously an attempt to get more events and coverage out of the existing athlete quotient. So it seems there are multiple options here. They could say only countries qualifying a full team can...