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Per the Whyte Review and various similar probes, I think a lot of other countries just assumed that if breaking people was the way you succeed in WAG then they should do it too.

It was even presented as a positive, evidence of just how utterly dominant she was. "So far ahead of the competition that she can fall twice and still win."

And that one person's experience of an incident may be very, very different to another's. One of the things I found a little jarring about Aimee Boorman's book is the way she stakes her claim on the moral high ground when it comes to a gymnast-first approach that is non-abusive and...

Probably true of dominant teams in pretty much any sport. The almost-unique problem that WAG has is that the elite athletes in question are often literal children when the not-being-nice is going on, and I have the crazy woke liberal snowflake notion that physically and/or mentally breaking a...

No, she's aiming for Brisbane in 2032 now.

Neither of these examples are anything like the situation with Indonesia, though. One was a training camp - you don't have to go to the US to train, you do have to go to the worlds to compete at the worlds. The other is an unfortunate red tape mess where an individual athlete has been caught out...

For the Europeans this year, they only put the less-good seats on sale in the first phase. Front and centre ones came online later. Annoying, as it punishes dedicated, organised fans who want to make sure they get a ticket by buying early.

The Belgians look like they're about to go swimming.

Japan look like a rejected Australian design.

Underwear showing, as if they learned NOTHING from watching Stick It.

At this point, non-Brits in the room should google "Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox"

The Athletic: Simone Biles says she’ll be at 2028 L.A. Olympics ‘in some capacity’ But what will that capacity be? Flame-lighting? Inside the mascot costume? Selling snacks on the concourse at the handball arena? Archery? Snoop Dog-style roaming punditry? other (suggestions welcome)

I find it far less depressing than filtering them through the prism of real life.

As with oh so many issues, a lot of people seem to forget that people who take the opposite view to them are just as sincere in their belief that they're obviously morally right. You can't say it's fine for Country A to arbitrarily ban Country B's national team from an international competition...

Whatever your view of the Israeli government's actions, a country hosting an international sporting event has to commit to letting in the athletes that the governing body says are qualified to be there. Letting the Indonesian authorities pull a stunt like this and get away with it sets an...