Yes it's a shame Gomez is out through injury. One of the big showdowns with him Mola and the Brownlees I was looking forward to at Rio.

Nervous times for anyone selected for Rio with no realistic recovery time left if they get injured now. Must be heartbreaking after all the effort they put in to get and stay in top form and be one of the best in the world at their discipline.

Braaaaiiin hurrtzzzz1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36793913

Is Zara Phillips competing in the Show Jumping team again.

Don't think she was picked - in fact I think its a much changed team this time compared to 2012.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36713809

Zara competes in Eventing (Show Jumping is just 1 element of that along with Dressage & Cross Country).

Her horse High Kingdom (with whom she competed at London 2012) was injured last year. He recovered in time for them to compete at Badminton earlier this year. They went quite well Cross Country but he wasn't quite on point in the Dressage or Show Jumping hence they weren't selected. She doesn't currently have another horse at world class level.

Didn't see the Triathlon individual races live but caught highlights. Good victory by Mola & fair to say Richard Murray made a part of himself with his histrionics after getting a time penalty for putting his swim gear in the wrong box in transition. As it was a sprint distance not enough time for Jorgensen to claw back distance on the run after being behind on swim/bike. Victory went to her team mate Katie Zaferes. Another disappointing swim by Helen Jenkins.

Really has to be a blanket ban for Russia at the Olympics given the extent of doping - 580 cases, 30 sports - and direct government involvement.

Russia operated doping programme at Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 - report.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/36823453

I hope no one is surprised by the doping report, Russia has real form on organised doping going back 50 yrs.

Frankly will watch little of these Olympics, as I simply cant trust any of the contestants not to dope.

Russia seems to be immune from prosecution!

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, annexed Crimea:


...but Russia still has the World Cup in 2018! Go figure.

Rugby Sevens Squads for Rio named.

https://www.teamgb.com/news/team-gb-...-sevens-squads

The women's team is all-English, the men are more like a Lions squad, excluding the Irish though.

Think that's it now, all selections are done.

There are 366 competitors in all - making it the third biggest GB Olympic team at an 'away' Games.

There were 389 at Barcelona 1992 and 382 at Seoul 1988.

To be fair Helen lost her goggles during the swim but as with Non in recent events the swim has been their weakness.

Hopefully they'll stay on terms with the other medal favourites during the swim in Rio, then it will come down to whether anyone manages to breakaway from Gwen on the bike (apparently the course is hilly so could throw up some interesting tactics or highlight an individual's weakness not usually seen).

Not sure if Helen or Non could challenge Gwen in the run if starting at similar times, but is should be a good battle if all arrive on the start line injury free and in top form.

Though them watching each other may give someone else in good form a chance to break free and secure victory.

It's on my shortlist of unmissable events in Rio. Looking forward to the mens race too but it's the Brownlees to lose now Gomez is out. Only Mola looks to be anywhere near capable of challenging for gold.

Jorgensen won the Rio test event and looked impressive on the bike last year on the Olympic course. She was at or near the front the entire way. Gwen has looked more vulnerable this year. But I'm not sure if that's down to her not being tapered during the race circuit this year or just less dominant. When she's in form she's good enough on the first two legs that she doesn't require huge comebacks on the run. Last year in the big races she was always near the front then ran tactically until putting in her kick to the tape. Non and Vicky were 2nd and 3rd last summer in Rio so that's a good sign. Everyone's putting their eggs in one basket this season (except Flora Duffy it seems) so I wouldn't fret too much over sluggish swims. Remember, Helen had to dial up her training quite a bit after securing her Olympic spot. So much so that she elected not to compete in Leeds. It's tough to read into recent results on the circuit but having bad/good races is still important for confidence I think. I'm still fairly optimistic about Non's chances for a medal, maybe even a win, after how she has performed when it matters in the last year.

I've just noticed that total includes a couple of late additions to the canoe sprint squad.

The ICF banned Romania and Belarus for a year due to systemic doping, which means Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah have qualified for the women's K-2 500m.

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The ICF banned Romania and Belarus for a year due to systemic doping, which means Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah have qualified for the women's K-2 500m.[/QUOTE]

That opens up a few opportunities, Romania and Belarus were regular contenders.

Anyway, here's the full team as it stands now all in one place.

https://www.teamgb.com/news/team-gb-...-2016-complete

I don't think that is sufficient, my personal view is a ban from all sporting competitions and declared ineligible to host any competition/event

In other words they forfeit the right to host 2018 World Cup

I was just checking out the list of athletes we are sending to Rio and have a question about the men's gymnastics.

Why is Louis Smith so revered when it appears to me, as a casual viewer, that he is only good at one thing. That being the pommel horse. The other guys on the team, Nile Wilson, Max Whitlock, Brinn Bevan and Kristian Thomas are all good at more than one thing. So why does Louis did get that fifth spot instead of a fifth all-rounder like Daniel Purvis?

Louis is a risk to some extent but if it pays off he'd contribute a bigger pommels score than anyone other than Max to the team event and can medal in the pommel final as well. Dan P would be unlikely to make a final in an apparatus final let alone medal.

Really Brinn took Dan's spot rather than Louis and then of course Courtney Tulloch could consider himself unlucky as he's our best rings worker and would likely make the final of that event.

I don't think Louis selection was guaranteed, far from it. In a 5 man team where you have 3 gymnasts on each piece in the Team Final, it can be justified to take an apparatus specialist.

Dan was unfortunate & he's been a great team man over the years but he lost form at the wrong time. He's even been a bit shaky recently on his strongest pieces like Floor & P Bars.

Bump for this thread, we are going to need it by about 21:30 this evening.

I'll be posting some sport-by-sport updates early next week.

I guess most will be having a well earned break!

I know that a lot of people will have found some new sporting interests during the Olympics, so here's some What Happens Next information for each sport.

Archery
The Archery World Cup season has one more event, the final in Odense, Denmark on 24-25. TV coverage will likely be highlights on Eurosport, but Archery has a good YouTube channel which covers the medal rounds of most events.

https://www.youtube.com/user/archerytv/videos

Artistic Gymnastcs
That seems to be it for the year as far as international competition is concerned. There are a few regional championships, but nothing that's going to involve Team GB

Athletics
Still quite a few meets to come, of which the most important will be the four Diamond League meets, staring in Lausanne on 25th August. Live on Eurosport, highlights on BBC the next day.

Keep up with all the news and gossip inthe DS Sport Athletics Thread.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2126029

Badminton
Like the Tennis tours, Badminton runs many competitions during the year at various levels of the sport. The main elite competition is the BWF Super Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_BWF_Super_Series

Coverage is streamed free via Livestream

https://livestream.com/bwfbadminton

More to come....

Basketball
Well, obviously there is tons of this on TV - BT Sport/ESPN cover the NBA and college basketball. For British domestic basketball, Team GB are playing a series of qualifiers for Eurobasket, the European Championships in early September.

http://bbl.org.uk/key-dates/

The full British season begins on September 23rd and runs through to May.

The BBC will be covering a lot of the games via the Red Button and Streaming

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/36722756

Beach Volleyball
Final event of the season is the Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals to be held in the sun-kissed vacation paradise that is....Toronto, Canada on 13-18 September. As a sport it does not get as much TV coverage as you'd expect.

Coverage is on the YouTube FIVB Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM...ZI2QzL4pWOvP_w

Boxing
It seems that the season is pretty much over now - can't find any major events coming up before next year. European and World Championships usually get decent coverage on the BBC.