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I think it was during the tour of France by the French national team, but I don't think they did this in the show. I think it was just more for fun.

April :)

Took 2 years.

Doesn't seem like it - I think they are retiring, and moving to show skating.

Does that imply that his knee injury was more serious? I was really looking forward to their new coaching arrangement, and seeing whether they could get back on track.

Yes, you're correct. Sequences not combinations. I wonder if that is a clarification for the technical panel to prevent issues like what happened to Matteo Rizzo this season.

I think the more interesting change is the elimination of 3 jump combos in pairs.

But who's informing the IOC? WADA has no duty to report the tests to the IOC, and I sincerely doubt that CHINADA would do so. That's a big unanswered question at this point is who at WADA knew, and why wasn't the case reported publicly after it was resolved as an accidental ingestion. We know...

That's an interesting point, but do we know that the IOC was aware of the positive tests?

It's a big story now, and it's only just started. What it does demonstrate is the benefit of a high functioning sports bureaucracy in China that was able to work quickly to clean up the situation, and kept their athletes in the Olympics. This is the sort of thing we've seen in the past from...

The contrast in sizes makes Geoffrey look like a giant, but he's 5'10" which is average height.

WADA threatening legal action against ARD, and the New York Times is an interesting strategy.

Thanks, but NBC are clips unavailable outside the US.

That link is not working for me. He's now moved the World Record up to 6.24 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2024/04/20/6-24-meters-armand-duplantis-beats-own-pole-vault-world-record_6669002_9.html

From the information presented it sounds like these positive tests occurred during testing by Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA), and CHINADA accepted them as inadvertent contamination. The information was then reported to WADA, and WADA was unable to prove that contamination wasn't possible...