Millar and the IOC

[Alun]

I don't know why the BOA signed up for the 2 year ban, when it already had a lifetime ban in place.
I don't accept the "Not a ban, it's an eligibility condition" they're just trying to mince words but they didn't fool CAS.
I don't care whether it's a 2 year, 4 year, or lifetime ban, as long as it applies to everyone.
I assume our athletes will compete over the same distances as everyone else, so why not have the same drug sanctions as everyone else?

 

[Alun]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/07/international-olympic-committee-boa-drugs

What happened to your original link? Has it been removed?

 

[green1]

looks like it, but basically the same as the guardian article.

 

[400bhp]

of course, but I had somehow imagined that the places on the team were absolutely in the gift of the selectors. Apparently not....

I seem to recall the way it works is that if an athlete wins the UK trials and hits the olympic qualifying time then they are selected. All other places are determined by the committee, irrespective of whether they have met the qualifying time.

However, that might have changed.

 

[400bhp]

Edit-top 2.

See Steve Cram's comments here

 

[Andy84]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18413680

Millar has been named in the Team GB short list.

Five from:

Cavendish
Cummings
Froome
Hunt
Millar
Stannard
Swift
Wiggins

No Thomas?
Edit - Thomas seems to be concentrating on the Team Pursuit