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See UEFA have backed out of reinstating the Russian U17 team into competitions.....

Micaela Bazan, Argentina ?

I did see Craig Boyce praising a young female rider the other day. Don't know anything about her though. Is this her ? Anike Loftus.

I was wondering if you are their manager ? Guess i was the only one paying attention, when you mentioned them previously

I'd like to see his Polish averages. Swedish as well. But for me, if we just look at Emil and not 'Many top riders', he does seem to have peaked fairly early in his career. Knocks taken a toll ? Family life ? Who knows, and i am willing to be proven wrong, but his GP successes seem to be a distant memory really. He could have an indian summer of course, it just seems unlikely now. And i say that with disappointment, because he was great early on and i thught a certain first Russian world champ I see out of his 7 GP wins, 6 came before his break from the GPs, and only 1 since he came back

I just guess it is the hope of getting a tv deal for Germany, and maybe some sponsorship and exposure, and i am sure they will say in the hope of building the sport. Trouble is Teterow is a stinker of a track. So the home GP won't particularly attract much, unless Huckenbeck gets into the final. The other problem really is even if he was a GP standard rider, he isn't a very publicity friendly sort of person. Not the out going sort like Egon Müller of Smolinski So although i can understand to a degree, what they are trying to do. I don't think it will have much success

I do think that would be a better option than a one off. Maybe 3 meetings. Two at least. Just because one track can suit a rider more than another. The problem particular to speedway That is in an ideal world though. It might well be they have enough problems finding one track a season........

It wasn't for him. Ok, not everyone enjoys their visits to a country When i first came here i just seemed to talk to people who always said....London ? It's very foggy and the food is terrible I hadn't seen much fog since the 60s and i happen to like the food. It might not have the repuatation of Italian food etc. But then neither does German Luckily enough i have since met plent of people who love the UK and must admit haven't heard the foggy comment for over a decade or so.....

The part about the weather being awful in the UK i think has accompanied most reports about Basts visit for the world championship. I can't remember what it was like, although i did see him practice at Plough Lane before the White City meeting, which i was also at. I just guess if there was practice after a meeting at Wimbledon then the wethaer couldn't have been too bad. But London isn't California. I just guess that the part about the weather came from Mike himself, and he wasn't too happy about the whole thing The bit about Australia........

Don't they just allocate spots to Federations, and they select the riders for the meetings ? I seem to remember Wölbert complaining about always being selected for long journeys, whereas other riders (Smolinski) seemed to always get selected for easier meetings

I do seem to recall one or two years when a decent dane was dropped for the sake of another lesser rider from another nation.....this was over a decade ago. It happened then and it will happen again. I was also present when Lubod Tomicek failed by the skin of his teeth to qualify from Vojens There will always be moans and groans with wild card picks or riders who have managed to qualify But it has always been and always will be that decisions made for money will happen in our sport. It happens in most sports, even and especially so in football, which is bathing in money, but still can't get enough. I remember one disgusted Danish fan saying to me that Iversen is only in because of his sponsor........

It's not woke is it ? It is commercial. The GP system has been like that since before 'woke' was thought up by those that can't get to grips with how the world works

An interesting read http://www.racinghistoryproject.com/scalzo/kickass.pdf

Young maybe, but not a modern girl You still use a broom to play curling !!!

I did meet and talk to Barney once at Vojens when Eddie was riding in the U21s. Dave was also there, but was busy looking after Eddie. Found Barney to be a very nice guy and we talked about Gordon. Barney said he was very active, very fit. The way things go sometimes I guess

Sad news, but his surname is Poschenrieder, for info

Was the years that really got me back into the sport after a few away. Great days, lots of young and old talent combined. Wasn't really a big Kennett fan, but I did respect him and especially his Oxford, White City days and he was great to watch at Eastbourne RIP

The nurse is putting something in your food, for certain

In the news today, is one such person who just might have seen Farndon and some of the other pre war greats. Remembering how popular the sport was and the chances that people born then in the area might have gone to one of the many stadiums Daisy Moore is a true South London lady – born in St Thomas’ Hospital on September 19, 1928. She can still, on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, recall what happened on May 8, 1945 when the Second World War ended, and the party in Wedgewood House, across Kennington Road from what had 10 years before become the Imperial War Museum. “It was a terrific celebration,” she said. “We had a big bonfire in the middle of the square near Wedgewood House. “Everyone was throwing out their furniture that they didn’t want, on to the fire. It was one big party with Americans, Canadians and Australian soldiers – as well as the Brits here from wherever. It was like a knees-up all night. Terrific.”

This was one such post

You obviously stood next to different folk to old gusto, who I am sure stated on here that in the 40s and 50s nobody mentioned Farndon.

Go on then. To prove you are not bashing a straw man, you just have to quote one poster who thinks they live in the society you were describing and no government tells them what to do. I bet you can't Your chance to impress the world you ain't as silly as you look