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The Maryport Kid makes good and gets a chance in the GP's... Take a bow Dan Bewley and all the very best wishes for next season... Regards John

Looks like things are clicking into place then as Ronald (who is only ever seen in yellow and red) will be able to double up with the Brummies. Just two more riders to be announced.

The simple answer is that's complete nonsense. If someone has actually taken the citizenship of another country then you can't ban them simply because of an accident of birth. Otherwise you'll create different classes of citizenship within a country, and would be especially unworkable in a country with a largely immigrant population such as Australia. A citizen is a citizen with the same rights as everyone else in their (adopted) country, regardless of the rabble rousing sentiments. If there were going around vocalising support for Russia then you may not want them playing in your tournament (which is fair enough), but if someone is actually condemning Russia what more is expected from them?

Whilst I believe the FIM have made the correct decision to stop all Russian nationals entering their events this is not aimed at the two named riders but the Russian nation. We have to remember that there are more than a few Russians involved in the Ice racing & the SEC events then there are the qualifying rounds for all the World Championships. I really think that Artem Laguta & Emil Sayfutinov would have withdrawn from this season prior to the start because of the adverse reaction of the public domain against the actions of Mr Putin in Ukraine. I believe them to be good honest sportsmen caught up in a political fight they have no control over.

What about Daria Saville? She is a Tennis player. Formerly known as Daria Gavrilova, she now represents Australia having married an Australian and taken Australian citizenship. She has also posted on Twitter that she will be wearing Yellow and Blue at her next tournament in support of the people of Ukraine, and called for other players to join her in doing so. Should she really be banned from playing just because she was born in Russia? I don't think she should.

I would have thought that any additional fans would be appreciated by every track. With inflation rising on a weekly basis, tough times are on the horizon for most people.

You’re getting picky now - you know he meant to write much more worser…..

At the time it was built one of the few Banks's pubs outside of the black country.

Tickets these days ARE a nightmare.....I had a ticket emailed to me at 6pm on the same day I saw The Sisters Of Mercy at the Camden Roundhouse....I'd been in London since the day before fretting about it despite having purchased it 5 months previous ....nightmare

Totally hungover John lol

And you need Peterborough to fall to bits too plus Lemon needs to make good decisions during meetings which isn't usually the case. In my opinion last year's final was as much to do with Lyon who is a top team manager.

Speedway GP 2022 This Season will be without Artem Laguta & Emil Sayfutinov, but they will be replacing by Jack Holder & Dan Bewley!!!!

Unfortunately, just about every governing body in sport around the world has suspended Russian sports people from competing. Therefore the FIM has no choice other than to follow suit no matter the rights or wrongs of it. Both Emil and Artem were born in Russia and that overrides any citizenship so that 'argument' is irrelevant. Whilst I do agree that they will be very sorely missed in the GP's in 2022, it's the right and only call the FIM could make. There is no way around it.

I absolutely understand what you are saying but we've spent the last 50 plus years as a society demanding that we do not tar any one race, religion or country with the same brush. Now 1 launatic 'leader' invades a country and everyone born of that country is punished? Cannot be right, just cant be. For this particular scenario, they both (apparently) have Polish citizenship. They have both condemed this war. There is a way round it

I think some on this forum don’t fully understand what is happening. Despite Putin saying otherwise he has started a war, but you want speedway to carry on as before. People in Ukraine, normal people like you and I, who have done nothing, are being left homeless, without water, power, and without hope, yet you want speedway to carry on as before. They are encouraged to walk out of the area down a peace corridor, but it’s a trick, they get fired at and some have been killed, yet you want speedway to carry on as before. Over 1 million people have managed to get out of that hell hole, Poland has taken in the vast majority of evacuees in just one week, far more then UK has ever done I think, people with no hope, no future, no home to go to, no where to put their feet up in front of a warm fire to watch speedway. I been saying for a week now their is a strong bond between Ukraine and Polish people. There is probably 800,000 Ukranion refugees now in Poland, being welcomed with open arms and acts of love, the Polish people are really putting themselves out, as are those in Slovakia, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, etc, yet you want speedway to carry on as before, as if nothing has happening nor is happening. The scene of this world has changed, for the worse, and may take decades to get back to where it was. Because of Putin, Russians are going to feel the brunt of the effects, the world is letting him know their feelings, and their actions will be felt by the Russian populous. For sure the rest of the world will probably feel the effects too, higher prices for oil, gas, probably a multitude of things we don’t know about yet, but speedway must carry on as normal. If Russians feel the bad affect then they can petition for democracy, make sure that their votes do count without results being falsified. That can only be done by the populous of Russia. In the meantime we may get to see some top class speedway, that’s if Putin doesn’t do what people in more then a few nations are worried about……. They may be next for the attention of his “manoeuvres”.

"It'll be alright on the night"... Or maybe a few weeks after...

There are enough riders to produce one big weaker league, if the heat leader talent was shared around .. With riders ranging from HL level to 2 point reserves, with six man teams being introduced if needed to be... However... That would end doubling up for far, far too many riders to ever be considered...

More of a wipeout along the home straight as I remember. Yeah Mr Brady senior wasn't happy that day. Sad news his passing

is that worser and worser?!

So if the UK were put into a war that the vast majority of us didnt agree with, everyone would be ok with loosing their jobs through no fault of their own? Its a joke and devalues the competition. They both posted onn their instagram day 1 of this invasion that it was wrong and they stand with Ukraine. More to the point waht difference will it make? Putin going to put a stop to all this because Russians cant compete inSport? These 2 have condemed this invasion and they are both Polish citizens. Could have been easily avoided.

LOL. "I didn't have any bitterness to Smith" < Goes off on yet another bitter rant about Smith > At least you bring comedy value.

Well several people have quoted otherwise… stop trying to drag your club down with fake news

Not seen much of him since the yew tree inquiry.

"The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said it had opened disciplinary proceedings against Kuliak for his "shocking behaviour" at the Apparatus World Cup in Doha. After earning bronze in the parallel bars final, Kuliak taped a letter 'Z' on to his chest and took to the podium next to gold medal winner Illia Kovtun of Ukraine" Quite right to.

Maybe they just picked the teams in alphabetical order... Nothing would surprise me tbh

Good. Maybe find a job for some of you who have to much time on your hands.

The laughable thing is that his bitterness was towards Adrian Smith, but now that Smith has moved on, he's had to find a new target to attempt to troll. What an absolute sadsack

Pushed Smith out...... dont be an idiot all your life

Well done FIM

Your bitterness towards Mark Lemon is boring as hell, every opportunity you are slagging him off.

Nasty smug little piece of excrement ...horrible

It is villa park . I think what the poster is eluding to is that Tom been a big Birmingham city fan is probably not buzzing at been at vile park .

This is why all Russian athletes should be suspended without question. Gymnast on the podium yesterday (alongside a Ukrainian)

Cornerstone of society is that individuals should not face discrimination on gender, race, nationality or religion. Its abhorrent what Putins doing but discriminating and cancelling every Russian national for his actions isnt right. It will be interesting to see where this leads when some of these people go to the ECHR and challenge through the legal system

We have a world champion and bronze medalist who HAVE spoken up against the invasion, and they can’t race because Putin invaded. I get that we have to sanction Russia and teams that represent Russia, but banning individual sportsmen feels wrong to me...

Correct decision, in my opinion.

FIM news: https://www.fim-moto.com/en/news/news-detail/article/fim-announces-its-decisions-in-relation-to-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine?fbclid=IwAR2_h-ZaIs1isQdQWqokQXM_mV4OPLxjDBJWEdBFfHAL4Wdx3FBzv2xKZ9k

I've never posted on the Forum about Black Lives Matter and I am not jumping on any bandwagon, what I am doing is voicing my opinion about Putin and his cronies walking into and murdering innocent people and I don't like what is happening. Short of sending in troops from outside of Ukraine and starting WWIII we have to hope the sanctions, which includes stopping Russian sports people competing abroad unfortunately, start to take effect. Yes the ordinary Russian people will probably think the West are picking on them but why will they think that, the answer is simple because the tyrant in charge of Russia blocks all the news broadcasts that he doesn't like that people could watch and any Russian who does dare to speak out puts their lives and that of their families in danger.

Then so be it. If they do unite and support this tyrannical regime then they should continue to be excluded. A terrible shame when globally we do need to unite on a number of fronts but we have to be clear that the actions of the Putin regime are not acceptable to the rest of society. What they decide to do in Russia is entirely their (or Putin's) choice. The west is far from a perfect utopia but we're all sure that invading another country and murdering innocent civilians isn't okay aren't we? Soo the west isn't right on everything but on this it certainly is.

Banning everything Russian may well have the opposite effect with Russian people and they might start agreeing with Putin that the West is bad.

Overpriced for NL matches.IMO

I'm inclined to think beating Woffinden, Fricke and Michelsen in a single meeting suggests he might be ok at the NSS.

I am sure Putin will be devastated.

Be interesting to see how things go for Oxford. If it's a success over a couple of seasons that may encourage people elsewhere

Apparently the F.A. have stated that they will not play against Russia in any competition for the foreseeable future. Good for them.

Probably, complete arrogance on his part I hope they take his medal away. I bet the Russian team weren't allowed anywhere near a news broadcast while in Doha either.

Guessing that Falcon relates to Exeter.? Out of business a very long time ago ?