Nineteen Russian athletes will be competing as neutrals at the World Athletics Championships which start in London on Friday, having met strict IAAF criteria.

Wang Zhen was quite outstanding in the two races. He won silver medal for the athletics world championship held in Beijing last year and was upgraded to the individual project champion in the world championship this May.

A record number of Scottish athletes have been selected for London 2017, which starts on Friday.

Russia's athletics boss Dmitry Shylakhtin told an IAAF Congress, held on the eve of the World Athletics Championships, that his country's ban from the sport was correct and that he was determined to fight doping.

And I also entered the world championship, and I won there in 2004.

I'd pitched the Cardinals into the pennant and set the Red Sox down in the World Series.

So they tell the kid he's got to throw the World Series or else, huh?

Scotland's previous best total of athletes at the worlds was seven, achieved in 1983 and 2015.

In 2005, FIFA organized the fourth Anti Discrimination Day to coincide with the semifinals of the FIFA Confederations Cup (Germany 2005), held on 25 and 26 June, and the quarter finals of the FIFA World Youth Championship (Netherlands 2005), held on 24 and 25 June.

Prior to winning Olympic silver, Page's highest career finish in an international event was fifth at the 2015 World Championships in Denmark.

Following the suspension, the German Track and Field Federation (DLV hereinafter the respondent), rejected his application to participate in a German championship tournament.

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Because I won the tournament?

She Googled, and she found this World Whistling Championship in America, of course.

Roger, you don't have to win the tournament.

I mean, the tournament's over.

You want... me to fish in the tournament?

I don't think I should enter the fishing tournament.

No wonder you don't want to enter the tournament.

We will now commence the riding of the tournament.

Why haven't you ever entered the tournament?

This was a tournament, so he disqualified himself.

You can get out of the tournament.

Hello, Roger. How'd y'all do in the tournament?

UK Athletics' performance director Neil Black says the 16 strong Scottish contingent in the World Championships squad will make a massive contribution to the team.

After the tournament you can learn how to make your bed.

Roger, the tournament starts tomorrow. Come on.

I saw you blast Faraday right off the court in South Orange last season.

Perhaps I'd better forget about Forest Hills.

I have no intention of fishing in your... tournament.

Gentlemen, welcome to the 36th Annual Wakapoogee Fishing Tournament.

With ever more powerful processors, silicon chess players developed the ability to calculate so far ahead that the distinction between short term tactical calculations and long term strategic planning became blurred. At the same time, computer programs began to exploit huge databases of games between grandmaster (the highest title in chess), using results from the human games to extrapolate what moves have the highest chances of success.

I can get out of a couple of meetings next week and make the tournament at...

And they repeated the trick after finishing a lowly sixth at March's Track World Championships in London, despite Hoy having since retired.

Doyle remembers her first world championships, when the only other Scot in the team was Lee McConnell.

Let's see, the tournament begins on Friday, and today's Monday.

You are now officially the winner of the Wakapoogee tournament.

Absolutely. You are entering the fishing tournament at Lake Wakapoogee.

At least we know you're engaged, and don't want to enter the tournament.

They called off the Oregon tournament. Bad storm.

Roger, did you tell the tournament committee that you're a fake?

Next came the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition of pop (rarely first class) European singers, at which Russia s Dima Bilan gained first prize for his musical clip Believe. That, too, helped rekindle a sense of national pride, extending from the Kremlin to the streets.

Assisting the capacity of the Government to implement the Millennium Development Goals and the World Programme of Action on Youth is, in the end, to support our youth.

You better start studying it. You're entering our tournament.

The claimant, a professional track and field athlete, had been suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for negligent use of stimulant drugs.