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TEAM GB will complete their preparations for the 2016 Rio Games in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.

TEAM GB: Mo Farah will be part of the squad going to Rio for the 2016 Olympics

The athletes will acclimatise in the city – which is in the centre of Brazil, an hour’s flight from Rio – in the final run-up to the Games.

Belo Horizonte was infamously the venue of English football’s darkest hour – the 1-0 defeat to the USA in the 1950 World Cup.

    
TEAM GB will complete their preparations for the 2016 Rio Games in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. 

The athletes will acclimatise in the city – which is in the centre of Brazil, an hour’s flight from Rio – in the final run-up to the Games.
Belo Horizonte was infamously the venue of English football’s darkest hour – the 1-0 defeat to the USA in the 1950 World Cup.

     
OLYMPIC medalist Phillips Idowu has been banned from driving for two years for drink-driving

   
MO FARAH has been shortlisted for the 2013 World Athlete of the Year award.
Britain’s 5,000m and 10,000m world champion joins stars like sprint king Usain Bolt and marathon record-breaker Wilson Kipsang.

    
SPRINT star Usain Bolt has admitted he is scared of British women, despite his success with the opposite sex.

The fastest man on the planet said that he can't always tell if a woman is genuine, even thugh he has had three "at the one time".
Bolt, 27, publicly split from British girlfriend Megan Edwards in December.
He said: “There’s so many beautiful women everywhere I go, but one thing I’m sure of is that I’m scared of London women.
  
      

                                                                                        

• Paula Radcliffe won the 2007 New York marathon 10 months after giving birth to daughter Isla
• Kim Clijsters triumphed at tennis' US Open in 2009 to become only the third mother to win a Grand Slam
• Catriona Matthew was golf's Open champion in 2009 at the age of 40, 11 weeks after giving birth to youngest daughter Sophie
• Liz McColgan returned to athletics after giving birth to her first child, Eilish, and won 10,000m gold at the 1991 World Championships
• Thirty-year-old mother of two Fanny Blankers-Koen won gold in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and 80m hurdles at the 1948 Olympics in London

                           

        
"I could almost touch my dream of becoming an Olympic medallist," says the 36-year-old former athlete, speaking as part of a BBC Radio 5 live programme on sportswomen and motherhood.
The Londoner was 27 at the time and in her sporting prime, with the 2004 Athens Olympics just months away. Her husband and coach Darrell Smith felt, in Danvers's words, like a buffoon.
Pregnant athletes have competed at the Olympics, of course. Only last year, Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi was eight months pregnant when she became the first woman to represent Malaysia in Olympic shooting.
Taking aim while seated is one thing. Negotiating the 400m hurdles, with an ever-growing bump, is another.
"When you're married and getting on with life, it's no big deal, but as a professional athlete this is not done. You just don't get pregnant during an Olympic year," says Danvers.
"I don't think I felt much excitement. On the one hand, you want to carry on with your dream but, on the other, you're a married woman and, at the end of the day, the only thing that's going to last is life.

        

Roman Avramenko of Ukraine, who finished fifth in the men's javelin, was the only one of the group to reach a final at the event in Moscow.
The IAAF said that all seven have been sanctioned or provisionally suspended.

Positive tests at Moscow 2013

• Roman Avramenko, (Ukraine, javelin)
• Massoud Azizi (Afghanistan, men's 100m)
• Elyzaveta Bryzgina (Ukraine, women's 200m)
• Ayman Kozhakhmetova (Kazakhstan, women's 20km walk)
• Ebrahim Rahimian (Iran, men's 20km walk)
• Yelena Ryabova (Turkmenistan, 200m)
• Jeremías Saloj (Guatemala, men's marathon

t had promised a stringent testing programme in Moscow after a recent series of high-profile doping cases.
Former world champion Tyson Gay and ex-100m world record holder Asafa Powell both tested positive for banned substances ahead of the championships.
Their doping positives were made public in July, a month after it was announced that Veronica Campbell-Brown, 200m champion at London 2012, had tested positive for a banned diuretic - something which is viewed as a masking agent by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The 25-year-old Avramenko recorded a personal best throw of 84.48 in June before competing in Moscow, Vítezslav Vesely of the Czech Republic won the gold medal.
Avramenko tested positive for the steroid dehydrochloromethyltestosterone.
The other athletes found to have tested positive at the World Championships were Massoud Azizi (Afghanistan, men's 100m), Elyzaveta Bryzgina (Ukraine, women's 200m), Ayman Kozhakhmetova (Kazakhstan, women's 20km walk), Ebrahim Rahimian (Iran, men's 20km walk), Yelena Ryabova (Turkmenistan, women's 200m) and Jeremías Saloj (Guatemala, men's marathon).
The IAAF said that in addition to taking urine tests from 538 athletes in Moscow, 1,919 blood samples were collected as part of its Athlete Biological Passport programme, designed to detect abnormalities in an athlete over time.
The president of the IAAF, Lamine Diack, said: "The specialised analyses and the blood samples taken in connection with the Athlete Biological Passport emphasise the IAAF's firm commitment and resolve to use the most sophisticated methods at our disposal in the fight against cheating in sport."