Athletics: Mayock leads additions to British team for Munich
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Your support makes all the difference.The Great Britain selectors have added 14 athletes to the team for next month's European Championships in Munich. The additions include John Mayock in the 1500 metres and the high jumpers Dalton Grant, who won the trials in Birmingham earlier this month, and Ben Challenger.
Anthony Whiteman, who was already selected for the 800m, has also been added to the 1500m, having won the trials but in a time that was outside the qualifying mark. James McIlroy, fourth in the last European Championships in Budapest in 1998 while competing for the Republic of Ireland, has been given a place in the 800m for the championships, which take place from 8 to 11 August.
The sprinters Joice Maduaka and Abi Oyepitan have been named in the women's individual 100m after being included in the relay squad when the team was announced last week.
"The additional athletes we have selected are those that have achieved the UK Athletics qualifying standard since the first selection date last week and others who are close to the UK Athletics standard and within the European Athletic Association standard," said Max Jones, UK Athletics' performance director.
The father of the suspended British pole-vaulter Janine Whitlock has pleaded with the International Amateur Athletics Federation to revise their absolute liability policy on drugs.
Tony Whitlock has spoken out following his daughter's suspension from competition by UK Athletics on Monday after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid at the Commonwealth Games trials last month. A disciplinary committee hearing is being arranged, with Whitlock facing a possible two-year ban.
"In the eyes of British law you are innocent until proved guilty. Under IAAF laws, you are guilty until you can prove you are innocent. Surely if they are imposing a sentence they must prove the guilt," Tony Whitlock said.
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