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How do you judge whether someone is a 鈥渇it and proper鈥� person? It鈥檚 not an easy question for anyone to answer with absolute conviction. So the might just be regretting that their test of club directors鈥� credentials is called the 鈥淔it and Proper Persons Test.鈥�

If you haven't seen it, basically it's a list of offences ranging from theft to forgery -

As the League points out: 鈥淭he rules go above and beyond any requirement by UK Company Law.鈥�

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The 2007 Carnegie Challenge Cup was always set to be a memorable competition with the lure of finally hoving into view for two sets of players and supporters.

So with the hand of history beckoning there will be plenty of sweaty palms and twitchy fingers on display in this weekend.

First up on Saturday (大象传媒 ONE, 12.10pm) is . For many pundits this would have been the dream final as these two sides have dominated Rugby League since the Super League era began in 1996.

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The starts in four weeks from this weekend, in Osaka. The event returns to Japan for the . Tokyo will always be remembered for the greatest long jump competition of all time as . Powell took the honours with his fifth round jump of 8.95m, smashing Bob Beamon's 23-year-old record set at the Mexico Olympics in 1968. That night also saw the first of Britain's two gold medals when triumphed in the 10,000m.

Overall, it was a successful championships for Britain - fifth in the medal table with a haul of two golds, two silvers and three bronze. Do you remember who got the other medals? A couple of clues for you: one athlete got Gold two years later in Stuttgart and four Britons were not content with winning just one medal in Tokyo but won two each! (Answers at the end).

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I don't know if you've noticed but - in America, no less.

Ok, that was a pretty poor attempt at irony.

Judging by your emails, some of you have been tearing your hair out about the media's blanket coverage of . In fact, 鈥渂lanket鈥� probably doesn't do it justice - king-sized duvet is maybe more accurate (and before you say it, I know the 大象传媒 has covered the story as extensively as everyone else).

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As most of you will not have failed to notice, the 大象传媒 has itself been the subject of the news over the last 24 hours, .

As a result of this, the Director General has announced that all phone-related and interactive competitions across the 大象传媒 will be suspended, until sufficient steps have been implemented to ensure they are run fairly and honestly.

This obviously means you will be seeing no competitions on 大象传媒 Sport's various platforms and programming until further notice. We run some one-off competitions, which will now not happen, and also a few regular, rolling competitions, which will now be suspended indefinitely.

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From the searing heat of Hoylake last year to a sodden Carnoustie (and we are talking proper rain here), we gear up for our seventh year of from The Open. On a personal note, I'm thrilled to be at Carnoustie as it's the only Open venue I had not visited. The course looks spectacular, even with some ominous puddles forming.

My colleague Paul Davies has already written about our complete Open coverage, but I鈥檓 just going to go into a little more detail about the services which will be available via the red button. We will be returning to our roots somewhat and offering exclusive live coverage from holes 16, 17 and 18 - a service we initially offered back in 2001 and 2002 - rather than offering the player group option of more recent years.

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鈥淚t鈥檚 a beautiful drive,鈥� said Ken Brown as we cruised out of the hidden back exit of on Sunday evening. Our destination of Carnoustie was an hour and 45 minutes away.

As a commentator, Ken is peerless, as a master of short cuts...where do I start? After an hour鈥檚 driving north we came across an accident. 鈥淲ouldn鈥檛 bother, mate,鈥� quipped the chirpy policeman. We turned around and headed back the same way we had came and promptly joined a five mile queue of traffic that had itself poured out from the .

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So it's finally stopped raining long enough for us to get finished and I can get back to the day job of being Series Producer for . June and July are a bit of a marathon from my point of view. I reckon by the end of July I'll have done more than 50 days and managed only five days off - the good news is, I have some time off booked after Laguna and I'm planning to sleep for days! Having said that I really enjoy working at Wimbledon as it鈥檚 a complete change from what I do on the bikes.

We left on Sunday night and drove back to London. Within 12 hours I was walking in the gates of SW19. The first morning is always a bit chaotic regardless of how much preparation we do and this year was no different, not helped by pretty grim weather and then the Henman match meant we stayed on air till 9.30 in the evening 鈥� so it was a very long day indeed!

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With the thrilling men鈥檚 final still fresh in the mind, many of our Wimbledon production team are now on their way to Scotland. Our domestic golf editor Jo McCusker explains more:

After a hectic two weeks at SW19, we鈥檙e on the move to the sunnier climes of Scotland. Starting on Thursday, plays host to the Scottish Open - a wonderful build-up event to next week鈥檚 at After a fortnight of top-class tennis, golf fans can look forward to the same.

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Thanks for all the feedback we've had on so far. I will continue to answer some of the questions that you've been sending in:

Did the 大象传媒 have any say as to whether there would be play on the middle Sunday of Wimbledon?

Decisions about extra day鈥檚 play are purely down to the discretion of the club and the decision not to play on Sunday was theirs and theirs alone.

In hindsight, if they had known Sunday was going to be such a pleasant day and has they realised how bad the weather was going to be in the second week they may well have arrived at a different decision.

The weather information they had on Friday suggested no play was likely to take place on Sunday, so that was the main reason why they opted to leave it as a rest day. Also they were well up with play on the Friday in regards to the draw and only slightly behind on the Saturday, so they had no real concerns or requirement for an extra day鈥檚 play.

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We鈥檙e into day nine down here at and not surprisingly we've pretty much exhausted our library footage of previous finals. We鈥檝e been called upon to fill five streams of with anything other than bedraggled fans sat round covered courts.

The big feedback theme we received in the first week centred round our use of streams and their relationship with 大象传媒 ONE and TWO, which I pretty much covered in my previous blog.

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We still have five months to go before this year's is unveiled, but some people have made their minds up already. The bookmakers Paddy Power are accepting bets on anyone except , and a lot of the press and blog comment has moved from last year鈥檚:

鈥淭hey're all second-rate and nobody deserves to win鈥�

To this year鈥檚:

鈥淚t's all cut-and-dried now, so why bother to have a vote at all?鈥�

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With the weather at Wimbledon causing plenty of rain delays, the 大象传媒 commentary team (plus our archive) have been working hard to keep viewers entertained during breaks in play.

And with so many hours of coverage 鈥� on 大象传媒 ONE and TWO plus interactive 鈥� you鈥檝e all had plenty of time to critique our commentators and pundits. have once again been widely praised, as has a new member of the team.

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