Do national championships contravene EU free movement legislation?
IT'S the final of the 100m at the 2014 UK Athletics Championships - only something is amiss, there isn't a Brit on the startline.
British Swimming this week sought the views of coaches and competitors after the European Commission launched a study to see whether national championships and other regional and local events restrict free movement legislation.
In a row that will only arm the UK Independence Party with more campaign literature, a sporting version of the straight banana row and various other euromyths, some Euro bureaucrats believe that entry restrictions on grounds of nationality are unfair.
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