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Men's quota matches Ursu - Szudi Zhmudenko - Wang

the World Champs have started! for those in Europe, Discovery+/Eurosport Player is broadcasting the entire competition, they have all the 3 mats (no commentary for the prelims, though)

in the women's Team Sabre (in Plovdiv), the semis are: vs and vs lost to 45-40 in the quarterfinals

the day hasn't started well for in the Shanghai Foil GP only Martina Favaretto reched the semis among the whole Italian squad (men and women), meanwhile in Madrid the downfall of the Italian team in men's Sabre is endless: this time we lost to 45-38 (with Samele being the man who destroyed our performance, taking hits left and right from anybody in the Romanian team)

They’ll likely only have a stream for the final day

Keith has the OQT already and more importantly was inside the UK 'B' time here. Dever only has the 'B' time - from March - and was just outside it. That's the difference re form. I agree that the current form criteria is a bit vague. But I'm guessing it is there so the selectors aren't forced to pick someone who met the time once last summer and then hasn't got near it since. So I reckon Keith is completely safe - I don't think there's any criteria they could use to not select her. Dever is *probably* safe, but doesn't have quite the certainty yet. It depends how mean the selectors are feeling. Obviously, as you say, the results from the trials will impact things as well, as will results elsewhere. The other complicating factor in the 10000 is the quota places set aside for cross country runners. They aren't always accepted so that can impact the number of spots that might be available for quotas as well.

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Any Livestream? Apart from the audio commentary? 😁😁

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it's after the end of the OQP (June 9th)

no surprise Nima won the match (not really a match, just some warming up) 4-1 to qualify and Neda Shahsavari won the women's quota beating Mirkadirova 4-3 in a very close match. she will be the first Iranian woman to participate in 3 Olympics ! 2012, 2016 and now 2024.

Not sure what that has to do with shooting? Anyway Algeria isn't even close to being eligible for tripartite spots.

There is not much to focus on when McLaughlin only races about 2-3 times a year. Unless she suddenly turns up to Diamond Leagues and other competitions this season, it's going to feel really unsatisfying as a fan when she wins gold in Paris to be honest.

No wild card for ? shame as we have good swimmers not far than minima

Lots of interesting outcomes from this final. After two previous rounds of difficult low scoring lead the final sees 3 athletes touch the top hold while the highest boulder score accounts for only 2/4 tops. That lead round resulted in Lee Dohyun to take the 50 from Shanghai, putting the South Korean inches from an Olympic quota. Alberto Ginés-Lopez shows us why he’s a rightful Olympic champion with a perfect lead to get silver at the comp. An end to his best performance in the sport since his Tokyo gold medal. Adam Ondra ends up only able to use his high boulder score to get 3rd. On the other hand, rough day for Sam Avezou with a very low boulder score and a complete flop on lead, falling before getting to the first scored hold. Still, 8th is not a bad rank in the tight race for France’s two quotas.

Nations Cup Results Day 1: / 2 - 1 Bello brothers won both of their matches whilst Bialokoz/Batrane lost in a couple of tight set. / 0 - 2 Both matches lost in 3 tight sets. / are up against later this morning.

Sydney gets a lot of media attention as well. She just wasn’t very active for a while due to her injury and her coaching camp likes to keep things on the down low.

On the question of current form - particularly for the long-distance events - I don't think the requirement should necessarily be interpreted that they have to achieve the OQS after April. Both Dever and Keith were 23 seconds outside of the OQS so I'm a bit confused how that would indicate Keith is in form, but Dever isn't. Surely that should mean they've either both done enough to show current form or neither of them have shown current form? When it comes to selection for distance events, I wouldn't look at them in isolation - Dever has the OQS for 5000m so, assuming he finishes inside top-2 at trials will be going to Paris. If he's already going and gets an invite for 10,000m, there would be no reason for UK Athletics to turn it down. Likewise for Warner-Judd, if she is able to get on the squad for the 5000m, she'd be allowed to run the 10 if she gets an invite. The bigger question is whether there will actually be any invites for the 10000m - can't recall if there were any given for Budapest.

Final Men’s Combined Boulder & Lead Shanghai 1.) Lee Dohyun - 34.5/100/134.5 2.) Alberto Ginés-Lopez - 24.5/100/124.5 3.) Adam Ondra - 64.0/60.1/124.1 4.) Paul Jenft - 49.1/64.0/113.1 5.) Sascha Lehmann - 14.3/96.1/110.4 6.) Hannes van Duysen -34.5/60.1/94.6 7.) Hamish McArthur - 48.8/45.1/93.9 8.) Sam Avezou - 9.8/0.0/9.8

2.04 looks like the cutoff for a medal in Paris for the 200 Fly Summer and Regan Smith lead the way Zhang Yufei has been 2.03 although not since Tokyo and it would not surprise if Dekkers hits 2.04 by Australian trials.

If the history of the first two oqt’sis respected, Italy will definitely qualify. In both those tournaments the Dutch team beat the qualifying team in the group fase.

I agree about MOC. She swum that 58.0 in pouring rain hitting the ropes all the way. The W100m back seems to be dominated by AUS,USA and a Canadian over the past 2-3 years its possible that 58 low wont even make an Australian or US Olympic team

Lonato world cup ?

For some reason the younger generation loves obnoxious attention seekers like SCR and SML is the opposite of that.

MOC's gonna go 57 at trials if she can swim straight. Seebohm doesn't have enough time left to get into that kind of form but she plans to swim on after Paris and she's progressing consistently in the right direction so maybe next year? Anderson might even go faster! Ditto Barclay and Fredericks. Be surprised if Atherton is any quicker than 59 high. She might even be done tbh.