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Oslo Diamond League - Oslo, Norway May 30, 2024 Full Results Men’s 800m Tobias Grønstad Men’s 1500m Robert Farken Men’s 5000m Dominic Lobalu Oscar Chelimo Women’s 400m Henrietta Jaeger

XXXVII Gran Premio Cantones de A Coruna de Marcha - La Coruña, Spain May 18, 2024 Full Results Men’s 20km Race Walk Andrea Cosi Women’s 20km Race Walk Pauline Stey @Benolympique

Where are all of these athletes coming from? I swear half of the qualifiers that @Benolympique posted, I hadn’t even heard of before

Diamond League Oslo Women’s Discus Throw 1. Feng Bin (67.89m) 2. Sandra Elkasevic (66.48m) 3. Daisy Osakue (63.29m) Men’s Pole Vault 1. KC Lightfoot (5.82m) 2. Emmanouil Karalis (5.72m) 3. EJ Obiena (5.72m) Women’s 400m 1. Marileidy Paulino (49.30) 2. Natalia Kaczmarek (49.80) 3. Alexis Holmes (50.40) Men’s 400m 1. Matthew Hudson-Smith (44.07, AR & PB) 2. Kirani James (44.58) 3. Vernon Norwood (44.68) Men’s Triple Jump 1. Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.27m) 2. Yasser Triki (17.25m) 3. Lazaro Martinez (16.85m) Women’s 3000m 1. Georgia Griffith (8:24.20, AR & PB) 2. Likima Awebaw (8:24.29) 3. Jessica Hull (8:25.82) Women’s 200m 1. Brittany Brown (22.32) 2. Marie-Josee Ta-Lou (22.36) 3. Daryll Neita (22.50) Men’s Discus Throw 1. Mykolas Alekna (70.91m) 2. Matthew Denny (67.61m) 3. Daniel Ståhl (66.80m) Men’s 5000m 1. Hagos Gebrhiwet (12:36.74, NR & WL & PB, #2 performance all-time) 2. Yomif Kejelcha (12:38.95, PB, #4 performance all-time) 3. Jacob Kiplimo (12:40.96, PB, #9 performance all-time) Men’s 100m 1. Akani Simbine (9.94) 2. Abdul Hakimi Sani Brown (9.99) 3. Emmanuel Eseme (10.01) Women’s 800m 1. Prudence Sekgodiso (1:58.66) 2. Natoya Goule-Toppin (1:59.10) 3. Catriona Bisett (1:59.29) Second DL win in a row for Sekgodiso. Men’s 400m Hurdles 1. Alison dos Santos (46.63, WL, #9 performance all-time) 2. Karsten Warholm (46.70, #11 performance all-time) 3. Kyron McMaster (48.49) Women’s 400m Hurdles 1. Rushell Clayton (54.02) 2. Andrenette Knight (54.63) 3. Janieve Russell (55.07) Men’s 1500m 1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3:29.74, WL) 2. Timothy Cheruiyot (3:29.77) 3. Azeddine Habz (3:30.80) Full Results

Well Robbie should be there as he's coaching Morgan Lake (a near certainty to be picked if fit) and a couple of other British jumpers these days, so let's get it done.

@Belle Called it!

Every Olympic medal event must have the support of a minimum of 10% of all NOCs (currently that's 21 countries)) with ño continent having more than half of these NOCs There are so many events-especially in the Winter Games -which are just not really very international (although they can be demonstration sports)

Fair enough. I will say he’s one of the most consistent Olympic performers, he’s medaled in the men’s 100m/200m/4x100m in both Olympics he’s competed in (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020)

Lot’s of comebacks from injury lately! Watson and now Metivier! Hopefully we’ll be seeing McBride and Knight in action soon.

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I’m bored, so I decided to take a crack at roster predictions for Canada in the team sports we’ve already qualified in. Let’s see how wrong I am in a month (This’ll be edited, as I dont want the content to get erased) Women’s Rugby 7s Olivia Apps Krissy Scurfield Olivia De Couvreur Charity Williams Alysha Corrigan Fancy Bermudez Chloe Daniels Asia-Hogan Rochester Carissa Norsten Piper Logan Sophie de Goede Florence Symonds (leaning towards) or Breanna Nicholas Women’s Basketball Kia Nurse Bridget Carleton Nirra Fields Natalie Achonwa Syla Swords Laeticia Amihere Kayla Alexander Shay Colley Aaliyah Edwards Cassandre Prosper Sami Hill Yvonne Ejim Women’s Waterpolo Jessica Gaudreault Axelle Crevier Emma Wright Verica Bakoc Serena Browne Shae La Roche Hayley McKelvey Kindred Paul Elyse Lamay-Lavoie Floranne Carroll Maria Mimides Clara Vulpisi (not sure if Claire Wright has retired…) Women’s Football Kailen Sheirdan Sabrina D’Angelo Adriana Leon Janine Beckie Cloe Lacasse Vanessa Gilles Nichelle Prince Quinn Jordyn Huitema Kadeisha Buchanan Ashley Lawrence Jessie Fleming Julia Grosso Desirae Scott Deanne Rose Jayde Riviere Gabrielle Carle Jade Rose Maybe Simi Awujo/Shelina Zadorsky as dark hors picks. Men’s Basketball Jamal Murray Zach Edey Shai Gilgeous-Alexander RJ Barrett Andrew Nembhard Andrew Wiggins Kelly Olynk Dillon Brooks Nickel Alexander-Walker Dwight Powell Lu Dort Shaedon Sharpe No Benedict Mathurin (injury related reasoning, I would put him over Sharpe if healthy), Melvin Ejim, Chris Boucher, Corey Joseph or Trey Lyles. Men’s Volleyball Stephen Maar Arthur Szwarc Eric Loeppky Fynn McCarthy Xander Ketrzynski Jordan Schnitzer Danny Demyanenko Justin Lui Landon Currie Luke Herr Nicholas Hoag Lucas Van Berkel Still can’t believe Sclater and Perrin have retired from the NT…

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7jg-AcRQBJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Malik Metivier is back tomorrow!

Argentina logro un nueva plaza en equitación por el fallecimiento de la yegua del jinete chileno.

Danilovic has a very good draw to make the quarterfinals, if she does it she will be the first Serbian woman to make a slam QF since Ana Ivanovic at RG 2015!

Yeah I'm pretty sure we won't qualify as usual, on paper we should have qualified for London, Rio, and Tokyo but always something goes wrong whether it is multiple injured players or another country playing their best game ever against us (Nigeria in 2012 and Czechs in 2021) or the NBA season running into mid July or a combination of these

For us qualifying is harder than finals apparently

Canada's team announced for the upcoming season: https://sirc.ca/news/speed-skating-canada-confirms-national-and-nextgen-long-track-teams-for-2024-25-season/

National teams announced: https://sirc.ca/news/speed-skating-canada-confirms-national-and-nextgen-long-track-teams-for-2024-25-season/

I’ll do that after week 2 probably. Still a lot of matches to be played.

We already do that split though - the first week is 'tentpoled' by Swimming and the second by athletics; what is being suggested is simply having a third 'tentpole' - the only change I'd make is that I'd add cycling to gymnastics to keep the second week tight. I've always liked the three week idea as it gives time for variety, ebb and flow. I would also have a mid games 'ceremony' to celebrate for the first tranch of leavers and the second tranch of arrivals. I'd make a 'free sport in the city' a centre piece of each of the four week ends - Weekend 1: Cycling Road Races. Weekend 2: Individual Triathlons and cycllng TT. Weekend 3: Race walks and Triathlon relay. Weekend 4 Marathons. I would not leave the main stadium empty for a week. Sevens should be there through most of week 2. I would introduce a form of field archery at the mountain bike circuit when the bikers are done. I'd bring back karate, and make a point of having the three oriental combat sports back to back to back using the same venue - a real life fight club. I'd do something in the urban core not dissimilar to free sport in the city, some kind of pop up ampithetre for BMX freestyle flatland, parkour etc What other sports could share venues in a longer games to reduce costs? i'd also suggest rotating some big team sports; Baseball and Cricket, most obviously - once every eight years would really make each event mean something, and the larger family of bat-and-ball sports would always be represented.

Have you done an analysis on what gap (in points) is needed to guarantee a quota?

Eh. Germany played really well today but I thought they were unlikely to cause the upset with how well Canada have been playing, and the fact that they don’t have Orthmann (still recovering from injury?) and Drewniok (who retired from the national team again after week) on the team.

Good win by Canada, Germany felt like a trap opponent that could have costed a lot of points. face tomorrow. A win for the Netherlands will grant them big points, this is something probably needed if they want to catch Canada.

Canada sweep Germany during match 6 of Women’s VNL, improving their record to 4-2! With that we increase our lead to 13.7 points over Netherlands for the final spot at Paris! (Although Netherlands do take on a depleted Dominican Republic squad early tomorrow, which should close down the gap momentarily) Canada played really well today. 54 attack points, 8 blocks, 7 aces, 6 opponent errors, and 11 unforced errors. 6 of the unforced errors were from Kiera Van Ryk Wish we played like this against the United States. Gray was probably the player of the match for us, but Mitrovic has a great game as well, very efficient with her attacking.