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28 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Ondine Achampong has been withdrawn from the team due to injury and will be replaced by Abigail Martin next week. 

Oh no. Hoeofully nothing serious otherwise the team will struggle to even make the final in Paris. 

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Oh No

 

 

Does this mean possibly no jumpers? In any of the four vertical jump. Surely we can’t have only KJT in Hepthalon the only one doing any?

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I think with Peters it would have been controversial to select someone finishing third while the person who beat them didn’t get selected. 

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32 minutes ago, RussB said:

Trust me I get it which is why I didn't say they were the same circumstances. But to me semantics needs to be put aside when the management is tasked with bringing home the most medals. This is precisely why discretion was so high up in the priority list for selection. They had the scope to put him in, but have left us with a fly swimmer who barely swims the event in Joe (absolutely amazing result to win the trials), and who I'm pretty sure the management do not want to be swimming in the relay.

 

Dean's schedule isn't so bad now that he misses the 100 and 200 individuals, so wouldn't need to be rested, alongside Jimmy. It is only Scott and Richards that need help with the workload.

 

The rest of the selections I think are sensible, not taking Amelie I do understand given her performances at trials were not close enough to the consideration times. It is good to see Eva going in the relay, and Anderson as most of us were agreed had to be selected. I am pleased for Angharad, as thought the womens medlay relay should go but to me it is one selection that is wrong. Do we really need to take BOTH Macmillan and Whittle? 

Prehaps the management were not particularly desperate for Peters to swim it either. 

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The selectors were proven right in Rio and Tokyo so hopefully their decisions will pay of this time. 

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On 4/7/2024 at 9:23 PM, Cinnamon Bun said:

Based off of tonight I think the following come in as discretionary picks:

 

Anderson

Okoro

Evans

Bird

Whittle

Wilby

Cox

 

I believe the first 6 are pretty much safe, but Whittle can count himself lucky. 

 

In terms of the last spot, I was torn between Cox and Hanlon. But given Cox is a finalist candidate I reckon she'll get the nod over Kara. 

 

I also think Guy will swim the individual 100 fly in Paris, and only do the 200 free relay. 

 

I’m not sure about those going for so far non confirmed relays. Might only take thise who can cover the five that are secure. 

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Marcus Mepstead has announced on social media he has not qualified for Paris. 

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6 hours ago, Epic Failure said:

If you look at the press release of the team announcement, Darren Campbell specifically says that Dina and Daryll will 'join the team in the summer'. So, in theory, they are playing this as an agreed absence. We'll see later in the year if that is the case, I guess...

 

On the 4x4 women's side probably missing Jessie Knight from our strongest, as well as Yemi Mary John - although Yemi is in the same position as Amber with college commitments so you imagine that explains her absence as well.

It will become clear if it’s not an agreed absence if they in Paris for individual events and don’t appear for the relay. 

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4 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

5 British wheelchair athletes will be competing in Boston Marathon on Monday - David Weir, Johnboy Smith, Simon Lawson, Sean Frame and Eden Rainbow Cooper. 

I’m still amazed just how long David Weir has carried on competing for. 

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24 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

yes but you also said GB wern't sending a team to the euro's so i'll wait for a second opinion

 

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1 hour ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Cycling, like Triathlon and Gymnastics, don't select purely on finishing places so the presentation would need to be different to swimming/athletics, but I still think there's gas in integrated able-bodied and Para sport in GB, with C4 and BBC co-operating (and splitting costs), and it having an input into the nomination process while creating a series of 'Road to the Games' events that can be win win for all concerned - at it's most extreme, you can run multiclass para athletics events so that the British championships last significantly longer while still having a full schedule, and introducing folk to the likely Para stars of the Olympics/Worlds/Europeans as well as the able bodied players

The problem is with the invite system is you would be making people more aware of people you then turning down an offer to have them at the games. Rejecting invites is already controversial enough.

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2 hours ago, Olympicsnell said:

James Guy on instagram had posted that he has been officially selected for the olympics, however that post has vanished now, hopefully that means team news is out soon and he had to take it down because they are still notifying everyone  

The team is not due to be announced until the press conference on the 16th. 

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68783943

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Max is doing the PB and probably the HB at the Europeans as well. 

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4 hours ago, TeamGB said:

I think para-cycling and cycling could definitely work as all the events at the Paralympics are time trial format, so integrated classes could compete on a points system. The issue is that a selection meet wouldn't really work for cycling as most events are team ones and the likelihood of a random rider knocking down an olympic champion is much higher, which would kind of be like british cycling. shooting itself in the foot. 

Plus British Cycling know who they want and won’t want to take have fo someone they don’t want to because they did better at the trails.

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2 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said:

I would like to see more of this CH4/BBC working together ( in some ways they are a better fit than BBC/ITV - ITV, oddly, fit better with Sky and pay TV) - the way that the two channels sort of deferred to each other in their area of expertise was excellent, and adding the MC para swims did a great job of bulking out the timetable, keeping things moving, and helped introduce major Paralympic players to an audience who might not follow them.

 

I'd say this format might work pretty well in cycling and athletics for GB too

In terms of integrated events but obviously Athletics can’t have the exact same selection procedure becuase the weather has a big impact. A bad day of weather might mean few making a BST on that day which takes away the big attraction.  And also MC events work for some classifications and events but others wont be practical so the timetable would be bigger. 

Plus do Athletics  want to make the selection more high profile when that increases the coverage the rejecting of invites would get.  It’s clear British Athletics doesn’t have the trust of it’s competitors  swimming has.

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1 hour ago, Rafa Maciel said:

With the outdoor season having kicked off and the "current form" window for UK Athletics now open, I thought I'd share this for those who are interested.

 

This is the athlete long-list that I think our ultimate Olympic squad will come from.

 

Needless to say, I don't think all or even the majority of them will be selected and some of them may not even compete this year due to injury, but these are the athletes whose performances I am going to try and track over the next few weeks/months heading into trials (although I am always happy to accommodate a few breakout performances).

 

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It does seem like the Europeans will be a focus so some of those are mainly targeting a spot they and know they too far off a GB Olympic time. (They will be the invite rejected category which could be where the drama is.)

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1 hour ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I don't think there is any risk for Robinson in going in the pool - probably no different to a training swim for him - so if he wants to do double up then there shouldn't be any issue. 

Plenty of done it before. David Davies, Keri Anne - Payne and Cassandra Patten in Beijing all competed in the pool and then medalled in the open water, 

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Team is announced the 16th April it seems. 

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The way they tweet about making the time makes me think the relays that haven’t are in major doubt, 

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My guess is we don’t have 30 in the team but 28 or 29. And only do 5 or 6 relays.