Awards time!  Here's the World Athletics nominations for Track Runner of the year.    Nominees announced for Track Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics   And for Field Event athlete of the year, although both of these choices are pretty bloody obvious.   Nominees announced for Field Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics

A gold and a silver medal in the Panamerican tournament, not bad, i really don expect that "easily" defeat with USA.

World Cups don't generally have the exotic competitors we see in the world championships though, it's more likely starting down with the 13th best Austrians and such  

Congratulations to comissioner Rob Manfred and the rest of the MLB media for getting their dream world series.   As for my thoughts:    

MLB got their ideal WS: Yankees vs Dodgers

Getting the band back together!

Their database is too poor for them to be able to accurately do this.

Yep, confirmed.  We have Marcelletje for , Lindsay Vonn and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen for .   However, Vonn and Hirscher will be wild cards, so starting down with the Chileans and the Iranians in the first leg.  Snow conditions are good though.     Vonn, Hirscher & Braathen Returning To Racing At World Cup Opening - InTheSnow

Joaõ Pessoa Elite16 | Joaõ Pessoa, Brazil    Women’s Tournament Gold-  Thamela Coradello/Victoria Lopes Silver-  Taina Lima/Talita Antunes Bronze-  Kimberly Hildreth/Teegan Van Gunst   Men’s Tournament Gold-  Anders Mol/Christian Sørum  Silver-  Cherif Samba/Ahmed Tijan  Bronze-  David Åhman/Jonatan Hellvig   Full Results

2024 Swimming World Cup Shanghai - Day 3 Results   Men's 400m Individual Medley: 1.  Leon Marchand - 4:00.03 2.  Alberto Razzetti - 4:01.51 3.  Lewis Clareburt - 4:05.03   Women's 800m Freestyle: 1.  Tang Muhan - 8:15.34 2.  Gao Weizhong - 8:16.17 3.  Kong Yaqi - 8:27.21    Women's 100m Butterfly: 1.  Laura Lahtinen - 55.58 2.  Yu Yiting - 55.94 3.  Louise Hansson - 56.07   Men's 50m Butterfly: 1.  Noe Ponti - 21.68  2.  Nyls Korstanje - 22.00 3.  Marius Kusch - 22.26   Women's 200m Backstroke: 1.  Regan Smith - 2:00.42 2.  Anastasiya Shkurdai - 2:01.31 3.  Beata Nelson - 2:02.56   Men's 100m Backstroke: 1.  Pieter Coetze - 49.35 2.  Thomas Ceccon - 50.03  3.  Kacper Stokowski - 50.33   Women's 50m Breaststroke: 1.  Tang Qianting - 28.76 2.  Benedetta Pilato - 29.73 3.  Siobhan Haughey - 29.74   Men's 200m Breaststroke: 1.  Joshua Yong - 2:01.67 2.  Qin Haiyang - 2:01.92 3.  Caspar Corbeau - 2:02.42   Women's 100m Freestyle: 1.  Siobhan Haughey - 51.89 2.  Yang Junxuan - 52.11  3.  Milla Jansen - 52.43   Men's 200m Freestyle: 1.  Duncan Scott - 1:40.92 2.  Edward Somerville - 1:42.14 3.  Danas Rapsys - 1:42.35   Women's 200m Individual Medley: 1.  Kate Douglass - 2:04.09 2.  Yu Yiting - 2:05.39 3.  Rebecca Meder - 2:07.42   Men's Overall Standings: 1.  Leon Marchand - 58.3  2.  Noe Ponti -56.8 3.  Qin Haiyang - 56.7 4.  Duncan Scott - 56.4 5.  Pieter Coetze - 55.2 6.  Thomas Ceccon - 48.6 7.  Ilya Shymanovich - 47.7 8.  Nyls Corstanje - 46.2 9.  Isaac Cooper - 45.9 10.  Joshua Yong - 45.2   Women's Overall Standings: 1.  Kate Douglass - 59.1 2.  Regan Smith - 59 3.  Siobhan Haughey - 53.2 4.  Yu Yiting - 51.5 5.  Mary-Sophie Harvey - 50.5 6.  Tang Qianting - 49.5 7.  Alina Zmushka - 47.3 8.  Laura Lahtinen - 46.2 9.  Beata Nelson - 45.9 10.  Katarzyna Wasick - 45.4