Team USA in 2026 - Weekly Digests Road to LA 2028

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On to Week 12: A bit of everything!

 

In Tennis - The Miami Open will be wrapping up.  Plenty of USA folks left!

 

We've got a lot of Road Cycling - Volta a Catalunya, and several races in Belgium.  Not sure who will be racing.

 

Amanda Sobhy will be in Wimbledon playing Squash in a tournament there.

 

Major Equestrian Jumping event at Wellington...a cool $1,000,000 prize there.  (So much money in this sport.)

 

Another Beach Volleyball Challenge event in Mexico.

 

Shooting is opening in Tangiers with a shotgun event.

 

We've got Épee and Sabre World Cups in Fencing

 

Artistic Swimming and Open Water Swimming each have a world cup.

 

And for the BMX fans, we've got Nationals in Freestyle and Racing.  The racing is about an hour away from me in SC, but I can't find good info about exactly what time...and I'm also leaving the next day for Spring Break, so I might have to let this one pass...

 

One more Archery indoor competition in Vegas

 

Sailing has its first major regatta (Trofeo Princess Sofia)

 

USMNT has a friendly vs.  in Atlanta

 

Our Men's Rugby Sevens team has one last prelim competition in São Paulo

 

And finally, World Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics

 

(I mean, it's basically the Olympics every weekend, right?  Just gotta know where to look.)

 

Edited Monday at 01:48 PM by clemsonbeav

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45 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

On to Week 11: A bit of everything!

 

In Tennis - The Miami Open will be wrapping up.  Plenty of USA folks left!

 

We've got a lot of Road Cycling - Volta a Catalunya, and several races in Belgium.  Not sure who will be racing.

 

Amanda Sobhy will be in Wimbledon playing Squash in a tournament there.

 

Major Equestrian Jumping event at Wellington...a cool $1,000,000 prize there.  (So much money in this sport.)

 

Another Beach Volleyball Challenge event in Mexico.

 

Shooting is opening in Tangiers with a shotgun event.

 

We've got Épee and Sabre World Cups in Fencing

 

Artistic Swimming and Open Water Swimming each have a world cup.

 

And for the BMX fans, we've got Nationals in Freestyle and Racing.  The racing is about an hour away from me in SC, but I can't find good info about exactly what time...and I'm also leaving the next day for Spring Break, so I might have to let this one pass...

 

One more Archery indoor competition in Vegas

 

Sailing has its first major regatta (Trofeo Princess Sofia)

 

USMNT has a friendly vs.  in Atlanta

 

Our Men's Rugby Sevens team has one last prelim competition in São Paulo

 

And finally, World Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics

 

(I mean, it's basically the Olympics every weekend, right?  Just gotta know where to look.)

 

Excited to see how our men’s soccer team looks this week vs two really good opponents. Huge opportunity coming this summer at the World Cup!

[clemsonbeav 662]

Week 13

 

This week sees the opening of a couple of sports:

 

The Shooting (Shotgun) World Cup in Tangier is finally underway.  Check it out on ISSF's YouTube.

 

Sailing is underway in Mallorca for the Trofeo Princesa Sofia, the first event of the Sailing Grand Slam.  (No live streaming from what I can find, unfortunately.  Just the website's updates of results.  Perhaps there will be highlights every now and again.)

 

There's an IITF Table Tennis World Cup in Macao.  Lily Zhang and Kanak Jha are there.  They have it streaming on FanDuel TV, which I had never heard of...but I think it's free.

 

Tennis is in my neck of the woods, down in Charleston for the Charleston Open (WTA 500).  Jess Pegula is the seeded #1.

 

Tomorrow is another Soccer friendly in Atlanta vs. .  Hoping for a better result.

 

Surfing opens up later this week down in Australia.  (Probably will be streaming live on World Surf League?)

 

We have two more Road Cycling events in Belgium.  One on Wednesday, and one on Easter Sunday.

 

Later this week is the US Open Water National Championships in Sarasota.

 

There is a Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Cairo this weekend.  Not sure if we'll be there.

 

Also this weekend in my neck of the woods is an Eventing 4* event, which I might check out.

 

Saturday is a Street Skateboarding event in DTLA (which is apparently an acronym that people use...I've just learned it recently...Downtown Los Angeles, if you're not in the know).  (This also might be streaming live on Street League Skateboarding's YouTube?)

 

Starting Saturday is a week-long Platinum event of Squash in Egypt.

 

Also starting Sunday is an ATP 1000 event of Tennis in Monaco, and a Rifle/Pistol Shooting World Cup in Granada, Spain.

Edited Monday at 01:48 PM by clemsonbeav

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5 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

Saturday is a Street Skateboarding event in DTLA (which is apparently an acronym that people use...I've just learned it recently...Downtown Los Angeles, if you're not in the know).

Yep, very common to see it used when talking about...well...DTLA in SoCal.

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1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yep, very common to see it used when talking about...well...DTLA in SoCal.

Also saw DTLB (Long Beach) somewhere as well.

[clemsonbeav 662]

Week 14 - More new sports opening up...Team USA is busy!

 

Surfing is underway down in . 

 

Artistic Gymnastics is finishing up an apparatus World Cup in Cairo (we're not there, I don't think), but we are sending a couple to this coming weekend. 

 

Olivia Weaver is still in the Squash tourney currently happening in .  (Timothy Brownell and Marina Stefanoni are out.)

 

The men are on the clay at the Monte Carlo  Tennis tourney this week.  We have a few women in .  Additionally, our Women will take on  in the qualifiers of the Billie Jean King Cup.

 

There is an Artistic Swimming PanAm event down in Santiago  this week...unsure if we're there (edit: We are).  We also have National Championships later this week, too.  Again, unsure how all of this affects who competes internationally.

 

Pistol/Rifle Shooting World Cup is in my favorite city... Granada  .  Will our Rifle/Pistol shooters have similar success?  (I think our Shotgun scene is much better.)

 

Our Men's Water Polo team will play in the Division 1 tourney in  this week.

 

We have a few guys Cycling around the Basque Country.  I'm sure others will be in  for Paris-Roubaix on Sunday.

 

We'll have the PanAm Individual Badminton Cup in  happening.

 

Outdoor Archery kicks off in  as well.

 

Equestrian World Cup Finals happen in Fort Worth.

 

Another of my new favorite sports, Modern Pentathlon, opens up with its first World Cup stop in .

 

Beach Volleyball has an Elite event in Saquarema .

 

There is a Diving competition in , but unsure if we're there. (Edit: We are.)

 

We see our first major Golf tourney of the year, and it's just over an hour away from me: The Masters in Augusta, GA.  (Some of my students manage to get tickets and skip school to go.)

 

Rhythmic Gymnastics has their second stop in Tashkent .  

 

Our USWNT Soccer team has their first of three Friendlies vs.  in San José, CA on Saturday.

 

Finally, we have some Track athletes headed to  for the Race Walking Team Championships next Sunday.

Edited Monday at 01:48 PM by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 662]

Week 15 - Let's see what Team USA is up to...

 

Tomorrow (Tuesday), USWNT Soccer has Friendly #2 vs.  . (10pm EDT, Peacock/TNT)  Friendly #3 is on Friday at 9pm Eastern.

 

A couple of ATP 500 (Barcelona/Munich) and a WTA 500 (Stuttgart) Tennis events happening this week.  I'm sure some of our athletes will be there.  (Shelton is at Munich, Gauff is at Stuttgart)

 

There is a Dressage Nations Cup in France.

 

There's a national Archery event (Gator Cup) later this week.  They might be streaming it un USA Archery's YouTube.

 

Diving will be happening at the American Cup down in Florida.  That will be on USA Diving's YouTube.

 

There is a Continental Beach Volleyball event happening this week.  Unsure about streaming.

 

The PanAm Mountain Bike Championships are down in .  Unsure about streaming.

 

 will play host to a Track Cycling World Cup

 

...and also the first leg of the Rugby Sevens World Championships, featuring both our Men and our Women!

 

Fencing of all shapes and sizes will be happening.  (This is the make-up week from when the events were postponed earlier due to Iran, I think.)  Live Streaming and On-Demand on fencingtv.com. 

 

Surfing will kick off a new competition that will last all of next week down in .  Live Streaming on their site.

 

Rhythmic Gymnastics has another World Cup in Baku  .

 

Judo has its PanAm Championships in .

 

Sailing has its second major regatta - the Semaine Olympique Francaise  - that will get underway.

 

Finally, we have another Road Cycling Sunday in  (Amstel Gold Race).

 

Hope everyone has a good week!

Edited Monday at 02:28 PM by clemsonbeav