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Chinese Olympic trials begins tomorrow. The rules is to choose the any best result of 3 events to compare: 1: 2023 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A 2: 2024 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A 3: 2024 trials individual event finals and meeting OG standard A So based on the past 2023 and 2024 WCH, following swimmers already have eligible results and green parts are almost safe enough to guarantee the tickets before the trials. For relay swimmers, mainly considering trials results.

Based on the results of the World Championship and Continentals, favorites for the quotas should be: -------------------------------------- Mens IQFoil - 6 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------- Womens IQFoil - 6 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------------- Mens Formula Kite - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------------- Womens Formula Kite - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible: Low Chances:

and now it's official! the IJF has officially registered Kim Polling's switch from to now she can represent with immediate effect Polling's words on the social media (in Italian...google might be helpful): "Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Kim Polling e posso dirvi che da oggi posso rappresentare l’Italia. Sono super orgogliosa, grata, contenta e non lo so… ancora mille parole in più per darvi questa notizia. Vi parlo un po’ di me, vivo da otto anni in Italia, mi sono sposata un italiano che si chiama Andrea Regis, anche lui è stato un judoka. Abbiamo una figlia, Aurora, che è nata quasi due anni fa e viviamo a San Mauro Torinese. Ho fatto quest’anno la richiesta all’IJF di cambio nazionalità ed oggi è arrivata la notifica che è stato dato l’ok. Sono davvero super orgogliosa, grata e voglio ringraziare l’Italia, ringraziare l’Accademia Torino, la palestra in cui mi alleno da sette anni e non vedo l’ora per il futuro. Vedremo quello che riesco a fare."

Is someone genuinely asking why Eastern bloc countries fell off in terms of sporting results after the arrival of democracy? East Germany only competed in 5 Olympics in rowing, but they won 48 medals, including 33 gold. They were only overtaken by the US in 2016 in the all time medal list (and they’re still ahead of the rest) In Athletics, there’s still several European records that exist since the 80s with East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and the USSR all involved. This isn’t a slight on the fine people from Eastern Europe on here and the current athletes doing their best. But the answer to why they were so strong in the 1980s is doping. No one disputes this.

Mixed 470 - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible: Low Chances: ------------------------------------ Mixed Nacra 17 - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible:

Mens ILCA7 - 3 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. Possible: Low Chances: -------------------------------------- Womens ILCA7 - 3 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. Possible: Low Chances: ------------------------------------- Mens 49er - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible: Low Chances: -------------------------------------- Womens 49er - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible:

Gracenote are predicting 5 medals for team BG, which more or less is what should be expected. Though the configuration is to be seen. They are predicting 1 silver and 4 bronzes: - Silver for the Group in Rhythmic Gymnastics; - Bronze for Stilyana Nikolova in Rhythmic Gymnastics individual; - Bronze for Svetlana Staneva in Boxing W57 kg; - Bronze for Bozhidar Andreev in Weightlifting M73 kg; - Bronze for Semen Novikov in Wrestling GR87 kg. Interestingly, Gracenote are not seeing any medal for Karlos Nasar in weightlifting 89kg

Australian Open Championships: Day 2 *NOT an Olympic selection event Women's 400m Individual Medley: 1. Kaylee McKeown - 4:28.22 (Australian record) 2. Ella Ramsay - 4:36.94 (3 second PB) 3. Jenna Forrester - 4:47.18 Men's 200m Freestyle: 1. Flynn Southam - 1:46.11 (PB) 2. Elijah Winnington - 1:46.56 3. Thomas Neill - 1:46.60 Women's 100m Backstroke: 1. Mollie O'Callaghan - 58.09 (PB) 2. Iona Anderson - 59.53 3. Hannah Fredericks - 59.69 (PB) Women's 50m Freestyle: 1. Shayna Jack - 24.28 1. Meg Harris - 24.28 (PB) 3. Emma McKeon - 24.46 Men's 200m Breaststroke: 1. Zac Stubblety-Cook - 2:07.50 2. Ippei Watanabe - 2:07.62 3. Joshua Yong - 2:08.54 (3 second PB) Women's 200m Butterfly: 1. Lizzy Dekkers - 2:05.20 (PB) 2. Brianna Throssell - 2:06.98 3. Abbey Connor - 2:07.20 Men's 50m Backstroke: 1. Lewis Blackburn - 25.03 (PB) 2. Ben Armbruster - 25.12 3. Mark Nikolaev - 25.42 Women's 800m Breastroke: 1. Jenna Strauch - 1:07.37 2. Abbey Harkin - 1:07.71 3. Matilda Smith - 1:07.83 Men's 1500m Freestyle: 1. Sam Short - 15:03.25 2. Ben Goedemans - 15:14.68 (PB) 3. Matthew Galea - 15:21.73 Thanks for the template @Topicmaster1010 Ramsay and Yong's PBs both have them under the Australian QTs in their respective events.

58.09 for Mollie O’Callaghan in the women’s 100m backstroke at the Australian Championships!

Men’s C2 Final: ( For 1 OQP) Men’s K2 Final: ( For 1 OQP)

Both have been nominated to Canada’s Olympic team.

Gracenote Medal Predictions for Canada (partial) Gold: Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 400m Individual Medley Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Butterfly Marco Arop - Athletics - M 800m Pierce Lepage - Athletics - Decathlon Christa Deguchi - Judo - W 57kg Phil Wizard - Breaking - B-Boys Silver: Katie Vincent - Canoe Sprint - W C-1 200m Canada - Canoe Sprint - W C-2 500m Damian Warner - Athletics - Decathlon Camryn Rogers - Athletics - W Hammer Throw Bronze: Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Individual Medley Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Freestyle Relay Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Medley Relay Maggie Mac Neil - Swimming - W 100m Butterfly Ethan Katzberg - Athletics - M Hammer Throw Sarah Mitton - Athletics - W Shot Put Canada - Athletics - M 4x100m Relay Other notes: No medal for McIntosh in the 400 free No individual medals for De Grasse or Oleksiak No medals in basketball and football

Jordan Binnington will play for Canada. Brady Tkachuk, Jake Sanderson and Shane Pinto will play for the US

It's more interesting than mocking the gracenote scam.

The country is growing in every aspect, bar the sporting one. And this has nothing to do with the EU, as the change started happening already in 1990. It just took 15 years for everything that was built in the prior decades to fully crumble. All results in the 90s and up to Athens was the last pipeline, that was structured in the old system. The truth is, like JoshMartini mentioned, that sport funding, country wide structuring and people's mentality completely changed in one day after the old regime fell. The next day and upcoming years no one was thinking about sports as an important issue. On the contrary, it became the bottom of the barrel. Which is true to this day still. Every time there is a new Government, in the 20 or so Departments, that are structured, the Sports one is always not taken seriously and the sports Minister is looked like a joke amongst the rest. There were even years, when there was no Sports Ministry and sports were added as a backburner in the Education or Youth Ministry. Regardless of the money aspect, i have talked in length before on the old system and how it will never be duplicated. In those days, for every kid, from every town and village, it was mandatory to do sport already from 1 grade. Lots of sports, after school sports, not your typical 2 hours a week killing time, like in the present. Then there were agents, or a special committee, that had a job to go to every town, to every school and scout the best children and navigate them to which sport will be best suited for their abilities, so that they can start specifically training in their pre-teenage days. After that they were taken first from the local coaches, again every big town had training camps for a dozen sports, it wasn't just the one camp, where you could go train for gymnastics etc. Then there were selections between the different regions and only after that you were elevated to National team status and get the full system structure. Nothing like this is being done today. Kids are not only not encouraged to do sports, everything in the system actively tries to discourage them. Any top level athlete we have is purely based on the individual person's desire and a small team around them. I can also add the notion, that kids in the 70-90s were waking up and going to bed with only the thought of playing sports. It doesn't have to be on an organized level, just your regular play with friends. You couldn't find a street, where the neighboring children weren't playing. Even in my teen years, in the mid to late 00s, you had to wait your turn for a football field in my school, even though there are 5. Each of them were always taken, from schoolers to people on their 50s playing matches. You make a goal post on the street and play, it was a luxury to get a normal (concrete) pitch. You walk in the school today and you would be lucky to see 10 children play after school. Everything is phones, tik tok, instagram, video games, cafes etc. Who wants to sweat doing dumb sports. Multiply that for the grind and dedication required for how many years before you become an elite athlete, garnered with non-existing funding, crumbling facilities, not enough knowledgeable coaches and staff in general and you get and optimistic prognosis of 5 medals. And yet, it would still be better, than a huge part of the World. People may laugh, but if we had even 40% of the system and desires from the 80s, we could be fighting for a top 20 in the medal table at least.. (Or you could still say it was only magical potions and mushrooms..)

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/1eee8091-0dc1-62ce-aece-29d4b609d8de

Thanks god ! china india and some top shooters aren’t here otherwise we would have all 8 qouta holder in final.

50m Rifle - 3 Positions There are 5 shooters in the final who already earned the quota. So 2 quota places will be decided between Ole Martin Halvorsen, Michael Bargeron and Jan Lochbihler

She was all over the lane even hitting the lane rope. If she can tidy that up indoors at trials she's gong 57 something for sure. It was another great session but the men's 200 free was a bit of a fizzer.

i'll do it later today

medalists according Gracenote: Gold: Women's K4 500m in sprint canoeing, Wojciech Nowicki (athletics - men;s hammer throw), Aleksandra Mirosław (sport climbing - women's speed), Men's team in indoor volleyball Silver: Iga Świątek (tennis - women's singles), Paweł Fajdek (athletics - men's hammer throw - for me it's wishful thinking ), Katarzyna Wasick (swimming - women's 50m freestyle - even more wishful thinking ), Karolina Naja/Anna Puławska (Women's K2 500 in sprint canoeing), men's quadruple sculls in rowing Bronze: Natalia Kaczmarek (athletics - women's 400m), women's team epée in fencing

And now, for Emerging Nations Programe. If not qualified, the best placing in each event of the following NOCs would get a quota according to the qualification process: Men's IQFOIL (1 quota): (Cariolou) (Roolaht) (Coelho) (Lee) (Jasiunas) Men's ILCA 7 (2 quotas): (Kempe) (Rammo) (Strelciunas) (Huang) (Slimani) Women's IQFOIL (1 quota): (Puusta) (Coelho) Women's ILCA 6 (2 quotas): (Rohiu) The names in parenthesis represent the names of the athletes of that country that are in the program according to this PDF (https://d2cx26qpfwuhvu.cloudfront.net/sailingparis2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/13184801/Paris-2024-Emerging-Nations-Program-Athletes_20230830.pdf), but other athletes from that country are are also competing in the event. I don't know if only the athletes in the list can won the quotas, or any athlete from the countries in the list can do it.

Yeah - it seems to be quite common in Judo for nationality switches a. to occur and b. to go through at pace.

Men's Junior Individual Sabre Gold: Vlad Covaliu Silver: () Pavel Graudyn Bronze: Santiago Madrigal & William Morrill Semifinals Covaliu b. Madrigal 15-6 Graudyn b. Morrill 15-10 Final Covaliu b. Graudyn 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/228?tab=results

That process is logical, only problem is - will IOC stick to it 100 %. From what i was reading last few months, they changed policies more than once.

women's 50m 3-Position Rifle the 8 finalists: Yelizaveta Bezrukova ( already have earned 2 OQP in this discipline) Anita Mangold Chiara Leone Teodora Vukojevic Sara Karasova Jeanette Hegg Duestad (already qualified to the OG) Aleksandra Anna Pietruk Emely Jäggi

Due to heavy rains in the middle east

Скоріше ні, ніж так, дуже прикро Мадоніч випустив ліцензію на ЧЄ, але в будь-якому випадку бажаю удачі всім нашим, бо це молоді атлети, для них це корисний досвід

I do not know what will they do for belarus, but russian olympic committee is officially suspended. So, formally they cannot accept quotas at all)) We have similar situation in wrestling where quotas were won by ineligible athletes. So the IOC will have to deal with this in some way. According to the recent communications the process is: 1) IF sends list of qualified athletes to the IOC 2) the IOC decides whether they are allowed of not

Я б поки їй не сильно довіряв, бо вона вже змінювалася 3 рази. Але декілька цікавих змін, хоч і попередніх є, побачимо далі

As you can see, ISSF already has strange politics in every sense, plus this situation is a precedent. Not an easy task even for most advanced organisations, let alone ISSF. I am curious to see how will IOC untangle this.

Is this thread about paris medal predictions anymore or a history class 💀💀💀

Сьогодні в стрільбі Городинець наблизився до Олімпіади. Завтра мінімум 1 його конкурент (в рейтингу) отримає ліцензію. Цілком можливо, що і два конкуренти будуть з ліцензіями. Якби там не було, вже завтра Городинець на прохідному місці 100% буде

OK, let's take a look at freestyle draws 57kg: the bracket is somehow balanced but the bottom half looks tougher to me no clear favorite in the top half. I think 4 wrestlers have a chance to qualify. Zou (CHN) will face the Kyrgyz wrestler in the QF. and in other QF I expect to see MGL vs IRN. this is clearly our weakest weight and Mohammadnejad has a not-so-easy Russian (representing TJK) in the first round as well. I think any of these 4 wrestlers can qualify. we have 3 clear favorite in the bottom half, Aman (IND) the North Korean and Abdullaev. Aman has to beat Kazakhstan in the first round which is never easy. I always rank Aman very high but PRK in lightweight is something else and this guy won the silver in Hangzhou Asian Games. so I'm trying to not be biased so let's say 65kg: while we have some challengers from KAZ, CHN and the russian mercenary of Bahrain, I think the first round match between Kudiev and Kiyooka will determine the top half quota. Kudiev is a very good Russian (recently bought by TJK) but Kiyooka beat the Olympic Champion Otoguro to make the Japanese team. I'm very very surprised that MGL is not entering the Asian Games Champion Tulga. their new guy is not actually new and he was never impressive. I wonder how come he is #1 and Tulga is #2 !! he will face the host favorite Akmataliev. I think the winner of this match will qualify at the end but we also have Sujeet (IND) , I'm not familiar with him but he beat Bajrang back home. he has a big challenge in the first round against Jalalov (UZB) and last but not least is North Korea. Kim KJ won the bronze at the Asian Games and only lost to Tulga. in summary any of these 5 guys can qualify. this is a very tough weight in Asia. while I know I'm most probably wrong but I say 74kg: there are 5 or 6 quality wrestlers in the top half but I think one between Abdurakhmanov, Toktkomambetov or Asluev will qualify. Abdurakhmanov has a tough first round against the Russian-Tajik Evloev. if he wins I don't the QF will be challenging for him. I still pick the Olympic bronze medalist but I know he is getting old and is beatable now there are two clear favorite, Kaipanov has a clean path to the SF and our Emami also most probably can win his QF with relative ease. Emami and Kaipanov are old rivals. they had couple of controversial matches before. Emami sometimes chokes when you don't expect him to but still I think 86kg: 3 Asian wrestlers are already qualified which makes this a bit easier. but still the draw is quite unbalanced and we have 3 favorite in the top half. Sharipov, Deepak and Ishiguro. I would pick Sharipov but he wrestled few days ago at the Asian Champs (although at 92kg) but still he will be a bit tired so I go with the winner of IND/JPN match, I think Deepak can prevail with his experience but it will be close. in bottom half I don't think the Kyrgyz wrestler can do much so it will be between CHN and MGL. my prediction 97kg: almost all of the favorite are in the bottom half and I think the top half will be between KAZ and CHN (slim chance for Korea) I give it to Yergali but I know the Chinese is well capable of beating him. our Azarpira is the favorite for the quota but he has to face the worst possible opponent in the QF. Arash Yoshida if JPN has an Iranian father. he has the same style as our wrestlers mixing it with few Japanese tricks making him very dangerous. but still he is very young and this is his first serious 97kg competition. we also have Olympic bronze medalist grandpa Ibragimov and the Mongolian. any of these 4 wrestlers can qualify (sorry but I give no chance to India) still I think the top 2 seeds will make it 125kg: two big names in the first half, Deng (CHN) and Monkhtor (MGL) the last time they faced Deng beat the Mongolian narrowly but I think it will be different this time. I see 4 guys capable of winning the quota in bottom half. Sharipov (the new Russian mercenary) looked good at the Asian Champs. he will be the favorite if he is not tired of back to back competitions. the giant Kazakh Batirmurzaev will be his biggest challenge, also Lazarev (KGZ) can be dangerous, he sometimes wins matches when you don't expect. also the former drug cheat Rakhimov is in the mix. I say

Here are the previews for Women's Wrestling 50kg: As simple as it gets are in opposite halves and should qualify easily. Vinesh is returning to the category after a long time. She's a former World Medallist. North Korean is Asiad silver medalist. 53kg: are favourites and are in opposite halves. 57kg: A dreadful draw in top half. Olympic medalist in 53kg, Jong who beat Sakurai at AG but was cruelly denied and Hong are in top half. The 2nd Chinese Feng tasted defeat to Sakurai for the first time in 5 years last week. In bottom half it's easy going for former World silver medalistAnshu except for small hurdle in form of World U20 medallist Kyzy. I will say 62kg : has an easy draw in top half. in bottom half but should get it. 68: Olympic medalist Zhumanzharova is favourite Nisha should follow but is strong too 76: is favourite. for next 2 quotas, I'll pick the former. 4 1 I can't believe I put 1 for it could go maybe say upto 3 or so due to close fight in many and getting 4 would be a record, maybe we end at 3 also.

Got a very big weekend of early season athletics coming up. Race Walking Worlds - own thread Diamond League from Xiamen - own thread Kip Keino Classic Continental Tour Gold meet from Nairobi Velocity Fest sprint meet from Kingston Marathons from Nagano, London, Vienna & Enschede

Thank you Sindo

don't know, you need to contact them

Well, obviously the juniors are using lighter equipment in throwing events so her true ceiling is still somewhat a mystery.

It was Cuba at the end of it. I was hoping for the Dominican Rep. to advance. Interesting that the 3 Central American countries defeted the 3 North American countries.

Called it

Para Judo World Ranking Lists updated as of April 17th, 2024

yeah, that's what I thought and the reason I didn't put 2 in my list

ENTRIES FOR THE QUOTAS: Men's IQFOIL (6 quotas): Men's Formula Kite (5 quotas): Men's 49 (4 quotas):

Wait a minute. For some reason I thought there was less quotas allocated at the Asian Qualification Tournament than there actually was @Roamingrover86 sorry about that.

well, let´s wait for the exit medical exams first to be official, I mean, he missed a couple of training sessions throughout the season but in other hand since he played all 82 matches his health can not be so bad, and this post looks promising

https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadian-government-boosts-carding-money-for-athletes-ahead-of-paris-olympics/ Some good news! JT's government finally doing something right for sport.

Being curious, here are the top ranked eligible Asian athletes in each zone (max 2 per NOC). East Asia Men 36. Chun Ting Wong 91. Siu Hang Lam 726. Temuulen Myandal 753. Ser-Od Gankhuyag East Asia Women 162. Song Gyong Pyon 598. Bolor-Erdene Batmunkh 645. Undram Munkhbat Note: North Korea is severely underrated due to not participating for years Southeast Asia Men 106. Koen Pang 109. Izaac Quek 352. Qi Shen Wong 391. Javen Choong 396. Sitisak Nuchchart Southeast Asia Women 61. Jian Zeng 116. Jingyi Zhou 277. Alice Chang 310. Kheith Cruz 369. Ying Ho South Asia Men 793. Ahmed Akhyar 829. Afzaal Ahmad 910. Mohamed Ismail 924. Sanyog Kapali South Asia Women 537. Ishara Madurangi 631. Fathimath Ali 730. Aishath Nazim West Asia Men 308. Ali Alkhadrawi 325. Ebrahim Gubran 460. Yousif Abdalla 467. Rawad Alnaser 468. Abdulaziz Bu Shulaybi West Asia Women 319. Mariam El Habech 355. Lori Yahnian 388. Maryam Alaali 438. Aia Mohamed 488. Bara Al-Wedian Middle Asia Men 41. Kirill Gerassimenko 72. Noshad Almaniyan 137. Amir Hossein Hodaei 204. Alan Kurmangaliyev 247. Shokhrukh Iskandarov Middle Asia Women 186. Sarvinoz Mirkadirova 213. Anastassiya Lavrova 248. Markhabo Magdieva 259. Elina Rahmini 336. Mahshid Ashtari

Knockout Round April 17th - April 20th, 2024 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match, the winning Nation will be the Men's Futsal CONCACAF Championship 2024 Champion Canada Costarica Cuba Dominican Republic Guatemala Mexico Panama United States Quarterfinals Central American Standard Time (GMT -6) Costa Rica 3 - 2 Canada Half-Time: 3-1 April 17th 2024, h. 12:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Panama 2 - 1 United States Half-Time: 2-0 April 17th 2024, h. 14:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Guatemala 9 - 4 Mexico Half-Time: 4-3 April 17th 2024, h. 16:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Dominican Republic 1 - 2 Cuba Half-Time: 1-2 April 17th 2024, h. 18:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Semifinals Central American Standard Time (GMT -6) Costa Rica vs Cuba Half-Time: April 18th 2024, h. 18:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Panama vs Guatemala Half-Time: April 18th 2024, h. 20:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Third Place Match Central American Standard Time (GMT -6) TBD vs TBD Half-Time: April 20th 2024, h. 18:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua Final Central American Standard Time (GMT -6) TBD vs TBD Half-Time: April 20th 2024, h. 20:00, Polideportivo Alexis Argüello, Managua