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The 203rd IOC Session recently concluded on Mars with incumbent President Thomas Bach in his reanimated form secured inside a robotic shell confirming the rumours that trapeze chess and upside down cheese rolling would be on the program for the upcoming 2100 Games in Pyongyang, replacing the long troubled sports of swimming and athletics. The 1976 Olympic Champion in Fencing stated "by expressing solidarity, integrity, solidarity, hope and more solidarity with these innovative urban sports we can bring our movement into the 22nd century, and attract the audience of 3 year olds the Olympic movement needs to stay relevant in the modern age. The best unicycle handball players will be on display to inspire all of humanity in North Korea".

Good idea to keep it away from the normal games.

Here's the direct Olympic qualification schedule. Overall up to 71 events will offer direct quotas to the Olympics (in archery, diving & tennis it depends on the results). I did not include trampoline since I am 99% sure we will qualify someone and thus the quota will be voided. All medal days except October 31st will offer quotas with October 23rd and November 4th offering quotas in 5 sports. Date Sport Event Stage Quotas October 21st Diving Women's 10m Platform Final Gold Medalist Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle Final 1 Athlete Women's 10m Air Rifle Final 1 Athlete Sport Climbing Women's Speed Final 1 Athlete October 22nd Shooting Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Final 2 Athletes Men's Skeet Final 2 Athletes Women's Skeet Final 2 Athletes Sport Climbing Men's Speed Final 1 Athlete October 23rd Diving Men's 3m Springboard Final Gold Medalist Equestrian Team Dressage Final 2 Teams Gymnastics Men's Artistic Individual All-Around Final 1 Athlete Women's Artistic Individual All-Around Final 1 Athlete Modern Pentathlon Men's Individual Final 5 Athletes Women's Individual Final 5 Athletes Sport Climbing Men's Combined Final 1 Athlete October 24th Diving Women's 3m Springboard Final Gold Medalist Shooting Women's 25m Pistol Final 2 Athletes Sport Climbing Women's Combined Final 1 Athlete October 25th Boxing Women's -57kg Quarterfinal 4 Athletes Women's -60kg Quarterfinal 4 Athletes Diving Men's 10m Platform Final Gold Medalist Equestrian Individual Dressage Final 2 Athletes Shooting Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Final 1 Athlete October 26th Boxing Men's -51kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's -57kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's -63.5kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's -71kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's -80kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's -92kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Men's +92kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's -50kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's -54kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's -66kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's -75kg Semifinals 2 Athletes Shooting Men's 10m Air Pistol Final 1 Athlete Women's 10m Air Pistol Final 1 Athlete Women's Trap Final 2 Athletes October 27th Shooting Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Final 1 Athlete Men's Trap Final 2 Athletes October 28th Tennis Men's Singles Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's Singles Semifinals 2 Athletes October 29th Equestrian Team Eventing Final 2 Teams Handball Women's Tournament Final 1 Team October 30th Surfing Men's Shortboard Final 1 Athlete Women's Shortboard Final 1 Athlete Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Semifinals 2 Teams November 1st Equestrian Team Jumping Final 3 Teams November 2nd Artistic Swimming Women's Duets Final 1 Duet Gymnastics Women's Rhythmic Individual All-Around Final 1 Athlete Women's Rhythmic Group All-Around Final 1 Team November 3rd Artistic Swimming Mixed Team Final 1 Team Equestrian Individual Jumping Final 3 Athletes Field Hockey Men's Tournament Final 1 Team Sailing Men's iQFoil Final 2 Boats Women's iQFoil Final 2 Boats Men's ILCA 7 Final 4 Boats Women's ILCA 6 Final 4 Boats November 4th Breaking B-Boys Final 1 Athlete B-Girls Final 1 Athlete Field Hockey Women's Tournament Final 1 Team Handball Men's Tournament Final 1 Team Sailing Men's Formula Kite Final 2 Boats Women's Formula Kite Final 2 Boats Water Polo Men's Tournament Final 1 Team Women's Tournament Final 1 Team November 5th Archery Mixed Recurve Team Final 1 Team Men's Individual Recurve Semifinals 2 Athletes Women's Individual Recurve Semifinals 2 Athletes Sailing Men's 49er Final 2 Boats Women's 49erFX Final 2 Boats Mixed Nacra 17 Final 2 Boats

I’m honestly glad they are going this route. I have nothing against eSports. I just feel they would be totally out of place at the Summer Olympics. If they want to host a separate eSports version of the Games then what harm and I wish them the best of luck.

Running the Amsterdam marathon myself tomorrow. You might spot me all the way in the back, live on EuroSport.

Not to mention rowing which will take place in a 1500m course, though I blame World Rowing for seemingly not caring enough to request an alternative location for the rowing.

Qualified for the Olympic Games 2024.

If esports can be considered a game then i am a spaceship

It’s also mad that surfing and skateboarding didn’t start in Rio.

If only you could afford the Magic Shoes.

Men’s Semifinals Perušič/Schweiner v. Crabb/Brunner Åhman/Hellvig v. Bryl/Łosiak Women’s Semifinals Duda/Ana Patricia v. Clancy/Mariafe Hughes/Cheng v. Kloth/Nuss Mol/Sørum, Mel/Brandie, and Hüberli/Brunner all out on the same day Rooting against Hughes/Cheng for the remainder of the tournament, don’t like Cheng very much (Tokyo 2020 Olympics QF as a prime example). Same for Duda/AP, but to a lesser extent (Big fan of Duda, not so much AP). Ever since they partnered up Duda seems to have lost all her joy.

Day 7 Fri 02.08. 95. ARCHERY - Mixed Team 1. Korea Rep. 2. China 3. Germany 3rd archery gold for Korea. 96. ATHLETICS - M 10,000m 1. Joshua Cheptegei UGA 2. Berihu Aregawi ETH 3. Selemon Barega ETH Cheptegei sprinting for gold on the last lap. 97. BADMINTON - Mixed Doubles 1. Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong CHN 2. Yuta Wanabe, Arisa Higashino JPN 3. Seo Jeung-jae, Chae Yoo-jung KOR First badminton gold goes to China. 98. BMX CYCLING - M Racing 1. Romain Mahieu FRA 2. Joris Daudet FRA 3. Diego Arboleda COL French celebrating 1-2 here. 99. BMX CYCLING - W Racing 1. Saya Sakakibara AUS 2. Laura Smulders NED 3. Bethany Shriever GBR A crazy race with half of the finalists DNF. Aussie girl in the headlines all over the world with her amazing gold after that awful Tokyo crash. 100. DIVING - M Synchro 3m Springboard 1. China 2. Great Britain 3. United States China win this one pretty easily. 101. EQUESTRIAN - Team Jumping 1. Sweden 2. Germany 3. France First gold for Sweden in Paris. 102. FENCING - M Team Epee 1. Italy 2. Venezuela 3. France Limardo family narrowly loses in the final. 103. JUDO - W +78kg 1. Akira Sone JPN 2. Raz Hershko ISR 3. Beatriz Souza BRA 3. Kim Ha-yun KOR Sone winning comfortably. Another judo medal for Israel. 104. JUDO - M +100kg 1. Rafael Silva BRA 2. Temur Ralhimov TJK 3. Alisher Yusupov UZB 3. Martti Puumalainen FIN First real blow for France in the olympics - Teddy Riner losing in early stages here. 105. ROWING - M Pair 1. Great Britain 2. Switzerland 3. Romania Ireland 4th here after photo-finish needs to be checked for a few times. 106. ROWING - W Pair 1. Netherlands 2. Australia 3. Romania NED winning gold in a very close race. 107. ROWING - M Lightweight Double Sculls 1. Ireland 2. Switzerland 3. Italy A gold for current WCH. 108. ROWING - W Lightweight Double Sculls 1. Great Britain 2. Canada 3. New Zealand Team GB keeps getting gold in Paris. 109. SAILING - M Windsurfing IQFoil 1. Sebastian Kordel GER 2. Sam Sills GBR 3. Nicolo Renna ITA Paweł Tarnowski POL 5th after Dutch guy in 4h. 110. SAILING - W Windsurfing IQFoil 1. Emma Wilson GBR 2. Pilar Lamadrid ESP 3. Palma Cargo CRO 4th place for Israel here. Maja Dziarnowska POL 8th. 111. SHOOTING - W 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Sift Kaur Samra IND 2. Zhang Qiongyue CHN 3. Jeanette Hegg Duestad NOR Gold for Asian Games champion. 112. SWIMMING - M 50m Free 1. Cameron McEvoy AUS 2. Jack Alexy USA 3. Florent Manaudou FRA Benjamin Proud GBR 4th. 113. SWIMMING - W 200m Back 1. Kaylee McKeown AUS 2. Regan Smith USA 3. Claire Curzan USA 6 US Swimmers have better times in US Trials in this event than 4th time in Paris - Peng Xuwei CHN. 114. SWIMMING - M 200m IM 1. Leon Marchand FRA 2. Wang Shun CHN 3. Duncan Scott GBR Marchand viisibly tired as hell but somehow manages to get gold number three. 115. TENNIS - Mixed Doubles 1. United States 2. Croatia 3. Greece A nice bronze for Sakkari and Tsitsipas. 116. TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS - W Individual 1. Zhu Xueying CHN 2. Camilla Gomes BRA 3. Lea Labrousse FRA China doesn't want to give back a medal table lead easily. 117. TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS - M Individual 1. Yan Langyu CHN 2. Danil Mussabayev KAZ 3. Dylan Schmidt NZL 1-2 from Asian Games back on olympic podium. There will be also a bronze medal match in TENNIS - W Singles 3. Ons Jabeur TUN with a 7-6 6-2 win over Jelena Ostapenko LAT

will have 8 athletes

Now time for Flying Fijians!!! 💪

Lithuania won a football match. That's it. That's the post. Seems that the impossible can become possible.

has qualified their first athletes in handball (women’s tournament) at the African Women’s Handball Olympic Qualification Tournament

Are they awarding India 2036 tomorrow as well? Looks like Bach is actively trying to decide things up until 2050 before his term ends.. Reminds me a lot of our politicians here. When their term is coming to an end, they open the floodgates and agree, sign all sorts of last minute stuff, before they lose power..

What d'ya say to a brand new winner.... Semis of ARG v IRL and FIJ v FRA?

Doing a basic look at the 8 new team events and the world rankings, how a 6 team tournament might look, assuming as far as realistic continental representation LACROSSE: It's notable that the same basic teams turn up again and again at the top of the World rankings regardless of version of Lacrosse - Field, Box etc or gender N. America: USA, CAN, Iroquois Oceania : Australia Europe : Great Britain/England, Israel, to a lesser extent Germany Asia: Japan South America and Africa hardly figure So one suspects both tournaments are going to involve USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Great Britain and one other - the other being either, USA2 (Iroquois), Israel or the winner of a playoff between Africa and South America. Not impossible #6 team are different in the two events (say men Iroquois, women, Israel) BASEBALL/SOFTBALL Great Britain have definitely risen in both the men's and women's game in recent years, but otherwise no surprises, the same basic system, the same likely teams FLAG FOOTBALL USA and Mexico seem the established powers (no Canada?) and given superstar NFL players like Tyreek hill have expressed an interest in trying to make the Games it could be painfully one sided Austria for some reason appear the established superpower in Europe, most of the non north American teams in the top 10 are European However Japan, Korea, Thailand and India are high enough, I think, toguarantee Asia a spot. As ever, it seems Africa will suffer. All that said, it would be interesting if decent 'tackle football' players in strong tackle football nations, esp Canada, choose to get involved. The sport is so underdeveloped, any shit could happen, frankly. CRICKET : Easily the most Global of the new sports (and arguably the one most likely to survive to 32, along with Baseball), it's hard to look past a Host and five continental teams set up which would likely be USA (Host), TRI/JAM (Panamerica) IND (Asia) Great Britain (Eng, and technically SCO and Northern Irish IRL players - Europe), South Africa (Africa) Australia (Oceania). This set up misses out badly on the possible India Pakistan dynamic but it is so hard to give West Indies nothing in favour of USA)

it only favors the sport's powehouses, that basically can do whatever they want and the others can only hope that their class is the one left behind by the big names/teams it also makes some classes heavily unbalanced, which is a shame for the neutral viewers (just think of the Olympic and non-Olympic classes in weightlifting, wrestling, the same taekwondo at the world champs...there are A-level medals and B-level medals...and that's not good for the sport at all) I'm totally against any limited chance of qualification in all sports...if there are X categories, a Nation must be always allowed to try and fill a full team in all of them

McKeown was so close to breaking the 50 back world record going 27.02 (0.04 off world record) on the first night of meet two! If she could get all three world records that'd be even more impressive her triple at world champs and right now during world cups might be her best chance before she ramps up the volume for her 200 in preparation for Paris.

I wonder what Athens and London did to p*ss off the IOC to the extent that they didn't get to add any new sports to the schedule when they hosted. 1992 Barcelona: Adds Badminton 1996 Atlanta: Adds Softball, Mountain Biking and Beach Volleyball 2000 Sydney: Add Taekwondo, Triathlon and Trampoline Gymnastics 2004 Athens: 2008 Beijing: Adds BMX Racing and Open Water Swimming 2012 London....Adds no new sports and drops baseball and softball. 2016 Rio: Adds Rugby 7s and Golf 2020 Tokyo: Adds Skateboarding, Surfing, BMX Freestyle, Sport Climbing, 3x3 Basketball & Karate 2024 Paris: Adds Breaking 2028 Los Angeles: Adds Flag Football, Cricket, Softball/Baseball, Squash & Lacrosse

If you have any random lumps of whale vomit lying about your house don’t throw them away! Could be worth a fortune. I remember many years ago in Moscow one of the women in our tour group was buying all the Soviet perfume she could find (not much, obviously) because it was made with ambergris, which was way illegal in the West by that time. A dog found a rare lump of whale vomit on a beach which could land its owner a small fortune. Patrick Williamson, 37, was stunned when his pup dropped her ball and sprinted over to a mysterious rock on the shore. Mr Williamson, who is a fisherman, knew it was ambergris, which is produced in the intestine of the sperm whale. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12626777/Whale-vomit-ambergris-Irvine-Beach-Scotland.html

I don't watch much rugby, but that certainly was quite a game!

That was one amazing match. Really exciting, almost as awesome as an ice hockey game baby

Semifinals are set v v Zambia got the upset against Madagascar

This will be their 8th games in a row.

respect, man! I'd be only capable of eating, sleeping and TV watching marathons

you can always use https://postimages.org/ and get the thumbnails to be posted here

Found it on Los Pumas FB page

Getting ready for some southern hemisphere clash in the SF

Matias Moroni, he was today the "superman" of the Pumas, or may be the "kamikaze" for that tackle.

Epic failure from Wales. Suits them well after Gatland called out Top 4 ranked teams from the other half for having to do better at the last World Cup https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/67089763

Wow congrats Argentina!

Congrats ARG, i haven’t expected that at all

Great Venezuela Hoping for a long waited first WC qualification.

There is a fourth ref, yes.

I believe it should be like 5% of the football WC ratings and only for knockout games. The biggest ratings were back in 2007, that edition was crazy popular here. Even a Boca-River game got rescheduled to a later time of the day so people could watch a quarterfinal game.

Since we are talking about increasing quotas here's a look of my minimum quota increase for existing events. This was made under the principal that Olympic events should have 12 entrants for teams (3+ athletes) and 16 entrants for individuals/pairs. Two exceptions, synchronized diving and rowing eights were made as they do not justify an increase to 16 and 12 entrants and thus were only bumped up to 12 and 8 respectively. As I tried to keep the increases to a minimum some athlete quotas were doubled up (e.g. the increase in fencing teams will use an athlete from the individual event so only sees an overall increase of 2 per team). Aquatics (Artistic Swimming) - 12 Aquatics (Diving) - 16 Aquatics (Water Polo) - 22 Basketball (3x3) - 32 Canoeing (Sprint) - 28 Cycling (BMX Freestyle) - 8 Cycling (Track) - 40 Fencing - 48 Rowing - 90 Sport Climbing (Sprint) - 4 Weightlifting - 40 Total - 340 Clearly the IOC hates rowing, even holding the eights to 8 entrants they are missing quite a lot of athletes. Weightlifting is obviously being punished for its doping issues as it is missing by far the most individual/pair quotas. The 10,500 athlete quota was made under the 2016 program which included 306 events in 28 sports. 2024 will have 329 in 32 sports with only breaking (32 athletes) not being a core sport going into 2028. You can't increase the number events without increase the athlete quota. It's that simple.

They are really pushing their luck... First, introducing a sport (or sports) that is (are) nowhere near deserving to be at the olympics for apparently local political reasons, then letting the athletes cap goes wild without concerns for future hosts and now asking for breaking the nation-states basis of participation. God, I wish IOC tells them to fuck off with their silly ideas (not going to happen obv).

Massive coincidence. I was reading a CNN piece on the Hamas attacks, where they wrote about using SunCalc (a website) to geolocate/time certain videos. Right, I checked the website out, noticed that if you click on a place it shows the next solar eclipse (partial or full) and saw that here in the Netherlands in March 2025 there is a 24% eclipse happening. Cool. Clicked on Brazil out of curiousity and....turns out there is a large partial to almost full eclipse in large parts of the America's......today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_October_14,_2023 Seriously, the coincidence. It's not like these things happen on a daily or even monthly basis. So if you're in the Americas, read up a bit and enjoy (with care for your eyes, obviously)!

The quota is arbitrary. Of course we need to avoid bloat, but in a situation like LA that is clearly willing and able to be a three ring circus, holding back the numbers seems a bit pointless. Better, honestly, to have a core, with a proper quota worked out for that core, and then let the organisers prepare what they want in quota terms for 'additional' events. If they want to be crazy and introduce FOUR new team events, let them but on their own head be it. Losing the lightweight rowing seems poor form too; homogenises a sport you claim to want more diversity for, to include a form of rowing pretty much exclusive by design to coastal nations. It's be one thing where it additional, but chopping of the legs of lightweight rowing. If boxing eventually gets the green light I think we're now looking at about 350 events.

participation question will definitely be the forefront of LA28 headlines if lacrosse is approved by the IOC Session.

CAN 2023 Draw

My medal table after Day 6 (94 events) 13-6-10---29 10-18-11---39 9-7-8---24 9-6-6---21 9-4-4---17 5-9-4---18 5-6-4---15 4-4-4---12 3-2-1---6 3-0-1---4 2-3-4---9 2-2-2---6 2-2-1---5 2-1-2---5 2-0-0---2 1-3-3---7 1-2-0---3 1-1-3---5 1-1-2---4 1-1-1---3 1-1-1---3 1-1-1---3 1-1-1---3 1-1-0---2 1-0-3---4 1-0-2---3 1-0-2---3 1-0-1---2 1-0-0---1 0-2-2---4 0-2-1---3 0-2-0---2 0-1-2---3 0-1-2---3 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-0-3---3 0-0-2---2 0-0-2---2 0-0-2---2 0-0-2---2 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1

Day 6 Thu 01.08 77. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - W Individual All-Around 1. Simone Biles USA 2. Rebeca Andrade BRA 3. Shilese Jones USA Biles simply unstoppable here. 78. ATHLETICS - M 20km Race Walk 1. Alvaro Martin ESP 2. Zhang Jun CHN 3. Christopher Linke GER 4. Karlstroem SWE by 3 secs. 79. ATHLETICS - W 20km Race Walk 1. Maria Perez ESP 2. Kimberly Garcia Leon PER 3. Yang Jiayu CHN Double gold for Spain in race walk. 80. CANOE SLALOM - M K1 1. Jiri Prskavec CZE 2. Titouan Castryck FRA 3. Joseph Clarke GBR Prskavec repeats his awesome final run from Tokyo. Mateusz Polaczyk 6th for Poland. 81. FENCING - W Foil Team 1. Italy 2. France 3. Japan Easy win for Italy. 82. JUDO - W -78kg 1. Audrey Tcheumeo FRA 2. Alice Bellandi ITA 3. Inbar Lanir ISR 3. Ma Zhenhao CHN Another French gold in Paris. 83. JUDO - M -100kg 1. Peter Paltchik ISR 2. Zelym Kotsoiev AZE 3. Ilia Sulamanidze GEO 3. Michael Korrel NED Many very close contests in this category. 84. ROWING - W Double Sculls 1. Romania 2. United States 3. Lithuania First gold for Romania in Paris. 85. ROWING - M Double Sculls 1. Netherlands 2. Croatia 3. Ireland Fist Irish medal in Paris. 86. ROWING - W Four 1. Netherlands 2. Great Britain 3. Romania 2nd NED gold today. Dutch fans celebrating like in Zandvoort. 87. ROWING - M Four 1. Great Britain 2. United States 3. New Zealand Very close fight for gold. NED 4th here. 88. SAILING - W Skiff 49erFX 1. Great Britain 2. Netherlands 3. Sweden First sailing gold for Team GB. 89. SAILING - M Skiff 49er 1. Netherlands 2. Great Britain 3. Spain Nice 6th place for Poland here. 90. SHOOTING - M 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Aishwary Tomar IND 2. Petr Nymbursky CZE 3. Alexander Schmirl AUT First gold for India in Paris. Tomar survives big internal fight for one of 2 quotas for India in this event and then wins gold in style. Tomasz Bartnik POL 7th. 91. SWIMMING - W 200m Fly 1. Summer McIntosh CAN 2. Regan Smith USA 3. Zhang Yufei CHN McIntosh wins on last 25m. Dekkers AUS 4th. 92. SWIMMING - M 200m Back 1. Hubert Kos HUN 2. Ryan Murphy USA 3. Mewen Tomac FRA Nice win for Kos with huge PB. 93. SWIMMING - W 200m Breast 1. Lilly King USA 2. Tatjana Schoenmaker RSA 3. Tes Schouten NED Gold for Lilly King but Evgeniia Chikhunova swims much faster this week in a local meet in Moscow. 94. SWIMMING - W 4x200m Free Relay 1. Australia 2. United States 3. China Massive WR here.

MEDAL TABLE After Day 5 (76/329) CHN 12-6-3 USA 8-13-6 FRA 8-7-8 AUS 6-8-4 JPN 6-7-1 GBR 5-5-7 GEO 4-0-0 HUN 3-3-2 ITA 2-2-8 GER 2-2-4 KOR 2-2-1 NZL 2-1-0 ROU 2-0-0 TUN - BRA 1-1-3 CAN 1-1-2 POL 1-1-1 BEL 1-1-0 SVK - CZE 1-0-2 GRE - BUL 1-0-1 MGL - CRO 1-0-0 LTU - ESP - NED 0-3-1 SUI 0-2-1 UZB 0-1-3 KOS 0-1-2 TUR - DEN 0-1-0 EGY - FIJ - MEX - MDA - SRB - SWE - AZE 0-0-2 HKG - ISR - SLO - UKR - ARG 0-0-1 TPE - IND - IRI - IRL - KAZ - PER - POR - RSA -

State of the Race - Men's Tour UCI Ranking - 3-Oct (Adjusted): - 22433.09 (22024.09) - 18329.98 (18241.98) - 15566.34 (14913.34) - 14012.02 (12857.02) - 13689.09 (13519.09) - 13521.36 (13308.36) This week the following races took place: Grand Prix Urubici de Ciclismo Grand Prix Internacional de Ciclismo de Santa Catarina Paris-Bourges Gran Piemonte Grand Prix Chantal Biya Il Lombardia Paris-Tours Of these races, ranking riders for and featured in Gran Piemonte and Il Lombardia and Paris-Tours. In Gran Piemonte, gained 125 points whilst picked up 20 points. At Il Lombardia, gained 255 points, gained 640 points and picked up 180 points. In Paris-Tours, won 70 points. That would mean the new ranking totals would be: - 14264.09 (14179.09) - 13636.36 (13558.36) - 13237.02 (13237.02) Outstanding Events Before Close of Qualification Window: 05-09 Oct: Tour of Hainan 07-09 Oct: Tour de Kyushu 08-15 Oct: Presidential Tour of Turkey 11 Oct: Giro del Veneto 15 Oct: Japan Cup Cycle Road Race 15 Oct: Chrono des Nations 15 Oct: Veneto Classic ?? 12-17 Oct: Gree-Tour of Guangxi (Not 100% sure whether this will be included in the rankings released on 17-Oct as the race will finish after the reported release time for the rankings however looking at the rankings release for 3-Oct, this includes races that took place on 3-Oct so that would indicate that it will be included.) Ranking Riders in action next week (NB not all start lists are confirmed) : Mark Cavendish in Tour of Turkey; Josh Tarling in Chrono des Nations : Axel Zingle and Guillaume Martin in Japan Cup Cycle Road Race : Pello Bilbao and Ion Izagirre in Tour of Guangxi France will have a cushion of around 300 points going into the last week of racing. In order to overtake France, they will need both of their riders to finish in the points in Guangxi - but unless one of them actually wins the race, it will be difficult to close the gap - even having 2 in the top 5 will not necessarily be enough for them. Projected Paris Quotas: 4 men qualified: 3 men qualified: 2 men qualified: 1 man qualified: The positions of Kazakhstan and Eritrea could be reversed. There are 3 Eritreans taking part in the Tour of Turkey and Girmay was in the Paris-Tours today. I'm not sure how UCI will apply the results from the Asian Games - they are listed as a Continental Games but if they are included in the ranking then Asia would be the only continent that counted 2 continental competitions which would seem to raise issues of whether there was a level playing field. If that was to be the case, all of the continental/world championship quotas would be reallocated: 2023 World Championship quotas: Lucas Eriksson was the only rider to finish from non qualified nation. 2023 African Championship quotas: Christopher Rougier-Lagane & Charles Kagimu 2023 Asian Championship quotas: Kim Euro & Mohammad Ganjkhanlou 2023 Pan-American Championship quotas: Antonio Eric Fagundez Lima & Daniel Andres Bonilla Quiros Reallocated Host Quotas: & Usual caveats apply - this could all be rubbish if I have gone cross-eyed scrolling through results and ranking lists.

Day 1 @rafalgorka

But people are bored now.