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I was hoping to see they crown Tommy B as the lifelong king of IOC. he shouldn't be just IOC's president, he should be the King. I mean he acts like a true dictator, why not giving him a throne

2023 Swimming World Cup Athens - Day 3 Results Men's 400m Individual Medley: 1. Kaito Tabuchi - 4:13.30 2. Matthew Sates - 4:13.38 3. Brendon Smith - 4:18.18 Women's 1500m Freestyle: 1. Lani Pallister - 15:55.73 (WC Record) 2. Katie Grimes - 16:08.81 3. Caitlin Deans - 16:21.06 Women's 100m Butterfly: 1. Zhang Yufei - 56.06 (WC Record) 2. Sarah Sjoestroem - 56.92 3. Torri Huske - 57.12 Men's 50m Butterfly: 1. Abdelrahman Sameh - 23.04 2. Isaac Cooper - 23.19 3. Michael Andrew - 23.32 Women's 200m Backstroke: 1. Kaylee McKeown - 2:06.02 (WC Record) 2. Katie Grimes - 2:08.01 3. Kylie Masse - 2:10.77 Men's 100m Backstroke: 1. Thomas Ceccon - 52.73 2. Pieter Coetze - 53.49 3. Apostolos Christou - 53.61 Women's 50m Breaststroke: 1. Ruta Meilutyte - 30.23 2. Siobhan Haughey - 30.36 3. Sophie Hansson - 30.68 Men's 200m Breaststroke: 1. Qin Haiyang - 2:08.05 2. Dong Zhihao - 2:09.18 3. Caspar Corbeau - 2:09.35 Women's 100m Freestyle: 1. Siobhan Haughey - 52.55 2. Sarah Sjoestroem - 53.32 3. Bronte Campbell - 53.60 Men's 200m Freestyle: 1. Danas Rapsys - 1:45.72 2. Maximillian Giuliani - 1:47.18 3. Kieran Smith - 1:48.03 Women's 200m Individual Medley: 1. Sydney Pickrem - 2:09.67 2. Torri Huske - 2:11.15 3. Kaylee McKeown - 2:11.23 Men's Overall Standings: 1. Qin Haiyang - 116.7 2. Thomas Ceccon - 112.8 3. Matthew Sates - 110.5 4. Michael Andrew - 108.4 5. Danas Rapsys - 107.1 6. Isaac Cooper - 96.1 7. Kieran Smith - 91.5 8. Arno Kamminga - 90.6 9. Nic Fink - 84.8 10. Brendon Smith - 83.4 Women's Overall Standings: 1. Kaylee McKeown - 117.7 2. Zhang Yufei - 110.5 3. Siobhan Haughey - 109.9 4. Sarah Sjoestroem - 109.7 5. Katie Grimes - 102.6 6. Erika Fairweather - 102.0 7. Lani Pallister - 101.6 8. Torri Huske - 90.9 9. Kylie Masse - 90.9 10. Jenna Strauch - 85.1

up to 3 athletes (2 track and 1 tennis), should be the smallest team. has 4 athletes (1 track, 1 sailing and 2 swimming) from what I can gather. Their track athlete is a wildcard, so none of their qualified athletes will be competing.

I was building a relationship with IFAF at the time, so I spent more time at that venue than any other in Birmingham (inline skating being a close second given my personal interests). I must admit I wasn't impressed by the format. I played flag football (8-a-side) growing up, and I think the format we played allowed for more creative plays than the IFAF format. I'd have to watch some replays to remember my full thoughts on the format though.

It's still "up in the air," but it's highly likely that it will be included.

PanamSports Channel now shows nine production channels available in both English and Spanish. It looks like broadcasts will begin with the team welcoming/flag raising ceremonies in the village tomorrow.

2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup - Athens (GRE) October 13th - October 15th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 200m Butterfly Matt Sates Women's 100m Freestyle Bronte Campbell Women's 100m Butterfly Sarah Sjöström

First brazilian athletes have arrived at the village, which indeed looks beautiful. Pictured, the Gymnastics team.

What are the odds the suspected shooter is a Muslim?

No... There were many program changes submitted to the IOC, but beach rowing was the only one approved. I'm sure if there are any event changes still on the table though. Paddleboarding (SUP) events will probably be locked out of the Games until the ICF/ISA dispute over the discipline calms down.

I think any sport is much more established there in USA, and in any other country, than Breaking. They had to arrange an entire sytem of pontuation, competitions and explain to the dancers what is to be an athlete. I know many of you are not fan of it, but I think it's a little unfair to pick it to an Olympic event, and cut it off before even the athletes step in it. The same applies to what happened to Karate, and may happen which some of these new sports to the next Olympics. Btw, my opinion about those new sports Lacrosse - What can I say? I believe if you ask to a Brazilian what this is, they may not know that it's a sport. And, as I saw some posts before, looks this will be a 6-team competiton, like Flag Football, Baseball/Softball and Cricket. That's a terrible decision, and make the competition even more uninteresting for those people from countries where it's not so popular. I don't know if Lacrosse will survive until the next cycle. Flag Football - So, it could be good for Brazil. We took part in the last World Games, and if I am not wrong, we finished in 4th position. In Brazil, American Football is very popular, we may even have some NFL matches in our soil in the next years. So, this could help to improve our performance, but, again, 6-team competition... Also, I have never watched this kind of competition, and I have seen it might be quite boring to watch. I think you have watched a little bit of it @Olympian1010, what do you think? Cricket - So, Brazilian women's team isn't so bad, but 6-team competition... Anyway, I think it's deserved to a very popular sport for so many people take part at Olympics Baseball/Softball - I like these sports, and for me they would be in the official list of Olympic Sports. I know that venues are always a problem for the hosts, and the high number of quotas used by them, but they look very olympic for me. I just don't understand why always Baseball for men, and Softball for women, on this way they will never improve the opposite genre in each discipline. Squash - The most deserved among all of these. They have been trying to join it for so long, and finally the rewards. I hope they can keep it for a long period. Also, do you think we are going to have big changes on some events? I have seen someone commenting about changes in Rowing events. Do you expect a new discipline from any IF? For instance, I think ISA would love to add paddle events on it.

Nah, he's not a king. He's a Pope, and the IOC is his Conclave. If he had his way, Lausanne would become a new Vatican of sport.

6 athletes (2 athletics, 3 canoeing, 1 sailing)

PanamSports Channel will have nine live channels available internationally.

Tidjane Thiam (CIV) & William Blick (UGA) Apparently, they were worried these team sports are not established enough in Africa... Go and figure

The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table. Bring back tug of war, you fools!

Yesterday few executive members "suggested" to keep Mr Bach for years and years ..was waiting a military orchestra with "BACK ...BACH..." in the background Today same people have got 4 yrs extention as executive board members ... My mind is confused and have a suspicious ...are these situations related All I can hear in back of my mind is ....."BACH ...BACH"

most likely, they will get back to a shorter version of the old fencing round (being the athletes divided in smaller groups for the semis and the final, it wouldn't take much time to have a single round robin...with 12-(wo)man groups, it's only 11 rounds of 1 minute-match on 6 pistes, let's say 55 mins in total)

Anything about dealing with bedbugs.

Day 9 04.08 146. ARCHERY - M Individual 1. Mete Gazoz TUR 2. Marcus d'Almeida BRA 3. Kim Woo-jin KOR Korea wins all three team events in archery but loses both individual ones. 147. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Rings 1. Lan Xingyu CHN 2. Liu Yang CHN 3. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE Double win for China. 148. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - W Beam 1. Simone Biles USA 2. Rebeca Andrade BRA 3. Melanie de Jesus dos Santos FRA Disaster for China - both their athletes fell off the beam. 149. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Vault 1. Jake Jarman GBR 2. Wataru Tanigawa JPN 3. Artur Davtyan ARM Great vaults by current WCH and Asian Games champion. First medal for Armenia in Paris. 150. ATHLETICS - W High Jump 1. Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR 2. Nicola Olyslagers AUS 3. Angelina Topic SRB Very emotional win for Ukraine here. 151. ATHLETICS - M Hammer Throw 1. Ethan Katzberg CAN 2. Wojciech Nowicki POL 3. Mykhaylo Kokhan UKR Great fight between Nowicki and Katzberg, leader changed 5 times but in the 6th round Katzberg throws massive NR. 152. ATHLETICS - M 100m 1. Noah Lyles USA 2. Zharnel Hughes GBR 3. Oblique Seville JAM Lyles wins by 0.02 secs. 153. BADMINTON - M Doubles 1. Kang Min-hyuk, Seo Seung-jae KOR 2. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty IND 3. Kim Astrup, Anders Skaarup Rasmussen DEN No medal for China in this event. 154. EQUESTRIAN - Dressage Individual 1. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl GER 2. Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour DEN 3. Charlotte Fry GBR Isabelle Werth GER 4th. 155. FENCING - M Foil Team 1. Japan 2. United States 3. France First non-judo gold for Japan. 156. GOLF - M Individual 1. Jon Rahm ESP 2. Viktor Hovland NOR 3. Xander Schauffele USA Rahm wins with -3 on the last three holes. 157. ROAD CYCLING - W Road Race 1. Demi Vollering NED 2. Marlen Reusser SUI 3. Katarzyna Niewiadoma POL Beatiful bronze for Poland here. Vollering goes solo on the last lap but Niewiadoma grabs this one with a furious finish. 158. SHOOTING - W Skeet 1. Danka Bartekova SVK 2. Dania Jo Vizzi USA 3. Diana Bacosi ITA And Slovakia gets its gold as well. 159. SWIMMING - W 50m Free 1. Sarah Sjoestroem SWE 2. Abbey Weitzeil USA 3. Zhang Yufei CHN Shayna Jack AUS finishes 2nd but gets DSQ for a false start. 160. SWIMMING - M 1500m Free 1. Bobby Finke USA 2. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 3. David Wiffen IRL Finke finish is like in Tokyo. 161. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Medley Relay 1. United States 2. China 3. Australia USA wins an epic relay, by 0.1 sec. 162. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Medley Relay 1. United States 2. Australia 3. China This one is won by US quite easily. 3 gold medals for USA on a final swimming day. 163. TABLE TENNIS - M Singles 1. Wang Chuqin CHN 2. Fan Zhendong CHN 3. Jang Woo-jin KOR Asian Games winner beats current WCH in the final. 164. TENNIS - W Doubles 1. Czech Rep. 2. United States 3. China Another gold for Czech team in this event, after Tokyo. 165. TENNIS - M Singles 1. Novak Djokovic SRB 2. Carlos Alcaraz ESP 3. Alexander Zverev GER An epic final. Djokovic wins in five. By the end of day 9 we will also know several BOXING bronze medalists: W 54kg, M 51kg, M 63.5kg, M 80kg, M 92kg I will try to figure out these boxing medals later.

Men’s Medalists Gold- Ondřej Perušič/David Schweiner Silver- David Åhman/Jonathan Hellvig Bronze- Michal Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak Women’s Medalists Gold- Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes Silver- Ana Patricia Silva Ramos/Eduarda Santos Lisboa Bronze- Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss

Gaby Schloesser is still active in archerg and aiming for Paris 2024 as far as I know. Sadly Steve Wijler on the mens side hasn't had great resultd the past year I believe, so I'm not sure we can medal in mixed doubles again. That silver medal last year was really a great moment for them, they really made it a close contest versus Korea. Also I hope you are right that both Smulders sisters are in the BMX final. Even if they don't medal that will just be a great moment for them.

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

Good idea to keep it away from the normal games.

Also got the Track Cycling Champions League coming - you might remember its the 4 races in one night format, not the traditional World Cup style event over several days. Anyway, Mallorca on Saturday night.

Squash already confirmed it forsees 32 men, 32 women, 2 events, both sexes individual.

Breaking turned out - to no amazing surprise - to be anachronistic and tedious as a TV sport - and the affectation of the B-boy and B-girl nicknames/handles rather than addressing athletes by their ordinary name like any other normal human being just made it cringe even worse. Glad its gone, frankly. Chasing 'Yuff' sport with activities that are already a bit passé is incredibly typical of the IOC and Bach, like the Catholic Church thinking it can reach today's youth with 70's folk music. Truth is, increasingly, competitive sport is itself an anachronism for some parts of today's youth. So be it. Chasing that audience is pointless - they won't come, the few that do won't stay, and they aren't loyal. Not everyone can be converted, we need to learn to live with it. If the Olympic Church has a true enemy, it's not the non-sporty, it's the increasing global dominance of one sport, football/soccer to the increasing exclusion of all else. Obviously there are different issues in North America although the principle is the same.

So you’ll definitely play for Canada in the 2024 Olympics? Wiggins: “Yeah, I would love to.” https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-would-love-all-star-all-defensive-player-andrew-wiggins-bouncing-back-rib-injury-warriors-ahead-2023-24-season-exclusive

For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament.

2023 Swimming World Cup Athens - Day 2 Results Women's 400m Individual Medley: 1. Katie Grimes - 4:38.74 2. Waka Kobori - 4:39.35 3. Ageha Tanigawa - 4:40.23 Men's 800m Freestyle: 1. Henrik Christiansen - 7:51.92 (WC Record) 2. Dimitrios Markos - 7:58.16 3. Kaito Tabuchi - 7:58.70 Men's 50m Backstroke: 1. Michael Andrew - 24.79 2. Pieter Coetze - 24.89 3. Isaac Cooper - 24.90 Women's 200m Freestyle: 1. Siobhan Haughey - 1:55.03 (WC Record) 2. Erika Fairweather - 1:56.71 3. Nikolett Padar - 1:57.32 Men's 200m Individual Medley: 1. Matthew Sates - 1:58.86 2. Kieran Smith - 1:59.56 3. Danas Rapsys - 2:00.15 Women's 100m Backstroke: 1. Kaylee McKeown - 57.63 (WC Record) 2. Kylie Masse - 1:00.10 3. Ingrid Wilm - 1:00.57 Men's 50m Breaststroke: 1. Qin Haiyang - 26.52 2. Adam Peaty - 26.89 3. Nic Fink - 26.98 Women's 50m Butterfly: 1. Sarah Sjoestroem - 24.97 (WC Record) 2. Zhang Yufei - 25.31 3. Torri Huske - 25.73 Men's 100m Freestyle: 1. Thomas Ceccon - 48.36 2. Dylan Carter - 48.62 3. Zac Incerti - 48.88 Women's 100m Breaststroke: 1. Ruta Meilutyte - 1:06.70 2. Tess Schouten - 1:06.94 3. Sophie Hansson - 1:07.26 Men's 200m Butterfly: 1. Matthew Sates - 1:55.44 2. Richard Marton - 1:56.60 3. Takumi Terada - 1:57.23 Men's 4x100m Medley Relay 1. Japan (Ryosuke Irie, Taku Taniguchi, Naoki Mizunuma, Shinri Shioura) - 3:36.09 2. Australia (Mitchell Larkin, Brendon Smith, Cody Simpson, Zac Incerti) - 3:40.68 Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 1. Australia (Joshua Edwards-Smith, Jenna Strauch, Shaun Champion, Bronte Campbell) - 3:48.18 2. Australia (Isaac Cooper, Mikayla Smith, Ben Armbruster, Cate Campbell) - 3:49.28

2023 Swimming World Cup Athens - Day 1 Results Women's 400m Freestyle: 1. Erika Fairweather - 4:01.90 2. Lani Pallister - 4:02.47 3. Claire Weinstein - 4:06.73 Men's 400m Freestyle: 1. Danas Rapsys - 3:48.64 2. Kieran Smith - 3:49.46 3. Henrik Christiansen - 3:49.70 Women's 50m Backstroke: 1. Kaylee McKeown - 27.02 (WC Record) 2. Ingrid Wilm - 27.94 3. Kylie Masse - 27.95 Men's 200m Backstroke: 1. Pieter Coetze - 1:56.32 2. Thomas Ceccon - 1:56.49 3. Roman Mityukov - 1:57.16 Women's 200m Butterfly: 1. Zhang Yufei - 2:06.73 2. Katie Grimes - 2:08.70 3. Ageha Tanigawa - 2:12.01 Men's 100m Butterfly: 1. Matthew Sates - 51.82 2. Michael Andrew - 51.92 =2. Cody Simpson - 51.92 Women's 200m Breaststroke: 1. Tes Schouten - 2:23.23 2. Jenna Strauch - 2:24.19 3. Thea Blomsterberg - 2:24.34 Men's 100m Breaststroke: 1. Qin Haiyang - 58.44 2. Nic Fink - 59.28 3. Arno Kamminga - 59.40 Women's 50m Freestyle: 1. Sarah Sjoestroem - 24.10 2. Cate Campbell - 24.54 3. Torri Huske - 24.62 Men's 50m Freestyle: 1. Michael Andrew - 21.96 2. Isaac Cooper - 22.07 3. Dylan Carter - 22.16 Women's 4x100m Medley Relay 1. Australia (Kaylee McKeown, Jenna Strauch, Alexandria Perkins, Cate Campbell) - 4:00.67 2. Club Swimmers (Ioanna Pazaiti, Areti Zarmbouti, Styliani Rota, Lora Eygenia Ferra) - 4:27.35

@JoshMartini007 has created a list.

that was the final number of participants in Tokyo

quoted from insidethegames website "The elimination of the fencing ranking round is confirmed for modern pentathlon at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics" what does this mean, any idea what would be the new format? ..only fencing bonus round?

Its been confirmed sliding events will be held outside Italy, presumably Innsbruck

Partial medal table in the end of day 9 (165 events without boxing bronze medals in W 54kg, M 51kg, M 63.5kg, M 80kg, M 92kg 23-13-14---50 19-31-16---66 15-11-12---38 14-7-11---32 12-10-10---32 8-9-6---23 8-6-5---19 6-9-8---23 5-6-7---18 5-5-1---11 4-6-11---21 3-6-4---13 3-4-1---8 3-0-1---4 2-3-0---5 2-1-5---8 2-1-3---6 2-1-2---5 2-1-1---4 2-1-1---4 2-1-1---4 2-0-6---8 2-0-3---5 2-0-2---4 1-3-3---7 1-2-5---8 1-2-4---7 1-2-3---6 1-2-2---5 1-2-1---4 1-1-2---4 1-1-1---3 1-1-0---2 1-1-0---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 0-4-2---6 0-2-1---3 0-1-2---3 0-1-1---2 0-1-1---2 0-1-1---2 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-0-3---3 0-0-3---3 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 0-0-1---1

Josh Tarling scores another time trial victory by taking the Chronos des Nations title and beating Remco Evenepoel by 13 seconds.

Apparently is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships.

No shame for you guys, you played who is in front of you. Just the stupid draw system. I really hope they change it next time and not make the draw 3 years in advance when the order of world rugby could completely change in that period. I feel so bad for Scotland too as they are a million miles better than England, Wales or Fiji.

Clancy/Mariafe are the reigning Olympic silver medalists, and are a top ten team, how was a win against them gonna be “easy” ? (Not unless you’re Duda/AP ) I feel bad for Menegatti, she carries her team. Wonder what she’d be able to do with a better defender. Same with Latvia, but to a lesser extent. Samoilova has moments of brilliance, but sometimes struggles to sideout, and can also become error prone during crucial moments (Cheng/Hughes QF: *11-13, Samoilova missed serve, and then she gets aced to end the match). Graudina rarely has bad matches, always a beast on sideout.

Up until 12 months ago I would have agreed with @Orangehair43 but the improvement of British performances has been surprising lately.

Well, Wijler finished 6th at the World Champs and 5th in the men’s team event in 2023 (9th in the mixed event). so not so bad. Schloesser was part of the women’s team that took a completely unexpected 4th place in the team event.

with quota to Paris. They beat 12-7.

DAY 7 - August, 2nd ARCHERY - Mixed Team 1. R. of Korea 2. Germany 3. India DIVING - Men's Syncro 3m Springboard 1. P.R. of China 2. Great Britain 3. France ATHLETICS - Men's 10000m 1: J. Cheptegei 2. ???D. Ebenyo??? 3. S. Barega BADMINTON - Mixed Doubles 1. P.R. of China 2. R. of Korea 3. Denmark CYCLING BMX - Women's Racing 1. M. Pajón 2. B. Shriever 3. L. Smulders CYCLING BMX - Men's Racing 1. A. Pilard 2. R. Mahieu 3. C.A. Ramirez Yepes EQUESTRIAN - Team Jumping 1. Sweden 2. Ireland 3. Germany FENCING - Men's Team Epée 1. France 2. Japan 3. Hungary JUDO - Women's +78kg 1. R. Dicko 2. S. Xu 3. M. Žabić B. Souza JUDO - Men's +100kg 1. T. Riner 2. T. Rakhimov 3. M. Puumalainen A. Granda ROWING - Men's Lightweight Double Scull 1. Italy 2. Ireland 3. Switzerland ROWING - Women's Lightweight Double Scull 1. Ireland 2. Great Britain 3. USA ROWING - Women's Coxless Pair 1. Romania 2. New Zealand 3. USA ROWING - Men's Coxless Pair 1. Switzerland 2. Romania 3. Great Britain SHOOTING - Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Q. Zhang 2. S. Via 3. Germany TENNIS - Mixed Double 1. USA 2. Australia 2. Czech Republic SAILING - Women's WIndsurfing 1. I. Watson 2. S. Tibi 3. ??? SAILING - Men's Windsurfing 1. S. Kördel 2. H. Jantak 3. E. Westera GYMNASTIC - Men's Trampoline 1. Z. Wang 2. L. Yan 3. D. Schimdt GYMNASTIC - Women's Trampoline 1. X. Zhou 2. C. Gomes 3. L. Labrousse SWIMMING - Men's 50m Freestyle 1. C. McEvoy 2. J. Alexy 3. B. Proud SWIMMING - Women's 200m Backstroke 1. K. McKeown 2. L. Bernat 3. R. Smith SWIMMING - Men's 200 Ind. Medley 1. L. Marchand 2. D. Seto 3. C. Foster

Ignore: M 100-KG Turboyev. Also, don’t see Zhang Zhizhen placing fourth in men’s tennis. @rafalgorka Day 7 (August 2, 2024) Archery- Mixed Team Gold- South Korea (Kim Woo-Jin/Lim Si-Hyeon) Silver- United States (Casey Kaufold/Brady Ellison) Bronze- Netherlands (Steve Wijler/Gaby Schloesser) Germany (Michelle Kroppen/Florian Unruh) 4th. Athletics- Men’s 10,000m Gold- Joshua Cheptegei Silver- Selemon Barega Bronze- Berihu Aregawi Badminton- Mixed Doubles Gold- Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong Silver- Yuta Wantanabe/Arisa Higashino Bronze- Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping reigning World Champions Seo Seung-Jae and Chae Yoo-Jung finish just off the podium in 4th. BMX Cycling- Men’s Racing Gold- Joris Daudet Silver- Romain Mahieu Bronze- Sylvain Andre After failing to win a single medal at Tokyo 2020, France rebound in a big way in front of their home crowd. First podium sweep of the games! Kye White finishes in 4th, followed by Simon Marquet in 5th, Niek Kimmann in 6th, Carlos Ramirez Yepes in 7th, and Arthur Pillard in 8th. BMX Cycling- Women’s Racing Gold- Saya Sakakibara Silver- Mariana Pajon Bronze- Bethany Shriever Merel Smulders finishes in 4th, followed by Alise Willoughby in 5th, Felicia Stancil in 6th, Zoe Claessens in 7th, and Laura Smulders in 8th. Diving- Men’s 3m Synchro Springboard Gold- China (Wang Zongyuan/Cao Yuan) Silver- Great Britain (Anthony Harding/Jack Laugher) Bronze- Mexico (Osmar Olvera/Rodrigo Diego) Germany (Moritz Wesemann/Lars Rudiger or Timo Barthel) just off the podium in fourth. Equestrian- Team Jumping Gold- Sweden Silver- Netherlands Bronze- United States Fencing- Men’s Team Epee Gold- Italy Silver- Hungary Bronze- France Judo- Women’s +78kg Gold- Akira Sone Silver- Romane Dicko Bronze- Milica Zabić Bronze- Idalys Ortiz Raz Hershko and Xu Shiyan lose their bronze medal bouts. Judo- Men’s +100kg Gold- Teddy Riner Silver- Rafael Silva Bronze- Lukas Krpalek Bronze- Temur Rakhimov Andy Cruz loses his bronze medal bout. Rowing- Men’s Pair Gold- Jaime Canalejo/Javier García Silver- Roman Röösli/Andrin Gulich Bronze- Marius Cozmiuc/Sergiu Bejan Oliver Wynne-Griffith/Thom George finish in fourth. Rowing- Women’s Pair Gold- Ymkje Clevering/Veronique Meester Silver- Iona Vrînceanu/Roxana Anghel Bronze- Jessica Morrison/Annabelle McIntyre Rowing- Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls Gold- Fintan McCarthy/Paul O’Donovan Silver- Pietro Ruta/Stefano Oppo Bronze- Jan Schäuble/Raphaël Ahumada Rowing- Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls Gold- Emily Craig/Imogen Grant Silver- Aoife Casey/Margaret Cremen Bronze- Laura Tarantola/Claire Bové Sailing- Men’s Windsurfing iQFOiL Gold- Sebastian Kördel Silver- Nicoló Renna Bronze- Luuc Van Opzeeland Sailing- Women’s Windsurfing iQFOiL Gold- Shahar Tibi (although there’s like 5 Israelis who could all make the team, so I’m not too sure she’ll even be representing them at Paris) Silver- Emma Wilson Bronze- Marta Maggetti Shooting- Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Gold- Nina Christen Silver- Jenny Stene Bronze- Zhang Qiongyue Swimming- Men’s 50m Freestyle Gold- Caleb Dressel Silver- Florent Manaudou Bronze- Cameron McEvoy Michael Andrew finishes just off the podium in fourth. Swimming- Women’s 200m Backstroke Gold- Kaylee McKeown Silver- Regan Smith Bronze- Phoebe Bacon Swimming- Men’s 200m Individual Medley Gold- Leon Marchand Silver- Duncan Scott Bronze- Wang Shun Tennis- Mixed Doubles Since this event is only at grand slams, it’s hard to determine who are the favourites. Gold- Laura Siegemund/Tim Pütz Silver- Maria Sakkari/Stefanos Tsitsipas Bronze- Joran Vliegen/Elise Mertens Tennis- Women’s Singles Bronze- Ons Jabeur Leylah Fernandez goes one step further than she did at RG 2022 by advancing to the semifinals, but loses in straight sets to Jabeur in the bronze medal match. Tennis- Men’s Doubles Bronze- Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic Tight three set battle against Rajeem Ram/Austin Krajicek. Trampoline Gymnastics- Men’s Individual Gold- Dylan Schmidt Silver- Ryusei Nishioka Bronze- Yan Langyu Trampoline Gymnastics- Women’s Individual Gold- Zhu Xueying Silver- Byrony Page Bronze- Hikaru Mori Medal Table After Day 7 15-6-9– 30 10-18-17-45 9-8-8– 25 8-9-9– 26 8-8-9– 25 8-7-7– 22 7-6-6– 19 6-2-1– 9 5-1-1– 7 5-0-3– 8 4-6-8– 18 3-3-7– 13 3-3-3– 9 3-2-3– 8 3-2-0– 5 2-4-2– 8 2-2-1– 5 2-1-3– 6 2-1-3– 6 2-1-1– 4 1-2-0– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-1-0– 2 1-0-2– 3 1-0-1– 2 1-0-1– 2 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-2– 4 0-2-1– 3 0-2-1– 3 0-1-3– 4 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-2– 2 0-0-2– 2 0-0-2– 2 0-1-1– 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

Sunday Bloody Sunday Day 9 04.08 146. ARCHERY - M Individual 147. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Rings ??? 148. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - W Beam ??? Or Floor? 149. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Vault ??? 150. ATHLETICS - W High Jump 151. ATHLETICS - M Hammer Throw 152. ATHLETICS - M 100m 153. BADMINTON - M Doubles 154. EQUESTRIAN - Dressage Individual 155. FENCING - M Foil Team 156. GOLF - M Individual 157. ROAD CYCLING - W Road Race 158. SHOOTING - W Skeet 159. SWIMMING - W 50m Free 160. SWIMMING - M 1500m Free 161. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Medley Relay 162. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Medley Relay 163. TABLE TENNIS - M Singles 164. TENNIS - W Doubles 165. TENNIS - M Singles By the end of day 9 we will also know several BOXING bronze medalists: W 54kg, M 51kg, M 63.5kg, M 80kg, M 92kg

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)

2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup - Berlin (GER) October 6th - October 8th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Freestyle Thomas Ceccon Men's 200m Freestyle Maximillian Giuliani Men's 200m Backstroke Thomas Ceccon Men's 100m Breaststroke Caspar Corbeau Men's 100m Butterfly Michael Andrew Ben Armbruster Women's 50m Freestyle Bronte Campbell Torri Huske Women's 200m Breaststroke Jenna Strauch