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Thanks! Happy to say I finished the race. Not proud of my time, but my respect for these professional runners has grown even more. Even those shoes couldn't have saved my race. One of my favorite signs I noticed that a supporter was holding said: "Keep smiling, the East Africans have most likely already finished and you only have 25km to go. You can do this." That was me one year ago when I picked up running in October 2022. This was a bucket list thing, but I started to really love running. Want to join me for next year's marathon?

have qualified their first athletes in road cycling (men’s/women’s road race) through the UCI World Rankings

OK, I'm going to try my best now to get banned by Totallympics here because of politics. Hamas are a group of evil bastards whose only purpose for existence is to kill Jews. The current Israeli government exists only to get cruel revenge of the Palestinians, both the ones who are innocent of war crimes and those who guilty of war crimes. The end.

Netherlands team:

European Sitting Volleyball quotas: Men's: Women's: First time italian women have qualified.

Sunday October 15th 2023 becomes a dark day for Scottish sport - they were beaten by England 8-3 at mixed curling world champs. Can't think there will have been many occasions when England have come out on top against Scotland in curling.

Injury permitting, I'm 90% certain that Skupski won't be paired with Salisbury - he will instead opt to go with Dan Evans. They have been the preferred GB doubles pair for Davis Cup this year, have performed pretty well together and seem to get on really well both on and off the court. Salisbury will likely have the choice of Norrie, Murray or Draper as his partner and I think there's a good chance he would opt to go with Murray in a repeat of their pairing from Tokyo where they had a decent run to the quarter-finals and were pretty close to getting through to the medal matches. Not sure if that would change your medal prediction.

DAY 8 - August, 3rd ARCHERY - Women's Individual 1. A. Valencia 2. S. Lee 3. Choirunisa ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC - Women's Vault 1. S. Biles 2. C. Devillard 3. J. Carey ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC - Men's Floor 1. D. Hashimoto 2. A. Dolgopyat 3. M. Karimi ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC - Women's Uneven Bars 1. X. Wei 2. N. Derwael 3. E. Seitz ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC - Men's Pommel Horse 1. R. McClenaghan 2. H. Merdinyan 3. N. Kurbanov BADMINTON - Women's Double 1. Indonesia 2. P.R. of China 3. Bulgaria ATHLETICS - Men's Shot Put 1. R. Crouser 2. T. Walsh 2. D. Romani ATHLETICS - Women's Triple Jump 1. Y. Rojas 2. T. Lafond 3. M. Bekh-Romanchuk ATHLETICS - Men's Decathlon 1. P. Lepage 2. L. Neugerbauer 3. D. Warner ATHLETICS - Mixed 4x400 1. USA 2. Netherlands 3. Ireland ATHLETICS - Women's 100m 1. S. Richardson 2. S. Jackson 3. M.J. Talou EQUESTRIAN - Team Dressage 1. Denmark 2. Germany 3. Great Britain FENCING - Women's Team Sabre 1. France 2. Hungary 3. South Korea JUDO - Mixed Team 1. France 2. Japan 3. Uzbekistan Georgia TABLE TENNIS - Women's Singles 1. ??? 2. ??? 3. kawaii CYCLING - Men's Road Race 1. T. Pogačar 2. M. Pedersen 3. M. Van der Poel ROWING - Women's Single Sculls 1. K. Florijn 2. E. Twigg 3. T. Rigney ROWING - Men's Single Sculls 1. S. Ntsouskos 2. O. Zeidler 3. S. Van Dorp ROWING - Women's Eight 1. Romania 2. Great Britain 3. USA ROWING - Men's Eight 1. Great Britain 2. Netherlands 3. Australia SHOOTING - Women's 25m Pistol 1. D. Vennekamp 2. O. Kostevych 3. S. Feng SHOOTING - Men's Skeet 1. J. Hansen 2. V. Hancock 3. A. Mehelba SWIMMING - Men's 100m Butterfly 1. K. Milák 2. M. Grousset 3. J. Liendo SWIMMING - Women's 200 Ind. Medley 1. S. McIntosh 2. K. Douglass 3. A. Walsh

2023 Turkish Turkcell Open National Team Selection Meet - Edirne (TUR) April 27th - April 29th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Breaststroke Berkay Ogretir *Note: This was a late addition to the qualification events. Kuzey Tuncelli also achieved the OQT for the first time at this event.

The men's is confirmed. Not by UCI yet but there weren't enough points on offer to change 4 spots 3 spots 2 spots with a storming October to leap into 19th place overall

Hahaha, nothing wrong with being lazy Ah yeah, then maybe not the best idea to go running. Yeah, the knee is an issue for a lot of runners. Maybe swimming or cycling is a better alternative then. I also lightly injured my knee a week before the marathon and they were also the first body part that starts to hurt. It's so insane that there are so many videos on YouTube of people trying to run a marathon without any training. Even if you have the stamina, your knees will hate you forever.

Apparently more than a thousand keys from the Pan American village were not identified with the corresponding department number. Kinda funny story, except for the volunteers who had to test the keys one by one

no, I love being so lazy! jokes aside, I couldn't start running even if I wanted...my left knee will never allow me to try and make any effort in that sense (I have a non-operated ACL...just have to be very conservative on that)

about Tennis predictions don't forget that it will be a tournament on clay just after Wimbledon and before the American hard courts campaign I'll be really surprised if many top players will enter the Olympic event, except maybe for the true clay court specialists right now, for instance, I give Sinner's withdrawal just after Wimbledon 2024 at 1.15, not more than that

Day 9 (Saturday, Aug. 3rd) men's Floor women's Vault men's Pommel Horse Day 10 (Sunday, Aug. 4th) men's Rings women's Uneven bars men's Vault Day 11 (Monday, Aug 5th) women's Balance Beam men's Parallel Bars women's Floor men's Horizontal Bar p.s. Wikipedia has a different lineup, but it can't be correct...you just need to watch the total time of each session to understand that the last day is the only one that can accomodate 4 finals instead of 3

I think the top players from Canada will play because there is some prestige there. It was getting them to play in the qualifications that was the problem. Canada has amazing up front talent, but not the depth. It's sort of like our women's swimming relays; our team is a medal contender, but we can't afford to remove many pieces to get to those finals.

Team USA published a nice article explaining Basque pelota and the rules for each variation last week. It also includes an introduction to the three American athletes who qualified for the Games. Link: https://www.teamusa.com/news/2023/october/10/get-to-know-basque-pelota

Such transparency!

Day 8 (August 3, 2024) Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Floor Side note: We’re less than a year out from the Olympics, why are the apparatus schedules still not out yet? Gold- Artem Dolgopyat Silver- Carlos Yulo Bronze- Milad Karimi Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Vault Gold- Simone Biles Silver- Rebecca Andrade Bronze- Alexa Moreno Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Pommel Horse Gold- Rhys McClenaghan Silver- Max Whitlock Bronze (Tie!)- Khoi Young Bronze (Tie!) - Lee Chih-Kai Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Uneven Bars Gold- Qiu Qiyuan Silver- Nina Derwael Bronze- Kaylia Nemour No medal for US here, Shilese Jones places 4th. Archery- Women’s Indivdual Gold- Lim Si-Hyeon Silver- Alejandra Valencia Bronze- Casey Kaufhold Reigning Olympic champion An San upset in the quarterfinals. Athletics- Men’s Decathlon Gold- Pierce LePage Silver- Leo Neugebauer Bronze- Damian Warner Athletics- Women’s Triple Jump Gold- Yulimar Rojas Silver- Liadagmis Povea Bronze- Thea Lafond First ever Olympic medal for Dominica! Leyanis Perez Hernandez 4th (14.95m). Maryna Bekh Romanchuk 7th (14.41m) after having a bad day. Athletics- Men’s Shot Put Gold- Ryan Crouser Silver- Joe Kovacs Bronze- Tom Walsh Lets try this again… Athletics- Mixed 4x400m Relay Gold- United States Silver- Netherlands Bronze- Dominican Republic US wins gold and breaks the WR with another no-name team. Too much to make up for Femke Bol on the anchor leg, but she does win a nice silver for the Netherlands. Reigning Olympic champions Poland finish in 4th. Athletics- Women’s 100m Gold- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Silver- Elaine Thompson-Herah Bronze- Marie-Josée Ta Lou Sha’carri Richardson either fails to make the team, or false starts in the final. Badminton- Women’s Doubles Gold- Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan Silver- Baek Ha-Na/Lee So-Hee Bronze- Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti Equestrian- Team Dressage Gold- Germany Silver- Denmark Bronze- Great Britain Fencing- Women’s Sabre Team Gold- France Silver- South Korea Bronze- Hungary Judo- Mixed Team Gold- Japan Silver- France Bronze- Georgia Bronze- Israel Joint 5th for Netherlands and Brazil. Road Cycling- Men’s Road Race Gold- Mathieu Van Der Poel Silver- Tadej Pogačar Bronze- Wout Van Aert Rowing- Women’s Single Sculls Gold- Karolien Florijn Silver- Emma Twigg Bronze- Tara Rigney Rowing- Men’s Single Sculls Gold- Oliver Zeidler Silver- Stefanos Ntouskos Bronze- Kjetil Borch Rowing- Women’s Eight Gold- Romania Silver- Canada Bronze- United States Rowing- Men’s Eight Gold- Great Britain Silver- Netherlands Bronze- Germany Swimming- Men’s 100m Butterfly Gold- Caleb Dressel Silver- Kristof Milak Bronze- Maxime Grousset Swimming- Women’s 200m Individual Medley Gold- Summer McIntosh Silver- Alex Walsh Bronze- Kate Douglass Swimming- Women’s 800m Freestyle Gold- Katie Ledecky Silver- Ariarne Titmus Bronze- Li Bingje Swimming- Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Gold- China Silver- United States Bronze- Australia Table Tennis- Women’s Singles Gold- Sun Yingsha Silver- Shin Yu-Bin Bronze- Hina Hataya Tennis- Men’s Singles Grigor Dimitrov wins bronze with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 win over Casper Ruud Tennis- Women’s Singles Gold- Iga Swiatek Silver- Karolina Muchova Tennis- Men’s Doubles Gold- Máximo González/Andrés Molteni Silver- Kevin Krawietz/Tim Pütz Shooting- Women’s 25m Pistol Gold- Anna Korakaki Silver- Camille Jedrzejewski Bronze- Doreen Vennekamp Shooting- Men’s Skeet Gold- Vincent Hancock Silver- Marcus Svensson Bronze- Azmy Mehelba No medal for Greece. Boxing- Women’s 60kg Bronze- Yang Wenlu Bronze- Kellie Harrington Medal Table After Day 8 19-6-11– 36 16-21-21– 58 10-10-9– 29 9-9-10– 28 9-7-8– 24 8-10-11– 29 8-3-4– 15 7-6-6– 19 7-1-4– 12 6-8-8– 22 5-2-2– 9 4-6-7– 17 3-4-3– 10 3-3-1– 7 3-2-3– 8 3-2-1– 6 2-4-2– 8 2-2-3– 7 2-2-1– 5 2-2-1– 5 2-1-4– 7 2-1-1– 4 1-3-2– 6 1-2-2– 5 1-2-1– 4 1-2-1– 4 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 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-1– 3 0-1-3– 4 0-1-3– 4 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 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 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 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 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1

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

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

If only you could afford the Magic Shoes.

Fiu in balloon form is somehow equally whimsical and terrifying.

Yep, King of Jordan just said so.

Baseball entries are up. Hopefully we’ll see the rest in the coming days.

The village reminds me so much of the 2015 village, brings back so many memories.

also submitted a bid to host one of the four FIBA 2024 OQT http://www.fbpur.org/not2.asp?r=7DAC6152199D4131824657DFB076F501

Thank you for jogging my memory. So indeed our best achievement. There’s dancing in the streets of Amsterdam tonight.

Results from AFC round 1 WCQ Leg 2 0-0 ( 1-5 Aggregate) 0-3 ( 0-7 Aggregate) 2-1 (3-2 Aggregate) 0-1 (1-3 Aggregate) 0-1 ( 1-2 Aggregate) 0-6 (0-12 Aggregate) 2-0 (2-4 Aggregate) 1-0 (1-0 Aggregate) 0-1 (0-2 Aggregate) 1-1 (1-4 Aggregate) The following countries qualify for Round 2 of AFC WCQ 2026 With more than 2 1/2 years still left for the 2026 , AFC has already eliminated 10 countries from the qualification process!

I'm afraid you're right. Although i hope you are wrong. Still I think Djokovic, Alcaraz and Zverev; Świątek, Gauff and Jabeur will be there if no injuries happen and they will be eligible to play due to these Davis Cup / Fed Cup rules.

Mon 05.08 Day 10 166. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Parallel Bars 167. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - W Floor (and probably W Beam as @phelps mentioned above) 168. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Horizontal Bar 169. ATHLETICS - M Pole Vault 170. ATHLETICS - W Discus Throw 171. ATHLETICS - W 5000m 172. ATHLETICS - W 800m 173. BADMINTON - W Singles 174. BADMINTON - M Singles 175. BASKETBALL 3x3 - M Tournament 176. BASKETBALL 3x3 - W Tournament 177. CANOE SLALOM - M Kayak Cross 178. CANOE SLALOM - W Kayak Cross 179. SHOOTING - M 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 180. SHOOTING - Mixed Team Skeet 181. TRACK CYCLING - W Team Sprint 182. TRIATHLON - Mixed Team Relay TEAM SPORTS: FOOTBALL - M Semis HOCKEY - W Quarters (M Quarters were on Day 9) VOLLEYBALL - M Quarters

Boxing is a huge wildcard since there haven't been that many competitions. It also depends on the draw. Back to Day -2. Baseball is the only sport on display. Too bad Canada failed to qualify. I'm hoping Chile keeps it competitive, but I am doubtful.

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Nah, just google hard for news! I think squash has a decent chance of staying on in Brisbane, and at that point might be able to push towards core sport, so long as it is careful on numbers and doesn't get 'greedy' - you could cobble together a full five events with not much more than 100 athletes (8 direct quota pairs in men's & women's doubles brings total number of quotas to 96, and doubles mixed can then go the tennis group and be cobbled from athletes at the games (as can extra pairs in the men's ad women's doubles i needs be)

no, coastal rowing replacing the normal rowing lightweight events is the only approved change for the core sports all the other requests (there were about 16, if I remember correctly) have been rejected so, there shouldn't be any change to the other sports, but with this IOC we will know that only in July 2028

I suffered with a knee too. I was happy to complete the couch to 5k programme by mostly running on grass 5k is my limit though. Any more and the knee swells! Hats off to everyone who can complete a marathon!

FWIW Ireland’s Mia Griffin earned 270 points in the last week, 260 on the last day and means we will leap from “borderline out” to “comfortable one spot” No changes in the men’s

They’ll be published today. The final world tour events in both men’s and women’s finished today

Circa 73,9 % turnout in POL voting last Sunday. This is pretty amazing the highest turnout since 1989

Let’s say both of them don’t show it an objective way imo France 24 and Euronews are better but not all the time

No Canadian action on this day, but we should get the boxing draws for all 13 Canadians competing

These rankings show points that will count for Paris: https://live-tennis.eu/en/olympics-race-men-singles https://live-tennis.eu/en/olympics-race-women-singles

That's correct, only two events as you told me earlier. it stated also in Squash federation news. Actually you said that before anybody and when WIKIPEDIA was saying 5 medal events by mistake ..credit goes to you my friend ..or you maybe a member of squash federation board

I would say the decision was more motivated by the target market than, "breakdancing simply isn't making enough money." The sports added (outside of cricket, which was added for a different target market obviously) already exist on the American market. Breaking doesn't have the same reach in the United States as American football or lacrosse. As @Laraja noted, the WDSF had to establish an international calendar and formalize the format across competitions. Like any sport, breaking could tap into the American market at some point, but it represents a greater unknown than the chosen six sports.

Van Dijk scoring a 92nd minute penalty, straight in the face of some Greek loser with a laser light middlefinger.gif

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.

All of that will likely be finalized with the rest of the sports program. We usually learn all that information shortly after the previous Olympic Games.

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

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

For women's and men's single this is great https://www.openerarankings.com/WTAHome?Race=6&RankDate=19-06-2023 Road to Paris