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have qualified their first athletes in rugby sevens (men’s tournament) at the Rugby Sevens Oceanian Championships!

They're basically forcing their athletes to peak in April and then have to peak again months later. Number of athletes that can do the QT based on best times this year (WAQ rankings): Men Women OQT JQT OQT JQT 50FR 0 0 0 0 100FR 1 1 0 0 200FR 1 1 0 0 400FR 0 0 0 0 800FR 0 0 0 0 1500FR 0 0 0 0 100BK 1 0 0 0 200BK 4 0 1 0 100BR 0 0 2 2 200BR 5 2 2 1 100FL 4 2 3 0 200FL 4 4 2 2 200IM 2 2 3 1 400IM 6 2 2 2 Total 28 14 15 8

it should be 3 more events in each weapon, but FIE's calendar right now has 4 events in women's Team Foil and only 2 in men's Team Sabre left so, I guess there's a mistake in their list and we actually have 3 events left in all the weapons...I hope they fix that soon (but with FIE never be too optimist, it might take 6 months to understand what they're doing )

Men's Team Foil Current OQR after Today's event 280 Q by Ranking 250 Q by Ranking 244 Q by Ranking 204 Q by Ranking _____________ 176 Q by Continental Quota (Asia) 173 Q by Continental Quota (Europe) 168 163 Q by Continental Quota (Africa) 162 133 122 120 110 108 Q by Continental Quota (Pan-America) 106 92 84 84

has qualified in archery (mixed team recurve)

The government says YES to WOG 2030 in Sweden.

Women's Team Epee Current OQR after Today's event 248 Q by Ranking 236 Q by Ranking 220 Q by Ranking 212 Q by Ranking ________________________________________________ 188 Q by Continental Spot (Europe) 168 Q by Continental Spot (Asia) 161 Q by Continental Spot (Pan-America) 157 147 144 133 129 126 Q by Continental Spot (Africa) 126 119 87

Women's Team Sabre Current OQR after Today's event 245 Q by Ranking 238 Q by Ranking 236 Q by Ranking 202 Q by Ranking ________________________________________________ 197 Q by Continental Spot (Europe) 162 Q by Repechage (Pan-American Spot NOT awarded) 160 Q by Continental Spot (Asia) 145 139 136 136 120 116 110 108 Q by Continental Spot (Africa) 95 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 77 (NOT participating this weekend, maybe also in the next future) 76 (Must enter the Top 16 to qualify with the Continetal Spot) 64 (NOT participating to any WC event) 64

Women's Team Sabre ( Algiers) Gold: South Korea Silver: France Bronze: Hungary Semifinals South Korea b. Hungary 45-27 France b. Ukraine 45-34 Bronze Medal Match Hungary b. Ukraine 45-39 Gold Medal Match South Korea b. France 45-43 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/1409?tab=results

maybe the most defined situation of them all, in the men's Team Sabre basically, all the teams currently in qualifying position will be the qualified teams at the end of the OQP have now more than 20 points to make up to for the European spot, have 20 points to make up to for the Asian spot everything else is set in stone

Men's Team Sabre Current OQR after Today's event 264 Q by Ranking 260 Q by Ranking 245 Q by Ranking 200 Q by Ranking ________________________________________________ 188 Q by Continental Spot (Europe) 168 Q by Continental Spot (Asia) 162 149 Q by Continental Spot (Africa) 148 135 124 Q by Continental Spot (Pan-America) 120 118 114 103 100

Nacra 17 Qualified

Canada wins!!

Men's Team Epee Current OQR after Today's event 245 Q by Ranking 232 Q by Ranking 200 Q by Ranking 198 Q by Ranking ________________________________________ 188 Q by Continental Spot (Asia) 184 Q by Continental Spot (Pan-America) 174 168 Q by Continental Spot (Africa) 129 Q by Continental Spot (Europe) 127 125 124 119 115 96 87 84 78 78 78

Fantastic performance from Peťa yesterday!!! Let's hope that continues through the rest of the season. Also nice to see the team getting competitive again, congrats to Liensberger! Let's hope that at least the women's downhills in Zermatt will go as scheduled... Otherwise FIS might abandon this idea for next season.

rumors/reports say that Alexander Komarov (World U23 Champion 2021) will wrestle for Serbia from 2024. it didn't take long for Serbia to buy a "replacement" for Zurabi Datunashvili. apparently he is married to a Serbian girl so this one makes sense. I mean comparing to Arsalan, Datunashvili, Kajaia, Tibilov and Tsabolov , but who cares, he is good and will one of the contenders for the quota.

have 88 Pts Today they won all 3 races and pulled out a miracle comeback in the standings, however it might be too late for them

in the women's Team epee is basically all done and dusted despite the 3 events left the only possible comeback is overtaking just on the finish line, but it won't be easy at all the other spots look to be set in stone, just a few positional changes are possible

Women's Team Epee ( Legnano) Gold: Ukraine Silver: South Korea Bronze: Poland Semifinals South Korea b. Poland 39-35 Ukraine b. Hong Kong 45-40 Bronze Medal Match Poland b. Hong Kong 45-34 Gold Medal Match Ukraine b. South Korea 41-40 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/751?tab=results

Men's Team Sabre ( Algiers) Gold: United States Silver: South Korea Bronze: Italy Semifinals USA b. Hungary 45-29 South Korea b. Italy 45-37 Bronze Medal Match Italy b. Hungary 45-33 Gold Medal Match USA b. South Korea 45-32 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/1411?tab=results

Miracles don't happen twice, I wasn't expecting Alipour to win the gold/quota here, he had his run in Hangzhou instead a month ago. but he looked a bit out of shape here. he didn't slip in KO rounds but never got close to his AG records. if he wants to qualify next year he has to be faster than this. most of his opponents are from Asia though. He won everything possible in this sport, World title, World Games title, Asian title, Asian Games title (twice). I know he can't win the Olympics but I hope at least he qualifies. he deserves that for all of his hard work which he did mostly alone without a coach , etc.

qualify for Paris after defeating 54-0 in the Olympic Final!

Men's Team Epee ( Bern) Gold: France Silver: Italy Bronze: Hungary Semifinals Italy b. Hungary 42-33 France b. South Korea 45-36 Bronze Medal Match Hungary b. South Korea 45-32 Gold Medal Match France b. Italy 41-37 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/559

Vlhova won't start any of the speed races this year, so I guess the Overall World Cup is not a question for her still, it's a bad result towards the Slalom WC Ranking

Men's Team Foil ( Istanbul) Gold: Italy Silver: Japan Bronze: United States Semifinals Italy b. USA 45-39 Japan b. China 45-36 Bronze Medal Match USA b. China 45-42 Gold Medal Match Italy b. Japan 45-41 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/1407?tab=results

women's Team Epee ( Legnano) GMM: South Korea vs Ukraine BMM: Poland vs Hong Kong Italy are playing for 5th place vs China men's Team Epee ( Bern) GMM: France vs Italy BMM: Hungary vs South Korea men's Team Sabre ( Algiers) GMM: South Korea vs United States BMM: Hungary vs Italy

Chad did it! Very impressive given they were only the 6th seeds and played most of the matches as underdogs.

4 matches vs in a single day? And the score is level - 2:2. The tie will be decided in football ))

women's Team Sabre ( Algiers) GMM: South Korea vs France BMM: Hungary vs Ukraine

So, here is the background story behind the current saga. Take some popcorn For many people around the world, when it comes to Bulgaria and football, they associate us with the 1994 World Cup run to the 1/2. Those players are without a doubt the most famous Bulgarian generation, as many of them also played in some of the biggest clubs in Europe. If you are a foreigner, you would rightfully think, that these people should be heralded for this achievement, which will never be duplicated. And for a large part of the older generations they still are. But for the generations, that came after them and for the ones, that have been brewing in our football world, opinions couldn't be more opposite. The people who were once deemed "untouchable" by the whole nation are now some of the most hated people, on the level of politicians.. It's a Walter White TV-esq transformation. The "heroes" of the 1994 World Cup have been ruling the Bulgarian Football Union for 18 years now. After their careers ended in the early 2000s, on the heels of their popularity they made a campaign to take control of Bulgarian football, bring a more youth oriented mindset and get rid of the old model. And of course they won the Union election in 2005. But as the years went along, much progress wasn't being seen in the National team, in the youth ones, or the clubs themselves. The trajectory was actually going downhill. So probably over a decade has passed of nothing happening and around 2016-17 talks and anger started appearing, that it was time for a change. But it was largely amongst fans and journalists, not many people directly involved in football were taking it seriously. But more years passed and things got worse and worse and more people started talking, which has led the BFU to become like a dictatorship.. So the BFU has elections every 4 years to elect a President, who then proposes a board of 10-12 or how many people, i don't know... Safe to say, that these elections go as fair, as State elections in Russia. All clubs, who are members of the BFU can vote (if they can prove they are active). Previously there was a points system, teams from the First division got a X amount of point for their vote, the ones from the Second got Y and so forth. But the 1994 guys changed to the system to be more "democratic", so every club has 1 vote. Now if you are Levski Sofia or CSKA with combined 60 titles, or a club with a budget of 15 million, you get the same power in deciding how the Bulgarian football is going to be run, with a 5th division team from a village of 600 people. And in an Union comprising 300-400 clubs, even if the top 40-50 "professional" ones all voted together, it won't matter in the end. Because you know how easily regional clubs can be persuaded, when their whole existence depends on the BFU. This is only one thing, that the 1994 guys have made to assure they stay in power. They have repeatedly said, that they won't leave, they see no fault in them whatsoever, they have done their job in "paying the bills" and it's not their fault we came to be one of the worst teams in Europe. Everyone's opinion doesn't bother them one bit and they won't vacate the BFU, because they were "elected". I'll continue with the latest so called elections next, but in some time, as work came up. There is still more story leading up to the Hungary game.

Stage 2 in Levi (FIN) Women´s Slalom: 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 1:51.68 2. Leona Popovic 1:51.86 3. Lena Duerr 1:51.98 Full Final Results HERE

so far, good results for the men, not the same for the women men's Team Foil ( Istanbul) GMM: Italy vs Japan BMM: United States vs China men's Team Sabre ( Algiers) Semifinals: South Korea vs Italy & Hungary vs United States women's Team Sabre ( Algiers) Semifinals: South Korea vs Hungary & France vs Ukraine ( lost to once again in the QTFs, just like at the Home Worlds...and then they also lost to , so now they have to fence for the 7th place ) men's Team Epee ( Bern) Semifinals: France vs South Korea & Italy vs Hungary women's Team Epee ( Legnano) Quarterfinals still running: vs , vs , vs , vs and the losers are down 20-11 after 4/9 assaults

Well, whoopsie for Vlhova Nice podium for Popovic

Rahmad Mulyono gets the Olympic quota in Speed (men)

qualifies for Paris after defeating 24-0 in the Olympic Match!

OQP Final v.

Auger-Aliassime is now perfect in 2022 team competitions!! (Davis Cup, ATP Cup, Laver Cup)

Yes, one man and one woman

the women's Team Sabre has probably the most complicated situation of them all, since it's the only weapon where the repechage is required the Pan-American spot, in fact, right now wouldn't be awarded, as no team from that Continent is in the Top 16 of the WR (and Today's good result by put further distance between the only real candidate and their dream of making it to the Games) because of that, would be the (undeserved) lucky Nation...they're basically out of contention for either a direct qualification and for the European spot, but Panamerican teams' faults made them this great gift however, more European teams ( and raising above all) could still catch the declining Italians the current top 5 Nations in the OQR can already consider themselves safe in Paris

Canada wins the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup! So Canada is now the current Davis and Billie Jean King Cup champions!

Interesting. If this works France could be gold medal favourites

Stakusic beats Trevisan to give Canada a 1-0 lead over Italy in the Billie Jean cup final! Trevisan had been undefeated in the tournament thus far.

This is 1000% the fault of the Bulgarian Football Union. I'm travelling now, but will tell the whole story later today, so everyone can read this circus.

Taekwondo ostao je jos samo GP Finale do zakljucka renkinga i sad znamo: - Lena Stojkovic i Ivan Sapina su osigurali OI u Parizu - Matea Jelic ima jos teoretske sanse, ali treba joj pobjeda na GP Finalu, sto se vrlo vjerovatno nece dogoditi - Marko Golubic sa malim izgledima, ali jos ima sansu. Na zalost rezulati sa Azijskog Presidents Kupa mu ne odgovarjau. Jordanac osvojio zlato, Korejanac srebro. Barem je brazilac ispao u 1/4 finalu Panamerickih igara Stanje prije GP finala 4. Kareem JOR 367 5. Jin KOR 338 6. Golubic CRO 321 7. Perez Polo ESP 307 8. Pontes BRA 292 9. Cala ESP 276 10. Liang CHN 251 Ovih sedam je jos u igri za dva (mozda tri) mjesta. Golubicu naravno prvo mjesto na GP finalu znaci kvota. Drugo i trece mjesto bi mogli biti dovoljno, ali zavisi o rezulataima ostalih, dok cetvrto mjesto sigurno nece biti dovoljno. Mnogo ce ovisiti o zdrijebu. Ako budu svi najbolji nastupali, onda bi bio 5 nositelj i u 1 kolu bi mogao na Alhalwanija iz Jordana, a u1/4 finalu na Kareema iz Jordana. Polufinale bi bilo protiv Rashitova iz Uzbekistana. Nisam bas optimistican.

I think there are potentially much stronger csndidates than Radacanu. However, as a two time Olympic champion as well as a multiple Grand Slam winner, I think Murray has a good insurance policy if he doesn't orherwise qualify and fancies playing on clay again. Norrie needs to perform well in the first half of next year and take advantage of his much higher ATP ranking in the two remaining GS tournies before the rankings close.

Peter Jedinak, who on his Instagram has the following: Skeleton sport🛷(who doesn’t know google it)

There are still two races left on the youth series (both in Innsbruck), but the following NOCs are in a very good position to win at least one quota. M Monobob - W Monobob - M Skeleton - W Skeleton - A rather eclectic list of nations at the moment. Unless a handful of new nations show up in Innsbruck, there will be quite a few nations getting more than one quota in each event.

FINAL MEDAL TABLE USA ___________ 41-31-33--105 P.R. of China __ 38-25-18--81 France ________ 23-17-18--58 Great Britain __ 18-22-13--53 Japan _________ 15-18-7--40 Australia ______ 11-18-14--43 Germany ______ 10-11-11--32 Netherlands __ 10-10-12--32 Italy ___________ 8-15-15--38 Hungary _______ 8-8-7--23 Denmark _______ 7-4-5--16 R. of Korea _____ 6-11-5--22 Canada ________ 6-5-11--21 Georgia ________ 6-3-4--13 Romania _______ 6-2-2--10 Norway ________ 6-0-2--8 Spain __________ 5-6-8--19 New Zealand __ 5-7-6--18 Sweden _______ 5-2-2--9 Slovenia _______ 5-1-2--8 Brazil __________ 4-5-11--20 Türkiye ________ 4-5-8--17 Ukraine ________ 4-3-7--14 Kazakhstan ____ 4-3-5--12 Poland _________ 3-7-7--17 Jamaica ________ 3-7-3--13 Iran _____________ 3-5-3-11 Belgium ________ 3-4-3--10 Kenya __________ 3-3-5--11 Czech Republic _ 3-2-5--10 Bulgaria ________ 3-2-3--8 Thailand ________ 3-1-0--4 Greece _________ 3-0-4--7 Cuba ___________ 2-4-3--9 Uzbekistan _____ 2-3-8--13 Ethiopia ________ 2-3-5--10 Ireland __________ 2-3-5--10 Croatia _________ 2-3-3--8 India ____________ 2-2-5--9 Serbia __________ 2-2-4--8 Indonesia _______ 2-1-3--6 Colombia _______ 2-1-2--5 Slovakia _________ 2-1-1--4 Tunisia __________ 2-1-1--4 Lithunia _________ 2-0-3--5 Austria __________ 2-0-2--4 Uganda _________ 2-0-2--4 Switzerland _____ 1-4-5--10 Egypt ___________ 1-3-3--7 Ecuador _________ 1-3-2--6 Israel ____________ 1-3-2--6 Morocco _________ 1-2-2--5 Armenia __________ 1-1-6--8 Mexico ___________ 1-1-3--5 Mongolia _________ 1-1-3--5 Kyrgyzstan _______ 1-1-2--4 Bahrein ___________ 1-1-0--2 Qatar _____________ 1-1-0--2 Azerbaijan _______ 1-0-9--10 Dominican Rep. __ 1-0-1--2 South Africa _____ 1-0-1--2 Venezuela _______ 1-0-1--2 Bahamas ________ 1-0-0--1 Burkina Faso ____ 1-0-0--1 Cyprus __________ 1-0-0--1 Puerto Rico ______ 1-0-0--1

has qualified their first athlete in sailing (women’s laser radial) via Adriana Penruddocke at the Pan American Games!