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and podium for Andorra

Well, yeah, I mean Tim Singer said it so I didn't mean it was a rumour You can imagine my surprise though, when having missed this news completely and suddenly hearing one of the dominant teams of the past many years is done

Women's Individual Foil ( Novi Sad) Gold: Alice Volpi Silver: Lee Kiefer Bronze: Leonie Ebert & Jessica Guo Zi Jia Semifinals Volpi b. Guo 15-6 Kiefer b. Ebert 15-9 Final Volpi b. Kiefer 15-13 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/125?tab=results

@MHSN FIE have fixed that men's Sabre now actually has 3 more Team competitions in the OQP: Tbilisi (11/02/2024), Padua (3/3/2024) and Budapest (24/3/2024) on the other hand, it's still uclear why also the women's Team Foil has 3 more events in early 2024, when Tomorrow the 3rd OQT is already scheduled (most likely, the tournament in on April 21st, 2024 won't count towards the Olympic Qualification, but nobody has said/written anything about it)

Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final - Results Men: 1. Ilia Malinin - 314.66 2. Shoma Uno - 297.34 3. Yuma Kagiyama - 288.65 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Women: 1. Kaori Sakamoto - 225.70 2. Loena Hendrickx - 203.36 3. Hana Yoshida - 203.16 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Pairs: 1. Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin - 206.43 2. Sara Conti / Niccolo Macii - 205.88 3. Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps - 204.30 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Ice Dance: 1. Madison Chock / Evan Bates - 221.61 2. Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri - 215.51 3. Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier - 213.58 Results Rhythm Dance Results Rhythm Dance Scores Free Dance Results Free Dance Scores

JT Boe’s long two week career slump is over; wins again today.

Kaylee got close her the 50 back WR today clocking 26.98 leading off a relay so maybe we're on 100 back WR watch again this week.

Isn't that what makes things like this fun though? Like TISC, it's fun to realize tons of people actually experience music (or sports, in this case) in many entirely different ways than we do ourselves.

Good list, I’d add Markus Rehm (athletics- men’s T64 long jump), Morteza Mehrzadselakjani (men’s sitting volleyball), and Veronika Aigner (women’s visually impaired alpine skiing)

If I remember correctly, we set our alarms to watch Aline's races in those championships Irrelevant yet fun fact: next month we'll be keeping some of her equipment safe in our garage while they're off to compete in Slovenia, so they don't need to haul everything everywhere

Speaking of Gymnastics (Simone Biles comes to mind), what you guys think about adding the "Comeback of the Year" category? Do we have enough athletes/national teams that have made a comeback performance this year?

Dual Moguls WC Idre Fjäll, Sweden Men Gold- Mikael Kingsbury Silver- Rasmus Stegfeldt Bronze- Ikuma Horishima Women Gold- Jaelin Kauf Silver- Rino Yanagimoto Bronze- Jakara Anthony Full Results

I know para winter sports are often not exactly the most competitive, because of the often rather small fields of participants, but...Aline Rocha really should be on the list of suggestions as well, I'd say. World champion in para-cross-country skiing plus two bronze medals...for Brazil, of all places. I'd have said the same if she was Chilean by the way A truly 'exotic' athlete (it's not like she actually lives and trains in North America or Europe or something) winning several winter sports world championships medals, including a first-ever gold....that is something special.

And thanks for the annual reminder that next year I am REALLY going to write down the cool and inspiring and impressive things and performances I see in sports.....just like in the previous 10 years I forgot it entirely, which will make it insanely hard to remember...well, basically just what actually happened

Women's Individual Sabre GP ( Orleans) Gold: Manon Brunet-Apithy Silver: Olga Kharlan Bronze: Sara Balzer & Cecilia Berder Semifinals Brunet-Apithy b. Balzer 15-8 Kharlan b. Berder 15-11 Final Brunet-Apithy b. Kharlan 15-12 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/152?tab=results

Men's Individual Sabre GP ( Orleans) Gold: Matyas Szabo Silver: Maxime Pianfetti Bronze: Pietro Torre & Sebastien Patrice Semifinals Szabo b. Torre 15-10 Pianfetti b. Patrice 15-11 Final Szabo b. Pianfetti 15-10 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/158?tab=results

How about combining the mixed category with the pairs and doubles to make it “Best Doubles / Pairs / Mixed Team Award”? Not sure if it fits but it is a way to capture all of the other non-individual events in one grouping.

Stage 3 in Klingenthal (GER) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Karl Geiger 274.7 2. Stefan Kraft 273.5 3. Ryoyu Kobayashi 270.7 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 3 in Ostersund (SWE) Men´s Sprint Classical: 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 2. Erik Valnes 3. James Schoonmaker Full Final Result HERE

festival in Orleans in the Sabre Grand Prix there are 2 Frenchmen in the men's semifinals (and they face each other, so 1 is guaranteed the final) and 3 in the women's semifinals Men's Semis: Sebastien Patrice vs Maxime Pianfetti & Pietro Torre vs Matyas Szabo Women's Semis: Sara Balzer vs Manon Brunet-Apithy & Cecilia Berder vs Olga Kharlan the Final Four are scheduled for 6.30 p.m. CET (live on Youtube)

Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final - Results Men: 1. Rio Nakata - 227.77 2. Hyungyeom Kim - 223.61 3. Adam Hagara - 213.26 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Women: 1. Mao Shimada - 206.33 2. Jia Shin - 200.75 3. Rena Uezono - 196.46 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Pairs: 1. Anastasiia Metelkina / Luka Berulava - 202.11 2. Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov - 168.83 3. Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher - 156.33 Results Short Program Results Short Program Scores Free Skating Results Free Skating Scores Ice Dance: 1. Leah Neset / Artem Markelov - 177.09 2. Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov - 168.78 3. Darya Grimm / Mikhail Savitskiy - 159.41 Results Rhythm Dance Results Rhythm Dance Scores Free Dance Results Free Dance Scores

it will never happen...

Stage 10 in Val d´Isere (FRA) Men´s Giant Slalom: 1. Marco Odermatt 2:13.93 2. Marco Schwarz 2:14.91 3. Joan Verdu 2:15.25 Full Final Results HERE

not "apparently"... https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/toni-eggert-sascha-benecken-luge-retire

Doual moguls, they're ok but crashed each other.

Apparently Eggert/Benecken retired? Wow, had I missed some massive news there And Steu together with.....Kindl?!

Stage 9 in St. Moritz (SUI) Women´s Downhill: 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 1:28.84 2. Sofia Goggia 1:28.99 3. Federica Brignone 1:29.01 Full Final Results HERE

Halfpipe WC Secret Garden, China Women Gold- Eileen Gu (94.25) Silver- Hanna Faulhaber (82.25) Bronze- Amy Fraser (79.25) Men Gold- Alex Ferreira (91.00) Silver- Luke Harrold (89.25) Bronze- Hunter Hess (88.75) Full Results

100th victory in career for Mikaela Shiffrin And still 32 to go Most win in women's winter sports: Marit Bjorgen - 131 Gunda Niemann - 120 Cornelia Kissling - 108 Mikaela Shiffrin - 100

Adam Hagara the first figure skater in the Grand Prix finals (Juniors) completed his routines and finished in historic 3rd place. I know it means nothing obviously in a worldwide stage, but this 3rd place is still just something epochal for our dying figure skating Very well done Adam! Way to go !

Medal for

The events with only or eligible are still good, they met the minimum standard at the 2023 World Championships. Obviously the events with no eligible nations will be reallocated. For the ILCA 7 only one quota will be awarded (assuming World Sailing does change the qualification protocol again)

Reading the threads on Swimswam the concensus seems to be that Ceccon has broken the breaststroke rules repeatedly at this meet. Have no idea if this has been the case in previous events and don't pretend to know whether they are correct or not although I would say that they are mostly longstanding contributors to the publication and do seem to know their swimming.

Felt like scrolling through the Olympic schedule again! Looking forward to watch: Day 10 Monday 5 August Athletics Beach volleyball round of 16 Basketball 3x3 finals Field hockey W quarterfinals Track cycling Potentially: Gymnastics apparatus finals, Badminton W singles finals, Triathlon mixed relay, Volleyball M quarterfinals, sport climbing Day 11 Tuesday 6 August Athletics Beach volleyball quarterfinals (LIVE IN PARIS) Handball W quarterfinals Field Hockey M semi finals Track cycling Potentially: Volleyball and Water polo W quarterfinals and Football W semi finals, sport climbing Day 12 Wednesday 7 August Athletics Beach volleyball quarterfinals Field hockey W semi finals (LIVE IN PARIS) Track cycling Potentially: Handball M quarterfinals, Volleyball M semi finals, sport climbing Day 13 Thursday 8 August Athletics Beach volleyball semi finals Handball W semi finals Field Hockey M finals Swimming 10 km W Track cycling Potentially: Volleyball and Waterpolo W semi finals, sport climbing Day 14 Friday 9 August Athletics (LIVE IN PARIS) Beach volleyball finals Field hockey W finals Sport climbing boulder/lead M finals Track cycling Potentially: Handball M semi finals, Volleyball M bronze final Day 15 Saturday 10 August Athletics Beach volleyball finals Handball W finals Sport climbing boulder/lead W finals Track cycling Potentially: Football W final, Volleyball M finals, W bronze final, Waterpolo W final Day 16 Sunday 11 August Athletics Track Cycling Volleyball W finals Potentially: Handball M finals Closing ceremony

Bobsleigh WC La Plagne, France Two Man Gold- Michel Vogt/Sandro Michel (1:58.51) Silver- Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (1:58.58) Bronze- Francesco Friedrich/Thorsten Margis (1:58.94) Full Results

There are so many worthy candidates for men's and women's teams that I don't think any mixed team would have enough votes to compete if we had a single category, making the merge kind of pointless. So, if we can't have a "mixed" category (not enough contenders), perhaps it would be better to include them in another category as suggested.

only NON-Olympic action Today in Doha and swept both the women's -64kg and the men's -81kg classes in the women's -64kg, the 20-year-old lifter Ri Suk broke seven junior world records in five good lifts. When she made 146kg on her final attempt, she also bettered the senior C&J world record set 4 years ago by Deng Wei, the Chinese star who won Olympic gold and 5 world titles before retiring in 2020. Her 264kg Total is only 2kg shy of Deng's WR. Silver also went to thanks to Rim Um Sim, who lifted 113-141-254 kg. Meanwhile Ruth Ayodele won the Bronze medal with 98-120-218 kg. in the men's -81kg, Ri Chong Song and Erwin Rahmat Abdullah had an epic fight, but at the end the man from missed the 214kg lift that would have given him the gold medal and a new C&J world record also in this weight class. Finally, Ri won the gold medal with 374kg Total ahead of Abdullah with 362kg. Both these scores are a lot better than Oscar Reyes' winning effort at the last world championships back in September. Today's bronze medal went to Gaygysyz Torayev with a modest Total of 338kg.

Kraft's streak ends, as Geiger jumps from the mist for the win. Really good start for Germany as old faces Geiger, Wellinger and Paschke are showing form from 5 years ago.

I'm super impressed by Caspar Corbeau this tournament, with a 100m breaststroke bronze and now 200m breaststroke gold he has really stepped up to the elite level. I'm excited to see how Kamminga Corbeau and Tes Schouten keep developing as a training group to compete for the medals in Paris! Meanwhile Toussaint is still a force to be reckoned with in the specific context of backstroke in a European short course tournament.

I'd throw in Ezra Frech as well. He broke the T63 High Jump WR and won the world title this year. He has the potential to become one of the para athletes whose fame transcends the Paralympic Movement. Definitely a name to keep track of heading into Paris 2024.

Wow, v. in the final. Who could have predicted that v. will determine the final quota place for The World Games 2025.

Men's Individual Foil ( Tokoname) Gold: Alexander Massialas Silver: Mohamed Hamza Bronze: Edoardo Luperi & Ryan Choi Chun Yin Semifinals Massialas b. Choi 15-8 Hamza b. Luperi 15-13 Final Massialas b. Hamza 15-4 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/135?tab=results

Podium for Haecki-Gross!

Top 5 assured for

They follow that up with a dominant win over Samoa (33-7) to move to 2-0 after losing 24-0 to them earlier in the week. As a reminder, this team finished dead last at the HSBC Dubai Rugby Sevens Series (although they played better than their placement suggested)

Podium for Grecu in monobob

it sure does look like they will say "no thanks, let's have more europeans in paris"

Still a couple of years to go, but why not. For my predictions, I’ll also be adding some lesser known names (mainly juniors) that have shown success before but have yet to translate it to the WC circuit. First though, I’m going to complete my Paris 2024 predictions (Day 15/16 medalists, medal summary by event, and a list of all projected medals by NOC.

Luge WC Lake Placid, United States Men’s Singles Gold- Max Langenhan (1:41.952) Silver- Jonas Müller (1:42.398) Bronze- Nico Gleirscher (1:42.615) Men’s Doubles Gold- Zachary Di Gregorio/Sean Hollander (1:27.630) Silver- Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl (1:27.682) Bronze- Juri Thomas Gatt/Riccardo Martin Schoepf (1:27.702) Women’s Doubles Gold- Selena Egle/Lara Michaela Kipp (1:28.924) Silver- Saskia Eitberger/Dajana Schirmer (1:29.037) Bronze- Andrea Voetter/Marion Oberhofer (1:29.470) Full Results

This was way back,but i about died laughing hearing an African Olympic committee president tell ours that the baltics are the ones causing all the drama and should be thrown out of the olympics,europeans have this thing where everyone is supposed to have their position on everything and it's funny in cases like this when it gets shut down.Anyway point is your right,Africa,Asia litereally don't give a fuck,honestly,these european countries sense of self importance is just sad