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2015 men’s pole vault champion Shawnacy Barber has died at the age of 29 from unspecified medical issues.

Tournament 2 (Muscat, Oman) Day 3 results Pool A 6-0 3-3 FInal Standings 9 (+14) 4 (-3) 3 (-7) 1 (-4) Pool B 3-0 0-4 Final Standings 7 (+12) 7 (+6) 3 (-4) 0 (-14) Semifinals v v

Not your fault Laraja but those rankings (as published by the UCI) are wrong. They’ve made a mistake with the European championships (AFAIK!)

Anna Blinkova needed 10 match points to see off Elena Rybakina in three sets. She also saved 6 MP in the Super Tiebreak. 22-20 is the longest tie-break in women's Grand Slam match ever.

Half of Slovakia was up this night as our first 2 picks of the 2022 draft met for the very first time in NHL and its 1:0 Slaf. Slaf opened the score while Nemec was sitting in the front seat right next to him Nemec despite a -3 ended the game at least with an assist too, a couple of nice stolen pucks (one really nice against Slaf) and another huge portion of 22 minutes of Ice Time ! Both 19 years old kids playing in their first lines. A special night for Slovaks. Was great to be up this night. Thanks boys, we proud of you Slaf Goal Nemec assist on the tying goal

Collins with a huge choke. Świątek won the last five games of the match

Y'all need to let these two rest. They've earned it dammit Honestly, assuming they want to race, it is cool that they show up every once in a while and try to be competitive.

Und stehen zum Teil nun auch nicht so schlecht da. Sauer ist Weltranglisten-Fünfte! Die Hockey-Frauen sind qualifiziert.

Yep, I’m in.

Meanwhile on the sliding track, it looks more and more like the women's monobob is indeed going to be the least open competition of all: Maja Voigt definitely looks like she's going to run away with this, as one would have expected beforehand. And Latvia is still very much on course for at least 3-4 skeleton medals, where 2 golds + 2-3 other medals wouldn't even be surprising at all. Super strong team!

4th team in París !!!

qualifies for Paris after a 0 (3) - 0 (0) win over

Whoah, check out what was just on the radio here, never heard that before on the radio so wanted to share it with y'all

I decided to do a quota simulation for Paris, based off the 2022/2023 World Aquatic Championships prelims/finals relay results. I’m doing this in two parts, as I’m about to watch the Australian Open. Without further ado, here’s the men’s relays that would be qualified: Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Already Qualified Through 2023 Worlds Italy Australia United States Qualified Through Quota Simulation Great Britain (3:11.14 / 2022 Worlds Time) Hungary (3:11.24 / 2022 Worlds Time) China (3:11.38 / 2023 Worlds Time) Canada (3:11.99 / 2022 Worlds Time) Brazil (3:12.21 / 2022 Worlds Time) Spain (3:13.77 / 2023 Worlds Time) Serbia (3:13.83 / 2022 Worlds Time) Israel (3:14.03 / 2023 Worlds) Germany (3:14.04 / 2022 Worlds) France (3:14.54 / 2023 Worlds) Japan (3:14.84 / 2023 Worlds) Sweden (3:15.46 / 2023 Worlds) Poland (3:15.55 / 2023 Worlds) Next Best: KOR 2022 (3:15.69), GRE 2023 (3:15.86), SGP 2023 (3:17.89) Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Already Qualified Through 2023 Worlds Great Britain United States Australia Qualified Through Quota Simulation France (7:03.86 / 2023 Worlds) Italy (7:03.95 / 2023 Worlds) South Korea (7:04.07 / 2023 Worlds) Brazil (7:04.69 / 2022 Worlds) Germany (7:06.14 / 2023 Worlds) Hungary (7:06.27 / 2022 Worlds) Japan (7:08.70 / 2023 Worlds) China (7:09.53 / 2022 Worlds) Israel (7:09.78 / 2023 Worlds) Canada (7:10.67 / 2023 Worlds) Spain (7:10.85 / 2023 Worlds) Switzerland (7:10.87 / 2023 Worlds) Singapore (7:20.31 / 2022 Worlds) Next Best: N/A (next highest ranked relay Vietnam, is over 9 seconds slower so decided not to include any countries here) Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Already Qualified Through 2023 Worlds United States China Australia Qualified Through Quota Simulation Italy (3:27.51 / 2022 Worlds) France (3:29.88 / 2023 Worlds) Great Britain (3:30.16 / 2023 Worlds) Germany (3:32.11 / 2023 Worlds) Canada (3:32.11 / 2023 Worlds) Japan (3:32.36 / 2023 Worlds) Austria (3.32.80 / 2022 Worlds) South Korea (3:34.25 / 2023 Worlds) Poland (3:34.66 / 2023 Worlds) Brazil (3:34.66 / 2022 Worlds) Ireland (3:35.03 / 2023 Worlds) Spain (3:35.13 / 2023 Worlds) Next Best: SUI 2023 (3:35.46), POR 2023 (3:35.63), ISR (3:36.47), MEX 2023 (3:37.25)

Playoff Brackets are now set for this year’s CEV Champions League Volleyball Women Playoffs (Up until the final, all team will play a two-legged series, in case the teams are tied in terms of the number of sets won, they play a golden set to determine who advances) Vakifbank v. Rzeszów (1st quarter of the draw, winner to play Conegliano) Eczacıbaşı v. Prometey (2nd quarter of the draw, winner to play Scandicci) Stuggart v. Potsdam (4th quarter of the draw, winner to play Fenerbahçe) Quarterfinals Conegliano v. TBD Scandicci v. TBD Łks Łódź v. Vero Volley Milano Fenerbahçe v. TBD Men Playoffs (Up until the final, all team will play a two-legged series, in case the teams are tied in terms of the number of sets won, they play a golden set to determine who advances) Berlin v. Tours (1st quarter of the draw, winner to face Trentino) Halkbank v. ZASKA (2nd quarter of the draw, winner to face Lube Civitanova) Guaguas v. LVI Praha (4th quarter of the draw, winner to face Zíraat Bank) Quarterfinals Trentino v. TBD Lube Civitanova v. TBD Jastrzębski Węgiel v. Piacenza Zíraat Bank v. TBD

Also Gauff's draw is ridiculously easy now, as always...

Can't believe that Barber is gone! During the 2015 Pan Am Games I sent a couple of athletes friends request on facebook. He not only accepted but was always super friendly and during the Rio Games we chatted a bit more and he even wrote he would try to get me tickets for the pole vault final. Was super happy to read his come out post on facebook in the spring of 17, but hard to know what was it about. Afterwards he disappeared from social media and his results got a bit behind as well.

then part II obviously

probably with 2 of (depends on the final games).

I can confirm 99% that & will be in pool A in Paris with . Should be noted that, while all this is happening, & are playing a series of 6 (!) ranked tests in Cape Town to (likely) determine the bottom seed in OG tournament.

Qualified Olympic Games 2024 (Last Qualification olympic Londres 2012) / Last Ticket Olympic

Oh man, was für ein Krimi bei den deutschen Hockey-Frauen im Halbfinale des Quali-Turniers gegen Indien. Erst lange gebraucht um endlich in Führung zu gehen und dann bekommen die eine Minute vor Schluss den Ausgleich. Dann vergeben sie 2 der ersten 3 Penalties und schaffen dann doch wieder den Ausgleich. Dann treffen sie den Penalty und freuen sich und dann wird ihnen dieser ggf. fragwürdigerweise wieder aberkannt. So kann man sich auch über ein eigentlich fest eingeplantes Olympiaticket noch richtig freuen.

Qualified Olympic Games 2024 (Last Qualification olympic Londres 2012) / Last Ticket Olympic

qualifies for Paris after a 2 (4) - 2 (3) win over and will play for the remaining Olympic quota.

Olympic Rankings by Nations updated as of January 16th, 2024

Brazil in 18th out of 31, what the hell I guess simply competing sometimes really is enough Nice to see Kuzmina

3rd tie for Iraq in Men's handball Asian Championship after tying with Japan and KSA 😂

Qualified Olympic Games 2024

Retired 40 years old Anastasiya Kuzmina and Matej Kazár are in the final roster for the European Championships. Kuzmina will start in Sprint & Mixed Relay, Matej Kazár in Sprint 34 countries overall are expected to compete, since it is a open European Champs, Osrblie will see also biathletes from & Fun fact: If all registered teams will show, the host country will not be allowed to start in the Mixed Single Relay, as we are currently behind the Top 30 Nations of the IBU ranking, but there still a chance to overpass some countries right in Osrblie in the first events and somehow avoid the total shame to not start the single relay at home https://www.slovenskybiatlon.sk/2144-na-domacich-me-11-clenov-novej-generacie-povedu-kapitani-ktori-uz-pred-rokmi-ukoncili-karieru

Kinda interesting info from our wrestling star, 2-time Olympic medalist Zhan Beleniuk (who also, if you don't know, is a politician). In his speech, he noticed this: "The developed criteria should be in line with Ukraine's interests. Those people who supported or are supporting the war, who have been identified as participants in propaganda activities, for example, standing next to Putin and glorifying the Russian authorities and their leader, should not be able to participate in international competitions. In particular, I have information that some Russian wrestlers have already been blocked. They are now confused and do not know what to do, as they planned to take part in the Olympic Games, but this opportunity is still closed," the politician noted. Considering that, maybe a trio of dumpsters, also known as Uguev-Sadullaev-Sidakov can be possibly banned due to attendance of Luzhniki action. If that's would be the true, it really is a great news.

both semis from Valencia are available for free (so, avoiding that fuckin' paywall of FIH) on the Spanish OTT RTVE Play (with a Spanish VPN, of course) vs @ 12.30 p.m. CET followed by vs @ 3.30 p.m. CET https://www.rtve.es/play/deportes/ meanwhile the semifinal match from Ranchi between and is available also for free on the ARD website/APP (with German VPN, of course) @ 3.p.m. CET https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/sportschau/hockey-deutschland-gegen-indien-live/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL3Nwb3J0c2NoYXUuZGUvMTdhNTg0OTctMWZjOS00YmEwLTk5ZTUtNzVkZjI5YjMxZmIz

time at the 2022 Worlds is 3.27.51 in the final (that 3.33.02 is just the clocking of the prelims) same for they have 3.32.80 as their best time from the 2022 Worlds

18 girls in Ski Jumping Training 1 and 16 in Training 2 finished with 0 points and Comazzi of ITA ahead of them in 15th place with epochal 0.9 points https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/ski-jumping/results-women-s-normal-hill-training-trno-0100sj-.htm

2nd Round Results M Singles Lukáš Klein - Alexander Zverev (6) 5:7, 6:3, 6:4, 6:7 (5), 6:7 (7) That´s all folks, nice 3 and half days of Melbourne , see you in Paris

Huge upset in the women’s draw, as Clara Burel downs [5] Jessica Pegula 6-4, 6-2 in the R64

yes there will be a team but I don't know the composition yet

And now Danielle Collins said she will retire at the end of the season (she will be 31 yo). Let's see how that goes or is this an all-time overraction to this meltdown result.

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I had some time, and so I looked through the current entries (of course, athletes can still withdraw/DNS from events). There are two athletes who competed in Beijing 2022 before competing at Gangwon 2024. Ski Jumping - Anezka Indrackova (30th in 2022) Snowboard - Lee Chaeun (18th in halfpipe 2022) NOTE: I checked the entries against an archived version of the Beijing 2022 results system, so mistakes are possible.

they finished the SuperLega regular season undefeated (which was a fantastic result) but then choked in the playoff and lost the QF series 3-2 to the 8th seed Milano. and this CL season was a bit weird, ZAKSA almost got eliminated tonight. they came from 2-0 behind (almost lost the 3rd set too) against that Belgian Club to win 3-2 and stay alive.

is in.

Of course I am in for

2024 Australian Open: Men's Singles: Round 2: (7) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE d. Jordan Thompson AUS 4-6 7-6(6) 6-2 7-6(4) Round 3: (7) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE vs. Luca van Assche FRA Women's Singles: Round 2: Elina Avanesyan RUS d. (8) Maria Sakkari GRE 6-4 6-4

Both men and women’s hockey teams 1 win (with 2 chances) away from Paris. Competition definitely tough but they have really been playing well so far in their tournaments. Fingers crossed to have the biggest ever Irish Olympic team!

is in.

I always thought it likely that Putin would ultimately tell Bach to shove his quotas but had thought he would time it to cause maximum embarrassment.

Hi all. Finished work on my spreadsheets (for now). There are 2 separate ones for now, but they're linked to each other. One goes day by day, the other is sport by sport.. Paris 2024 competition schedule by Day Paris 2024 competition schedule by Sport I'll update these as more of the schedule gets filled out, like matchups in team sports and breakdown of individual events in sports like swimming (I have the track events in athletics broken down by time. If anyone has additional information to add or new schedules get released, I'll add them here. Don't know how much I'll keep up during the games as the team sports reach the elimination rounds, but anyone who wants to help is more than welcome! And if anyone has any suggestions on how to make improvements here, I'm open to opinions. Thanks!

We now have confirmation that the Trampoline Federation will not accept the IOC conditions and will miss Paris 2024.

Damn, it feels like we're starting this early this year will be entering once again, of course. I'm hoping @dezbee2008 and @owenp_23 (or others) will join me