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Canada Day 4 Review Day 4 saw Canada win 15 medals (3 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze) for a great day. Here's how we did for each sport. 3x3 Basketball Almost a perfect day for us as the women and both wheelchair teams booked their spot to the finals. The women will face against England while the wheelchair teams will have a double header against Australia. The men's team lost to England in the semis and will play for bronze against Scotland. Beach Volleyball Pavan/Melissa won their match against Kenya without any trouble. They will play their final group stage match against New Zealand on Wednesday in hopes of finishing in top spot. Boxing Canada had two boxers competing today with both of them winning their respective bouts. Beausejour won his round of 16 match against Barbados in the men's light heavyweight and will face a boxer from Scotland. Al-Ahmadieh won his round of 16 match against Australia in the men's featherweight and will face a boxer from Guyana in the quarterfinals. All of our boxers are now in the quarterfinals and are one win away from winning at least bronze. Cycling Kelsey Mitchell finished her games with a fourth medal, a bronze in the women's keirin. We also won a second bronze medal in the women's scratch via Maggie Coles-Lyster. Overall, I was expecting a little bit more from our track cycling team, but New Zealand really did a number in denying us gold medals. Field Hockey In an embarrassing fashion, we were seconds away from losing to Ghana, but we scored a late goal to tie things up 1-1. Our next opponent will be India on Wednesday. Gymnastics Canada won two silver and two bronze across the five apparatus finals held today. We were quite close at grabbing a gold medal, but it was not to be. Despite a relatively weaker team in artistic gymnastics we may not end up too far from the medal total from 2018. Of course, the lack of gold medals will be a bit glaring. Judo I was hoping for two golds, but we managed a gold and silver thanks to the Deguchi sisters. I have high expectations of our judo team so hopefully everyone can pull through. Squash Holly Naughton pulled off the upset and will now compete in the semifinals of the women's singles. The downside is the other three players are the top 3 seeds of the tournament so my expectation for a shock medal is being kept in check. Still I wish her good luck in her next two matches. Swimming We won four medals today with McIntosh winning gold in the women's 200m IM, Masse winning silver in the women's 200m back, Acevedo picking up a bronze in the 50m back and Berube winning bronze in the women's 100m SB6 breaststroke. Additionally, Smith and Savard have qualified to the women's 100m free finals and Liendo and Knox have qualified to the men's 100m butterfly finals. Weightlifting A perfect day for Canada as all three of our competing athletes won a medal, including a gold via Charron in the women's -64kg. We have now won more medals relative to 2018 and we still have six more athletes remaining to compete.

9.91 for Tebogo U20WR and he was looking around to the opposition and celebrating at about 75m

I just can't stop assuming that all these squash players must be some corporate attorneys off the court.

We have our first defections and no surprise from which country they are from: https://www.dailymirror.lk/headline/Two-Lankans-go-missing-from-Commonwealth-Games/

Canada guaranteed a medal in Squash!! Wow

The thing is though unlike water polo or hockey, cricket is hugely popular in some countries… England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Australia, South Africa, across the Caribbean and although not the biggest sport in New Zealand by any means I assume it’s one of the top sports there. I didn’t even mention countries like Afghanistan where it is huge as well. And I’m Irish so my knowledge of cricket is not great so others can probably advocate the point better. Water polo and hockey don’t carry the same appeal even in most of the nations that do well in those sports (there are exceptions I know and hockey is huge in India I know that too). Like I say it’s all about perspective. I myself prefer hockey and water polo than cricket and I would selfishly want them in the Olympics ahead of cricket because I like them more. But I don’t see how cricket has less of a place in the Games as those 2 sports. It’s funny how I am arguing in favour of a sport like cricket that I never really followed nor is it particularly a sport I want to in the Olympics but just being objective. If I was to choose and didn’t have to care what others thought, I’d include bowls, darts and snooker as I love them

India alone has more than twice as many people as the entire EU, it’s really not that weirs to include by far their most popular sport in the Olympics. Certainly no weirder than including much less popular sports like handball or hockey. And ofc the West Indies would be split up for the Olympics, they don’t have an NOC. Cricket is a sport where you have medal contenders from five continents (basically everywhere except South America) and is a sport that is particularly popular in the Indian Subcontinent, a region currently vastly underserved by the Olympics.

Not if Mr Olympic Champ 1976 has his way. There is a hard cap of 10,500 and I don't see that changing as long as TB is in charge.

This guy has a spreadsheet which you can download and very easily adapt. It only has a limited number of athletes, mostly the main favourites, but it's better than nothing and easy to add an athlete if you wish. I've added Paris and Ball there myself after downloading it, because of their current positions, but they don't seem to have much of a strong second day (especially Paris). If Paris continues on this way, he's on the way to 7200 or so, Ball to 7400-7500. Which might make Ball a potential threat for bronze at the moment, but he'll still need to improve on his usual performances. We must of course keep in mind these are all teenagers, and seeing teenage athlete making huge steps up is obviously much less rare than seeing seniors do so

BTW don't see Cricket making it to games. Negligible following in key areas, not much interest from Cricket federations, expensive infrastructure (That is why Cricket has better chance in 2032), no depth and need for 15x8x2 = 240 athletes at the minimum. The positives: Huge and concentrated following in some areas (Indian subcontinent, Caribbean), Quite different to other team sports.

Hoping that the baseball in LA will be "best-on-best", let's see if MLB cooperates and releases players for the tournament. There may never be a better opportunity

Was great to see, especially after 2 years without due to COVID

Tomorrow also some biathletes will be in action at „Lysebotn Opp“ Women: Men:

Will Kennedy conveniently bomb oit for a shared gold at 4.45? Barshim-Tamberi is an ugly, ugly precedent.

Was just thinking that must be the shortest PV final in athletics history. Good that officials are allowing athletes to celebrate with their family, doesn’t always happen..

Liendo wins his first international gold medal

Later process. These disciplines are already covered by established olympic federations. This is about new federations trying to enter the 2028 program.

No soccer.

Yes, I know that. I haven't had any drinks tonight. Stop interrogating me! Residual home soil advantage from Gold Coast....

This is generally my feeling anytime I post on here…. one more counter argument and I would have given up and just do what I do best, watch sport

I know the feeling And yes, cricket is hugely popular in a few countries, but then its popularity drops off a cliff. Anyway, there is no defintive way to judge of one sport popularity. So one knows, and I don't even really care neither(the trap of arguing stuff on the internet )

I want pencak silat and Turkish oil wrestling!

Yes, but India can only field ONE team at the Olympics, right? It's the same casus with China, just because they own table tennis it doesn't mean table tennis is a global sport in terms of popularity. I'm sorry but cricket is being played between the same nations over and over again. England, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and West Indies (have Bangladesh & Afghanistan won anything in cricket, like one medal at World Cup? They're just the minnows who always lose). This ain't 1922 when British Empire covered 25% of the globe. Those days are gone. You wanna tell me colonialism is back to being trendy again so cricket needs to be an Olympic sport?

technically, Guyana is in South America...so, they also have a representative that might do very well...

This joke displays an ignorance of both the venue plan for the 2026 World Cup and of the etymology of the word “soccer”.

Cricket as Olympic sport? How many teams will participate? Six? Unless they split West Indies and artificially boost the count. Either way, USA won't pay attention and likewise 99% of Europe.

he's dead and gone by the early 2024 executive board...this is his last stint, luckily...

basic rules are as simple as baseball's... there are 2 teams playing, one is defending (those with the full set of players placed around the pitch and pitching the ball) meanwhile the other is attacking (those with the bat in their hands and, in baseball, a few players running the bases)... the aim of the game is scoring runs by throwing the ball out of the boundaries (in baseball it's 1 point for the batter + 1 for each baserunner -if there are any- up to 4 points in one action, called grand slam...more runs are scored by completing the trip around the 4 bases; in cricket it's 6 runs for a ball hit directly out and 4 for a ball rebounding on the pitch and then going out, more runs can be recorded by hitting the ball within the playing field and running up and down the stripe where they pitch and bat...it's 1 run for every side completed without being eliminated)... in baseball there are 9 rounds (innings) for each team to attack and defend, an (half) inning is over when 3 players are eliminated...the team scoring the most total runs wins the match... in cricket there are 2 innings (1 defending and 1 attacking for each team)... an inning is done when 10 batsmen are eliminated or when the number of sets (overs) has been completed (the number may vary according to the format of the Game, it might be 10, 20, 50 or undetermined if a 3-day test match is played)... knowing this, you should be able to understand what happens on the field in both sports (anything else is surely useful, but not absolutely necessary to enjoy the sports)...

We entered this tournament with some fear. Last year´s 2004-05 "wunder-year generation" who won silver in this is gone, now it is time for the 2005-06 generation, which is also missing its key players around Dvorský and co...who have now a extremely difficult task ahead of them to try to replace the freshly drafted stars not released by their clubs for the next-week U20 worlds. But it was Better than expected. Hopefully hey will learn a lot in this tournament and win a game or two Anyway, tonight against Canada this will be very ugly.

First medal for

Thirteen competitors in the women’s shot put and they still have a qualifying round of two groups. A straight final would have been better.

Meanwhile in the decathlon, Swedish Jacob Thelander is still the main favourite to win the gold, but he does have more of a challenge than expected: Dutchman Gabriel Emmanuel is performing way better than the forecast and has closed the gap to within 100 points in terms of the final outcome*. *Emmanuel is in the lead after day one, but of course we all know we shouldn't really look too much at the standings so far, but at the forecast standings. Pierre Blaecke of France seems to be on his way to silver for now, although he needs to have a normal pole vault (with normal for him being far above the rest of the field).

World Baseball Classic MLB Player Updates (players who've said they'll play): Australia: Curtis Mead (Tampa Bay Rays [minor league player]) Canada: Freddie Freeman (Los Angeles Dodgers) Dominican Republic: Sandy Alcantara (Miami Marlins), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Toronto Blue Jays), Manny Machado (San Diego Padres), Jose Ramirez (Cleveland Guardians) Israel: Richard Bleier (Miami Marlins), Harrison Bader (St. Louis Cardinals), Dean Kremer (Baltimore Orioles), Joc Pederson (San Francisco Giants), Kevin Pillar (Los Angeles Dodgers) Italy: Trey Mancini (Houston Astros), Adam Ottavino (New York Mets), Jordan Romano (Toronto Blue Jays) Japan: Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Angels) Puerto Rico: Carlos Correa (Minnesota Twins), Edwin Diaz (New York Mets), Martin Maldonado (Houston Astros), MJ Melendez (Kansas City Royals), Jose Miranda (Minnesota Twins), Marcus Stroman (Chicago Cubs) United States: Nolan Arenado (St. Louis Cardinals), Trevor Story (Boston Red Sox), Mike Trout (Los Angeles Angels)

Equestrian - World Championships 2022 - Herning (DENMARK) - 6 August 2022 - 14 August 2022 EQUESTRIAN AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024 - DRESSAGE TEAM + INDIVIDUAL Australia (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Denmark (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Germany (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Great-Britain (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Netherlands (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Sweden (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) United-States (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) EQUESTRIAN AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024 - JUMPING TEAM + INDIVIDUAL Germany (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Great-Britain (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Ireland (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Netherlands (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual) Sweden (3 Quotas - 1 Team & Individual)

Cricket, breaking, baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport federations invited to submit applications inclusion at 2028 Games

Was a great battle with Gibraltar, though.

sure... but it's not going easy...if she focus on her freestyle and butterfly races (and the 400 IM), it might happen that she'll never be good enough in breaststroke... breaststroke is a very tough beast for those who can't swim "naturally" and it's definitely a threat to the other styles in terms of coordination and of required skills...

good race by McIntosh, but she's way too slow in the breaststroke leg, you can't lose 2 and a half seconds on Hosszu's WR pace in 50m... she will never beat the 200m WR if she doesn't improve dramatically in the breaststroke section...

Summer McIntosh!!!

7.76m for Reece Ademola in the men's long jump qualifying.... a new Irish junior record and should be enough to make it to the final. Maybe we can have a field event athlete in Paris 2024

Here (since I cant post photos here due to too big amount of MB) is link to my instagram, you can see there photos from my trip to Rome

After W52/FC Porto lost their UCI license, things have now really exploded in Portugal I mean, everyone (!!) who watched races like the Volta a Portugal saw this coming for years, it really was just a matter of time and it couldn't be more obvious in those Portuguese races most of the time, but it's interesting to see the bomb has now exploded Meanwhile the boss of the Portuguese NADO has apparently received a nice friendly shotgun bullet (or whatever you call it) in his mailbox.

Another gold medal lost for Canada