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"At least they're paying me more to do this job than Scotland did"

Wonder what Dave Murdoch was thinking as he was watching on in his new Team Canada uniform.

Suriname enters its first athlete for Paris 2024 via swimming (Renzo Tjon-A-Joe – Men's 50 m freestyle: 21.88). https://livetiming.knzb.nl/EQM2023/ResultList_34F_us.pdf

and the most idiotic thing in this new mixed relay is that the athlete who finish his leg will have to wait another cca 30 minutes to go another one... Not sure the genius who came up with this idea sometimes raced, because he would have known that the body of race walkers are not build for such extremes, racing 10 and half Km then sit and wait half hour to retake the baton and race another 10k Also a nice gesture to all race walkers who had to say farewell to their beloved 50km they trained and raced all carrer for, to suddenly must change literally everything to adapt to a shorter 35km to just later 1 year prior to the Olympics learns it was not necessary at all and have to became sprinters to readapt for a 10km race, and only if you are from one of the top 25 nations in the world (and still not sure if some NOC´s will be allowed to have 2 teams..so even less that from the top 25 nations) You must love IOC and WA more and more. They just nailed the final one on the race walking coffin, will be really surprised if Race Walk will be in the LA28 program

Great shot by Joel Retornaz here, despite missing out on the three. He only 10 seconds left on the clock too

ANGRY WALKER ALERT

2023 Men’s World Curling Championships: April 1- April 9, 2023 | Ottawa, Canada Medal Matches Gold Medal Match- 9 - 3 Bronze Medal Match- 11 - 3 Men’s Medalists Gold- Scotland (Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr) Silver- Canada (Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harden, Geoff Walker) Bronze- Switzerland (Yannick Schwaller, Benoît Schwarz, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat) Full Results Here

Suriname enters its first athlete for Paris 2024 via swimming (Renzo Tjon-A-Joe – Men's 50 m freestyle: 21.88). https://livetiming.knzb.nl/EQM2023/ResultList_34F_us.pdf

I know there is are many supporters for this sport here, but I always found it weird and outdated. I agree WA is doing everything to ruin it completely. Hopefully we will not see walking in LA at all. Let’s save all that quotas for other disciplines or even better other sports.

Micheal Johnson's ultimate schedule. 100m 120m 150m 200m 210m 220m 250m 300m 350m 400m And anything that doesn't have big Europeans or Kenyans winning more gold than Americans....

Eindhoven Qualification Meet - morning session Women's 100m breaststroke Tes Schouten (1.05,71, NR) Women's 50m freestyle Kim Busch (24,68) Men's 50 freestyle Kenzo Simons (21,91)

Women's 200m medley Marrit Steenbergen (2.09,16) Women's 100m backstroke Maaike de Waard (59,65) Kira Toussaint (59,88) Women's 100m freestyle Marrit Steenbergen (53,10)

Scotland wins gold at the 2023 Men’s Curling World Championships with a 9-3 victory over Canada Scotland’s first men’s title since 2009.

Scotland’s curling percentages after seven ends. Mouat 96% Hardie 98% Lammie 93% McMillan 96% Sensational.

FIVB Challenge Ipanema, Brazil Women’s Tournament Gold- Chen Xue/Xinyi Xia Silver- Bárbara Seixas/Carol Solberg Salgado Bronze- Terese Cannon/Sarah Sponcil Men’s Tournament Gold- Andre Loyola Stein/George Souto Maior Wanderley Silver- Youssef Krou/Arnaud Gauthier-Rat Bronze- Hendrik Mol/Mathias Berntsen Tournament Results Here

This week's tourmament finals: Charleston 500 (green clay) Ons Jabeur def. Belinda Bencic 7-6(6) 6-4 Bogota 250 (clay) Tatjana Maria def. Peyton Stearns 6-3 2-6 6-4 Next week is for BJK Cup and then we go to Stuttgart 500 indoor clay (Istanbul 250 cancelled after the recent Earthquake).

win bronze at the 2023 World Men’s Curling Championships, with an 11-3 victory over Full Results Here

It says it is confirmed that Algeria will host Pan Arab Games 2023

Czechs leading USA after 15 minutes 2-1

Eindhoven Qualification Meet - afternoon session Women's 50m freestyle Marrit Steenbergen (24,42)

@hckošice what a crazy finish of tonight's game in the Extraliga... but Zvolen...

Slightly disappointed they didn't go for the 2x35 km option, just to have 70 km walking event at the Olympics instead of 50 km which was deemed too long. Heck, I would have preferred to have a nonsense mixed individual 35 km race with team medals only as opposed to this.

Today's Results Skellefteå AIK (2) - Örebro HK (4) 3-2 OT (Skellefteå lead series 3-2) Mountfield HK (4) vs HC Vìtkovice Ridera (2) 1-2 (Mountfield lead series 3-1) HKM Zvolen (3) vs HK Grotto Spišská Nová Ves (5) 5-6 (Spišská Nová Ves lead series 3-2) Magnus League Finals Dragons Rouen (2) - Brûleurs De Loupes Grenoble (1) 5-4 OT (Grenoble lead series 2-1)

Men's Junior Team Epee Gold: Egypt Silver: Switzerland Bronze: Hungary Semifinals Egypt b. Hungary 45-34 Switzerland b. USA 45-41 Bronze Medal match Hungary b. USA 45-27 Gold Medal match Egypt b. Switzerland 45-43 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/9E8F295D4F7B428587CF8C777169FB8E

& get a quota in Sailing’s snipe class.

Women's Junior Team Epee Gold: Poland Silver: United States Bronze: China Semifinals USA b. China 45-32 Poland b. France 35-31 Bronze Medal match China b. France 45-32 Gold Medal match Poland b. USA 45-38 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/E3FA29CF530C4E858D73FEA905A2E5A0

https://sport.hrt.hr/ostali-sportovi/hana-arapovic-europska-prvakinja-u-konkurenciji-mladih-seniorki-10706775 Ogroman rezultat, Bravo

well actually Rupin was about to win the match 1-1 but gave up a cheap 2points caution for not listening to the ref. that was a rookie mistake, I can't say he will be a medal favorite at the Worlds, toooo early to say that but he can do some damage. the Kazakh guy he beat is no joke, he elimnated Dadmarz in last year Worlds. Iran finished the day with 4 golds and 1 silver without losing a single match on the mat, our 77kg was a bit injured and didn't bother facing Akzhol (he had no chance to win anyway) unlike freestyle we are sending most of our #1 guys in Greco so it was expected to win lots of gold medals. I don't expect the same result tomorrow, not confident about 67 and 72. and also I have to say in 60kg we have World Champion Sharshenbekov in the bracket too.

New Zealand qualify for the Olympics

Sven Schwarz 14:56,08 Minuten über die 1500m Freistil in Eindhoven. Über die Distanz könnten wir inzwischen theoretisch wirklich schon eine ganze Staffel nominieren.

Also in Eindhoven Men's 1500m Freestyle Sven Schwraz 14:56,08 minutes

Derek Gee in one of the most spectacular equipment failures since 400m hurdler Quincy Watts’ shoes fell apart mid-race.

Apparently there was a hole in the ice, not as big as this one though so the game has been stopped at 16th minute and will be replayed in its entirety

Same rumors claims Zagreb new years event was removed from the schedule, also no more Parallel races in the WC next winter copy/paste of the "expected" Women´s WC schedule, from our medias today´s article (Zjazd = Downhill Obrovský Slalom = Giant Slalom nočný slalom = Nigth´s Slalom in Courchevel)

According well-informed sources Jasná will be back in the WC schedule next season 20th & 21st January W GS & W SL

The first session was perfect for Iran with 5 out of 5 made it to the final but I have to admit all of them were on the easier side of the draw. still I think it wouldn't make a difference for 3 of our guys. I expect 3 or 4 gold medals today, 77kg gold is impossible Akzhol Makhmudov is simply the best in the world. really impressed by India's new guy at 55kg, never saw him before. he was down 7-0 in the first round and again 4-0 (if I'm not wrong) in the 1/4 final against the Kazakh wrestler, had two incredible combacks to qualify for the final. but I hope his run ends here

DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS Japan 0 - 5 Canada Period-by-Period: 0-2, 0-2, 0-1 April 8th 2023, h. 19:00, CAA Centre, Brampton

DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS Sweden 6 - 2 Hungary Period-by-Period: 4-2, 1-1, 1-1 April 8th 2023, h. 11:00, CAA Centre, Brampton

Men's 100m freestyle David Popovici (47.61) Qualified for the Olympics yesterday, after winning the 100m freestyle final at the Romanian National Championships.

Saturday April 8th, 2023 - Preliminary Round Day 4 Results (GMT -4) Group A Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) Japan 0 - 5 Canada Period-by-Period: 0-2, 0-2, 0-1 April 8th 2023, h. 19:00, CAA Centre, Brampton Group A Provisional Standing After Day 4 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Canada 3 3(0) 0(0) 14 1 +13 9 United States 2 2(0) 0(0) 16 2 +14 6 Czechia 2 1(1) 1(0) 3 6 -3 2 Japan 3 0(0) 3(1) 2 14 -12 1 Switzerland 2 0(0) 2(0) 1 13 -12 0 Group B Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) Sweden 6 - 2 Hungary Period-by-Period: 4-2, 1-1, 1-1 April 8th 2023, h. 11:00, CAA Centre, Brampton 1 Group B Provisional Standing After Day 4 + Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Finland 2 2(0) 0(0) 17 1 +16 6 Germany 2 1(0) 1(0) 6 5 +1 3 Sweden 2 1(0) 1(0) 8 8 0 3 Hungary 2 1(0) 1(0) 6 8 -2 3 France 2 0(0) 2(0) 3 18 -15 0 Nations qualified for Quarterfinals (Partial) Canada Czechia Japan Switzerland United States

FIVB Futures Tahiti, French Polynesia Men’s Tournament Gold- Tiziano Andreatta/Andrea Abbiati Silver- Kensuke Shoji/Jumpei Ikeda Bronze- Simon Kulzer/Bennet Poniewaz Tournament Results Here

2023 Men’s World Curling Championships: April 1- April 9, 2023 | Ottawa, Canada Semifinals Results 7 - 5 9 - 8 Italy will play Switzerland for bronze, and Canada will play Scotland for gold. Full Results Here

So,first competition for Alekna this season and he goes 68.39 and takes the world lead off of Ceh,yep it will truly be a wild men's discus season.

Singapore stage cup quarterfinals: v v v v NZ will qualify for Paris tomorrow if they finish this tournament ahead of either Australia or Samoa.

and qualify from the Americas (USA already qualified)

Qualifikationswettbewerb Taekwondo in Bukarest, 1. Tag: Pro Gewichtsklasse wird ein Quotenplatz vergeben. Frauen: 46kg: , 53kg: , 67kg: , 73kg: Männer: 54kg: , 63kg: , 80kg: , 87kg: Deutsche waren nicht am Start. Es wäre sowieso nur in der 80kg-Klasse möglich gewesen, denn in allen anderen Klassen wurden bereits, über die Weltrangliste, Quoten errungen. Morgen sind dafür dann fünf Deutsche im Einsatz.

Way too late for any of that. Zarco got exactly what he wanted, the Olympic experience.

Women's 200m breaststroke Tes Schouten (2.22,21) Although she was already qualified for the OG, Schouten swam a really good time and Dutch record on day 2 of the Eindhoven Qualification Meet. Like yesterday, there was only one performance worth mentioning.