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Iran won the team title in Greco for the 15th time in history but the 2nd day was a total disaster. Iran ended up with 3 more medals (1 G, 1 S and 1 B) but that gold medal was somehow a gift from the ref who fell for our guy's acting. winning half of the gold medals (5 out of 10) sounds good on paper but considering the fact that it was almost our A team (without 3 or 4 of our top guys) I'm not convinced at all. specially because this year we have to prepare two teams for the Worlds and the Asian Games. and in some weights we don't even have one solid wrestler I wonder how other Asian countries will do about this. sending the same team to the Worlds and to the AG (10 days later) ?

Politics put aside, all i see from 2014 is death of humanity and ethics, in all directions. Whoever wins, humanity loses.

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

I can't beat @Joshwith how fast he posts the results! Thanks for sharing again Josh! I'm noticing a big improvement for both the French men teams (Krou/Gauthier-rat and Lyneel/Bassereau). Probably still very far from medal contention in Paris, but last year even in Challenge events they were usually nowhere to be seen. Also didn't expect Xue/Xia to take the women's event over the Brazilian and American pairs. Meanwhile one of the Dutch Piersma/Van Driel teams reached the quarterfinal, decent result for them. Funny how we've got 2 Piersma sisters and 2 Van Driel sisters and they're paired up with each other.

Happy Easter and enjoy the tasty things and free day if you have it

2023 Japan National Championships- Tokyo, Japan April 4- April 9, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women’s 200m Backstroke Rio Shirai Women’s 100m Butterfly Rikako Ikee Ai Soma Women’s 200m Butterfly Airi Mitsui Hiroko Makino Women’s 100m Breastroke Reona Aoki Women’s 200m Breastroke Runa Imai Women’s 200m Individual Medley Mio Narita Yui Ohashi Shiho Yamamoto Women’s 400m Individual Medley Mio Narita Ageha Tanigawa Men’s 100m Freestyle Katsuhiro Matsumoto Men’s 200m Freestyle Katsuhiro Matsumoto Men’s 100m Backstroke Ryosuke Irie Men’s 200m Backstroke Hidekazu Takehara Daiki Yangawa Kodai Nishiono Men’s 100m Butterfly Katsuhiro Matsumoto Naoki Mizunuma Takaya Yasue Men’s 200m Butterfly Tomoru Honda Teppei Morimoto Takumi Terada Men’s 200m Breastroke Ippei Watanabe Shoma Sato Yu Hanaguruma Yamato Fukasawa Men’s 200m Individual Medley Daiya Seto So Ogata Men’s 400m Individual Medley Daiya Seto Tomoru Honda Kaito Tabuchi

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

Rowing qualifiers start this week. Sadly no' exotic' nations except is competing. For 2019, we had the likes of and competing

The people of Ukraine support their defensive war and the people of Russia support their "special military operation". Regardless of how or why that is the case and regardless of how they will feel about it in the future, it's the simple truth. Ukraine and its people want to fight this fight so we help them, and Russia and its people want to fight this fight so their allies help them. So I don't get this "it's easy for you to say that" narrative. I wouldn't support the war if the people of Ukraine would be against it. But they aren't. Most of those "pro-peace" people seemingly think that they know what's best for Ukraine (surrender), just like how Russia think they know what "best" for Ukraine (being neutral instead of being a NATO member state). Maybe what's best for Ukraine is what the people of Ukraine and its elected leadership think its best for the country. It's called self-determination, which is what Ukraine is fighting for in the past decade. And anything beyond that, like saying that they are "brainwashed by Western propaganda", just like what some said about the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, is deeply disrespectful to the Ukrainian people.

Today's Results (Part I) Tappara Tampere (1) - HIFK Helsinki (6) 2-1 (Tappara win series 4-1) HC Dynamo Pardubice (1) - HC Oceláři Třinec (6) 2-4 (Třinec lead series 3-2) Grizzlys Wolfsburg (5) - EHC Red Bull Munich (1) 3-2 (series tied 3-3) Adler Mannheim (3) - ERC Ingolstadt (2) 0-2 (Ingolstadt win series 4-2) HK Dukla Ingema Michalovce (8) - HC Košice (1) 1-2 (series tied 3-3) @hckošice Magnus League Finals Dragons Rouen (2) - Brûleurs De Loupes Grenoble (1) 6-5 (series tied 2-2)

What if you come from Tahiti? Is that Western Europe because it's part of France or very,very,very,very Eastern Europe because of where it really is?

Once again it’s all because we are both not the one on the court facing bullets and missiles. We are the one typing on keyboard and restructuring world order based on our own geopolitical idealism. Yet people are continuously dying. From my point of view, maybe your death makes hero at this point, but 20 years 50 years later, no one remember s you except your beloved ones. And your sacrifice may even become a joke at that timing.

The best politics is to avoid the war at the very beginning instead of sacrifice a whole generation or ethnic to win. Actually this is no win of war, all war ends up with diplomatic agreement sooner or later, more deaths or less. All battles, deaths and control points shipments are merely oral bargaining chips on the table one day. I don’t support Russians who started the hot war. But at this point, I just want it stop as soon as possible through diplomacy. Whoever advocates war something like we have to win is cruel and cold blooded as you don’t literally fight on court facing death at all time.

so, sooner or later it had to happen... better now than in more important regatta. Caterina Banti & Ruggero Tita lost their first event since the 2020 Worlds (in January 2020) and they lost in style, they didn't even make the podium (they finished 4th) and got beaten by not 1, but 2 different Italian crews... focusing on the America's Cup boat definitely doesn't have a good influence on Ruggero Tita's performance on the Nacra boat. Hope he won't sacrify an (easy) Olympic back-to-back to pursue the dream of a trophy Italy will never be capable of winning.

Sailing World Cup, Trofeo Princesa Sofia ( Palma De Mallorca) ILCA 6 Gold: Marit Bouwmeester Silver: Zoe Thomson Bronze: Maxime Jonker ILCA 7 Gold: Michael Beckett Silver: George Gautrey Bronze: Tonci Stipanovic 49er Gold: Logan Dunning Beck & Oscar Gunn Silver: Tom Burton & Max Paul Bronze: Isaac McHardie & William McKenzie 49er FX Gold: Martine Soffiatti Grael & Kahena Kunze Silver: Odile Van Aanholt & Annette Duetz Bronze: Maria Sol Branz & Cecilia Carranza Saroli Mixed 470 Gold: Miho Yoshioka & Keiju Okada Silver: Luise Wanser & Philipp Autenrieth Bronze: Nora Brugman Cabot & Jordi Xammar Hernandez women's iQFoil Gold: Emma Wilson Silver: Lucie Belbeoch Bronze: Veerle Ten Have men's iQFoil Gold: Samuel Oliver Sills Silver: Sebastian Koerdel Bronze: Tom Reuveny women's Formula Kite Gold: Lauriane Nolot Silver: Ellie Aldridge Bronze: Poema Newland men's Formula Kite Gold: Maximilian Maeder Silver: Connor Bainbridge Bronze: Axel Mazella Mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Anna Burnet & John Gimson Silver: Maelle Frascari Diotallevi & Vittorio Bissaro Bronze: Maria Giubilei & Gianluigi Ugolini

Dass sich das Recurveteam der Männer nicht qualifiziert hat, wurmt mich. Zumal dass die Olympiachancen doch ein Stück schmälert, da nicht nur die Qualichance Krakau wegfällt, sondern vermutlich ja dann auch Punkte über die Weltranglistenqualifikation.

Russia will never be satisfied because their ultimate goal is become a superpower again, but the war in Ukraine proved that Russia is way too powerless for those ambitions. They will eventually become a puppet state of China, so the current discussions should be between the West and China, not between the West and Russia. The fate of Ukraine and Russia will be decided based on what the US and China want. Russian propaganda says Ukraine is just a chess piece for the US and they fail to realize that Russia has also became a smaller piece in this game. And I think China will be very satisfied by a Russian defeat in this war if it will mean that they will have significant control over a weakened Russia and its resources. China can gain more with this conflict than the West/US, a fully victorious Ukraine is still less of a prize than Russia. And Russia will lose the most as they can become the lapdog of a nation that they have far less cultural connection with than with the West.

She has a clear piont. There is no communication between the two sides at all! Would it lead to the end of the war?

Archery Final quotas distributed at European Grand Prix in Women's Compound - Individual: Men's Compound - Individual: Women's Recurve - Team: Men's Recurve - Team: Women's Recurve - Individual: Men's Recurve - Individual:

DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS Germany 3 - 0 France Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 April 9th 2023, h. 19:00, CAA Centre, Brampton

DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS United States 6 - 2 Czechia Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-0, 2-0 April 9th 2023, h. 15:00, CAA Centre, Brampton

DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS Finland 4 - 2 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-2, 4-0 April 9th 2023, h. 11:00, CAA Centre, Brampton

Sunday April 9th, 2023 - Preliminary Round Day 5 Results (GMT -4) Group A Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) United States 6 - 2 Czechia Period-by-Period: 2-2, 2-0, 2-0 April 9th 2023, h. 15:00, CAA Centre, Brampton Group A Provisional Standing After Day 5 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 3 3(0) 0(0) 22 4 +18 9 Canada 3 3(0) 0(0) 14 1 +13 9 Czechia 3 1(1) 2(0) 5 12 -7 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) Finland 4 - 2 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-2, 4-0 April 9th 2023, h. 11:00, CAA Centre, Brampton Germany 3 - 0 France Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 April 9th 2023, h. 19:00, CAA Centre, Brampton 1 Group B Provisional Standing After Day 5 + Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Finland 3 3(0) 0(0) 21 3 +18 9 Germany 3 2(0) 1(0) 9 5 +4 6 Sweden 3 1(0) 2(0) 10 12 -2 3 Hungary 2 1(0) 1(0) 6 8 -2 3 France 3 0(0) 3(0) 3 21 -18 0 Nations qualified for Quarterfinals (Partial) Canada Czechia Finland Japan Switzerland United States

Frances Tiafoe is the men’s singles champion at the 2023 Houston Open (ATP 250), defeating Tomás Martin Etcheverry in two tiebreak sets 7-6 (1), 7-6 (6)

Jordan Thompson/Max Purcell are the men’s doubles champions at the 2023 Houston Open (ATP 250), defeating Henry Patten/Julian Cash 4-6, 6-4, [10-5]

Not sure about the Bogota mascot Most WTA events don't have a mascot to begin with...

Sander Gillé/Jordan Vliegen are the men’s doubles champions at the 2023 Estoril Open (ATP 250), defeating Nikola Ćaćić/Miomir Kecmanović 6-3, 6-4

This is also Ruud’s 9th career clay court title. His other clay court titles include the Argentina Open in 2020/2022, the Geneva Open in 2021/2022, the Swedish Open in 2021, the Swiss Open in 2021/2022 and the Austrian Open in 2021. His only non-clay title was at the San Diego Open (hardcourt) in 2021.

Casper Ruud is the men’s singles champion at the 2023 Estoril Open (ATP 250), defeating Miomir Kecmanóvic 6-2, 7-6 (3) Ruud’s 10th career ATP title, all 250s. Now he even has more career titles than Tsitsipas

Roberto Carballes Baéna is the men’s singles champion at the 2023 Marrakesh Open (ATP 250), defeating Alexandre Müller 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2

Desirae Krawczyk/Danielle Collins are your women’s doubles champions at the 2023 Charleston Open (WTA 500) defeating Giuliana Olmos/Ena Shibahara 0-6, 6-4, [14-12]

Watch out for her in the next few years, she's our version of Summer McIntosh and is the next big thing in women's long distance swimming. She gave Freya Colbert a run for her money in the 800, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if she gets the worlds consideration times and Olympic standard times for both 800 and 1500.

2023 Eindhoven Qualification Meet- Eindhoven, Netherlands April 6- April 9, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men’s 50m Freestyle Kenzo Simons Renzo Tjon-A-Joe Men’s 1500m Freestyle Sven Schwarz Women’s 50m Freestyle Marrit Steenbergen Kim Busch Women’s 100m Freestyle Marrit Steenbergen Women’s 200m Freestyle Maritt Steenbergen Women’s 100m Backstroke Maaike de Waard Kira Toussaint Women’s 100m Breastroke Tess Schouten Women’s 200m Individual Medley Marrit Steenbergen

2023 Romanian National Championships- Otopeni, Romania April 5- April 9, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men’s 100m Freestyle David Popovici

2023 British National Championships- Sheffield, Great Britain April 5- April 9, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women’s 50m Freestyle Anna Hopkin Women’s 100m Freestyle Freya Anderson Anna Hopkin Women’s 200m Freestyle Freya Anderson Abbie Wood Women’s 400m Freestyle Freya Colbert Women’s 100m Backstroke Medi Harris Women’s 200m Backstroke Katie Shanahan Freya Colbert Women’s 200m Butterfly Emily Large Keanna MacInnes Women’s 200m Individual Medley Katie Shanahan Abbie Wood Women’s 400m Individual Medley Freya Colbert Katie Shanahan Men’s 50m Freestyle Lewis Burras Benjamin Proud Men’s 100m Freestyle Matthew Richards Lewis Burras Duncan Scott Men’s 200m Freestyle Matthew Richards Thomas Dean James Guy Duncan Scott Men’s 800m Freestyle Daniel Jervis Men’s 1500m Freestyle Daniel Jervis Men’s 200m Backstroke Oliver Morgan Brodie Williams Men’s 100m Butterfly Jacob Peters James Guy Men’s 200m Individual Medley Thomas Dean Duncan Scott

Jon Rahm wins 2023 Masters (-12) Koepka & Mickelson four shots back. Impressive performance after he was one of those who had to finish the third round today after all the rain. He started the final round two shots behind Koepka.

So Defay competed in Bells Beach, and she is up to the quotas. It still needs official confirmation by WSL/ISA but and got one quota at women's side. The and will probably define their representants at Finals.

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

Arena Games Finals (London ) Results Elite Men 1. Nicolo Strada 33:41 2. Henri Schoeman 34:04 3. Kyle Smith Elite Women 1. Beth Potter 36:17 2. Cassandre Beaugrand 36:39 3. Sophie Linn 36:59

Suriname is frustrating. They have the talent but refuse to compete. At this rate they will have one of the smallest teams. They also won't compete at the Pan Am Championships.

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).

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

The 2022 Mediterranean Games must have given Algeria some street credit in the international sports world because I’m seeing some Algerian news outlets reporting the country will resurrect and host the Pan Arab Games this summer. I couldn’t find anything specific on the UANOC website, but there was a Arabic press release posted to Twitter that I couldn’t translate, so maybe there’s some news about it on there @thepharoah @tuniscof @amen09?

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.

Marcelo Demoliner/Andrea Vavassori are the men’s doubles champions at the 2023 Marrakesh Open (ATP 250), defeating Alexander Erler/Lucas Miedler 6-4, 3-6, [12-10]

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

@Vektor@BiathlonfanYeah, the World Cup in Poznań has been cancelled. Apparently FIE send a message to the organizers that "Polish authorities can't decide which Russians should take part in the event or not and that is FIE's decision". After that the Polish organizers cancelled the event. If FIE is sending such a message to everyone else opposing the Russians then I'm no longer surprised why everything gets cancelled. This is quite a hideous blackmail for lack of better words.

AELTC gave in and lifted the Wimbledon ban on Russians & Belarussians. They had no choice after nobody supported them in the tennis world (especially none of the other Grand Slams). The fact Russian-born Elena Rybakina won Wimbledon last year only made the whole decision look even more stupid. Kate Middleton still had to shake hands with a Russian DNA and the winner's trophy currently sits in Moscow in Rybakina's parents' house. https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/64933565