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Almost an all-Chinese affair by now in the singles. Only Hina Hayata managed to kick out Wang Yidi 21-19 in a decider.

So is Latvia going to win the entire tournament so Slovakia drops to 10th place?

defeated in women's Doubles, saving us from an all-Chinese final.

Results system link: https://results.european-games.org/GSSE2023/eng/zz/engzz_general-general-schedule.htm

2027 Wch will be in (Dusseldorf PSD Bank Dome and Mannheim SAP Arena The 2023 IIHF Annual Congress has voted to assign the remaining tournaments of the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program for the upcoming season, and voted to choose the host of the 2027 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. This vote was, by far, the most awaited decision of the day. The IIHF delegates had to choose between 2 excellent bids : one from Germany and the other from Kazakhstan, but only one winner in the end. After the very convincing presentations from both countries, all the delegates casted their secret ballots, and the winner is … GERMANY! The IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships of the upcoming years: 2024: Prague & Ostrava (Czechia), 10-26 May 2024 2025: Stockholm (Sweden) & Herning (Denmark), 9-25 May 2025 2026: Zurich & Fribourg (Switzerland), 15-31 May 2026 2027: Germany, 14-30 May 2027 Regarding the lower-level tournaments, the allocations, voted and chosen by the IIHF congress were : Bolzano, ITALY (28.04.2024 –04.05.2024) for Division I, Group A Vilnius, LITHUANIA (27.04.2024 –03.05.2024) for Division I, Group B Belgrade, SERBIA (21.04.2024 –27.04.2024) for Division II, Group A Sofia, BULGARIA (15.04.2024 –21.04.2024) for Division II, Group B Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN (10.03.2024 –16.03.2024) for Division III, Group A Division IIIB and IV will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in early October. Women's Championship Program As it has already been announced on 16 April 2023, Utica, N.Y., will host the 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship. Two venues will be used for the 31 games—the Adirondack Bank Center and Utica University Nexus Center. The tentative dates for this top-level tournament are 4-14 April 2024. For the Women’s category, the lower-level tournaments were allocated to : Riga, LATVIA (31.03.2024 –06.04.2024) for Division I, Group B SPAIN ( 18.03.2024 –24.03.2024) for Division II, Group A Istanbul, TÜRKIYE (01.04.2024 –07.04.2024) for Division II, Group B Zagreb, CROATIA (11.03.2024 –17.03.2024) for Division III, Group A Kohtia Jarve, ESTONIA (24.03.2024 –29.03.2024) for Division III, Group B Division I, Group A will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual congress in early October. (The 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division I, Group A is yet to be played. Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Austria, China, and Netherlands will face-off in in Shenzhen, China between the 20 and 26 August 2023.) Men's Under 20 Championship Program In the men’s U20 category, the top-level 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has already been assigned earlier to Gothenburg, Sweden. Budapest, HUNGARY (10.12.2023 –16.12.2023) for Division I, Group A Bled, SLOVENIA (11.12.2023 17.12.2023) for Division I, Group B Dumfries, GREAT BRITAIN (11.12.2023 –17.12.2023) for Division II, Group A Novi Sad, SERBIA (14.01.2024 –20.01.2024) for Division II, Group B Tnuvot, ISRAEL (22.01.2024 -29.01.2024) for Division III, Group A Sarajevo, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (25.01.2024 –28.01.2024) for Division III, Group B Men's Under 18 Championship Program After co-hosting the top men’s senior level tournament, Finland will next welcome the younger generation of ice hockey players in 2024. As it was announced earlier this month, Finland will host the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. The teams will play in the cities of Espoo and Vantaa. Tallinn, ESTONIA (14.04.2024 –20.04.2024) for Division I, Group B Sosnowiec, POLAND (17.04.2024 –23.04.2024) for Division II, Group A Spain (06.04.2024 –12.04.2024) for Division II, Group B Istanbul, TÜRKIYE (04.03.2024 –10.03.2024) for Division III, Group A Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA (04.03.2024 - 07.03 2024) for Division III, Group B Division I, Group A will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in early October. Women's Under 18 Championship Program The top-level tournament for this category will be played in Switzerland between the 6 and the 14 January 2024. The cities and the venues still await to be confirmed. SPAIN (08.01.2024 –14.01.2024) for Division I, Group B Heerenveen, NETHERLANDS (15.01.2024 –21.01.2024) for Division II, Group A Sofia, BULGARIA (08.01.2024 –14.01.2024) for Division II, Group B Division I, Group A and Division III Group A&B will be decided at the next IIHF Semi-Annual congress in early October. 2025 IIHF Women's World Championship has been allocated to Czechia. 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been allocated to Canada. 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship has been allocated to Finland. In a further decision put forth during the IIHF Annual Congress, the delegates voted in favor of Italy to automatically qualify for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Think we’d have a very different approach if Evenepoel was still there. But leaving it to the last 1500m? OK, I understand why, but it’s very very textbook.

And of course this is the Gotzis Multi-Events weekend. Usually this stream is not geo-blocked. https://tvthek.orf.at/livestream/LIVE-Mehrkampfmeeting-Goetzis-2023-Tag-1/14229284

Only sensible decision. Let’s hope other Feds follow suit - sadly the looks like a lost cause.

watch out for Mayar whom defeated Sakkari last year in Parma final , just kidding

The US Women's Rugby Sevens team have qualified to Paris after finishing in 3rd place in the 2022-23 World Rugby Women's Seven series: https://www.world.rugby/sevens-series/standings/womens The men's sevens team, which failed to qualified through the world sevens series after finishing 10th, will have a chance to qualify at the North & Central Americas/Caribbean qualifying tournament in August at Langford, Canada.

Another Jacobs withdrawal (dodge?) 🙄

Rabat up next on Sunday. Start list here - Marcell Jacobs a DNS as we know. https://rabat.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results-rabat/

Guess we’ll have to wait a while to sort out the Jacobs v. Kerley drama

Further news on Halep suggests she could be in very deep trouble.

Trampoline Quotas from Pan Am Championships M: 2 each, 1 each W: 2 each, 1 each No quota for Chile, I believe this will be debut https://www.panamsports.org/news-sport/eight-countries-qualify-for-trampoline-gymnastics-at-santiago-2023/