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Currently keeping track of OQTs from the following meets Jamaican National Trials Central American & Caribbean Games USATF Outdoor Championships Kenyan Trials German Athletics Championships Nigerian Athletics Trials Bahamian Championships Brazilian Championships Norwegian Championships Barbados Championships Meeting International de Sotteville Guldensporenmeeting Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto Motonet GP, Oulu EAP Malta International Meet Spent a while doing this, so if there are any results from these meets that haven't been updated, don't worry I'm working on it (Any other meet updates are welcome)

Congrats Mali , really happy for them , but also sad for Guinea they delivered a very solid tournament, hopefully they can defeat 4th of Asia

Oh, he’s getting sacked for sure. That was an achievable gold.

Arab Games- Algiers, Algeria July 4-7, 2023 Full Results Men's Triple Jump Yasser Triki Women's 3000m Steeplechase Winfred Yavi Marwa Bouzayani Women's 400m Hurdles Kemi Adekoya

Meeting International de Sotteville 2023 - Sotteville-lès-Rouen July 7, 2023 Full Results Men's pole vault Kurtis Marschall Men's triple jump Hugues Fabrice Zango

has qualified their first athletes in football (men's tournament) with a 1-1 (4-3) victory over Guinea in the bronze medal match at the Africa -23 Cup of Nations

and it's Mali!!! Paris, here we come!

Howell finished with a bronze medal in women’s BMX. The races, if they can honestly can called that, we’re mostly just an organized procession after the start. Pajon in a class of her own, of course. Howell was the only rider really able to keep pace with the Colombian pair, so maybe a glimmer of hope for a good result at the Pan Ams.

You really have to appreciate the randomness with which this event is held

2023 World Boccia Africa Regional Championships Qualification results Team BC1/BC2: Tunisia Pairs BC3: South Africa Pairs BC4: Egypt

German National Championships Pole Vault, Men Bo Kanda Litae Baehre

Leonie Märtens also with the standard in the 400 Freestyle Also Melvin Imoudu with the standard in 100 Breaststroke men

In further news, return to the competition next year.

2023 European Junior Championships: Day 3 Results Boys 200m IM: 1. Miroslav Knedla - 2:00.26 2. Christian Mantegazza - 2:01.10 3. Matthew Ward - 2:01.17 Girls 50m Freestyle: 1. Sara Curtis - 25.14 2. Nina Jazy - 25.38 3. Skye Carter - 25.41 Girls 100m Butterfly: 1. Lana Pudar - 56.95 (OQT) 2. Martine Damborg - 58.35 3. Emmy Hallkvist - 59.50 Boys 1500m Freestyle: 1. Kuzey Tuncelli - 14:58.89 (OQT) 2. Vlad Stancu - 15:00.51 (OQT) 3. Emir Batur Albayrak - 15:00.57 (OQT) Girls 4x200m Freestyle Relay: 1. Hungary - 8:00.25 2. Italy - 8:03.22 3. France - 8:05.62 Medal Table (20 Nations) Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Hungary 5 2 0 7 2 Italy 4 4 0 8 3 Turkiye 2 0 1 3 4 Czechia 2 0 0 2 5 Denmark 1 1 0 2 6 Estonia 1 0 0 1 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 0 0 1 6 Bulgaria 1 0 0 1 9 Great Britain 0 2 4 6 10 Romania 0 2 1 3 11 Germany 0 1 3 4 12 Sweden 0 1 2 3 12 France 0 1 2 3 14 Ukraine 0 1 0 1 14 Poland 0 1 0 1 14 Serbia 0 1 0 1 17 Belgium 0 0 1 1 17 Finland 0 0 1 1 17 Lithuania 0 0 1 1 17 Slovakia 0 0 1 1

has qualified their first athlete in athletics (men's 400m) via Michael Joseph at the Central American and Caribbean Games

can now officially celebrate their best performance ever at the CAC Games. They’ve got a full set of medals and an Olympic quota to take back home

Richards goes under the Olympic standard to win the men’s 400m. Joseph goes under the standard as well for silver! St. Lucia has its first quota for Paris 2024! Biron earns the first medal for his territory in third. Plenty to celebrate after that race

Maria Dimitrova won her fifth gold medal at the CAC Games

Olympianorm für Leonie Märtens über 1500m Freistil im Schwimmen.

2023 International Trophy Sette Colli - Rome (ITA) June 23rd - June 25th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Freestyle Alessandro Miressi Men's 200m Freestyle David Popovici Men's 800m Freestyle Luca de Tullio Men's 1500m Freestyle Luca de Tullio Men's 400m Individual Medley Max Litchfield Women's 200m Freestyle Freya Colbert Valentine Dumont Women's 400m Freestyle Valentine Dumont Women's 800m Freestyle Ajna Kesely Women's 100m Backstroke Lauren Cox Women's 200m Breaststroke Reona Aoki Women's 100m Butterfly Anna Ntountounaki

Fencing FIE World Championships 2023 Milan (ITA) - 22 July 2023 - 30 July 2023 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Should be

Curious case of Casper Ruud - last seven Grand Slam results for him were 2R - F - 2R - F - 2R - F - 2R starting with US Open 2021 (he missed AO 2022)

not many surprises in the Italian Team for the Home Worlds. the biggest news is Arianna Errigo's comeback just a few months after giving berth to her 2 siblings, without a single test event, in the women's Foil team. as I expected, also in the women's Foil, Martina Batini is relegated to the Individual event only, after she had a few not so good outings in the team competitions in the past months. personally, I'm a bit disappointed by the absence of Pietro Torre among the 5 men's Sabre specialists, but his season wasn't as good as expected, therefore it's not a surprising call by the coach. compared to the recent European Games/Championships, we also have Michela Battiston back from an injury in the women's Sabre team, but that was expected.

Italy Women's Epee Rossella Fiamingo Federica Isola Mara Navarria Alberta Santuccio Giulia Rizzi (reserve) Men's Epee Gabriele Cimini Davide Di Veroli Federico Vismara Valerio Cuomo (Individual Competition only) Andrea Santarelli (Team Competition only) Women's Foil Arianna Errigo Martina Favaretto Alice Volpi Martina Batini (Individual Competition only) Francesca Palumbo (Team Competition only) Men's Foil Tommaso Marini Alessio Foconi Daniele Garozzo Filippo Macchi Guillaume Bianchi (reserve) Women's Sabre Michela Battiston Martina Criscio Rossella Gregorio Chiara Mormile Eloisa Passaro (reserve) Men's Sabre Luca Curatoli Michele Gallo Luigi Samele Riccardo Nuccio (Individual Competition only) Enrico Berrè (Team Competition only)

b. 4-3 on Penalties (0-0 the score after the actual match)

3rd place between mali and guinea. The winner will be qualify for Paris 2024. 0-0 after 84 minutes.

Guatemala took away a gold from Colombia in Speed Skating with Faberson Bonilla! Colombia will not sweep this sport.

Championships, don’t know about VPN. https://www.sportschau.de/die-finals/streams-finals-samstag-leichthletik-100.html

Open water swimming quotas from the CAC Games Men: Women: took the last quota by 0.2 seconds !

The priority boat for the mens sweep squad seems to have shifted from the four to the pair with Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney who were both in the middle of the four last year together in a pair for world cup iii. Its only day one but initial results are positive for this new pair. The plan was I assume still to try and qualify the four and while not being fast enough at trials is concerning it's not the end (Might be for Ronan Byrne though). I don't mind the four not racing here if it wasn't good enough. It has two months to be ready for worlds. I just wonder why we didn't also enter a four for under23 worlds. John kearney, Jack Dorney and Adam Murphy are all still eligible at under23 level and Andrew Sheahan who was in the under23 four last year seems to have been kind of chucked in a single for that event. Its frustrating they're not in Lucerne but Antonio Maurogiovanni standards are basically you're good enough for the olympics or you don't race at all. The four can still qualify along with the pair although the goalposts for them may well end up being FOQR next year. It's a very young boat apart from Fionnan McQuillan Tolan and can improve a lot in a year. Europeans was bad like really bad but I still feel really good about qualification and medal hopes for this rowing squad. It didn't seem like it because medal wise we were good at world cup ii last year but almost all of our boats improved relative to the competition as the year went on last year and I would expect the same this year. We have found a mens double that works with Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch, Paul and Fintan are back which always makes things feel much better, Women's lightweight double needs work if they want to medal again this year but i'm not worrried about qualification yet, the womens double,pair and four will all qualify although admittedly only the four looks like a definite medal contender and its a major question mark right now. Emily Hegarty is still injured but if we were changing the combination here I suspect she would be the odd one out. Imogen Magner came into the boat for Lucerne. My interpretation of that was they wanted to race the pair of Long and Hanlon together but it might be that Magner is actually a contender to race in the four. They posted the second fastest time of the heats this morning and all of their main competition is here outside of the USA. Look if we fall apart over the next couple of days here and then none of our concerningly small selection at under23 worlds looks good i'll be worried but for now we have seven boats that I would be shocked if they fail to qualify, all but one of which at least in theory could medal. I personally would like to see us qualify an eighth, ninth or even tenth boat and well we still can. The mens single is up in the air and Colsh being back in the double for under 23s probably isn't a great sign. I still want a quad, I don't think I'm going to get my wish though. The four as outligned earlier could still qualify and has the athletes to do it and if Alison Bergin can medal again at under23 worlds in the womens single we are back in business there too. We should still feel great about this squad and expectations for qualification and medals should both still be very high well at least for now.

With Iran men's team in the final having already qualified through the 2022 World ParaVolley Championships, this means that Kazakhstan , as the host of the 2023 Asian/Oceanian championship, has ensured one ticket for Paris 2024 after making it to the final.

Link for the Champs . Don’t know to what extent this is going to be gb’ed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/athletics/66092207

Pierre Latour conquers the Bordelais Matterhorn.

Leonie Märtens auch über die 400 Freistil mit der Norm. Ebenso Melvin Imoudu über 100 Brust.

Crucial will be if they manage to win in Round of 32 (against Singapore I assume).

Arguably the women are better at every Olympic team sport than the men

Exactly they have high potential to get the spot now.. but not guaranteed though I am expecting they will finish the ranking between 13-18th depending on their performance in the world championship and other World Cup competitions

Good decision for Egyptian fencing. But it makes the European battle for quotas even harder.

Jamaican men's 4x1 is looking like it'll be a force again this year after three athletes went sub 10 for the first time in the heats of the Jamaican trials. 9.91 Kishane Thompson 9.94 Kadrian Goldson 9.98 Rohan Watson Other athletes that have been sub 10 already this year 9.99 Bouwahjgie NKRUMIE 9.95 Oblique SEVILLE (best 9.86) 9.89 Ackeem BLAKE

Talking of the trials - big anti-doing crackdown, ALL athletes being tested. Kenyan athletes taken aback by new anti-doping protocols | Nation

has qualified their first athlete in athletics (men's 400m) via Steven Gardiner at the Bahamian National Championships

lost four semifinals in badminton today

has been disqualified from men’s team foil after their coach did his best Rio 2016 wrestling impression @mrv86 From the official communication: “During semifinal bout between Venezuela and team Mexico at score 44-44 after the action coach from Mexico team ran on the fencing strip and took off his t-shirt, after that he got completely topless. This happened before making a final decision after watching video replay required by the rules. After this incident I give a black card per T.132.2 to the national coach from team Mexico Maiquel Rodriguez.”

Miting Internacional d'Athletisme Ciutat de Barcelona- Barcelona, Spain July 5, 2023 Full Results Men's 800m Kelvin Kimutai Peter Bol Mohamed Attaoui Women's 3000m Steeplechase Irene Sanchez-Escribano Women's Pole Vault Eliza McCartney

German Championships, Berlin 1500m Freestyle, women Leonie Märtens Source: SWMW1500MFR------106--TIM---------_C73.pdf (titanium-sportservice.de)

2023 Phillips 66 National Championships- Indianapolis, United States June 27- July 1, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women's 50m Freestyle Gretchen Walsh Olivia Smoliga Kate Douglass Women's 100m Freestyle Olivia Smoliga Kate Douglass Gretchen Walsh Torri Huske Maxine Parker Women's 200m Freestyle Claire Weinstein Erin Gemmell Bella Sims Leah Smith Alex Shackell Women's 400m Freestyle Jillian Cox Erin Gemmell Paige Madden Women's 800m Freestyle Jillian Cox Claire Weinstein Leah Smith Katie Grimes Kensey McMahon Women's 1500m Freestyle Katie Ledecky Kensey McMahon Women's 100m Backstroke Katharine Berkoff Kennedy Noble Phoebe Bacon Rhyan White Amy Fulmer Teagan O'Dell Josephine Fuller Women's 200m Backstroke Kennedy Noble Reilly Tiltmann Jo Jo Ramey Phoebe Bacon Olivia Bray Lilla Bognar Women's 100m Breastroke Kaitlyn Dobler Women's 200m Breastroke Kate Douglass Women's 100m Butterfly Gretchen Walsh Kate Douglass Alex Shackell Olivia Bray Women's 200m Butterfly Alex Shackell Lindsay Looney Emma Sticklen Hali Flickinger Women's 200m Individual Medley Kate Douglass Alex Walsh Torri Huske Women's 400m Individual Medley Alex Walsh Katie Grimes Leah Hayes Men's 50m Freestyle Ryan Held Jack Alexy Matt King Jonny Kulow David Curtiss Chris Guiliano Men's 100m Freestyle Ryan Held Jack Alexy Destin Lasco Matt King Macguire McDuff Justin Ress Chris Guiliano Brooks Curry Men's 200m Freestyle Luke Hobson Carson Foster Drew Kibler Jake Mitchell Kieran Smith Men's 400m Freestyle Kieran Smith David Johnston Men's 800m Freestyle Ross Dant Will Gallant Charlie Clark Bobby Finke Men's 1500m Freestyle Bobby Finke Charlie Clark Men's 100m Backstroke Destin Lasco Christopher O'Connor Adam Chaney Wyatt Davis Men's 200m Backstroke Jack Aikins Destin Lasco Tommy Janton Hunter Tapp Keaton Jones Ian Grum Daniel Diehl Men's 100m Breastroke Nic Fink Josh Matheny Noah Nichols Men's 200m Breastroke Matt Fallon Josh Matheny Jake Foster Nic Fink Men's 100m Butterfly Ryan Murphy Gabriel Jett Zach Harting Caleb Dressel Thomas Heilman Men’s 200m Butterfly Carson Foster Thomas Heilman Zach Harting Jack Dahlgren Mason Laur Men's 200m Individual Medley Carson Foster Trenton Julian Men's 400m Individual Medley Chase Kalisz Bobby Finke Jay Litherland Carson Foster

According to Publico, Portogal could host 2027 European Games https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/24/desporto/noticia/governo-quer-portugal-organize-jogos-europeus-2054520

I'm going to give it a try, even though it's (thankfully) quite difficult to choose. From the oldest to the newest: - Pietro Mennea winning gold in the 200m in Moscow. Mennea is widely considered by Italians as the country's greatest athlete, together with Fausto Coppi. This was his greatest achievement, along with the world record that lasted for 17 years. He also won after a spectacular comeback. - Alberto Tomba's double gold in Calgary 1988. Not only is Tomba the greatest winter sports athlete in Italian history, but his second win is often talked about because Rai (the Italian public tv) stopped the broadcasting of the Festival di Sanremo to show his race. Sanremo is to Italian tv what the Super Bowl is to American tv, except it lasts for four or five nights and is even more boring. - Silvio Fauner outsprinting Bjoern Daehlie in the men's 4x10 km in Lillehammer 1994. I'm not sure about this pick, because cross country skiing is not one of the most popular sports in Italy, but this race is often mentioned as one of the greatest exploits in Italian sports history and one of the greatest upsets in cross country's Olympic history. - Stefano Baldini winning gold in the men's marathon in the same stadium where modern Olympics were born. - Marcell Jacobs winning the 100m in Tokyo a few minutes after Gianmarco Tamberi won gold in the high jump. There is actually a more exciting commentary from Rai, but this one is the only 'official' one available on YouTube.

My most remembered moments by NOC (remembered for good or worse) as of 10/12/2022 (very early thoughts) last moment block by Batum in semi vs SLO, Tokyo 2020 last moment block by Batum in semi vs FRA, Tokyo 2020 basket semi vs USA, I cheered you gonna beat them, you can do it, Sydney 2000 and Meilutyte reaction after she won her PRELIMINARY 100m race, London 2012 Yulia Lipnitskaya, Sochi 2014 Sandra Izbasa floor final peformance, Beijing 2008 Drummers at the opening ceremony, Beijing 2008 and Tang Xijing in beam final, Tokyo 2020 - ex aequo Men's javelin final, Tokyo 2020 Chasing Rafał Majka in the final kms, Rio 2016 Cavic vs Phelps, Beijing 2008 POL vs ESP football final, goal in 90min or sth, Barcelona 1992 Opening ceremony as a whole, Athens 2014 Zbigniew Bródka, Sochi 2014 Noriaki Kasai individual silver, Sochi 2014 Ester Ledecka SG, PyeongChang 2018 Charles Austin winning HJ despite Partyka 237cm jump, Atlanta 1996 Fede 200m win, Beijing 2008 Ipanema song at the opening ceremony, Rio 2016 and men's marathon safety issues drama, Athens 2004 - ex aequo Charolotte Kalla on the anchore leg, Sochi 2014 Fabian Hambuechen, Rio 2016 Hermann Maier flying high in downhill event, and then gold, Nagano 1998 men's golf powerhouse, Tokyo 2020 400m final, Rio 2016 Bjoergen vs Kowalczyk last km in 30km, Vancouver 2010 Daniel Gyurta final performance, London 2012 and Krisztian Berki final performence, London 2012 - ex aequo Basketball semis and final, Athens 2004 tbc... what are your thoughts?