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Austrian Athletics Championships (the event is finished), Bregenz Discus Throw, Men Lukas Weißhaidinger Source: Weißhaidinger überbietet bei ÖM Olympia-Limit | SN.at

German national Championships, Kassel Women: 100m: Gina Lückenkemper 11,03 400m Hurdles: Carolina Krafzik 54,47 (in the preliminaries) Long Jump: Malaika Mihambo 6,93 Discus Throw: Kristin Pudenz 65,98 Men 200m: Joshua Hartmann 20,03 400m Hurdles: Joshua Abuaku 48,45 400m Hurdles: Constantin Preis 48,45 Pole Vault: Bo Kanda Lita Baehre 5,82 Javelin Throw: Julian Weber 88,72

Meeting National De L'Est Lyonnais- Lyon, France July 8, 2023 Full Results (If someone can help find me find a results page for this meet, that would be very helpful) Men's 800m Joseph Deng Men's 1500m Anass Essayi

it's because internet wasn't there yet when I was 14 but at that time I was fast, I can tell you...I could swim the 100m freestyle in way less than 50 minutes and 52 seconds! ah, he swum in 50 seconds and 52 hundreds? oh, my...

I'll do some daily updates on which NOCs secure quotas in each event.

Tentoglou today had 8.38 at the Greek Nationals in Volos

that ungrateful animal flew away. very likely back home to He was here for 9 days, so I went to buy him 2 kilos of a special mixture of food for pigeons, and that ingrate flew away that evening

FIVB Elite 16 Gstaad, Switzerland Women’s Tournament Gold- Eduarda Santos Lisboa/Ana Patricia Silva Ramos Silver- Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes Bronze- Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss Men’s Tournament Gold- Miles Partain/Andy Benesh Silver- Anders Mol/Christian Sørum Bronze- Andre Loyola Stein/George Souto Wanderley Bryl fractured his toe midway through the men's bronze medal match (21-18, 11-7 POL) and as a result, they had to retire, giving the Brazilians a spot on the podium. Final between Mol/Sorum and Partain/Benesh was very high-quality beach volleyball, would definitely give it a watch if you have time. Mol/Sorum are some of my favorite athletes, so was extremely gutted to see the match not going in their favor. Partain/Benesh are legit though, thought Ostrava was a fluke, but oh was I proven wrong. Could potentially see them medaling come Paris 2024. Duda/Ana Patricia and Hughes/Cheng are the two best female pairings in the world now, by a decent margin, so not surprised to see them competing for gold. Another 5th for Mel/Brandie (Now 3 5ths at FIVB level in 5 tournaments), and now they're starting to turn into TKN Tournament Results Here

Patterson will be making her return after having surgery to mend a fracture in her foot at the Silesia Diamond League. Not much time for her to get back in form to defend her world title.

Wow so Sad both Lightfoot and Kendricks misses the world champs

semantics...

2023 European Junior Championships: Day 5 Results Girls 200m Butterfly: 1. Lana Pudar - 2:06.26 (OQT) 2. Alina Baievych - 2:10.78 3. Glenda Abonyi-Toth - 2:11.61 Girls 100m Freestyle: 1. Smilte Plytnykaite - 55.31 2. Sara Curtis - 55.35 3. Dora Molnar - 55.56 Boys 800m Freestyle: 1. Petar Mitsin - 7:47.45 (OQT) 2. Vlad Stancu - 7:49.68 (OQT) 3. Kuzey Tuncelli - 7:52.39 (OCT) Girls 800m Freestyle: 1. Merve Tuncel - 8:35.10 2. Marian Ploeger - 8:36.55 3. Julia Ackermann - 8:36.85 Boys 4x200m Freestyle Relay: 1. Italy - 7:17.42 2. France - 7:18.23 3. Turkey - 7:21.38 Pudar now ranks 4th in the world this year in the 200m Butterfly while Mitsin and Stancu rank 11th and 20th in the 800m Freestyle. Medal Table (24 Nations) Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Italy 7 5 3 15 2 Hungary 6 2 2 10 3 Denmark 3 1 0 4 4 Turkiye 3 0 3 6 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 0 0 2 5 Czechia 2 0 0 2 5 Bulgaria 2 0 0 2 8 France 1 3 3 7 9 Ukraine 1 2 0 3 10 Estonia 1 1 0 2 10 Netherlands 1 1 0 2 12 Lithuania 1 0 1 2 13 Great Britain 0 4 4 8 14 Germany 0 3 5 8 15 Romania 0 3 1 4 16 Sweden 0 2 2 4 17 Poland 0 2 0 2 18 Austria 0 1 0 1 18 Serbia 0 1 0 1 20 Belgium 0 0 1 1 20 Greece 0 0 1 1 20 Spain 0 0 1 1 20 Finland 0 0 1 1 20 Slovakia 0 0 1 1

No, this is now the event in swimming and WE rule it

Team Australia 🇦🇺

https://meets.rosterathletics.com/public/competitions/details/schedule?id=23429&meId=140335

That's a depressingly short list for . Re McColgan, she already has the qualifying standard for Budapest (and Paris) so didn't need to go to the national trials - although I think she did pick up an injury earlier in the season which has curtailed her medal aspirations.

2023 Para Athletics Championships (July 9-17) Paralympics Quotas 5- 4- 3- 2- 1- Day 1 (July 9) Women's Discus Throw F55 [4] - Women's Long Jump T11 [4] - Women's Shot Put F41 [4] - Men's Javelin Throw F38 [4] - Women's Club Throw F32 [4] - Men's Shot Put F55 [4] - Men's Shot Put F37 [4] - Men's Long Jump T11 [4] -

According to said uncle, pigeons are smart enough to keep getting water and food and only leave when they feel they're strong enough to go back home (he said he'd had pigeons return after three months or so ) You got used, buddy. By a bird.

Men's Shot Put F55 Paralympic Quotas:

i watched the end of the match and i don't find any reason for this booing , Azarenka for me is even an American more than Belarusian as she's living there since many years , she married an American and fought with him on American courts , so that some bullshit from fans , for Azarenka she did the right thing she knows very well that she won't shake hands so there is no point of going toward her and not shaking hands

Women's Club Throw F32 Paralympic Quotas:

We got bronze in W2- (from a 22 yo and a 21 yo) and LW2X! (from a 27 yo and a 17 yo)! First time since 2016 that Greece won a medal at a World Cup.

I'll join in on updating the predictions for Denmark Archery: Still feels like we will have 0 participants, but the women are absolutely not out of contention - 0 Artistic Swimming: We have some participants internationally, but no! - 0 Athletics: It has been a tough year so far, but we do have a bunch of potential qualifiers. I don't think anybody will make the standards though Mette Graversgaard and Kathrine Koch do have a chance. Without injuries we still have a decent shot at a 4x100 relay or both. Several strong athletes are on the way back from injuries (Lobo Vedel, Karstoft, Ibler and Møller). Hopefully some of those are ready during the late summer. A decent amount with outside chances as well. I'm going a bit lower than originally, but we could very well end up higher - 11 Badminton: A good start for the mixed doubles make me feel decently comfortable that they will qualify. The women's doubles are still pretty uncertain, but I believe they will make it. Still strongly think we'll have 2 men's singles and one in each of women's singles and men's doubles - 9 Basketball: No chance - 0 Beach Volleyball: Seems very unlikely - 0 Boxing: Terteryan made it. I think he will be the only one, but there are chances for more. - 1 Breaking: The only chance for us is Rico Coker (Zoopreme) getting his Danish citizenship in time for the Qualifier series. I doubt it, but who knows? - 0 Canoeing - Slalom: No chance - 0 Canoeing - Sprint: Certainly feels like the women's K4 should make it again. If not we will see a K2 and K1. The men's K4 and K2 have outside chances. - 6 Cycling - BMX: Malene Kejlstrup is doing an amazing job that may end up giving us 2 spots in the women's race. The men's may get one spot, but it will most likely need a good result in the Worlds. - 2 Cycling - Mountain Bike: It feels very much like the women will get 2 spots while the men really need to find a higher level if we want 2 riders. I think we'll stay at the 3 - 3 Cycling - Road: There can't be much doubt that the men will get the maximum 4 quotas and I think they will secure a TT-spot no. 2 at the Worlds. The women are struggling, but with a good summer the 3rd quota is within reach. But it feels like they'll have to do with 2. - 6 Cycling - Track: Seems pretty certain that we will get the same as in Tokyo. - 7 Diving: Still far off. - 0 Equestrian: Dressage team qualified and we already seem certain to get a spot in the jumping. Good chance in eventing as well - 5 Fencing: Unlikely but you never know in the qualifying event - 0 Field Hockey: I think we still don’t have an outdoor national team. - 0 Football: The U-21 team is out and the Women needs to outperform themselves. Unlikely but not impossible - 0 Golf: Not much doubt that we will get 2 each - 4 Gymnastics - Artistic: Camille Rasmussen feels like a pretty likely qualifies - 1 Gymnastics - Rhythmic: Still no chance - 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: Benjamin Salo Kjær had potential but a bad injury has taken him out of contention. Guess that means no Danes. - 0 Handball: Feels like we should qualify both teams this time. - 28 Judo: Mathias Madsen has done pretty well so far, but there's a long way to go. Lærke Olsen is in the fight as well. i think it will be one place, but it could be both 2 and 0 - 1 Modern Pentathlon: We have one serious athlete but the Olympics feels a bit too far away, especially without equestrian - 0 Rowing: Sverri Nielsen is back in great shape. The women’s four seems like a pretty safe bet as well and both pairs are strong. Some smaller chances in other classes. - 9 Rugby Sevens: Nah - 0 Sailing: ILCA 6, 49er and 49er FX feels pretty certain to qualify. We have a decent Nacra 17 and Lærke Buhl has a pretty good shot in IQ foil as well. Small chances in ILCA 7 and men’s IQ foil. We may see something in the men’s IQ foil, laser or kite, but all are questionable. - 8 Shooting: We have one rifle quota. I still expect at least one in men’s skeet and we have chances for more in women’s rifle, men’s air pistol and men’s skeet. - 3 Skateboarding: Sounds like Glifberg will not be going for the Olympics even though he is decently ranked so far. Solmunde is showing potential. There’s a decent shot, but I think we will be just outside. - 0 Sport Climbing: Very questionable - 0 Surfing: Not gonna happen - 0 Swimming: Pernille Blume stopped and we’re only sending 5 swimmers to the World Championships. A few others have a shot and I think the Olympic squad will be larger, but not by much - 7 Table Tennis: Anders Lind had a great start to the qualification and Jonathan Groth shows potential once again. We should at least qualify one, but 2 is not out of reach - 1 Taekwondo: We won’t be getting anything through the rankings, but both Hyttel and Hrnic have the potential to make it. It will be hard but certainly not impossible - 0 Tennis: Holger Rune seems pretty sure if he doesn’t get injured. I think Tauson will make it high enough as well. Wozniacki is the best chance for a 3rd player, but I have no idea whether she is back at the necessary level - 2 Triathlon: Alberte Kjær is pretty close to certain while Emil Holm also seems to be well on the way. Both Anne Holm and Oscar Gladney seems to be a bit outside and even very unsafe when it comes to the necessary ranking for a relay spot. - 2 Volleyball: We’re far away - 0 Water Polo: Ditto. - 0 Weightlifting: The European Championships didn’t seem like the success necessary to have a chance. It’s not gone, but I don’t think they’ll make it. - 0 Wrestling: Turpal Bisultanov finally got the citizenship but is injured meaning that he will miss the World Championships. There are still high hopes for his chances, but there’s no time to waste. - 1 Total Sports: 21 Optimistic Total Athletes: 130 Realistic Total Athletes: 117 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 75

2023 European Junior Championships: Day 6 Results Girls 200m IM: 1. Leah Schlosshan - 2:12.41 2. Phoebe Cooper - 2:13.28 3. Ellie McCartney - 2:14.31 Girls 100m Backstroke: 1. Lora Fanni Komoroczy - 1:01.10 2. Daria-Mariuca Silisteanu - 1:01.24 3. Giada Gorlier - 1:01.36 Boys 100m Backstroke: 1. Oleksandr Zheltiakov - 54.18 2. Christian Bacico - 54.36 3. Matthew Ward - 54.61 Girls 100m Breaststroke: 1. Eneli Jefimova - 1:06.81 (OCT, already has OQT) 2. Olivia Klint Ipsa - 1:07.26 3. Justine Delmas - 1:08.57 Boys 100m Freestyle: 1. Boldizsar Magda - 49.52 2. Davide Passafaro - 49.63 3. Rafael Fente Damers - 49.72 Boys 100m Breaststroke: 1. Jonas Gaur - 1:01.78 2. Steijn Louter - 1:01.94 3. Uros Zivanovic - 1:02.09 Girls 50m Butterfly: 1. Lana Pudar - 26.10 2. Martine Damborg - 26.40 3. Anna Maria Boerstler - 26.55 Boys 50m Butterfly: 1. Casper Puggaard - 23.67 2. Ethan Dumesnil - 23.90 3. Ivan Harbarchuk - 24.19 Girls 400m Freestyle: 1. Nikolett Padar - 4:08.06 (OCT) 2. Merve Tuncel - 4:10.44 3. Maya Werner - 4:12.32 Boys 400m Freestyle: 1. Petar Mitsin - 3:44.31 (OQT) (WJR) 2. Alessandro Ragaini - 3:48.42 3. Vlad Stancu - 3:50.21 Girls 4x100m Medley Relay: 1. Italy - 4:04.26 2. France - 4:05.63 3. Denmark - 4:06.13 Boys 4x100m Medley Relay: 1. Italy - 3:39.80 2. Denmark - 3:39.84 3. France - 3:42.16 Final Medal Table (25 Nations) Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Italy 9 8 4 21 2 Hungary 9 2 2 13 3 Denmark 5 3 1 9 4 Turkiye 3 1 3 7 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 0 0 3 5 Bulgaria 3 0 0 3 7 Ukraine 2 2 1 5 8 Estonia 2 1 0 3 9 Czechia 2 0 0 2 10 France 1 5 6 12 11 Great Britain 1 5 5 11 12 Netherlands 1 2 0 3 13 Lithuania 1 0 1 2 14 Romania 0 4 2 6 15 Germany 0 3 7 10 16 Sweden 0 3 2 5 17 Poland 0 2 0 2 18 Serbia 0 1 1 2 19 Austria 0 1 0 1 20 Belgium 0 0 1 1 20 Greece 0 0 1 1 20 Spain 0 0 1 1 20 Finland 0 0 1 1 20 Ireland 0 0 1 1 20 Slovakia 0 0 1 1

Congrats to Brazil, Canada couldn't copy their upset against the United States. Argentina and Venezuela have had a relatively decent tournament, perhaps Puerto Rico won't have an easy ride to the Olympic qualifying tournament.

They were still using rudimentary glyphs and stone tablets, right?

Now you know to tie the receipt to his leg next time. You can throw some room and board costs on there too

Martina Sablikova won today (9th of July 2023) Women´s L´etape du Tour de France Always wanted to write something in the speed skating thread. So here I am

63rd in the World Ranking chess player Kirill Alekseenko have started play for

Don't see a route to Canada qualifying 6 athletes in taekwondo - in fact, I don't think there will be many nations able to qualify more than 4 athletes with the exception of China (and they'll only do it because of the unbalanced nature of the Grand Slam Champions Series) At the moment, only Skylar Park is in a qualifying position, so Canada would be able to enter 2 men and 1 woman into the PanAm continental qualifier so at best I think Canada will field 4 athletes in Paris.

Exactly 1 year from now, our NOC will have it´s traditional pre-Games classical delegation nomination assembly The qualifiers are ongoing in several sports and more or less we can already imagine realistically the composition of our Paris 2024 Team S let see how it looks and how much wrong I will be Archery: Still not qualified, but it is one of those sports I really believe we will at the end grab that one spot. More likely among women than men. The highest chance to reach that holy grail shoul be for Baránková, so let see and pray - 1 Artistic Swimming: I guess not many chances here. At the beginning I thought we can qualify a duet, but now realistically I am affraid we will miss participation in this sport for the second consecutive time, our pair is regularly ranking 3-4 places behind the last European quota - 0 Athletics: A year before the games I already know that it will be Zero through Standard, but hopefully a bunch via Ranking. Volko (100 & 200), Viki Forster (W 100 Hurdles, maybe the 100 dash as well...), Gajanová (W 800) are the least worrying names to qualify. Then we have some which should qualify at the end as well, like Lomnický (Hammer), Kaňuchová (Hammer), Balúch (400 H) and I assume our Mixed-relay-Race Walking crap will qualify as well. and then there some names that are questionable, but not to be underestimated like the after injury returning slovak comet Emma Zapletalová in the 400H - Between 9 and 11, probably 10 Badminton: Slovakia competed 3 times in this sport always in the W singles and achieved in Tokyo its first won match, this time we should qualify again among women, the Košice born Katarína Vargová is purposefully constantly regularly participating in obscure tournaments in or to obtain enough points for Paris. I always said our Badminton federation is the smartest institution in our sport universe - 1 Basketball: Nothing changed since previous predictions, just the Women team is already out. M team was already out since the invention of the sport. Our M will qualify only if IOC expend the tournament to a 206 nations tourney - 0 Beach Volleyball: not enough sand... - 0 Boxing: Andrej "Bandi" Csemez is our sole realistic chance to qualify, he missed the EG because of illness he caught after returning from the preparation camp in Cuba... but I still do believe he will qualify next year. the rest no chance, is one of those countries, you know, even if we kill the opponent on the ring, the referees will call the opponent lying in coma at the hospital as winner - 0 Breaking: Pogo maybe, Breaking no - 0 Canoeing - Slalom: Copy/Paste since the late 90´s. Full team or fucking riots - 6 Canoeing - Sprint: I expected since the beginning the easy qualification of our famous K4, now I am not so sure, I mean, not sure at all, I am afraid we will experience a huge disaster in this. In case the catastroph scenario will seriously occur next month, we will probably qualify only 2 or 3 individuals - Hopefully it will be 7, afraid it will be only 2 Cycling - BMX: who the fuck invent those sports, seriously ? - 0 Cycling - Mountain Bike: Sagan apparently has a plan to retire from the sport in Paris in the MTB... Well, not very likely, we are not even near the qualifying position right now, so I do not see it realistic - Zero Cycling - Road: Nothing changed since last prediction. Still No idea, Maybe Peter Sagan will really have one final dance in Paris road race if he will not qualify in the MTB, but probably no. if we qualify one guy we will probably send Štoček or another younger prospect like Svrček - 1 Cycling - Track: Pavlendová is trying, but I guess at the end as always, in vain - 0 Diving: If Neymar will accept our citizenship... - 0 Equestrian: Bugan´s and his "For President" only chance to qualify is I guess if a lot of countries will decline quotas to steal probably the most unexpected and unbelievable quota in sports world entire history - 0 Fencing: more likely to meet a dinosaur than to see a slovak fencer at the Olympics in this century - 0 Field Hockey: Playing hockey on grass ! I swear, some people and their ideas ... - 0 Football: Both teams out for the surprise of nobody - 0 Golf: Our very own Boy from Durban, ehm, sorry, Bratislava Rory S. is actually out of the qualifying places, but I do believe he will manage to qualify anyway, if not, well, whatever - 1 Gymnastics - Artistic: Same as last year. Barbora Mokošová again our only hope to qualify, Hopefully she will manage to reach it, anyway it is far from being a sure thing - 1 Gymnastics - Rhythmic: Same as last year. Not in this millenium - 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: Same as last year. Actually we have no registered competitors in this - 0 Handball: Both teams already out - 0 Judo: Márius Fizeľ in the +100kg is very well in the battle to qualify Slovakia back to the Olympic Tatami after 12 years, At least the European quota is really in the play. So hopefully there will be also some luck for Slovakia for once - 1 Modern Pentathlon: We do not punch horses here, so probably no - 0 Rowing: You will laugh, but we do have a 17 year prodigy kid who came last year out of nowhere, so who knows, declined quota here and there and he can go - 0 Rugby Sevens: Already out, well, never was really in ... neither to be honest - 0 Sailing: copy/paste from last one ! we have no sea - 0 Shooting: Our sole 3 qualified athletes so far: Patrik Jány (in both M Rifle events) Zuzan Rehák-Štefečeková 3 time olympic medalist and Tokyo reigning champion (Trap) and the young Vanesa Hocková (Skeet). Hopefully a couple of athletes will soon join them, 2 are leading the world ranking, our IOC member Danka Barteková (Skeet) & Juraj Tužinský (Air Pistol) should qualify at the end easily, some have chances as well, EG Silver medalist young Kamila Novotná (W Rifle), Špotáková (Trap) E. Varga or Drobný (M Trap) - 8 Skateboarding: Richard Tury is within the qualifying positions in M Street, I do really hope and wish him to fullfil his Olympic dream after missing Tokyo so nearly - 1 Sport Climbing: The young Martina Buršíková is seriously one huge talent and many projecting her as the biggest Slovak sport talent (outside the religious Hockey obviously) in last decades, The girl this year won everything she attended in the Juniors level, from next year she is expected to start competing among seniors, so Paris probably not yet, but LA28 ! better watch out, wi ar komin ! - 0 Surfing: Out by default, We do not have registered federation - 0 Swimming: 2 Tourists via universality quotas will try to not drown in Paris for sure, Podmaníková in the W Breakstroke and probably Halas in the Freestyle sprints - 2 Table Tennis: Last time we had 3, now I am pretty confident we can qualify even 4. Pištej and Wang Yang among M, Balážová and Kukuľková among W. Barbie B. and Pištej will compete in Mixed Doubles as well for sure, Slim chance for the W Team as well, but as history taught us, we usually lose those quotas at the end - 4 Taekwondo: Chances are somewhere below zero - 0 Tennis: We never missed the Olympics in this, I am sure thanks many future mandatory reallocations we will form even a doubles pair, maybe also among women, would be nice to return in the W field after missing Tokyo (Molčan, Gomboš, Schmiedlová and Hrunčáková-nee-Kužmová I guess are the most likely) - 4 Triathlon: W: RIvan Kuriačková is in qualifying position, but, there some promising youngsters behind like Vráblová or Michaličková, maybe even Romana Gajdošová who can menace her eventual quota, among M: It is less optimistic, Richard Varga is our sole chance, but lately completely out of form - 1 Volleyball: Both teams out, but be aware, W are progressing step by step - 0 Water Polo: Like last 2 Olympic cycles, Both teams still among the best 16 in Europe but still Too weak to qualify among the best in the world or at the Olympics - 0 Weightlifting: I guess none... as usual - 0 Wrestling: Not wanting to jinx it, but I firmly believe we will be in Paris 2024 in this sport. Salkazanov, Tsakulov, Makoev are among favorites for the quotas, Zsuzsanna Molnar with an outside chance among women as well, all in Freestyle, Zero chance in Greco-Roman though - 3 Total Sports: 15-16 Optimistic Total Athletes: 50 or even god forbid 51 Realistic Total Athletes: as last prediction: anything between 40-50 is basically realistic, In my predictions I counted 47 or 48 which would be kinda OK-ish Pessimistic Total Athletes: under 40

Astana to offer Cavendish a one year contract next year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66147017

absolutely ! even without the qualifications, guinea and morocco will present only one soloist!

QUOTAS BALLET Africa or Oceania DUO & Africa & Oceania https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/1/world-aquatics-championships-fukuoka-2023/athletes?gender=&discipline=SY&countryId=

Today is the Raymond Poulidor memorial stage, starting in the town he spent most of his life (until his death three years ago). Which also means without a doubt Van der Poel is going to try something, Poulidor's last dream was to see Van der Poel (his grandson) ride the Tour....that didn't happen, but Van der Poel did get the yellow which had eluded Poulidor throughout his entire and incredibly impressive career. Also, finish on the mythical Puy de Dôme, with a deservedly awesome podium being set up

Maar and Sclater with 20 points apiece, in a 3-1 victory over And with that we avoid relegation Much better play from us this week, although our 1-3 record may tell a slightly different story. Still, a loss to NED in 4, a loss to ITA in 5, and tight losses to POL and FRA in 3, are some things to be proud of, and hopefully, this is a sign that great things are to come. (Personally, I really hope this team can qualify for Paris 2024, but as of now that's looking more like a dream than reality )

What a horrible performance by the Dutch men. A clear 0-3 against Slovenia. Well, this can happen, because Slovenia is a strong team, but the way Netherlands played this match ... pfffff. If they don't improve quickly, they won't make it to the Olympics.

still very confusing especially when it comes to continental quotas. My direct feeling is that Russia and Belarus only winning quotas through meeting standards like swimming and athletics. It sounds fair and acceptable for me. But boxing, sailing, modern pentathlon and breaking these continental quotas should only be given to OCA members.

Arguably the most exciting player in baseball right now, Elly de la Cruz, stole 3 bases tonight within the span of two pitches including home plate.

Canada won :D

*U.S. National Championships. The trials only take place during the Olympic season

Overall a good first day at our National Championships, which are being held in Volos for the first time. The two big stars who competed today were Tzengko and Karalis. Tzengko won the women's javelin with 58.50, which was her only valid throw. She fouled her second and didn't throw again. Karalis won the men's pole vault with 5.50, and had three failed attempts at 5.72. The women's 100m was a great race, even without Emmanouilidou who has 11.21 this year (she's resting to focus on the European U23s). Anastasiou won with a new PB of 11.41 (she previously had 11.52), and Tsoukala was second with a new PB of 11.44 (she previously had 11.48). Spanoudaki, who is coming back from injury, had a respectable third place finish with 11.49. With these three girls and Emmanouilidou (plus Pesiridou who only competed in 100H here), we can have a real shot at qualifying a relay for Paris The men's 100 had a wind of +4.2 so unfortunately those marks won't count (though I guess they do for rankings), as the medalists were Nyfantopoulos (10.15w), Trivyzas (10.31w), and an unknown young athlete named Volikas (10.32w). We also saw big things in the men's triple jump. Pantazis won gold with 17.19w (he also had 16.91 today which was with +1.4 so that is his new PB, after he had 16.86 from 2021). 41 yo Tsiamis got silver with 16.82w (his best legal jump today was 16.39), and European indoor silver medalist Andrikopoulos got bronze with 16.18, which was his only valid jump today as he also had 5 (!!!) fouls. The men's hammer was underwhelming, with the medals going to Anastasakis (74.21), Frantzeskakis (72.72), and Zaltos (72.26). All three will be going to Budapest anyways so I guess it doesn't matter too much that they were so far from their PBs today. Douvalidis won the men's 110 hurdles for the 28423686754th time, with a SB of 13.61, and Pesiridou won the women's 100 hurdles for the 284387428th time, with a SB of 13.05. We had a lot of PBs and SBs in that race. Mouzenidis won the men's shot put with a new PB of 19.98. After his U23, U20 and U18 success, I definitely expected more from him, but maybe now he is finally moving in the right direction again. He only turned 24 yo last week, so he still has time on his side. The level in the women's high jump was embarrassingly low, but Dosi won gold with a new PB of 1.88. She had our national U20 and U18 records and then stopped improving since the pandemic began, but now this year she got two new PBs so hopefully she's on the right path again. She's only 22 yo so she also has time. Koreneva won the women's triple jump with 13.92w, and also a new PB of 13.87(+1.3). Karydi finally jumped over 13m for the first time this year in qualifying (13.11), but in the final all three of her valid jumps had too much wind assistance to be a new SB. She won silver with 13.55w. Lastly, we saw a new U20NR from Kallimogianni in the women's 3000 steeplechase, who improved her own NR from 10:26.11 to 10:21.51 to win bronze. Even more impressive was 20 yo Rafailaki who won silver, improving her PB from 10:41.70 to 10:20.79

well, it was not that random the Croatian couldn't handle anymore the amount of punches the Ukranian was landing actually, the ref should have counted the Croatian the first time he went down on his knee, he didn't simply slip down because of the wet ring, he was just feeling the shots and then, when the ref started the count, the Croatian wasn't clearly present to himself anymore for the "Olympic Boxing" standards, stopping the bout was at least a safe (if not properly good) decision, the Croatian was going to get a too harsh punishment otherwise (and in fact he didn't even tried to argue the ref's decision, as he knew how tired and groggy he was)

It's Coming home England is Euro U21 Champions

We beat Poland 72-67. I only caught the last 5 minutes or so, as I was watching Tsitsipas and also our U18 women had their semifinal, but I guess it's a good win. Not sure how far we can go here, but a medal is obviously ideal especially as we are at home.

If bobsleigh/skeleton is ever dropped from the program, I humbly submit we replace it with whatever the hell this is…

I really doubt it's different in many other countries I do read on this forum and only now I realized this event is even going on. If I was an avid swimming enthusiast, of course I'd have known, but it's not like swimming is so massively mainstream that even continental junior championships are anywhere in the news (I think the only sport for which a junior worlds would be news here is speed skating and mostly only if the Dutch get some special kind of medals there - like a 16-year old dominating the event) Still happy someone on here follows it though, now I can check the results

Jeeeeez, Tajus Juška is an insane talent. He already medaled in the men's 4x100m Freestyle and qualified to both the 100 Fly and 50 Free semis this morning. This is Meilutytė level of talent at 14 years old... Hope he has a long and healthy career.