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17 different countries won medals in Tokyo. 11 different countries won gold. Of the 14 golds won, 8 of them won by non-European nations Only gold won by Romania in Tokyo. 1 of 2 won by Ireland, Greece. 1 of 3 by Croatia One of the only sports where the USA didn’t win a medal Overall I think that’s a decent record.

Sources tell Reuters the decision on which additional sports will be included in the LA 2028 program will be made on September 8th. https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2028-idCAKBN3061MC

Two Egyptians and two Australians qualified to paris via African & Oceania Championships 🏆 Malak Ismail 🇪🇬 Ahmed ElGendy 🇪🇬 Genevieve van Rensburg🇦🇺 Rhys Lanskey 🇦🇺

That will be Egypt's second quota on the men's side and first on the women's so there wont be any need to reallocate to the Olympic Ranking List.

Fun fact, Sweden is the 7th team able to win the team event in the last 7 European Championship.

Stage 4/5 in La Seu d´Urgell, ESP Men´s C1 (4/5) 1. Raffello IVALDI 96.52 2. Luka BOZIC 97.53 3. Marko MIRGORODSKY 97.63 Full Final Results HERE Full Semifinal Results HERE Full Qualification Results Heat 1 and Heat 2

With Canada's loss to Brazil, Group L's final matches are now elimination matches. Here are the permutations for the winners of each match Winner 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2.

Don't waste your precious time

They are currently the favourites to win the Nations Cup quota assuming Brazil, Canada and the United States get the job done at the Pan American Games

Damn, missed this live, but here’s the highlights. From it’s the big one in the world of Wife-Carrying, the annual World Championships. NB make sure you have the CC enabled, unless you speak Finnish. The sport us somewhat misnamed, as the pairs need nit be husband & wife.

Close game between Serbia and Italy , just a 2-point lead for ITA with less than 5 minutes remaining in the game ITA escapes with a close win, 78-76

Obviously are all European nations. Rowing is actually one of the few sport where every continent (counting North and South America as separate continents) has won an Olympic gold.

Please do list them.

Yeah swimming too along with a cut in quotas in judo, remove team events in fencing,mens football, synchronized swimming, completely eliminate modern pentathlon, dressage, breakdancing, skateboarding and we'll have a great games

Right, if World Rowing is insistent about rowing being held in the LA Metro Area, then they have to cater to the best/most realistic option we can provide. They could always hold rowing elsewhere, likely outside the state, but that has its own setbacks.

Castaic Lake isn’t really ideal. It’s just a dam, and it got pretty low during the bad drought years. I believe it has recovered much water volume with the unusually wet year we’ve had, but other concerns persist. Lake Perris was the venue originally proposed. It was just far away from other venue clusters, not to mention that lake faces similar pressures when it comes to drought. It would also likely require residential facilities to be constructed. Long Beach Marine Stadium relies mainly on seawater, and it already has a lot of the infrastructure needed (or at least room to build temporary facilities). It will be much closer in proximity to other venue clusters as well. The main downside to the venue is the shortened distance, along with the tidal fluctuations.

why travelling so far? they have a couple of suitable lakes close to the big town, one is Lake Casitas (used for the 1984 Olympics), the other (sorry, I don't remember the exact name right now without searching for it) was the place named for the 2028 Olympics in the candidature file they have just to stop whining and build a small athletes' village there and have the regatta in a proper location

because they want to use the iconic Long Beach Marina and not the place that was chosen when they presented their bid if IOC and World rowing were serious institutions, they would have recalled the arrogant LA organizers to stay with the original plan same for the Slalom Canoeing Center in Oklahoma City rather than in the LA area

Iga Świątek needed only 49 minutes to beat junior BFF Kaja Juvan 6-0 6-1

Noah Lyles ends his season, according to Twitter which I’m not in so can’t link to.

Da, gledam ih godinama. Bili su jaki i bez Luke, sa njim su kandidati za zlato, bez dileme. Mocni u svakom pogledu. Takvi su u svim sportovima, timski i individualno. Pogledaj biciklizam, atletiku, odbojku... Radi se o sistemu. Radni, vrijedni, dobri uslovi, dobar skauting... Eto rezultata. Kod nas skripi svuda, godinama. Sujeta, losa domaca liga, sve slabiji treneri, igraci koji sve vise lice na fudbalere po poimanju reprezentacije. Nedostatak herca prije svega. A i to je samo dio price. Mi smo se jedva i plasirali na SP. To sto Telegraf i Alo sada prenose info sa SP i hajpuju tim nema nikakve veze ni sa cim. Tim je bio los, jeste los a koliko se u kosarku razumijem takav ce biti i dalje.

So, Olympic Quota chances stills alive

Canada loses to Brazil, will need to beat defending champs Spain this weekend in order to move to the quarters. But hey, Latvia beat Spain today, and Canada beat Latvia. So, logically, it should be a "slam dunk", right? RIGHT? Bad collapse in the 4th, scoring only 60 points for the game after averaging over 110 previously (the most in the tournament). Not great. Outscored 24-13 in the 4th quarter. Yikes.

Pogledaj kako igraju Slovenci a kako mi u napadu. Svemirska razlika. Moderna košarka nasuprot ničemu.

Neverovatno kako nas je usrao žreb i kako smo opet usrali motku. Svaka nam čast.

Worth mentioning Trapote who was double clear over the two (non speed) rounds too. He's 12th on 8.11 after a poor opening speed round

Group K is simple, the winner of v will finish first while the loser will finish second.

Last weekend, Uruguay won the repechage tournament at Santo Domingo. The venue was described as unfit for matches or training, with water leaks everywhere. USA quit their match against Uruguay when we were winning 12-2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5Ats_1Hfg The Uruguayan federation has made no comments about the situation.

Slovenia wins, Australia out. Dom Rep , now all teams even in that Group. Italy favorite for 1st place now.

Congrats Austria. Last time they had a team was Atlanta 1996. Heck, they haven't even qualified an individual rider since 2000.

Olympic, world and now also European team champs! And that this time without Peder Fredricsson. Looks like his brother is quite good too

gets the third quota Congrats to

Amazing (comeback) win for Italy once again! Don't see them winning a medal, but with Banchero it might have been possible. I think Italy might have some down years in the near future, but in the long run they should be very good again (given their results at junior level).

World Ranking updated as of August 31st, 2023

Historic achievement For the first time EVER EVER Slovakia will have 2 (TWO) representatives in European Cups Group Phase ! Both in this one, Slovan Bratislava (Slovak League Champion) which was during this summer regularly kicked out from Champions League Qualifiers by Maccabi Haifa and yesterday from Europa League Play-Off by Limassol and will play the Conference League group phase for the 3rd consecutive year and Spartak Trnava (Slovak Cup Winner) who made it through the almost entire Conference League Qualifiers (Started in 2nd Qualifier Round) Clubs in European Competition Group Phases since the independence in 1993 Champions League Group: (3 times) 1.FC Košice in 1997/98 (0 Points) Artmedia Petržalka in 2005/06 (6 Points and a Win in Porto , 3rd Place) MŠK Žilina in 2010/11 (0 Points) UEFA/ Europa League Group: (5 times) MŠK Žilina in 2008/09 (4 Points and a win at Aston Villa) Slovan Bratislava in 2011/12 (1 Point) Slovan Bratislava in 2014/15 (0 Points) Spartak Trnava in 2018/19 (6 Points, 3rd Place) Slovan Bratislava in 2019/20 (6 Points, 3rd Place) Conference League Group: (2 times) Slovan Bratislava in 2021/22 (8 Points, 3rd Place) Slovan Bratislava in 2022/23 (11 Points, 1st Place - First time a SVK club progressed from the Group Stage, with a bye in the 1st Round advanced directly to Round of 16, but eventually lost there to FC Basel) ... in 2023/24 Slovan Bratislava and Spartak Trnava first time 2 clubs the same season in European Competition Group Phase

Aris Limassol 6-2 Slovan Bratislava (agg 7-4) Yannick Gomis 3 goals

Not to mention, you then need to find another six to compete in the other boats, and that’s not even considering athletes in the sculls.

Ahead of the action getting underway, for anyone who is interested, I've (hopefully) attached a tracker of each crew's performances across the 3 World Cups and this year's European Championships - there are probably other regattas that I could/should include, but in the end it comes down to time. Given the vagaries of the sport, there's not a lot of value in including a "season's best" time so it includes all of the crews times across the heats, repechage, semis and finals. Any crew highlighted in blue is taking part in the World Championships. Underneath the World Champs crews, I've also listed the other crews that have been fielded over the course of the year as there has been a lot of experimenting with crew composition this year. Not all of the different 4s and 8s have been listed if only 1 member of the crew has been swapped out. Rowing Performance Tracker.xlsx

As well as the DL restarting, lots of smaller meets to be crammed into the next couple of weeks. First up - a big Throws meet in Thum, formerly . Lots of medallists in action, plus Germans - no overlaps on that Venn Diagram. https://www.youtube.com/@SportimOstenoffiziell/streams

2-0 and through to the semifinals after 3-0 sweeps over Puerto Rico and Mexico

Yeah, I do like it as well, but it feels so insanely obscure when it's even hard to simply fill a normal-sized final.

The epitome of Canadian sport. https://x.com/evandunfee/status/1697261401465848156?s=46&t=eeNhSzi4Rylqjvpt-IBinQ

Eights is by far the least diverse Olympic event on the program. Like would any event that struggles to field double digit entrants ever be considered for the Olympics? With that said, the Eights is one of the events I look forward to the most so it will be a very sad day when the IOC finally axes the event.

Egypt defeats Jordan 85-69 and South Sudan defeats Philippines which means they will be the teams to contest for African Olympic quota on Saturday , South Sudan face Angola and Egypt faces New Zealand

if it's like the last 2 Olympics, it's gonna be 7 boats (in both genders) 5 from the world champs and 2 from the OQ regatta in Lucerne next year

Not really IMO, to put it very simply: any team inside the top 10 of ranking is almost certain to qualify for Paris. I don't see Argentina or Brazil dropping below those places by June next year.

Squad for the Women's Volleyball NORCECA Championships https://volleyball.ca/en/news/women-s-norceca-championship-roster We're sending our A-squad, with no notable absences, so I'm assuming we're probably going to be using this tournament to prepare for Olympic Qualifiers in September. Matches will be streamed on CBCSports.

2023 European U23 Swimming Championships - Dublin (IRL) August 11th - August 13th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 50m Freestyle Stergios-Marios Bilas Men's 100m Backstroke Jono Adam Men's 200m Individual Medley Matt Sates

Swimming at the 2023 Summer Universiade - Chengdu (CHN) August 1st - August 7th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Butterfly Jakub Majerski Women's 100m Freestyle Zhang Yufei Women's 200m Backstroke Liu Yaxin Women's 100m Breaststroke Kotryna Teterevkova Women's 200m Breaststroke Kaylene Corbett Kotryna Teterevkova Women's 100m Butterfly Erin Gallagher

2023 Speedo Canadian Championships - Toronto (CAN) August 1st - August 6th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women's 200m Individual Medley Ashley McMillan