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Tournament 1 (Valencia, Spain) Day 4 results Pool A 12-0 0-1 Final Standings 9 (+21) 6 (+3) 3 (-5) 0 (-19) Pool B 8-1 2-4 Final Standings 7 (+10) 5 (+2) 3 (-3) 1 (-9) Semifinals v v

Hi all. Finished work on my spreadsheets (for now). There are 2 separate ones for now, but they're linked to each other. One goes day by day, the other is sport by sport.. Paris 2024 competition schedule by Day Paris 2024 competition schedule by Sport I'll update these as more of the schedule gets filled out, like matchups in team sports and breakdown of individual events in sports like swimming (I have the track events in athletics broken down by time. If anyone has additional information to add or new schedules get released, I'll add them here. Don't know how much I'll keep up during the games as the team sports reach the elimination rounds, but anyone who wants to help is more than welcome! And if anyone has any suggestions on how to make improvements here, I'm open to opinions. Thanks!

Another win for Badosa

So looking at the final Olympic qualifier, currently are already qualified to the Olympics while will qualify through the World quota (provided they don't qualify here). could qualify as a World team should one of the previously mentioned European teams and/or Egypt qualify through their respective continental qualifier. That means for to have any chance at making the Olympics they will need to finish as the two highest ranked eligible teams to get the European quota. Despite failing to reach the Main Round will compete at the OQT as "World 1"

Welcome in Italy Host city: MILANO A quick tour of the beauties of Milan City In this competition we will listen to many songs in many languages so let's start with a traditional song from Milan (dialect) The logo unveiled Gran Final venue: Forum (Assago-Milano) Giro d'Italia/Tour of Italy Italian Festival (Dialectical and traditional songs) ItaloDisco Co-host city Winter Olympic 2026

We got our first Indoor meets of 2024! (OK, I am excluding the Siberian Regionals from last weekend) Dortmund on Saturday afternoon.

As long as they at least are aware of proper biathlon safety rules. It may sound silly, but they are handling lethal weapons and more than once have junior/youth athletes from this kind of exotic nations (including those competing internationally in things like the IBU Junior Cup) never been taught the strict but basic safety things in terms of handling the rifle and everything around it...I remember a situation where a youth athlete simply put a still loaded rifle back in the hotel, where luckily the next day the athlete who picked that rifle was more experienced..

Think that may be an outdated version of the qualification document - the latest version dated January 2023 is different and includes results from Fukuoka. Paris2024-QS-FINA-Swimming.pdf (olympics.com)

The main round opens with winning over 37-32. Norway continues to struggle, quite unlikely for them to reach the semifinals now. Even getting to the 5th place match is going to be tough.

Parallel Slalom WC Bad Gastein | Bad Gastein, Austria Women Gold- Ramona Hofmeister Silver- Sabine Schöeffmann Bronze- Jasmin Coratti Men Gold- Maurizio Bormolini Silver- Arvid Auner Bronze- Fabian Obmann Full Results

16 year old Mirra Andreeva with an emphatic 6-0 6-2 win over Ons Jabeur. Oh yes, those 16 year old Russians are coming and Andreeva has the mighty IMG agency backing so she's here to stay

Damn, it feels like we're starting this early this year will be entering once again, of course. I'm hoping @dezbee2008 and @owenp_23 (or others) will join me

Oh absolutely. And in biathlon they can get very easy money and equipment support from the IBU, so that might help to fund their CC efforts if they'd decide to go that way (lots of exotic athletes compete in one or two IBU Cup weekends just to fund their CC season for example).

Might be they’ve just concluded that youth CC & biathlon training is a good foundation for tons of different endurance sports, which is obviously true.

Matter of time for them to create their own rollerski circuit and start farming the sweet points in a few years I hope we'll see more of them, but somehow I fear they will fade away before most of them are 20...

We also no longer have to take Netherlands into account after a 12-goals defeat against Denmark and the loss of one the key players. After this mega defeat I don't see them winning against Norway, Slovenia and Portugal anymore.

Thanks I just found that myself. Phew

US Olympic Team Trials The US Olympic selection regatta across 5 events took place in Miami last week. Athletes Confirmed as Selected for Team USA: Women's iQFOiL - Dominique Stater - Stater confirmed in the quota that she secured in taking silver at last year's Pan-American games Men's 49er - Ian Barrows & Hans Henken - The US quota was won by Andrew Mollerus and Ian MacDiarmid when they finished 5th at the World Champs with Barrows and Henken finishing in 9th. At the selection trials, Barrows and Henken won the event by 3 points. Other Event Winners: Mixed 470 - Stu McNay & Lara Dallman-Weiss Men's iQFOiL - Noah Lyons Men's Kite - Markus Edegran For these 3 boats, USA do not currently have a quota so these athletes need to secure their tickets to Paris via the 470 World Champs or the last chance regatta.

We now have confirmation that the Trampoline Federation will not accept the IOC conditions and will miss Paris 2024.

Smells like IIHF was one of the first ones to dip their toes in the water to test it and see what the reactions would be, and the water is still a bit too cold for them

Wozniacki kids watching her from home

And just a reminder - here's the schedule for the World Athletics Gold Level Indoor Tour 27 Jan – Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes, Astana, Kazakhstan 30 Jan – Czech Indoor Gala, Ostrava, Czech Republic 4 Feb – New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, Boston, USA 6 Feb – ORLEN Copernicus Cup, Torun, Poland 10 Feb – Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais ‘Trophée EDF’, Lievin, France 11 Feb – Millrose Games, New York, USA 23 Feb – World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid 2024, Madrid, Spain https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-indoor-tour-expands-2024

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Is in of course. Wohoooooo. 😊

Well that's early is of course in.

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Back once again for

Isaac del Toro has won the second stage of the Tour Down Under Biggest achievement by a Mexican rider in the last 30 years.

is definitely in!

Shiffrin won in Flachau? That is like her worst slalom course historically

2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship: 5-8 Playoff: 12 - 10 5-6 Playoff: 15 - 10

2024 Australian Open: Men's Singles: Round 1: (7) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE d. (LL) Zizou Bergs BEL 5-7 6-1 6-1 6-3 Round 2: (7) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE vs. Jordan Thompson AUS Women's Singles: Round 1: (8) Maria Sakkari GRE d. Nao Hibino JPN 6-4 6-1 Round 2: (8) Maria Sakkari GRE vs. Elina Avanesyan RUS Men's Doubles: Round 1: Altmaier GER/Reyes-Varela MEX d. P.Tsitsipas GRE/S.Tsitsipas GRE 7-5 7-5

And Luxembourg on Sunday afternoon.

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Top 10 for & secured

Huge !!!! Third team in París !!!! Enormes !!!! Tercer equipo en París

Out of the gazillion issues with the IOC, the roster sizes of the team sports is amongst the least problematic in my view. 12 in volleyball is perfectly fine, give me more individual quotas in 15 other sports.

Nagal vs Shang in Rd 2 India vs China CLASH! if Nagal wins, there will be huge celebration I’m sure, well-deserved ps. I had to check back all I wrote cause my phone kept changing Nagal into Nadal heh. Maybe a good sign

Hahaha, all Dutch fans are still partying here in Eindhoven. Wonderful tournament for our girls with a great finish. Next month the WCh in Doha starts, not really looking forward to it. Too much tournaments in a short period.

2024 Women's European Water Polo Championship: Group A: 10 - 15 Quarterfinals: 15 - 7 Semifinals: 5 - 13 Third place game: 7 - 6 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship: Group B: 18 - 9 Playoffs: 15 - 10 Quarterfinals: 8 - 13

2024 Australian Open: Women's Singles Qualifying: Round 1: Valentini Grammatikopoulou GRE d. Elvina Kalieva USA 7-5 6-3 Round 1: Raluca Georgiana Serban CYP d. Despina Papamichail GRE 7-5 6-2 Round 2: (1) Dayana Yastremska UKR d. Valentini Grammatikopoulou GRE 6-4 3-6 6-4 Men's Singles: Round 1: (7) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE vs. Matteo Berrettini ITA Women's Singles: Round 1: (8) Maria Sakkari GRE vs. Nao Hibino JPN

Maria Timofeeva with an impressive 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 R64 win over former AO champion Caroline Wozniacki. First set was much closer than what the scoreline suggested. Wozniacki played at high level throughout 1 1/2 sets of the match, just ran out of gas at the end. Great match overall though.