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After yet another Olympic cycle, where we couldn't get an athlete quota in this sport, the reserve plan has been activated. The first ever woman Olympic medalist for Kimia Alizadeh is going to get a Bulgarian passport in the coming days. The quota she earned at the European Qualifier as an EOR will be changed to a Bulgarian one and we will have our first ever "official" participation in taekwondo.

Based off of that, the contenders for the continental quotas would look something like this: Women’s Foil Europe: Asia and Oceania: Africa: Americas: Women’s Epee Europe: Asia and Oceania: Africa: Americas: Women’s Sabre Europe: Asia and Oceania: Africa: Americas: Men’s Foil Europe: Asia and Oceania: Africas: Americas: Men’s Epee Europe: Asia and Oceania: Africa: Americas: Men’s Sabre Europe: Asia & Oceania: Africa: Americas:

With gold for a guy born in 2010. Fantastic, that's two years after I left school....now I am really starting to feel old as well.

2024 Japan Selection Trial for Olympic Games - Tokyo (JPN) March 17th - March 24th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Backstroke Riku Matsuyama~ Men's 100m Breaststroke Yamato Fukasawa* Yu Hanaguruma# Taku Taniguchi~ Ippei Watanabe# Men's 100m Butterfly Takeshi Kawamoto* Men's 200m Butterfly Daiya Seto# Riku Tanbo* Genki Terakado Women's 400m Freestyle Miyu Namba* Women's 800m Freestyle Waka Kobori~ Women's 1500m Freestyle Airi Ebina* Women's 100m Butterfly Mizuki Hirai Shiho Matsumoto# Women's 200m Butterfly Chiho Mizuguchi* Women's 200m Breaststroke Satomi Suzuki Women's 400m Individual Medley Waka Kobori~ *Not selected for Olympic Team ~Selected as relay-only swimmer #Selected in a different event The following 27 swimmers have been selected for the Olympic Team Men (14): Yu Hanaguruma - 200m Breaststroke Tomoru Honda - 200m Butterfly Hidenari Mano - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Katsuo Matsumoto - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Tomoyuki Matsushita - 400m IM Riku Matsuyama - 4x100m Medley Relay Naoki Mizunuma - 100m Butterfly Tatsuya Murasa - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Daiya Seto - 200m IM Shuichi Takahara - 200m Backstroke Taku Taniguchi - 4x100m Medley Relay Genki Terakado - 200m Butterfly Ippei Watanabe - 200m Breaststroke Konosuke Yanagimoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Women (13): Reona Aoki - 100m Breaststroke Mizuki Hirai - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Rikako Ikee - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Nagisa Ikemoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Waka Kobori - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Hiroko Makino - 200m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Shiho Matsumoto - 200m IM Airi Mitsui - 200m Butterfly Mio Narita - 400m IM Yui Ohashi - 200m IM Rio Shirai - 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay Satomi Suzuki - 100m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay Ageha Tanigawa - 400m IM *Individual events have yet to be confirmed, swimmers could still swim other events Source

I was like, hey I might be in Montreal that week! I can go watch! Then I was like, waaaaaaaaaaiiiiit a minute...

Canada's A team will be going to the Pan Am Championships in sprint events

Additional details released about the upcoming OQS for Breaking, BMX Freestyle, Skateboarding and Sport Climbing Breaking, Sport climbing and BMX Freestyle all start with a clean slate whilst Skateboarding will carry forward the points from previous events.

Wuxi Marathon - 24 March 2024 Men's Marathon Jie HE - 2:06:57 + A bunch of athletes Women's Marathon A bunch of athletes There where athletes that where less than a minute behind of the qualifiyng mark in both men's and women's events

2027 European Games will be in Istanbul

Marek Rodák and the moment of his life

Two teams will be competing. Canada A and Canada B, no names yet.

Schedule for the Canadian Olympic Trials https://www.instagram.com/p/C4_Eju-uEn0/?igsh=MTUwbjR0NWRtNm9ybg== June 26: Men’s Hammer Throw, Women’s Hammer Throw June 27: Men’s 3000m Steeplechase, Women’s 3000m Steeplechase, Women’s Javelin Throw, Men’s 5000m, Women’s 5000m June 28: Men’s 100m, Women’s 100m, Women’s Pole Vault, Women’s Shot Put June 29: Men’s 800m, Women’s 800m, Men’s 110m Hurdles, Women’s 100m Hurdles, Men’s 400m, Women’s 400m, Men’s 400m Hurdles, Women’s 400m Hurdles June 30: Men’s 200m, Women’s 200m, Men’s 1500m, Women’s 1500m, Men’s Shot Put No men’s javelin throw, men’s pole vault, men’s discus throw, men’s high jump, men’s triple jump, women’s high jump, men’s long jump, women’s long jump, women’s triple jump, women’s discus throw, women’s javelin throw, along with no men’s/women’s race walk/10000m/decathlon & heptathlon (however there’s separate championships for those) Times are still TBD. Shame the only option for streaming the event is PPV, which means I probably won’t be watching it

4 months to go!

Starting in a few days, German Swimmers have their qualification period for Paris. They have to swim the standards at one point from April 1st to April 28th. Those, who finished top four at the World Championships in 2023 or 2024 are already qualified (Märtens, Wellbrock, Schwarz, Köhler, Gose).

Olympic Trials just ended. Here’s the full list of all confirmed qualifiers Men (6) Kim Woomin - 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle Lee Juho - 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke Choi Dong-Yeol - 100m Breastroke Kim Min-Seop - 200m Butterfly Hwang Sunwoo - 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle Cho Sung Jae - 200m Breaststroke Ji Yuchan - 50m Freestyle Women (2) Lee Eunji - 200m Backstroke Kim Seoyeong - 200m Individual Medley There’ll likely be more relay-only swimmers added to the team when the team selection has officially been announced. (South Korea has qualified in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, men’s 4x100m medley relay, and the mixed 4x100m medley relay)

Match schedule is out for our men’s and women’s basketball teams. For our men’s team, we’ll be taking on the winner of OQT Greece at 1:00 PM PST/4:00 PM PST on July 27, Australia at 5:30 AM PST/8:30 AM EST on July 30, and the winner of OQT Spain at 9:15 AM PST/12:15 PM EST on August 2. For our women’s team, we’ll be taking on France at 9:15 AM PST/12:15 PM EST on July 29, Australia at 5:30 AM PST/8:30 AM EST on August 1, and Nigeria at 5:30 AM PST/8:30 AM EST on August 4.

You are right. I was kind of in a rush to complete it, so I’m not surprised that I made some mistakes. Thanks!

From what I found quotas went to all quarter-finalists from 2023 World Wushu Championships in each of 6 weights (in weights with less than 8 athletes quota places went to all athletes that competed (example: in women's 70 kg division only 3 athletes competed so only 3 quotas). Result book: http://www.iwuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/16th-World-Wushu-Championships-Results-Book.pdf

This should be a candidate for Puskas award for best own goals this year along with Disasi Goal in Chelsea vs Leicster City in Fa Cup

Endrick's 2nd international goal!

One quite ridiculous own goal in the 15th second of the match between and scored by Latvian Marcis Oss

https://paris.fie.org/?weapon=F&gender=F# Hungary has already qualified in the women's individual foil - Flora Pastor.

has announced their wide roster of 26 players, including 42 year old Lauren Jackson who has came out of retirement yet again. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103638178

Olympic flame at Jardin des Tuileries: report https://www.reuters.com/sports/paris-2024-install-olympic-flame-near-louvre-2024-03-27/?taid=6603e39e5ab5d90001e309ae&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

The latest world rankings are from March 19. We should hopefully get a ranking update today.

Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of March 27th, 2024

Team Rankings and Individual Adjusted Official Ranking Lists updated as of March 27th (Final Ranking), 2024

The GBR medleys should be fine because in Doha Hopkin looked the best she's looked since 2021.

58.92m for her 5th result over 58m! Likely will need to consistently be among the 58-60m range in order to qualify. Wonder why her most recent results aren’t showing up on the Road To Paris site though, maybe they just haven’t updated it yet?

Only now just saw this. I believe that would mean Lithuania’s spot would go to the next highest ranked unqualified nation as of the November 1, 2023 rankings. Not sure on who it’d be though.

Freestyle Ace Freya Anderson 'Unlikely' To Race At British Trials (swimswam.com) Not ideal (especially for the relays)

It's weird that the selection policy doesn't have any allowance for illness or injury going into the trials - for example UK Athletics allow athletes to skip the trials if they are injured/ill provided they have been reviewed by federation medical teams. For Anderson, I suspect that British Swimming will be willing to give her time to recover and show form - the good news from her perspective is that in her events, GB don't have multiple swimmers who are likely to be under the BST. Anna Hopkin will probably take the 100m title with Freya Colbert favourite in the 200m, but there isn't an obvious second athlete who you'd think would get below the BST. The more tricky question for the selectors will be around the relays - the 2024 season's best for the top 4 athletes is outside of the GB nomination time for both the 4x100 and 4x200. If the top 4 are outside the BST, hopefully British Swimming will be pragmatic and won't make a decision about the relay quotas until Anderson is given a chance to prove her form/fitness.

Don’t you mean June and not July ?

Croatia defeated Egypt 4-2 in the final of Egyptian Capital Cup Bronze Medal Match is still taking place though

Avery Krume wins bronze in women’s slopestyle at the Junior World Championships! Tough day for Charlie Beatty in men’s slopestyle, finishing in 11th.

Yeah, total disaster... Joj TV group (having Joj šport) and Markíza Tv group the main commercial TV networks companies in the country are leading a war against czech TV channels whom Slovak viewers watch more than slovak channels (it started mainly because of expensive movies and TV shows which people intended to watch on czech TVs - including me, I do not remember last time I watched a movie or Tv serie on slovak chennel lol, arguing they do not have the rights to show it in Slovakia while Slovak channels have to pay for the rights and none watch them but rather watch them on czech Tv channels...) This led to close some czech TV channels in Slovakia... but, then came Joj group which get the TV rights for the Ice Hockey Worlds and you know the issue they are furious people will instead watch the hockey worlds on Czech Sport Tv than on Joj šport which argue by paying a lot of money for these rights in Slovakia, while ČT Sport does not have the rights to broadcast in this country at all and blah blah blah... so they managed to convince sadly the Czech public TV to cut their sport channel for Slovakia... Yep, dumb and sad. People are generally extremely angry and pissed, many now are deliberately boycotting Joj and Markíza channels, but we can not do anything, sadly Czech Sport TV is gone

earned their first quota (or quotas) for the Games. Wushu (Sanda) quotas now shown on the qualification page: https://www.theworldgames.org/editions/Chengdu-CHN-2025-14/qualifications/by-sport I'm a little confused how quotas were distributed, given that one women's weightclass has 8 quotas awarded, but another only has 3 quotas awarded

here's a list of all the Fencers from Countries eligible for the Tripartite Committee invitation currently ranked in the top 250 places of the World Ranking: women's Epee Susana Fornaris (WR = 66) Tufaha Uwihoreye (WR = 125) Maryam Malikova (WR = 186) men's Epee Keletigui Diabate (WR = 78) Abdulrahman Almane (WR = 126) Abdulaziz Alshatti (WR = 175) Hasan Alfudari (WR = 183) Sanil Sharma (WR = 199) Kruz Schembri (WR = 205) Abubaker Reda Algadi (WR = 206) Abdussalam Abujtela (WR = 208) Mohamed Eljballi (WR = 209) Alexis Mauricio Molina Ceron (WR = 249) women's Foil Maryam Malikova (WR = 115) men's Foil Mathieu Cheickh Jacques Prats (WR = 102) Philippe Wakim (WR = 145) Scott Lao (WR = 174) Alì Nasaar (WR = 177) Mihail Alejandro Salmeron Jimenez (WR = 215) Kruz Schembri* women's Sabre Odalis Judith Maldonado Delgado (WR = 168) Fatima Tobar (WR = 198) men's Sabre** Evann Jean Abba Girault (WR = 37) Andri Nikolaysson Mateev (WR = 157) Oscar Andres Anaya Ramirez (WR = 230) Ernest Douglas Hunter Doradea (WR = 231) * he has no ranking in Foil, but he's young and very talented...I wouldn't be shocked if he does qualify at the Pan-Am Continental tournament ** NOT counting the guys from , as they already qualified a man in this weapon

Seoul Marathon - 17 March 2024 Men's Marathon A bunch of athletes Women's Marathon Munkhzaya BAYARTSOGT - 2:24:45 + A bunch of athletes And now there are 83 women's marathoners qualified, more than the 80 entries planned, and some marathon's still left....

Hey guys, here it is my update on Entry Standards that were accomplished until last week or so, on men's athletics and were not published here, to the best of my knowledge. update: I finished the edits and will post Marathon tomorrow. Women's new posts are a bit above. I hope afterwards to keep updating weekly (or so) on new events after I finish this. Men's 400m Matheus Lima - 3º Encontros Atletismo - São Paulo, Brazil (2024 mar 02) Christopher MORALES-WILLIAMS - SEC Indoor Championships - Fayetteville, USA (2024 fev 24) Auhmad ROBINSON - NCAA Divison I Indoor - Boston, USA (2024 mar 07) Men's 800m Kethobogile HAINGURA - Asa Athletics Grand Prix 2 - Pretoria, South Africa (2024 mar 18) Aaron Kemei CHEMININGWA - Trials for African Games - Nairobi, Kenya (2024 mar 06)' Men's 1500m Hobbs KESSLER - Millrose Games - New York, USA (2024 feb 11) Adam FOGG - Millrose Games - New York, USA (2024 feb 11) Men's 5000m Graham BLANKS - John Terrier Classic - Boston, USA (2023 dec 02) Jack ROWE - Boston University DMR Challenge - Boston, USA (2024 feb 16) Patrick DeVER- Boston University DMR Challenge - Boston, USA (2024 feb 16) Men's 400m hurdles TOYODA Ken - Yogibo Athletics Challenge Cup - Niigata, Japan (2023 oct 01) Abderrahman Samba (Abderrahman Almoubarrake S ALSALECK) - Asian Games - Hangzhou, China (2023 oct 03) Men's high jump Shelby McEwen - Hustopečské skákání - Hustopečské, Czechia (2024 fev 10) Men's long jump HASHIOKA Yuki - Hurricane Invitational - Coral Gables, USA (2024 mar 15) Men's triple jump Jordan DÍAZ - World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid 2024 - Madrid, Sain (2024 feb 23) Men's shot put Bob BERTEMES - CMCM Indoor Meeting - Luxembourg, LUX (2024 jan 21) Men's javelin throw Kishore JENA - Asian Games - Hangzhou, China (2023 oct 04) Men's discus throw Traves SMIKLE - GC Foster Classic - Spanish Town, Jamaica (2024 mar 09) Men's pole vault Austin MILLER - Doc Hale Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, USA (2024 feb 02) Zachery BRADFORD - National Pole Vault Summit - Reno, USA (2024 jan 12) Jacob WOOTEN - Textas A&M Ted Nelson Invitational - College Station, USA (2024 jan 20) Olen Tray OATES - Don Kirby Elite International - Albuquerque, USA (2024 feb 09) Pål Haugen LILLEFOSSE - Mondo Classic - Uppsala, Sweden (2024 feb 06) Pedro BUARÓ - Portuguese Indoor Club Championships - Pombal, Portugal (2024 feb 10) Men's race walk Only Mexico, that had 2 walkers got a new quota here. Spain, China, Japan, India had already 3 or more athletes listed. Ever Jair PALMA OLIVARES - 107th Japanese Race Walking Championships - Kobe, Japan (2024 feb 18) Noel CHAMA - World Race Walking Tour - Dublin, IRL (2023 dec 17) Ram BABOO - 43rd Dudinska 50 - Dudinska, Slovakia (2024 mar 16) HAMANISHI Ryo - 107th Japanese Race Walking Championships - Kobe, Japan (2024 feb 18) KAWANO Masatora- 107th Japanese Race Walking Championships - Kobe, Japan (2024 feb 18) TAKAHASHI Kazuki- 107th Japanese Race Walking Championships - Kobe, Japan (2024 feb 18) MARUO Satoshi- 107th Japanese Race Walking Championships - Kobe, Japan (2024 feb 18) KATSUKI Hayato - All Japan Race Walking - Nomi, Japan (2024 mar 17) YOSHIKAWA Kento - All Japan Race Walking - Nomi, Japan (2024 mar 17) MANJU Haruki - All Japan Race Walking - Nomi, Japan (2024 mar 17) SUWA Motofumi- All Japan Race Walking - Nomi, Japan (2024 mar 17) Paul MCGRATH - Spanish Open 20km Championships - Zaragoza, Spain (2024 feb 25) LIU Hang Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2023 apr 08) CUI Lihong - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) LU Ning - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) ZHAO Xiangfei - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) WEN Yongjie - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) WANG Qin - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) XU Hao - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) ZHANG Jiaxu - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) CHEN Tiancai - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) BIAN Tongda - Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix - Taicang China (2024 mar 03) edit: just forgot to mention that as in the women's list, no Russian with the EST was included. In this case, specifically Vasiliy MIZINOV; Anton KURBATOV

Repeat gold, silver and bronze as Reece Howden wins silver in men’s ski cross, and Marielle Thompson and Brittany Phelan win gold and bronze in women’s ski cross at the Idre Fjall WC!

Gold, silver and bronze on Day 1 of the the season-ending WC in Idre Fjall! Brittany Phelan and India Sherret win gold and silver in the women’s event, while Reece Howden wins bronze in the men’s event. In terms of Crystal Globes, Marielle Thompson is pretty much guaranteed on the women’s side, while Reece Howden will be relying on Mobaerg and Fiva to bow out early.

5-0! An amazing night, with a full stadium, I'm so happy I made a last minute decision to go to Athens for the night

This is still about swimming?

Planning to revive that great 1980s Institution the Friendship Games, both Summer & Winter! Thomas Bacholympicgoldmedalfencing1976 not very keen, but only because he never won any medals at it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68606455

Last bit of spam for today, Mikael Kingsbury won men’s dual moguls gold in Valmalenco for his 90th career WC victory! Probably could get to 100 by the end of next season assuming he doesn’t get injured.