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So it seems like the dramatic announcement was all to say she is trying out a new hydration drink this year

Hi everyone! A bit of a family emergency is going on right now (my dad isn’t doing too well, he’s on his way to the hospital as I type this), which may explain my lack of inactivity on Totallympics and updating all of the various sporting events If anyone wants to post any of them that’ll be appreciated, and if not then I’ll post them when I’m fully back! Actually, it might even be within a few days. I’ve just thought about it, and when I’m not busy visiting him at the hospital, I might choose to watch/share results of some sports. Bit of a confusing response I know, but to explain my thought process, watching (along with playing, but irrelevant point) sports and sharing results on Totallympics are two of my favourite things to do. Trying to not worry too much when personal problems is hard for me, and it might be what I need to not freak out and have mental breakdowns every couple of minutes. But we’ll see.

LADIES AND GENTLEMAN,IT'S OFFICIAL .MYKOLAS ALEKNA HAS THROWN 74.41 .

Chinese Olympic trials begins tomorrow. The rules is to choose the any best result of 3 events to compare: 1: 2023 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A 2: 2024 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A 3: 2024 trials individual event finals and meeting OG standard A So based on the past 2023 and 2024 WCH, following swimmers already have eligible results and green parts are almost safe enough to guarantee the tickets before the trials. For relay swimmers, mainly considering trials results.

just asking myself why in this competition are there people that already achieved the qualification (and therefore can't get any other quota place) and/or why tare there those mixed team events that don't award any quota place? nor those events award points for the OQR/WR, therefore are absolutely useless for those who are not in the hunt for a quota place and actually only make a lot of confusion

Now the only thing France still needs to decide is the venue

Some Chinese Olympic Trials link package: Schedule and Result:https://swm-info.ydfuture.com/ Prelims Start List:https://weibo.com/5277693139/5024583862453267 https://weibo.com/5277693139/5024584195638022 Livestream: CCTV5(only finals and not everyday) https://tv.cctv.com/live/cctv5/index.shtml?spm=C73465.PhvcG4VlqNFF.EyAwthc54FQC.16 CCTV app link(all prelims and finals may need to register) 4.20 prelims https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174944 4.20 finals https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175006 4.21 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174947 4.21 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175007 4.22 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174949 4 22 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175031 4.23 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174948 4.23 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175023 4.24 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174950 4.24 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175027 4.25 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174951 4.25 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174259 4.26 p https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174955 4.26 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600175029 4.27 f https://www.yangshipin.cn/#/live/detail?pid=600174945

Mixed 470 - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible: Low Chances: ------------------------------------ Mixed Nacra 17 - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible:

and now it's official! the IJF has officially registered Kim Polling's switch from to now she can represent with immediate effect Polling's words on the social media (in Italian...google might be helpful): "Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Kim Polling e posso dirvi che da oggi posso rappresentare l’Italia. Sono super orgogliosa, grata, contenta e non lo so… ancora mille parole in più per darvi questa notizia. Vi parlo un po’ di me, vivo da otto anni in Italia, mi sono sposata un italiano che si chiama Andrea Regis, anche lui è stato un judoka. Abbiamo una figlia, Aurora, che è nata quasi due anni fa e viviamo a San Mauro Torinese. Ho fatto quest’anno la richiesta all’IJF di cambio nazionalità ed oggi è arrivata la notifica che è stato dato l’ok. Sono davvero super orgogliosa, grata e voglio ringraziare l’Italia, ringraziare l’Accademia Torino, la palestra in cui mi alleno da sette anni e non vedo l’ora per il futuro. Vedremo quello che riesco a fare."

The Danish squad has been selected •Helena Rosendahl Bach, 200 meter butterfly •Julie Kepp Jensen, 50 m freestyle and 4x100 meter freestyle •Thea Blomsterberg, 200 meter breast og 4x100 meter medley •Signe Bro, 4x100 meter freestyle og 4x100 meter medley •Schastine Tabor, 4x100 meter medley •Martine Damborg, 4x100 meter freestyle and 4x100 meter medley •Elisabeth Sabroe Ebbesen, 4x100 meter freestyle

1. United States: 101 (53 M + 48 W) 2. Japan: 48 (28 M + 20 W) 3. Australia: 44 (20 M + 24 W) 4. Great Britain: 35 (21 M + 14 W) 5. Italy: 32 (21 M + 11 W) 6. China: 31 (12 M + 19 W) 7. France: 25 (15 M + 10 W) 8. Hungary: 20 (12 M + 8 W) 9. Canada: 19 (4 M + 15 W) 10. Germany: 13 (9 M + 4 W) 11. Netherlands: 13 (6 M + 7 W) 12. South Korea: 10 (8 M + 2 W) 13. Poland: 9 (4 M + 5 W) 14. Brazil: 8 (5 M + 3 W), South Africa: 8 (3 M + 5 W), Spain: 8 (5 M + 3 W), New Zealand: 8 (5 M + 3 W) 15. Greece: 7 (6 M + 1 W), Sweden: 7 (3 M + 4 W) 16. Israel: 6 (5 M + 1 W) 17. Lithuania: 4 (2 M + 2 W), Portugal: 4 (3 M + 1 W), Switzerland: 4 (4 M), Ukraine: 4 (4 M) 18. Austria: 3 (3 M), Belarus: 3 (1 M + 2 W), Belgium: 3 (1 M + 2 W), Bulgaria: 3 (2 M + 1 W), Denmark: 3 (3 W), Hong Kong: 3 (1 M + 2 W), Ireland: 3 (1 M + 2 W), Norway: 3 (3 M), Turkey: 3 (3 M) 19. Croatia: 2 (2 M), Czech Republic: 2 (1 M + 1 W), Estonia: 2 (1 M + 1 W), Mexico: 2 (2 M), Romania: 2 (2 M), Singapore: 2 (1 M + 1 W), Tunisia: 2 (2 M) 20. Argentina: 1 (1 W), Aruba: 1 (1 M), Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 (1 W), Cayman Islands: 1 (1 M), Egypt: 1 (1 W), Finland: 1 (1 M), Iceland: 1 (1 M), Kyrgyzstan: 1 (1 M), Serbia: 1 (1 M), Slovenia: 1 (1 W), Taiwan: 1 (1 M), Trinidad and Tobago: 1 (1 M), Venezuela: 1 (1 M), Vietnam: 1 (1 M) As of April 15th. Keep in mind that Italy, Japan, South Korea, Great Britain, South Africa, Hungary, New Zealand, and Denmark have all had their Olympic Trials/National Championships already so their numbers could be inflated. I'll post this again after the qualification period is over.

So I just totted up what I think are the totals for the OQT for USA, AUS, GBR, Japan, Italy, China and France, using the FINA LCM rankings from 1st March 23 to today. Those were the countries I thought might have a chance of being near the top of a list like this. There are other countries which are strong in part (Canadian & Dutch women) but less so collectively. I could be doing them a disservice not including them, but I was already looking at enough to fry my brain anyway Russia would likely be somewhere in there, but with their uncertain status about things, I've not included in these figures. USA - Men 83, Women 98 = 181 total Aus - Men 34, Women 60 = 94 total Japan - Men 38, Women 27 = 65 total China - Men 25, Women 39 = 64 total GBR - Men 34, Women 25 = 59 total Italy - Men 33, Women 14 = 47 total France - Men 25, Women 14 = 39 total These are qualified swims, not swimmers. So Duncan Scott - for example - is in the GBR quota 3 times (100m fr, 200m fr, 200m IM). It would take me a lot longer to work that out, at least for countries that are not GBR. GBR is 37 total swimmers with an OQT - 23 men and 14 women.

I can not stop laughing. This just made my day

100 days to go until the first event begins!!

2024 Danish Open - Copenhagen (DEN) April 11th - April 14th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved The following 7 swimmers have been nominated for Olympic selection Women (7): Elisabeth Sabroe Ebbesen - 4x100m freestyle relay Julie Kepp Jensen - 50m freestyle Helena Rosendahl Bach - 200m butterfly, 100m butterfly (OCT) Martine Damborg - 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay Schastine Tabor - 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay Signe Bro - 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay Thea Blomsterberg - 200m breaststroke, 4x100m medley relay *Team will be confirmed at a later date. Events are my prediction. ** In addition, Casper Puggaard also achieved an OCT and may be nominated for a universality quota. Source

1 1288 PRODIASHVILI Mariami GEO 96 98 97 97 97 97 582 Q 2 1266 PIOCH Annabelle FRA 96 98 99 96 95 97 581 Q 3 1015 KARAPETYAN Elmira ARM 96 97 98 97 97 96 581 Q 4 1331 MAJOR Veronika HUN 97 97 92 97 98 98 579 Q 5 1743 SAENCHA Kamonlak THA 93 96 98 98 99 95 579 Q 6 1358 PALAK Palak IND 98 97 97 94 96 96 578 Q 7 1360 SAINYAM Sainyam IND 94 96 98 97 95 98 578 Q 8 1059 NASIROVA Nigar AZE 96 96 96 95 98 97 578 Q 10M AIR PISTOL WOMEN has a quota

Quotas in men’s and women’s team sprint in track cycling through the Olympic Rankings!

Mens ILCA7 - 3 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. Possible: Low Chances: -------------------------------------- Womens ILCA7 - 3 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. Possible: Low Chances: ------------------------------------- Mens 49er - 4 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. Possible: Low Chances: -------------------------------------- Womens 49er - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible:

Based on the results of the World Championship and Continentals, favorites for the quotas should be: -------------------------------------- Mens IQFoil - 6 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------- Womens IQFoil - 6 quotas (+1 Emerging Nations Program) Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------------- Mens Formula Kite - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible: Low Chances: --------------------------------------- Womens Formula Kite - 5 quotas Favorites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Possible: Low Chances:

Is someone genuinely asking why Eastern bloc countries fell off in terms of sporting results after the arrival of democracy? East Germany only competed in 5 Olympics in rowing, but they won 48 medals, including 33 gold. They were only overtaken by the US in 2016 in the all time medal list (and they’re still ahead of the rest) In Athletics, there’s still several European records that exist since the 80s with East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and the USSR all involved. This isn’t a slight on the fine people from Eastern Europe on here and the current athletes doing their best. But the answer to why they were so strong in the 1980s is doping. No one disputes this.

Gracenote Medal Predictions for Canada (partial) Gold: Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 400m Individual Medley Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Butterfly Marco Arop - Athletics - M 800m Pierce Lepage - Athletics - Decathlon Christa Deguchi - Judo - W 57kg Phil Wizard - Breaking - B-Boys Silver: Katie Vincent - Canoe Sprint - W C-1 200m Canada - Canoe Sprint - W C-2 500m Damian Warner - Athletics - Decathlon Camryn Rogers - Athletics - W Hammer Throw Bronze: Summer McIntosh - Swimming - W 200m Individual Medley Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Freestyle Relay Canada - Swimming - W 4x100m Medley Relay Maggie Mac Neil - Swimming - W 100m Butterfly Ethan Katzberg - Athletics - M Hammer Throw Sarah Mitton - Athletics - W Shot Put Canada - Athletics - M 4x100m Relay Other notes: No medal for McIntosh in the 400 free No individual medals for De Grasse or Oleksiak No medals in basketball and football

https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadian-government-boosts-carding-money-for-athletes-ahead-of-paris-olympics/ Some good news! JT's government finally doing something right for sport.

Got our first DL meet coming up on Saturday from Xiamen . Here's the timetable (local time) and entrants. Hopefully no presents for local runners this time! Program 2024 (diamondleague.com)

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TEAM GB ANNOUNCED FOR SWIMMING and MARATHON SWIMMING Big take aways IN : Bird, Whittle, McMillan, Okara, Anderson (probably means Women's 4 x 100 relay in) OUT : Cox, Hanlon (may means no women's medley relay, although Evans selection suggests otherwise, possibly.) Freya Colbert, Loughborough Performance Centre Kathleen Dawson, University of Stirling Anna Hopkin, Loughborough Performance Centre Daniel Jervis, Swim Wales High Performance Centre Max Litchfield, Loughborough Performance Centre Keanna MacInnes, University of Stirling Oliver Morgan, Birmingham University Honey Osrin, Loughborough University Adam Peaty, Loughborough Performance Centre Ben Proud, Bath University Matthew Richards, Millfield Duncan Scott, University of Stirling Abbie Wood, Loughborough Performance Centre The athletes above gained selection after winning an individual event and going inside the relevant event's nomination standard at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, as per clause 5.1 of the selection policy Alex Cohoon, Loughborough University Tom Dean, Bath Performance Centre James Guy, Millfield Medi Harris, Loughborough Performance Centre Lucy Hope, University of Stirling The athletes above gained selection by virtue of the collective times of the first four finishers in the respective 100m and 200m Freestyle events at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, in relation to the 4x100m and 4x200m Freestyle Relays, as per clause 5.2 of the selection policy . Joe Litchfield, Loughborough Performance Centre The athlete above gained selection by virtue of the collective times of the winner of the open final of the Men's 100m Backstroke, 100m Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly and 100m Freestyle at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, in relation to the 4x100m Medley Relay, as per clause 5.3 of the selection policy . Freya Anderson, Bath Performance Centre Kieran Bird, Bath Performance Centre Angharad Evans, University of Stirling Jack McMillan, University of Stirling Eva Okaro, Repton Jacob Whittle, Bath Performance Centre James Wilby, Loughborough Performance Centre The athletes above gained selection at the discretion of the GB Head Coach and Performance Director, as per clause 5.4 of the selection policy. Considerations included potential relay medallists, relay cover for athletes with heavy schedules, performances at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships and medical mitigations. Luke Greenbank, Loughborough Performance Centre Jonathon Marshall, Carnegie Katie Shanahan, University of Stirling Laura Stephens, Loughborough Performance Centre The athletes above gained selection after placing second in a final at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships and going inside the relevant event's nomination time, as per clause 5.5 of the selection policy. Perdue, Robinson and Crisp all selected for Marathon

CBC has announced its first lineup: https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/press-release/cbc-radio-canada-announces-preliminary-coverage-plans-and-hosts-for-the-oly

Great that they’ll be streaming pretty much everything, but I hope they’ll have separate streams for track and all the various field events at Paris. Most the time on athletics streams they only show replays of field events, it’s rarely ever live. Canada has medal potential in both, and I wouldn’t want to miss anything live. Also hope that Brittany MacLean will be at Paris for swimming. Edit: Just messaged with Devin, the field events will have live streams as well.

Approaching 100 days to go, my predictions for Day 1 20:55: Swimming - Women’s 400m Freestyle Final - Summer McIntosh (Silver) 21:37: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final - (Bronze) Day 2 20:45: Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Final - Maggie MacNeil (Silver) Day 3 17:18-17:38: Judo - Women’s 57kg - Christa Deguchi (Gold) 20:30: Swimming - Women’s 400m Individual Medley - Summer McIntosh (Gold) Bronze in the women’s 200m freestyle if she chooses to do the double. She’ll have almost an hour and a half between both so it seems doable (but she’s also probably going to be swimming a rigorous schedule so maybe she’ll skip it) Day 4 17:18-17:38: Judo - Men’s 81kg - Francois Gauthier-Drapeau (Bronze) 17:49-18:09: Judo - Women’s 63kg - Catherine Beauchemin Pinard (Silver) 20:57: Swimming - Women’s 100m Backstroke - Kylie Masse (Bronze) Day 5 20:36: Swimming - Men’s 200m Butterfly Final - Illya Kharun (Silver, behind Milak) Day 6 20:30: Swimming - Women’s 200m Butterfly Final - Summer McIntosh (Gold) Day 8 15:30: Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Floor - Felix Dolci (Bronze) 20:30: Swimming - Men’s 100m Butterfly Final - Josh Liendo (Bronze) 20:59: Swimming - Women’s 200m Individual Medley - Summer McIntosh (Gold) 21:45: Athletics - Men’s Decathlon - Pierce LePage (Gold) Day 9 19:35: Swimming - Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Final (Bronze) 20:30: Athletics - Men’s Hammer Throw Final - Ethan Katzberg (Silver) Day 10 21:00/22:05: 3x3 Basketball - Women’s Tournament Medal Matches (Gold) Day 11 20:00: Athletics - Women’s Hammer Throw Final - Camryn Rogers (Bronze) Day 12 20:30: Athletics - Men’s 200m Final - Andre DeGrasse (Silver) Day 13 15:00: Weightlifting - Women’s 59kg - Maude Charron (Bronze) 19:27: Track Cycling - Men’s Omnium - Dylan Bibic (Silver) 19:40: Athletics - Women’s Shot Put Final - Sarah Mitton (Bronze) 19:45: Athletics - Men’s 4x100m Relay Final - Canada (Bronze) 21:00: Beach Volleyball - Women’s Bronze Medal Match - Melissa Humana-Parades/Brandie Wilkerson (Bronze) 21:07: Taekwondo - Women’s 57kg Bronze Medal Match - Skylar Park (Bronze) Day 14 11:00: Basketball - Men’s Bronze Medal Game - Canada (Bronze) 13:50: Canoe Sprint - Women’s C1-200m - Katie Vincent (Bronze) 19:25: Athletics - Men’s 800m Final - Marco Arop (Gold) 21:23: Breaking - B-Boys - Phil Wizard (Gold) 22:34: Boxing - Women’s 75kg Gold Medal Bout - Tammara Thibeault (Gold) Left off some other medal chances, think at least one other name/team that I haven’t mentioned will make the podium. Still very optimistic with this prediction considering our best ever result is 24 medals at Tokyo (I picked 30 events for Canada to win medals in) but we have a talent in McIntosh now.

WAIT A MINUTE. IF IM NOT WRONG… THATS A NEW WR?

With just over 100 days to go I decided to do another medal prediction, but this time on a day to day basis. Day 1 Saturday 27 July (0-1 medals) Road cycling: Ellen van Dijk (W time trial) Day 2 Sunday 28 July (0-2 medals) Mountain bike: Puck Pieterse (W cross country) Swimming: Arno Kamminga or Caspar Corbeau (M 100m breast) Day 3 Monday 29 July (0-1 medals) Swimming: Tes Schouten (W 100m breast) Day 4 Tuesday 30 July (0-1 medals) Judo: Joanne van Lieshout (W -63kg) Day 5 Wednesday 31 July (3-5 medals) Judo: Sanne van Dijke (W -70kg) Rowing: M4x and W4x Swimming: Marrit Steenbergen (W 100m free) and Caspar Corbeau (M 200m breast) Day 6 Thursday 1 August (4-7 medals) Judo: Michael Korrel (M -100kg) and Guusje Steenhuis (W -78kg) Rowing: M2x and W4- Sailing: Duetz/Van Aanholt (W skiff) and Van de Werken/Lambriex (M skiff) Swimming: Tes Schouten (W 200m breast) Day 7 Friday 2 August (2-5 medals) Archery: Mixed team BMX racing: Niek Kimmann or Laura Smulders Judo: Marit Kamps (W +78kg) Rowing: W2- Sailing: Luc van Opzeeland (M IQFoil) Day 8 Saturday 3 August (3-5 medals) Athletics: Mixed 4x400m relay Road cycling: Mathieu van der Poel (M road race) Rowing: W1x, M1x and M8- Day 9 Sunday 4 August (0-2 medals) Equestrian: Dinja van Liere (dressage) Road cycling: Lorena Wiebes or Demi Vollering (W road race) Day 10 Monday 5 August (0-1 medals) Athletics: Sifan Hassan (W 5000m?) Day 11 Tuesday 6 August (1-2 medals) Sailing: Marit Bouwmeester (W dinghy) Track Cycling: M team sprint Day 12 Wednesday 7 August (0-1 medals) Sailing: Laila van der Meer / Bjarne Bouwer (mixed multihull) Day 13 Thursday 8 August (2-4 medals) Athletics: Femke Bol (W 400mH) Hockey: Men’s team Swimming: Sharon van Rouwendaal (W 10 km open water) Track cycling: Hetty van der Wouw (W Keirin) Day 14 Friday 9 August (2-4 medals) Athletics: Lieke Klaver (W 400m) Breaking: India Sardjoe (W breaking) Hockey: Women’s team Track Cycling: Harrie Lavreysen (M sprint) Day 15 Saturday 10 August (1-3 medals) Athletics: Women’s 4x400m relay and Abdi Nageeye (M marathon) Water polo: Women’s team Day 16 Sunday 11 August (1-2 medals) Athletics: Sifan Hassan (W marathon??) Track Cycling: Harrie Lavreysen (M keirin) Any day (0-2 medals) Surprise medals: preferrably Niels Laros (M 1500m) and W handball or volleyball team (what can I say, the more surprising the better) Total prediction (19-47 medals) +/- 10 golds +/- 11 silvers +/- 12 bronze I feel like the day-by-day version made the numbers too optimistic. Some names I'm thinking more like 'one out of these 4 judoka's will probably win a medal', but it shows as a medal chances on 4 days, instead of just 1 expected medal. Overall I'm a bit more optimistic than the 25 medals I predicted last time, I'll say 30 medals this time!

52-8 Qualified for Olympic Games

2024 TYR Pro Swim Series - San Antonio (USA) April 10th - April 13th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 50m Freestyle Gabriel Castaño Men's 200m Butterfly Luca Urlando Women's 200m Freestyle Paige Madden Anna Peplowski Women's 100m Breaststroke Emma Weber

men's 10m Air Pistol Shooters qualified to the Final Philipp Grimm () Uladzislau Dzemesh Viktor Bankin Valeriy Rakhimzhan Lee Daemyung Yusuf Dikec Nilo Federico Maldini Kim Cheongyong

Now it's done. Yay.

28 - 24 Qualified Olympic Games

Hungarian Qualification Tracker Team (Pending Relay Athletes) Men (9) 50m Freestyle Szebasztian Szabo (through the 2023 Helsinki Swim Meet) Kristof Milak (through the 2024 Hungarian Nationals) 100m Freestyle Nandor Nemeth (through the 2024 World Championships) 400m Freestyle Kristof Rasovszky (through the 2024 World Championships) 800m Freestyle David Betlehem (through the 2024 World Championships) Kristof Rasovszky (through the 2024 World Championships) 1500m Freestyle David Betlehem (through the 2024 World Championships) Zalan Sarkany (through the 2023 Gyor Open) 100m Backstroke Hubert Kos (through the 2023 US Open) Adam Jaszo (through the 2024 Gyor Open) 200m Backstroke Hubert Kos (through the 2024 World Championships) Adam Telegdy (through the 2024 World Championships) 100m Butterfly Kristof Milak (through 2023 Hungarian Nationals) Hubert Kos (through 2023 US Open) 200m Butterfly Kristof Milak (through 2023 Hungarian Nationals) Richard Marton (through 2024 World Championships) 200m Individual Medley Gabor Zombori (through 2024 Hungarian Nationals) Hubert Kos (through 2023 US Open) Rasovszky/Betlehem have already qualified in open water, so they aren’t included in the total. Women (7) 200m Freestyle Nikolett Padar (through the 2023 World Cup Budapest) 400m Freestyle Ajna Kesely (through the 2023 Hungarian Nationals) 800m Freestyle Ajna Kesely (through the 2023 Sette Colli Trophy) 200m Backstroke Eszter Szabo-Feltothy (through the 2024 World Championships) Dora Molnar (through the 2024 World Championships) 200m Butterfly Boglarka Kapas (through the 2024 Hungarian Nationals) 200m Individual Medley Delma Sebestyen (through the 2023 Gyor Open) 400m Individual Medley Viven Jackl (through the 2024 Hungarian Nationals)

The country is growing in every aspect, bar the sporting one. And this has nothing to do with the EU, as the change started happening already in 1990. It just took 15 years for everything that was built in the prior decades to fully crumble. All results in the 90s and up to Athens was the last pipeline, that was structured in the old system. The truth is, like JoshMartini mentioned, that sport funding, country wide structuring and people's mentality completely changed in one day after the old regime fell. The next day and upcoming years no one was thinking about sports as an important issue. On the contrary, it became the bottom of the barrel. Which is true to this day still. Every time there is a new Government, in the 20 or so Departments, that are structured, the Sports one is always not taken seriously and the sports Minister is looked like a joke amongst the rest. There were even years, when there was no Sports Ministry and sports were added as a backburner in the Education or Youth Ministry. Regardless of the money aspect, i have talked in length before on the old system and how it will never be duplicated. In those days, for every kid, from every town and village, it was mandatory to do sport already from 1 grade. Lots of sports, after school sports, not your typical 2 hours a week killing time, like in the present. Then there were agents, or a special committee, that had a job to go to every town, to every school and scout the best children and navigate them to which sport will be best suited for their abilities, so that they can start specifically training in their pre-teenage days. After that they were taken first from the local coaches, again every big town had training camps for a dozen sports, it wasn't just the one camp, where you could go train for gymnastics etc. Then there were selections between the different regions and only after that you were elevated to National team status and get the full system structure. Nothing like this is being done today. Kids are not only not encouraged to do sports, everything in the system actively tries to discourage them. Any top level athlete we have is purely based on the individual person's desire and a small team around them. I can also add the notion, that kids in the 70-90s were waking up and going to bed with only the thought of playing sports. It doesn't have to be on an organized level, just your regular play with friends. You couldn't find a street, where the neighboring children weren't playing. Even in my teen years, in the mid to late 00s, you had to wait your turn for a football field in my school, even though there are 5. Each of them were always taken, from schoolers to people on their 50s playing matches. You make a goal post on the street and play, it was a luxury to get a normal (concrete) pitch. You walk in the school today and you would be lucky to see 10 children play after school. Everything is phones, tik tok, instagram, video games, cafes etc. Who wants to sweat doing dumb sports. Multiply that for the grind and dedication required for how many years before you become an elite athlete, garnered with non-existing funding, crumbling facilities, not enough knowledgeable coaches and staff in general and you get and optimistic prognosis of 5 medals. And yet, it would still be better, than a huge part of the World. People may laugh, but if we had even 40% of the system and desires from the 80s, we could be fighting for a top 20 in the medal table at least.. (Or you could still say it was only magical potions and mushrooms..)

Gracenote are predicting 5 medals for team BG, which more or less is what should be expected. Though the configuration is to be seen. They are predicting 1 silver and 4 bronzes: - Silver for the Group in Rhythmic Gymnastics; - Bronze for Stilyana Nikolova in Rhythmic Gymnastics individual; - Bronze for Svetlana Staneva in Boxing W57 kg; - Bronze for Bozhidar Andreev in Weightlifting M73 kg; - Bronze for Semen Novikov in Wrestling GR87 kg. Interestingly, Gracenote are not seeing any medal for Karlos Nasar in weightlifting 89kg

Men’s C2 Final: ( For 1 OQP) Men’s K2 Final: ( For 1 OQP)

Both have been nominated to Canada’s Olympic team.

and that´s something I will never do

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Being curious, here are the top ranked eligible Asian athletes in each zone (max 2 per NOC). East Asia Men 36. Chun Ting Wong 91. Siu Hang Lam 726. Temuulen Myandal 753. Ser-Od Gankhuyag East Asia Women 162. Song Gyong Pyon 598. Bolor-Erdene Batmunkh 645. Undram Munkhbat Note: North Korea is severely underrated due to not participating for years Southeast Asia Men 106. Koen Pang 109. Izaac Quek 352. Qi Shen Wong 391. Javen Choong 396. Sitisak Nuchchart Southeast Asia Women 61. Jian Zeng 116. Jingyi Zhou 277. Alice Chang 310. Kheith Cruz 369. Ying Ho South Asia Men 793. Ahmed Akhyar 829. Afzaal Ahmad 910. Mohamed Ismail 924. Sanyog Kapali South Asia Women 537. Ishara Madurangi 631. Fathimath Ali 730. Aishath Nazim West Asia Men 308. Ali Alkhadrawi 325. Ebrahim Gubran 460. Yousif Abdalla 467. Rawad Alnaser 468. Abdulaziz Bu Shulaybi West Asia Women 319. Mariam El Habech 355. Lori Yahnian 388. Maryam Alaali 438. Aia Mohamed 488. Bara Al-Wedian Middle Asia Men 41. Kirill Gerassimenko 72. Noshad Almaniyan 137. Amir Hossein Hodaei 204. Alan Kurmangaliyev 247. Shokhrukh Iskandarov Middle Asia Women 186. Sarvinoz Mirkadirova 213. Anastassiya Lavrova 248. Markhabo Magdieva 259. Elina Rahmini 336. Mahshid Ashtari

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Totally agree. Can't stand this

It does make it easier and better to view for non-regular viewers if the differences in the categories are only limited to the number of athletes in the boat and the oars (or however it's called) they're using, and something less visible like weight isn't really a thing anymore. Lightweight classes have often felt a bit like a category for rowers who are too small, like if there's a special volleyball competition for people under 1.65m

Bunch of big swims at the TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio today. 57.74 for Regan Smith in the women’s 200m backstroke, 53.08 for Hubert Kos in the men’s 100m backstroke (new PB), 2:08.18 and 2:08.40 in the men’s 200m breaststroke for Matt Fallon and Leon Marchand, and 2:19.89 for Kate Douglass in the women’s 200m breaststroke

2024 Hungarian National Championships - Budapest (HUN) April 9th - April 12th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 50m Freestyle Kristof Milak Men's 200m Individual Medley Gabor Zombori Women's 200m Backstroke Katalin Burian Women's 200m Butterfly Boglarka Kapas Women's 400m Individual Medley Vivien Jackl