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16 year old Juliette Vallerand topped women's big air qualifications at the Junior World Championships

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Just a reminder, the World Baseball Classic starts in a few days (March 5-17) and is the only qualification event for the Americas, the two best nations from the Americas qualify. Results Here For Canada, there's a very very small chance of qualifying if the guys can have the tournament of their life. Mexico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico are the main favourites though.

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4th place for Ruby Serouya and 6th place for Louison Dubief in the junior women's 20km mass start. 5th place for Zachari Moreau in the junior men's 20km mass start. Moreau notably was born in 2009 and was the youngest athlete in the top 35.

Paralympics start in 12 hours

March 3 Exhibition Games: Pool A: Canada 7-10 Toronto Blue Jays Colombia 1-7 Pittsburgh Pirates Cuba 0-4 Kansas City Royals Panama 1-11 New York Yankees (8 innings) Puerto Rico 5-3 Boston Red Sox Pool B: Brazil 4-14 Athletics (7 innings) Great Britain 7-3 Milwaukee Brewers Mexico 6-3 Arizona Diamondbacks Italy 9-4 Chicago Cubs United States 15-1 San Francisco Giants Pool C: Australia 5-1 Yomiuri Giants (farm) Czech Republic 3-8 Orix Buffaloes (farm) Japan 5-4 Hanshin Tigers South Korea 8-5 Orix Buffaloes Taiwan 5-1 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (farm) Pool D: Dominican Republic 12-4 Detroit Tigers Israel 1-0 Miami Marlins Netherlands 8-5 Baltimore Orioles Nicaragua 3-6 New York Mets Venezuela 1-3 Houston Astros

Also, here's the Olympic Qualification Event Schedule for Canada in 2026: March 5-17, as mentioned: WBSC Men's World Baseball Classic July 12: WT Mixed Relay World Championships, 2 quotas August 4-13: FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, 1 quota August 11-23: FEI Equestrian World Championships, 21 team quotas (7 in jumping, 6 in dressage, 7 in eventing) August 13-16: IFAF Flag Football World Championships, 2 quotas in each gender August 19-27: Women's Volleyball NORCECA North American Championships, 1 quota September 9-17: Men's Volleyball NORCECA North American Championships, 1 quota October 17-25: WG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, 3 teams in each gender November 1-15: ISSF Shooting World Championships, 18 quotas in each gender November 3-7: BMX Freestyle at the UCI World Championships, 2 quotas in each gender November 4-9: Beach Volleyball NORCECA North American Championships, 1 quota in each gender November 24- December 5: Women's Football NORCECA North American Championships, 1 quota TBD: ISU World Games, 1 team quota in each gender

Of course, we'll qualify some great athletes here. Simone Biles? I doubt she'll return. I think her Olympic story has finished (no disrespect to her...I think she's accomplished everything she wanted to accomplish). Looking forward to seeing how our team develops. Our host country quota only gets us 1 athlete per gender, so we have to place Top 3 in the Team ranking at the 2026 WCh or in the Top 9 (or up to Top 12, depending on who else has qualified) in the 2027 WCh. There's some gymnastics happening later this week...we'll see what goes down!

We're going to have some additional folks competing in archery, and that's not just due to the addition of compound. In Paris, we only had 1 guy (Brady Ellison), but in LA, we get three guys (plus one for the mixed compound). We'll retain the same quota of 3 women, plus another one for mixed compound. The addition of the guys means we also get to participate in Men's Team. These quota are subject to the condition that we enter three+one in the World Archery Championship, but that shouldn't be a problem, I wouldn't think. As a reminder, Brady Ellison won silver in 2024, and Brady+Casey Kaufhold won bronze in the mixed team. (Casey got upset in her individual competition.)

And I think 15-1 is a nice opener.

10th for Luke Allan in men’s U23 sprint! I actually watched the races, Xavier McKeever was in 2nd and in a qualifying position until the final turn, unfortunately there was some contact between him and the leader and he didn’t advance. Allan definitely has Ry Prior to thank for pushing the pace he went out fast early in the heats and Allan hung on to the last lucky loser spot by a few seconds even though there were still a few heats to go

I will try for Croatia: Archery (1) : we never had a representative, but were two times very close. I think we have a chance in Recurve for a single male quota, and in mixed compound, Realistic one quota Athletics (8) : difficult as many things will change in the next 2-3 seasons, but let's. say 8, I think that could be a realistic number Badminton (1) : hopefully our Indonesian import will manage to qualify Basketball (0): small chances in both male and 3x3 male teams , but somehow I doubt it Boxing (2): two male quotas Canoe slalom (1). maybe with a small chance for two places, but one is realistic Canoe sprint (1): similar to slalom, maybe two, but one is realistic, but lets see how the new qualification system plays out Cycling (2): would bee very happy with a quota in BMX freestyle and male road race Diving (1): hoping that Matej Nevescanin will qualify Fencing (0): very small chance in mens foil, but I guess will not happen. football (0): there is always talks about our male team, but never succeeded, I am afraid will be the same for LA 2028 Artistic gymnastics (4): Kovtun plus two additional male quotes plus one female Handball (14): the mens team should qualify Judo (5): four female quota plus one male Rowing (5). difficult to say as boats/crews are not defined yet. But I expect 4 mens places plus 1 female. Maybe more, but let see Sailing (6): somehow not a good development in this sports, could be even less than 6 quotas. Shooting (5): hopefully two trap and two male rifle quotas plus one surprise Swimming (6): will be brave here and say 5 male plus one female. I think we have a realistic chance to qualify a freestyle relay. Table tennis (5): hope for 3 male and two female quotas incl. mixed doubles (Arapovic/Ban) Tennis (6): still too early, and always the question who is really interested in playing. Taekwondo (3): I am seeing two females plus one male qualifying Waterpolo (11): mens team should be safe, small chance for our women's team. Wrestling (1) considering the Russian expansion, one quota would be great in all other sports hopeless case for Croatia. But 88 would be a great delegation, probably too optimistic

Iako su izgubile. Glave Gore! Nećemo nikad zaboraviti tu magičnu pobedu protiv Nemačke

We're 2/3 of the way through the 1st round of Qualifying for the 2027 World Cup for our Men. We're 3-1 (having lost to ), and still have to play and again in July. Regardless of how those go, we're moving on to the 2nd round, starting in August (but results from the 1st round carry over, so we want to do well). From an Olympics perspective, it doesn't matter if we make the World Cup, as we're already qualified. 7 other teams will qualify based on the WC results, the last four teams coming via OQTs later. For the Women, we're obviously already qualified, and we're also already qualified for the 2026 Women's WC. For this, if we win, then no other team qualifies for the Olympics at this point; otherwise, the winner will qualify. The other 10 (or 11, if we win) teams will come from an OQT in 2028.

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7th for Raleigh Tarte, 9th for Finn Redman in men’s junior sprint, and 10th for Ruby Serrouya in women’s junior sprint at the Junior Worlds!

Huge talent decathle Hubert Trościanka did went a Achilles surgery today, as he get injury at recent indoor national championships Hoping he will be well in future to be able qualify to LA28...

Medalists Men Gold- United States (Team Hebert) Silver- Italy (Team Spiller) Bronze- Scotland (Team Carson) Women Gold- South Korea (Team Kang) Silver- Sweden (Team Dryburgh) Bronze- China (Team Wang) Full Results