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Birmingham has been chosen over Liverpool to be England's candidate for hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Birmingham now needs to prove to the treasury that bringing the games to the West Midlands will be value for money as 75% of the costs will come from the taxpayer.

Just seen that so far Jordan and Macao have won their first ever Universiade medals here!!

Rowing world championships quota updated here: Only changes are that Greece was reallocated the men's single scull quota, instead of Latvia and Romania chose women's pair, so Canada was reallocated the women's single scull quota. Tripartite invitations have been announced as well: Mens Single Sculls Nicaragua St Vincent and the Grenadines Womens Single Sculls Lebanon Uganda

Yeah, 2 entries per country if both have the entry standard, only 1 per country without the entry standard.

Found one even better, in Heat 5 of the women's 400m heats Muzak Al Malki of Oman has a PB of 57:23:11! I'm hoping there's an error there or the timekeeping that of that athletics may be thrown out!

They're not sending any teams and the individual athletes are very low quality. History must have been made earlier when the Chinese weightlifter was in the B group!! That tells you all you need to know about how seriously the Chinese are taking this event!

First gold medal goes to... Mexico! Diving - Women's 1m Springboard Gold - Dolores Hernandez Silver - Choe Un Gyong Bronze - Louisa Stawczynski

North Korea's weightlifting team here is insane! They can easily win all the women's events plus 3 of the men's and break a tonne of universiade records along the way. Their 19 year old competitor in the women's -48 has an opening weight equal to the Olympic gold medal at Rio

And you have to hear it at every medal ceremony! They really need to change that rule!

Great results for GB today! Finally saving a championships of near misses, we need 2 medals tomorrow to reach our target and keep all the funding awarded for the Tokyo cycle. Excited for Tom in the race walk tomorrow and the 4x400m, praying someone other than USA manages to win one of them, but it's not looking likely!

11) Stomach pumped!!

@mrv86 I think each country is only allowed to qualify 1 boat per gender, So that changes the quota a little bit: Men's Single Sculls: Men's Pair: Women's Single Sculls: Women's Pair:

African shooting championships quota: Pistol women - Tunisia pistol men - Egypt Rifle women - Egypt Rifle men - South Africa All the winners got the MQS in qualification so no worries there!

ARGENTINA SPLIT VOTES: LDOG: 12: Iran 11: India 10: Croatia 9: Slovakia 8: Serbia 7: Portugal 6: Lithuania 5: Mexico 4: Malta 3: Germany 2: Poland 1: Azerbaijan KONIG: 12: France 11: Great Britain 10: New Zealand 9: Brazil 8: Algeria 7: Iran 6: Serbia 5: Moldova 4: Ireland 3: Malta 2: Greece 1: Canada

Thank you to everyone who has made this contest so special! But it is sadly time to bring the contest to a close, but its for long, as Tunisia we relight the flame in just a few months time! But as Elton John puts it, Friends Never Say Goodbye, so we will see you all in Tunisia!

Hello Tunisia! We are so excited about the contest heading to Africa for the first time in Autumn 2017 and here to give us a flavour of what to expect is a promotional feature from the Tunisian delegation.

And with that we say goodbye to Brighton. But as we leave Britain to head on to our next hosts there's a chance for a whistlestop tour! We begin with a flying visit in London our urban capital! Heading North to Scotland, a region of stunning natural beauty: And finishing in the only natural way, on our breathtaking coast: Goodbye Totallympics - we've loved having you! But up next its the turn of Tunisia and Brazil!

Yeah! The team were fantastic! I never throught we'd make it out of Division 1B after so many missed opportunities - hopefully we can stay in 1 A for a little while now!

THE SPORT Brighton might not automatically spring to mind when you think of British sport, but there are a few suprises in store .. But nothing can sum up Brighton's sport better than the Miracle in Brighton! There has also been a craze of race walking, but not just 50km, no that's for weaklings they do 165 kilometres! Sadly the craze has rather changed in Brighton, they now seem to like running whilst being pelted with paints instead! But there is one sport that dominates all in Brighton and Sussex - take Cricket, Rounders and middle aged women - mix them up and stir it around and what have you got - Stoolball! It is hugely popular in Sussex, most villages have a team and I can admit it is great fun to play and much more exciting than cricket or baseball/softball. I am counting down the days until it is added to the Olympic programme once the IOC realise their pursuit of increased youth appeal has put off some elderly fans - this would bring them flocking back!

THE PIER You will have all seen it, been on it, probably had a seagull attack you on it and nearly fallen off it! But that's why we love Brighton Pier! Yes, this one! The one that's not burnt down! In fact, very little is known about why it burnt down, the person was never caught, but nevertheless it remains as a derelict landmark along our beautiful coastline. But this is Brighton, people don't just walk along the pier, no! They jump over it... And of course, they dance on it...

We have one last segment in Brighton! Its a celebration of the best bits of the city you have enjoyed aver the past few days - and some things you haven't seen So to begin our farewell to Brighton, here is British music legend Rod Stewart with his fantastic new song Brighton Beach:

NEW CONTEST RECORDS The new contest records can refer to a range of different categories - for example participating nations. And here are our record breakers: FIRST CONTEST WITH COUNTRIES FROM ALL 5 CONTINENTS IN THE TOP 10 TISC Annual 2017

NEW CONTINENTAL RECORDS The new continental records refer to the number of points gained in a single contest (placing is not taken into account). Continents are (America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania) And here are our record breakers: ASIA Iran - TISC Annual 2017 137

NEW NATIONAL RECORDS The new national records refer to the number of points gained in a single contest (placing is not taken into account). And here are our record breakers: BRAZIL Alok and Bruno Martini ft. Zeeba 142 GREAT BRITAIN Rag'n'bone Man 186 INDIA Aamir Khan 56 IRAN Mohsen Yeganeh 137 MALTA The Travellers 124 MOLDOVA Sunstroke Project 73 MOROCCO Bouchra 100 NEW ZEALAND Graham Candy 124 PORTUGAL Branko and Mayra Andrade 107 SERBIA Sasa Kovacevic 137

We will now celebrate a whole series of new records achieved at this contest! And where could you imagine a better place to break record than Brighton, where the record for the most number of people to be fitted inside a classic Mini Cooper car was broken (with 27) and where the most people ever re-enacted Kate Bush's iconic Wuthering Heights video!! Brighton's attempt at Beijing 2008 mass participation style performances in ceremonies clearly needs a little more work on synchronisation - but their heart was in the right place! The first records are for... NEW NATIONAL RECORDS