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I have a question… so I’ve noticed that the defenders have flags on their belts, but for what reason? Is it just for the “flag” aspect of the football, so everyone needs to have them? They’re not getting one of their flags taken away from them unlike their teammates on offence

Flagbearers for the opening ceremony will be announced today at 7:00 AM PST/10:00 AM EST.

Of course! Good luck! Well we’ll see, but the World Rankings/seedings (or whatever they are) are quite close so I’m hoping for a good match.

Men’s team (WR #9) defeats WR #5 Italy 34-33 to start off their World Championships campaign!

I believe it was a two point conversion for the win? So it was farther out? If I’ve understood the rules correctly.

WR #9 defeat WR #5 34-33!

You could say the same thing about Canada though…

Nyhus to Braun for the touchdown with 17 seconds remaining in the half Had to edit a couple this of times because I had no clue who their names were (their jerseys had nothing for me to go off of)

interception

BWF Super 750 Japan Open | Yokohama, Japan Men’s Singles 1. Alex Lanier 2. Chou Tien-Chien 3. Kodai Naraoka 3. Shi Yuqi Women’s Singles 1. Akane Yamaguchi 2. Busan Ongbamrungphan 3. Tai Tzu-Ying 3. Supanida Katethong Men’s Doubles 1. Goh Sze-Fei/Nur Izzuddin 2. Kang Min-Hyuk/Seo Seung-Jae 3. Leo Rolly Carnando/Bagas Maulana 3. Muhammad Shohibul Fikri/Daniel Marthin Women’s Doubles 1. Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning 2. Baek Ha-Na/Lee So-Hee 3. Jia Yifan/Li Wenmei 3. Rin Iwanaga/Kie Nakanishi Mixed Doubles 1. Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin 2. Tang Chun Man/Tse Ying Suet 3. Cheng Xing/Zhang Chi 3. Yang Po-Hsuan/Hu Ling-Fang Full Results

Here https://www.americanfootball.sport/a-guide-to-flag-football/

A thread for all lacrosse discussion on the road to its Olympic debut at LA 2028!

A thread for all squad discussion as we gear up for LA 2028!

Flag Football World Championships start today in Lahti, Finland! Starting this thread for all discussion regarding this sport, as it makes its Olympic debut in LA 2028!

I watch NHL a fair bit, and I have to say I’m not much of a fan of non-tackle football This seems like a more, well… lame version with a whole bunch of no names (no offence to them of course, just haven’t heard of any of them before) I’lll try my best to give it a chance and see if the sport grows on me.

What field will Canada-Italy be on?

Why are the countries on the back of the jerseys instead of the players names? Seriously if they want to grow the sport more at least let us know who’s playing. Edit: Just realized that Brazil’s jerseys had the names on them, maybe it was just a Finland thing

Part 2 (Part 3 is para swimming-athletics, Part 4 is a rundown of my predictions) Part 1 Here Para Judo Priscilla Gagne - Women’s 57kg J1: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist (both in 52kg), 2022 Baku World Championships silver medalist, 2023 Birmingham World Championships 5th, Bronze at the 2024 Heidelberg Para Judo Grand Prix, WR #5 Priscilla Gagne is coming into these Paralympics as a medal contender yet again, only this time in a different weightclass. Shi has been undefeated in women’s J1 57kg, so it’s safe to say that gold is off the table, and silver for whoever’s on on the same half of the draw as her. Mutia, Havrysiuk, Amrieva, and Gomez will be her main contenders for the minor medals. @intoronto any idea on how the para-judo draws work? Prediction: One bronze (women’s J1 57kg) Rowing Jacob Wassermann - Relatively new to para rowing, so no major competitions for him yet. His only two competitions thus far have been the Canadian Championships in 2023 and the Sao Paolo Paralympic Americas Qualification Regatta in 2024 Sitting Volleyball Women’s Team - 4th at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Silver at the Sarajevo 2022 World Championships, 6th at the Nancy 2024 World Super 6, Gold at the 2024 Dutch Tournament (no China) My biggest (and only Canadian) hope for a Paralympic medal! We had a bad tournament at the World Super 6 in June with a 5th, finishing only ahead of France (who probably wouldn’t have qualified if they didn’t have a host-nation quota) but followed that up with a gold medal in July at the Dutch Tournament. At the Dutch Tournament, we didn’t face United States at all, but we did beat Brazil twice. Should be between China, United States, Canada, Brazil, Italy for the medals (odds are in that order IMO) As for the Canadian names to watch out for, Heidi Peters. I swear she goes on serving runs every time she goes to the line. She’s also a pretty good attacker too. Ellis and Oakes are the other two. Wheelchair Basketball Men’s Team - 8th at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 6th at the Dubai 2022 World Championships, Bronze at the Santiago 2023 Para Pan American Games. Absolute disaster of a last year, honestly I’m not sure how they even qualified. Women’s Team - 5th at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 5th at the Dubai 2022 World Championships, Silver at the Santiago 2023 Para Pan American Games, beat Germany 2-1 in an exhibition series this year Our medal hopes here rest on the women’s team. Netherland’s have been the dominant force since 2018, and have won all but one match (Tokyo 2020 Paralympics against China in the group stage) by at least 7 point margins in all matches since then, with United States also taking them to single digits a couple of times. Australia, Germany, and Canada are the other medal contenders, but your chances really depends on the draw (you don’t want to be on the same quarter as the Dutch or even the Americans) Stars of the Canadian teams? For the women, Dandeneau of course, and also Oullet and Young. For the men, the legend himself Pat Anderson and Higgins, Hedges, and Goncin. Prediction: No medal, and a quarterfinal loss for the women. Wheelchair Fencing Ryan Roussel - Women’s Category A Sabre, Men’s Category A Epee: Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Gold in Men’s Category A Sabre and bronze in Men’s Category A Epee at the Sao Paolo 2024 Pan American Championships, 11th in the Paralympic Qualification Rankings in sabre and 25th in epee. Trinity Lowthian - Women’s Category B Sabre, Women’s Category B Epee: Double gold at the Sao Paolo 2024 Pan American Championships, 12th in the Paralympic Qualification Rankings in epee and 17th in sabre. Sylvie Morel - Women’s Category A Sabre: Sydney 2000/London 2012/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, 21st in the Paralympic Qualification Rankings Wheelchair Rugby Mixed Team - 6th at the 2024 Wheelchair Rugby Canada Cup (dead last), Silver at the Santiago 2023 Para Pan American Games, 5th at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 5th at the 2022 World Championships, WR #5 Canada is right up there with Australia, Japan, United States, Great Britain, France and Denmark during tournaments but each time seem to fall short. On the Canadian team watch out for Zac Madell in particular, he’ll be scoring the majority of our tries, dudes is an actual beast on the court. Prediction: No medal Wheelchair Tennis Robert Shaw - Quad Men’s Singles: WR #9, Silver at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, Won the title at the ITF 2 German Open last month (clay court tournament) including a victory in the final over the very same Argentinian who beat him in Santiago

Not saying she’s doping or anything, but the time is so incredible (it’s good even for 17-18 year olds) that I begin to wonder what the Chinese coaches are putting her through during training. I mean, she raced in 10 events at the Chinese Olympic Trials… even Phelps at Beijing 2008 didn’t have a schedule that big… Either way to me it’s hard to see her performing at the highest level beyond her 20s.

Iurisci/Zoeschg and Berger/Hohenauer are the reigning U18 European Champions Massey won silver with Pater last year, and has made a semi-deep run at AVP Virginia with Perez (according to their seeding anyways) and her and Davis should be medal contenders. Julhia/Marcela, Rayner/Zajer, and Juca/Gabriel are some of the other ones to watch out for. To my knowledge, no they do not have an equivalent to the seniors, so for above it was kind of hard to figure out who some of the favourites might be (maybe I’ll do more research later) But if they do, it’s kind of hard to try and follow, even if you want to, because the majority of the events, besides the U19/U21 World Championships of course, don’t show up on the Volleyball World site (and there’s no Junior Volleyball World site, or anything of that sort…)

14 year old Divine Iheme with an U15 best of 10.30 at the BFTTA Open!

I won’t have the time to follow it either, sorry

Dressel will focus on the 50m freestyle for the upcoming Olympic quad. https://swimswam.com/caeleb-dressel-affirms-commitment-to-train-for-los-angeles-2028-olympics-focusing-on-50-free/#comments

Had a massive headache, so decided to delay posting the results until now. Hamburg Elite16 | Hamburg, Germany Women’s Tournament Gold- Tanja Hüberli/Nina Brunner Silver- Svenja Müller/Cinja Tillmann Bronze- Thamela Cordello/Victoria Lopes Men’s Tournament Gold- Anders Mol/Christian Sørum Silver- Pablo Herrera/Adrian Gavira Bronze- Stefan Boermans/Yorrick de Groot Full Results