Josh

ATP 500 Barcelona Open | Barcelona, Spain Men’s Singles 1. Casper Ruud 2. Stefanos Tsitsipas 3. Dusan Lajovic 3. Tomas Martin Etcheverry Men’s Doubles 1. Maximo Gonzalez/Andres Molteni 2. Jan Zielinski/Hugo Nys 3. Tomas Machac/Zhang Zhizhen 3. Marcelo Arevalo/Mete Pavic Full Results

ATP 1000 Monte Carlo Masters | Monte Carlo, Monaco Men’s Singles 1. Stefanos Tsitsipas 2. Casper Ruud 3. Novak Djokovic 3. Jannik Sinner Men’s Doubles 1. Sander Vliegen/Joran Gille 2. Marcelo Melo/Alexander Zverev 3. Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos 3. Marcelo Arevalo/Mete Pavic Full Results

team for Paris Lois Betteridge - Women’s C-1 Alex Baldoni - Men’s C-1

My weekly schedule. Beach Volleyball (Brasilia Elite 16 from April 30- May 5), 3x3 Basketball (Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 Utsunomiya), Athletics (World Athletics Relays), Sledge Hockey (World Championships), Tennis (Madrid Open, because there’s finally a Canadian to root for. I like other players of course but FAA/Shapo/Leylah losing 1st round every tournament makes me not want to watch any tennis matches), NHL Hockey (All Vancouver Canucks playoff games, and maybe even a couple more), and any random athletics/swimming meets I find. Big next week with the Men’s Hockey World Championships, Doha Diamond League, VNL, and the Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials.

As I calculated…

So with that it’ll be v. and v. in the semifinals. I’m going with and in the final, with booking their ticket to Paris. But knowing my luck, I wouldn’t be surprised if is the team that eventually qualifies for Paris (kidding… sort of)

Event Preview In Pool A, are the favourites to place first, featuring names like Sonja Greinacher (one of the best 3x3 players in the world), Svenja Brunckhorst and Marie Reichert. Germany was 5th at the most recent World Cup with the same four players that’ll be competing here, and 3rd at the season opening Women’s Series event in Springfield, United States. However despite that, there is a big question mark for the German team. Luana Rodefeld really struggled in Springfield, shooting 6/22 throughout the tournament (5 games) and she was pretty bad defensively as well. She played much better at the latter two games though, going 4/9. Still if I was the German Basketball Federation, I would’ve switched her with Pauline Mayer, who was on fire in Springfield for Frieberg, scoring 23 points in 4 games on 14/29 shooting, but oh well. Anyways, it’ll be far from a cakewalk for them, who will be very eager to perform well in front of their home-crowd and (who were 7th at last years World Cup) will also look to challenge. may be able to sneak out an upset win against one of the three but nothing more. My Picks: In Pool B, and are the headliners. For Australia, it’s a HUGE tournament for them as it’s the only chance they’re going to get to qualify for Paris, even as the bronze medalists at last years World Cup. Returning members from that squad Marena Whittle and Alex Wilson will be there (no Maley or Mansfield), along with Lara McSpadden and Miela Goodchild. Haven’t heard of the latter two even as a fan of 3x3, and by doing some research I can see why as both Goodchild and McSpadden have only competed in two 3x3 events each in their career. For Goodchild, the qualifier for last years World Cup, and a Red Bull event in 2021, and for McSpadden, NBL events in 2018 and 2019. Bit of a wildcard are those two, not sure how they’ll perform. On the Australian team, watch out for Marena Whittle in particular. She scored 70 (!) points in 7 games at the World Cup (average of 10 per game, which is insane), 24 more than any other player. She’s not bad defensively either. Canada is the favourite here and in the event though, having won the vast majority of the stops they’ve competed in during the 2022/23 seasons (I’ll edit this with their record just so you can see how ridiculous it is), they were 6th at last years World Cup (and won silver in 2022, lost to the same tough French squad both times), and won the season opening stop in Springfield. The “Big 4” (Michelle and Katherine Plouffe, Paige Crozon, and Kacie Bosch) will be in Utsunomiya along with Cassandra Brown who had a pretty decent tournament at last years Women’s Series Stop in Debrecen. Watch out for the Plouffe sisters (fun fact, they’re former 5x5 players who played at Rio 2016) in particular, they’re absolute monsters on the court. But that’s not to say Crozon and Bosch aren’t good, they also have their strengths. Crozon is one of the best 2-point shooters in the world (and could lead the squad in points on any given day), while Bosch is a defensive machine. This Canadian team’s talent and chemistry is ridiculous, and should they qualify for Paris (quite likely, but like I’ve figured out in surfing with Brooks, nothing is ever guaranteed) will be the favourite for Olympic gold (based on current form at least). For they’ll find it really tough to make it out of pool play, with a desperate Australian squad and the World #1 (not by rankings, but by me) Canadian squad, but they’re capable of upsets. If one does indeed happen, probably would be against Australia. Lastly, for it’s pretty much try to lose by as small of a margin as possible situation, they won’t be winning any matches. My Picks:

and maybe as a dark-horse.

Pool A Lithuania Netherlands Puerto Rico Brazil Pool B France Mongolia Japan Egypt

Pool A Germany Japan Austria Brazil Pool B Canada Netherlands Australia Kenya

Men's 3x3 Basketball FIBA Universality-driven Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 2024 Utsunomiya (JPN) - 3 May 2024 - 5 May 2024 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Women's 3x3 Basketball FIBA Universality-driven Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 2024 Utsunomiya (JPN) - 3 May 2024 - 5 May 2024 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Squad for the Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Big 4 will be there along with Cassandra Brown. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6W9Nt0hEkN/?igsh=MXdvY2U5Mms3czUybQ==

Curaçao Sprint Fest - Willemstad, Curaçao April 28, 2024 Full Results Men’s 400m Oleksandr Pohorilko

team for Paris Josipa Kafadar - Women’s 49kg Skylar Park - Women’s 57kg Skylar Park is our only medal contender here. World #4, won her first ever Grand Prix gold medal last season in Taiyuan, and won Pan American Games gold as well. But I’m afraid she’ll bomb out in the quarterfinals again like she did in Tokyo as a medal contender

team for Paris (14 athletes) Largest fencing team for Canada since 1992! Men’s Foil Maximillen Van Haaster Daniel Gu Blake Broszus Bogdan Hamilton (alternate for team event) Women’s Foil Jessica Guo Eleanor Harvey Yunjia Zhang Sabrina Fang (alternate for team event) Men’s Sabre Francois Cauchon Shaul Gordon Fares Arfa Olivier Desrosiers (alternate for team event) Men’s Epee Nicholas Zhang Women’s Sabre Pamela Brind’Amour Canada only has realistic medal hopes in women’s foil (Jessica Guo and Eleanor Harvey both have chances, but Guo has had more momentum lately with a bronze at the Paris World Cup, and a bronze at the Novi Sad World Cup. She also hasn’t finished worse than 10th in all six Grand Prix’s/World Cup’s this season) and maybe women’s team foil. But the gap between the top four nations (US, Italy, France, Japan) and Canada is quite noticeable so it’s not very likely.

Thank you!

Elias. Fucking. Lindholm. Just 62 seconds into OT he scores to give the Canucks a 3-1 series lead!! 4-3 Canucks win over the Predators.

Hat-trick by Brock Boeser with 6.2 seconds left in the 3rd period, to send the Canucks to OT tied 3-3 with the Predators! Canucks were also down 3-1 with 3 minutes to go (2:47 was the timeframe of the other goal), what a fucking comeback.

Yeah but it makes it much more unlikely.

10.09 (+3.0 m/s) for Aaron Brown in the men’s 100m at the Bermuda Grand Prix!

US Virgin Islands has already qualified an individual as well, so you can also count them out as a tripartite quota.

That’s not right. https://results.adkinstrak.com/meets/31536/events/individual/1299221

Skiff? This isn’t sailing

Xiamen Challenge | Xiamen, Challenge Women’s Tournament Gold- Sandra Ittlinger/Karla Borger Silver- Anouk Verge-Depre/Joanna Mader Bronze- Monika Paulikiene/Aine Raupelyte German #2 race between Ludwig/Lippmann and Ittlinger/Borger is getting interesting. Men’s Tournament Gold- Marco Grimalt/Esteban Grimalt Silver- Youssef Krou/Arnaud Gauthier-Rat Bronze- Lukas Pfretzschner/Sven Winter Very disappointing result for all of the teams, with two 9ths (Bansley/Bukovec and Pavan/McBain) and Schachter/Dearing losing both of their matches to finish 21st Full Results Up next, the Brasilia Elite 16 from May 1-5!