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12.29 for Nugent in the women’s 100m hurdles! WOW.

7:31.96 NR for Mo Ahmed in the men’s 3000m at the Silesia Diamond League! Ethan Katzberg with another win in men’s hammer throw with a best mark of 80.02m.

WORLD RECORDDDDDD INGEBRIGTSEN 7:17.55 in the men’s 3000m!

17-12 1st set and already 4 aces for Brunner The best women’s server in the world at the moment, she was brilliant at the Olympics too.

I have a question… is there any way to stream pre-program action? Because ugh, so many good events that I’ll miss in Silesia.

You’re welcome! Got a bit of a headache while typing, but given that I was almost done I decided to push through it. Same, although it’s partly because there’s more going on sport-wise during the Paralympics than the Olympics (actually, there was nothing going on during the Olympics so it was easy) with the ice hockey Olympic Qualifier, athletics (Diamond League’s), flag football World Championships, and the US Open in tennis (although I probably won’t be watching the majority of it, only the first round and the men’s and women’s singles finals)

This took me around 6 hours to do by the way I’m actually quicker than normal, but since I had to do a shit ton of research but ugh… After I’m finished with this, I’m done with previews until Milano-Cortina 2026 (maybe short ones for some of the Olympic qualifiers but that’s it)

Part 1 (Part 2 includes the other non-para swimming/athletics sports, Part 3 is para swimming-athletics, Part 4 is a rundown of my predictions) Archery Kyle Tremblay - Men’s Compound Open: Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Bronze Medalist, Sao Paolo 2024 Para Pan American Championships Bronze Medalist, 9th at the 2024 Para Archery World Ranking Event Nove Mesto/Para Archery World Ranking Tournament Dubai, WR #9 Badminton Yuka Chokyu - Women’s Singles WH1: Sydney 2000/Athens 2004/Beijing 2008 Paralympian in wheelchair tennis (!), Lima 2019 Para Pan Ams Silver Medalist/Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Bronze Medalist, WR #10 Boccia Lance Cryderman- Men’s Individual BC1: Sydney 2000 Paralympian (!), Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Silver Medalist, WR #11 Danik Allard- Men’s Individual BC2: Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Silver Medalist, WR #12 Iulian Ciobanu- Men’s Individual BC4: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Bronze Medalist, WR #10 Alison Levine- Women’s Individual BC4: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Gold Medalist, 4th at the 2022 World Championships, Bronze at the 2024 Povea World Cup, WR #2 Alison Levine/Iulian Ciobanu- Pairs BC4: Santiago 2023 Para Pan Ams Gold Medalists, Bronze Medalists at the 2022 World Championships, Silver at the 2024 Montreal World Cup, Gold at the 2024 Povea World Cup, WR #2 Our two best chances come in BC4, with Levine in the women’s individual event, and Levine/Ciobanu in the mixed pairs event. Cryderman, Allard, and Ciobanu could all potentially podium but it’ll be tough. No medal here would be a downright disaster, hopefully we don’t get a repeat of what happened in Tokyo. Prediction: One gold (mixed pairs BC4), and One bronze (women’s BC4), or two medals. Cycling Road Cycling Nathan Clement - Men’s T1 Time Trial, Men’s T1 Road Race: 2016 Paralympian in swimming, Glasgow 2023 World Championships gold/silver medalist in the time trial/road race, Baie-Comeau 2022 World Championships silver medalist in the time trial/road race, bronze at the 2024 World Cups in Adelaide/Maniago in the road race (and 5th in Otsend) and two silvers (Ostend, Maniago) and a bronze (Adelaide) in the three 2024 World Cup time trials. Charles Moreau - Men’s H3 Time Trial, Men’s H3 Road Race: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Rio 2016 bronze medalist in the time trial/road race, Glasgow 2023 World Championships 4th in the time trial (only 0.08 off bronze), Bronze at the 2024 Adelaide World Cup in the time trial and 5th in the road race, 12th in the time trial and 6th in the road race at the Otsend World Cup, and 19th in the road race at the 2024 Maniago World Cup Mike Sametz - Men’s C3 Time Trial, Road Race: Rio 2016 Paralympian, Rio 2016 bronze medalist in the time trial, Glasgow 2023 bronze medalist in the time trial, 7th in the time trial at the 2024 Ostend World Cup, 8th in the time trial at the 2024 Maniago World Cup and 12th in the road race Track Cycling Kate O’Brien - Women’s C4-5 500m Time Trial, Women’s C4 3000m Individual Pursuit: 2015 World Championships silver medalist in mixed team bobsleigh (had to do a double take when reading this, hella impressive), Rio 2016 Olympian in cycling, Tokyo 2020 Paralympian in cycling, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist in the time trial, Saint-Quentin-en-Ivelines 2022/2023 Glasgow World Championships silver medalist in the time trial but finished only 5th at Rio Di Janeiro 2024. Keely Shaw - Women’s C4-5 500m Time Trial, Women’s C4 3000m Individual Pursuit: Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist in the individual pursuit, 2023/2024 Glasgow/Rio di Janeiro World Championships silver/bronze medalist in the individual pursuit Mel Pemble - Women’s C1-3 500m Time Trial: 2018 Paralympian in alpine skiing (!), 2023/2024 Glasgow/Rio di Janeiro World Championships bronze/silver medalist in the time trial Alexandre Hayward - Men’s C3 3000m Individual Pursuit, Men’s C1-3 500m Time Trial: Nothing. Honestly I’m not sure why Hayward decided to go with track over road, considering he’s had much more success on the latter? Maybe trying to challenge himself more? Anyways, along with para swimming and athletics, cycling is expected to hand us a fair few medals. On the road, we have debutant (in cycling) Clement as the headliner, with Moreau and Sametz both capable of challenging for minor medals. On the track, another debutant Mel Pemble has quickly risen to become one of Canada’s biggest para stars in a matter of a couple of years. Unfortunately the majority of her events aren’t in the Paralympic program, and she only has the time trial, in which classes are combined so it’ll be even tougher for her to make the podium. Reid, van den Aarssen, and Xiaomei will be her biggest competition. Shaw in the individual pursuit and O’Brien in the time trial are good bets for a medal as well. O’Brien, at best will be limited to silver, Great Britain’s O’Cox has won the last three World Championships titles, and is the 2x defending Paralympic champion. Normoyle, Groot, Xiaohui, Patoullet, Petricola, and O’Brien will likely be the battle for silver and bronze, leaning towards Groot and then O’Brien. In the individual pursuit, it’s Petricola. Then Bosco, Shaw, Morelli, and Lemon for the silver and bronze medals. Prediction: 2 in road cycling (Gold for Clement in men’s T1 time trial and bronze in the road race), and 3 in track cycling (Bronze for Pemble in women’s c1-3 500m time trial, silver for Shaw in women’s C4-3000m individual pursuit, and bronze for O’Brien in women’s C4-5 500m time trial) Equestrian Roberta Sheffield & “Fairuza” - Individual Grade II, Individual Freestyle II: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, 5th in Individual Grade III at the Herning 2022 World Championships, 6th in Freestyle Grade III at the Herning 2022 World Championships (Sheffield had her classification changed this year), 12th in Individual Grade III at Tokyo 2020, WR #7 Jody Schloss & “El Colorado” - Individual Grade I, Freestyle Grade I: London 2012/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, 11th in Individual Grade I at Tokyo 2020, 12th in Individual Grade I at the Herning 2022 World Championships, WR #19 Austen Burns & “Happy Feet 3” - WR #17 Open Team - 10th at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 9th at the Herning 2022 World Championships Almost had a stroke while typing out the horses names (kidding… somewhat), equestrian is the stupidest sport ever and doesn’t deserve a spot in the Olympics or Paralympics, it’s way too dependent on the horses Goalball Women’s Team - 4th at the 2022 Matosinhos World Championships, 4th at the 2023 Birmingham World Games, Gold at the 2023 Santiago Para Pan American Games, WR #6 We beat WR #4 Brazil and WR #3 Brazil on route to the Para Pan American title last fall, which shows this squad (all returnees from Tokyo 2020 so the chemistry is there) is capable of big things. I could see them beating all teams besides Turkey (who are IMO a class above the rest), but the other medals are up for grabs. That being said, I’m quite doubtful of their abilities to put it together during the Paralympics, they haven’t made it to to the medal rounds since 2004, and I believe they’ve been medal contenders at all games since then? (someone correct me if I’m wrong) Prediction: No medal, and the typical Canadian 4th. Paracanoeing Brianna Hennessy - Women’s KL1, Women’s VL2: Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Darmouth 2022/Duisburg 2023/Szeged 2024 World Championships silver medalist in women’s VL2, Darmouth 2022/Duisburg World Championships bronze medalist in women’s KL1, 5th at the Szeged 2024 World Championships Mathieu St. Pierre - Men’s VL2: Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, 5th at Tokyo 2020, 7th at the Szeged 2024 World Championships Erica Scarff - Women’s VL3: Duisburg 2023 World Championships silver medalist, Szeged 2024 World Championships 4th Canada has yet to win a medal in para-canoeing ever since its Olympic debut at Rio 2016, but that streak is looking like it will end in Paris. Hennessy (in both events) and Scarff will both be favoured to land on the podium, having won medals at the last World Championships in Duisburg, and in Hennessy’s case the previous year in Darmouth as well. Great Britain’s Wiggs has won the last 6 World Championships (2018-2024) in women’s VL2, and is also the reigning Paralympic champion. Ukraine’s Mazhula was the 5x defending World Championships gold medalist (2018-2023) before Wollermann stopped her streak at the Szeged 2024 World Championships. She is also the reigning Paralympic silver medalist. Wiggs has been the dominant athlete in the women’s VL2 event, and there’s no reason to think she won’t be untouchable at Paris. Hennessy finished a fair bit ahead of all three VL2 bronze medalists, so I think she’ll be able to bring home the silver. In KL1, it should be Mazhula, then Wollermann, Müller, and Hennessy in terms of odds but I could see any combination of them on the podium. In women’s VL3, it should be between Great Britain’s Henshaw and Gordon for gold, and Scarff, Brazil’s Santilli, and Uzbekistan’s Mamadalieva for the bronze. Prediction: One silver (women’s VL2), One bronze (women’s KL1), or two medals. Paratriathlon Stefan Daniel - Men’s PTS5: Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Paralympian, Rio 2016 Paralympic Silver Medalist, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Bronze Medalist, Pontevedra 2023 World Championships Silver Medalist, Abu Dhabi 2022 World Championships Gold Medalist, Yokohama 2024 World Series 2nd, Swansea 2024 World Series 3rd, Montreal 2024 World Series 2nd, WR #1 Kamylle Frenette - Women’s PTS5: Pontevedra 2023 World Championships 4th, Abu Dhabi 2022 World Championships Bronze Medalist, Yokohama 2024 World Series 2nd, Swansea 2024 World Series 2nd, Montreal 2024 World Series 1st, WR #2 Leanne Taylor - Women’s PTWC: Pontevedra 2023 World Championships 4th, Abu Dhabi 2022 World Championships 5th, Yokohama 2024 World Series 2nd, Swansea 2024 World Series 1st, Montreal 2024 World Series 2nd, WR #4 On paper all three athletes could medal, but at the very least I’m hoping for an improvement on our single bronze medal from Daniel in Tokyo. Prediction: One silver (men’s PTS5) and One bronze (women’s PTS5), or two medals. Table Tennis Peter Isherwood - Men’s Singles WH2: WR #49

Danke Laura Ludwig! One of the all-time greats of beach volleyball, what a career she’s had. Olympic gold at Rio 2016, World Championships silver at Vienna 2017, various World Tour, Beach Pro Tour, and European Championships medals, and has revolutionized the game with creating plays like “the Ludwig” Even though it’s her last international tournament, and her last with Lippmann, she still has one last tournament before she officially retires, as from September 5-8 she’ll be competing at the Queen & King of the Court with Katja Stam in Utrecht! Edit: That’s wrong, she’s partnered up with Agatha at Queen & King of the Court in Miami!

Joana Mäder and Anouk Vergé-Dépré have announced that they’re parting ways after this summer.

13 year old Reina Liu with a new PB of 2:16.37 in the women’s 200m individual medley!

Canadian Paralympic Medal Preview Paralympics are just 4 days away! As for the Olympics, I’ll be doing previews of all the competing Canadian athletes in each sport, our medal chances and where I think we’ll win medals. Don’t follow too much para sport outside of the Paralympics, besides sitting volleyball (I’ve also watched the Para Swimming/Athletics World Championships, and various wheelchair rugby/basketball events), so I’m not the most knowledgeable in certain sports, but that’s what the internet is for right? Canada is sending a strong contingent of 126 athletes, 70 women and 56 men, in 18 sports. In Tokyo, we sent 128 athletes, 71 women and 57 men, and came home with 21 medals, including 5 golds, 10 silvers, and 6 bronzes. Not to jinx anything, but I think there’s a good chance that we can improve on that number.

Thanks for reminding me

SHE’S DONE IT! Erin Brooks is the WSL Fiji Pro champion, defeating Weston-Webb in the final heat! Edit: This is her first CT appearance by the way, which makes it even more impressive.

FINAL! Erin Brooks defeats Picklum to advance to the final at the WSL Fiji Pro! Should start in just over an hour, if anyone wants to watch.

4 days to go!

@stockblock any idea on if Latvia’s games are streamed anywhere?

GREAT news! All of the matches for the Olympic Qualifier will be live-streamed on IIHF YouTube, free of charge! https://youtube.com/@iihf?si=8z-RCFsnSOCqWmQy For all non-competing countries at least, pretty sure it won’t be streamed for all, some probably have rights to their matches or the whole event through various broadcasters and streaming services. Iesim Latvija !! (Šilovs & Bługers in particular)

Another Diamond League on Sunday in Silesia! Olympic champion Ethan Katzberg will feature in a rare DL men’s hammer throw competition, Mo Ahmed will be in the men’s 3000m, Jean Simon-Desgagnes will be in the men’s 3000m steeplechase, and a potential WR alert in the men’s 800m with Marco Arop taking on Wanyonyi, among others.

Not good enough for some of you? Kidding.

Erin Brooks! Through to the semifinals at the WSL Fiji Pro, taking out Bryan in the elimination round and Simmers in the quarterfinals! Take a look at this wave This girl is ripping, I can’t wait to see what she can do in the upcoming years!

Brackets now out. https://www.usopen.org/en_US/draws/womens-singles.html

Gingera

How strong is the field with the Olympics having just ended?

Diamond League Lausanne Men’s Pole Vault 1. Armand Duplantis (6.15m) 2. San Kendricks (5.92m) 3. EJ Obiena (5.82m) 3. Sondre Guttormsen (5.82m) 3. Kurtis Marschall (5.82m) =SB at 4.73m for the legend Lavillenie as well! Women’s Shot Put 1. Chase Ealey (20.64m) 2. Yemisi Ogunleye (19.55m) 3. Sarah Mitton (19.52m) Men’s 400m 1. Matthew Hudson-Smith (43.96) 2. Muzala Samukonga (44.06) 3. Busan Kebinatshipi (44.22, PB) Women’s High Jump 1. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (1.99m) 2. Eleanor Patterson (1.96m) 3. Nicola Olyslagers (1.92m) Men’s 800m 1. Emmanuel Wanyonyi (1:41.11, PB & WL) 2. Marco Arop (1:41.74) 3. Gabriel Tual (1:42.30) Men’s Long Jump 1. Miltiadis Tentoglou (8.06m) 2. Wayne Pinnock (8.01m) 3. Simon Ehammer (7.99m) Women’s 100m Hurdles 1. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.35) 2. Grace Stark (12.38) 3. Ackera Nugent (12.38) Men’s 1500m 1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3:27.83) 2. Cole Hocker (3:29.85) 3. Hobbs Kessler (3:30.47) Men’s Javelin Throw 1. Anderson Peters (90.61m) 2. Neeraj Chopra (89.49m) 3. Julian Weber (87.08m) Women’s 100m 1. Dina Asher-Smith (10.88) 2. Tamari Davis (10.97) 3. Munjinga Kambudji (11.06) Ta Lou in 4th, as usual Women’s 3000m 1. Diribe Welteji (8:21.50) 2. Janice Chepngetich (8:23.48) 3. Tsigie Gebreselama (8:24.40) Men’s 110m Hurdles 1. Rasheed Broadbell (13.10) 2. Grant Holloway (13.14) 3. Hansle Parchment (13.23) Women’s 800m 1. Mary Moraa (1:57.91) 2. Georgia Bell (1:58.53) 3. Jemma Reekie (1:58.73) Women’s 400m Hurdles 1. Femke Bol (52.25) 2. Rushell Clayton (53.32) 3. Janieve Russell (54.48) Men’s 200m 1. Letsile Tebogo (19.64) 2. Erriyon Knighton (19.78) 3. Fred Kerley (19.86) Full Results