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Guaranteed top 10 finish for Jane Channell

Great second run by Kellie Delka

BWF Super 300 Orleans Masters | Orleans, France Men’s Singles 1. Yushi Tanaka 2. Koo Takahashi 3. Chi Yu-Jen 3. Lei Lanxi Women’s Singles 1. Tomoya Miyazaki 2. Hina Akechi 3. Chen Lu 3. Manami Suizu Men’s Doubles 1. Choong Hon Jian/Muhammad Haikal 2. Sabar Karyaman Gutama/Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani 3. Andreas Søndergaard/Jesper Toft 3. Chen Zhi-Ray/Lin Yu-Chieh Women’s Doubles 1. Meilysa Trias Puspita Sari/Rachel Allessya Rose 2. Gabriela Stoeva/Stefani Stoeva 3. Margot Lambert/Anne Tran 3. Rui Hirokama/Yuna Kato Mixed Doubles 1. Cheng Xing/Zhang Chi 2. Rinov Rivaldy/Pitha Haningtyas Mentari 3. Mads Vestergaard/Christine Busch 3. Hoo Pang Ron/Cheng Su Yin Full Results

Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championships quarterfinal field is now set. Nancy Martin/Steve Laycock v. Kadriana Lott/Colton Lott Jocelyn Peterman/Brett Gallant v. Paige Papley/Evan Van Amsterdam Ryan Kleiter/Madison Kleiter v. Taylor Reece-Hansen/Corey Chester Aaron Sluchinski/Amanda Sluchinski v. Laura Walker/Kirk Muyres

Draw 16 Results 5 - 6 5 - 8 9 - 1 7 - 4

Draw 15 Results 9 - 7 10 - 2 10 - 2 9 - 4

Brian Yang has mathematically qualified in men’s singles badminton through the Olympic Rankings! https://www.instagram.com/p/C4xFWe3ujB4/?igsh=NXpuNmVhODRwOTFo

Off the top of my head Australia wouldn’t qualify in Archery, Breaking, Badminton, Modern Pentathlon, Artistic Swimming, Weightlifting. Boxing they would probably qualify, Parker and Garside are good boxers.

Standings After Day 5 Team Homan (8-0) (Qualified for the playoffs) Team Constantini (7-1) Team Tirinzoni (6-2, 1-0) Team Gim (6-2, 0-1) Team Dupont (6-3) Team Hasselborg (5-4) Team Peterson (3-5, 1-0) Team Ueno (3-5, 1-0) Team Rørvik (3-5, 0-2) Team Morrison (3-6) Team Yıldız (2-7) Team Turmann (1-7, 1-0) Team Smith (1-7, 0-1)

World Championships are this week. A strong start in pairs for Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, who are in the gold medal position after the short program with a PB of 77.48! They’re about four points ahead of the defending champions from Japan, which is a good lead to have heading into the free program. Something of note, Stellato-Dudek doesn’t have Canadian citizenship yet which would make her ineligible for the Milano-Cortina Olympics.

Draw 14 Results 5 - 7 9 - 5 8 - 6 7 - 1 becomes the first team to qualify for the playoffs! Watch out for Turkey in the future, they’re a really underrated team and I think they have a good chance at qualifying for Milano-Cortina 2026.

My proposal is that this event doesn’t ever get added to the Olympic programme

Even football is a bad example. If there was no such thing as continental qualifiers, Canada would still probably qualify for this years Olympics. United States France Australia Netherlands Brazil Spain Great Britain Sweden Japan Germany Norway Canada Colombia, Nigeria, and Denmark would be next up probably.

And with that win they’ve also qualified for the playoffs!

8-0, after a 7-2 victory over Japan and a 9-5 victory over Turkey! Match against Turkey was much closer than the scoreline suggested, they were playing phenomenally. Turkey were 5-4 up after 9 ends, but a HUGE 5 for Homan after a runback secured the win. Didn’t come without drama as well, in the 9th end there was a tie for second shot, and after three measures they still came that conclusion. The tiebreaker went in favour of Canada, and Turkey only scored the single. I’ve been watching curling ever since Pyeongchang 2018, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like that before.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RUNBACK FOR 5 Team Homan now improves to 8-0, and secures their spot in the playoffs in the process! (and 22 consecutive matches won)

Turkey only gets the one, according to the tiebreak rules. Turkey leads 5-4 heading into the 10th end.

A tie for second shot between and Not something you see very often.

Scotland isn’t good at women’s curling anymore. They haven’t finished better than 12th at the last two World Championships. But I could see the case being made for either match.

Yes. Spain is a much better team than United States at the moment, considering they won the World Cup and the UEFA Nations League. That’s not the only reason why however, also contributing towards my ranking are the Round of 16 exit (lost to Sweden) for United States at the World Cup, Rapinoe’s retirement, but most importantly the shocking loss against Mexico at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, that’s an inexcusable result for the United States. They did eventually win the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but if I’m not wrong I believe that match was played in extremely rainy weather. Edit: We do seem to struggle against the United States in women’s football bar Tokyo though, I think either matchup would be tough.

Mind you I’m far from an expert, but I believe the following athletes are the favourites for women’s freestyle quotas at the European Qualifier judging off of results from the last two European Championships/World Championships (leaving men’s greco-roman and men’s freestyle to MSHN) If I’m missing any names feel free to tell me. 50kg: Oksana Livach, Mariya Stadnik, Ksenia Stankevich, Anna Lukasiak, Emmanuela Liuzzi, Ana-Maria Pirvu, Miglena Selishka 53kg: Maria Prevolaraki, Natalia Malysheva, Stalvira Orshush, Zeynet Yegtil, Mariana Dragutan, Andreea Ana 57kg: Elvira Kamaloglu, Evelina Nikolova, Zhala Aliyeva, Ramona Galambos, Alina Hrushyna, Elena Brugger, Iryna Kurachkina 62kg: Bilyana Dudova, Johanna Lindborg, Veranika Ivanova, Birgul Soltanova, Mariana Cherdivara, Aleksandra Wolczynska, Kriszta Tunde 68kg: Mimi Hristova, Adela Hanzlickova, Tetiana Rizkho, Khanum Velieva, Hanna Sadchanka 76kg: Epp Mae, Catalina Axente, Anastasiya Zimiankova, Yasemin Adar, Enrica Rinaldi, Anastasiia Osniach, Marina Kuenz, Francy Radelt, Bernadett Nagy, Kamile Gaucaite

I’ll just say this, it’s so cool to see @hckošice ’s enthusiasm for lower grade hockey tournaments Can’t think of a single other user on the site that would post results and schedules for the “Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division II Group B World Championship 2024”

@Biathlonfan sorry I completely misread the pool regulations Lithuania (should they qualify) would have a pretty good chance at making it into the quarterfinals. I struggle to see them advancing into the semifinals, but it’s possible.

Maybe I am underrating Italy… but yeah Sabonis will probably be the difference maker (assuming he wants to play for Lithuania at the OQT) should both of them advance to the final match.