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WST Park World Tour | Dubai, United Arab Emirates Men Gold- Danny Leon (90.13) Silver- Gavin Bottger (89.57) Bronze- Viktor Solmunde (89.36) Women Gold- Naia Laso (93.46) Silver- Kokona Hiraki (91.60) Bronze- Mizuho Hasegawa (88.91)

Way too many 4ths and 5ths, but overall a great showing by Was hoping for at least one medal, but not to be.

ATP 500 Mexican Open | Acapulco, Mexico Men’s Singles 1. Alex De Minaur 2. Casper Ruud 3. Holger Rune 3. Jack Draper Men’s Doubles 1. Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski 2. Santiago Gonzalez/Neal Skupski 3. Harri Helliovaara/John Peers 3. Sadio Doumbia/Fabien Reboul Full Results

ATP 500 Dubai Tennis Championships | Dubai, United Arab Emirates Men’s Singles 1. Ugo Humbert 2. Alexander Bublik (no “he he 5”) 3. Daniil Medvedev 3. Andrey Rublev Men’s Doubles 1. Tallon Griekspoor/Jan-Lennard Struff 2. Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek 3. Yuki Bhambri/Robin Haase 3. Ariel Behar/Adam Pavlasek Full Results

IJF Grand Slam Tashkent | Tashkent, Uzbekistan Day 3 Women’s 78kg Gold- Rika Takayama Silver- Fanny-Estelle Posvite Bronze- Anna-Maria Wagner Bronze- Alice Bellandi Women’s +78kg Gold- Xin Su Silver- Ruri Takahashi Bronze- Maya Segawa Bronze- Elis Startseva Men’s 90kg Gold- Theodoros Tselidis @Makedonas @maestro Silver- Ivaylo Ivanov Bronze- Christian Parlatti Bronze- Davlat Bobonov Men’s 100kg Gold- Muzaffarbek Turboyev Silver- Matvey Kanikovskiy Bronze- Dota Arai Bronze- Piotr Kuczera Men’s +100kg Gold- Hyoga Ota Silver- Tamerlan Bashaev Bronze- Kokoro Kageura Bronze- Inal Tasoev Full Results

IJF Grand Slam Tashkent | Tashkent, Uzbekistan Day 2 Women’s 63kg Gold- Clarisse Agbegnenou Silver- Momo Tatsukawa Bronze- Nami Nabekura Bronze- Andreja Leski Women’s 70kg Gold- Miriam Butkereit Silver- Margaux Pinot Bronze- Saki Niizoe Bronze- Margit De Voogd Men’s 73kg Gold- Manuel Lombardo @phelps Silver- Danil Lavrentev Bronze- Shakhram Akhadov Bronze- Obidkhon Nomanov Men’s 81kg Gold- Matthias Casse Silver- Shamil Borchashvili Bronze- Mykhailo Svidrak Bronze- Takanori Nagase Full Results

Scientifically speaking it’s impossible to not identify with either gender? Again, you’re either a male, or a female. You can’t switch genders, nor is transgender (or anything other than male/female) a real gender. Anyway, I’m not trying to argue about this all day long, it’s pretty pointless. I can understand that opinions on this subject matter vary and that’s perfectly fine.

Yannick Schwaller & Briar Schwaller win the Swiss Mixed Doubles World Trials, and will represent Switzerland at the upcoming Mixed Doubles World Championships.

I identify as Mondo Duplantis Does that make me a pole vault World Record holder? No.

You’re right, I must’ve had Hiltz confused with another athlete. It’s now fine from my perspective that she competes in women’s events. But you can’t identify as non-binary, you’re either a male or a female and that’s that. Hiltz is a female. All the various pronouns (he/her/she/they/them/xer?) are bullshit.

For some added context, Hiltz is biologically a male, but has since then “transitioned to a female” (Hiltz is transgender) Hiltz is still a male, regardless. Whatever gender you are born with is the gender that you keep for the rest of your life, and it’s either male or female. Now I’m not transphobic or anything (I couldn’t care less about what they do), I just find it incredibly unfair that she’s taking opportunities away from biological female athletes as a man pretending to be a women. I’m surprised that no women have spoken up about the matter. There’s no real solution for her situation though, if WA created a transgender category in sport the competition level would be ridiculously low, and I don’t see Hiltz agreeing to compete in the men’s events. Just my thoughts on the matter, obviously opinions will differ from person to person.

Hiltz on the podium with a silver

No WR for Duplantis, after a third attempt failure at 6.24m.

having themselves a meet

Rocket Beamish!

What is Dominican Republic doing with much smaller nations like Saint Lucia and Benin? Haven’t they always been winning plenty of global medals in various sports?

Yarigo on the podium with a bronze

Very surprising given his earlier failures at lower heights. I don’t see him clearing it today, but I’m hoping I’m wrong

Duplantis over 6.05m!

WR for Charlton in the women’s 60m hurdles 7.65!! Holy fuck. Edit: Is this the first ever World Indoor Champion from the Bahamas?

What a finish to the heptathlon

Not me predicting Brume to win a women’s long jump medal, only to find out that she’s not even competing

Men’s sabre team qualifies for Paris as the highest ranked nation from the Pan Americas (outside the top four) through the Olympic Rankings!

Well there goes our hope of qualifying in trap. I wish we had secured a quota (obviously) but we’ve had so many bad results throughout the OQP that I’m hardly disappointed. I’ve kind of just learned to accept it.

Women’s Final Gold- Sally Fitzgibbons (13.10 / 6.83+ 6.27) Silver- Tatiana Weston-Webb (12.24 / 6.77+ 5.47) Bronze- Johanne Defay (12.00 / 6.00 + 6.00) Copper- Nadia Erostarbe (9.57 / 4.90 + 4.67)