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Carter Woods having another “off day” at a major championships. Performing at your best on the big stages isn’t for everyone I guess.

find it extremely boring to watch, but maybe i’m alone in that

pretty much everything, with the exception of golf, artistic swimming, and breaking

Tongyeong World Cup Women Gold- Gwen Jorgensen Silver- Yuko Takahashi Bronze- Tereza Zimovjanová Men Gold- Tim Hellwig Silver- Ricardo Batista Bronze- Sam Dickinson

Day 1 (October 21, 2023) Canadian Schedule Badminton 12:00 PST/15:00 EST: Women’s Singles R32- Rachel Chan v. Yeily Mary Ortiz Rodríguez 14:30 PST/17:30 EST: Women’s Singles R32- Eliana Zhang v. Iona Angelina Gualdi 15:30 PST/18:30 EST: Women’s Singles R32- Wendy Zhang v. Nairoby Abigail Jiminez Ramirez Beach Volleyball 6:30 PST/10:30 EST: Women’s Pool D- Melissa Humana Parades/Brandie Wilkerson v. Maria Isabel Bianchi Wilkinson/Sol Acuña Ramos 8:30 PST/11:30 EST: Men’s Pool D- Jake MacNeil/Alexander Russell v. Marcos Jose Tenorio Angulo/Dany Jair Leon Nieves BMX Racing 7:30 PST/10:30 EST: Women’s Seeding- Molly Simpson, Teigen Pascual 7:55 PST/10:55 EST: Men’s Seeding- Ryan Tougas, Curtis Krey Boxing 8:00 PST/11:00 EST: Men’s 51kg Round of 16- Justin Parina v. Yunior Alcantara Reyes 9:15 PST/12:15 EST: Men’s 80kg Round of 16- Keven Beausejour v. Julio Alamos Mumbru 13:00 PST/16:00 EST: McKenzie Wright v. Aylin Dayana Jamez Gonzalez Diving 7:00 PST/10:00 EST: Men’s 1m Springboard Prelims- Thomas Ciprick 15:00 PST/18:00 EST: Women’s 10m Platform Final- Caeli McKay, Celina Toth 16:40 PST/19:40 EST- Men’s 1m Springboard Final- TBD Artistic Gymnastics Slightly confused with the schedule on the website. 10:00 PST/13:00 EST: Men’s Team Qualification 14:30 PST/17:30 EST: Men’s Team Final- TBD Modern Pentathlon 5:00 PST/8:00 EST: Men’s Individual Fencing Ranking Round- Quinn Schulz, Robert Bonomo 8:00 PST/11:00 EST: Women’s Fencing Ranking Round- Devan Wiebe, Ming Li, Kelly Fitzsimmons Mountain Biking 5:00 PST/8:00 EST: Men’s Olympic Cross Country Final- Gunnar Holmgren, Carter Woods 7:30 PST/10:30 EST: Women’s Olympic Cross Country Olympic Final- Jennifer Jackson, Sandra Walter Racquetball 7:30 PST/10:30 EST: Women’s Singles Round of 32- Frederique Lambert v. Paula Javiera Mansilla 8:15 PST/11:15 EST: Women’s Singles Round of 32- Michèle Morissette v. Carla Munõz 12:00 PST/15:00 EST: Women’s Doubles Round of 16- Michèle Morissette/Frederique Lambert v. Jimena Gomez/Maricruz Ortiz 13:00 PST/16:00 EST: Mixed Doubles Round of 16- Frederique Lambert/Samuel Murray v. Andres Acuña/Maricruz Ortiz Rowing 4:00 PST/7:00 EST: Women’s Coxless Pair Heat 1- Abigail Marie Dent/Olivia Priscilla McMurray 4:30 PST/7:30 EST: Men’s Coxless Pairs Heat 2- Connor Bayley Attridge/Quinn Keenan Storey 4:50 PST/7:50 EST: Women’s Double Sculls Heat 2- Alizée Brien/Caroline Shaye Ann De Paiva 5:00 PST/8:00 EST: Men’s Double Sculls Heat 1- Rui Xu/Thomas Ciepiela 6:00 PST/9:00 EST: Men’s Single Sculls Heat 1- Shane Willis 8:00 PST/11:00 EST: Mixed Eight Heat 2- Shooting 5:30 PST/8:30 EST: Men’s Skeet Qualification Day 1- Richard McBride, Trystan Routledge 5:30 PST/8:30 EST: Women’s Skeet Qualification Day 1- Madeleine Boyd 7:00 PST/10:00 EST: Men’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification- Tye Ikeda 10:30 PST/13:30 EST: Men’s 10m Air Rifle Final- TBD Skateboarding 7:00 PST/10:00 EST: Women’s Street Final- Samantha Secours 12:30 PST/15:30 EST: Men’s Street Final- Ryan Decenzo Sport Climbing 6:00 PST/9:00 EST: Men’s Boulder and Lead Semifinal (Boulder Stage) - Sean McColl, Oscar Baudrand, Victor Baudrand 9:30 PST/12:30 EST: Men’s Boulder and Lead Semifinal (Lead Stage) - Sean McColl, Oscar Baudrand, Victor Baudrand 15:00 PST/18:00 EST: Women’s Speed Qualifications- Erica Velev 15:50 PST/18:50 EST: Women’s Speed Elimination Matches- TBD Swimming 5:06 PST/8:06 EST: Women’s 400m Freestyle Heat 2- Julie Brousseau, Emma O’Croinin 5:24 PST/8:24 EST: Men’s 400m Freestyle Heat 2- Yu Tong Wu 5:29 PST/8:29 EST: Men’s 400m Freestyle Heat 3- Jeremy Bagshaw 5:34 PST/8:34 EST: Women’s 100m Breastroke Heat 1- Sophie Angus 5:40 PST/8:40 EST: Women’s 100m Breastroke Heat 3- Rachel Nicol 5:45 PST/8:45 EST: Men’s 100m Breastroke Heat 2- James Dergousoff 5:49 PST/8:49 EST: Men’s 100m Breastroke Heat 4- Gabe Mastromatteo 5:56 PST/8:56 EST: Women’s 200m Butterfly Heat 2- Katie Forrester 6:07 PST/10:07 EST: Men’s 200m Butterfly Heat 2- Kevin Zhang 6:14 PST/10:14 EST: Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heat 1- 6:24 PST/10:24 EST: Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heat 1- 12:00-12:07 PST/15:00-15:07 EST: Women’s 400m Freestyle A/B Finals- TBD 12:15-12:23 PST/15:15-15:23 EST: Men’s 400m Freestyle A/B Finals- TBD 12:36-12:41 PST/15:36-15:41 EST: Women’s 100m Breastroke A/B Finals- TBD 12:51-12:56 PST/15:51-15:56 EST: Men’s 100m Breastroke A/B Finals- TBD 13:06-13:12 PST/16:06-16:16 EST: Women’s 200m Butterfly A/B Finals- TBD 13:24-13:29 PST/16:24-16:29 EST: Men’s 200m Butterfly A/B Finals- TBD 13:41 PST/16:41 EST: Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final- TBD 13:48 PST/16:48 EST: Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final- TBD Taekwondo 4:10 PST/7:10 EST: Women’s Individual Poomsae Round of 16- Valerie Ho v. Ingrid Pamela Darce Lopez 4:20-5:20 PST/8:20-9:20 PST: Women’s Individual Poomsae elimination matches- TBD 5:45 PST/8:45 EST: Men’s Individual Poomsae Round of 16- Jinsu Ha v. Anthony Shun Kei Do 6:05-7:05 PST/9:05-10:05 EST: Men’s Individual Poomsae elimination matches- TBD 6:46 PST/9:46 EST: Women’s -49kg Round of 16- Angelique Orozco v. Maria Jireh Hurtado Tapia 7:50 PST/10:50 EST: Men’s -68kg Round of 16- Tae-ku Park v. Jose Carlo Nieto Preciado 10:20 PST/13:20 EST: Men’s -58kg Quarterfinals- Braven Park v. TBD Not even gonna bother trying to update all the other matches, as the kyorugi matches (QFs all the way to gold) are all over the place on the schedule, but all three events will award medals today. Water Skiing 5:30 PST/8:30 EST: Women’s Slalom Preliminary Round Serie 1- Neilly Ross, Paige Rini, Whitney McClintock 7:15 PST/10:15 EST: Men’s Slalom Preliminary Round Serie 1- Dorian Llewellyn 9:30 PST/12:30 EST: Women’s Wakeboarding Qualifications Heat 1- Ashley Leugner 11:00 PST/14:00 EST: Men’s Wakeboarding Qualifications Heat 2- Hunter Smith Weightlifting 10:45-11:55 PST/13:45-14:55 EST: Women’s 49kg Group A- Amanda Braddock 13:50-15:25 PST/16:50-18:25 EST: Men’s 73kg Group A- Nicolas Vachon

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@NearPup beat me to it

Caeli McKay and Celina Toth are also through to tomorrow’s women’s 10m platform final.

Forgot about Alicia Schmidt, however it may not be for the reason you think it is…

Melissa Humana Parades and Brandie Wilkerson are Canada’s flag bearers for the opening ceremony!

So I messaged Breaking for Gold on Instagram, regarding their post on the upcoming Oceanic Breaking Championships. It said something along the lines of “watch the top breakers compete” blah blah blah. I replied with “no breakers from Oceania are good (which is true) don’t see the eventual gold medalists winning a single battle come Paris unless they face off against an African athlete”. I’m assuming they read the message because after that I got blocked. What a sh*t social media admin, why would you block someone for sharing a fact? It’s not like I was even hating lol.

Oh no Well… a lot. In curling, Team Edin, Team Schwaller and Team Hasselborg (and to a lesser extent Team Fujisawa) In freestyle skiing, Birk Ruud In hockey, Elias Petterson, JT Miller, Thatcher Demko (all three of my favourite Canucks) In volleyball, Poland’s men’s team (and to a lesser extent Bulgaria’s men’s team ), along with Yuki Ishikawa, TJ Defalco, György Grozer, Isabella Haak, Tijana Boskovic. As for Polish players, favourites would have to be Sliwka and Leon (Kaczmarek and Bednorz in 3rd and 4th probably). In badminton, Viktor Axelsen and P.V Sindu In volleyball, Mol/Sørum, Bryl/Łosiak, Hüberli/Brunner, Ehlers/Wickler, Duda (Not a big fan of AP though), Mader/Verge Depre, Brouwer/Meeuwsen, Cherif/Ahmed In athletics, Mondo Duplantis, Femke Bol, Tobi Amusan, Miltiadis Tentoglou, Anna Hall, Nicola Olyslagers, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Karsten Warholm, Athing Mu, Jakub Vadlejch In swimming, Thomas Heilman, Leon Marchand, Chad Le Clos, Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Lani Pallister, Caleb Dressel, Michael Andrew, Florent Manaudou, Ruta Meilutyte In alpine skiing, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Joan Verdu, and AJ Ginnis In cross country skiing, Johannes Hosflot Klaebo In surfing, Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca, Filipe Toledo In soccer/football, Lionel Messi, Thibaut Courtois In tennis, Casper Ruud, Rafa Nadal, Hubi Hurkacz, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Dominic Thiem, Grigor Dimitrov, Roger Federer, Paula Badosa, Anett Kontaveit In judo, Peter Paltchik Obviously Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and the rest (2021-22 roster, hate Chris Paul) of the Golden State Warriors (NBA). Along with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, and Domantas Sabonis and that’s pretty much it. What about you?

Isn’t Thibeault is the heavy favourite for gold in the women’s 75kg weightclass?

Canada will be doing the same thing as Poland, sending as many athletes as they can, barring injury of course.

World Athletic’s Road to Paris site is now live. Here’s where Canada would be qualifying, should it end today. Men’s 100m Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney Men’s 200m Aaron Brown, Andre DeGrasse, Brendon Rodney Men’s 800m Marco Arop If McBride is fully healthy, and competing, he’ll be in with a chance. Men’s 1500m Charles Philibert Thiboutot, Kieran Lumb Men’s 5000m Mo Ahmed, Benjamin Flanagan Same for Knight. If he’s fully healthy and competing, he’ll have a chance at qualifying. Men’s 10,000m Mo Ahmed Men’s 110m Hurdles Craig Thorne Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Jean Simon Desgagnes Men’s Hammer Throw Ethan Katzberg, Adam Keenan, Rowan Hamilton Men’s Marathon Cam Levins Fully expect more marathoners to qualify. Linkletter, Priesner, and Hofbauer are the most likely. Men’s 20km Race Walk Evan Dunfee Men’s Decathlon Pierce LePage, Damian Warner Women’s 100m Khamica Bingham, Sade McCreath, Jacqueline Madogo Women’s 400m Grace Konrad, Madeline Price, Kyra Constantine Women’s 800m Jazz Shukla Women’s 5000m Briana Scott, Julie-Anne Staehli, Gracelyn Larkin Women’s 110m Hurdles Mariam Abdul Rashid, Michelle Harrison Women’s 400m Hurdles Savannah Sutherland Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Regan Yee, Celi McCabe, Grace Fetherstonhaugh Women’s Shot Put Sarah Mitton, Grace Tennant Women’s Hammer Throw Camryn Rogers, Kaila Butler Women’s Marathon Malindi Elmore, Natasha Wodak, Kinsey Middleton Anyone know what happened to Christabel Nettey? Notable names missing (including McBride/Knight/Linketter/Priesner/Hofbauer) include Liz Gleadle, Django Lovett, Sage Watson, Georgia Ellenwood, Lucia Stafford, Gabriella De Bues Stafford, Anicka Newell, Natassha McDonald, Nicole Ostertag, and Jillian Weir.

Less surprising when you realize it’s a women’s boxer

Mexico loses their Pan American Championships quota in men's mountain biking due to a whereabouts failure for eventual gold medalist Gerardo Ulloa. Canada, as the next highest-ranked nation, qualifies one athlete for Paris.

Through the UCI World Rankings, Canada qualifies four athletes in road cycling! (two men/two women)

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have qualified their first athletes in road cycling (men’s/women’s road race) through the UCI World Rankings

Best case scenario in boxing would be 4 Olympic quotas? @intoronto (Being Thibeault, Cavanaugh, Delgado and Sanford)

Don’t know if anyone here follows club volleyball, but does anyone know where to watch ZASKA/Sesc RJ Flamengo/Vero Volley (men’s mainly) matches? Fenerbahçe and Eczacıbaşı‘s matches are streamed on their respective YouTube channels I believe.

One day until action begins

Five (four if you take out the event in Torquay where a lot of the top teams weren’t competing) Elite 16 medals in the last two years isn’t good enough for you?

Day 8 (August 3, 2024) Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Floor Side note: We’re less than a year out from the Olympics, why are the apparatus schedules still not out yet? Gold- Artem Dolgopyat Silver- Carlos Yulo Bronze- Milad Karimi Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Vault Gold- Simone Biles Silver- Rebecca Andrade Bronze- Alexa Moreno Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Pommel Horse Gold- Rhys McClenaghan Silver- Max Whitlock Bronze (Tie!)- Khoi Young Bronze (Tie!) - Lee Chih-Kai Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Uneven Bars Gold- Qiu Qiyuan Silver- Nina Derwael Bronze- Kaylia Nemour No medal for US here, Shilese Jones places 4th. Archery- Women’s Indivdual Gold- Lim Si-Hyeon Silver- Alejandra Valencia Bronze- Casey Kaufhold Reigning Olympic champion An San upset in the quarterfinals. Athletics- Men’s Decathlon Gold- Pierce LePage Silver- Leo Neugebauer Bronze- Damian Warner Athletics- Women’s Triple Jump Gold- Yulimar Rojas Silver- Liadagmis Povea Bronze- Thea Lafond First ever Olympic medal for Dominica! Leyanis Perez Hernandez 4th (14.95m). Maryna Bekh Romanchuk 7th (14.41m) after having a bad day. Athletics- Men’s Shot Put Gold- Ryan Crouser Silver- Joe Kovacs Bronze- Tom Walsh Lets try this again… Athletics- Mixed 4x400m Relay Gold- United States Silver- Netherlands Bronze- Dominican Republic US wins gold and breaks the WR with another no-name team. Too much to make up for Femke Bol on the anchor leg, but she does win a nice silver for the Netherlands. Reigning Olympic champions Poland finish in 4th. Athletics- Women’s 100m Gold- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Silver- Elaine Thompson-Herah Bronze- Marie-Josée Ta Lou Sha’carri Richardson either fails to make the team, or false starts in the final. Badminton- Women’s Doubles Gold- Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan Silver- Baek Ha-Na/Lee So-Hee Bronze- Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti Equestrian- Team Dressage Gold- Germany Silver- Denmark Bronze- Great Britain Fencing- Women’s Sabre Team Gold- France Silver- South Korea Bronze- Hungary Judo- Mixed Team Gold- Japan Silver- France Bronze- Georgia Bronze- Israel Joint 5th for Netherlands and Brazil. Road Cycling- Men’s Road Race Gold- Mathieu Van Der Poel Silver- Tadej Pogačar Bronze- Wout Van Aert Rowing- Women’s Single Sculls Gold- Karolien Florijn Silver- Emma Twigg Bronze- Tara Rigney Rowing- Men’s Single Sculls Gold- Oliver Zeidler Silver- Stefanos Ntouskos Bronze- Kjetil Borch Rowing- Women’s Eight Gold- Romania Silver- Canada Bronze- United States Rowing- Men’s Eight Gold- Great Britain Silver- Netherlands Bronze- Germany Swimming- Men’s 100m Butterfly Gold- Caleb Dressel Silver- Kristof Milak Bronze- Maxime Grousset Swimming- Women’s 200m Individual Medley Gold- Summer McIntosh Silver- Alex Walsh Bronze- Kate Douglass Swimming- Women’s 800m Freestyle Gold- Katie Ledecky Silver- Ariarne Titmus Bronze- Li Bingje Swimming- Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Gold- China Silver- United States Bronze- Australia Table Tennis- Women’s Singles Gold- Sun Yingsha Silver- Shin Yu-Bin Bronze- Hina Hataya Tennis- Men’s Singles Grigor Dimitrov wins bronze with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 win over Casper Ruud Tennis- Women’s Singles Gold- Iga Swiatek Silver- Karolina Muchova Tennis- Men’s Doubles Gold- Máximo González/Andrés Molteni Silver- Kevin Krawietz/Tim Pütz Shooting- Women’s 25m Pistol Gold- Anna Korakaki Silver- Camille Jedrzejewski Bronze- Doreen Vennekamp Shooting- Men’s Skeet Gold- Vincent Hancock Silver- Marcus Svensson Bronze- Azmy Mehelba No medal for Greece. Boxing- Women’s 60kg Bronze- Yang Wenlu Bronze- Kellie Harrington Medal Table After Day 8 19-6-11– 36 16-21-21– 58 10-10-9– 29 9-9-10– 28 9-7-8– 24 8-10-11– 29 8-3-4– 15 7-6-6– 19 7-1-4– 12 6-8-8– 22 5-2-2– 9 4-6-7– 17 3-4-3– 10 3-3-1– 7 3-2-3– 8 3-2-1– 6 2-4-2– 8 2-2-3– 7 2-2-1– 5 2-2-1– 5 2-1-4– 7 2-1-1– 4 1-3-2– 6 1-2-2– 5 1-2-1– 4 1-2-1– 4 1-1-1– 3 1-1-0– 2 1-0-2– 3 1-0-1– 2 1-0-1– 2 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-1– 3 0-1-3– 4 0-1-3– 4 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-2– 2 0-0-2– 2 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1