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Clarisse Agbegnenou has now agreed to wear Adidas judogi at the 2024 Olympics, but she has admitted she “no longer has confidence in the French Judo Federation”

I guess that means that after Paris 2024, Santo will probably decide to switch over to Japan for LA 2028

My mistake It’s fixed now!

2023 Selectivo Nacional de Natación- San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico April 4- April 9, 2023 The following new OQTs were achieved Men’s 200m Breastroke Miguel de Lara

Tai Tzu-Ying (badminton) retiring at the end of 2024

Tai Tzu Ying retiring at the end of 2024

Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix- Taicang, China April 8, 2023 Men Zhang Jun Li Yandong Li Xingfu Women Liu Hong

Anyone have a link to the results page by any chance?

JAMIE LEE RATTRAY FOR THE WIN in R9 of the shootout a 4-3 victory for Canada over United States Should’ve been over sooner, but oh well

Shootout Round 4 Natalie Spooner stopped. 1-1. Alex Carpenter stopped. 1-1. Shootout Round 5 Sarah Nurse stopped. 1-1. Amanda Kessel stopped. 1-1. Shootout Round 6 Marie Philip Poulin stopped. 1-1. Hillary Knight stopped. 1-1. Shootout Round 7 Brianne Jenner stopped. 1-1. Taylor Heise stopped. 1-1. Shootout Round 8 Sarah Fillier stopped. 1-1. Hannah Bilka stopped. 1-1.

Shootout Round 1 Brianne Jenner scores. 1-0. Hillary Knight scores. 1-1. Shootout Round 2 Sarah Fillier stopped. 1-1. Carolyn Harvey stopped. 1-1. Shootout Round 3 Marie Philip Poulin stopped. 1-1. Taylor Heise stopped. 1-1.

Scoreless OT, off to a shootout.

Knight to Kessel for the goal… with three seconds left on the clock. United States and Canada tied at 3-3. Looks like this one is headed to OT.

Hillary Knight scores, now a one goal lead for Canada over United States with just over a minute left in the game. Terrible call by the refs, that was very clearly offside but whatever And this isn’t the first time too, a Canadian goal was disallowed at 4-1 for “Goaltender Interference”

GOALLLL Laura Stacey 3-1 Canada over United States with a couple of minutes left in the 3rd period.

I watched all four medal matches, so that’s probably why I was so quick Xue/Xia were really impressive. 26/37 on sideout in the final, against one of the best teams in the world in Barbora/Carol. The French have really been surprising me lately. Remi/Lyneel making the QFs at the La Paz Challenge, Krou/Gauthier Rat winning gold at the Torquay Elite16 (Weaker field then normal, but still) and silver at the Ipanema Challenge. And on the women’s side you have Placette/Richard, who took 9th at the Tepic Elite16 and 5th at the La Paz Challenge. Don’t think any of them will medal come Paris, but anything can happen. Also, really great to see Alison and Ludwig back on tour. Hopefully they can make a good run towards Paris 2024 qualification with their partners.

Happy Easter everyone

So, I’m looking at the teams list, and just seeing how weak the field is Realistically, there’s only five contenders for medals, Scotland, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, United States. Maybe Estonia/Germany could surprise on the week. Sweden/Norway would be up there too, but the teams they are sending Rønning/Bræden instead of Skaslien/Nedregotten, Westman/Ahlberg instead of De Val/Errikson, Wrana/Wrana, or Edin/Hasselborg. The Italian team of Constantini/Arman isn’t a bad pairing, but in my opinion Constantini/Mosaner would have stronger medal chances.

2023 Japan National Championships- Tokyo, Japan April 4- April 9, 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women’s 200m Backstroke Rio Shirai Women’s 100m Butterfly Rikako Ikee Ai Soma Women’s 200m Butterfly Airi Mitsui Hiroko Makino Women’s 100m Breastroke Reona Aoki Women’s 200m Breastroke Runa Imai Women’s 200m Individual Medley Mio Narita Yui Ohashi Shiho Yamamoto Women’s 400m Individual Medley Mio Narita Ageha Tanigawa Men’s 100m Freestyle Katsuhiro Matsumoto Men’s 200m Freestyle Katsuhiro Matsumoto Men’s 100m Backstroke Ryosuke Irie Men’s 200m Backstroke Hidekazu Takehara Daiki Yangawa Kodai Nishiono Men’s 100m Butterfly Katsuhiro Matsumoto Naoki Mizunuma Takaya Yasue Men’s 200m Butterfly Tomoru Honda Teppei Morimoto Takumi Terada Men’s 200m Breastroke Ippei Watanabe Shoma Sato Yu Hanaguruma Yamato Fukasawa Men’s 200m Individual Medley Daiya Seto So Ogata Men’s 400m Individual Medley Daiya Seto Tomoru Honda Kaito Tabuchi

Frances Tiafoe is the men’s singles champion at the 2023 Houston Open (ATP 250), defeating Tomás Martin Etcheverry in two tiebreak sets 7-6 (1), 7-6 (6)

Jordan Thompson/Max Purcell are the men’s doubles champions at the 2023 Houston Open (ATP 250), defeating Henry Patten/Julian Cash 4-6, 6-4, [10-5]

Another race walker angry with World Athletics decision

Sander Gillé/Jordan Vliegen are the men’s doubles champions at the 2023 Estoril Open (ATP 250), defeating Nikola Ćaćić/Miomir Kecmanović 6-3, 6-4

This is also Ruud’s 9th career clay court title. His other clay court titles include the Argentina Open in 2020/2022, the Geneva Open in 2021/2022, the Swedish Open in 2021, the Swiss Open in 2021/2022 and the Austrian Open in 2021. His only non-clay title was at the San Diego Open (hardcourt) in 2021.