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FIVB Futures Qidong, China Men's Tournament Gold- Yanwei Wang/Jie Li Silver- Thomas Reid/John McManaway Bronze- Yusuke Gottsu/Takumi Takahashi Women's Tournament Gold- Xu Yan/Mingli Zhou Silver- Xinxin Wang/Lingdi Zhu Bronze- Elizabeth Alchin/Kayla Mears Tournament Results Here

FIVB Futures Bujumbura, Burundi Women's Tournament Gold- Liliana Fernandez Steiner/Paula Soria Gutierrez Silver- Eva Freiberger/Stephanie Wiesmeyr Bronze- Janne Uhl/Paula Schurholz Men's Tournament Gold- Richard Peemuller/Tilo Rietschel Silver- Kevin Cuzmiciov/River Day Bronze- Juan Enrique Bello/Josue Stephen Seekings Lucchesi Rocha Tournament Results Here

So I did this back in June, and since a lot has changed since then, I'll do an updated prediction for This is an extremely unrealistic prediction, and I expect our total to be much lower than this Archery (1-4) - Eric Peters, with his surprise silver medal at the 2023 World Archery Championships, has already secured us a quota in men's recurve. Crispin Duenas, and Kristen Esebua should be in contention for individual quotas at the Pan Am Games (depending on the draw), and our men's team (QFs at the Paris WC) should have a chance at the Pan Am Qualification Tournament next year. Artistic Swimming (8-10) - As we're no longer the top nation in the Pan American region, don't think we'll qualify either a team or duet through the Pan Am Games. However, I do think we'll be able to secure a team quota at the 2024 World Aquatic Championships, but just barely. Athletics (52) - As always, we should field between 50-60 athletes. Men's 100m - Brendon Rodney, Andre DeGrasse, Aaron Brown Men's 200m - Brendon Rodney, Andre DeGrasse, Aaron Brown Men's 4x100m - Brendon Rodney, Andre DeGrasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Bojale Ajomale (heats only) Men's 800m - Marco Arop, Brandon McBride Men's 1500m - Charles Philibert-Thiboutot, Kieran Lumb, Cameron Proceviat Men's 5000m - Mo Ahmed, Justyn Knight Men's 10000m - Mo Ahmed Men's 110m Hurdles - Craig Thorne Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Jean Simon Desgagnes, Matthew Hughes Men's 20km Race Walk - Evan Dunfee Decathlon - Pierce LePage, Damian Warner Men's Marathon - Cam Levins, Trevor Hofbauer, Ben Priesner Men's Hammer Throw - Rowan Hamilton, Adam Keenan, Ethan Katzberg Men's High Jump - Django Lovett (although if he continues his bad stretch of form, he'll be out of contention for a WA ranking quota ) Women's 100m - Khamica Bingham Women's 400m - Sage Watson, Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald (if still competing), Women's 800m - Jazz Shukla, Madeline Kelly, Lindsay Butterworth Women's 1500m - Lucia Stafford, Gabriella De Bues Stafford Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Celi McCabe, Regan Yee Women's 100m Hurdles - Michelle Harrison, Mariam Abdul Rashid Women's 400m Hurdles - Savannah Sutherland, Brooke Overholt Women's Shot Put - Sarah Mitton Women's Pole Vault - Alysha Newman, Anicka Newell Women's Hammer Throw - Camryn Rogers, Jillian Weir Women's Javelin Throw - Liz Gleadle (don't know why she hasn't competed this season, maybe injured??) Women's Marathon - Natasha Wodak, Leslie Sexton, Malindi Elmore Women's 4x400m - Kyra Constantine, Sage Watson, Aiyanna Stiverne, Natassha McDonald, and a couple of Madeline Price, Micha Powell, and Alicia Brown (heats only) No athletes in women's long jump, Christabel Nettey hasn't been having the greatest last few years. I have no clue on if we'd qualify in the mixed-team race walk event but probably not. Badminton (4-8) - Michelle Li, and Brian Yang in women's and men's singles. Honderich/Tsai in women's doubles, and one of Dong/Yakura and Lindeman/Wu in men's doubles and mixed doubles. Basketball (28) - Men's 5x5 team already qualified through the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Women's 5x5 team should qualify through the OQT, and so should our women's 3x3 team. Beach Volleyball (4-6) - Mel/Brandie are almost a lock to qualify. For the second quota, it'll almost certainly be between Pavan/McBain and Bansley/Bukovec, but since both teams formed late in the qualifying period, don't see either one booking their ticket to Paris 2024 through the Olympic Ranking, but rather the NORCECA Olympic Qualifier, where they should steamroll through the field (assuming all their wins will be in straight sets, given the opponents). As for our men, Schacter/Dearing have a chance at qualification, but with the Cubans (Diaz/Alayo) and the Mexicans (don't know the pairings situation, but they should be in the mix) also expected to be there, it's far from a guarantee. Boxing (5) - Wyatt Sanford in men's 63.5kg, Tammara Thibeault in women's 75kg, Charlie Cavanaugh in women's 66kg, Caroline Veyre in women's 57kg, Scarlett Delgado in women's 54kg. Breaking (1-2) - Phillip Kim will probably qualify through the 2023 Breaking World Championships or the Pan Am Games. If not, he'll qualify through the OQS. Maybe Tiff Leung can as well. Frankly, I don't care though. Canoe Sprint/Slalom (14) - At the 2023 Canoe Sprint World Championships we qualified boats in women's K-1 500m, women's K-4 500m, women's C-1 200m, women's C-2 500m, and men's K-4 500m. Katie Vincent - Women's C-1 200m / C-2 500m Sophia Jensen - Women's C-1 200m / C-2 500m Michelle Russell - Women's K-1 500m Tosha Behak Hrebacka - Women's K-2 500m / K-4 500m Adreanne Langlois - Women’s K-2 500m / K-4 500m Riley Melanson - Women’s K-4 500m Natalie Davidson - Women’s K-4 500m Nicholas Mateev - Men’s K-4 500m, Men’s K-2 500m Simon McTavish - Men’s K-4 500m, Men’s K-2 500m Pierre-Luc Poulin - Men’s K-4 500m Laurent Lavigne - Men’s K-4 500m Connor Fitzpatrick - Men’s C-1 1000m, Men's C-2 500m Roland Varga - Men’s C-1 1000m, Men's C-2 500m And 1-2 athletes out of Alex Baldoni (men's C1/K1/KX), Lois Betteridge (women's C1/K1), Lea Baldoni (women's K1), and Florence Mathieu (women's K1) in canoe slalom. Cycling (25) - Track Kelsey Mitchell - Women's Sprint, Women's Keirin, Women's Team Sprint Lauriane Genest - Women's Sprint, Women's Keirin, Women's Team Sprint Sarah Orban - Women's Team Sprint Allison Beveridge - Women's Omnium Sarah Van Dam - Women's Madison Women's Team Pursuit Nick Wammes - Men's Sprint, Men's Keirin, Men's Team Sprint Ryan Dodyk - Men's Sprint, Men's Team Sprint James Hedgcock - Men's Keirin, Men's Team Sprint Dylan Bibic- Men’s Omnium, Men’s Madison Mathias Guillemette- Men’s Madison Men's Team Pursuit Road Leah Kirchmann - Women's Road Race Alison Jackson - Women's Road Race, Women's Time Trial Hugo Houle - Men's Road Race, Men's Time Trial Michael Woods - Men's Road Race, Men's Time Trial Tough choice choosing Woods over Derek Gee. Mountain Biking Laurie Arsenault - Women's Cross Country Carter Woods - Men's Cross Country BMX Racing Molly Simpson - Women's Race Diving (8) - Bryden Hattie - Men's 3m Springboard Rylan Wiens - Men's 10m Platform, Men's Synchro 10m Platform (Already secured an individual quota at the 2023 FINA World Championships) Nathan Zsombor Murray - Men's 10m Platform, Men's Synchro 10m Platform Mia Valee- Women’s 3m Springboard, Women’s 3m Synchronized Springboard Pamela Ware- Women’s 3m Springboard, Women’s 3m Synchronized Springboard (Already secured an individual quota at the 2023 FINA World Championships) Celina Toth - Women's 10m Platform Kate Miller (Melissa Citrini, if she hasn't retired yet) - Women's 10m Synchro Platform Caeli McKay - Women’s 10m Platform, Women’s 10m Synchronized Platform (Already secured an individual quota at the 2023 FINA World Championships) No Margo Erlam. Equestrian (9) - Assuming our dressage team got the funding needed to compete at Pan-Ams, we should qualify a full team of 9 athletes. Don't feel educated enough to predict which athletes would make the team. Fencing (14) - Jessica Guo - Women's Foil, Women's Team Foil Eleanor Harvey - Women's Foil, Women's Team Foil Sabrina Fang - Women's Foil, Women's Team Foil Ruixen Zhao - Women's Epee Pamela Brind'Amour - Women's Sabre Maximilien Van Haaster - Men’s Foil, Men’s Team Foil Blake Brozus - Men’s Foil, Men’s Team Foil Eli Schenkel - Men’s Foil, Men’s Team Foil Nicholas Zhang - Men's Epee, Men's Team Epee Dylan French - Men's Epee, Men's Team Epee Marc Antoine Blais Belanger - Men's Epee, Men's Team Epee Shaul Gordon - Men's Sabre, Men's Team Sabre Fares Arfa - Men's Sabre, Men's Team Sabre Francois Cachon - Men's Sabre, Men's Team Sabre Alexanne Verret won bronze at a 2023 WC stop, confused on how low she is in the OQR... Don't know if Gabriella Page has retired, can't seem to find her in the rankings. Field Hockey (0) - Both our men's and women's teams have been on a decline, don't see either qualifying. Football (18) - Men's team missed their only chance at qualification last year. Women's team has a playoff against Jamaica on Sep 22 and Sep 26, to decide if they'll qualify for Paris. With Jamaica's dream run at the 2023 FIFA World Cup, and Canada's lackluster performance (failing to make it out of the group stage yet again), I'm not as confident as I was a couple of months ago. Still think they can do it though. Golf (4) - Brooke Henderson and Maude Aimee Leblanc in the women's event, Corey Conners and Adam Svensson in the men's event. Gymnastics (13) - Women's team already qualified at the 2022 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Artistic Women’s Team - Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, Emma Spence, Sydney Turner, and either Laurie Denoumee or Brooklyn Moors Men's Team - Men’s Team - Felix Dolci, William Emard, Rene Cournoyer, Chris Kaji, Jayon Rampersad Trampoline Sophiane Methot - Women's Event Sarah Milette - Women's Event Jermey Chartier or Remy Aubin - Men's Event Judo (7) - Kelly Deguchi - Women's -52kg, Team Event Christa Deguchi - Women's -57kg, Team Event Catherine Beauchemin Pinard - Women's -63kg, Team Event Arthur Margelidon - Men's -71kg, Team Event Francois Gauther-Drapeau - Men's -81kg, Team Event Kyle Reyes - Men's -100kg, Team Event Coralie Godbout - Team Event Notably, Jessica Klimkait and Shady El Nahas miss out. Rowing (20-24) - Women's eight, and women's lightweight double sculls have already qualified through the 2023 Rowing World Championships. But our performance there was otherwise pathetic, so I'd be surprised if we qualify more than 3 boats at the Final Qualification Regatta. Sailing (8) - Sarah Douglas already qualified Canada in laser radial through the 2023 Sailing World Championships. Sarah Douglas - Women’s Dinghy Georgia Lewin-Lafrance/Antonia Lewin-Lafrance- Women’s Skiff Fillah Karim - Men’s Dinghy Arie Moffat/Ryan Woods - Men’s Skiff Nataliya Leshko - Women’s Kite Tom Ramshaw - Men’s Dinghy Rugby Sevens (13) - Women's team qualified through the 2023 Ran Sevens Olympic Qualifier. Men's team lost to United States in the final, which pretty much ends their chances. Don't see them beating one (or two) of Great Britain and Spain at the Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Shooting (1-3) - One or more of Madeline Boyd (women's skeet), Jason Caswell (men's skeet), Madelene Scola (women's trap), Lydia Kiejko (women's 10m air pistol/25m pistol), and Greg Sych (men's 50m rifle prone/50m rifle 3 positions). Skateboarding (4-5) - Don't think many of my fellow Canadians know who Cordano Russell is, but he's an up-and-coming talent in men's street, right in the mix for a quota. Ryan Decenzo should also qualify (would be his first Olympics), with the final spot going down to Matt Berger or Micky Papa. 14 yo. (!!) Fay Ebert is also currently in a quota position in women's park. Maybe Samantha Secours in women's street as well? Sport Climbing (0-1) - Maybe Sean McColl in men's combined. Surfing (2-3) - Erin Brooks, one of the Olin sisters, and potentially Cody Young. Swimming (30) - Men (12) Lorne Wigginton - 400m IM James Dergousoff - 100m Breastroke Finlay Knox - 200m IM Josh Liendo - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly Ruslan Gasiev - 100m Freestyle Ilya Kharun - 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly Javier Acevado - 100m Backstroke Gabe Mastromatteo - 100m Breastroke 4x100m Freestyle Relay 4x100m Medley Relay Women (18) Kylie Masse - 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke Maggie MacNeil - 100m Butterfly Penny Oleksiak - 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle Summer McIntosh - 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Butterfly Katerine Savard - 100m Butterfly Kelsey Wog - 100m Breastroke, 200m Breastroke Taylor Ruck - 100m Freestyle, 200m Backstroke Ingrid Wilm - 100m Backstroke Tessa Cieplucha - 400m IM Ella Jansen - 400m Freestyle Sydney Pickrem - 200m Breastroke, 200m IM Alexanne LePage - 100m Breastroke 4x100m Freestyle Relay 4x200m Freestyle Relay 4x100m Medley Relay One or two in the women's distance freestyles (800m/1500m) out of O'Cronin, Finlin, Bellio, and Dunford. Additional Relay Athletes: Rebecca Smith, Rachel Nicol, Yuri Kisil, Markus Thornmeyer, Jeremy Bagshaw, Stephen Calkins, Mary Sophie Harvey, Sophie Angus Table Tennis (2) - Eugene Wang in men’s singles, and Mo Zhang in women’s singles. Taekwondo (3) - Skylar Park - Women's -57kg (Through Olympic Rankings) Nicolas Hoefling - Men's -58kg (Through Americas Qualification Tournament) Along with one of Ashley Kraayeveld (women’s -67kg), or Vivian Tranquile through the Americas Qualification Tournament Tennis (9) - Milos Raonic - Men's Singles Felix Auger Aliassime - Men's Singles, Mixed Doubles Denis Shapovalov - Men's Singles, Men's Doubles Vasek Pospisil - Men's Doubles Leylah Fernandez - Women's Singles, Mixed Doubles Rebecca Marino - Women's Singles Bianca Andresscu - Women's Singles Gabriela Dabrowski - Women's Doubles Sharon Fichman - Women's Doubles (Assuming she's still injured, and hasn't secretly retired yet) Triathlon (4) - Dominka Jamnicky - Women’s Event, Team Event Emy Legault - Women’s Event, Team Event Tyler Mislawchuk - Men's Event, Team Event Charles Paquet - Men's Event, Team Event Waterpolo (12-24) - Think our women's team will beat Greece in a placement game for the final quota at the 2024 FINA World Championships. Stupid US not doing us any favors four years undefeated in international competition, only to be have that streak end at the 2023 FINA World Championships (Which also happened to be an Olympic Qualifier) and now we won't be able to qualify at the Pan Am Games. Men's team also has a chance, but if they can't do it at Pan Ams (where US will likely be their only opposition), then they likely won't qualify. Weightlifting (2-3) - Maude Charron should qualify in women's 59kg, and potentially one (or two) of Maya Laylor in women's 81kg and Boady Santavy in men's 96kg? Wrestling (6) - Madison Parks - Women's 50kg Karla Godinez - Women's 53kg Ana Godinez - Women's 62kg Linda Morais - Women's 68kg Justina Di Stasio - Women's 76kg Amar Dhesi - Men's 125kg Notably, Di Bacco, Wiecker, Stewart all miss out, due to the one quota limit per NOC. Volleyball (0-26) As much as I would love both volleyball teams to be at Paris, don't see either of them qualifying, as both are right on the cusp. As for rhythmic gymnastics, modern pentathlon and handball Total Sports: 35-36 Optimistic Total Athletes: 388 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 331 Realistic Total Athletes: 350

Will Canada field a team in dressage @intoronto, or have they (the athletes and Equestrian Canada) still not raised enough funds to send horses/riders/coaches/grooms to Santiago?

Tokyo 2020 multi-Olympic medalist (gold medalist in women's time trial, and silver medalist in women's road race), and 4x World Champion Annemiek Van Vleuten has retired, with yesterday's Simac Ladies Tour being her final race.

@OlympicIRL Glad you're doing well!

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Czech TV is live-streaming the entire event for free, for anyone wanting to watch. Don't know which countries (if any) would have it geo-blocked, but it works fine in Canada. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/15811053524-me-ve-volejbalu-muzu-2023/

Wouldn't count out Canada in women's eights, even though they've underperformed here.

Canada lost 3-0 (25-20, 25-14, 25-22) to United States in the gold medal match United States was without TJ Defalco.

Not to mention the pathetic amount of boats/athletes (2 and 10 respectively) qualified for Paris, and a missed chance at the Continental Qualifiers, where Trevor Jones would have most likely secured a quota in men's single sculls. Only positive was Moffat/Casson in women's double sculls, who finished fourth. At the Final Qualification Regatta, I'm hoping we can qualify another 3-6 boats, but it's looking quite unlikely at the moment.

Is it just me, or are the scheduled streams from Wednesday to Friday not showing up on Olympics.com?

Emily Stockman and Janis Smedins have both retired from professional beach volleyball, following the conclusion of King & Queen of The Court Rotterdam

Retired. https://olympic.ca/2023/09/07/justina-di-stasio-and-ana-godinez-gonzalez-on-why-wrestling-is-for-everyone-and-making-each-other-better/

Team Women's Freestyle Madison Parks - 50kg Samantha Stewart - 53kg Karla Godinez - 55kg Hannah Taylor - 57kg Laurence Beauregard - 59kg Ana Godinez - 62kg Aleah Nickel - 65kg Olivia Di Bacco - 68kg Shauna Kuebeck - 72kg Justina Di Stasio - 76kg Men's Freestyle Treye Trotman - 57kg Nick Lattanze - 61kg Lachlan McNeil - 65kg Mike Asselstine - 70kg Adam Thomson - 74kg Alex Moore - 86kg Tejvir Boal - 92kg Nishan Randhawa - 97kg Notably, Wiecker (lost at trials), Morais (also lost at trials), and Dhesi (didn't compete this year, i'm assuming due to injury) failed to make the team. Hoping for 3-5 quotas (W62, W68, W76, and maybe one or two of W50/W53?) in women's freestyle. Maybe my expectations are too low/high though. For our men, best chance would be McNeil, but unlikely.

Well technically yes, but Italy is so far behind the rest of the field, that anything other than a 6th would've been a massive surprise. Also, as @Rafa Maciel said, if Canada failed to qualify a boat here, we would be eligible for the Continental Qualifiers (and likely two extra quotas).

Pretty disappointing 5th for our women's eights at the World Rowing Championships, but at least they qualified for Paris 2024. We sadly won't be eligible for Continental Qualifiers now.

5th for Canada in women's eights. Worst possible outcome.

Rowing Canada fucked up... badly For context, Michelle Darvill led our women's eight squad to gold at Tokyo 2020, then Rowing Canada ended up firing her the very next day. She's now with the Dutch national team, who won 9 medals (1 gold, 7 silver, 1 bronze) in Olympic events at last year's World Championships, and 6 medals (5 golds, 1 silver, and counting) at this year's World Championships. Ever since her departure, Canadian rowing has been at an all-time low (with the exception of the women's eights)

Upcoming Direct Canadian Olympic Qualifiers Table Tennis Pan American Championships (September 10-17) Women's Volleyball Olympic Qualifiers (September 16-24) Wrestling World Championships (September 16-24) Canoe Slalom World Championships (September 19-24) Breaking World Championships (September 22-24) (Quotas Allocated By Name) Women's Football Olympic Qualifier Playoff (September 22 and September 26) Artistic Gymnastics World Championships (September 30- October 8) Men's Volleyball Olympic Qualifiers (September 30- October 8) Beach Volleyball World Championships (October 6-15) (According to Volleyball Canada, quotas will be allocated by name) Canadian Marathon Championships (aka. the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Oct 15) (Quotas allocated by name) Pan Am Games (October 20- November 5) Also, on October 17th, the final UCI Road Cycling Rankings for Paris will be published.

Canada wins bronze with a 127-119 OT victory over United States! First-ever medal for Canada at the FIBA Men's World Cup

Canada escapes incoming 4th by nine points

WE'VE FCKING DONE IT! A HISTORIC FIRST-EVER FIBA MEN'S WORLD CUP MEDAL FOR CANADA

58-56 Canada over United States at half-time. Dillon Brooks with 21 points and 11 assists.

Canada lead United States 34-25 after the first quarter of the bronze medal match