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Gold for Antonia/Georgia Lewin-Lafrance at the 49erFX European Championships!

22.80 season opener for Audrey Leduc in the women’s 200m at the Racers Grand Prix Duan Asemota also with a solid 10.14 at the Internazionale Citta di Lucca!

Update of recent results from non DL competitions: 13 year old Camryn Dailey with a 51.67 in the women’s 400m at the Brooks PR Invitational (obviously a U13 WR) 9.88 for Kishane Thompson in the men’s 100m at the Racers Grand Prix 75.14m for Jiale Zhang in the women’s hammer throw at the International Hammer Meeting, for a new U20 WR (previous was by Kosonen who threw 73.43 in 2021) Juan Miguel Echevarria continues on his comeback, with another 8.24m result at the Memorial Carlos Gil

14:47.83 for Gabriela DeBues-Stafford in the women’s 5000m at the Fast 5000, surpassing the Tokyo entry standard!

Qualifiers after Day 1 Priority 1: Finish in the top 2 and achieve the AQUA A-standard in the event. Mary-Sophie Harvey (W 200m Breaststroke) Sophie Angus (W 200m Breaststroke) Kylie Masse (W 100m Backstroke) Taylor Ruck (W 100m Backstroke) Summer McIntosh (W 400m Freestyle) Ella Jansen (W 400m Freestyle) Priority 2: Finish in the top 4 in the 100m and 200m freestyle events to compete in the relays. Priority 3: Winner but no Aqua-A standard, must meet Swimming Canada secondary standard Oliver Dawson (M 200m Breaststroke) Ethan Ekk (M 400m Freestyle) Priority 4: Winners of the 100m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly to compete in the relays. Cole Pratt (M 4x100m Medley Relay) Priority 5: Discretionary picks Total: 6 W / 3 M = 9

Absolutely DEMOLISHES Titmus’ WR by over a second

WORLD RECORD! 3:54.18 for Summer McIntosh in the women’s 400m freestyle!

58.18 for Kylie Masse in the women’s 100m backstroke 58.93 for Taylor Ruck, both under the standard and both phenomenal times for them (first time under 59 for Ruck since 2019)

Probably just waiting on MSH Angus only has up to 3 events.

Guezen and Thokbuom are gonna be part of Canada’s core in the future, super impressed with them

Service error then an ace to finish off the set

Christopher Morales-Williams with a new SB of 45.02 in the men’s 400m at the Palio Citta della Quercia meeting!

Wyatt Lee with a new Canadian U18 NR of 10.38 in the men’s 100m at the OFSAA Championships!

Women’s U20 team defeats United States for the first time since 2008 to advance to the final of the CONCACAF U20 Women’s Championship!

Significantly less than usual lately, feeling a lot of sports fatigue (even though I love watching it anyways) No US Swim Championships (isn’t streaming for Canadians) or other VNL matches (can’t find the vk/Bibilli sites I streamed the non-Canadian matches on before) Might also watch men’s VNL, but our roster is so pathetic. Today (June 6) 5:00 PM: NHL SCF Game 2 - Panthers v. Oilers Saturday (June 7) 6:00 AM: RG Women’s Final - Gauff v. Sabalenka 1:00 PM: Women’s VNL - Canada v. Japan 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 1 Finals Sunday (June 8) 6:00 AM: RG Men’s Final - Sinner v. Alcaraz 3:00 PM: Women’s VNL - Canada v. Serbia 5:00 PM: NBA Finals Game 2 - Pacers v. OKC 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 2 Finals Monday (June 9) 8:45 AM: WA Continental Tour Hengelo 5:00 PM: NHL SCF Game 3 - Panthers v. Oilers 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 3 Finals Tuesday (June 10) 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 4 Finals Wednesday (June 11) 5:30 PM: NBA Finals Game 3 - Pacers v. OKC 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 5 Finals Thursday (June 12) 5:00 PM: NHL SCF Game 4 - Panthers v. Oilers 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 6 Finals Friday (June 13) 5:30 PM: NBA Finals Game 4 - Pacers v. OKC 5:30 PM: Canadian Swim Trials - Day 7 Finals

Ostrava Elite 16 Women’s Tournament Gold- Thamela Coradello/Victoria Lopes Silver- Anastasija Samoilova/Tina Graudina Bronze- Anouk Vergé-Dépré/Zoe Vergé-Dépré Dorina Klinger/Ronja Klinger with their best ever Elite 16 finish in 4th Men’s Tournament Gold- David Åhman/Jonathan Hellvig Silver- Anders Mol/Christian Sørum Bronze- Ondrej Perusic/David Schweiner Surprise QF finish for the Sagstetter’s Full Results

Having had some time to reflect from that… one of our worst VNL showings in a while, there’s a lot of things that went wrong. - Serve receive was abhorrent, which led to a lot of out of system swings from the outside (barely any points scored from the middle) - Struggled a lot with short balls and and they almost always led to kills - Got cooked by the Netherlands in blocks, but barely any of them were stuff blocks. - 6-9 disadvantage from the service line, but the Netherlands were getting some of the luckiest aces. And on top of that we let Vos and Van De Vosse score 20 and 14. WTF? On the positive side, Mitrovic had a much better game and Guenzen made a positive impact but other than that.. (Van Ryk was meh, but she can’t do it all)

@hoversaBR I noticed Gabi isn’t playing, is she injured?

This’ll be a long VNL

was always going to be a tossup and are 9-23 since 2023 I’d say were the favourites (especially with Herbots back)

Canada open Women’s VNL with a win, defeating Bulgaria in 5! Just an FYI for anyone wondering, the commentators mentioned on the stream that Gray is taking a break for the summer, she’s thankfully not injured.

avoid disaster from 2-0 up and win their opening match over at VNL, finishing it off with a 15-4 drubbing in the 5th set Johnson with 8 points during that 5th set, she had a rocket of an arm and was just unstoppable. Don’t believe she made a single error either. Van Ryk doing her job in the absence of Gray with 26 points Thokbuom with a debut to remember, incredibly impressed with her performance today. Definitely will be keeping an eye on her in the future.

I think that’s Sclater in the crowd I’ve missed that guy, can’t wait to see him playing NT volleyball again soon

Commentators mentioned Alexa Gray is resting this summer, not injured. Phew.

Played much better at the end, but generally a really sloppy set for - going 5.