Josh

2023 CEV Beach Volleyball Championships
 
Women's Semi-Finals
Hüberli/Brunner  v. Ludwig/Lippmann  
Alvarez/Moreno  v. Mäder/Vergé-Depré

2023 CEV Beach Volleyball Championships
 
Quarter Finals
 
  Ahman/Hellvig  v    Ehlers/Wickler
 
  Bello/Bello  v     Popv/Reznik
 
  Immers/Van de Velde   v     Cottafava / Nicolai
 
  Mol / Sorum   v      Luini / de Groot

6 in boulder, 8 in lead
 
so far, the top 3 I think are safe into the final, then it's an open fight between Uznik and Ondra (among those who have already completed their effort) and those who can still get 3 tops
Jenft I fear won't be able to keep his current 6th place

Everything outside Europe or South-America is fine. I think it is also on Discovery+.
 
As track cycling made me feel Canadian already, today I'm from Canada to watch these.

Men's Boulder semi-finals are being shown on the IFSC YouTube channel. It may be geo-blocked though. Set VPN to Japan and it seems to work.

I sometimes go bouldering in the Netherlands and it seems like new halls and competitions are emerging every week. And that's for a completely flat country. I feel like this sport is still growing very fast and great to spectate as well. One of the best additions to the Olympic programma in my opinion! Hopefully as 3 separate medal events in LA.

Friday morning, to make it even more impressive (even if this is the traditional holiday week in  following the Aug. 1st, National Day) 
 
however, the great  Adam Ondra on the verge of being eliminated 

otherwise it would take too much time, it's already an almost 2-hr event with 6 competitors

Men's Boulder, Finalists
 
 Sorato Anraku
 Mickael Mawem
 Kokoro Fujii
 Mejdi Schalck
 Lee Do Hyun
 Nikolai Uznik

Not Urban enough 

Bohdi Kuhn wins Canada's first medal, and it's not a bronze!!  
 
 

Miller and McKay also won silver!

Pam Ware and Mia Vallee win silver in women's 3m synchro springboard at the WC Super Final!

This is all pretty weird
 
Canada is selecting athletes who aren’t qualified (or close to qualifying)
 
GB aren’t selecting athletes who are qualified 

yes, Seb Coe recently said they can't do without their top stars, therefore a place for Olympic and World Champions will always be reserved through wild cards if necessary (as long as they don't steal a place from any teammate, of course)

Some welcome rule/competition format changes here (mostly for the better in my opinion).
 
 

Yeah, all the middle distance heats & SF will be run at funereal pace then before the usual mad dash with 200 meters to go

Laon Kim with a 50.39 in the 100 free! 
 
He is now 15, so is still a full second and a bit behind Liendo's age group record, but this is a huge PB (previously it was 51.05)

Peng Ming-Yang   clocks 48.62 seconds in winning the 400m hurdles final at the Summer Universiade in Chengdu. This qualifies him for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
 
https://pdf.2021chengdu.com/CHENGDU2021/ATH/PDF/CHENGDU2021~2023-08-04~2023-08-04~192459800~DT_PDF~C73A~ATHM400MHURD----------FNL-000100--~~~1~P~.pdf?random=0.6450831138189874

took a loss to  in women’s basketball. I know it’s not their top squad, but still quite shocking.

Can’t say I like the broadcast format for these Games. Instead of airing full sessions like six years ago, TV5MONDE is kind of just skipping around to different sports. It’s nice because you can see a little bit of everything, but they aren’t airing all the finals. For instance, they didn’t show any judo medal matches today, and they only showed one table tennis final. It’s a real bummer for me, since I actually quite like these Games and look forward to them 

Gold for David Popovici! The Canadian judoka of course 
 
Bio: https://jdf2023.microplustimingservices.com/#/athlete-details/9426

Salsabilla has knocked out Olympic medalist Furukawa
 
Makievi having no trouble dispatching Jean Charles Valladont
 
Vaneckova ranked 101th barely made the cut off but performed brilliantly to reach R32. 
 

Never thought I’d see the day a Korean archer shot a 3

What’s happening in Berlin? Kim Woo Jin shooting a 3 ?