Josh

Here’s my article on the change for those interested: https://medium.com/@Olympian1010/artistic-swimming-confirms-its-newest-innovation-for-paris-2024-men-699f669853dd

Great championship for Canada. Even on our men's side we are starting to get some depth, Ilya Kharun may be a person to watch.
 
Now if only we can get some progress in breaststroke. The women's side is getting better, but on the men's side it was backstroke specialist Javier Acevedo who did the breaststroke leg during the relay final.

Another gold for  Le Clos! and unexpected silver for the youngster  Kharun!

What a swim from  Hwang!

My word, what a split by Chalmers

Canada won 14 medals here...1 less than 2021, which is remarkable as Australia did not compete last year. Canada was also missing its best male and female athlete here.

Interesting story about Kharun
 
He was initially going to represent at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, but it turned out he wasn't a US citizen and was actually born in . Unsurprisingly, Canada was quick to scoop him up. Hopefully he stays with us.

Another 4th place for Abigail Strate

First Paralympic quotas have been awarded in Goalball! Gold and silver medalists at the 2022 World Goalball Championships book their NOC a ticket to the 2024 Paralympics. 
 
Women’s Tournament: South Korea  and Turkey  earn 2024 Paralympics quotas
 
Men’s Tournament: Brazil  and China  earn 2024 Paralympics quotas 

the usual parallel farce...those on the blue course have all the advantage (slope and track design) on the last 5 gates...
 
it takes a miracle (or a big mistake by the opponent) to win on the red course 

Stage 4 in Edmonton (CAN)
 
Men´s Big Air:
 
1. Valentino Guseli    172.50
2. Chris Corning    172.00
3. Nicolas Laframboise    168.00
 
Full Final Result HERE

If I could get any ticket I want and if I could be able to spend the whole olympics in Paris my very early plan would look sth like that
(VERY EARLY DRAFT, PART ONE, FIRST FEW DAYS)
 
Wed 24.7
 
RUGBY SEVENS - Men's Pool Rd
 
Thu 25.7
 
RUGBY SEVENS - Men's Pool Rd and QFs / (HANDBALL - Women's Tournament if POL qualifies, chances are 7-12 % imho)
 
Fri 26.7
 
OPENING CEREMONY
 
Sat 27.7
 
CYCLING ROAD - M and W Time Trials
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
Sun 28.7
 
EQUESTRIAN - Eventing Cross Country
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
Mon 29.7
 
CANOE SLALOM - M C1 SF and F
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
Tue 30.7
 
TRIATHLON - M
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
In the meantime, if it's possible - VOLLEYBALL (if Men's POL team is playing against strong opponent, chances to qualify >95%),
if not - BASKETBALL USA Game if they are playing
if not - TENNIS
 
Wed 31.7
 
ROWING
TENNIS or BEACH VOLLEYBALL
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
Thu 1.8
 
ROWING
GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC - W Ind All-Around Final
 
In the meantime - if it's possible - TENNIS or BEACH VOLLEYBALL
 
Fri 2.8
 
ROWING
SWIMMING - Finals and SF
 
In the meantime - if it's possible - TENNIS or BEACH VOLLEYBALL
 
 
TBC...
 
:-)
 
of course, this is my wish list, not at all possible, but one can dream...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Badminton BWF HSBC World Tour Finals 2022  
Bangkok (THA) - 7 December 2022 - 11 December 2022  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Rosannagh MacLennan, b2b Olympic champion in trampoline gymnastics in 2012 and 2016 (and 7th in 2008 and 4th in 2020) has officially retired.

Based on this: http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-23PANA01&page=overall_open_team_classification
 
It looks like and  have each earned 4 quotas in water skiing

Nordic Combined says hello 

Yeah, she is only 21 so actually still very young. Hopefully finances won't force her to seek full-time job after the next Olympics. I imagine ski jumping is still dead last in winter sports funding in Canada. Loutitt also has a lot of promise but she's still recovering from off-season ankle injury IIRC.

Strate is def the most promising talent Canadian ski jumping has produced in a while.

4th place for Abigail Strate This is one sport where taking 4th place should be considered a huge success.
 
It's not their best ever in women's ski jumping since Taylor Henrich had two podiums in 2015 before

Tokyo Grand Slam
 
last Grand Slam tournament of the season, before the closing Masters in a couple of weeks.
 
and, as expected, it was a true Japanese fest, with the hosts leaving the guest Nations only 2 out of 14 Gold medals (a very few silver and bronze medals, too).
 
the 2 "heroes" of the weekend are  Jeon Seungbeom in the men's -60kg and  Gennaro Pirelli in the men's 100kg (this is the first ever gold medal for an Italian Judo player in a top-tier tournament held in Japan  ).
 
in all the remaining weight classes, the home boys and girls didn't make any prisoner and just destroyed the rivals who made the trip (we have to admit that many Countries decided top send only a few athletes to Japan if not skipping the event entirely).
 
here you can find the Results Recap
 
https://www.ijf.org/competition/2315/results

It's surely a mistake. Just use the FINA rankings and/or the Nuoto Mondiale annual rankings which capture some fast swims from national meets that FINA misses.

Grondin takes home bronze at the first snowboard cross World Cup stop of the season, in France. 

For  I would say:
 
1. Swimming- Women’s 400IM (Summer McIntosh)
2. Breaking- BBoys (Phil Wizard)
3. Basketball- Women’s 3X3
4. Boxing- Tammara Thibeault (75kg)
5. Swimming- Women’s 400m Freestyle (Summer McIntosh)
 
Eleanor Harvey is another one of the gold medal contenders, but with Lee Kiefer and Alice Volpi contending, not too sure she’s as big of a favorite as them. 
 
Edit: Men’s Decathlon is a special mention, with LePage just winning silver at this years World Athletics Championship, but then of course we also have the 2020 Olympic Champion Damian Warner. I’m just wondering since he was injured how will he recover from it, and so that is why I’m predicting Kevin Mayer to win gold. Plus, home crowd helps. 

Swimming- Women’s 200m Breastroke (Tatjana Schoenmaker)
 

Summary of first choices
 
Swimming - Women's 400m Individual Medley
Badminton - Men's Singles
Cycling Mountain Bike - Men's Cross-country
Rowing - Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
Athletics - Men's Hammer Throw
Athletics - Men's Pole Vault