Josh

Maggie MacNeil retires
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYneJxRyzi 

Kaylee back breaking WRs at random meets again. Okay maybe short court nationals isn't too random.
 
 

18 member squad announced for the Short Course Worlds.
 
Kharun and McIntosh feature. 
 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7333590
 

Gold for Nathan Clement in men’s T1 time trial and bronze for Charles Moreau in men’s H3 time trial at the Road Cycling World Championships!

Gold for Nathan Clement in men’s T1 time trial and bronze for Charles Moreau in men’s H3 time trial at the Road Cycling World Championships!

UWW changes few things for Russian/Belarus wrestlers
 
https://uww.org/article/uww-updates-eligibility-criteria-russia-belarus-wrestlers
 
I assume with the new criteria almost all (if not all) of them will be eligible for UWW competitions. I'm talking about top Russian wrestlers.
 
which means we will most probably see Sadulaev in Albania next month.  Uguev too, from what I heard he has to wrestle AbbasGadzhi Magomedov first to make the team.
 
 

Oh how I’ve missed Canucks hockey, Silovs with another beauty of a save
 
 
 

18 member squad announced for the Short Course Worlds.
 
Kharun and McIntosh feature. 
 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7333590
 

18 member squad announced for the Short Course Worlds.
 
Kharun and McIntosh feature. 
 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7333590
 

18 member squad announced for the Short Course Worlds.
 
Kharun and McIntosh feature. 
 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7333590
 

10th for Alex Baldoni in men’s C1 at the La Seu World Cup, his best ever finish!

10th for Alex Baldoni in men’s C1 at the La Seu World Cup, his best ever finish!

Our Olympic Hopes team showed up Hungary 🇭🇺 and they ATE 🔥
Coming in second overall on the medal board with 8 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze 🥇🥈🥉
What an INCREDIBLE weekend in Szeged!!
 
Second behind hosts Hungary

Alex Wong scored 123/125 in men's skeet at the US Nationals. Same score would have qualified him for the medal round in Paris!

Skateboarding
 
women's Park
 
Gold:  Raicca Ventura
Silver:  Hinano Kusaki
Bronze:  Naia Laso
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1410-results.html?download=7170:women-full-results-wsg-2024
 
men's Park
 
Gold:  Augusto Akio
Silver:  Pedro Barros
Bronze:  Viktor Solmunde
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1410-results.html?download=7172:men-full-results-wsg-2024

FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup
Gold-  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Silver-  Japan
Bronze-  United States

Full Results
 
Well deserved gold for them, very clearly the best team throughout the tournament 

Alright, assuming I've interpreted the canoe marathon qualification system correctly...
 
Link: https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/world_games_rules_2025_proposal_rh_bv_rh_bv.pdf 
 
The quotas might be allocated as follows:
 
Women's K1 -  / The America's continental quota might go to  (all athletes from the region were lapped), while Africa might go to  (both their athletes finished with DNF) / The short distance quotas might go to  (I'm not sure how these would be affected by potential continental reallocations)
 
Men's K1 -  / The final short distance quota might go  (based off semifinal time)
 
As always, none of this is official, as only the international federation can confirm who qualified.

Skateboarding
 
women's Street Luge Downhill Time Trial
 
Gold:  Tatyana Hill
Silver:  Loreline Pastor
Bronze:  Charlotte Farges
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1401-skateboarding.html?download=7129:downhill-wsg2024-sl w results
 
men's Street Luge Downhill Time Trial
 
Gold:  Mikel Echegaray Diez
Silver:  Ryan Farmer
Bronze:  Abdil Adzeem Ahmad Mahdzan
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1401-skateboarding.html?download=7130:downhill-wsg2024-sl m results
 
 
women's Skateboard Downhill Time Trial
 
Gold:  Katerina Hill
Silver:  Selina Theiler
Bronze:  Lisa Peters @heywoodu another medal for the  
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1401-skateboarding.html?download=7144:downhill-wsg2024-sb w results
 
men's Skateboard Downhill Time Trial
 
Gold:  Adrien Paynel
Silver:  Diego Poncelet
Bronze:  Andrèas Bouclier
 
Full Results
https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1401-skateboarding.html?download=7143:downhill-wsg2024-sb m results

given the current IIHF rules, even a 5 p.m. start wouldn't overrun any ceremony (which will start at 9 p.m., pretty sure, even if it's not official yet)
 
in Turin it was 2 p.m. and it was definitely too early, not an "Italian" start time at all (actually, already in 2006 the schedule had nothing to do with any Italian interest/habit, which makes me even more angry this time...errors are human, repeating the same errors is...)
 
frankly, I could make a better schedule than that with closed eyes

I know it’s been the same for previous editions of the Olympics, but every time I really hope for the ice hockey tournament to be an extra day longer with matches starting on day -2 (because there’s only one single session of curling, and well that’s not enough to me)
 
A whole bunch of scheduling conflicts as always, gonna have to figure out what to prioritize (as much as I love curling and ice hockey, maybe I’ll have to give some sessions a skip… we’ll see though)

Summer Grand Prix, yep  
 
I can only wish winter had started  For me in terms of sports that always starts to come in October, when the alpine skiing World Cup is in Sölden, just a few more weeks!

It’s not even autumn yet 

I mean, it has to be at 1pm just in case it goes into OT/SO, to have time to start the Closing Ceremony. It was at 2pm in Turino. You could move it to Saturday night, but other big events are happening at that time that would be overshadowed. Broadcasters wouldn't want to have to choose between the figure skating gala and the gold medal hockey game, for example. In Canada it'd be a national civil war on whether to watch the curling game or the hockey game. The men's gold medal game is sort of like the marathon in the SOG, it's just the highlight before the Olympics close. 
 
Plus it's a great excuse to day drink.