Josh

The British Wimbledon crowd was completely ignorant and rude with their treatment of Azarenka. I thought these people were supposed to know about tennis. Are they that oblivious?
 
This is why Sabalenka waited at the net in Paris for Svitolina. I don't think anyone should be booed in these sensitive situations, but definitely not the players who actually want to shake hands!

Elina Svitolina vs Marketa Vondrousova is the first women SF. Whomever comes out of the bottom half will be a favorite in the final.
 
Moreover Aryna Sabalenka can become the new #1 if she wins the whole tournament.

Women's QF:
 
Iga Świątek vs Elina Svitolina
Jessica Pegula vs Marketa Vondrousova
Elena Rybakina vs Ons Jabeur
Madison Keys vs Aryna Sabalenka

For me Whether Ons or Sabalenka is a perfect outcome for me , I have much sympathy with Ons tbh , after being runner-up twice and also for Sabalenka whom was banned from participating in last wimbeldon just because GB hates to have some natural athletes from Russia or Belarus on its home soil , I won't be sad also if Svitolina wins it , I used to be a fan of her before pregnancy maybe cuz she's cute , but after refusing to shake hands with other athletes I lost some respect for her. Yet she also deserves to be a GS Champion after many years of trying and especially after returning from nowhere point with months of absence cuz of pregnancy 

Final Standing is available here
 
Pablita    africaboy    maestro  
 
Here is the presentation of the three medallists. Congratulation to all three medallists of this prediction contest. @Pablita with the gold medal,  @africaboy with the silver medal and @maestro with the bronze medal.

So whilst rounders isn't on the Olympic program for Paris, it is virtually certain to be back in for LA in 2028 - bye-bye breaking!! - and this could actually be one of the few team sports where  secure a quota having come so close to getting to Tokyo. 
 
In the first round of matches at the World Cup Group A, , ranked 16th in the world defeated world number 9  2-0 for the only upset in the first round of matches. 
 
In other matches in the group,  were 5-0 winners against  and  won 7-0 against 
 
 

I think  are about to put major dent in the hopes of  to make next year's finals. They win 2-0 to inflict a second defeat of the group on  
 
 are world number 3 so this would be a big upset. 

Yes, I think the German federation is very lucky to have him. Without him the German federation also wouldn’t have been able to hire Lisa Thomaidis for the women’s team (it was him who made her aware of the job opening), which very likely would have meant no qualification for the OQT. In general Germany should hire more foreign coaches, especially in sports where German coaches have proven again and again that they don’t know how to coach athletes to compete at world level. For example Germany used to be elite in pole vault and shot put, but nowadays German coaches have no clue how to develop world class athletes in those disciplines. Herbert did a great job at the Euros last year, hopefully he will be able to again coach the team to the same level at Worlds this year. On paper the team (so far … ) is certainly better than it was last year (addition of Kleber/Bonga/M. Wagner + F. Wagner being one year older). Germany is missing athletic wings (like pretty much all other nations except the US/Canada) and maybe one more elite ball-handler (of course having a more physical big like Hartenstein also would have helped). I think the roster justifies considering Germany at least a top 8 team (behind the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Serbia and maybe Greece). The US and Canada are obviously better on paper if they play at full strength, but in my opinion all the other teams I mentioned aren’t lightyears ahead of Germany in terms of individual quality.

I listened to the lecture of Gordon Herbert at the Belgrade clinic this weekend. He was pretty good. 

Lithuania 15 men roster
 
Jonas Valanciunas Gytis Radzevicius Rokas Jokubaitis Tomas Dimsa Ignas Brazdeikis Eigirdas Zukauskas Margiris Normantas Donatas Motiejunas Tadas Sedekerskis Eimantas Bendzius Donatas Tarolis Martynas Sajus Vaidas Kariniauskas Mindaugas Kuzminskas Laurynas Birutis

Jamaican National Championships- Kingston, Jamaica  
July 6-9, 2023
 
Full Results
 
 
Men's 100m 
Rohan Watson
Ryien Forde 
Oblique Seville 
Kishane Thompson 
Ackeem Blake 
Kadrian Goldson 
 
Men's 200m
Andrew Hudson 
 
Men's 400m
Antonio Watson 
Sean Bailey 
 
Men's 110m Hurdles
Rasheed Broadbell 
Hansle Parchment 
Orlando Bennett 
Tyler Mason 
 
Men's 400m Hurdles
Roshawn Clarke 
Jaheel Hyde 
Assinie Wilson 
 
Men's Long Jump
Wayne Pinnock 
Tajay Gayle 
 
Men's Triple Jump
Jaydon Hibbert 
 
Women's 100m
Shericka Jackson 
Shashalee Forbes 
Natasha Morrison 
Briana Williams 
Elaine Thompson-Herah 
Ashanti Moore 
 
Women's 200m
Shericka Jackson 
Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce 
Lanae-Tava Thomas
 
Women's 400m
Nickisha Pryce 
Janieve Russell 
 
Women's 800m
Natoya Goule
 
Women's 100m Hurdles
Megan Tapper 
Ackera Nugent 
Yanique Thompson 
Amoi Brown 
Danielle Williams 
Crystal Morrison 
 
Women's 400m Hurdles
Janieve Russell 
Andrenette Knight 
Rushell Clayton 
Shiann Salmon 
 
Women's Triple Jump
Shanieka Ricketts 
 
Was expecting more qualifying times in W TJ/W LJ/M LJ, and by Adele Tracey in W 800m. Kimberly Williams didn't compete here, which is surprising, would have most likely reached the Olympic standard.

I'll be happy if we come out with two golds from here with Alekna and Karinauskaitė.
 
A 400m final for Keršulis.
 
And a good PB for Vaitaitytė in Heptathlon.
 
Lukrecija Sabaitytė could do okay in 200m and perhaps increase her slim chances to qualify to the European Championships in 2024.
 
Other than that, highly disappointed that we're sending only 8 athletes. Our race walker that was qualified is nowhere to be seen, two athletes qualified days after the qualification was closed. Our talented javelin thrower quit the sport and other three candidates didn't recover from injuries all season.
 
This 8 people team could've easily been 16 at least, but a really bad season for our u23ers. 

Last year the official entry lists didn't come out until three days before the start of swimming.

This weekend, Chamonix hosted the 2nd leg of the Lead World Cup
 
Lead Men
 
1.   Toby Roberts
2.  Sam Avezou
3.  Sorato Ankaru
 
 
Lead Women
 
1.   Jain Kim
2.  Nonoha Kume
3.  Helene Janicot 
 
 
Speed Men
 
1.   Rahmad Adi Mulyono
2.  Rishad Khaibullin
3.  Raharjati Nursamsa
 
 
Speed Women
 
1.   Jajiah Sallsabillah
2.  Victoire Andrier
3.  Nural Iqamah
 
That's Toby Roberts' second gold medal of the season having taken gold at the boulder event in Brixen. He also finished 4th in the lead event in Villars so with the World Championships coming up in a couple of weeks,  could have outside prospect of sneaking an early quota from genuine medal contender for Paris. 

Where to watch the Champs - a few countries have got it on mainstream or pay TV, but otherwise FTA streaming.
 
European Athletics U23 Championships 2023 (allathletics.tv)

BMX Racing Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of July 11th, 2023

Women's World Ranking by Nations updated as of July 11th, 2023

Olympic Rankings updated as of July 11th, 2023

2023 German National Championships - Berlin (GER)
July 6th - July 9th 2023
 
Meet Results
 
 
The following new OQTs were achieved
 
 
Men's 100m Breaststroke
 Melvin Imoudu
 
Women's 400m Freestyle
 Leonie Martens
 
Women's 1500m Freestyle
 Leonie Martens
 

2023 European Junior Swimming Championships - Belgrade (SRB) 
July 4th - July 9th 2023
 
Meet Results
 
 
The following new OQTs were achieved
 
 
Men's 400m Freestyle
 Petar Mitsin
 
Men's 800m Freestyle
 Petar Mitsin
 Vlad Stancu
 
Men's 1500m Freestyle
 Emir Batur Albayrak
 Vlad Stancu
 Kuzey Tuncelli
 
Men's 200m Backstroke
 Merlin Ficher
 
Women's 100m Butterfly
 Lana Pudar

all qualify women's basketball teams 

Entry lists now available on FINA website. Surprised that  Jack Laugher is not down for the individual 3m Springboard - he's only competing in the synchro event. 
 
Had high hopes of wrapping up the majority of our diving quotas this year but actually not sure that we've sent the most experienced international competitors to Fukuoka. 

Germany has the easiest group of all the UEFA teams by miles but they will have to play either Brazil or France in R16 already and most likely England in QF so the easy group comes with a price anyway.