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1.06.31 made the final in Fukuoka, Angharad would have won Silver, 1.06.40 made it in Budapest, where Angharad would have won Gold. 1.06.59 made it in Tokyo, where she would have tied for bronze. By my reckoning that time is pretty safe for a final, but I think she would need to drop into the 1.04's to get into medal contention, which isn't that unlikely.

I'm pretty sure she came back in close to or under WR pace, so if she can improve her early speed...... I would assume she will be competing at Sette Colli next week with the rest of the squad, so we'll se what else she can do.

What a pity, for India or for the sport of Cricket.

Any medal is better than the start of Tokyo, although that was down more to scheduling. By my count, we have chances in Both time trials, Men's Rugby 7's (if we qualify), women's 3m springboard synchro and the men's 4x100m free. Maybe even the mixed Air Rifle, although it is very hard to judge given the event is pretty unpredictable, let alone our athletes. I'll be happy with 2 medals and and gold would be a bonus. What would be nice would be to win a medal in the 1st event, which would either be the diving or shooting, to set the team up nicely.

Ssh - Don't tell NBC.

Is it available to watch?

Are the quotas for the athlete or NOC?

Probably, but I can't see why we can't take all 3.

I don’t know why they would refuse, but the commentator mentionned it, and I checked on their website and it said we are going for a second mens quota for today but didn’t mention a womens, presumably because our C1 male won’t do the extreme event. Setchell could certainly medal though so it is a bit strange.

She'll get the quota as GB aren't taking it.

Apparently GB are not going to take the quota, according to the commentators, anyone know why?

I think heading into the championships looking at the entry lists it was expected for the total medals to be down. Looking at the general picture I don't think is unfair to say that the team is in a better position than 2 years ago. Let's hope the home crowd in Birmingham combined with it not being an olympic year in 2026 will produce some more silverware.

Louie Hinchcliffe was very impressive but again it is about double peaking. The way he finished that 100m, makes me think he would be a better 200m runner, and that event probably has worse depth than the 200m both in the UK and internationally.

I think Keely has to be our best chance of a medal, and then I would say Molly over Josh (just on the nature of their events), The 400m is just so difficult to predict as even a MHS who runs sub 44 may still miss out on the podium. As much as I would love a full strength mixed 4x400m of MHS, Dobson, Anning, and one other. I think it is too much of a risk to jeopardise medal contenders for individual given 3/4 would have to run in heat as well.

Reform all qualification systems to be less focused on continental representation, or expand the number of quotas in certain events. Allow a maximum of 3 entrants in each swimming event, 2 for other sports such as judo or boxing. Introduce a points based scoring table like the one seen in athletics, (alongside the medal table), which may encourage some nations to send all qualified athletes, not just medal contenders.

I agree with having it 3 weeks, but I’m not sure that I would like having each week split apart to dedicated sports. I quite like having the ability to flip between different sports as it makes it feel more like a singular event compared to back to back championships.

Scrap semifinals in swimming, at least for the 200s

Reform the European Games into an event like the Asian or Panamerican games. Encourage the best athletes to attend with proper TV broadcasting. Scrap the club world cup and revert the champions league to original format. Less events in F1 or at least plan them so the travel schedule is not ridiculous. Revert the changes to modern pentathlon, and reintroduce lightweight classes into rowing. Remove umpires call in cricket. Banish breaking to the shadow realm.

I hope not, although it did always feel inevitable. If you ignore all of the sports washing arguments it still seems like a stupid idea. When would it be held?, hosting it in the winter would completely mess up the global sporting calendar. There have been quite a few major sporting events held there (excluding the world cup), recently, many which have been pretty flawed. 2019 athletics worlds - Held in October with almost empty crowds, many big names skipped due to timings. The marathon was held at midnight, and was just 7 laps of a track which involved running up and down a singular crowd with no athletes in sight. 2016 road cycling worlds - The mens race was 250km, of which 150km was in the desert, not exactly gripping viewing. In my opinion, a cycle course needs to be created to allow the riders to initiate an exciting race, which is obviously hard to do in a desert.

Surely she will swim based on that trajectory. I went to watch the session yesterday and she was impressive PBing in the 200m so I expected it slightly, but not a 0.7 drop which would take her into finals contention. Surely she wouldn’t be tapered so that looks really exciting.

Lots of athletes have stated they are going, and there are plenty of articles on the European athletics website. Off the top of my head I remember articles about Hughes and Hodgkinson.

More entrants are needed in the winter games as the global depth is way weaker, in the same way that 3 athletes per nation are allowed in Paralympic swimming

For GB my best guess would be womens triathlon or equestrian eventing. In athletics we could certainly sweep a few events at European level but there aren’t really any at a world level, maybe men’s 1500m but thats a highly unlikely..

@Nish Who's right?

I think it's 2 total, 1 Fairweather and 1 Clareburt.