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Why didn't play Lane & Vendy in their Thomas Cup match against . They've basically just ceded the possibility of qualifying for the quarterfinals by losing 3-2. Their single players really stepped up, it's such a shame that they didn't field their top doubles pair.

Some great results for in Samarkand Beth Potter starts the season with a win in the women's event finishing 10 seconds ahead of Leonie Periault. Georgia Taylor Brown finished in 4th with Sian Rainsley in 8th. Tilly Anema made the top 10, with Jessica Fullagar in 11th. Olivia Mathias was the last of the Brits in 20th. On the men's side, Oliver Conway was 5th with Hugo Milner 7th. Michael Gar finished in 19th. Harry Leleu was the last of the British finishers down in 34th. Unfortunately, both Max Stapley and Jack Willis failed to finish the course. With the Olympic ranking window opening later in the year, assuming Alex Yee returns to competition, I think will have decent shot at getting a full squad of 6 qualified for LA.

Although the qualification window doesn't open until October's World Championships, if this year's Continental Championships and World Cup Results were included then the current standings for the team events would be: Men's Team Pursuit - (3780), (3620), (3235), (2810), (2745), (2650), (2470), (2425) Women's Team Pursuit - (4010), (3540), (3050), (2650), (2500), (2490), (2340), (2130) Men's Team Sprint - (2715), (2580), (2535), (2478.75), (2186.25), (2175), (1807.50), (1672.50) Women's Team Sprint - (3075), (2580), (2535), (2475), (2152.50), (1818.75), (1755), (1687.50) Obviously, the results are skewed by the disruption going in to the Perth leg - but we can't guarantee there won't be similar disruption next year.

New Mountain Bike qualification document published. Again, no substantive changes, just correcting a couple of minor points and fixing a pretty blatant error. Section D1.1 corrects the ranking lists from 'UCI Road World Ranking by Nation' to 'UCI Mountain Bike Olympic Qualification Ranking' Other minor formatting changes: Table header in section B.1. switched from 'Total Quota Places for Discipline' to 'Total Quota Places for Mountain Bike'. Section D.1.3 table corrected to read 'The 2 highest ranked NOCs in the under-23 race' instead of 'The highest ranked NOCs in the under'23 race'.

women finish group stages of World Cup Division 2 with a 17-9 win over which will secure them a place in the quarterfinals - probably in 5th place which will likely see them face

women are 1W - 1L in the Water Polo World Cup Division 2 after a loss on penalties to and a 21-6 victory over . Next up is

Anyone else having issues access World Aquatics site? I keep getting asked to provide login details

Can I check the group's understanding of the Track Cycling qualification process as there seems to be a significant change compared to previous years which doesn't seem to have been commented on previously (unless I have missed it) By my reading of the qualification document, NOCs that qualify for the Team Pursuit are eligible to enter a team for the Madison: However, they are not automatically eligible to compete in the Omnium - only the 6 NOCs who qualify for the Madison through the Ranking List are eligible: Does that align with the group's understanding of the process?

2026 American Cup Women's 10m Platform: Eden Cheng - 340.20 Bayleigh Cranford - 321.50 Eloise Belanger - 317.95 Ella Roselli - 312.00 Sophia McAfee - 304.15 Laura Hingston - 289.20 Hannah Smith - 287.10 Lauren Flint - 286.60 Seoyeon Kim - 273.35 Else Praasterink - 264.70 Men's 10m Platform: Joshua Hedberg - 474.80 Oleksii Sereda - 473.20 Noah Williams - 429.65 Leyton Dean - 420.95 Mark Hrytsenko - 417.85 Maxwell Weinrich - 409.60 Kyle Kothari - 387.05 Nathan Brown - 379.40 Andrew Bennett - 357.85 Kang Minhyuk - 353.10 Women's 10m Synchro: Flint & Hingston - 284.70 Bailo & Vystavkina - 264.42 Cheng & Toulson - 259.32 Roselli & Cranford - 255.72 Men's 10m Synchro: Sereda & Hrytsenko - 390.60 Weinrich & Glasberg - 355.38 Williams & Penman - 350.70 Wills & Andriyuk - 334.35 Women's 3m Springboard: Sophie Verzyl - 329.40 Deshame Bent-Ashmeil - 303.60 Natalie Phan - 296.10 Brittany Obrien - 289.80 Lila Stewart - 287.85 Kyndal Knight - 279.65 Amy Rollinson - 268.35 Margo O'Meara - 266.40 Juliette Landi - 264.20 Lucy Dovison - 258.15 Men's 3m Springboard: Jordan Houlden - 434.05 Luke Sitz - 433.15 Quentin Henninger - 430.75 Stanislav Oliferchyk - 426.35 Jack Ryan - 413.80 Miguel Tovar - 407.90 Jules Bouyer - 397.55 Frazer Tavener - 384.20 Maxwell Flory - 383.70 Samuel Fricker - 367.45 Women's 3m Synchro: Kwong & Verzyl - 276.87 Bent-Ashmeil & Rollinson - 273.15 Sturgill & Witte - 264.36 Bochek & Karnafel - 239.64 Dovison & Phan - 236.46 Kim & Jung - 209.94 Men's 3m Synchro: Henninger & Ryan - 433.83 Boliukh & Oliferchyk - 397.47 Sollenberger & Sitz - 383.55 Wilson & Fricker - 342.63 Miocic & Huljev - 326.85 Lopez Gomez & Tovar - 319.23

New Dressage Qualification Document has been posted. No substantive changes - simply correcting errors in the December '25 version. Section C2: corrected Minimum Eligibility Requirements Dressage to show it is subject to terms of paragraph 2 rather than 2.4 F. Reallocation Paragraph 1.1: Removed reference to FEI Eventing Olympic Ranking and replaced it with FEI Dressage Olympic Ranking

Doesn't seem to be major changes. Section 3.B has been updated in relation to the host nation quota to introduce 'eligible' into the criteria. In the new version, 'if the host country has not already qualified an athlete, the highest-placed host country eligible athlete based on the final results of the Olympic Games 2028 Qualification Event will directly obtain a quota place. If the host country has already had one or two athletes qualify via alternate pathways, the host country quota position will not be granted and will be reallocated.' There is also a change to section F1 and F2 to introduce gender criteria - 'If an allocated quota place is not confirmed by the NOC by the confirmation of quota places deadline, or is declined by the NOC, the quota place will be reallocated to the next highest placed eligible athlete not yet qualified of the same gender from the same qualification event where the quota place was allocated , adhering to the maximum number of quota places per NOC, as outlined above (B.2).'

I agree - it was a very positive set of results in what has been a pretty decent season for the team so far. I've actually got hopes that we could qualify a decent sized judo team for LA - and go to see that we've got a couple of weight classes where we're likely to have some decent domestic competition including W70Kg, W57Kg and M73Kg. First key indicator of the team's ambitions will become evident at Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam in June. This is the first ranking event for LA and at the same event in 2022, we only sent 7 athletes (6 men and 1 women) but this tends to be one of the weaker Grand Slam events so is actually a great opportunity to pick up some big points early on in the process.

Looks like we can basically write off the clay court season for most of the top singles players - Sonay Kartal isn't planning on playing again until the grass court season gets underway. Jack Draper has withdrawn from Madrid and Rome - two tournaments where he had very good results from 2025 to defend. Jacob Fearnley is also out of Madrid. Finally, Emma Raducanu is.......being Emma Raducanu. Hasn't played since Indian Wells and shows no sign of returning any time soon.

Team squad for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in : Women's 4x100m: Mabel Akande Alyson Bell Success Eduan Desiree Henry Imani Lansiquot Kissiwaa Mensah Renee Regis Aleeya Sibbons Jasmine Wilkins Nia Wedderburn-Goodison Men's 4x100m: Jeremiah Azu Jona Efoloko Romell Glave Zharnel Hughes Elliot Jones Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Jody Smith Jeriel Quainoo Teddy Wilson Ethan Wiltshire Women's 4x400m: Charlotte Henrich Yemi Mary John Poppy Malik Emily Newnham Laviai Nielsen Louisa Stoney Nicole Yeargin Men's 4x400m: Harry Bradley Lewis Davey Seamus Derbyshire Charlie Dobson Josh Faulds Alex Haydock Wilson Toby Harries Jake Minshull Lee Thompson

You're right - not sure how I missed that given it was the last race of the night. I should avoid posting at 4am