Rafa Maciel

She competed earlier this month on the road - I think she did the Boston mile a couple of weeks ago and did the 5k event at the Paris marathon at the start of April but her last track race was probably in July last year.

Ondine Achampong has been withdrawn from the team due to injury and will be replaced by Abigail Martin next week.

Selection of athletes in action over the course of this weekend including: 27th Apr: Shanghai Diamond League : Megan Keith secured the OQS in the 10,000m at the first time of asking. In Shanghai, she goes over the 5000m. Her PB in the event is just under 14:57 from last year so she would need to find 5 seconds to dip under the standard. Ethan Hussey will compete in the 800m and Daryll Neita gets her outdoor season underway in the 200m. 27th-28th: 37th Multistars : Jade O'Dowda is scheduled to compete in the Heptathlon. The OQS is 6480 - 225 points more than her current PB but it's not out of reach. If she can get under 13.5 for the 100m hurdles and get over 1.86 in the high jump, she'll set herself up with a great chance of getting the standard despite a relatively weak shot put. If she does fall short of the OQS, her secondary target will be the UK Athletics standard of 6260 - that's just 5 points more than her current PB. 27-Apr: Texas Invitational : Dina Asher-Smith will line up in both the 100m and 200m. Whilst she has put in a couple of solid relay legs so far this season, her opening outing in the 200m earlier this month was probably not quite what she wanted it to be. Yusuf Bizimana will be going in the 800m 27-Apr: Desert Heat Classic : David King opens his outdoor season in the 110m Hurdles, whilst Brodie Young is in the 400m 27-Apr: Drake Relays : Tade Ojora lines up in the 110m hurdles. He currently heads up the UK list for 2024 with his 13.48 but needs to find another 0.2 seconds to hit the OQS. Cindy Sember already has the OQS and has been in great form so far this year and will look to continue that in the 100m hurdles. Lizzie Bird makes her 2024 track debut in the 3000m Steeplechase 27-Apr: Penn Relays : Kyle Langford competes in the 800m

Can I applaud you for not pointing out the obvious flaw in the previous poster's attempt to spread yet more misery and misinformation to the group. The "vertical jumps" that they seem to think will be bereft of British participation are actually in pretty rude health given that's the pole vault and high jump.

There's more to Great Britain and Northern Ireland than just England

Sorry - I misunderstood what you were asking. The wording of the qualification process has changed since Tokyo. For Tokyo, the general rule for qualifying via continental qualifier was an NOC could only qualify 1 boat with the exception of NOCs who had not qualified any boats at the previous world champs who could qualify 2 boats if they both won their events: For Paris, the situation is different - NOCs who did not qualify any boats at last year's world champs could qualify 2 boats at the continental qualifier and it did not matter where they finished so for example, Iran qualified in both the women's single sculls and women's lightweight double sculls at the Asian qualifier by finishing 3rd and 2nd respectively. For NOCs that qualified 1 boat at the World Champs, then the only way they can qualify 2 further boats at the continental qualifier is by having both of the boats finishing 1st.

Same clause is in force for Paris - bottom of page 5 of qualification document:

This qualifier is limited to nations who had only qualified 1 boat at the World Champs last year so GB (and most of the main European nations) aren't eligible to compete and will look to get further boats qualified at the last chance regatta next month.

Men's Kite Quotas: + 3 from Women's Kite Quotas: + 3 from:

Connor Bainbridge secures the quota in men's kite and completes full sailing squad for Team GB in Paris.

Interesting that they are showing as 1st reserve for men's sprint - evidently the supplementary entry they got through qualifying in the keirin does not prevent them from qualifying a second rider.

Assuming it's the same structure as last year's worlds, then the top 2 sailors at the end of the opening series of 20 races will go directly through to the final. Sailors ranked 3-10 progress to the semi-finals with the top ranked sailor in each semi-final starting with 2 wins, the 2nd ranked sailor starting with 1 win. The other 2 sailors start from 0. The first sailor to get to 3 wins advances to the final so it is unlikely that they would need all 8 races. In the final, the same structure applies - the sailor who topped the opening series starts the final with 2 wins, the sailor who finished 2nd has 1 win and the qualifiers from the semi-final start with 0. The first to 3 takes gold.

For anyone who hasn't seen the documentary and/or doesn't understand German, a version is available on YouTube with English subtitles Doping Top Secret: China Files - Part 01/04 (youtube.com)

Where there are nations with 4 riders listed, some of the riders' ranking points are excluded from the total points, so it is possible that the ranking is based on the top 3 riders from each qualifying event rather than the ranking points from the top 3 riders across the whole qualifying period.

Men's 110m Hurdles There's positive signs that we could be heading towards a full team for the sprint hurdles. Tade Ojora heads the rankings with his 13.48 from the Mt Sacs Relay this weekend and it is also looking like Andy Pozzi has put his injury issues behind him as he has already completed about half a dozen races this season with his best time being 13.49. Women's 100m Hurdles Cindy Sember is getting close to her best times again and has wrapped up the Olympic qualifying standard early with a run of 12.57 in Florida last weekend. Isabel Wakefield has also been making great progress this year with her 13.15 getting close to the European Championship qualification standard.