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Solid boulder qualifying round from Hamish McArthur in what has been a relatively low scoring competition. He is currently sitting in 2nd place with a score of 84.6 points.

Lily Strachan first Brit to compete at the OQS scoring 49.55 for her first run before posting marginal improvement to 50.08. She couldn't improve on that in the 3rd run so she finished 4th in her group and is currently sitting in 5th place overall with a further 22 skaters to compete.

Top-5 from group 2: 1) Nana Taboulet - 67.23 2.) Fay Ebert - 55.46 3.) Emilie Alexandre - 53.41 4.) Lily Strachan - 50. 08 5.) Kisa Nakamura - 49.23 Consolidated Top 10: 1) Nana Taboulet - 67.23 2.) Fay Ebert - 55.46 3.) Emilie Alexandre - 53.41 4.) Zheng Haohao - 51.73 5.) Lily Strachan - 50. 08 6.) Kisa Nakamura - 49.23 7.) Heili Sirvio - 48.83 8.) Aaliyah Wilson - 48.70 9.) Poppy Starr - 46.35 10.) Julia Benedetti - 45.81 Cut-off score for top-16 currently 37.10.

First qualifying group for women's park competition at OQS is complete. Top-5 from group 1: 1) Zheng Haohao - 51.73 2.) Aaliyah Wilson - 48.70 3.) Ceci Rendueles - 44.69 4.) Fernanda Tonissi - 42.16 5.) Madeleine Larcheron - 41.34

Sky Brown has withdrawn from the Olympic Qualifying Series event in Shanghai ahead of women's park qualifying. She is recovering from knee injury and hopes to return for the 2nd event in Budapest.

Not the greatest of starts to OQS - Sky Brown has pulled out of the skateboarding qualifying event in Shanghai to recover from knee injury. She hopes to return for Budapest leg of the competition.

Quick public service announcement for anyone using the watchathletics.com site to check startlists for upcoming events - it looks like for some events they have been publishing the 2023 start lists instead of the 2024 ones.

UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup - Montpellier Men's Elite: 1.) Anthony Jeanjean 2.) Baios Brandon Loupos 3.) Declan Brooks Women's Elite: 1.) Laury Perez 2.) Miharu Ozawa 3.) Sasha Pardoe

Ahead of the competition getting underway tomorrow, some positive news to bump this thread up the list - Sascha Pardoe, who will be competing in the Women's BMX Freestyle, secured 3rd place at last weekend's UCI World Cup event in Montpellier. Let's hope that is a positive omen for the days ahead.

We're beginning to ramp up the European track and field season with meets now taking place every couple of days. We've seen most of our potential Olympians opening their seasons and the rest are likely to follow in short order. With that being said, it's perhaps worth taking stock of where we are in terms of athletes qualifying for Paris. A while back I shared the list of athletes I thought that our squad would be drawn from. Since then, a few of our junior athletes have had some impressive performances and have put themselves into the mix when it comes to selection. On the flip side, we've also had a couple of confirmed injuries with Tom Gale and Jaz Sawyers now out of contention. I've also added an additional data set - when the athletes are next due to compete. This won't be 100% complete as some events are slow in releasing their start lists and we've seen instances where athletes have dropped out late. For some events, I haven't been able to source the required data. As always, any suggestions or corrections welcomed. Athletics 24.xlsx

Looks like Holly Bradshaw may have withdrawn from the Golden Roof Competition in Innsbruck this weekend - she's showing as "unfortunately injured" on the athlete profile now. Can't see any second source confirmation though

Alex Haydock Wilson will get his individual season under way in the 400m at the Meeting de Montreuil on Thursday whilst Ethan Hussey and Erin Wallace will be going in the 800m.

Not exactly a glorious return to action for Harry Coppell as he fails to get over his opening height of 5.30m at Loughborough Pole Vault meet.

Another one to add to the list starting on Wednesday - Table Tennis European qualifier. Tin Tin Ho and Anna Hursey competing in the women's event but with Liam Pitchford currently out injured, Paul Drinkhall is the sole GB athlete competing in the men's singles.

have announced their short-list of 8 combinations in contention for their dressage team for Paris: Katherine Bateson-Chandler - Haute Couture (#105) Anna Buffini - Fiontini (#78) Adrienne Lyle - Helix (#149) Adrienne Lyle - Lars Van De Hoenderheide (#43) Anna Marek - Fire Fly (#107) Marcus Orlob - Jane (#127) Endel Ots - Zen Elite's Bohemian (#45) Steffen Peters - Suppenkasper (#33) Riders have to compete in minimum of two CDIs before 25-Jun and must compete in at least one of the declared observation events: Le Mans CDI4* Hagen CDI3* Rotterdam CDIO5^ Team selection will be announced by 25-June.

So, the Hypo Gotzis start lists have been confirmed. Jodie Smith joins Mills and Pawlett on the start lists - perhaps surprising given Smith competed at the weekend in . Jack Turner is not competing. If he wants to get the standard for Paris, it looks like he will try to do it at one of the US College meets.

Busy few days for qualification/selection: Rowing - Last Chance Regatta kicks off on Sunday. GB looking to add men's single sculls and women's double to the team. Shooting - European Shotgun Championships start on Thursday with Trap qualifying getting underway on Friday. Sport Climbing / Skateboarding / BMX Freestyle - The Olympic Qualifying Series for sport climbing and skateboarding gets underway in Shanghai on Thursday whilst the competition for BMX freestyle starts on Friday Beach Volleyball - The CEV Beach Volleyball Nations Cup starts at the weekend. Hopefully the Bello brothers and Batrane/Bialokoz can do enough to be in the mix for a quota. Athletics - Hypo Gotzis meeting. Not a selection event per se, but there's not a huge number of opportunities for our decathletes/heptathletes to get the qualifying standards so if you hit here, then you're pretty much guaranteed to be on Eurostar. Holly Mills, Abigail Pawlett and Jodie Smith are scheduled to be competing. Athletics - Night of the 10,000m PBs. This is the official selection event for the 10000m. Both Megan Keith and Eilish McColgan have the entry standard already. Although McColgan isn't competing this weekend, she is pretty safe for selection. Megan Keith is in great form and will be looking to revise her PB in what will be only her 2nd 10000m. Jess Warner-Judd is currently in a qualifying position through the rankings but will be looking to get the entry time of 30:40.00. On the men's side, Patrick Dever is the best placed GB athlete and he will be looking to shave about 9 seconds off his PB set at The Ten in March. Behind him, keep an eye on Charles Hicks (needs 34 second PB) and Zakariya Mahamad who will be looking to join his brother on the GB team. To do that he will need to take 57 seconds off his PB so it may be a longshot.

Sinead McIntosh took gold in women's 50m 3 positions rifle at the ISSF World Cup in Baku this weekend. She also won the event at the first World Cup in Cairo and 4th in the second event in Baku. She's showing the kind of form that she had back in 2019. Is it too much to think she could be heading for a podium in Paris?

Any significance in the colour coding?

On Choong, he's incredibly disillusioned with how the sport is being governed but he still performs when it matters - he won the World Champs last year and would have won the World Cup Final in Ankara if he hadn't slipped at the end of the run. He'll go into Paris as one of the favourites - the only thing that would stop him getting a medal is if he draws a donkey in the riding.

ETU European Senior Championship - Belgrade Day 4 Results Men's -74Kg: 1.) Daniel Quesada Barrera 2.) Zurab Kintsurashvili 3.) Javad Aghayev 3.) Charalampos Flouskounis Men''s +87Kg: 1.) Caden Cunningham 2.) Ivan Garcia Martinez 3.) Krystian Haremza 3.) Emre Kutalmis Atesli Women's -57Kg: 1.) Nika Karabatic 2.) Jade Jones 3.) Luana Marton 3.) Fani Tzeli Women's -62Kg: 1.) Kimia Alizadeh Zenozi 2.) Aaliyah Powell 3.) Ivana Arelic 3.) Petra Stolbova

All 4 of likely Olympians come away from Belgrade with medals - Gold for Sinden and Cunningham, Silver for Jones and Bronze for McGowan. Would be very pleased if that could be replicated when we get to Paris.

Charlie Aldridge finishes 9th at the Mountain Bike European Championships in . Unfortunately, were outscored by - probably won't be enough for GB to drop out of the top-8 in the ranking but the gap is likely to be down to around 200 points. Only a couple of events to go before the end of the qualifying window. Would have more confidence in our ability to hold on to 8th place if we were to see Tom Pidcock in Nove Mesto in a couple of weeks time.

UEC Mountain Bike European Championship: Cheile Gradistei Men's Elite 1.) Simone Avondetto 2.) Simon Andeassen 3.) Julian Schelb Women's Elite 1.) Puck Pieterse 2.) Mona Mitterwallner 3.) Nina Benz

44.88m for Johnson Thompson in the javelin