Rafa Maciel

Will post them tomorrow.

My thoughts.....for what they are worth, starting with the sweep crews: Men's Eight: - I still struggle with the logic of Austria prioritising the Eight over some of the smaller boats where they would have had a better chance of qualifying. So in all honesty it will come down to Canada, USA and Italy fighting it out for 2 quotas. Neither USA nor Canada competed in Varese so it is difficult to gauge where they are. Based on performances last year and should start as strong favourites with likely to get the second spot. Italy and Canada went head-to-head twice last year and both times Italy came out on top. Add to that the turn of speed that they have shown early in the season, and they should have enough to get the better of Canada - but it will be close. Women's Eight: - Denmark are a new crew for 2024 but they haven't been able to challenge their European rivals so far this year and I don't see that changing in Lucerne. Although the German men's eight has been steadily rebuilding, their women's crew are still a bit behind their rivals. got to the A-Final at last year's World Champs, but ultimately missed out on qualification. They should put that right in Lucerne and will probably start as favourites. Germany have competed twice this year - they were about 9 seconds behind GB in Varese, but they struggled at the Europeans (with a different crew). They've reverted back to the Varese crew so have given themselves a decent chance to qualify. The problem is that are a complete unknown - as they always are going into an Olympic regatta - but they have a tendency to effectively navigate their way through the qualifying regatta so may well get the second quota. Men's Four: - Although it was on home water, delivered the surprise of the season when they beat GB twice in Varese. Although they couldn't repeat the feat at the Europeans, they are continuing to show great form so should start as favourites for the first quota. Behind them. After a pretty disastrous World Champs where they ended up in Final C, this is a priority boat for . After they finished 4th in Varese, they skipped the Europeans to focus on this - and I expect them to edge out the second quota. I think we're likely to see South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine and Poland in the final but I don't see them being able to get into the top 2. Women's Four: - In a surprising turn of events, Canada and Germany have elected not to send a crew in this event and with them absent, and should start as favourites based on their performances from last year. Poland could run them close but will likely come up short. Whilst their results this year would suggest that neither Chile or Spain are likely to figure in the quota fight, it's difficult to make a call on Japan as this is another new crew, but the country doesn't have a huge track record in the sweep boats so there is nothing to suggest that they will be able to make the top two. Men's Pair: - Predicting the final for this event is probably easier than predicting the top two as none of the crews have been able to show any real consistency. Denmark were the 1st non-qualifying boat in the World Champs last year and, although they skipped the Europeans to prepare for this after finishing 3rd at Varese, I don't think they'll end up getting a quota. I probably favour and - both have changed up their crews since the World Champs last year and performed well at the Europeans. Women's Pair: - This could be one of the closest races in Lucerne. We haven't seen New Zealand in action yet but they are sticking with the same crew that went to the World Champs last year and finished 13th overall. Italy was the highest finishing non-qualifying crew at the World Champs last year but have struggled for form so far this season. The Jurkovic sisters are possibly the form crew after they finished 3rd at the Europeans and I think they are likely to get one of the two quotas. The second quota should be a fight between New Zealand and Germany and I think should get it.

Not sure what the scores were, but the Olympic Diving Test Event started today: Men's 3m Synchro: 1.) Harding / Laugher 2.) Bouyer / Jandard 3.) Marsaglia / Tocci

Latest update from Jessica Gadirova suggests recovery is going well - she's posted video of her back doing some (basic) moves. Looks like the rumours of her going to Paris for uneven bars are finally beginning to die down as the video shows just how slowly and carefully they are taking her recovery.

So not sure whether to post this or not as can't verify it yet but will put it here anyhow and if I need to correct it later I will. Apparently both Holly Mills and Abigail Pawlett are due to take part in the Hypo Gotzis Heptathlon next weekend and Jack Turner is due to compete in the Decathlon. I'm saying 'apparently' because it seems there has been a copy of the entry list doing the rounds on social media but the Gotzis organisers have said that it didn't come from them and they wont be publishing the official entry list until the end of the week. I'm hoping from a British perspective that all three are competing, but would also like to see Jade O'Dowda on the start line given she pulled out of her last comp.

Given the athletes are already beginning to fly into , it's beyond frustrating that the Jamaican Athletics Federation can't find 10 minutes to actually publish the entry lists for this weekend's Jamaica Athletics Invitational - piecing together competitors from local news reports of who has been seen in the arrivals area of the airport is not fun. Sportsmax is reporting the line up for women's 400m hurdles as: Rushell Clayton Shamier Little Dalilah Muhammad Janieve Russell Gianna Woodruff Anna Cockrell Shiann Salmon Andrenette Knight

Scott Lincoln wins the competition in with a put of 21.25m in the last round - 25cm short of OQS but more importantly, 25cm more than the UKA standard so that should be enough for UKA to accept a World Athletics invite if he gets one. He's currently 16th in the road to Paris ranking list and top ranked non-direct qualifier so he is well placed for invite.

No Grand Slam for Oliver Townend - he's had to withdraw Ballaghmor Class from Badminton.

Men's Individual Match-Ups Round of 48: (33) Alex Wise v (80) Arkadios Damopoulos (60) Tom Hall v (53) Niv Frenkel (29) Conor Hall v (84) Arne Collas All of the British women have byes through to the round of 24

Women's Team Bracket: (1) - Bye (17) v (16) (9) v (24) (8) - Bye (5) - Bye (21) v (12) (13) v (20) (4) - Bye (3) - Bye (19) v (14) (11) v (22) (6) - Bye (7) - Bye (23) v (10) (15) v (18) (8) - Bye

Men's Team Bracket: (1) - Bye (17) v (16) (9) v (24) (8) - Bye (5) - Bye (21) v (12) (13) v (20) (4) - Bye (3) - Bye (19) v (14) (11) v (22) (6) - Bye (7) - Bye (23) v (10) (15) v (18) (8) - Bye

men will be up against 23rd seed in the first round of the team competition tomorrow. If they get through that, they will face 7th seed women have a bye to the round of 8 matches on Friday. They will face the winner of Belgium (11th seed) and (22nd seed)

Men's Team Qualifying Top-8 - 2053 - 2030 - 2029 - 2028 - 2020 - 2014 - 2010 - 1987 Women's Team Qualifying Top-8 - 2004 - 1999 - 1981 - 1971 - 1964 - 1963 - 1955 - 1953

Women's K2 500m Semi-Final 1.) Csikos / Kohalmi - 1:44.28 2.) Pecsukova / Culenova - 1:44.70 3.) Leaniuk / Kavalenka - 1:44.73 4.) Rei / Laia - 1:45.67 5.) Ponomarenko Janic / Steblaj - 1:45.85 6.) Camane / Berzina - 1:46.55 7.) Bentivoglio / Rossetti - 1:46.68 8.) Bedec / Urtajl - 1:50.06 and through to the final

Men's K2 500m Semi-Final 2 1.) Holpert / Dragosavljevic - 1:28.80 2.) Zalka / Botek - 1:28.89 3.) Rizza / Freschi - 1:29.32 4.) Lindberg / Kernen - 1:29.83 5.) Bock / Knudsen - 1:31.52 6.) Russell / Thomson - 1:31.54 7.) Muff / Wyss - 1:34.14 8.) Mostitsoglou / Antoniou - 1:34.28 9.) Nita / Zaharia - 1:41.24 and through to the final

Men's K2 500m Semi-Final 1 1.) Vilde / Rumjancevs - 1:29.62 2.) Urankar / Smit - 1:29.85 3.) Eide / Vold - 1:30.14 4.) Ershov / Spesivtsev - 1:31.03 5.) Sikkens / Bastiaens - 1:31.31 6.) Platash / Lysianyi - 1:32.30 7.) Kolehmainen / Hakala - 1:32.54 8.) Ayakli / Kakkac - 1:35.60 9.) Asenov / Karakolev - 1:37.39 & advance to the final, everyone else is out.

Both the men's and women's teams are beginning to fall off the pace as we head towards the end of qualifying. Perhaps most surprising thing so far is the relatively poor form of Penny Healey.

They've finally published the result of the last of the morning's heats: Women's K2 500m Heat 2 1.) Pelachs/Lazkano - 1:41.79 2.) Konijn/Vorsselman - 1:42.47 3.) Kerr/Russell - 1:42.83 4.) Csikos/Kohalmi - 1:43.69 5.) Leaniuk/Kavalenka - 1:44.81 6.) Camane/Berzina - 1:44.99 7.) Bedec/Urtajl - 1:53.20 advance to the final

Women's K2 500m Heat 1 1.) Zarubova/Betlachova - 1:42.14 2.) Chernigovskaya/Dolgova - 1:42.93 3.) Pavlova/Kuklinovska - 1:43.48 4.) Ponomarenko Janic/Steblaj - 1:44.78 5.) Pecsukova/Culenova - 1:44.85 6.) Bentivoglio/Rossetti - 1:45.47 7.) Rei/Laia - 1:46.92 advance to final, 4-7 to semi final

Men's K2 500m Heat 3 1.) Burger / Beaumont - 1:29.37 2.) Rizza / Freschi - 1:29.75 3.) Vilde / Rumjancevs - 1:30.34 4.) Platash / Lysianyi - 1:32.39 5.) Bock / Knudsen - 1:32.67 6.) Kolehmainen / Hakala - 1:34.33 7.) Muff / Wyss - 1:36.12 advance to final, everyone else to semi finals.

Men's K2 500m Heat 2 1.) Stepun / Korsak - 1:28.51 2.) Zalka / Botek - 1:28.70 3.) Eide / Vold - 1:29.33 4.) Holpert / Dragosavljevic - 1:29.53 5.) Ershov / Spesivtsev - 1:34.39 6.) Mostitsoglou / Antoniou - 1:35.09 7.) Ayakli / Kakkac - 1:37.40 through to final, everyone else to semi finals.

Men's K2 500m Heat 1 1.) Kravets / Natynchyk - 1:29.41 2.) Urankar / Smit - 1:30.77 3.) Lindberg / Kernen - 1:31.63 4.) Sikkens / Bastiaens - 1:33.56 5.) Russell / Thomson - 1:33.90 6.) Asenov / Karakolev - 1:36.32 7.) Nita / Zaharia - 1:36.54 progress to final, everyone else to semi-finals.

Yup - The men's lightweight double was never really on the cards. GB have basically been winding down the lightweights on the men's side as it's no longer Olympic class. I am surprised that we're not at least trying for the W1x and M2x - I would have thought that the M2x wouldn't have been that far off a quota at the last chance regatta but it looks like they are prioritising the M4x.

M1x - 20: Confirmed: M2x - 18: Confirmed: M4x - 10: Confirmed: Expected: LM2x - 13: Confirmed: Expected: M2- 13: Expected: M4- 11: Expected: M8+ - 5: Confirmed: Expected: W1x - 13: Expected: W2x - 8: Confirmed: W4x - 7: Confirmed: Expected: LW2x - 8: Confirmed: Expected: W2- 11: Confirmed: W4- 8: Expected: W8+ - 5 Expected: Updates: have confirmed their entries in M1x and W2x. and expected entries added

are only entering two events in the final qualifying regatta: George Bourne will go in the men's single sculls whilst Becky Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne will be going in the women's double sculls. Have to admit I am a bit surprised that they aren't going for the men's double sculls although that may mean that they are looking at making adjustments within the quadruple sculls crew.