Rafa Maciel

New pb for Zak Seddon in the 3000m Steeplechase - 8:20.77 at the LA Grand Prix - but not enough to get the OQS and still 2 seconds shy of UKA standard.

Worthington and Pardoe will likely finish at the bottom of the pile in BMX Freestyle final - both finishing with 66.xx. Only Chilean rider currently behind them.

National Record for Ceili McCabe in women's Steeplechase at LA Grand Prix - 9:20.58

I think it can only go to or so yep, pretty much certain to be from the B-Final

New National Record for in men's hammer at the LA Grand Prix. Denzel Comenentia got 79.09m in the first round.

Ryu Nakagawa is showing as DNS for the semi-final of the women's combined competition.

It is correct - the 3rd quota for single sculls is the reallocation of the host quotas. But it is not an open quota that can be won by any nation - it can only be allocated to an NOC who does not have any boats/crews qualified.

Going from bad to worse - Isidore goes out in the 1/8 finals. Only Kye Whyte left to score points for

Women's Trap After 75/125 Targets: 1.) Fatima Galvez - 72 1.) Kathrin Murche - 72 3.) Carole Cormenier - 70 3.) Rumeysa Kaya - 70 () 3.) Lucy Hall - 70 3.) Sandra Bernal - 70 () 7.) Maria Ines Coelho De Barros - 69 7.) Jessica Rossi - 69 7.) Gaia Ragazzini - 69 7.) Mopsi Veromaa - 69 () 7.) Beatriz Martinez - 69 () 12.) Satu Makela-Nummela - 68 () 12.) Ana Rita Rodrigues - 68 () 12.) Silvana Stanco - 68 12.) Lada Denisova - 68 ()

Ross Cullen fails to make it out of the first round at the World Champs. We might just be waving goodbye to that second men's quota.

Men's Trap After 75/125 Targets: 1.) Alberto Fernandez - 74 () 1.) Massimo Fabrizi - 74 1.) Giovanni Cernogoraz - 74 4.) Nathan Hales - 73 4.) Bostjan Macek - 73 () 4.) Juho Johannes Maekelae - 73 () 4.) Oguzhan Tuzun - 73 8.) Marian Kovacocy - 72 8.) Yavuz Ilnam - 72 () 8.) Piotr Kowalczyk - 72 () 8.) Jukka Laakso - 72 () 8.) Aaron Heading - 72 () () = would be eligible for Olympic Quota.

European Shotgun Championships got underway today with the 1st phase of qualifying for the men's and women's trap events. This is the last chance saloon for our shotgun squad to book their spots in Paris. Women's Trap Lucy Hall: 70/75 (23/23/24) Currently sitting in 5th place. Has already secured quota for Olympics. Abbey Ling: 65/75 (22/23/20) Currently sitting in 29th place. Madeleine Purser: 62/75 (23/19/20) Currently sitting in 39th place. Long story short, won't be getting a second quota in Women's Trap. Men's Trap: Nathan Hales: 73/75 (25/23/25) Currently in 4-7th place but has already secured his ticket to Paris. Aaron Heading: 72/75 (24/25/23) Currently in 8-12th place. Needs 2 strong rounds tomorrow to get into the final where he would be in the running for Olympic quota. Matthew Coward-Holley: 70/75 (23/25/22) Currently in 18-37th place. This kind of sums up Coward-Holley's performance all season - he's just been too inconsistent when it really matters. If Heading doesn't get the quota here, Coward-Holley could/should be in strong position to get quota through the ranking pathway. Looking ahead to LA '28, worth saying that our Juniors are doing pretty well so far Hollie Lumsden is 4th and Leah Southall is 11th in women's junior trap and Thomas Betts is 3rd in the men's junior event.

Did anyone pick up on the fact that UCI have changed the qualification pathway for BMX Freestyle in February this year? Seems a bit ridiculous that they are able to do that given the qualification process was already underway.

Not the right forum and we can discuss at length in the run up to LA, but I do think that table tennis is one of the (many) sports where having the home nations approach is not the most effective way of progressing the sport at the elite level.

In my defence, I had been up since 3am and I'd perhaps lost the attention to detail when it became clear that weren't going to get a quota in the event

The document is explicit that the maximum entries per NOC was 2 which was why I was confused when the commentators this morning said that some nations could qualify 3. I think the point @Epic Failurewas raising was whether the same athlete could secure 2 quotas for their nation - qualifying through the OQS with a named quota and through the World Championship route with a second quota for their NOC. If I remember rightly back to the World Champs in Glasgow, there was a lot of discussion about whether riders could qualify 2 spots for their nation. Hannah Roberts for example had "won" a quota at both the 2022 World Champs and 2023 World Champs and that seemed to be acceptable under the terms of the qualifying document as it stood at the time. However, I see that the qualification document has been updated in February of this year which means that the 2023 world champs quotas will be reallocated to NOCs that have not qualified through the OQS although strangely, they haven't changed the terms for the 2022 World Champ quotas. Anyhow to answer the question @Epic Failurewas raising, no Declan Reilly can't double qualify GB unfortunately. And more than that, if Hessey or Jones gets into the top 6 and he doesn't, then the world champion would miss out on Paris all together.

Despite a really strong group stage, Drinkhall crashes out in the first knock out round.

Eh the commentator is saying that and will all qualify 3 riders for the men's BMX freestyle but the qualification document says the max is 2 per NOC? Having said that, the guy also said that they were in Singapore so maybe I shouldn't put too much trust into what he has been saying.

So Hessey and Jones need 2 dropped runs from the next 24 to get their spots in the final - that's got to be reasonably likely.

To be fair, I'm not sure how much we could legitimately expect from the skateboarders who were in action today - they weren't really our strongest skaters. My main disappointment today is probably Charlotte Worthington - she could easily have missed out on the semi finals. Hopefully she was just taking it easy and will ramp up the scores for the final.

Yeah - the start order for the lead round was determined by the world ranking so as soon as they got into the last quarter of the field it was only really the Czech climber who could have dislodged her but she fell early and missed the cut. Only concern for Thompson-smith is whether she is carry an ankle niggle - she did look like she was limping a bit in yesterday's boulder round.

Erin McNeice safely through to the semi final for boulder/lead climbing. Looking good for Molly Thompson-Smith as well after a solid lead round - she's currently in 16th place and there are about a dozen climbers still to go, but the athletes left are not regarded as particularly strong on lead so she should be safe.

Good start to the day with both Charlotte Worthington and Sasha Pardoe progressing (just) to the semifinal of the BMX Freestyle event.

Yes, I believe so.

By my calculation, Hinson has moved up to 24th in the race for quotas. To get into the top 20 quota spots, Hinson would need to net over 21,000 points in Budapest - so would need a top-16 finish and realistically, probably would need a top 12 finish to get into a quota spot. An added complication is the continental representation requirement which will basically guarantee a quota will be offered to South Africa (although no guarantee they will accept it) and will set the target points total even higher for Hinson.