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I agree that Finucane is probably marginal favourite for the gold but I can understand their logic - that home crowd advantage will give Mathilde Gros the edge in the sprint - but I don't think that Gros has managed to defeat Finucane in a head-to-head across the qualifying window. For the rowing, those two are more difficult to predict. China are always strong in the quadruple sculls, as are the Netherlands. As for the British Four, they had a disappointing end to 2023 at Worlds so are in a bit a rebuild phase. They should be able to get on the podium, but I wouldn't have them as favourite at the moment.

No - purely a reference to fact that Ngamba was also in the team who travelled to compete in Finland. There's been no change in her refugee status.

Medal Projection 100 days out from Paris: Gold Medalists: Harrie Lavreysen - Track Cycling Individual Sprint Harrie Lavreysen - Track Cycling Keirin Track Cycling Men's Team Sprint Track Cycling Men's Madison Femke Bol - 400m Hurdles Mathieu van der Poel - Cycling Road Race Sharon van Rouwendaal - Marathon Swimming Men's Field Hockey Women's field Hockey Tes Schouten - Swimming 200m Breaststroke van de Werken/Lambriex - Sailing 49er Duetz/van Aanholt - 49er FX Luuc van Opzeeland - Sailing iQFOiL Rowing - Men's Double Sculls Rowing - Women's Four Rowing - Women's Pair Rowing - Men's quadruple Sculls Rowing - Women's Single Sculls Silver Medalists: Sifan Hassan - 10000m Athletics Women's 4x400m Relay Swimming - Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Rowing - Women's Eight Rowing - Men's Single Sculls Bronze Medalists: Athletics 4x400m Mixed Relay Sifan Hassan - 5000m Niek Kimmann - BMX Racing Laura Smulders - BMX Racing Ellen van Dijk - Cycling Individual Time Trial Demi Vollering - Cycling Road Race Equestrian Team Show Jumping Harrie Smolders - Equestrian Individual Show Jumping Sanne van Dijke - Judo -70Kg Guuske Steenhuis - Judo -78Kg Judo Mixed Team Puck Pieterse - Mountain Bike Women's Waterpolo Marrit Steenbergen - Swimming 100m Freestyle Rowing - Women's Quadruple Sculls

Medal Projection 100 days out from Paris (Partial) Gold Medalists: Natsumi Tsunoda - Judo -48Kg Hifumi Abe - Judo -66Kg Judo Mixed Team Event Daiki Hashimoto - Gymnastics Individual All-Around Daiki Hashimoto - Gymnastics Horizontal Bar Artistic Gymnastics Men's Team Yui Susaki - Wrestling Freestyle 50Kg Akari Fujinami - Wrestling Freestyle 53Kg Tsugumi Sakurai - Wrestling Freestyle 57Kg Misaki Emura - Fencing Individual Saber Fencing Men's Team Foil Haruka Kitaguchi - Javelin Kokona Hiraki - Skateboarding Park Silver Medalists: Uta Abe - Judo -52Kg

Haven't found details yet - although do know they are predicting Amandine Buchard to take gold in Judo -52Kg

Medal Projection 100 days out from Paris: Gold Medalists: Lisa Carrington - Canoe Sprint K1 500m Ellesse Andrews - Track Cycling Keirin Men's Rugby Sevens Women's Rugby Sevens Silver Medalists: Canoe Sprint - Women's K4 500m Emma Twigg - Rowing Single Sculls Erika Fairweather - Swimming 400m Freestyle Lewis Clareburt - Swimming 400m Individual Medley Bronze Medalists: Tom Walsh - Shot Put Track Cycling Women's Team Pursuit Dylan Schmidt - Trampoline

Medal Projection from Gracenote Nielson 100 days out from Paris Gold Medalists: Logan Martin - BMX Freestyle Jessica Fox - Canoe Slalom C1 Jessica Fox - Canoe Slalom K1 Grace Brown - Road Racing Individual Time Trial Matthew Wearn - Sailing ILCA 7 Kaylee McKeown - Swimming 100m Backstroke Kaylee McKeown - Swimming 200m Backstroke Swimming - Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Swimming - Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Swimming - Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Ariarne Titmus - Swimming 400m Freestyle Cameron McEvoy - Swimming 50m Freestyle Silver Medalists: Nicola Olyslagers - High Jump Kelsey-Lee Barber - Javelin Nina Kennedy - Pole Vault Saya Sakakibara - BMX Racing Jessica Fox - Canoe Slalom Kayak X Matthew Richardson - Track Cycling Individual Sprint Track Cycling Men's Team Sprint Anabelle Smith/Maddison Keeney - Diving 3m Synchro Rowing Women's 8 Rowing Men's 4 Rowing Women's Pair women's Rugby Sevens Kyle Chalmers - Swimming 100m Freestyle Mollie O'Callaghan - Swimming 100m Freestyle Zac Stubblety-Cook - Swimming 200m Breaststroke Ariarne Titmus - Swimming 200m Freestyle Swimming - Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Tennis Men's Doubles Tennis Mixed Doubles Bronze Medalists: Matthew Denny - Discus Eleanor Patterson - High Jump Women's 3x3 Basketball Matthew Richardson - Track Cycling Keirin Track Cycling - Women's Madison Jean van der Westhuyzen/Tom Green - Canoe Sprint K2 500m Cassiel Rousseau - Diving 10m Platform Maddison Keeney - Diving 3m Springboard Women's Field Hockey Rowing - Men's Eight Tara Rigney - Rowing Single Sculls Kieran Woolley - Skateboarding Park Chloe Covell - Skaetboarding Street Mollie O'Callaghan - Swimming 200m Freestyle Swimming - Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Elijah Winnington - Swimming 400m Freestyle Emma McKeon - Swimming 50m Freestyle Tennis Women's Doubles

Medal Projection from Nielson Gracenote 100 days out from Paris: Gold Medalists: Betheny Shriever - BMX Racing Joe Choong - Modern Pentathlon Joe Clarke - Kayak X Kimberley Woods - Kayak X Bradley Sinden - Taekwondo -68Kg Bryony Page - Trampoline Oliver Townend - Eventing Individual Women's Madison Women's Team Pursuit Rowing Men's Pair Rowing Men's Four Rowing Men's Eight Rowing Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Silver Medalists: Katarina Johnson-Thompson - Heptathlon Josh Kerr - 1500m Keiran Reilly - BMX Freestyle Tom Pidcock - Mountain Bike Tom Daley/Noah Williams - Diving 10m Synchro Jack Laugher/Anthony Harding - Diving 3m Synchro Sky Brown - Skateboard Park Mallory Franklin - Canoe Slalom C1 Katie Archibald - Track Cycling Omnium Emma Finucane - Track Cycling Individual Sprint Track Cycling - Women's Team Sprint Track Cycling - Men's Madison Charlote Fry - Dressage Individual Rowing - Women's Four Rowing - Womens Quadruple Sculls Michael Beckett - Sailing ILCA7 Emma Wilson - Sailing - iQFOiL John Gimson/ Anna Burnet - Sailing Nacra 17 Shooting Team Skeet Swimming - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Ben Proud - Swimming 50m Freestyle Georgia Taylor-Brown - Triathlon Bronze Medalists: Jessica Gadirova - Gymnastics Floor Dina Asher-Smith - 200m Matthew Hudson Smith - 400m Keely Hodgkinson - 800m Laura Mui - 1500m Athletics - Women's 4x100m Relay Athletics - Men's 4x100m Relay Athletics - Women's 4x400m Relay Joe Clarke - Canoe Slalom K1 Ethan Hayter - Track Cycling Omnium Track Cycling - Men's Team Pursuit Track Cycling - Men's Team Sprint Andrea Spendolini Sirieix - Diving 10m Platform Andrea Spendolini Sirieix/Lois Toulson - Diving 10m Synchro Equestrian Team Dressage Equestrian Team Eventing Laura Collett - Equestrian Eventing Individual Charley Hull - Golf Chelsie Giles - Judo -52Kg Lucy Renshall - Judo -63Kg Vita Heathcote/Chris Grube - Sailing 470 Eleanor Aldridge - Sailing Formula Kite Freya Colbert - Swimming 400m Individual Medley Jade Jones - Taekwondo -57Kg Rebecca McGowan - Taekwondo +67Kg Caden Cunningham - Taekwondo +80Kg Alex Yee - Triathlon Beth Potter - Triathlon Triathlon Mixed Team Relay Emily Campbell - Weightlifting +81Kg The fact that they are still projecting Gadirova as an individual medalist on floor when she is still in post injury rehab kind of calls into question either their methodology, or their attention to detail when analysing the output of their methodology.

World Boxing Cup: International Invitational - Colorado Day 1 Session 2: Women's 50Kg: Monique Suraci () def. Wassila Lkhadiri () (3-2) Jennifer Lozano def. Sofie Rosshuag (5-0) Caroline De Almeida () def. April Napthine (5-0) Women's 54Kg: Charley Davison () def. Shera Mae Patricio (4-1) Tiana Echegaray () def. Roamane Moulai (3-2) Kayla Gomez def. Tatiana Chagas (5-) Women's 66Kg: Emille Sonvico def. Maelys Richol (4-1) Women's 75Kg: Tammara Thibeault () def. Viviane Pereira (5-0) Li Qian () def. Lekeisha Pergoliti (4-1) Chantelle Reid () def. Emma Greentree (5-0) () Athletes qualified for Paris 2024.

Team GB get off to a good start in Colorado: W54Kg - Charley Davison def. Shera Mae Patricio W75Kg - Chantelle Reid def. Emma Greentree

have announced the short list of horse/rider combinations in contention for Olympic selection in show Jumping: World Number 6 - Kent Farrington: Greya , Landon, Myla or Toulayna. World Number 10 - McLain Ward: Callas, Contagious, or Quimi del Maset. World Number 23 - Laura Kraut: Baloutine, Bisquetta or Dorado 212. World Number 30 - Karl Cook: Caracole de la Roque or Kalinka Van't Zorgvliet. World Number 43 - Lillie Keenan: Argan de Beliard or Kick On. World Number 75 - Aaron Vale: Carissimo 25. World Number 86 - Natalie Dean: Acota M. World Number 117 - Jessica Sprinstein: Don Juan van de Donkhoeve. World Number 127 - Katie Dinan: Out of the Blue SCF. World Number 167 - Callie Schott: Garant

After a great 2023 when she picked up bronze at World champs and Silver at Europeans, Anna Shackley (Road Cycling) has been forced to retire due to a heart condition. Anna Shackley forced to retire aged 22 because of heart condition - BBC Sport

This prediction did not age well Anna Shackley forced to retire aged 22 because of heart condition - BBC Sport

Irish media are reporting that Amy Broadhurt's switch to represent has taken a further step forward after receiving clearance from the IOC Boxing Taskforce. Broadhurst also travelled with the GB squad to Colorado last week and was part of their training camp. Registration for the final qualification tournament in Bangkok closes tomorrow, so we may have a squad announcement by the weekend.

Fairly chunky GB squad competing in the World Boxing Boxing Cup in Colorado this week. W50Kg - Savannah Stubley has bye in round 1 and faces Lexus Ramirez in QF W50Kg - Demie-Jade Resztan has bye in round 1 and will face either Sofie Rosshuag or Jennifer Lozano in QF W54Kg - Charley Davison v. Shera Mae Patricio W57Kg - Elise Glynn has bye in round 1 and will face Alyssa Mendoza in QF W57Kg - Sameenah Toussaint has bye in round 1 and faces Amina Zidani W60Kg - Shona Whitwell v. Wen Lu Yang W60Kg - Gemma Richardson v. Felicitas Ganglbauer W75Kg - Chantelle Reid v. Emma Greentree M57Kg - Owain Harris-Allan v. Frederik Jensen M63.5Kg - Reese Lynch v. Ousainou Hansen M63.5Kg - Joe Tyers v. Jaggar Altoft M63.5Kg - Patris Mughalzai v. Jahmal Harvey M71Kg - Harris Akbar v. Kevin Scott M71Kg - Lewis Richardson v. Milos Barti M80Kg - Taylor Bevan v. Tuohetaerbieke M80Kg - Ramtin Musah v. Wanderley Pereira M92+Kg - Delicious Orie v. Abner Teixeira It's good to see a bit more variety in terms of the opponents that British fighters will be up against and they've some tough match-ups to look forward to. In the W54Kg class Shera Mae Patricio got to the quota fight at Busto Arsizio before losing out to Thailand's Jitpong so will give a good indication of where Davison is. Likewise, Elise Glynn's opponent - Alyssa Mendoza - was another fighter to fall short in the quota bout in Italy. On the men's side, both Musah and Orie's opponents are qualified for Paris. Orie has had mixed results of late so this is a good opportunity to test himself against another Paris bound fighter.

To be fair to Evans, she won her event whilst Peters was only third in his final so the circumstances aren't all that related. Although I do agree with you that they are putting too much emphasis on the freestyle relays at the expense of the other events.

I'd guess that the reason that Peters ultimately didn't get selected was because he finished 3rd so they couldn't justify picking him over Gammon given the priority they give to performances in the final.

Israel and Suriname don't have a 2nd eligible rider to take so it's less of a question of whether they refuse the second quota and more a question of how UCI handles the reallocation. Given it is 2 places at stake, I think it is likely they give 1 quota to sprint rankings and the other to the keirin. If they give both to the same event, it could lead to protest.

So our very own Nostradamus, with his endless stream of dire predictions, has been proved wrong........yet again. Maybe this time he will acknowledge that he was talking utter rubbish but I won't hold my breath.

It's based on my interpretation of the qualification document: According to that section, the quota goes to the next highest-ranked NOC which has not yet qualified for the respective event - Colombia has already qualified a rider for the individual sprint through the keirin ranking so by my reading, they would not be eligible for quota reallocation and it would move down to Hungary.

Final track cycling quota projection: I think there are 2 quota reallocations on the cards on the men's side - Israel and Suriname don't have a second eligible rider and so they will have to reject the quota. Assuming that is the case, I'd project that and will get an individual quota for sprint/keirin. On the women's side, there is only 1 quota which should be subject to reallocation - Italy don't have an eligible second rider in the keirin/sprint behind Miriam Vece. In the most likely scenario, Italy will probably reject the keirin quota resulting in picking up the spot for sprint/keirin. However, it may be possible that Italy could accept the second individual keirin quota and use it to nominate an extra endurance rider. Technically, I don't see anything in the qualification document that would prevent this - unless the eligibility clause relating to 10 points applies to the individual event - and it would give them the option of resting a rider for team pursuit qualifying. Given the team pursuit is run over 2 days rather than 1, I'm not sure it would actually give them that much of an edge though, so I'd still expect them to return the quota.

Can't see scenario where you get a second quota. Poland improved their ranking in Keirin after Milton but it wasn't enough to get into a quota spot and I think because they already have a quota in the event, they would not be eligible for any reallocation.

Looks like Irozuru has withdrawn from Loughborough.

Amber Simpson breaks the 70m barrier for the first time in the hammer event at Garry Wieneke Memorial Illinois. I think that's a 3m PB but she'll still need to find another 2m to meet the UKA standard.

Amelia Campbell got an outdoor season's best of 17.71m at the Beach Invitational in California over the weekend - still someway short of the 18.03 she achieved in January in Spain.