Rafa Maciel

It's a 3 for the price of 1 - spot in the start lists for 50mx3, 10m Rifle, and mixed team event. Now let's just hope he doesn't fall apart in the final.

World Boxing Cup: International Invitational - Colorado Day 2: Men's 51Kg: Terry Washington def. Rogen Ladon (3-1) Michael Trindade () def. Yusuf Chothia () (3-2) Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris def. Frederik Jensen (5-0) Luiz Oliveira () def. Charlie Senior () (5-0) Nebil Ibrahim () def. Cheng-Wei Lee (4-1) Men's 63.5Kg: Reese Lynch def. Ousainou Hansen (4-1) Patris Mughalzai def. Jahmal Harvey (4-1) Jaggar Altoft def. Joe Tyers (3-2) Dedrick Crocklem def. Criztian Laurente (5-0) Men's 71Kg: Nikolai Terteryan () def. Shannan Davey () (5-0) Harris Akbar def. Kevin Scott (5-0) Lewis Richardson def. Milso Barti (4-1) Keon Davis def. Wanderson de Oliveira (4-1) Men's 80Kg Robby Gonzales def. Callum Peters () (5-0) Wanderley Pereira () def. Ramtin Musah (4-1) Amir Anderson def. Erik Mendoza Taylor Bevan def. Tanglatihan Tuohetaerbieke (5-0) Men's 92Kg: Keno Machado () def. Danel Brown (4-1)

Boxing World Cup Colorado Day 2 M57Kg - Owain Harris-Allan def. Frederik Jensen (5-0) M71Kg - Harris Akbar def. Kevin Scott (5-0) M71Kg - Lewis Richardson def. Milos Barti (4-1) M80Kg - Taylor Bevan def. Tanglatihan Tuohetaerbieke (5-0)

Jack Turner making solid progress in the decathlon at the Mt Sacs Relays in California getting three PBs on the first day. 100m - 10.61 (+1.0m/s) PB Long Jump - 7.47m (+1.8m/s) Shot Put - 13.62m PB High Jump - 1.86m 400m - 47.60 PB Day 1 Total - 4189 If he can match his PB in the remaining events, his score would be around 8100.

Boxing World Cup Colorado Day 2 M63.5Kg - Reese Lynch def. Ousainou Hansen (4-1) M63.5Kg - Jaggar Altoft def. Joe Tyers (3-2) M63.5Kg - Patris Mughalzai def. Jahmal Harvey M80Kg - Wanderley Pereira def. Ramtin Musah (4-1)

I'd be surprised if New Zealand got a big boost in the rowing but we won't really know what their form is like until we get to the Lucerne World Cup next month. The big surprise from my perspective, was in track cycling and the women's team pursuit down in silver. Given they've been the only nation that has shown consistent ability to take the challenge to GB, I'd have expected them to be either projected for gold or silver.

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.