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Viviani leaves Paris-Roubaix on a stretcher - wonder if that will impact his participation in Milton.

I put Orangehair43's musings on the same level as Donald Trump's rantings on Truth Social but in this instance, I wouldn't be surprised if GB Aquatics decided not to accept the relay quota if their own selection time is not met. GB Aquatic's criteria for acceptance is purely based on time so it doesn't matter how many of the individual athletes are qualified - we could even have a scenario where we have swimmers achieving the BST across all 4 strokes but collectively they miss the relay nomination time.

Encouraging result for men as they take silver behind Italy at the Kahraman Bagatir Spring Arrows Tournament in Turkey. Team was Conor Hall, Tom Hall and Alex Wise. In qualifying, they comfortably outscored the 1932 achieved by the team at last year's world championship. Indeed, if they had scored 1991 in Berlin they would have finished 3rd in qualifying. However, this was a much higher scoring event - France topped qualifying with 2041 - so GB's improvement was broadly in line with what the other teams achieved. En-route to the final, they took out Uzbekistan in the first round and defeated Egypt in the semi-finals. Probably their most impressive win was in the quarterfinal when they defeated top-seed France. In a reversal of usual fortunes, the women have had a pretty mediocre tournament. The women's team of Bryony Pitman, Penny Healey and Megan Havers finished n 9th place. GB finished qualifying in 6th place but, unlike most of their competition, GB were unable to outscore their qualifying from Berlin. They then lost their first-round match to Australia.

Between them, Evans and Hopkin need to find 0.11 seconds on their 2024 seasons bests. Makes it sound much more manageable.

Looking ahead to the final day and the women's medley relay, with the backstroke and butterfly times set down, by my calculation, I think we have a little over 1:59.00 to play with for freestyle and breaststroke. That should be achievable if Evans can get down to 1:06.00 and Anna Hopkin can hit 00:53.00

Amber Anning clocks 22.47 for 200m in Arkansas. Don't think it will stand as an Olympic qualifier though - I think the wind reading was +7.3

Who'd have thought that the first athlete to get an Olympic standard inside UK Athletics "form window" would be a field athlete? and a too

Decathlete Jack Turner was due to compete at Arkansas Spring Invitational this weekend: 110m Hurdles: 14.22 Discus: 45.23m - I think this is a 30cm+ PB but don't quote me on that. Pole Vault: DNS

It's all working out pretty neatly for the women: Freya Colbert - 400m IM / 200m IM Abbie Wood - 200m Free / 200m IM Katie Shanahan - 400m IM / 200m Back

Is Matt Richards really thinking about doing the 50 in Paris? If not Alex Cohoon will be eligible for the second spot. Can't remember the last time we had 2 men in the 50 free.

He does at least get the OCT so he can still be entered into the event.

Laura Stephens really has dropped off from the form she showed in Doha - still think she goes to Paris but I had expected her to at least be hitting the BST in both the 100 and the 200.

Ah right enough - he wasn't on my radar cos he didn't enter the event here. Unfortunately that probably makes the case for taking Bird a bit harder to make.

I think we only have 1 in the 800?

Toby Robinson now eligible to go in the 800 and 1500 Free and the open water. Will be interesting to see which events he elects to go for.

Andy Pozzi opens his season with a 13.63 to finish 3rd at the Miramar Invitational.

Storming run for Sember in the final - 12.83 into -1.3m/s. Unfortunately, it's just outside of both the Olympic qualifying standard (12.77) and the UK Athletics time (12.80) but it bodes well for the rest of the season.

Strong opening run for Cindy Sember at the Miramar Invitational - 13.03 into a -2.3m/s headwind. Qualifies for final in 4th overall.

Missed chance for the double though. Both sides making mistakes going into the second half

Have been giving this some thought and there is a way that Litchfield, Guy and Peters could all get selected...and all come away with medals. Take Litchfield purely as a relay swimmer and use him in the heats of the 4x200 and either the heats or final of the medley relays. Take James Guy as a relay swimmer for the 4x200 and for the medley relays Take Jacob Peters for the individual 100 fly and use him in either the heats or final of the medley relays. Unfortunately, that scenario would probably mean that Kieran Bird would miss out and wouldn't work if we have any surprise qualifiers over the next couple of days but would probably put the relays in strong positions to get on to the podium.

Lewis Burras is not having a good meet. Don't see him getting on to the squad in the 50 unless he was really holding back.

Road Cycling Squad Selection Men's Road Race: Mads Pedersen Mattias Skjelmose Michael Morkov - Morkov is also expected to be part of the Madison team on the track. The fourth rider will be announced later in the year and a decision still to be taken on who will fill the 2 individual time trial spots. Source: News | DIF

art of the understatement there

With Colbert, I'd guess they will want to prioritise the mixed medley relay and the 4x200. I do think Cox is vulnerable - with Medi Harris on the team already, she could also be entered into the 100 back given she has the OQT from last year.

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