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GB Archery have announced the long list of athletes going forward to the second stage of selection for 2024 international squads.

Bello brothers begin their LATAM swing next week with Challenger level tournament in Recife followed by the challenger event in Saquarema at the end of March - for both tournaments they are already in the main draw so no need for qualifying. After , they'll head to for a challenger event in Guadalaraja before trying to make the main draw of the Elite 16 event in Tepic.

Looks like that dropped landing on his first vault has cost Jarman the all-around title. Despite putting in one of his best floor routines for a long time, he comes up 0.550 short of Fraser.

The horizontal bar is the weakest apparatus for GB - nobody is able to get into the 14s. Decent effort from Jarman who is current top scorer with 13.900.

Jarman unable to stick the landing of his 1st vault - still good enough for 14.050 but still well down on what he would be targeting in Paris.

That's pretty much what he scored in qualifying at the English champs - it feels like it's been a while since he was hitting high 14s on his specialist apparatus.

Joe Fraser with a pretty average 13.800 for floor - but still 0.700 better than he scored at the English Champs - backed up with 14.450 on pommel.

On the downside for Hepworth, he's withdrawn from most of the competition - only taking part on rings and P-Bars.

15.500 for Max Whitlock in qualifying on pommel. 14.400 for Jake Jarman - great to see Jarman consistently getting over 14 on an apparatus that's not necessarily his strongest.

Coverage of the evening sessions is provided by myworldofcycling.com - there's a link on the UCI website. You have to create an account, but it is free.

That's probably the most mature performance we've seen from Finucane as she defeats Friedrich in the semi-finals. She's had the speed for a while, but her tactical game is still a little hit-and-miss. Will be an interesting final against Gros.

I don't disagree with your broader point, but I think in the team sprint, you can still lose if your lead-off and second line riders aren't strong enough - even if you have the best individual sprinter on your final leg. I criticise others for sharing opinions that are little more than their hopes and wishes without them being backed up by data so I'll try and put my point across looking at the 2023 Worlds, the 2024 Europeans and Hong Kong Nations Cup - the last 3 occasions where the teams went head-to-head. Opening Lap: Cyclist '23 Worlds '24 Euros '24 HK NC Pauline Grabosch 18.945 18.650 18.935 Lauren Bell 19.036 Katy Marchant 18.750 18.763 From this small sample, whoever wins the opening lap goes on to take the title - it's not definitive but it's an important trend. One of the reasons I think Marchant gets the nod over Bell is her consistency - putting down 3 rides under 19 seconds - and in particular hitting 18.7 in the final Second Line Rider: Cyclist '23 Worlds '24 Euros '24 HK NC Emma Hinze 13.289 13.455 13.485 Sophie Capewell 13.394 13.725 13.815 Going through the data, I can't find an instance where Capewell is faster than Hinze- not saying it hasn't happened, I just can't find it in the data files I have. The question then becomes how close can Capewell go to Hinze. If she can keep it within a couple of tenths of a second, then she will put the team in a strong position. If it strays out towards half a second, then it becomes unlikely that GB will come out on top. Third Line Rider: Cyclist '23 Worlds '24 Euros '24 HK NC Lea Friedrich 13.614 13.794 13.929 Emma Finucane 13.493 13.676 13.514 The stat shows Finucane's progress over the last year - she's now consistently the fastest of the 3rd line riders. If she takes over in the lead, I don't see Friedrich being able to catch her. If she takes over 0.1 - 0.2 seconds behind, I think GB would be marginal favourites but any deficit beyond 0.2 becomes more difficult to predict. So, based on this, I would argue that the team sprint gold will be won or lost with the second-line rider. Great though Finucane is, she needs to be in touch when she takes over -she doesn't need to be ahead, but she needs to be close.

Shane Rose participation in Olympics in doubt after a heavy fall in cross country session this week. He was taken to intensive care where he received treatment for broken femur and fractured pelvis.

Mixed bag of results for in Hong Kong Great win for the women's team sprint - I think we've got our squad set for Paris now with Marchant, Capewell and Finucane. I'm not quite ready to jump on to the "they're the favourites for the Gold" bandwagon, but the team has to be regarded as the strongest medal chance in the velodrome. Men's elimination - great gold for Will Perrett who never looked in trouble but not sure it will be enough to get him a spot on the team for Paris. Men's team pursuit finished in 6th. Sure it is disappointing, but this is definitely not our top team and they still did enough to finish ahead of Belgium and China so it's done no harm to Olympic quota spot. Men's team sprint continues to be the runt of the litter. Sure they didn't have Jack Carlin in the squad but I'm not sure that he would have made much of a difference. have come on so far in the last 12-18 months that I don't see GB getting on to the podium when we get to Paris.

Women's Team Sprint

Disappointing result for women's team sprint - 47.750 and likely to finish 7th overall. Feel they really needed a top 5 finish if they wanted to put pressure on Canada for the last quota spot.

The field for the women's team pursuit is now set: is the only team who could possibly change the dynamic but in reality they won't - they already have their 2 NC scores so the maximum points score they could now register is 7000 (but to do that, they would need to win the event in Milton) so... and cannot now be caught and can therefore be regarded as qualified. have an event in hand - need to compete in Milton and post a time to qualify. have their 2 NC scores and in theory could be caught, but in reality, they won't be. both have an event in hand so assuming they compete in Milton and finish, they can't be caught. didn't compete in Adelaide or Hong Kong are still ahead of 11th placed China. Assuming they go to Milton and finish, they too will qualify.

According to the start list, Lavreyson wasn't on the team. It was Hoogland, Kool and Van den Berg.

Strange that the men's team sprint aren't competing in Hong Kong - they were shown on the entry lists published at the end of February.

squad confirmed for the IAAF Cross Country World Championships later this month. GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND TEAM ARE BELGRADE-BOUND FOR THE 2024 WORLD ATHLETICS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS | British Athletics By my quick tally, that's a team of 22 athletes and 9 support staff - broadly in line with the size of teams we sent to Bathurst last year and to Aarhus in 2019. Hopefully this will be enough to put a stop to the nonsense notion that UKA's financial woes will prevent us from sending a squad to Rome for the Europeans.

Start lists for this weekend's Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong are up on UCI website.

Championships got underway today in Liverpool with the juniors and disability athletes getting the action started. From an Olympic selection perspective, the main event kicks off on Saturday - unfortunately I've not been able to track down an official entry list. On the men's side, it will be interesting to see if Regini-Moran is fit and able to compete. For the women, the focus will be on who can raise their game enough to get on to the squad. In the absence of Gadriova, there are 2 places up for grabs.

Going into this week, I think the minimum we would have expected would have been 2-3 quotas so to come away with the lower end of that has to be viewed as disappointing.

Despite the best efforts of GB Boxing to spin this week as a great success, objectively this is the second consecutive qualifying tournament where the squad has under delivered and as @Cinnamon Bun says, unless there is a dramatic shift in performance/luck in Bangkok, are heading for the smallest boxing squad since Beijing with no obvious medal contenders. Comparing to 2020 is difficult - the number of quotas has dropped by around 50 or so and the weight classes have been changed, but it's pretty obvious that the current crop of athletes haven't performed at the same level as the squad for Tokyo: In 2020 GB qualified 11 boxers at the European qualification event. In 2023 GB qualified 3 boxers at the European qualification event. If you adjust the 2020 European qualification event results to apply the 2024 quotas, GB would have qualified 8 boxers - 5 men (52Kg, 63Kg, 69Kg, 80Kg and +91Kg) and 3 women (51Kg, 60Kg and 75Kg). Conversely, if you applied the 2023 European Games results to the Tokyo quotas, GB would only have qualified 2 men (51Kg and +92Kg) and 2 women (54Kg and 66Kg).

seem to be having a bit of 'mare in these quota fights - 0-3 so far.