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Hadn't pick up on this earlier, but 's Jack Dryden has withdrawn from tournament and has been replaced by Owain Harris-Allan.

Highly doubt that - it's difficult to gauge their performance potential because haven't competed much on the circuit with exception of Pan-Ams and World Champs, but will likely start as marginal favourite for silver with and in the mix for the podium.

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Men's 3m Springboard Synchro - Final Result: 1.) Daoyi Long / Zongyuan Wang - 464.79 2.) Jack Laugher / Anthony Harding - 410.64 3.) Rodrigo Diego Lopez / Osmar Olvera Ibarra - 409.71 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4.) Nicolas Garcia Boissier / Adrian Abadia - 372.87 5.) Moritz Wesemann / Alexander Lube - 360.03 6.) Lorenzo Marsaglia / Giovanni Tocci - 357.57 7.) Kacper Lesiak / Andrzej Rzeszutek - 344.67 8.) Danylo Konovalov / Oleg Kolodiy - 343.89 9.) Greg Duncan / Tyler Downs - 338.97 10.) Yohan Dion Eskerick-Parkinson / Yona Knight-Wisdom - 320.13

UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup - Enoshima Men's Elite: 1.) Anthony Jeanjean 2.) Logan Martin 3.) Nick Bruce Women's Elite: 1.) Hannah Roberts 2.) Macarena Perez Grasset 3.) Yawen Deng

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Men's 3m Springboard Finalists: Zongyuan Wang - 522.15 Osmar Olvera Ibarra - 470.95 Jiuyuan Zheng - 453.40 Giovanni Tocci - 429.65 Shixin Li - 429.15 Jack Laugher - 423.45 Moritz Wesemann - 408.00 Yona Knight-Wisdom - 401.70 Lars Rudiger - 397.95 Cedric Fofana - 387.75 Lorenzo Marsaglia - 387.50 Rodrigo Diego Lopez - 385.65 Men's 10m Platform Finalists: Hao Yang - 516.00 Junjie Lian - 484.40 Noah WIlliams - 474.50 Brandon Loschiavo - 466.80 Cassiel Rousseau - 462.25 Kyle Kothari - 453.45 Rylan Wiens - 431.85 Timo Barthel - 412.05 Nathan Zsombor-Murray - 411.75 Randal Willars Valdez - 407.75 Bertrand Rhodict Anak Lises - 406.80 Carlos Camacho Del Hoyo - 403.35

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Following excitement of Doha, the Diving World Cup kicked off in Montreal this weekend. Preliminaries are complete with finals taking place on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed 3m & 10m Team - Final Result: 1.) (Chen / Wang / Chen / Yang) 2.) (Spendolini Sirieix / Harding / Daley / Harper) 3.) (Rousseau / Keeney / Li / Hains) Women's 3m Springboard Finalists: Yiwen Chen - 359.40 Yani Chang - 339.60 Maddison Keeney - 338.05 Scarlett Mew Jensen - 317.20 Chiara Pellacani - 317.10 Pamela Ware - 309.50 Georgia Sheehan - 307.50 Saskia Oettinghaus - 301.95 Sarah Bacon - 293.10 Lena Hentschel - 284.05 Grace Reid - 279.35 Aimee Wilson - 279.00 Women's 10m Platform Finalists: Hongchan Quan - 421.00 Yuxi Chen - 412.85 Caeli McKay - 352.15 Gabriela Agundez Garcia - 346.10 Andrea Spendolini Sirieix - 339.30 Alejandra Orozco Loza - 326.80 Valeria Antolino - 321.55 Sarah Jodoin Di Maria - 319.75 Lois Toulson - 312.90 Kate Miller - 308.05 Christina Wassen - 292.25 Emily Meaney - 281.10

Today was the Boxing Entries Check and organisers won't be able to release the entry list until that is completed and signed off.

Haven't done one of these for a while but this weekend has one of the big domestic events for artistic gymnastics so thought it was worth taking a look at Artistic Gymnastics Policy Document(s): mag-paris-oly-policy-final.pdf wag-paris-oly-policy-final.pdf Key Points: Although separate policy documents, the process is essentially the same. Medal target for men's squad is 1-2 medals. Likewise for the women, the target has been set as 1-2 medals. Selection panel meeting 20-21 May with announcements likely to be made from 29-May. There is no individual selection event - instead performance is assessed across 13 Designated Selection Events across '23 & '24. In order to be considered for the squad, gymnasts are required to have achieved minimum performance standard for each apparatus at one or more of the DSEs. Performance Factors to be Considered by Panel: Athletes scoring potential to win a medal or achieve the performance targets at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games. Current performance form in the build-up to nomination at the DSEs. Consistent performance form in the build-up to nomination at the DSEs. Major Championship and International performance standards in 2023 & 2024. Engagement with the World Class Programme including adherence to agreed Individual Athlete Plan Current medical and injury status including recent training history and any additional extenuating circumstances. Designated Selection Events: European Championships- April 2023 FIG World Challenge Cups – May-September 2023 National Club Team Championships - October 2023 Senior World Championships September 2023 Apparatus World Cup – Cairo (EGY) - 15th-18th February 2024 Apparatus World Cup – Cottbus (GER) – 22nd-24th February 2024 English Championships – Telford (ENG) - 1st-3rd March 2024 Apparatus World Cup – Baku (AZE) - 7th – 10th March 2024 British Championships – Liverpool - 17-21st March 2024 Apparatus World Challenge Cup – Antalya (TUR) – 29th – 31st Mar 2024 Apparatus World Challenge Cup – Osijek (CRO) – 4th – 7th Apr 2024 Apparatus World Cup -Doha (QAT) – 17th – 20th Apr 2024 Senior European Championships – Rimini (ITA) – 2nd – 5th May 2024 Additional Factors: Both Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova are currently injured and are in middle of rehab at Bisham Abbey's Intensive Rehab Unit. Jennifer Gadirova missed pretty much all of '23 season with an injury and then had ankle surgery (arthroscopy) in early January. Jessica Gadirova had ACL tear at World Champs and is about 3 months into her rehab program.

Yeah - Realistically we probably can confirm about 90% of the quotas across the 4 team events but there are a couple of interesting battles to keep an eye on. Women's Team Pursuit: The field is pretty much set. The only potential change is whether China will be able to overtake Japan for the 10th and final quota - but it is difficult to see how they can find the additional 400 points that they would need. So realistically, I think the current top-10 will be the line-up for Paris. Women's Team Sprint: One of most interesting of the events where there is still scope for significant changes in the line-up. The biggest question of all likely to be whether can secure a quota. In my opinion, they are in a tight fight with and for spots 7 & 8. the Dutch are likely to be safe given they still have 2 NC events to count so it will probably come down to straight fight between Canada and France. There's around a 300-point gap to close. Situation slightly complicated by the fact that Canada don't appear to be competing in Hong Kong (although some contributors here have expressed doubt on that point) Men's Team Pursuit: I think the field is pretty much set - thankfully have managed to pull themselves back to the middle of the pack with their last couple of performances. There is a bit of a battle between and for the last spot but looks likely that Belgium will ultimately take the final quota. Men's Team Sprint: Extremely tight battle between and for the final quota with the teams separated by just 45 points. The current entry lists for Hong Kong don't have Canada entered and Poland have been showing some good form so they may just have the edge.

There are only 3 qualifying events left (and for most just 2) Nations Cup: Round 2 - Hong Kong 15-Mar Round 3 - Milton 12-Apr Continental Champs: Pan American Champs 3-Apr For Team Pursuit, a maximum of 3200 points are available from NC events with further 900 for either Canada or USA from Cont. Champs. For Team Sprint, a maximum of 2400 points are available from NC events with further 675 for Canada, USA or Mexico from Cont. Champs.

1st marathon runners confirmed - Phil Sesemann, Charlotte Purdue and Calli Hauger-Thackery. No real surprised except perhaps for exclusion of Emile Cairess. Given he ran a 60 minute half marathon at the weekend, he's obviously fit and he is the only other British man to have the standard so can't see an obvious reason no to select him now.

Olympic Marathon Selection 1st tranche of marathon selections have been announced: Men: Phil Sesemann - PB/SB 2:08.02 at Seville Marathon '24 Women: Charlotte Purdue - PB 2:22.17 from McKirdy Micro Marathon Oct '23 Calli Hauger-Thackery PB 2:22.11 from Berlin Marathon Sep '23 Assume second tranche will be selected after London Marathon

Yeah I gave up looking through the World Aquatics site looking for the calendar so figured I'd post it anyhow as it feels like it's been a while since GB had anybody new hitting an OQT. Now all she needs to do is repeat it at next week's Edinburgh International meet for it to count for World Aquatics and then again in April at British Champs for it to count for British Swimming! What could be simpler?

Yeah - I am loathed to get too excited about swimmers getting the qualifying time this early in year as it really wont mean anything if they don't perform at trials. That being said, from what I have seen so far, most of our squad are performing ahead of where they were this time last year so the signs are generally positive. Will be interesting to see if we'll get any new qualifiers next week at the Edinburgh International meet.

BUCS Long Course Swimming Championships 2023-24 - Sheffield (GRE) February 23rd - February 25th 2024 Women's 100m Breast Angharad Evans - 1:06.65 BUCS Long Course Swimming Championships 2023-24

Angharad Evans achieved the OQT this weekend with a new PB 1:06.65 at the BUCS Long Course Championship BTW, we are getting dangerously close to the 30 athlete cap that British Swimming have in their selection document. Really hoping that a few more can be added to the list to give selectors a real dilemma.

I would tend to agree that 2 & 1 would probably be a fair representation of where GB is in the sport. I do find it surprising that we don't have more female riders in the discipline though - I remember there was a lot of excitement about the event back in 2012 but it doesn't seem to have fed through into increased number of riders at the elite level.

I did a quick calculation on another thread - the men should have moved back into a top 5 position this week ahead of both US and NED but the women lost more ground to both AUS and COL and are currently in 6th place so would only get 1 rider.

This isn't an exhaustive list of all the events that are scheduled before the qualifying window closes - there are other Class 1/Hors Class events in South America and in Asia but looking at historical results, the big names don't tend to compete in them. So I think the calendar for the main contenders is going to look something like this: 2-Mar Vaucluse Provence: Sarrians, France (Class 1) 3-Mar Vaucluse Provence: Sarrians, France (Class 1) 9-Mar European Cup Round 1: Sarrians, France (Class 1) 10-Mar European Cup Round 2: Sarrians, France (Hors Class) 30-Mar European Cup Round 3: Zolder, Belgium (Class 1) 31-Mar European Cup Round 4: Zolder, Belgium (Hors Class) 4-Apr Olympic Test Event - NB: Not sure if this event will provide ranking points 13-Apr European Cup Round 5: Benatky nad Jizerou, Czechia (Class 1) 13-Apr Continental Championship - Americas 14-Apr European Cup Round 6: Benatky nad Jizerou, Czechia (Hors Class) 27-Apr World Cup Round 5: Oklahoma 28-Apr World Cup Round 6: Oklahoma 12-May World Championship 29-May Continental Championship - Asia 29-May Continental Championship - Europe 4-Jun Final Olympic Ranking

have confirmed their first squad selection for sport climbing: Men's Speed - Julian David Women's Speed - Sarah Tetzlaff

With his 5th place finish, Stamp should move to 70 points - just 6 behind Gouzou. In order for Stamp to qualify a second place for in Paris, he will need to finish at least 4th at the final event in Cottbus.

AGF Trophy - Baku Men's Individual: 1.) - Wang Zisai - 62.160 2.) - Yan Langyu - 61.990 3.) - Ivan Litvinovich - 60.440 4.) - Julian Chartier - 59.780 5.) - Andrew Stamp - 59.560 6.) - Pedro Ferreira - 59.190 7.) - Gabriel Albuquerque - 30.560 8.) - Andrei Builou - 25.230

Yeah Hutt's points count towards the ranking - it's Shriever, Emily Hutt and Sienna Harvey - but realistically at the moment it is just Shriever and Hutt who are active on the circuit and scoring points. By my calculations we've fallen further behind Colombia this weekend because both Pajon and Bolle Carrillo had decent results whereas neither Shriever or Hutt were really on their game.

Estimated Olympic rankings after 2024 World Cup Round 4: Men 1 - 15647 2 - 11686 ------------------------------------ 3 - 9300 4 - 8422 5 - 8290 ------------------------------------ 6 - 7789 Should be a big move for the boys this weekend, having taken advantage of a bit of a weaker field. The team the biggest losers - they rely a fair amount on Niek Kimmann and he wasn't in Brisbane. Women 1 - 15411 2 - 12707 --------------------------------------- 3 - 11511 4 - 10862 5 - 9257 ---------------------------------------- 6 - 8887 had a pretty poor weekend and are likely to have lost more ground to in the battle for 5th place. Part of the challenge for GB is that they only have 2 active riders, so they rely heavily on Shriever.

I am just more reluctant to make medal predictions until I know who it on the team. On the upside, the performance of the GB guys this weekend should put them ahead of both and and in a position to get 2 individual riders.