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Men's Pommel: 1.) Max Whitlock - 15.100 2.) Joe Fraser - 14.700 3.) James Hall - 14.300 3.) Jake Jarman - 14.300 5.) Danny Crouch - 13.850 6.) Patrick Watkinson - 13.650 7.) Luke Whitehouse - 13.100 8.) Winston Powell - 12.450 8.) Henry Brooker - 12.450 10.) Courtney Tulloch - 12.400 Great to see Whitlock taking the title and that score would be enough to put him into an Olympic final - in fact it would have been enough to win the World title last year. Would still like to see him consistently hitting 15.300 though if he wants to take the gold medal in Paris. 14.700 would likely see Joe Fraser into the individual final. In 2022 World Champs, he scored a 10.466 and a 13.166 in the individual AA. If he can hit 14.xxx consistently on the pommel, that will be huge help to overall team score. 14.300 for both Jake Jarman and James Hall is higher than they achieved in the World champs last year so definitely looks like both have made some good progress over the winter. If we can have Whitlock hitting a low-mid 15s backed up by Fraser and Jarman/Hall hitting mid 14s the team could potentially hit 44.000 for the apparatus which would be huge in terms of offsetting our lower scores on the other apparatus.

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Men's 10m Platform Final: 1.) Hao Yang - 533.00 2.) Randal Willars Valdez - 530.90 3.) Junjie Lian - 514.65 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.) Nathan Zsombor-Murray - 496.10 5.) Cassiel Rousseau - 481.00 6.) Rylan Wiens - 479.35 7.) Noah WIlliams - 478.75 8.) Kyle Kothari - 463.75 9.) Brandon Loschiavo - 452.15 10.) Timo Barthel - 412.50 11.) Bertrand Rhodict Anak Lises - 389.85 12.) Carlos Camacho Del Hoyo - 357.00

Today was the English Artistic Championships - a key designated selection event for the team on the road to Paris. My quick takes: 1.) Joe Fraser is back on form 2.) Courtney Tulloch's pace on the team is looking increasingly under threat. 3.) Giarnni Regini-Moran's comeback may have gone off the rails slightly - he was on the start list but doesn't seem to have taken part. 4.) Jake Jarman hasn't made the kind of progress that would make him a factor in the all around - but it does look like he has improved on pommel. 5.) With Jessica Gadirova out of action, the women's team is definitely depleted - only 3 scores over 14.000 and all of them coming on the uneven bars. 5.) Ondine Achampong looks in good form but at the moment would be unlikely to make individual apparatus finals but could be top 8 in all-around. 6.) Alice Kinsella has a love-hate relationship with the balance beam and today it was very much hate. Will go through the results in details over the next few hours (depending on how long Katie Boulter's match in San Diego lasts)

I know the Scots have a reputation of being tight with their money, but those medal presentations really are pretty pathetic. No mascot and the flowers look like they've come straight from the verge of the motorway.

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Women's 3m Springboard Final: 1.) Yiwen Chen - 395.60 2.) Sarah Bacon - 356.40 3.) Yani Chang - 344.40 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 4.) Maddison Keeney - 343.05 5.) Pamela Ware - 339.75 6.) Scarlett Mew Jensen - 338.40 7.) Grace Reid - 333.50 8.) Chiara Pellacani - 301.75 9.) Georgia Sheehan - 295.30 10.) Saskia Oettinghaus - 273.10 11.) Lena Hentschel - 256.20 12.) Aimee Wilson - 248.85

Men's 51Kg: Kiaran Macdonald will fight Istvan Szaka in round 1 Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris-Allan will fight Jose Luis De Lo Santos Feliz in round 1 Men's 63.5Kg: Patris Mughalzai is up against Samuel Contreras in round 1 Men's 71Kg: Lewis Richardson fights Nishant Dev in round 1 Men's 80Kg: Taylor Bevan fights Pylyp Akilov in round 1 Men's 92Kg: Patrick Brown has a bye in round 1 and will fight Ilioski Boban in round of 32.

After a bit of a disappointing set of results at European Games, hopefully we can add a few quotas this week. Women's 50Kg: Savannah Stubley has a bye in round 1 and will fight either Nicole Durikova or Rinka Kinoshita in the round of 32. Women's 57Kg: Elise Glynn has a bye in round 1 and will fight Jekaterina Sorokina in round of 32. Women's 60Kg: Shona Whitwell has a bye in round 1 and will fight Donjeta Sadiku in round of 32. Women's 75Kg: Chantelle Reid will fight Eyed Angel George in round 1.

2024 1st World Qualification Tournament – Athlete 365 Boxing

Confirmed Entry List: C32A__ALL.pdf (athlete365.org)

Draws finally available

Sienna Harvey takes 1st place in the women's junior event at the Vaucluse Provence. More importantly, she also picks up 25 ranking points and we start to chip away at Colombia's advantage. Hopefully she can repeat the performance tomorrow and is planning on taking part in some of the upcoming European Cup events.

It's less to do with "reputation" and more to do with actual results. Across '23 season, finished in silver across all 3 World Cup events and the World Champs - despite both Laugher and Harding having injuries earlier in the season. In terms of Harding's consistency - again the data doesn't back that up - he consistently hits at least 7.0 across the 1st 4 dives in his program. His scores do dropdown to 6s in the forward 4 and half somersault in tuck (3.8) and in the forward 2 and half somersault 3 twists in pike (3.9). Also worth pointing out that the GB pair were comfortably heading for a medal in Doha until they had a dropped dive - but the dropped dive came from Laugher and not Harding.

2024 Diving World Cup Leg 1 - Montreal Women's 10m Platform Synchro - Final Result: 1.) Hongchan Quan / Yuxi Chen - 368.82 2.) Andrea Spendolini sirieix / Lois Toulson - 301.14 3.) Gabriela Agundez Garcia / Alejandra Orozco Loza - 297.84 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4.) Kate Miller / Caelie McKay - 287.91 5.) Sofia Lyskun / Kseniia Bailo - 276.54 6.) Ana Carvajal / Valeria Antolino - 260.43 7.) Elena Wassen / Christina Wassen - 250.14 8.) Anna Lemkin / Kaylee Bishop - 248.94

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