Rafa Maciel

Results from Qualification 2: pdfjoiner (2)(29).pdf (agf.az)

Qualification results from AGF Trophy in Baku, Azerbaijan: pdfjoiner(82).pdf (agf.az)

Josh Tarling seems to be continuing his good form in the individual time trial event, winning the first stage of the O Gran Camino. I say "seems" because it doesn't really count for much! Due to high winds, it was a neutralised stage, the riders were on normal road bikes and some riders were just going through the motions. Still, I'm in a glass half full kind of mood whilst waiting for BMX racing to start so thought I'd post it anyhow.

Following completion of their trials, have confirmed 3 crews will go forward to the last chance regatta: Womens Pair: Alana Sherman / Kate Haines - Not a huge surprise given the paring finished 13th at last year's world championships so could/should be in with a shout of getting 1 of the 2 quotas available. Women's Quadruple Sculls: Isabella Carter / Kathryn Glen / Georgia Nugent-O'Leary / Laura Glen - Didn't compete in the event in '23 WC or in the world cup series. Nugent-O'Leary competed in Tokyo and finished 8th in W4x. Men's Quadruple Sculls: Ben Mason / Flynn Watson / Zack Rumble / Jack Ready - As with the women, they didn't compete at World Champs or on the world cup. so difficult to gauge performance.

Round 3 getting underway in Brisbane within the next couple of hours

Peter Sagan reportedly had minor heart surgery today which will take him out of action for at least a few days - safe to assume he won't be lining up at this weekend's Shimano Supercup event in Banyoles.

No Laura Kenny on the start list - doesn't look likely that she is going to be figuring in Team GB squad for Paris.

They are currently 6th but... still have their continental championships to come so will gain 600+ points and would overtake France did not compete at Adelaide Nations Cup and France did so Netherlands still have 2 events to count whereas France only have 1 more

Asian Continental championships get underway in New Dehli later today.

Dates for the remaining Trampoline World Cup events for inclusion in world rankings: 23-Feb: Baku, Azerbaijan 22-Mar: Cottbus, Germany

Dates for the remaining World Cup events for inclusion in Olympic Ranking: 22-Feb: Cottbus, Germany 7-Mar: Baku, Azerbaijan 17-Apr: Doha, Qatar

So as things stand, I would assume that Emile Cairess and Phill Sesemann should be in a position to have their selection confirmed after this week's selection meeting. A 3rd spot isn't out of the question if things can come together in London. Unfortunately I can't find a provisional entry list but perhaps best hope will be Mahamed Mahamed (2:08.40 Valencia '23) as I am assuming that Jonathan Mellor wont be doing another spring marathon after Seville. On the women's side, I think there are 8 athletes with the standard - Charlotte Purdue, Calli Thackery, Rose Harvey, Clara Evans, Lily Partridge, Samantha Harrison, Natasha Wilson and Georgina Schwiening. Assuming they are injury free, Purdue and Thackery will likely get the nod for early selection given they are about 3 minutes faster than the rest of the qualifiers. Not sure if Jess Piasecki is looking to run the London marathon but she was another 2:22.25 in 2022 so is possibly another athlete who could challenge for a spot is she has recovered from injury.

Source data for the rankings: FIG - Event Detail - 17041 (gymnastics.sport) Select the ranking information from the event files option.

Trampoline Ranking 2024 OG RANKING LIST after Birmingham to be published.pdf

and for the women: WAG - Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List - 1 of 4.pdf

Stumbled across this on the FIG website which should help: MAG - Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List - 1 of 4.pdf

In theory, UK Athletics should have held their first selection meeting for marathon team yesterday. I am assuming that no athlete was selected in Round 1 by virtue of the fact that they did not finish in the top 8 at last year's World Championships but would have expected they would have made selection of 1-2 athletes under round 2 criteria.

I don't think can take both quotas in the women's balance beam so second quota would go to

I wonder how many of the fouls in Budapest were fouls that would have left a mark in the plasticine as opposed to simply breaking the vertical plane of the take-off line.

Which ranking are you using because I thought and are all ranked higher than and is ahead of ?

Yeah - last 16 is the best we can hope for unfortunately. Having said that, the draw wouldn't have been much better had we been second in the table - in last 32 and then

through as runner-up in the group. / scrape through to the knock out rounds by virtue of having won more games than

looking at a DSQ for one of their players in the final group match of round 2 - because the racquet/bat failed inspection. That would give the tie to but nobody really seems to know what is going on. If that is the case, & would all be tied on 2-2.

The weather conditions seem to be pretty miserable so far - they could only race on the afternoon of Day 1 so were only able to get 1 race in. There was no racing possible yesterday because of the conditions. They are racing today however so updated results should be available later.