Rafa Maciel

Ultimately, I guess it comes down to personal preference about which source to use - I prefer to use the UCI ranking as they the "golden-source" and I can trace the data lineage. Also I realised that PCS was publishing incorrect data for the women's tour ranking which rang alarm bells about their processes.

Looks like racked up another qualifier last week's Brussels Diamond League meeting with Jess Warner-Judd posting a new PB of 14:51.53 for 5000m.

Lahore dropped as host of Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Men's Olympic hockey qualifier withdrawn from Pakistan (insidethegames.biz)

I think got a 2nd quota for the men's time trial with a top 10 finish at the world champs, but the women didn't so they should only have 1 spot in the TT.

Given Llewelin's crap individual performance yesterday, that is a depressing result.

With the latest release of the UCI world rankings, it is beginning to look like men are going to miss out on qualifying a full team for Paris. Of the British ranking riders only Hugh Carthy and Geraint Thomas were taking part in the Vuelta and they are currently only going to pick up around 200 ranking points. In fact, Geraint Thomas looks to be just going through the motions and if he loses much more time over the remaining stages, he will fail to win any ranking points for the final classification. In contrast, there were 4 ranking riders for Spain at the Vuelta and they are having a blinder. They are currently on track for almost 2,500 ranking points from the event - around 700 more than they won in the 2022 edition. That will probably move around 500 points ahead of in the next world ranking. There are still a fair number of events on the men's tour but the numbers don't look great for GB and their best hope may be for to drop back. The only upside for team GB is the fact that they are defending far fewer points than either France or Spain between now and the ranking window closing, but going against them is the fact that a quarter of their ranking riders (Cavendish & Geoghan Hart) are recovering from injury so are not competing and it is likely that GB wont send a team to take part in the European championships.

Yeah - we really needed to be picking up a couple of extra quotas through the world champs. On the rankings - isn't there an Italian who is also ranked ahead of him?

Yet another frustrating performance from Team GB but one that feels like it has been repeated across a lot of sports - the team started the Olympic cycle strongly but not bringing their A-Game when it really matters. Realistically Llewellin is down to the 2 last opportunities to get a quota - next year's European Shotgun Champs and the Final Qualifying Tournament - and I am not confident that he's going to do it. To make it worse, he and Amber Rutter would have been a strong pairing for the Mixed Skeet Event.

He was there for ranking points only so wasn't eligible for progression to the final.

Anyone have a site for live scores - the SIUS site is killing me

By my reckoning, we have 5 weeks of action left on the road before the Paris quotas are set so though it would be good to see where we are in the fight for Olympic Road Cycling quotas starting with the women. Women's Tour 05-Sep - 11-Sep: Class 1 Stage Event: Tour Cycliste Feminin International De l'Ardeche 13-Sep: Class 1 1 Day Event: Grisette Grand Prix De Wallonie 15-Sep: Class 1 1 Day Event: Chrono Feminin De La Gatineau 16-Sep: Class 1 1 Day event: Tour De Gatineau 15-Sep - 17-Sep: World Tour Event: Tour De Romandie Feminin 15-Sep - 16-Sep: Class 2 Stage Event: AG Tour De La Semois 17-Sep: Class 2 1 Day Event: Grand Prix International D'Isbergues - Pas De Calais Feminin 30-Sep: 1 Day ProSeries: Giro Dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 3-Oct: Class 2 1 Day Event: GP Internacional De Ciclismo De Santa Catarina Femenina 3-Oct: Class 1 1 Day Event: Binche Chimay Binche Pour Dames 3-Oct: Class 1 1 Day Event: Tre Valli Varesine Women's Race 4-Oct: Class 2 1 Day event: GP Urubici De Ciclismo Femenina 5-Oct: Class 2 1 Day Event: Grand Tour De Ciclismo De SC Femenina 10-Oct - 11-Oct: Class 2 Stage Event: Tour of Wenzhou 12-Oct - 14-Oct: World Tour Event: Tour of Chongming Island In addition to the 15 UCI events, there is also the European Road Cycling Championships at the end of September. This, and the fact that most of the events in October are taking place in Asia or South America mean it is unlikely that we will see a huge number of the top ranked European riders in action in October so we should know where the big team quotas for Paris are going to go before the qualification window officially closes. At the moment, and are pretty much nailed on for full team of 4 riders. That will leave and fighting it out for the remaining 2 spots to get full team of 4 riders. All the indications are that it could be very close. Australia is currently sitting in 4th with 5,330 points. They were defending around 350 points from last year's SIMAC tour but their results this year were not as strong so their points total should drop to around 5,000 next week. They will need strong performances from Amanda Spratt, Brodie Chapman and Ruby Roseman-Gannon in next week's Tour De Romandie if they want to secure a top five finish. Switzerland is currently in 5th place in the world ranking with 5,146 points. They weren't defending any points from SIMAC tour and are only defending around 200 points between now and the ranking cut off in October, so they are on track to finish ahead of Australia. With both Marlen Reusser and Elise Chabbey in the Tour De Romandie, at this stage I'd say it is highly likely that Switzerland should end up with full team of 4 riders for Paris. France is in 6th place with 5,108 points but they have not defended their 400 points from last year's SIMAC tour. This loss will be off-set by points gained in the Tour De l'Ardeche but because it is a Class 1 event, the off-setting points will only be in the range of 40-50 so I expect their points total to drop down to around 4,700 next week. At the moment, I think the only ranking French rider to be scheduled to take part in the Tour De Romandie is Juliette Labous which is going to make it difficult for them to maintain their push for top five finish unless they have stellar European Champs. Great Britain currently has 4,686 points and are in 7th place in the world rankings. They are defending a little over 300 points between now and the close of the ranking window including 170 points from the SIMAC tour. Both Anna Henderson and Pfeiffer Georgi had a strong SIMAC tour this year and between them picked up over 600 ranking points. That would take them to around 5117 points and should be enough to move them ahead of both France and possibly Australia. Next week Anna Shackley, Claire Steels and Lizzie Deignan are all scheduled to line up for the Tour De Romandie and will hope to accumulate some additional points to keep them in the hunt for top five. Ideally, they would like at least 1 rider in the top 10 or 2 within the top 20 but it is classy field so it may come down to hoping that Australia don't outscore them. At the moment, I think that the battle for the fifth place in the rankings and the final full quota team is likely to be between Australia and Great Britain. In theory, Britain should have a slight edge by virtue of the fact that they have the continental championships to come - but for some reason (probably smugness) GB Cycling haven't taken part in the European champs for the last few years so they are potentially writing off perhaps 100 extra ranking points which seems like a mad decision. Without the extra European Champs points, it really could go either way - my calculations have GB ahead by a little over 100 points - but may come down to how well each team does in the Tour De Romandie.

Weekly round up of some of this week's action on the road: Men's Events Tour of Britain 1.) Wout Van Aert 2.) Tobias Halland Johannessen 3.) Damien Howson Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec 1.) Arnaud De Lie 2.) Corbin Strong 3.) Michael Matthews Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal 1.) Adam Yates 2.) Pavel Sivakov 3.) Alex Aranburu Deba Women's Events SIMAC Ladies Tour 1.) Lotte Kopecky 2.) Lorena Wiebes 3.) Anna Henderson

I was quite surprised that didn't put Miles Devereaux into the Single Sculls. Although he eventually finished in 7th place, he put in a great performance at the Under 23 Worlds this year and he was in Belgrade as a reserve so definitely think that was a missed opportunity. As for the final regatta I would guess GB will be targeting the single and double sculls boats (not expecting them to go after the lightweight double sculls) but I think we'll be lucky if we get 2 additional quotas.

A lot depends on how many tournaments she is going to enter but realistically there are only two big set pieces left this year for her - the Taiyuan Grand Prix and the Manchester Grand-Prix Final. Outside of those there are G-1 level tournaments pretty much every week that she could take part in but in all likelihood, she's not going to compete in the immediate run-up or aftermath of those 2 big events so that probably leaves her with a maximum of 4 G-1 Level events that she could fit into her schedule: 23-Sept: Belgrade Open (G-1 Level) 10 Points 10-Oct: Taiyuan Grand Pric (G-6 Level) 60 Points 21-Oct: Qatar Oper (G-1 Level) 10 Points 28-Oct: Either Dracula Open or Swedish Open (G-1 Level) 10 Points 3-Nov: Cyprus Open (G-1 Level) 10 Points 11-Nov: French Open (G-1 Level) 10 Points 2-Dec: Manchester Grand-Prix Final (G-10 Level) 100 Points So, if she went all out for qualification and won everything there would be around 200 points available but worth bearing in mind that competitors from Asia and Pan-American region will also have their continental championships (G-4 Level) in this window. Before everyone piles in - I am not saying she is going to win everything or that it is highly likely that she is going to qualify. I am simply making the case that there is a very narrow path for her to qualify through the rankings. I think that the picture will be much clearer after Taiyuan - if she goes out in the early rounds, then the path to qualification probably won't be there for her.

Potentially some early indications that Lauren Williams is going to chase qualifying points - she appears on the entry list for the Serbia Open later this month. It is just G1 level event so only 10 points on offer for the winner. I think she has probably left herself too much to do but it is good to see that she isn't going to give up without a fight.

Karlovy Vary World Cup Men 1.) Morgan Pearson 2.) Mark Devay 3.) Jonas Schomburg . Women 1.) Gwen Jorgensen 2.) Rachel Klamer 3.) Marlene Gomez-Goggel This is Jorgensen's 2nd consecutive win at World Cup level after she also won in Valencia last weekend.

Les Portes du Soleil World Cup Men's Short Course 1.) Victor Koretzky 2.) Jordan Sarrou 3.) Luca Schwarzbauer Women's Short Course 1.) Puck Pieterse 2.) Evie Richards 3.) Alessandra Keller Men's Cross Country 1.) Victor Koretzky 2.) Nino Schurter 3.) Vlad Dascalu Women's Cross Country 1.) Mona Mitterwallner 2.) Puck Pieterse 3.) Pauline Ferrand Prevot

It was the only positive spin I could come up with

IFSC World Cup Koper Lead Men 1. Sorato Anraku 2. Jesse Grupper 3. Alberto Gines Lopez Lead Women: 1. Janja Garnbret 2. Ai Mori 3. Vita Lukan

I think it means they wont be eligible for the Pan-Am continental qualifier so miss out on possible extra quotas.

To be fair you do have 3 golds in the non-Olympic classes and Italy remains the top lightweight nation, it just didn't quite come together for the Olympic boats.

According to the qualification pathway document, as the quota was won at the World Championships, it should be reallocated to the next athlete from the World Champs - so it would go to Bulgaria.

Realistically this is only an administrative issue. Under the terms of the qualification document, World Rowing will write to the NOCs within the next week to confirm the quotas that have been won at the World Champs - with the "neutral" athletes, that isn't going to be possible. Given the IOC clearly want Russia/Belarus to be in Paris, the quota will not be confirmed until they can figure out the logistics of making that happen. However if neutral Belarussians are not allowed to attend or decide that the restrictions placed on them are too great so they tell the IOC to F***-Off, then the quota will be reallocated to Bulgaria - but the chances that it will be a while before the issue is resolved.

Digging into the archive, there was an exception in the qualification document which allowed you to qualify two boats at the continental champs where the nation wins both events and had not secured any quotas at the World Champs - Russia/ROC won both the women's single sculls and the women's lightweight double sculls so qualified both boats.

If you already have 1 boat qualified, you can only win 1 extra quota at the continental championship. You can enter multiple boats to the continental championship but if more than 1 end up in a qualifying position, the NOC have to decide which quota they will accept and the rest would be reallocated.