Rafa Maciel

Given how poorly both Rutter and Llewellin performed in the individual event, I am surprised that they are in the hunt for a medal.

Triathlon Mixed Relay 1.) 2.) 3.) Germany taking the win by 1 second ahead of Team GB to deny the clean sweep of Olympic events. Perhaps surprisingly, home favourites - who put out one of their strongest squads - could only finish 4th Evidently the water quality issues continued so there was no swim leg.

Zagreb Grand Prix Results - Day 2 Men's 73Kg 1. Jorge Cano Garcia 2. Messaoud Redouane Dris 3. Martin Hojak & Bakhitzhan Abdurakhmanov Men's 81Kg 1. Sagi Muki 2. Medickson Del Orbe Cortorreal 3. Askerbii Gerbekov & Mykhailo Svidrak Women's 63Kg 1. Lucy Renshall 2. Kim Jisu 3. Lubjana Piovesana & Prisca Awiti Alcaraz Women's 70Kg 1. Lara Cvjetko 2. Barbara Matic 3. Irene Pedrotti & Anka Pogacnik

Yeah - I got called away in the midst of updating the 2nd bronze winners

That's got to count as a bit of a shocker for Germany

Beckett was always at risk after he picked up the BFD in race 5 - you can afford to have 1 bad race but not too. On the upside for him, he was the most consistent sailor across the course of the regatta so will be right in the medal hunt next year - assuming he gets the nod over Eliott Hanson - but on the downside, this is the second regatta where he has led (and led well) in the early stages only to lose out to Wearn after the same thing happened at the Paris test event.

Zagreb Grand Prix Results - Day 1 Men's 60Kg 1. Dilshot Khalmatov 2. Ahmad Yusifov 3. Salih Yildiz & Theo Raoul Hebrard Men's 66Kg 1. William Lima 2. Sardor Nurillaev 3. Aibolat Ystybay & Mukhriddin Tilovov Women's 48Kg 1. Mireia Lapuerta Comas 2. Milica Nikolic 3. Marusa Stangar & Laura Martinez Abelenda Women's 52Kg 1. Jessica Pereira 2. Soumiya Iraoui 3. Huh Mio & Mascha Ballhaus Women's 57Kg 1. Marica Perisic 2. Veronica Toniolo 3. Daria Bilodid & Kaja Kajzer

Looks like water quality in the Seine has taken a turn for the worse and the organisers decided to switch the para-triathlon test event to a duathlon. Will be interesting to see if the mixed relay goes ahead as scheduled tomorrow.

Interesting run down of each federation's approach to qualification: Paris 2024 qualification criteria for each National Federation • World Triathlon

It's a tough one - Brownlee is a more accomplished individual athlete but Izzard is probably more of a team player in so much as he would be willing to play the part of domestique in the event that Yee has a poor swim leg. It will be interesting to see which squad is used in the test relay event on Sunday. Ultimately I think Brownlee's body has let him down this year and he has been nursing a series of niggles and injuries that have limited his participation and impacted his results. He decided to pass on the Sunderland WTCS in favour of focusing on the Paris test event and that just hasn't paid off for him. He genuinely believed he could finish top 3 and secure nomination for GB squad whereas Izzard has looked to bank as many points as possible - a tactic that seems to be paying off. Both Brownlee and Izzard have the solution to the problem in their own hands - chase the points necessary to get themselves both in to the top 30 so that GB secures a third individual quota place - each is sitting on 4 events during the second period with Izzard banking over 1000 points whilst Brownlee is on around 750. Izzard is down to do a World Cup level event before the WTCS final but don't see anything on the Brownlee schedule as yet.

A golden double for after Alex Yee wins the test event Barclay Izzard seems to have found some decent form and finished in 17th place - it could have/should have been higher but he had to serve a 15 second penalty because of a swimming infraction but Jonathan Brownlee could only manage a disappointing 51st (out of 55 starters). It's looking increasingly likely that Brownlee is going to miss out on his 4th Olympic games after his poor run of results continued. He's dropped another 5 places in the latest rankings to now sit in 37th whereas Izzard has steadily been climbing the rankings over the last few weeks. He now sits at 43rd.

Men's Triathlon Test Event 1.) Alex Yee 2.) Vasco Vilaca 3.) Dorian Coninx

As a I can tell you that this is not going to happen - not this year, not next year and not ever

I believe that selectors met this week to pick the men's squad for next month's event and assuming that they are running to schedule, the squad should be announced over the weekend after the appeal window closes later today. At the designated selection event held last weekend, neither Joe Fraser or Giarnni Regini-Moran took part - I think both are coming back from injury/illness. This left the path clear for Jake Jarman to be top scorer with 84.1. This included a 15 on floor and a 15.6 on vault but he still doesn't have the degree of difficulty on pommel or rings to be challenging the top performers. James Hall was the second highest scorer on 83.45 including 0.6 in penalties. His highlights were a 14.7 on p-bars and 14.0 on floor. Max Whitlock has staked his claim to get back on the team with a 15 on pommel along with a 13.9 on parallel bars and 12.9 on high bar whilst Courtney Tulloch is the other specialist who could make the team having scored 14.35 on rings and 15.1 on vault. Assuming everyone is fit and healthy, squad seems likely to be: Joe Fraser Jake Jarman Courtney Tulloch Max Whitlock Giarnni Regini-Moran Although that would be harsh on James Hall, it would maximise GB's prospects for making individual finals and by extension, their medal opportunities.

It can't be any worse than the water they swam in at Sunderland WTCS

Paris Test Event 1.) Beth Potter 2.) Cassandre Beaugrand 3.) Laura Lindemann Beth Potter now needs a podium finish at the WTCS Championship Final at Pontevedra to confirm her place on Team GB Beaugrand also met the first criteria for selection to French team - I think she now needs a top 6 at Olympic distance WTCS event next year to confirm her spot on the team. Laura Lindemann and Nina Eim should both be selected for German team given they both achieved top 8 finish.

Can't get my head around some of the latest ranking points totals from UCI. Was there an issue with the Chinese men's team pursuit at the world champs? I thought they had finished 10th so would get 1350 points but UCI don't seem to have included in their total. In the latest ranking, UCI have China dropping 3 places to 14th and still have GBR in an Olympic qualifying position but I think China should be in 10th with GB in 11th.

I think the single handed dinghy events - ILCA6 & ILCA 7 - are essentially entry level boats which allows smaller nations to take part. In that regard they are similar to the single sculls event in rowing.

All of them are Olympic classes

The test event is not a direct quota event - so no new quotas will be awarded - but a lot of the nations are using it as a team selection event.

Whatever happened to that German rider?

GB are probably heading for a doubling of their representation across the Mountain bike and BMX disciplines but despite this, it could still see them coming away with less medals in these events than they won in Tokyo. Off the top of my head I think GB are defending 3 gold, a silver and a bronze - Pidcock and Schriever have good chance to defend their titles but Worthington has struggled for form since Tokyo. Kye Whyte will be up against a formidable French team on home soil but if he can make the final could have medal chance. Finally, Reilly and/or Brookes will look to figure in the men's freestyle but Jeanjean will look to use home advantage.

I'll be interested to see who GB Cycling are going to announce as the replacement for McCulloch given all she has done for the women's sprint team. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that Finucane can take 3 medals next year if she can carry this form through to next year. On Laura Kenny, they don't expect her to feature at Paris but could be back in the squad by the time the next World Champs comes round.

So compared to Tokyo, have pretty much held on to their form with 6 gold although they are down 2 medals overall. They'll also know that there are another couple of targets on the track that they will be aiming for - including men's pursuit, women's keirin and women's omnium. On the road, I wouldn't be surprised to see GB focusing on the time trial events given the performances of Tarling and Henderson. For both the BMX disciplines and Mountain bike, GB very much in the medal hunt, but it is going to be difficult for them to do much better than they did in Glasgow. Perhaps as expected heading into Paris, there's been a big movement for against their Tokyo results where they only took 2 bronze medals. Like GB, they are perhaps unlikely to be able to do much more across the BMX and mountain bike disciplines, but I would think they would like to get some better results across the track events.

According to the USATF website, the squad for 200m is Lyles, Knighton, Bednarek and Lindsey. So assume that Kerley has been entered as a reserve but won't take to the start line unless one of the other 4 drop out. I think USA have done this in a couple of events.