Rafa Maciel

Pretty disappointing team lining up for in tomorrow's men's road race - none of our top riders taking part so we are likely to lose ground to Spain and Slovenia in the race for all important top 5 ranking to secure full team for Paris.

2023 Nations Cup series is finished - there are only 3 rounds. I don't think there are any more ranking events for track cycling in 2023.

look to be pretty safe in 3 of the team events - Men's and Women's Team Pursuits and Men's Team Sprint. For Women's Team Sprint, I have them in 9th place - so just outside of the qualifying spots. They have a deficit of 71 points to make up on New Zealand in 8th and 90 points on 7th placed Canada. If all the teams replicate their 2023 Nations Cup/Continental Champs performances in 2024, France should comfortably overtake New Zealand. Key thing for France will be Euro Champs - ideally, they really need to make sure that they outscore Poland.

From what I can see, the discard score from the 2023 Nations Cup series has already been deducted. The discard for 2024 will take effect after the third Nations Cup which I think is in Milton, Canada in April next year.

That's right - but teams will only count their two best results from the Nations Cup.

Men's Team Pursuit Olympic Ranking

There are 4 more ranking events - 3 Nations Cups, of which each nation will count their top 2 results; and 1 Continental Championship. There are no host quotas in track cycling.

BMX Freestyle is probably the worst qualification process for Paris 2024. The short answer is probably yes they could but you wont actually know until after the completion of next year's OQS. The quotas from the world champs are the lowest priority and can be used to ensure continental representation so the chances are that the people who finish on the podium, wont actually be the ones who are awarded the quotas

Hungary Masters 2023 - a non-discard ranking event for Paris '24 qualification - Day 1 Results Men's -60Kg Gold: Ryuju Nagayama Silver: Ariunbold Enkhtaivan Bronze: Naohisa Takato / Kim Won Jin Men's -66Kg Gold: Ryoma Tanaka Silver: Denis Vieru Bronze: Narmandakh Bayanmunkh / An Baul Women's -48Kg Gold: Wakana Koga Silver: Maria Celia Laborde Bronze: Assunta Scutto / Baasankhuu Bavuudorj Women's -52Kg Gold: Amandine Buchard Silver: Distria Krasniqi Bronze: Diyora Keldiyorova / Gefen Primo Women's -57Kg Gold: Jessica Klimkait Silver: Sarah Leonie Cysique Bronze: Daria Bilodid / Haruka Funakubo

Looking at the results from these champs, Bello/Bello seem to have finally found some decent form this season Despite being pretty distinctly average in the Edmonton Challenger last month they have just managed to put out the world number 4 pairing - Brouwer/Meeuwsen.

2023 CEV Beach Volleyball Championships Quarter Finals Ahman/Hellvig v Ehlers/Wickler Bello/Bello v Popv/Reznik Immers/Van de Velde v Cottafava / Nicolai Mol / Sorum v Luini / de Groot

Men's Team Sprint Olympic Ranking after World Champs

With failing to register a time in qualifying for the Men's Team Pursuit, they have gone from 2nd in the rankings to now sit outside of qualifying position in 11th. They will need to make up a deficit of 150 points on across next year's Nations Cup events. Belgium are currently in 9th place and have a cushion of 520 points.

My initial calculations didn't include the Points Scale so was under reporting the points awarded. The only change is that New Zealand climb above France into 8th place.

Source? France are already qualified as host so the question we had outstanding was whether the 4th placed team (Netherlands) would get the third quota or whether it would be reallocated to the final qualifying event.

Men's Boulder semi-finals are being shown on the IFSC YouTube channel. It may be geo-blocked though. Set VPN to Japan and it seems to work.

Bag of a fag-packet calculation:

Quite possibly the worst medal ceremonies ever - shoved into the back room with no crowd

Hmmm - he's shown as 103rd on race to Budapest site so would need a heck of a lot of folk to withdraw.

I thought De Grasse hadn't got qualifying standard for 100m?

which event?

Para-athletes are elite athletes.

KJT's chances of medaling in Budapest might just be getting better World Athletics Championships: Two-time heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam a doubt for Budapest - BBC Sport

It looks like Bursikova did a pretty good job - just a shame she couldn't get the zone on the third boulder.

Not really surprised by this - there were a lot of substitutions made ahead of the mixed relay because of sickness.