Rafa Maciel

Think it is likely you'll still end up with 3-4 quotas - you've got 1 through the world ranking but Iran is one of the few nations who are also in the mix for the Grand Slam Champions Series and you have the Continental Qualifiers so overall not a bad position to be in.

Cunningham has probably had the strongest summer of all the British fighters - with back to back victories at the European Games and the Rome Grand Prix. My back of a fag packet calculation suggest that his silver medal in Paris will see him move up into 4th place in the world ranking and will put him into an Olympic qualifying spot. If - and it is a big if - he can stay healthy over the winter, and gets a decent draw, he's going to be in the mix for a medal in Paris. Lauren Williams had a decent result this weekend compared to her recent performances and she came very close to getting through to quarter finals so I think she'll take a lot of positives away from the competition particularly if she feels she is back to full fitness. She's currently about 80 points shy of a quota spot so she has a pretty steep mountain to climb but it isn't impossible - a lot will come down to whether she is going to go chasing the points at the various G1 level events through the early autumn. If she does go to the lower-level tournaments, it's not inconceivable that it could all come down to her performance in the Grand Prix Final in Manchester - but unfortunately I think she is going to come up short and miss out on Paris. Not sure what the story is with Bianca Cook this summer - think she has been nursing an injury and hasn't competed since the European Games. Her inactivity has seen her drop to world number 3 whereas McGowan has quietly been going about business and racking up the wins with bronze at Rome Grand Prix and now silver in Paris. If the selectors were meeting this month, I think the nod would go to McGowan.

Paris Grand Prix Results - Day 3 Men's +80Kg Gold: Cheick Sallah Cisse Silver: Caden Cunningham Bronze: Carlos Sansores & Pasko Bozic Women's +67Kg Gold: Althea Laurin Silver: Rebecca McGowan Bronze: Dabin Lee & Sude Yaren Uzuncavdar

BMX European Cup Round 12 Men's Elite Gold - Eddy Clerte Silver - Mauricio Ignacio Molina Bronze - Mathias Ragot Richard Women's Elite Gold - Bethany Shriever Silver - Zoe Claessens Bronze - Merel Smulders

would be guaranteed quotas for both the men's single sculls and the women's single sculls but these would only come into play if France were unable to qualify any boats through World Champs or the other qualifying regattas. Given strong likelihood that France will qualify a handful of boats, the quotas for single sculls will be reallocated to the final qualifying regatta.

Paris Grand Prix Results - Day 2 Men's 68Kg Gold: Ulugbek Rashitov Silver: Edival Pontes Bronze: Zaid Alhalawani & Marko Golubic Men's 80Kg Gold: Mehran Barkhordari Silver: Apostolos Telikostoglou Bronze: Carl Alan Nickolas & Muhammed Emin Yildiz Women's 67Kg Gold: Zhang Mengyu Silver: Song Jie Bronze: Hyo Rim Hong & Magda Wiet Henin

Why the big difference between the points total - the leader in 1 event has over 20 points but the leader in the other has only 5?

BMX European Cup Round 11 Men's Elite Gold - Ruben Gommers Silver - Eddy Clerte Bronze - Mauricio Ignacio Molina Women's Elite Gold - Zoe Claessens Silver - Bethany Shriever Bronze - Laura Smulders

You seem very bullish on Irish prospects - looks like you expect all of the Irish boats to qualify except for both of the Fours. I am intrigued how you have assessed the form for those crews which have not raced this season across the World Cup or European champs? In the women's pair for example you have the Irish boat finishing in 4th but they haven't raced together this season and the two previous Irish boats that have been fielded recorded a 6th in World Cup II and 7th at Euro Champs.

That will be Egypt's second quota on the men's side and first on the women's so there wont be any need to reallocate to the Olympic Ranking List.

It is going to be interesting to see how the crews adapt to the shorter course - so many of them use the 3rd 500 to establish themselves in the race.

Paris Grand Prix Results - Day 1 Women's 49Kg Gold: Merve Dincel Silver: Adriana Cerezo Iglesias Bronze: Wang Xialou & Mobina Nematzadeh Women's 57Kg Gold: Jade Jones Silver: Luo Zongshi Bronze: Hatice Kubra Ilgun & Aaliyah Powell Men's 58Kg Gold: Mahdi Hajimousaei Silver: Abolfazl Zandi Bronze: Bailey Lewis & Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi Good signs for Team as it looks like Jade Jones has rediscovered her mojo - that's her third tournament win in a row following victories at the European Games and Rome Grand Prix.

Think I read somewhere that the course for LA2028 is only going to be 1500m

First round matches on Day 1 of Paris Grand Prix completed and have thrown up a couple of surprises with the women's 49Kg class becoming a bit of a bloodbath for the seeded athletes. Women's 49Kg Janna Khatab defeated 4th seed Daniela Paola Souza Sofia Zampetti defeated 9th seed Lenya Kamkasoumphou Milana Bekulova defeated 3rd seed Lena Stojkovic Camila Bezerra defeated 6th seed Rukiye Yildirim Kyriaki Kouttouki defeated 7th seed Abishag Semberg Women's 57Kg Chaima Toumi defeated 5th seed Nahid Kiyanichandeh - with 6th seed Lo Chia-ling advancing to Round of 16, that could see Kiyanichandeh dropping out of a ranking quota position. Men's 58Kg All of the main names made it safely through the first round, but there were a number of mid-table athletes who were beaten by lower ranked opponents.

Muir already had qualifying time for 1500m - she was running in the 800m tonight.

Ahead of the action getting underway, for anyone who is interested, I've (hopefully) attached a tracker of each crew's performances across the 3 World Cups and this year's European Championships - there are probably other regattas that I could/should include, but in the end it comes down to time. Given the vagaries of the sport, there's not a lot of value in including a "season's best" time so it includes all of the crews times across the heats, repechage, semis and finals. Any crew highlighted in blue is taking part in the World Championships. Underneath the World Champs crews, I've also listed the other crews that have been fielded over the course of the year as there has been a lot of experimenting with crew composition this year. Not all of the different 4s and 8s have been listed if only 1 member of the crew has been swapped out. Rowing Performance Tracker.xlsx

This story is quickly straying into the realms of ridiculousness - Rubiales' mother has reportedly locked herself in a church and is on hunger strike in protest against the treatment of her son. Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA president's mother on hunger strike over kiss row - BBC Sport

Beginning to feel like this is just becoming the Tennis Player Retirement Thread but here's another one - former World Number 8 Jack Sock has announced he will retire from tennis after the US Open. Although, it is possible that this will be less of a retirement and more of a switch in sport as he is reportedly set to join the pickleball tour.

Some of the main results from last week's action on the roads Men's Events Deutschland Tour 1.) Ilan Van Wilder 2.) Felix Grosschartner 3.) Danny Van Poppel Renewi Tour 1.) Tim Wellens 2.) Florian Vermeersch 3.) Yves Lampaert In the end, Josh Tarling, who won the ITT and led the tour after Stage 2, faded pretty badly to finish in 114th place but in winning stage 2, Tarling equaled the record as the youngest winner of a UCI World Tour race - matching the achievement of Remco Evenepoel. Tour de l'Avenir 1.) Isaac Del Toto Romero 2.) Giulio Pellizzari 3.) Davide Piganzoli Women's Events Tour of Scandinavia 1.) Annemiek Van Vleuten 2.) Cecilie Ludwig 3.) Amber Kraak

Can't we all just accept that had a p**s-poor Championships and move on? Much as we all enjoy the endless back and forth exchange of random and largely irrelevant stats it doesn't really move the conversation on much further. With Mihambo out injured, they just don't currently have the depth of squad that they used to but they do at least have medal prospects for next year.

So with the flurry of world championships and Olympic quotas over, we can all have a week to relax watching the US Open ready for the Rowing World Championships next week right?

Yes - the document says the quotas are allocated to the named athletes however NOCs with more than 2 athletes qualified would be able to choose who is in their squad (although not entirely sure how a nation would qualify more than 2 athletes)

From my reading of the qualification document, if Hernandez finishes on the podium, his quota would revert to the next unqualified athlete at the Pan-Am Games as opposed to going to the Olympic Ranking List - the reallocation only seems to apply to the European championship. The quotas for Pan-Am slightly more complicated than other continents though: 1) - Whoever finishes first will win a quota 2) - 2 quotas will then go to best finishers from South America 3) - 2 quotas will then go to best finishers from NORECA

Yep - same situation we had in the women's event. There will now be 9 quotas allocated to the Olympic Ranking List.

Men's Team Result Gold: Egypt - 4530 Silver: Great Britain - 4450 Bronze: Korea - 4450