Rafa Maciel

According to the schedule the draw ceremony is due at 14:30 today.

Before Tokyo there was a big push to up the profile of women's football (and women's sport in general) in the UK, so the home nations agreed to allow GBR team to take part. Don't think Wales or Scotland were actively involved - can't remember if any non English players took part. For Paris, as far as I am aware, there's been no public announcement made that an agreement has been reached so it is all a bit in limbo.

The best performing team approach only applies to hockey and that is based on the agreement of the home nations federations. Rugby 7s used to be the same but they've now merged to compete under GBR banner. For football, the Scottish FA in particular is very protective of their independence and have been worried that if they agree to a GBR team then UEFA/FIFA will say that Scotland is ineligible for international tournaments.

Unfortunately I can't see any movement on allowing GB to compete on either the men's or women's side - unless the discussions are taking place in complete secrecy which seems a little unlikely. In contrast, we knew 2 years before Tokyo that the associations had agreed to the women's team competing.

Perhaps being harsh but having watched the first couple of days across a few sports, I'm not really getting the sense that this is a major international sporting event or the pinnacle of sporting achievement. Hopefully it picks up in the next few days, but at the moment it's giving off a lot of school sports day kind of vibes.

Anyone know what the story was with Worthington? The BOA is being pretty poor in their comms for these games but she was included in their tweet just before the competition started.

But equally likely that Okoye ends up barely hitting 60m - great talent but ridiculously inconsistent.

Am I right in thinking the scoring system for synchro swimming has changed? Comparing these scores to the results from last year's Europeans in Rome and they are more than double.

Back in the good old days when the BBC actually cared about sports other than football.

Any predictions on which (if any) Olympic quotas will be secured by Team GB over the next couple of weeks. Only one's I'd say I was confident of was in modern pentathlon - expecting to get one for the guys and one for the women. After that, the women's rugby 7's have the best chance. Not expecting the same from the men (in fact I'm not that confident they will qualify for Paris at all) Would love to see a couple of extra quotas secured in the shooting - Ben Llewellin and Matthew Coward Holley probably have the best shout but tend to be a bit hit and miss (no pun intended) For boxing it would be great to get 4-6 quotas across the men's and women's squads but have no idea if that is realistic or not. In diving, would like to see Grace Reid take the women's 3m springboard quota as I think that is our weakest discipline so better to bag the quotas as early as possible. In archery it is frustrating as hell that we have the top two ranked archers in the world on the women's side but don't seem to be able to put together a truly competitive women's recurve team so not expecting to secure any quotas here.

Czechia v Hungary for a place in the semi finals! Don't think many of us would have picked that as a likely quarterfinal line up when the competition started

There is a Brit listed on the athletes list for karate - Brandon Brian Wilkins

Lauren Williams has withdrawn from the competition due to hamstring injury. That's going to hurt her hope of claiming a Taekwondo quota through the direct rankings route.

It might not even need to be a quarter - sometimes just 4 minutes of play is enough for us to collapse

I don't see many scenarios where win, but equally I don't think we will see a repeat of the 81-55 loss inflicted the last time the teams competed in the 2019 EuroBasket 3rd/4th playoff match. Will probably come down to which team is able to put the disappointment of today behind them the quickest. Serbia aren't playing as well as they have previously so it is possible that if GBR can put them under pressure early on, it could be close but most likely scenario is that Serbia take the win by something in the region of a 5-15 point margin. Ultimately, GBR were let down today by their free throw conversion rate which was just 50% and they must be kicking themselves because with the mess in the other groups, they had a great opportunity to get to the quarters and put themselves in strong position to get into the Olympic qualifying tournament. Now, the chances are that they will lose on Tuesday, fail to make the quarters, have no place in the OQT and will end up with UK Sport cutting their funding so all in all, today could prove an expensive loss.

Am I right in thinking that would be based on beating in the final group match?

Don't think Hungary are out of contention for quarter finals yet. They've got about 30 point cushion in points difference from Turkey. If they can keep Serbia close then good chance they could finish 2nd in the group. Either way, they will qualify for the next stage of the competition and would be up against runners up from Group C - likely to be GBR or Slovenia - and given how well they've played in their first 2 matches and although they'd be the lower ranked team, they have the ability to win either of those matches.

Somehow Team GB managed to sneak out a victory 76-71. Definitely a much stronger 2nd half for them - and a particularly tidy 4th quarter where they only gave away 1 foul. Should be enough to get them into the next stage where they would be likely to face either Turkey or Hungary. BUT, they really can't afford a repeat of those 5 minutes across the end of Q1/early Q2 where they conceded 16 points without response. They're against tomorrow - the match which will probably decide who will top the group. The two teams played a friendly last week and France were comfortable winners 76-54.

Much better performance from in the second quarter to narrow the gap 5 points but the last 2 minutes of the 1st quarter might prove very costly for them.

having the kind of collapse we're used to seeing from the cricket team

From a ranking perspective, the first 3 games of the tournament have all resulted in "upsets" - with the 3rd ranked team beating the 2nd ranked team in the pool. I am hoping that will be a good omen for as we take on Slovenia later today but given the results from their recent warm-up matches, I've got my doubts.

I think the schedule for each sport has been available for a while - it's available towards the bottom of each individual sport's page

Don't think you've got the right results for the men. Should be: 1. Toby Roberts 2. Dohyun Lee 3. Yoshiyuki Ogata

Pretty solid day for on the first day of the Rome Grand Prix Gold for Jade Jones Gold for Caden Cunningham Bradley Sinden had a bit of an off day though as he exits in round of 16. From ranking perspective, that should help solidify Jones' position in the rankings and will move Cunningham closer to automatic quota spot

Unfortunately I don't agree with the central premise that most people want to see men's tennis - that was the same argument used to justify lower prize money for women and it wasn't defensible then and isn't defensible now. The popularity of women's sport, including tennis has been growing over the last few years. That being said, of course there are marquee names in the men's draw who absolutely are a major driver of ticket sales and deserve the prestige of a night match - but I wouldn't say that Zverez was one of those people and I certainly don't believe that Caroline Garcia is not as big a draw as Jannik Sinner. I get that some people don't like/want to play at night - but frankly you play when you're told to play. 4 night matches in two and a half years just comes across as a lack of respect for the women's game.