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A couple more details from Gracenote's predictions Breaking - Women: Gold - Ami Yuasa Silver - Liu Qingyi Bronze - Ayumi Fukushima Breaking - Men: Gold - Philip Kim Silver - Victor Montalvo Bronze - Shigeyuki Nakarai

Damn those spoil-sports

So at the end of the competition, the status of relay qualification for Paris is:

Barclay Izzard finally records a decent individual result in a WTCS event! (Even if it is probably one of the weakest lineups we've seen in a while)

An interesting development - especially as we missed the 10m synchro quota. I wonder if he will look to team up with Matty Lee again or whether he will just look to secure the 2nd individual quota.

In an Olympic year, the chances of getting a top quality field are likely to diminish so the return on investment is likely to be lower than in previous years and without the pull of the Brownlees it's not a surprising decision.

Can I ask, as a cricket fan, what you would argue that T20 would bring to the Olympics? At the moment, the only argument I've seen for its inclusion is the increased revenue from broadcast rights in India.

If anything it probably has more impact on the European quota with Poland being big beneficiary as they are almost certain to reach quarter finals now.

Which nations are active in flag football? It's not a sport that I'm familiar with.

Agreed. Obviously Neilsen haven't taken into account the results from Budapest - they're predicting that Australia are going to have significant reduction in number of gold medals but their performance in the pool this week would suggest that a dramatic drop off in performance would be required for that to happen. Likewise for America, I read somewhere that they were predicting USA to take around 48% of the medals available across swimming and athletics - for that to happen, but based on the US swim team results this week, that's unlikely. But it'll be interesting to see how their predictions develop over the next 12 months - based on previous cycles, I'd be expecting them to update it on monthly basis.

Multiple media outlets in UK reporting that T20 cricket is "very likely" to feature on the 2028 Olympic programme. With the format being a pool of 5 teams for both men and women. Qualification would be based on world rankings so would include , , , and for men and , , , and for women (always assuming Scottish cricket don't raise any stupid objections) If they reserve spot for as home nation, then would lose out in both cases. It looks like this is purely being driven by money - if cricket is included, the value of broadcast rights in India could increase to 10 times their current value - but it would eat up about 110 athlete quotas. Given it has to be a pretty safe bet that baseball/softball is also going to return to the programme and that is going to require around 230 athlete quotas, it begs the questions, where do these 340 quotas come from? Looking at the Paris quota breakdown, for the non-core sports (breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing), given USA will be expecting to medal in skateboarding and surfing, I can't see them being dropped. Likewise, I think sport climbing is becoming established in the programme so would be unlikely to be dropped. This means the only sport not likely to return in Los Angeles is breaking but that only frees up 36 quotas. Boxing, Weightlifting and Modern Pentathlon aren't officially on the schedule yet so you'd have to assume that the quotas will come from those 3 sports. Modern pentathlon probably joins breaking as a goner - freeing up another 72 quotas but that would still leave 200 short. Losing 23 individual medal events to be replaced by 4 team medals would seem to be a bit extreme.

With Nigeria overcoming Australia yesterday, they could be facing in the last 16. big beneficiary as they are now projected semi finalists.

I though Sagan was targeting the MTB at Paris? Given Slovakia aren't exactly close to getting a spot through the rankings, his best route may have been to focus on MTB at Glasgow.

Caitlin Maxwell takes out 9th seed Araceli Navarro to make it through to the last 16 of sabre. The GB fencing guys aren't challenging for medals, but so far the squad has been delivering some pretty solid results.

New Gracenote assessment: Australia replace France as projected semi-finalist

Hopefully Kristjan Archer can take advantage of his departure and progress to round of 16 (but I won't hold my breath)

They only post the headline numbers - media outlets have to pay for the sport breakdown so the only way to find the information is to pull it from various sources.

Definitely not mine - they are from Gracenote Nielsen. They release a virtual medal table for every Olympic and with it being a year until Paris, this is their initial projections. Normally they will release a new version each month in the run up to the games.

I go with the font of athletics knowledge in the UK - the BBC talking heads and they called her Natalie

5th Place on Table with 54 Medals Gold: 12 Hifume Abe - Judo: Men's -66Kg Uta Abe - Judo: Women's -52Kg Saki Niizoe - Judo: Women's -70Kg Judo Team Event Ami Yuasa - Breaking: Women's Breaking Daiki Hashimoto - Artistic Gymnastics: Men's Individual All Around Daiki Hashimoto - Artistic Gymnastics: Men's Horizontal Bar Rim Nakamura - BMX Cycling: Men's Freestyle Toshikazu Yamanishi - Athletics: Men's 20km Racewalk Yui Susaki - Wrestling: Women's Freestyle 50Kg Silver: 21 Bronze: 21 Ayumi Fukushima - Breaking: Women's Shigeyuki Nakarai - Breaking: Men's

20th Place on Table with 13 Medals Medal Predictions: Gold: 4 Natalie Thiam - Athletics: Heptathlon Remco Evenepoel - Road Cycling: Men's Time Trial Lotte Kopecky - Road Cycling: Women's Road Race Lotte Kopecky/Shari Bossuyt - Track Cycling: Women's Madison (NB Bossuyt currently suspended on doping violation) Silver: 5 Men's Hockey Team Nina Derwael - Artistic Gymnastics: Women's Uneven Bars Matthias Casse - Judo: Men's -81Kg Men's Relay - Athletics: 4x400m Relay Emma Plasschaert - Sailing: Laser Radial Bronze: 4 Wout van Aert - Cycling: Men's Road Race Eventing Team Show Jumping Team Sarah Chaari - Taekwondo: Women's -67Kg

Team GB are sponsored by a mattress supplier so are planning on bringing their own apparently

Unfortunately the majority of UK sports fans couldn't pick Nielsen or Zeller out in a lineup - that's not being disrespectful to them, simply reflecting the fact that there are probably a handful of big names in British athletics who would have the name recognition to make this more of a story I think it is a safe bet that there are going to be multiple appeals lodged by athletes who have been rejected and it is not impossible that it could also end up with litigation, although realistically, not sure if any of the athletes would have the financial resources needed to take the case to court. If I was one of the athletes involved, I'd definitely consider taking the issue to UK Sport who ultimately bankroll UK Athletics. Given the board of UK Sport have board has at least 4 former Olympic/Paralympic athletes on the board, I'd be looking to put pressure on Katherine Grainger, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Chris Boardman and Annie Panter to comment on the fairness of the UK Athletics selection policy. The best way to put pressure on UK Athletics would be to unionise - if they had DAS, Keely Hodgkinson, Jaz Sawyers, KJT, Laura Muir, Matt Hudson Smith, Zharnel Hughes and middle distance guys all coming out and collectively saying they didn't have confidence in the management of UK athletics and their selection policy, then it might grab people's attention and could potentially force a change but if the outrage is limited to the athletes mentioned in the article, then nothing is going to change any time soon. .

Think they are expecting big things for Italy in the pool with potential "best ever performance"

In hunting around for more information on Gracenote's Olympic predictions, I stumbled upon their assessment of the world cup brackets