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Today world cup qualifying draw Round 1 & 2 for AFC was carried out, with matches starting from this OCT FIFA window. Round 1 is a knockout format while Round 2 is a Round-robin based, with top 2 from each group qualifying for Round 3 .

They need to make the whole package attractive and meaningful, which at present it is not . CGF body needs to push back the games by a year and have it hosted a year ahead of the Olympic cycle (i.e 2027 ) That way some sports like athletics and swimming will add value as they will offer another event to achieve ESs/OQTs. Then get other sports federations to offer ranking points for sports like Badminton , TT etc Only then will these meaningless games will become meaningful and perhaps survive and have appeal beyond UK.

Praveen Chitravel (Triple jump) finished 5th with a jump of 16.59m at Monaco Diamond league.

I feel it wont be easy for The match against Won’t be easy. Group I looks the toughest as does Group A. & got very favourable draws. I think either Or will qualify for the expanded WC in 2026 for the first time in their history.

Which isn’t a bad thing. Olympic games and continental games should be sufficient as multi sports events. Additionally, if you think if more quota places are made available in different sports from these continental games all NoCs are bound to take these games more seriously. This should be the way forward. Scrap the commonwealth games and focus more on continental games.

There is a difference between Olympics and Commonwealth games. Olympics is more of a prestige issues , kind a soft power for powerful nations whereas Commonwealth games is.. well absolutely useless. They might as well do away with it. Olympics and continental games are sufficient!

With Neeraj competing in Monaco Diamond league this Friday (21st). We should hit double digits , with one year of Olympics left. Looking good 😊

The world championships will also offer Olympic quota places which makes team selections interesting.

What a brilliant race in 1500m(M). Almost the entire field qualified for Paris Olympics, with a whole host of PBs and NRs.

2.33 seems awfully tough standard for High Jump (Men) . I guess most will qualify via world rankings than achieving the high Standard set by WA.

Avinash Sable Clocks a SB time of 8:11:63 in 3000SC (men) to qualify for Paris olympics . He becomes 9th Indian athlete to qualify for Paris😀😀 He finished 6th in the race.

Avinash Sable becomes the 9th Indian athlete to qualify for Paris Olympics. He achieved qualification at the Diamond league meet in Poland .

Avinash Sable finishes 6th with a SB 8:11:63 qualifies for Paris Olympics

What a race in 1500m (W) 10 athletes getting PB. 9 of them achieving the qualifying time standards. @EselTheDonkey Trost qualifying with a new PB. Together with the triathlon mixed team quota , good day for Deutschland

We have got the first qualifier for Paris in High jump (W). Gerashchenko . possibly more to follow today.

8th Indian athlete to qualify for Paris games. Brilliant jump from Sree. More to follow 😊

Asian Athletics Championships , Bangkok July 12-16 , 2023 https://asianathleticschampionships2023.com/day2/ Men’s 400m Kentaro Sato Discus Throw (W) Feng Bin Long Jump (W) Sumire Hata Men’s 400mH Bassem Hemeida Long Jump (M) Lin Yu-Tang M. Sreeshankar Shot put (W) Song Jiayuan

Avinash Sable finished a creditable 5th in a world class field at Stockholm diamond league. Conditions were far from ideal, he clocked a time of 8:21:88 in 3000SC With qualification for Olympics officially open for all Track & Field events from 1st July 2024, he was the first Indian athlete to compete.

has qualified its first athlete for Paris 2024. John Ernest Obiena achieves qualification in PV (M)

Obiena becomes the first athlete from to qualify for Paris 2024

Why were they protesting or doing whatever in the track!! That is so pathetic, McMaster would have qualified today as first athlete from I know he will deffo qualify later but that was not fair.

Diamond League , Stockholm 7 athletes qualifies in 5000m(W) X 4 , & X1 100mH (W) : 2 athletes achieve qualification Tobi Amusan Sarah Lavin with a PB . Discus Throw (M) : 2 athletes qualified STAHL CEH 3000mSC (M) : 2 athletes achieve qualification El Bakkali Wale 400mH (M): 1 athlete achieve qualification Warholm (** McMaster & Happio should have qualified if not for some interference in their lanes by some idiots who were protesting!) 200m (W) : 1 athlete qualified Neita 800m (M) : 2 athletes qualified Sedjati Ordonez Pole vault (M) : 2 athletes qualified Duplantis Obiena

Hailu with the quota in 1500 (W) at Stockholm,diamond league

Are these quotas given to athletes or NOC in canoeing? If they are given to NOCs then every athlete will still have a chance to represent his/her sport in Olympics. That only seems fair.

Neeraj Chopra 🇮🇳 wins the Javelin competition (men) with a throw of 87.66m ahead of Weber 🇩🇪 (87.03m )