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Madagascar has a new athlete... 16 year old Mialitiana Clerc. She was only 3 seconds behind the winner in her first race so it's safe to assume that she was well within 140 FIS points (FIS points yet to be published). Although, saying that now I see it's only 55 seconds race, but I imagine it still should be enough.
 
https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=AL&raceid=91363

Canada won bronze at the FIBA Women's U-19 World Cup in Italy This follows the men winning the gold in Egypt. The future of Canadian basketball is bright 

Some sad news  will not compete. Both athletes retired...

Some sad news  will not compete. Both athletes retired...

Effimova 

And again a dirt medal

Also Canada's first gold since 2007! Wow.

Congrats Masse Canada's first world record since Annamay Pierce in the 200 breast (2009)

Omg the nightmare for Canada continues ...
 
 

Exactly, her time in the butterfly final was faster here than in Rio... so its not like she is regressing. 

Fans expect to much from Oleksiak right now. She is not machine, she is just a child. Maybe she will finish championship without individual medal, but it is important that she is still here and she is not bad at all.
 
She just started senior carrer. She is future of this sport.
 
 

Most stupidest relay format ever. What a complete and utter joke of an event.

Most stupidest relay format ever. What a complete and utter joke of an event.

who cares. 

who cares. 

New U20 WR in Peru for Pan Am U20, USA Men's 4x400m 3:00.33
 
Full results http://www.tiempodellegada.com/Results/2017/INTERNACIONAL/PANAM_U20/
 
USA wins medal table easily like always: 22 golds, 14 silvers, 18 bronze, though in 2015 they had 30 golds.
Canada has probably their best ever Pan Am U20 performance with 6 golds, 9 silver, 7 bronze. We got two National U20 records with Anastas Eliopoulos 13.36 (-0.6) in Men's 110mH, and Camryn Rogers 63.42m in Women's Hammer. Rogers now has broke her own Hammer record 5 times this year (4 competitions she broke it in, but she broke it twice today)

Pan American Championships in Miami, USA

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Events/2017/International/SrPanAms/Start-List

Nice sarcastic commentary, "that might be a fail dive"  

Whaaat?  Gold medal in diving for France?? Are we in a parallel world? 
Congrats Marino and Rosset 

I can double check for you when I get home, which will be early morning your time 

The V4 refused the immigration quota. That means we have to buy lower-quality food?

Team Canada at Worlds
 
Men
 
100m: Andre De Grasse, Gavin Smellie
200m: Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown
800m: Brandon McBride
5000m: Mohammed Ahmed, Justyn Knight
10000m: Mohammed Ahmed
110mH: Johnathan Cabral
3000m SC: Matthew Hughes
HJ: Derek Drouin, Michael Mason
PV: Shawnacy Barber
SP: Tim Nedow
4x100m: Mobolade Ajomale, Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Akeem Haynes, Brendan Rodney, Gavin Smellie
Marathon: Eric Gillis, Thomas Toth
20km RW: Ben Thorne
50km RW: Mathieu Bilodeau, Evan Dunfee
 
Women
 
100m: Crystal Emmanuel
200m: Crystal Emmanuel
400m: Travia Jones, Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne
800m: Melissa Bishop
1500m: Nicole Sifuentes, Gabriela Stafford
5000m: Jessica O'Connell, Andrea Seccafien
10000m: Rachel Cliff, Lanni Marchant, Natasha Wodak
100mH: Phylicia George
400mH: Noelle Montcalm, Sage Watson
LJ: Christabel Nettey
PV: Alysha Newman, Anicka Newell
HT: Jillian Weir
JT: Elizabeth Gleadle
SP: Brittany Crew
4x400m: Travia Jones, Natassha McDonald, Noelle Montcalm, Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne, Sage Watson
Marathon: Rachel Hannah, Tarah Korir, Dayna Pidhoresky

Here is a great article on the possible makeup of Canada's men's hockey team for PyeongChang:
 
http://www.tsn.ca/some-unfamiliar-names-may-play-for-canada-at-olympics-1.715158
 
Doesn't look as bad as I expected 

However, women's water polo has seen 10 different nations on World Championships podium between 2009 and 2015.
 
Unthinkable in men's game... Men's game has had 9 different nations on podium throughout the whole WCh history (1973-2015).