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[hide] Group Stage - Second Round September 1st - September 3rd, 2023 16 Nations, The 1st and 2nd-Placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:00 Serbia 3 Italy September 1st 2023, h. 20:00 Dominican Republic 12 Puerto Rico September 3rd 2023, h. 16:00 Italy 13 Puerto Rico September 3rd 2023, h. 20:00 Dominican Republic 8 Serbia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:40 United States 21 Montenegro September 1st 2023, h. 20:40 Lithuania 5 Greece September 3rd 2023, h. 16:40 Greece 5 Montenegro September 3rd 2023, h. 20:40 United States 14 Lithuania Group K Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 17:30 Germany 15 Georgia September 1st 2023, h. 21:10 Slovenia 7 Australia September 3rd 2023, h. 16:30 Australia 10 Georgia September 3rd 2023, h.20:10 Germany 2 Slovenia Group L Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:45 Spain 8 Latvia September 1st 2023, h. 20:30 Canada 16 Brazil September 3rd 2023, h. 16:45 Brazil 11 Latvia September 3rd 2023, h. 20:30 Spain 12 Canada [/hide]

They absolutey do deserve the benefit of the doubt. They have done the best job basically anyone has ever done in Ireland in terms of growing a sport even if part of that was inheriting a squad with talents like Paul O'Donovan and Sanita. Its not really a short term concern but management will very possibly change for the next Olympic cycle because I kind of doubt Maurogiovanni will stick around and honestly if these worlds and Olympics go well Id be pretty surprised if he and the likes of Giuseppe de Vita dont get bigger money offers elsewhere given the number of traditional powerhouses struggling right now. Long term I trust Maurogiovanni's decisions even if occasionally they appear quite illogical I just dont know that I would trust someone else to try and run the same system. Its not really relevant for next week but I do think it is important to note that while our current squad is amongst the best in the world we dont yet have the structures or the infrastructure to maintain that long term.

Its a really strange phenomenon that we have these really strict standards to get selected for Europeans or a world cup and then we just seem to select basically everyone for worlds. I mean I guess the optimistic explanation is that athletes tend to hit form at the right time and therefore are hitting times/numbers now that they wouldn't have hit early in the season although you would think that would be taken into account when selecting crews earlier in the season. Maurogiovanni has said his standards are A finals at a world cup/ Europeans or top ten at worlds/ Olympics (Imagine if he pulls the withdraw a crew from the Olympics move. Don't think it would happen but I mean half of our crews at the last Olympics technically finished outside the top ten.). Anyway these two standards arent actually equivalent in most boat classes with very few boat classes having 4 of the top 10 boats be non European. It also fails to take into account the wildly different standards depending on which world cup you attend and the discrepancy between the standards and depth from one boat class to another (Top ten in a single is much harder than in an eight is the easiest example. A more complex one would be the fact that the womens four is currrently disproportionally the priority sweep boat in a lot of the big nations.). Again though I would kind of assume the actual standards for selection would take these sort of things into account. Anyway the most likely actual explanation is that it is just a funding thing both in terms of rowing Ireland's funding is in part tied to the size of the squad they take to worlds and that Sport Ireland's performance standards will value top 15/20s in the world in a way that Rowing Ireland may not. Also selecting athletes for worlds ensures they get carded and receive more financial support than they otherwise would so you would rapidly run out of depth in your squad if you selected small squads for worlds. This is all to say are we not just kind of hurting ourselves by adopting strict standards for Europeans and world cups. I understand it fosters competition that may ultimately push some boats on but it also likely leads to lower retention rates from athletes from season to season and surely some of the younger boats could benefit from competing more often. I get the logic behind it and honestly plenty of other sports could do with demanding higher standards and a bit of ambition. I do have concerns though that as a long term strategy for a country of our size and with the current rate at which we seem to produce world class rowers that if at some point in the future we stagnate a bit and the squad shrinks with a bunch of retirements we might not have the depth to replenish it and our current period of success could end being a kind of golden generation esque blip. Obviously this is probably an overly pessimistic apocalyptic way of viewing things but for example probably around half of the womens squad is likely to retire post Paris Olympics and we could very easily be left in a spot where we may only have two or so women's boats competing in 2025/2026. Then again obviously the hope is that rowing's growth continues and we start to produce more and more world class rowers over the next few years and tough selection standards actually drive us on to stay near the top of medal tables.

I'm not saying you are definetely wrong but as someone who tries to track where every boat in the world ranks relative to eachother I do think this i overly pessimistic. One of the important things to remember is that the field at world cup iii was ridiculously good, with only Italy and the USA being the only notable nations to miss it. So for example while on its own a sixth placed finish for the mens pair at any world cup may well indicate that boat isn't good enough to qualify for the Olympics in this case it probably ranks them sixth/seventh in the world. I did literally rank every boat last year with somewhat limited accuracy but if I have time to do it again this week i'll post it here. Anyway hopefully without going on any tangents this is how I would rank our boats qualification chances. 1. Mens Lightweight double- Should win 2. Women's pair- We have tried so many women's pairs over the past couple of years and on paper this is by far the best of them. We have had a pretty much unbroken five year period where no matter the combination we finish in the 6-11 range. This boat should break that and in a positive sense. This is absolutely nailed on to qualify. Whether it can medal is the question. 3. Men's double- Men's Double is an inherently risky boat but this has been at worst the fourth fastest boat in the world behind the Dutch, Croatians and Italians. The risk here is like we saw last year where we got a tough quarter final finished fourth in a four way sprint and missed the semis but otherwise this is a very safe bet to qualify. 4.Men's pair- As i said earlier despite finishing sixth at world cup iii I think that still puts them sixth/seventh in the world this year. This boat should be aiming for the A final and look you never know especially with a young crew but I am very comfortable picking this boat to finish in the top 11. 5. Women's double- Look its a new combination but the womens double isn't an especially strong boat class and I don't think it is deep enough to be worrying about not qualifying here. Whether this boat is a medal contender or a mid b final boat is unclear at this point but it should absolutely qualify. 6. Women's lightweight double- Why is everyone so pessimistic about this boat? It was third in the world last year and while it has regressed a bit it hasn't regressed that much. Look I'm nervous about this boat too but even with their terrible performances and swapping positions at world cup iii they still rank in the top 6 in the world (Americans changed their combination and who knows whether Greece can actually perform when it matters so we might even be higher). It will be a nervous semi final ( I know top 7 qualify but winning a b final can be a bit of a lottery) and the gap back to the 8th/9th best boats in the world isn't a big one but this is much better than 50/50 more like 80/20. Significant risk but likely qualifiers. 7. Women's four- The last time we failed to make a global final in the womens four was 2019. This boat has struggled a lot in A finals going back to last year's World champs but has looked very good in heats/ semi finals. Look this is a new combination and its possible Sanita is regressing and that Natalie Long and Imogen Magner are just good rather than great. I'm not sure about this one. We obviously are putting out a weaker less powerful boat than last year/ earlier this year but because of how incosistent those boats have been I'm not sure this new four will actually end up with a worse result. The previous four was ultimately performing like the sixth/seventh best boat in the world in finals but they were much more talented that that. This boat might make an A final and we will wonder why we ever doubted it or might finish at the back of a b final. I dont know but i'd put us the 6-8 range provisionally. The guage here is Denmark (and maybe New Zealand too), if we are better/faster than them in the heats we probably will qualify, if we're slower we almost certainly won't and if we're level with them well then this is going to be very close. I would lean on the confident side of this projection just because the limited interviews we have had coming from the likes of Maurogiovanni seem to indicate qualifying the most boats is the priority here more so than medals so its unlikely we would have just sacrificed the four in order for the pair to have a chance to medal. 8. Men's quad- Look the easiest comparison for this boat is the men's four last year which lost a photo finish for seventh. This boat is in a very similar spot and may well end up in a similar situation casing that seventh and final qualifying spot although the final is definitely not beyond them. It's unproven at senior level and the one athlete that is Ronan Byrne has had a rough couple of years. Talent wise there is a potential Olmypic medal winning boat here but whether it qualifies here or not is a very different question. Probably just misses out but is a good backup plan if one of the women's lightweight double or womens four. 9. Men's four- We have survived todaywithout any news, are now in world champs week and the examiner had a piece on Jack Dorney a couple of days ago so looks like we probably are getting to see the four actually race. Three of these athletes have been under 23 world medallists in the past 3 years so this boat should still be good even if our best two sweep rowers are together in the pair. Obviously the fact that this boat failed to race at world cup iii is discouraging but I would still expect a b final finish here and while top 7 looks very unlikely, these champs will hopefully leave us confident of its chances at FOQR next year given the age profile of this boat. I'm sticking with seven boats qualified as the baseline for success here maybe 6.5 if i'm generous. My concern is much less with qualifying boats but with medals though. On paper this is the most talented squad we have ever had and yet we are only really on track for one medal. I'd expect one of the numerous boats I expect to make an A final to sneak a medal (or maybe Siobhan McCrohan in the lightweight single) probably the mens double although relying on anything in that boat class is risky. Our medal tallys for the last four global champs have gone 2018-2(2 gold) 2019-3 (2 gold), 2021-2 (1 gold) and 2022- 3 (1 gold) so given the bigger and in theory improved squad we really should be pushing for 4 or so medals rather than hoping for 2 but sure look.

[hide] Group Stage - First Round August 25th - August 30th, 2023 32 Nations, The 1st and 2nd-Placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Second Round. Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:00 Angola 18 Italy August 25th 2023, h. 14:00 Dominican Republic 6 Philippines August 27th 2023, h. 10:00 Italy 14 Dominican Republic August 27th 2023, h. 14:00 Philippines 2 Angola August 29th 2023, h. 10:00 Angola 8 Dominican Republic August 29th 2023, h. 14:00 Philippines 23 Italy Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:00 South Sudan 3 Puerto Rico August 26th 2023, h. 14:00 Serbia 20 China August 28th 2023, h. 10:00 China 8 South Sudan August 28th 2023, h. 14:00 Puerto Rico 15 Serbia August 30th 2023, h. 10:00 South Sudan 10 Serbia August 30th 2023, h. 14:00 China 4 Puerto Rico Group C Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:45 Jordan 19 Greece August 26th 2023, h. 14:40 United States 30 New Zealand August 28th 2023, h. 10:45 New Zealand 8 Jordan August 28th 2023, h. 14:40 Greece 13 United States August 30th 2023, h. 10:40 United States 30 Jordan August 30th 2023, h. 14:40 Greece 15 New Zealand Group D Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:45 Mexico 15 Montenegro August 25th 2023, h. 14:30 Egypt 25 Lithuania August 27th 2023, h. 10:45 Montenegro 20 Egypt August 27th 2023, h. 14:30 Lithuania 20 Mexico August 29th 2023, h. 10:45 Egypt 5 Mexico August 29th 2023, h. 14:30 Montenegro 5 Lithuania Group E Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:00 Finland 8 Australia August 25th 2023, h. 14:10 Germany 14 Japan August 27th 2023, h. 10:30 Australia 5 Germany August 27th 2023, h. 14:10 Japan 5 Finland August 29th 2023, h. 09:30 Germany 17 Finland August 29th 2023, h. 13:10 Australia 15 Japan Group F Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:00 Cape Verde 15 Georgia August 26th 2023, h. 13:30 Slovenia 24 Venezuela August 28th 2023, h. 10:00 Venezuela 12 Cape Verde August 28th 2023, h. 13:30 Georgia 18 Slovenia August 30th 2023, h. 10:00 Georgia 6 Venezuela August 30th 2023, h. 13:30 Slovenia 26 Cape Verde Group G Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 11:45 Iran 13 Brazil August 26th 2023, h. 15:30 Spain 25 Cote d'Ivoire August 28th 2023, h. 11:45 Cote d'Ivoire 5 Iran August 28th 2023, h. 15:30 Brazil 16 Spain August 30th 2023, h. 11:45 Cote d'Ivoire 12 Brazil August 30th 2023, h. 15:30 Iran 19 Spain Group H Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 11:15 Latvia 22 Lebanon August 25th 2023, h. 15:30 Canada 7 France August 27th 2023, h. 11:45 Lebanon 27 Canada August 27th 2023, h. 15:30 France 11 Latvia August 29th 2023, h. 11:45 Lebanon 32 France August 29th 2023, h. 15:30 Canada 14 Latvia Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation USA France Slovenia [/hide]

To be fair to the Austrian eight while it did finish 7nth of 7 at World cup iii. It was surprisingly competitive and nearly knocked Canada out in the rep. They could have put out a pair and a four but it is not like they would be likely to qualify in those boats anyway and then your leaving two extra athletes at home. Besides eights are just cool.

Squad was announced yesterday. Lots of movement between boats on the Women's side of things and for basically the first time ever we are rolling out a Men's Quad mostly made up of under 23 medallists from a month ago. 9 Olympic class boats and 28 total athletes selected across all boats- both records for Ireland as far as I know. Women's Double Sculls: Zoe Hyde / Alison Bergin Women's Lightweight Double Sculls: Aoife Casey / Margaret Cremen Women's Pair: Aifric Keogh / Fiona Murtagh Women's Four: Natalie Long / Imogen Magner / Sanita Puspure / Eimear Lambe Men's Double Sculls: Daire Lynch / Philip Doyle Men's Quadruple Sculls: Konan Pazzaia / Ronan Byrne / Andrew Sheehan / Brian Colsh Men's Lightweight Double Sculls: Fintan McCarthy / Paul O'Donovan Men's Pair: Ross Corrigan / Nathan Timoney Men's Four: Fionnán McQuillan Tolan / Adam Murphy / Jack Dorney / John Kearney Expectations for this squad are high despite some very mixed results so far this year and five of these boats being combinations that have never raced together before. (Hopefully we see all these boats race but our high performance director has a habit of withdrawing boats based on trial results the week before a regatta. Didn't do it before worlds last year but has done it for well every other regatta we have raced over this Olympic cycle. The Men's Four is probably the most at risk there.)

https://www.rowingireland.ie/2023-world-championships-team-announcement/ Well this is something! Both pairs seem to be priority sweep boats, Sanita is in the four and we're rolling out a quad (Let's go). (I feel like rambling for a bit) So this is likely going to be our biggest single qualifying event in terms of number of athletes qualified so well, racing five boats that have never raced together before is certainly an interesting decision. Obviously this is also subject to Maurogiovanni's squad cut the week before an event although the only event this didn't happen before was last years worlds (Then again they never actually select Jake McCarthy so his selection is a concern and John Kearney, Adam Murphy and Jack Dorney from the four are all on the entry list for European under23s this weekend( although you'd think a decision would have been made already on that given it is well this weekend)). Lightweight doubles are both as expected but with the note that given the womens double's dissapointing form so far this year it is encouraging that Siobhan McCrohan couldnt force her way into this double. The mens sweep squad and the mens double are also as expected although lets a wait and see if the four actually races and how competitive it can be assuming it does. I got my wish for a quad (Colsh,Sheehan, Byrne, Pazzaia). Its good to see the under 23 success being rewarded here and is this finally the return of Ronan Byrne. Obviously zero precedent for Ireland in this boat class although Colsh and Sheehan (and Adam Murphy) won a junior European medal in this boat a few years ago. This quad has the potential to be really fast but quads are tricky and are probably the boat that the overall quality of the boat is least correlated to the quality of the individual rowers. It has to be at worst quite fast though cause it has been considered a better option than racing Colsh or Sheehan in a single. The women's heavyweight results this year have been dissapointing but I did not expect the squad to look this differentfor worlds. The pair has seemingly become the priority boat with Fiona Murtagh and Aifric Keogh combining in a new combination. The pair is an easier boat than the four so maybe this move does increase our chances of a medal but there is significant risk here. The four is an entirely new combination of Eimear Lambe, Sanita Puspure, Imogen Magner and Natalie Long. While the unknown element of this new boat makes it exciting this boat has very little margin for error with only a very competitive top 7 qualifying for the Olympics. (In practice this means making the A final because B finals always produce weird results) This could be a masterstroke of a selection decision but even if we didnt look like medalling we did seem pretty secure to qualify the pair and the four had we just maintained the status quo and it is very possible this move backfires and ends up costing us a spot at the Olympics in the four. Like this is a move we could have made next year having already qualified both boats. The athletes that missed out on selection were somewhat surprisingly Tara Hanlon and presumably still injured Emily Hegarty. The final new boat is the logical combination of a double if Sanita is in the four of Alison Bergin and Zoe Hyde. Both these athletes are the only young female rowers we have produced this Olympic cycle and have had an impressive last couple of years. With 11 boats to qualify even if they struggle a bit they should at worst secure Olympic qualification. Then again we are reigning bronze medallists in this boat class and behind the Romanians and the Lithuanians that medal is very much still up for grabs although that might be a bit lofty of a goal for this boat. Because we selected Alison Bergin in the double and a quad in the mens, it means no single sculls are selected although singles do make good backup plans if things go a bit wrong here. (This is pure speculation but I do think there is now a world where we end up seeing Sanita give the single sculls one last crack at what surely will be her last Olympics) The pr2 mixed double needs to make an A final to qualify for the paralympics. Tricky but very doable given their improvements this year. I've spent most of the year thinking seven boats qualified at worlds should be the target and while this selection throws things up in the air a bit in terms of trying to predict things I do still think that is a fair expectation although it requires the lighweight double to at least look decent and one of the two fours or the quad to qualify. Medals are a bit tougher to predict but the quality of the squad would indicate 3 medals is a fair expectation even if the formbook doesn't suggest we are anywhere near that. Finally Im glad im Irish cause imagine trying to understand our bonkers selection if you were from somewhere else. If the Dutch or the Romanians or whatever selected this erratically their would be no point even trying to predict medallists or project qualifiers or analyse rowing in an way.

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Women's Shot Put Day 8 August 26th 2023 Sarah Mitton Gong Lijiao x Song Jiayuan Sara Gambetta Yemisi Ogunleye Danniel Thomas-Dodd Jorinde van Klinken Jessica Schilder Maddison-Lee Wesche Auriol Dongmo Axelina Johansson Fanny Roos Adelaide Aquilla Chase Ealey x Maggie Ewen x Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Day 8 August 26th 2023 Slimane Moula Djamel Sedjati x Peter Bol Joseph Deng Marco Arop x Azeddine Habz Benjamin Robert Max Burgin Ben Pattison Daniel Rowden Wyclife Kinyamal Alex Ngeno Kipngetich Emmanuel Wanyonyi x Any Spanish Athlete Bryce Hoppel Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 5000m Day 8 August 26th 2023 Jessica Hull Letesenbet Gidey x Gudaf Tsegay Any Other Ethiopian Athlete Nadia Battocletti Faith Kipyegon x Lilian Kasait Rengeruk Sifan Hassan x Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal Sarah Chelangat Alicia Monson Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's Decathlon Day 8 August 26th 2023 Pierce Lepage x Damian Warner x Karel Tilga Kevin Mayer x Niklas Kaul Leo Neugebauer Lindon Victor Rik Taam Markus Rooth Sander Skotheim Jorge Urena Simon Ehammer Kyle Garland Harrison Williams Zachery Ziemek Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Relay Day 8 August 26th 2023 Brazil Canada France Germany Ghana Great Britain Italy Jamaica x Japan x South Africa United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Relay Day 8 August 26th 2023 Cote d'Ivoire Germany Great Britain x Italy Jamaica x Netherlands Nigeria Poland Spain Switzerland United States x Any Other Nation Men's Marathon Day 9 August 27th 2023 Marius Kimutai Bashir Abdi Tsegaye Getachew Tamirat Tola x Seifu Tura Any Other Ethiopian Athlete Joshua Belet x Timothy Kiplagat x Titus Kipruto Othmane El Goumri Abdi Nageeye Kaan Kigen Ozbilen Any Other Athlete Women's High Jump Day 9 August 27th 2023 Nicola Olyslagers x Eleanor Patterson Merel Maes Any German Athlete Morgan Lake Lamara Distin Nadezhda Dubovitskaya Daniela Stanciu Angela Topic Iryna Gerashchenko x Yuliia Levchenko Yaroslava Mahuchikh x Vashti Cunningham Any Other Athlete Men's 5000m Day 9 August 27th 2023 Mohammed Ahmed Berihu Aregawi x Telahun Haile Bekele Any Other Ethiopian Athlete Jimmy Gressier Luis Grijalva Nicholas Kipkorir Jacob Krop Any Other Athlete from Kenya Mohamed Katir Thierry Ndikumwenayo Joshua Cheptegei Jacob Kiplimo x Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete x Men's Javelin Throw Day 9 August 27th 2023 Keyshawn Strachan Timothy Norman Jakub Vadlejch x Oliver Helander Toni Kuusela Julian Weber x Anderson Peters Neeraj Chopra x Any Other Indian Athlete Edis Matusevicius Keshorn Walcott Artur Felfner Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Day 9 August 27th 2023 Any Australian Athlete Noelie Yarigo Habitam Alemu Worknesh Mesele Renelle Lamote Keely Hodgkinson x Jemma Reekie Natoya Goule-Toppin Mary Moraa x Any Other Kenyan Athlete Anita Horvat Prudence Sekgodiso Halimah Nakaayi Nia Akins Athing Mu x Raevyn Rogers Any Other Athlete Women's 3000m Steeplechase Day 9 August 27th 2023 Luiza Gega Winfred Mutile Yavi x Mekides Abebe Sembo Almayew x Zerfe Wondemagegn Alice Finot Beatrice Chepkoech Jackline Chepkoech x Faith Cherotich Marusa Mismas Zrimsek Marwa Bouzayani Peruth Chemutai Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 4x400m Relay Day 9 August 27th 2023 Belgium Botswana x France Great Britain Italy Jamaica x Netherlands Spain Trinidad and Tobago United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x400m Relay Day 9 August 27th 2023 Botswana Canada Cuba France Great Britain Ireland Jamaica x Netherlands x Nigeria Poland Spain Switzerland United States x Any Other Nation [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Stage August 5th - August 20th 2023 Third-Place Match Date & Time (GMT +10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 19th 2023, h. 18:00 Sweden 3 1 Australia Final Date & Time (GMT +10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 20th 2023, h. 20:00 Spain 2 1 England [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Stage August 5th - August 20th 2023 4 Nations, The Winners of each Semifinal will qualify for the Final. The Losers of each Semifinal will play the Third-Place Match. Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +10-12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 15th 2023, h. 20:00 Spain 2 1 Sweden August 16th 2023, h. 20:00 Australia 0 0 England [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Stage August 5th - August 20th 2023 8 Nations, The Winners of each Quarterfinal will qualify for the Semifinals. Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +10-12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 11th 2023, h. 13:00 Spain 2 1 Netherlands August 11th 2023, h. 19:30 Japan 1 1 Sweden August 12th 2023, h. 17:00 Australia 0 2 France August 12th 2023, h. 20:30 England 1 0 Colombia [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Stage August 5th - August 20th 2023 16 Nations, The Winners of each Round of 16 matches will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT +9:30-12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 5th 2023, h. 17:00 Switzerland 1 2 Spain August 5th 2023, h. 20:00 Japan 1 0 Norway August 6th 2023, h. 12:00 Netherlands 4 0 South Africa August 6th 2023, h. 19:00 Sweden 1 1 United States August 7th 2023, h. 17:30 England 2 1 Nigeria August 7th 2023, h. 20:30 Australia 0 1 Denmark August 8th 2023, h. 18:00 Colombia 2 0 Jamaica August 8th 2023, h. 20:30 France 2 0 Morocco [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Track Cycling Women's Individual Pursuit Day 1 August 3 2023 Maeve Plouffe Ariane Bonhomme Wei Suwan Marion Borras Franziska Brausse x Mieke Kroeger Josie Knight x Anna Morris Kelly Murphy Vittoria Guazzini Daniek Hengeveld Bryony Botha x Fabienne Buri Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Team Sprint Day 1 August 3 2023 Canada China x France Germany x Great Britain x Japan Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Poland Any Other Nation Track Cycling Men's Scratch Race Day 1 August 3 2023 Any Australian Athlete Tim Wafler Tuur Dens Dylan Bibic x Donovan Grondin x Moritz Malcharek Oliver Wood x Mattia Pinazzi Roy Eefting-Bloem George Jackson Filip Prokopyszyn Sebastian Mora Vedri Gavin Hoover Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Time Trial Day 2 August 4 2023 Kristina Clonan Alessia McCaig Kelsey Mitchell Guo Yufang Martha Bayona Pineda Taky Marie Divine Kouame x Pauline Sophie Grabosch Emma Hinze x Lauren Bell Miriam Vece Kyra Lamberink Hetty van der Wouw x Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Scratch Race Day 2 August 4 2023 Chloe Moran Maggie Coles-Lyster Petra Sevcikova Lea Lin Teutenberg Any British Athlete x Martina Fidanza x Yumi Kajihara Maike van der Duin Michaela Drummond Anita Yvonne Stenberg Maria Martins x Lily Williams Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Team Sprint Day 2 August 4 2023 Australia x Canada China Colombia Czechia France Germany Great Britain x Italy Japan Netherlands x Poland Any Other Nation Track Cycling Men's Team Pursuit Day 3 August 5 2023 Australia Belgium Canada China Denmark France x Germany Great Britain x Italy x Japan New Zealand Switzerland Any Other Nation Track Cycling Women's Team Pursuit Day 3 August 5 2023 Australia Canada China France x Germany Great Britain x Ireland Italy x Japan New Zealand Poland United States Any Other Nation Road Cycling Men's Road Race Day 4 August 6 2023 Michael Matthews Remco Evenepoel Wout van Aert x Mads Pedersen Mattias Skjelmose Christopher Laporte Any French Athlete Geraint Thomas Any Italian Athlete Dyland van Baarle Mathieu van der Poel x Joao Almeida Any Spanish Athlete Neilson Powerless Any Other Athlete x Track Cycling Women's Elimination Race Day 4 August 6 2023 Lotte Kopecky x Sarah van Dam Ebtissam Zayed Ahmed Lea Lin Teutenberg Sophie Lewis Rachele Barbieri x Maike van der Duin x Ally Wollaston Anita Yvonne Stenberg Patrycja Lorkowska Alzbeta Bacikova Michelle Andres Jennifer Valente Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Individual Pursuit Day 4 August 6 2023 Any Australian Athlete Chris Ernst Corentin Ermenault Tobias Buck-Gramacko Nicolas Heinrich Daniel Bigham x Filippo Ganna x Jonathan Milan x Shoi Matsuda Tom Sexton Kacper Majewski Claudio Imhof Simon Vitzthum Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Keirin Day 4 August 6 2023 Kristina Clonan Nicky Degrendele Kelsey Mitchell Martha Bayona Pineda Mathilde Gros Taky Marie Divine Kouame Lea Sophie Friedrich x Any British Athlete Mina Sato x Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez Steffie van der Peet x Ellesse Andrews Helena Casas Roige Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Omnium Day 4 August 6 2023 Graeme Frislie Dylan Bibic Any Danish Athlete x Benjamin Thomas x Any Other French Athlete Tim Torn Teutenberg Elia Viviani Shunsuke Imamura Artyom Zakharov Any Dutch Athlete Joao Matias Sebastian Mora Vedri Any Other Athlete x BMX Women's Freestyle Day 5 August 7 2023 Zhou Huimin Any Other Chinese Athlete Queen Villegas Serna Iveta Miculycova x Laury Perez Lara Marie Lessmann Kim Lea Muller Charlotte Worthhington x Any Japanese Athlete Nikita Ducarroz Perris Benegas Hannah Roberts x Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete BMX Men's Freestyle Day 5 August 7 2023 Jose Torres Gil Logan Martin Jaie Toohey Kenneth Tencio Esquivel Marin Rantes Anthony Jeanjean x Declan Brooks Kieran Reilly Rimu Nakamura x Marcus Christopher Justin Dowell x Any Other American Athlete Daniel Dhers Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Elimination Race Day 5 August 7 2023 Jules Hesters Dylan Bibic Denis Rugovac Tobias Hansen Tim Torn Teutenberg x Mark Stewart Rotem Tene Any Italian Athlete Eiya Hashimoto Any Dutch Athlete x Corbin Strong Erik Martorell Haga Any Other Athlete x Track Cycling Men's Individual Sprint Day 5 August 7 2023 Matthew Richardson x Any Other Australian Athlete Kevin Quintero Chavarro Rayan Helal Sebastian Vigier Any British Athlete x Mikhail Yakovlev Kaiya Ota Mohd Azizulhasni Awang Harrie Lavreysen x Mateusz Rudyk Jair Tjon En Fa Nicholas Paul Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Madison Day 5 August 7 2023 Australia Belgium x Denmark France x Germany Great Britain x Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Track Cycling Men's Time Trial Day 6 August 8 2023 Any Australian Athlete Ryan Dodyk James Hedgcock Cristian Ortega Fontalvo Santiago Ramirez Morales Melvin Landerneau x Maximilian Dornbach x Marc Jurczyk Matteo Bianchi Muhammad Fadhil Mohd Zanis Jeffrey Hoogland x Nicholas Kergozou De La Boessiere Alejandro Martinez Chorro Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Point Race Day 6 August 8 2023 Chloe Moran Verena Eberhardt Lotte Kopecky x Victoire Berteau Neah Evans x Silvia Zanardi Yareli Acevedo Mendoza Any Dutch Athlete Anita Yvonne Stenberg Karolina Karasiewicz Lena Mettraux Jennifer Valente x Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Madison Day 6 August 8 2023 Australia Belgium Canada Denmark France x Germany x Great Britain Italy x Japan Netherlands New Zealand Portugal Spain Any Other Nation Track Cycling Women's Individual Sprint Day 7 August 9 2023 Any Canadian Athlete Martha Bayona Pineda Mathilde Gros Taky Marie Divine Kouame Lea Sophie Friedrich x Any Other German Athlete x Sophie Capewell x Emma Finucane Miriam Vece Riyu Ohta Hetty van der Wouw Ellesse Andrews Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Men's Point Race Day 7 August 9 2023 Mathias Guillemette Roger Kluge William Perrett Bertold Drijver Any Italian Athlete Yoeri Havik x Corbin Strong x Wojciech Pszczolarski Joshua van Wyk Gustav Johansson Mykyta Yakovlev Colby Lange Any Other Athlete x Track Cycling Men's Keirin Day 7 August 9 2023 Matthew Richardson Any Other Australian Athlete Kevin Quintero Chavarro Sebastian Vigier Jack Carlin x Mikhail Yakovlev Shinji Nakano Kohei Terasaki Sergey Ponomaryov Mohd Azizulhasni Awang Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom Jeffrey Hoogland x Harrie Lavreysen x Jai Angsuthasawit Any Other Athlete Track Cycling Women's Omnium Day 7 August 9 2023 Lotte Kopecky x Maggie Coles-Lyster Petra Sevcikova Amalie Dideriksen Clara Copponi Lea Lin Teutenberg Katie Archibald x Lee Sze Wing Maike van der Duin Anita Yvonne Stenberg Daria Pikulik Maria Martins Jennifer Valente x Any Other Athlete Road Cycling Women's Time Trial Day 8 August 10 2023 Grace Brown Emma Norsgaard Audrey Cordon-Ragot Lisa Klein Anna Henderson Riejanne Markus Demi Vollering x Any Other Dutch Athlete Any Polish Athlete Jenny Rissveds Marlen Reusser x Chloe Dygert x Any Other Athlete Road Cycling Men's Time Trial Day 9 August 11 2023 Remco Evenepoel x Wout van Aert x Any Danish Athlete Remi Cavagna Ethan Hayter Geraint Thomas Filippo Ganna x Any Dutch Athlete Tobias Foss Joao Almeida Primoz Roglic Any Spanish Athlete Stefan Bissegger Stefan Kung Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Mountain Bike Women's Race Day 10 August 12 2023 Rebecca Henderson Any Austrian Athlete Sofie Pedersen Loana Lecomte Pauline Ferrand Prevot x Evie Richards Martina Berta Puck Pieterse Anne Terpstra x Sina Frei Alessandra Keller Jolanda Neff x Haley Batten Kate Courtney Any Other Athlete Mountain Bike Men's Race Day 10 August 12 2023 Pierre de Froidmont Jens Shuermans Martin Vidaurre Kossmann Jordan Sarrou Any Other French Athlete Luca Schwarzbauer Tom Pidcock x Luca Braidot Mathieu van der Poel x Alan Hatherly David Valero Serrano Lars Forster Nino Schurter x Any Other Athlete BMX Women's Racing Day 11 August 13 2023 Lauren Reynolds Molly Simpson Gabriela Bolle Carrillo Mariana Pajon Londono x Any Danish Athlete Camille Maire Bethany Shriever x Any Japanese Athlete Laura Smulders Merel Smulders Manon Veenstra Zoe Claessens Felicia Stancil x Alice Willoughby Any Other Athlete BMX Men's Racing Day 11 August 13 2023 Izaac Kennedy Ruben Gommers Diego Arboleda Ospina Any Other Colombian Athlete Sylvain Andre Joris Daudet x Arthur Pilard x Kye Whyte x Niek Kimmann Cedric Butti Simon Marquart Cameron Wood Any Other Athlete Road Cycling Women's Road Race Day 11 August 13 2023 Grace Brown Lotte Kopecky x Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig Any French Athlete Liane Lippert Pfeiffer Georgi Any Italian Athlete x Annemiek van Vleuten Demi Vollering Lorena Wiebes Any Other Dutch Athlete x Katarzyna Niewiadoma Marlen Reusser Chloe Dygert Any Other Athlete [/hide]

It was never really in doubt but the men's hockey team have secured their spot at the Olympic qualifiers next year after beating Scotland today.

I had wondered if given her comments after she missed out on qualifying if their was a sort of understanding that while she got the first chance at Europeans if she failed someone else specifically Lisa O'Rourke would get the oppurtunity to qualify at the first world qualifying tournament but at least for now I seem to have been wrong. I would say this sets us up for a fascinating national champs in December with six of the seven (not counting super heavyweight and Sean Mari lacks any competition at flyweight) weightclasses having a genuine contender to get the nod selection wise, but inevitably half of them will mysteriously be injured.

[hide] Group Stage July 20th - August 3rd, 2023 32 Nations, The 1st and 2nd-Placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Round of 16. Group A Date & Time (GMT +12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 20th 2023, h. 19:00 New Zealand 0 2 Norway July 21st 2023, h. 17:00 Philippines 1 4 Switzerland July 25th 2023, h. 17:30 New Zealand 2 1 Philippines July 25th 2023, h. 20:00 Switzerland 1 3 Norway July 30th 2023, h. 19:00 Switzerland 2 0 New Zealand July 30th 2023, h. 19:00 Norway 4 0 Philippines Group B Date & Time (GMT +8-10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 20th 2023, h. 20:00 Australia 1 2 Ireland July 21st 2023, h. 12:30 Nigeria 0 2 Canada July 26th 2023, h. 20:00 Canada 1 1 Ireland July 27th 2023, h.20:00 Australia 2 0 Nigeria July 31st 2023, h. 20:00 Canada 1 1 Australia July 31st 2023, h. 20:00 Ireland 1 1 Nigeria Group C Date & Time (GMT +12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 21st 2023, h. 19:30 Spain 4 0 Costa Rica July 22nd 2023, h. 19:00 Zambia 2 3 Japan July 26th 2023, h. 17:00 Japan 2 0 Costa Rica July 26th 2023, h. 19:30 Spain 2 1 Zambia July 31st 2023, h. 19:00 Japan 1 3 Spain July 31st 2023, h. 19:00 Costa Rica 0 2 Zambia Group D Date & Time (GMT +8-10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 22nd 2023, h. 19:30 England 5 0 Haiti July 22nd 2023, h. 20:00 Denmark 1 0 China July 28th 2023, h. 18:30 England 2 0 Denmark July 28th 2023, h. 20:30 China 0 0 Haiti August 1st 2023, h. 20:30 China 1 3 England August 1st 2023, h. 19:00 Haiti 0 3 Denmark Group E Date & Time (GMT +12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 22nd 2023, h. 13:00 United States 9 0 Vietnam July 23rd 2023, h. 19:30 Netherlands 3 1 Portugal July 27th 2023, h. 13:00 United States 2 1 Netherlands July 27th 2023, h. 19:30 Portugal 3 0 Vietnam August 1st 2023, h. 19:00 Portugal 0 2 United States August 1st 2023, h. 19:00 Vietnam 0 5 Netherlands Group F Date & Time (GMT +8-10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 23rd 2023, h. 20:00 France 4 0 Jamaica July 24th 2023, h. 20:30 Brazil 3 0 Panama July 29th 2023, h. 20:00 France 2 1 Brazil July 29th 2023, h. 20:30 Panama 0 1 Jamaica August 2nd 2023, h. 20:00 Panama 0 4 France August 2nd 2023, h. 20:00 Jamaica 1 3 Brazil Group G Date & Time (GMT +12) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 23rd 2023, h. 17:00 Sweden 3 0 South Africa July 24th 2023, h. 18:00 Italy 2 1 Argentina July 28th 2023, h. 12:00 Argentina 2 0 South Africa July 29th 2023, h. 19:30 Sweden 2 2 Italy August 2nd 2023, h. 19:00 Argentina 1 2 Sweden August 2nd 2023, h. 19:00 South Africa 0 3 Italy Group H Date & Time (GMT +8-10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 24th 2023, h. 18:30 Germany 2 1 Morocco July 25th 2023, h. 12:00 Colombia 1 1 South Korea July 30th 2023, h. 14:00 South Korea 2 0 Morocco July 30th 2023, h. 19:30 Germany 2 0 Colombia August 3rd 2023, h. 20:00 South Korea 0 2 Germany August 3rd 2023, h. 18:00 Morocco 1 1 Colombia Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation Spain Germany USA [/hide]

In my head the rule is that if an athlete qualifies a boat and then qualifies a different boat at FOQR they then have to race in the boat they qualified at FOQR at the Olympics but I think they could double up or of course not race at all but I just looked at the qualifying document and can't find anything on it so I'm wondering why I thought that. So I think if we qualify a pair this year and then decide that the four is actually a better option next year even though we hadn't qualified it that the two rowers from the pair could then race in the four at FOQR but we couldn't then turn around and put them back exclusively in the pair for the Olympics. I would say this is unlikely but we were a slightly different selection away from a version of this happening two years ago with the womens four. I'm not 100% sure so sorry if this is wrong but I remember having the same question in the past and I think this is the answer I found. This should be a cross this bridge if we come to it but it isn't at all inconceivable that we select one pair for worlds it qualifies and then a different combination is fastest at trials next year leaving us wanting to select a four for FOQR but with at least one athlete who already qualified the pair. I'm almost certain we can do this legally but i'm not old enough/ didn't follow rowing extensively enough to know the historical context for this.

The priority boat for the mens sweep squad seems to have shifted from the four to the pair with Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney who were both in the middle of the four last year together in a pair for world cup iii. Its only day one but initial results are positive for this new pair. The plan was I assume still to try and qualify the four and while not being fast enough at trials is concerning it's not the end (Might be for Ronan Byrne though). I don't mind the four not racing here if it wasn't good enough. It has two months to be ready for worlds. I just wonder why we didn't also enter a four for under23 worlds. John kearney, Jack Dorney and Adam Murphy are all still eligible at under23 level and Andrew Sheahan who was in the under23 four last year seems to have been kind of chucked in a single for that event. Its frustrating they're not in Lucerne but Antonio Maurogiovanni standards are basically you're good enough for the olympics or you don't race at all. The four can still qualify along with the pair although the goalposts for them may well end up being FOQR next year. It's a very young boat apart from Fionnan McQuillan Tolan and can improve a lot in a year. Europeans was bad like really bad but I still feel really good about qualification and medal hopes for this rowing squad. It didn't seem like it because medal wise we were good at world cup ii last year but almost all of our boats improved relative to the competition as the year went on last year and I would expect the same this year. We have found a mens double that works with Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch, Paul and Fintan are back which always makes things feel much better, Women's lightweight double needs work if they want to medal again this year but i'm not worrried about qualification yet, the womens double,pair and four will all qualify although admittedly only the four looks like a definite medal contender and its a major question mark right now. Emily Hegarty is still injured but if we were changing the combination here I suspect she would be the odd one out. Imogen Magner came into the boat for Lucerne. My interpretation of that was they wanted to race the pair of Long and Hanlon together but it might be that Magner is actually a contender to race in the four. They posted the second fastest time of the heats this morning and all of their main competition is here outside of the USA. Look if we fall apart over the next couple of days here and then none of our concerningly small selection at under23 worlds looks good i'll be worried but for now we have seven boats that I would be shocked if they fail to qualify, all but one of which at least in theory could medal. I personally would like to see us qualify an eighth, ninth or even tenth boat and well we still can. The mens single is up in the air and Colsh being back in the double for under 23s probably isn't a great sign. I still want a quad, I don't think I'm going to get my wish though. The four as outligned earlier could still qualify and has the athletes to do it and if Alison Bergin can medal again at under23 worlds in the womens single we are back in business there too. We should still feel great about this squad and expectations for qualification and medals should both still be very high well at least for now.

I missed this fight live but Gemini in her fight against Triebelova got the very rare be down 20-18 for 3 judges after two rounds and still come back to win the fight with two of those judges giving her the final round 10-8 and then picking her as the winner.

Ye, I just looked at that. I'm fairly sure that is just the order they play them in and their actually called qf 1234 as I listed them above. I might be wrong though. Either way this doesn't make any difference. These are the same brackets just listed differently. My original point wasn't about the order their listed/played in just trying to clean up the confusion on who plays who.

Yes it is. What do you mean?

I feel like I should clear this up a bit. The format of any of these 12 team rugby sevens tournaments after the pool stage is as follows. Quarter-final 1- Winner pool A vs second best third placed team. Quarter-final 2- Winner pool B vs best third place team. Quarter-final 3- Winner pool C vs second pool A. Quarter-final 4- Second pool B vs second pool C. The confusing bit is that the semifinals are qf1 vs qf4 and qf2 vs qf3.

No Poland faces Czechia and GB play Belgium in the semi-finals. It's confusing because they list/play the quarter finals in the wrong order but Poland GB will very likely be the final here.

Germany's try should have been a penalty try and a yellow card. Pity they scored despite the deliberate knock-on.