El Analyzer

After the UEFA NL playoff the groups of  European qualifiers are completed: 
 
 
Group A
 
Germany Luxembourg Northen Ireland Slovakia  
Group C
 
Belarus Denmark Greece Scotland

Group D
 
Azerbaijan France Iceland Ukraine

Group E
 
Bulgaria Georgia Spain Turkey

Group F
 
Armenia Hungary Ireland Portugal

Group G
 
Finland Lithuania Malta Netherlands Poland  
Group I
 
Estonia Israel Italy Moldova Norway  
Group L
 
Croatia Czech Republic Far Oer Gibraltar Montenegro  
European Qualifiers results
 
 

During the IOC Session, it was announced that World Boxing currently have 88 members, 10 more since last update in febraury.
 
Some of the new NOCs that joined World Boxing are . I have no clues for the other 4 NOCs.

FIFA WC2026 qualifiers are back!!
 
African WCQ restart today without Congo, the FECOFOOT (Congolese Football Association) has been suspended due to a particularly serious situation of undue interference by third parties in the affairs of the organisation
The Group E remain with only 4 teams.
 
AFC qualifiers resuming this week, with Japan will become the first nation to come through the WC 2026, and Iraq, Iran, Korea Republic and Uzbekistan are in a strong position to secure World Cup 26 tickets.
 
OFC fourth round will qualify directly for the WC 2026, the winner of final four (semifinals: New Caledonia vs Tahiti and New Zealand vs Fiji) and the runner-up will go to the FIFA Inter-confederation play-offs
 
CONMEBOL will play Matchday 13 and 14 with big matches Uruguay-argentina and Brazil-Argentina.
 
UEFA European Qualifiers begin without the groups involving teams in UEFA Nations League quarterfinals will be finalised after those ties in March.
Only half of groups begin to play in March the other groupss start their campaigns in September.
 
 
 

I think what someone like Coe and Samaranch offers is stability for the next 5 or so years after the controversies that have happened over the last couple of years which has tarnished to an extent the reputation of the Olympics and the IOC, there also needs to be someone who's strong enough to deal with Trump in LA who will undoubtedly try to make it all about himself and try to stop rightfully qualified athletes from entering the country. 

are the champion of IHF Emerging Nations Championship 2025 beating the home team  29-25 in an epic game.
 
still long journey to compete with top teams but it's very promising start to win our first title. 

2025 Karate 1 Premier League (Stage #2,  Hangzhou)
 
Medallists Recap
 
Women's Individual Kata
Gold:  Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Silver:  Maho Ono
Bronze #1:  Kiri Mishima
Bronze #2:  Saeko Azuma

Men's Individual Kata
Gold:  Kakeru Nishiyama
Silver:  Ariel Torres Gutierrez
Bronze #1:  Anthony Vu
Bronze #2:  Kazumasa Moto
 

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg
Gold:  Cylia Ouikene
Silver:  Moldir Zhangbyrbay
Bronze #1:  Erminia Perfetto
Bronze #2:  Yamina Lahyanssa

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg
Gold:  Rina Kodo
Silver:  Fatemeh Saadati
Bronze #1:  Ivet Goranova
Bronze #2:  Trinity Allen

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg
Gold:  Atousa Golshadnejad
Silver:  Reem Khamis
Bronze #1:  Wafa Mahjoub
Bronze #2:  Assel Kanay

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold:  Tsubasa Kama
Silver:  Elena Quirici
Bronze #1:  Nisrine Brouk
Bronze #2:  Eda Eltemur

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold:  Clemence Pea
Silver:  Clio Ferracuti
Bronze #1:  Sofya Berultseva
Bronze #2:  Maria Torres Garcia
 

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold:  Eray Samdan
Silver:  Christos-Stefanos Xenos
Bronze #1:  Rayyan Meziane
Bronze #2:  Hiromu Hashimoto

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold:  Said Oubaya
Silver:  Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Bronze #1:  Nuran Rzazade
Bronze #2:  Shih Cheng-Chung

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold:  Abdalla Abdelaziz
Silver:  Enzo Berthon
Bronze #1:  Bahman Askari
Bronze #2:  Farid Aghayev

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg
Gold:  Youssef Badawy
Silver:  Mohammad Aljafari
Bronze #1:  Mahdi Khodabakhshi
Bronze #2:  Rikito Shimada

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg
Gold:  Merabi Gelashvili
Silver:  Saleh Abazari
Bronze #1:  Taha Tarek Mahmoud
Bronze #2:  Andjelo Kvesic

I know the Anglo-World never liked Juan Antonio Samaranch and they're going to be the same with his son, but they should only be grateful to him, because if it wasn't for Don Juan and South Korea, we wouldn't get any Olympic Games nowadays
 
he did really save the Olympics from the delusions of omnipotence of the politicians ruling the World at that time and from the crazy race to extreme doping of the late Eighties...and if he did something that might be considered "controversial", those who followed him on the sport's more important armchair have been way worse (especially the 1976 Olympic Champion himself, who almost destroyed the Olympics)

Bansley/Bukovec will play together this season, Bansley will likely (re)retire after.

are shaking up some of their men's teams, Boermans-De Groot stay together. 
 
Brouwer-Van de Velde
Immers-Penniga
Luini-Verberne
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGDY5AIMJ2H/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=98e38eea-ff17-469e-bdeb-69f0862549ad

Champions League quarter-finals
 
Arsenal vs Real Madrid
Paris vs Aston Villa
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund
Bayern München vs Inter
 
Only Liverpool out is the big surprise of R16.

Many thanks mate
the part I have missed earlier is the ranking points awarded to athletes based on their performance in the seeding round not the direct elimination round nor the ranking round during qualification 
 
The FWR now is matching the results from the seeding round 

Check pages 41 and 57
 
https://www.uipmworld.org/sites/default/files/mp_competition_rules_and_equipment_regulations_2025_clean_final_0_1.pdf

Ranking Series, Muhamet Malo Tournament ( Tirana)
 
 
the Champions
 
 
men's Freestyle

-57kg: Alì Momeni
-61kg: Takara Suda
-65kg: Rahman Amouzad
-70kg: Yoshinosuke Aoyagi
-74kg: Chermen Valiev (silver: Taimuraz Salkazanov) @hckošice
-79kg: Gadzhimurad Alikhmaev
-86kg: Chandler Shane Marsteller
-92kg: Kamran Ghasempour
-97kg: Arash Yoshida
-125kg: Amir Hossein Zare
 

men's Greco-Roman

-55kg: Emre Mutlu
-60kg: Yu Shiotani
-63kg: Kerem Kamal
-67kg: Razzak Beishekeev
-72kg: Iuri Lomadze
-77kg: Yryskeldi Maksatbek Uulu
-82kg: Burhan Akbudak
-87kg: Alireza Mohmadi
-97kg: Kiril Milov
-130kg: Amin Mirzazadeh
 

women's Wrestling

-50kg: Umi Ito
-53kg: Moe Kiyooka
-55kg: Haruna Murayama Okuno
-57kg: Samantha Leigh Stewart
-59kg: Sakura Onishi
-62kg: Lili
-65kg: Miwa Morikawa
-68kg: Ami Ishii
-72kg: Zhamila Bakbergenova
-76kg: Dymond Precious Guilford
 
 
hope all the Iranian names are correct @MHSN 

Really shocking news  apparently from the heart attack at the age of 49
 
he was a 3 time Olympic Champion. couple of wrestlers have more/better medals but he was always considered as the most technical wrestler of all time. always fun to watch
 

Women Individual results 
Gold - Khalil  
Silver - Hureyeva  
Bronze- Malashenoka  

Men Individual results 
Gold - Cicinelli  
Silver - Koleszar  
Bronze- Shabaan  

The UIPM fencing format has been changed starting from the ongoing world cup season 
in qualification:
the format is the same conventional one when the player play a one touch game against the opponent in his group
 
but starting from semifinal there will be a seeding round (with no actual points) and based on the seeding order a knockout stage will start with 1 minute round and whoever gets 5 points wins (or the leader after 1 minute finish)
also the double touch are counted similar to conventional Epee 
 
still not very clear if Olympics will start from seeding or start with normal point round in semi and seeding only in final
 
 

It is mentioned clearly in 2025 version of UIPM rules as there will be a separate ranking for fencing only
 
 
* Athletes/relay teams are seeded for the Direct Elimination within their respective Semi-final or Final group according to their result in the Fencing Seeding Round. In the Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games and World Cup Finals, athletes will be seeded for the Fencing Direct Elimination based on their FWR
 
 
* The final ranking for pentathletes or relay teams eliminated in the same round will be determined based on their rank from the Fencing Seeding Round. In the Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games and World Cup Finals, where no Fencing Seeding Round is held, their final ranking will be determined by their Fencing World Ranking.

The UIPM fencing format has been changed starting from the ongoing world cup season 
in qualification:
the format is the same conventional one when the player play a one touch game against the opponent in his group
 
but starting from semifinal there will be a seeding round (with no actual points) and based on the seeding order a knockout stage will start with 1 minute round and whoever gets 5 points wins (or the leader after 1 minute finish)
also the double touch are counted similar to conventional Epee 
 
still not very clear if Olympics will start from seeding or start with normal point round in semi and seeding only in final
 
 

Sad news: Gene Hackman is dead.  Always one of my favourites in the 70s & 80s.  
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14442071/Gene-Hackman-wife-Betsy-Arakawa-dead-Santa-Fe-home.html?ico=comment-anchor#comments

After a long and slow comeback from severe injury in 2022...... Egan Bernal crashes and breaks his collarbone in the Classica Jaen.
 
Egan Bernal breaks collarbone in Clasica Jaen-Paraiso Interior crash - BBC Sport

Madison Wilson retired a couple of weeks ago after giving birth to her first child last year. Won silver in the 100 backstroke at 2015 Worlds before transitioning to freestyle leading to numerous relay medals and records.

Copernicus Cup from Torun live this afternoon, famous for the Gingerbread Man mascot of course.
 
Rivalries and rematches the theme in Torun | PREVIEWS | World Athletics

Massive WR by Jacob Kiplimo in the half marathon
 
 
 

Mariya Stadnik Women 50 kg Wrestler announced retirement. 
Medal records in Olympics and Wch:
2 silver and 2 bronze in Olympic games 
2 Gold, 3 silver & 1 bronze in world championships.