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BRONZE! for Niall Treacy at the short track World championships in the 1000m
 
First World short track medal for GB since Elise Christie won triple Gold in 2017. Treacy also finished 5th in the 1500 yesterday.

Entries for the Edinburgh swim meet can be found here:
 
https://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/draft-programme-for-web.pdf
 
Peaty's first Long Course races since the Paris Olympics! All other GB stars are present too (apart from those competing in the NCAA).
 
Some of them (Morgan, Dean, Colbert etc.) are coming straight from 3 weeks of altitude training in Arizona so it'll be interesting to see where they're at.
 
I think most will then compete at the Giant Open in France next weekend.

2026 Week 10 (09 - 15 Mar) Events:
 
A fairly chunky week of events - one that kind of makes me regret starting this thread, but we're down the rabbit hole so might as well continue....
 
Aquatics - Swimming:
Edinburgh International Meet (13 - 15 Mar) - This event is always well attended by the British swim team, and this will be an opportunity to get qualifying times for Commonwealth Games later in the year. Entry lists aren't published yet but will keep checking.
 
Athletics:
European Throwing Cup (14 - 15 Mar) - UK Athletics have taken the decision not to send a team to the event in Nicosia, citing the ongoing situation in the Middle East.  
 
Badminton:
Yonex Swiss Open 2026 (10 - 15 Mar) - Kirsty Gilmour will face a qualifier in the first round of the Women's Singles. 
 
In the Men's Doubles, Christopher Grimley and Matthew Grimley face 7th seed  Daniel Lundgaard and Mads Vestergaard
Julie Macpherson and Ciara Torrance will take on  Arisa Igarashi and Chiharu Shida in the Women's Doubles. 
 
Alexander Dunn and Julie MacPherson take on  Mads Vestergaard and Christine Busch in the first round of the Mixed Doubles whilst Callum Hemming and Estelle Van Leeuwen face 2nd seed  Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje. 
 
Baseball:
2026 World Baseball Classic (09 Mar)-  will finish their Pool games with a match against . They've lost all of their matches so far, so will be hoping they can come away with a win over the lower ranked opponents.
 
Basketball:
2027 Women's EuroBasket Qualifying -  have an away tie against  on 11-Mar followed by a home tie against  on 14-Mar. 
 
Cycling - BMX Freestyle:
Ride the Dragon - According to the UCI website, this should be taking place this weekend but according to the event website, it's on next week. Either way, I don't have an entry list as yet. 
 
Cycling - BMX Racing:
European Cup Legs I and II (13-14 Mar) - There should be a decent  presence in Verona with Bethany Shriever and Emily Hutt competing in the Women's Elite with Callum Russell, Kye Whyte, Jos Marnham, Matthew Gilston and Ross Cullen competing in the Men's Elite. 
 
Also worth saying that Ben Cornish, Bradley Russell, Danny Jake Monforte, George Hunt, Harrison Bell, Harry Tanner, Betsy Bax, Sienna Harvey, and Theia Gaynor competing in the Under-23 events. 
 
Cycling - Road:
Paris-Nice (08-15 Mar) - Lewis Askey, Josh Tarling, Joshua Giddings, Samuel Watson, Oscar Onley, Robert Donaldson, Max Walker and Callum Thornley will be competing.
 
Tirreno-Adriatico (09-15 Mar) - Ethan Hayter, James Shaw, Owain Doull, Mark Donovan, Connor Swift, Oliver Peace, Sean Flynn and Lukas Nerurkar will be competing.
 
Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio (15-Mar) - Pfeiffer Georgi will be among the Brits taking part.
 
Equestrian - Dressage:
FEI Dressage World Cup - 's-Hertogenbosch (12-15 Mar) - Charlotte Fry will be competing on Everdale.  
 
Fencing:
FIE Westend Grand Prix Individual Epee (13 Mar) - Gregory Allen, Benjamin Andrews, Cador Beautyman, Tobias Berry, William East, James Jeal, Vladimir Kukharev, Tristan Lumineau, Charlie Lutyens-Humfrey, Paul James Sanchez-Lethem, Hugo Smith and Louis Taiwo-Williams will be competing in the men's event in Budapest whilst Lucy Grant, Kate Haswell, Kseniya Kushtan, Danielle Lawson, Hannah Nesbitt, Alexandra Powell, Jessica Rogerson, Susan Maria Sica and Katherine Townsend will compete in the women's event. 
 
Golf:
PGA: The Players Championships (12-15 Mar) - Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Harry Hall, Robert MacIntyre, Marco Penge, Aaron Rai, Jordan Smith and Justin Rose will be competing at Sawgrass.
 
Ladies European Tour: Women's Australian Open (12-15 Mar) - Cara Gainer, Alice Hewson, Darcey Harry, Annabell Fuller, Hannah Screen, Gabriella Cowley, Lydia Hall, Esme Hamilton, Chloe Williams, Lily May Humphreys, Amy Taylor, Gemma Clews, Charlotte Heath, Hannah Darling, Caley McGinty, Meghan MacLaren, Thalia Martin and Kelsey Macdonald are competing. 
 
Gymnastics - Artistic:
FIG Apparatus World Cup (12-15 Mar) - Courtney Tulloch and Remell Robinson-Bailey will be competing in Antalya 
 
Gymnastics - Trampoline:
FIG Trampoline World Cup (12-13 Mar) - Team  were due to send a team of 5 to  Alkmaar including Bryony Page and Isabelle Songhurst but for some reason they have withdrawn the team.
 
 
Judo:
Warsaw European Open 2026 (14-15 Mar): 
Men's -81Kg: Rory Tyrrell
Men's -90Kg: Kenneth Harris
Men's +100Kg: Joshua Whitehouse
Women's -48Kg: Summer Shaw and Ashleigh Barnikel
Women's -57Kg: Lele Nairne
Women's -70Kg: Rachel Hawkes
 
Rugby SVNS:
New York (14-15 Mar) - Team  women will likely go winless for another week - they face ,  and  in the pool matches.
 
For the  men, they have a decent pool if they can get their act together and will face , and .
 
Squash:
Australian Open (10-15 Mar): Joel Makin is the 2nd seed and has a bye to the second round. As does 4th seed Jonah Bryant is 4th seed and 7th seed Curtis Malik.
 
Patrick Rooney will face  Ryunosuke Tsukue whilst Simon Herbert will take on  Moustafa Elsirty in the first round. (Spoiler alert: they both lost in the first round)
 
Grace Gear takes on Alicia Mead in an all British first round with the winner going on to face the top seed  Sivasangari Subramaniam whilst Torrie Malik faces  Cindy Merlo for the right to take on 2nd seed  Tinne Gilis. 
 
Calgary CFO Consulting Services Women's Squash Week (11-15 Mar): Georgia Adderley is the top seed and, along with Millie Tomlinson who is the 8th seed, has a bye to the second round.
 
Kiera Marshall will take on  Helen Tang whilst Lowri Roberts will face Yasshmita Jadishkumar in the first round. 
 
Table Tennis:
WTT Feeder Otocec 2026 (07-11 Mar): Tom Jarvis is the 4th seed for the Men's Singles. Samuel Walker and Connor Green are also competing in both the singles and doubles. Tin-Tin Ho will compete in the Women's Singles. 
 
WTT Champions Chongqing 2026 (10-15 Mar): Anna Hursey will compete in the Women's Singles. 
 
Taekwondo:
Dutch Open 2026 (15 Mar):
Men's -54Kg: Finn Labong 
Men's -80Kg: Theoharys Stavropoulos
Women's -46Kg: Aysa Khorshidi, Lauren Dunsmore 
Women's -49Kg: Emily Clark
Women's -53Kg: Judy Marton and Ruby Lee
Women's -62Kg: Beth Christy
 

I do agree with this (this was also the case in Beijing to an extent) but is better to have 5 medals and a lot of near misses than if we completely maximised performance and come away with 5
 
Things look generally very much on the up when it comes to winter sports in this country

MOST AND LEAST PREDICTABLE SPORTS
 
Below is a graph that shows you how we did as a group in the individual sports.  The lower the number, the lower the predictability.  The higher the number, the higher the predictability.
 
As for scoring, a score of 66% means on average, we guessed two medallists correctly, but the third medallist was not guessed at all.
A score of 50% means that we got one medallist completely correct, and then got the placement wrong for one other medallist, and the third medallist was unknown.  Or, it could mean we guessed the three podium finishers, just in the wrong order.
A score of 33% means that we got one medallist correct, but the other two were not guessed at all (even for other medals).
 

 
I think our top and bottom finishers are to be expected.
 
 
MOST AND LEAST PREDICTABLE DISCIPLINES
 
Events where we guessed the Gold Medallist 100%:

 
Events where we guessed the Gold Medallist 0% (nobody guessed it correctly, but maybe for another medal):

 
Our Average Gold Medal Correct Guess was 45%
 
 
Our Least Predictable Disciplines:

 
Our Most Predictable Disiplines:

 
Our average, across all disciplines, for total podium makeup is 48%.
 
Full Discipline Results by Predictability:


 
What I learned this Olympics: Though there are favorites...the Olympics causes anything to happen!   
 
Thanks for playing, everyone!  I won't be doing this in the future, as it took away from my enjoyment of the Olympics somewhat (both in the hosting and the predicting myself), but I look forward to the next Olympics cycle!
 
 

Hello, welcome to Team GB Debrief, a chance for us to yammer, unfortunately, in the past tense, about Team GB at the Milan and Cortina Olympics. 
 
Leaderboard
 
Anticlimactically, I won on 44 points, beating @Surreal and @Jonwho share silver on 42. @cjsavorytook 31, with @G-annin fifth with 27.
 
Medals
3/1/1
 
A great Games for us in general and definitely the best Winter Games in living memory for most of us. Still a few near-misses which I think a lot of people would say is a positive for the future. I was happy the forum stayed active throughout
 
 
 
 

of course, but as other years we had Russia and Belarus, it's ok to compensate with AIN, I think

(we can say 29.5 countries this year ! )

Slovakia were beaten 6-1 in the Ice hockey bronze medal match so we'll end this Olympics with 30 nations winning medals. Still ties the record!

And that secures victory for me in QOTD! Who is getting me something... 

That would be insane, cant see it happening. There's already a sliding track in La Plagne basically ready for Olympic competition so it doesn't make any sense.
 
Getting rid of a historic sport like bobsleigh would surely also get a lot of backlash despite the German domination.

I don't think there is such a rumor, it's more of a point to show how weak german results are outside of these sports (the media here is a one-guy operation anyway).

The sports will be okay for 2030 and 2034 as the facilities are already there. Later on, there might be an interrogation point as german domination is structurally guaranteed to last forever...

Keely Hodgkinson smashed the world indoor 800m record with a phenomenal 1:54.87 at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Trophee EDF in Lievin!

Don't engage with him - you just encourage his constant drivel about funding. Last week he was predicting the withdrawal of all funding for winter sports.  Strangely enough he went quiet when  won multiple golds. 

They have had a bit of bad luck in this event in the past with falls etc, so it is well-deserved.  Like I've said before, I think Joe Davies is the man who will break through next time.  Anna Pryce can also be a top-10 finisher.  

Wow!  Saw that during the Euros as well, girls are equally capable of idiocy and brilliance!  

OH MY GOD! HOW HAVE THE WOMEN WON THAT GAME?
 
Rebecca Morrison with a SUBLIME last shot. GBR somehow still cling on to a chance of the semis. I'd accepted defeat after the 7th end lol

Actually it's way too confusing for the most part   (I'll keep doing calculations for a bit and we'll see..) but  are also mathematically alive and need to win their remaining matches (they take on each other, and China has Czechia, so it's doable)
 
 actually needs only one of  to lose both of their games against  along with the US win, they still have a chance if there's a logjam at 4-5 but you wouldn't favour them. 

As with all the skeleton athletes this week, he's seemed like a great competitor who competes in the right way.

Christopher Grotheer, Olympic champion from 2022 and double bronze medalist from these Games, announced his retirement yesterday. "My mind is willing, but my body is not quite like that anymore" :
 
https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/news/winter-olympics-2026-christopher-grotheer-announces-retirement-skeleton-double-bronze-milano-cortin
 
An absolute skeleton legend, also a 7-time(!) World Champion to go with his Olympic crown. He's been Weston's main rival the last 4 years and was the dominant force in Skeleton before Weston rose to the top.
 
Hope he has a happy retirement!

Christopher Grotheer, Olympic champion from 2022 and double bronze medalist from these Games, announced his retirement yesterday. "My mind is willing, but my body is not quite like that anymore" :
 
https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/news/winter-olympics-2026-christopher-grotheer-announces-retirement-skeleton-double-bronze-milano-cortin
 
An absolute skeleton legend, also a 7-time(!) World Champion to go with his Olympic crown. He's been Weston's main rival the last 4 years and was the dominant force in Skeleton before Weston rose to the top.
 
Hope he has a happy retirement!

I also surprisingly got that one.  (Nope: Mine was the Mixed Team Snowboard Cross)   About to be updating this from today.

OMG just caught up on the dual moguls and ITS HAPPENED! I've got my first correct podium! Only took me 9 days, thank you men's dual moguls field.

OMG just caught up on the dual moguls and ITS HAPPENED! I've got my first correct podium! Only took me 9 days, thank you men's dual moguls field.

First time EVER we've won multiple Golds at one Winter Games too!!!

I too love winning a semi on Valentine’s Day.
 
However like Treacy I won’t always finish