AlexMunegu59

RIP. Rebecca Cheptegei
 
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2024-09-05-athlete-rebecca-cheptegei-is-dead/

2024 Boys World Junior Rankings
 
Now with the conclusion of the European Juniors, Olympics and Junior Pan Pacs, thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how the World Junior Rankings this year. These results were taken from a mix of the World Aquatics website, the Nuoto Mondiale Rankings and Swimcloud. With many competitions not contesting the stroke 50 events this year, I've decided to exclude them from these rankings. 33 countries are represented in these rankings.
 
*YOB = Year of Birth
 
50m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Lorenzo BALLARATI 22.20 European Juniors 2 2008 Luca HOEK 22.33 European Juniors 3 2009 Tajus JUSKA 22.34 European Juniors 4 2007 Joshua CONIAS 22.35 Australian Age Group Nationals 5 2006 Davide PASAFARO 22.39 Campionato Italiano di Categoria 6 2006 Ali SAYED 22.42 Canadian Trials 7 2006 Vlado NENADIC 22.45 European Juniors 8 2007 Nikita SHEREMET 22.46 European Juniors 9 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 22.50 French Juniors 10 2007 Roman ZHIDKOV 22.54 Russian Championships 100m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 48.14 French Elite Championships 2 2007 Carlos D'AMBROSIO 48.55 Campionato Italiano di Categoria 3 2006 KIM Youngbeom 48.65 Junior Pan Pacs 4 2009 Tajus JUSKA 48.74 European Juniors 5 2006 Vlado NENADIC 48.80 European Juniors 6 2006 Lorenzo BALLARATI 49.11 European Juniors 6 2006 Ali SAYED 49.11 Canadian Championships 8 2006 Kaii WINKLER 49.22 US Olympic Trials 9 2008 Gabriel SHEPHERD 49.24 European Juniors 10 2008 Luca HOEK 49.36 European Juniors 200m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 1:45.83 Italian Championships 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 1:46.28 Chinese Championships 3 2007 Tatsuya MURASA 1:46.59 Japan Meet Sagamihara 4 2007 Carlos D'AMBROSIO 1:46.78 Sette Colli 5 2006 Nikolai KOLESNIKOV 1:47.27 Russian Juniors 6 2006 Kristupas TREPOCKA 1:47.74 European Juniors 7 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 1:47.82 French Elite Championships 8 2009 Luka MIJATOVIC 1:47.96 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Ahmet ISIK 1:48.04 European Juniors 10 2007 Nicholas CASTELLA 1:48.41 European Juniors 400m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 3:45.82 Chinese Championships 2 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 3:46.42 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 3:47.48 Sette Colli 4 2006 Ahmet ISIK 3:48.53 European Juniors 5 2006 LIU Peixin 3:48.96 Chinese Championships 6 2009 Luka MIJATOVIC 3:49.24 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Johannes LIEBMANN 3:49.32 European Juniors 8 2006 Arne SCHUBERT 3:49.41 German Championships 9 2006 Nikolai KOLESNIKOV 3:50.06 Russian Juniors 10 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 3:50.41 Japan Olympic Trials 800m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 7:45.19 US Olympic Trials 2 2007 Kuzey TUNCELLI 7:47.29 Olympics 3 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 7:47.84 Chinese Championships 4 2006 Luke ELLIS 7:52.40 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2006 Arne SCHUBERT 7:53.92 German Championships 6 2007 Kazushi IMAFUKU 7:53.99 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2006 Kaito TSUJIMORI 7:54.50 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2007 KIM Junwoo 7:55.23 Korean Championships 9 2006 Yusuf OZDEN 7:55.32 European Championships 10 2007 Sean GREEN 7:56.47 US Olympic Trials 1500m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Kuzey TUNCELLI (WJR) 14:41.22 Olympics 2 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 14:53.00 US Olympic Trials 3 2007 Kazushi IMAFUKU 14:59.97 Junior Pan Pacs 4 2006 Luke ELLIS 15:00.24 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 15:04.00 Chinese Championships 6 2007 Johannes LIEBMANN 15:04.04 European Juniors 7 2007 William MULGREW 15:12.63 Speedo Summer Championships 8 2006 Kaito TSUJIMORI 15:15.04 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Bartosz KAPALA 15:15.69 Polish Championships 10 2009 Luke MIJATOVIC 15:15.95 Junior Pan Pacs 100m Backstroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Miron LIFINTSEV (WJR) 52.08 Russian Swimming Cup 2 2006 Aiden NORMAN 53.73 Junior Pan Pacs 3 2006 Ivan TARASOV 54.42 Russian Championships 4 2007 Daniele DEL SIGNORE 54.56 European Juniors 5 2007 John SHORTT 54.70 Irish Championships 6 2007 Gavin KEOGH 54.74 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Mantas KAUSPEDAS 54.80 European Juniors 8 2006 Blake AMLICKE 54.84 SE NAC Summer Sizzler 9 2006 Jakub KRISCHKE 55.02 European Juniors 10 2006 YOON Jihwan 55.04 Korean Championships 200m Backstroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Miron LIFINTSEV 1:56.61 BRICS Games 2 2006 Aiden NORMAN 1:57.67 Junior Pan Pacs 3 2007 John SHORTT 1:57.68 European Juniors 4 2007 Yaroslav LOZE 1:58.09 BRICS Games 5 2007 Gavin KEOGH 1:58.19 Junior Pan Pacs 6 2007 Matteo VENINI 1:58.22 Italian Championships 7 2006 Martin PERECINSKY 1:58.24 US Olympic Trials 8 2007 Ethan EKK 1:58.28 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2007 Daniele DEL SIGNORE 1:58.81 European Juniors 10 2006 Alexandru CONSTANTINESCU 1:58.91 European Juniors 100m Breaststroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2008 Max MORGAN 1:00.10 British Summer Championships 2 2006 Arsen KOZHAKHMETOV 1:00.44 Kazakhstan Championships 3 2008 Evangelos NTOUMAS 1:00.66 Acropolis Open 4 2006 Egor BAHOUR 1:00.83 Russian Championships 5 2006 Joe POLYAK 1:00.85 Junior Pan Pacs 6 2006 Xavier RUIZ 1:00.95 Atlanta Classic 6 2006 Adam MAK 1:00.95 Asian Age Group Championships 6 2009 Shin OHASHI 1:00.95 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Campbell MCKEAN 1:01.00 US Olympic Trials 10 2006 Maksim MANOLOV 1:01.10 European Juniors 10 2006 Nil CADEVALL 1:01.10 European Juniors 10   Kirill SAVICH 1:01.10 Russian Championships 200m Breaststroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2009 Shin OHASHI 2:10.88 Junior Pan Pacs 2 2006 Josh BEY 2:11.02 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 Adam MAK 2:11.20 Asian Age Group Championships 4 2007 Jordan WILLIS 2:11.26 US Olympic Trials 5 2007 Gabe NUNZIATA 2:11.78 US Olympic Trials 6 2007 Ryu SAITO 2:12.19 Japan Olympic Trials 7 2008 Max MORGAN 2:12.24 British Summer Championships 8 2008 Oliver DAWSON 2:12.42 Canadian Trials 9 2008 Doruk YOGURTCUOGLU 2:12.49 European Juniors 9 2008 Evangelos NTOUMAS 2:12.49 Acropolis Open 9 2006 Haru OKAWA 2:12.49 Japan Olympic Trials 100m Butterfly Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Thomas HEILMAN 50.80 US Olympic Trials 2 2006 Kaii WINKLER 51.51 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 KIM Youngbeom 51.65 Korean Meet Gwangju 4 2007 Maxim SKAZOBTSOV 51.71 Kazakhstan Championships 5 2006 Daniele MOMONI 52.20 European Juniors 6 2006 Ethan DUMESNIL 52.38 European Juniors 7 2006 Maro MIKNIC 52.49 European Juniors 8 2006 German Zazhirskii 52.54 BRICS Games 9 2006 Lukas EDL 52.55 European Juniors 10 2007 Rowan COX 52.59 Junior Pan Pacs 200m Butterfly Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Thomas HEILMAN 1:54.50 US Olympic Trials 2 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 1:56.28 Sette Colli 3 2006 Samuel KOSTAL 1:57.26 Mare Nostrum Barcelona 4 2006 Logan ROBINSON 1:57.27 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2006 Vlad-Stefan MIHALACHE 1:57.42 European Juniors 6 2008 David ANTAL 1:57.67 European Juniors 7 2006 Riki ABE 1:57.83 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2006 Abdalla NASR 1:57.85 World Championships 9 2006 WANG Xizhe 1:58.30 Chinese Championships 10 2006 Kono MICHITORA 1:58.31 Japan Olympic Trials 200m Individual Medley Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Maximus WILLIAMSON 1:58.58 US Olympic Trials 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 1:58.97 Chinese Championships 3 2006 Riki ABE 1:59.48 World Championships 4 2007 Robert-Andrei BADEA 2:00.05 European Juniors 5 2006 Nil CADEVALL 2:00.34 European Juniors 6 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 2:00.37 Konami Open 7 2006 Gregg ENOCH 2:00.58 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2006 Joe POLYAK 2:00.60 US Olympic Trials 9 2008 Mikhail SHCHERBAKOV 2:00.76 Russian Swimming Cup 10 2008 Anatoliy GUSENKOV 2:01.06 BRICS Games 400m Individual Medley Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 4:11.94 Konami Open 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 4:12.71 Olympics 3 2007 Robert-Andrei BADEA 4:14.37 European Juniors 4 2007 Iaroslav LOZE 4:16.69 BRICS Games 5 2006 Gregg ENOCH 4:16.80 USA Meet Indianapolis 6 2006 Luke ELLIS 4:16.84 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Sean GREEN 4:17.84 US Olympic Trials 8 2008 Yomeki KOJIMA 4:18.84 Japan Olympic Trials 9 2006 Emanuele POTENZA 4:19.10 Sette Colli 10 2006 Ryan ERISMAN 4:19.35 NCSA Spring Orlando

Alex Lanier has won the Japanese Open and becomes the first ever french Super Series winner 
 
Aged only 19, he's also the youngest to win a Super Series event.

In case anyone needs a hype video.
 
 

I think this has to be quite some moment haha, starting inside a shopping center 
 
 
 
This picture in particular    
 

Je mets ça ici à défaut d'une page sur les Jeux Paralympiques.
 
Je vous conseille, si vous avez un peu de temps, de regarder ce documentaire France TV, c'est vraiment ultra intéressant de voir sur de multiples points de vues, l'histoire de ces athlètes : https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-sport/6348575-a-corps-perdus.html
 
Encore 5 jours avant d'être à fond derrière tout le monde !

Seed #25 of the tournament  Martins Plavins and Kristians Fokerots defeats 17-21, 22-20 and 15-5 Paris 2024 Silver medalists  Ehlers and Wickler to become the 2024 Mens European Champions.
 
3rd place for  Van de Velde/Immers (defeated  Cottafava/Nicolai)

So, while Paris is still fresh on our minds, what are your main thoughts about the olympic sports program ?
 
I'll start :
 
That's my biggest takeaway : I've missed so, so, much of the good stuff. There are too many events cramped in a 17 days period, specially during the first week. IMO, we are either moving to a three weeks period to help spreading the sports, or we should move back to a ~300 events olympics like in the 2000's  
They definitely should drop the 4*400 mixed relay while it was a nice event by itself, if some of the best athletes don't compete, scrap it.   
Race walking could (should ?) be dropped tomorrow and be replaced by cross country running and not many will miss it  
While I always have been a massive "cut the swimming events by half" enthusiast, I've been pleasantly surprised by the variety of podiums between the 100/200m distances (And yes, ofc, Léon Marchand helps me having another view on the matter ). I'd still cut a couple of the relays at least.  
Diving is relaxing, but it's a really a small sport. Not sure we really need to double up chinese golds with all 4 synchro events though. High diving must be considered at some point.  
Open Water swimming need more events, I'd like to move the 1500m to open water and probably add a relay  
I've been surprised by the pentathlon event. The huge crowd and the setting helped a lot to vindicate the sport. Unfortunately, I think dropping the equestrian will hurt the sport a lot. As it stand, the sport does kind of make sense (it helps if you're a french aristocrat from the 19th century, but still). With obstacle running coming up, I have a feeling we will see a random collection of five sports with no coherence at all. Equestrian might have been the last saving grace of the sport.  
Like OW swimming, I don't like sports (and venues) to be limited to two events. It seems a bit of waste. For instance, I'd like MTB cycling to add a relay (why not already, really ?) and downhill to be considered. Same with Golf where a team event is badly needed.  
The Versailles cross-country venue was amazing ! I'd love for the cross country to have its standalone event on top of the evening stuff.  
We need the three events in sports climbing ASAP. A mixed team combined event could work also.  
Boxing needs to stay.  
I'd prefer to have a male and a female double and a mixed team event in table tennis that what we have now. Same in tennis, if the players were up for it, i'd like a mixed team event to remplace the mixed double.  
Kayak "Jeux Sans Frontières" events were ok I guess. I think 6 slalom and 10 sprint events is a nice balance for the sport, not sure, if these cross things are the way to go.  
I'd prefer rowing to keep its "basketball for short people" events than the beach stuff they are planing for LA  
Why Trampoline and not Trumbling, really ?  
I kind of like to see more 'open' events, as in open to both women and men and let the best win regardless of sex. For instance, I'd gladly switch the mixed team event in archery for an open individual event with every archers (male and female) competing against each others.  
Leaving aside the breaking stuff (which was not that terrible really), I have the feeling the "X" stuff is making is way into the olympics (or it might be the other way, not sure)  
We should have an small optional list of sports (not quite the additional sports program we have now) for sports that make sense in some context, but doesn't in others. Sports that can live beeing olympic or not without much fuss. Here, I'm thinking mainly about baseball, cricket and surfing. While Surfing in Tahiti made sense, like it will in Los Angeles and Australia, will it for India 2036 or Germany 2040 ?  
I'd bring back the demonstration sports of the old days for stuff like Lacrosse or Pétanque  
If Taekwondo is in, Karate should be in also. And squash too. These two are my two borderline olympic sports that should be in. In any case, these two sports can't have their olympic status to be challenged every four years, too much depends on it. And so, to answer my first point : we definitely need a three weeks period.

J'attendais (sans doute un peu trop) un résultat en double mixte avec un quart et qu'on profite plus de la chance d'avoir deux paires en double hommes. Finalement le seul qui a tiré réellement son épingle du jeu c'est Popov en simple. J'ai hésité entre 2 et 3 et effectivement j'aurais pu mettre 3.
 
Après c'est aussi les très bons résultats dans d'autres disciplines qui influent sans doute négativement sur ma note dans ce cas 

All the replays. They have hundreds of videos to upload. All videos could be here in a few days.

Yes, I want to follow all events on olympics sports for the next 4 years until LA2028 came !

Aller, sans originalité je propose les miennes aussi 
 
Athlétisme 5/10 Aviron 3/10 Badminton 2/10 Beach Volley 3/10 Basket-ball 9/10 Boxe 5/10 Breakdance 7/10 Canoë-kayak Slalom 6/10 Canoë-kayak Sprint 2/10 Cyclisme - BMX 10/10 Cyclisme sur piste 3/10 Cyclisme sur route 8/10 VTT 9/10 Équitation 7/10 Escalade 3/10 Escrime 6/10 Football 7/10 Golf 5/10 Gymnastique 2/10 Haltérophilie 5/10 Handball 6/10 Hockey sur gazon 2/10 Judo 7/10 Lutte 2/10 Natation artistique 6/10 Natation 7/10 Plongeon 4/10 Water-polo 3/10 Pentathlon moderne 8/10 Rugby à sept 7/10 Skateboard 1/10 Surf 10/10 Taekwondo 7/10 Tennis 2/10 Tennis de table 9/10 Tir 2/10 Tir à l'arc 8/10 Triathlon 6/10 Voile 2/10 Volley 9/10  

Yes, I want to follow all events on olympics sports for the next 4 years until LA2028 came !

Yes, I want to follow all events on olympics sports for the next 4 years until LA2028 came !

I think one solution to the eSports dilemma is to have this eSports Olympics which was launched (at least it was written here) recently like one week after the Olympics concludes. Therefore it can have media exposure related to the Games but still kept separate.
It could be held in a repurposed Olympics venue (but it has to have air conditioning, hahahaha 😂 😄)

Finalement, ce match est un bon résumé de nos Jeux. Très réussis dans l'ensemble, mais à deux doigts de l'exceptionnel 
 
D'où cette pointe de frustration qui j'espère s'estompera rapidement 

not in a celebration mood because of what happened in other sports, but this is Iran's first gold medal in this sport in 16 years and we have to thank some very special organization for this. the UK government !
 
few months ago for the last ranking tournament (GP final), the UK denied visa for the entire Iranian team. our 58kg guy Haji-Mousaei was VERY close to the quota but lost it because of that. the WT did nothing about it, just giving some promises about this won't happen again. 
 
with max 2 quotas per country rule , if Iran had won that quota, we wouldn't be able to send anybody to the Asian qualifiers. our TKD federation had a tough decision to make about who to send to the AQT. they picked up +80kg (and not 58kg)
 
and, Arian Salimi, the +80kg guy won the gold tonight, ironically beating a British fighter in the final. (while the rest of the British team went home empty handed)
 
pure justice, isn't it ?

Une journée assez similaire à hier tout compte fait ! De l'excellent (judo, cyclisme), des outsiders médaillés (tir, tir à l'arc) et une grosse déception à l'escrime.

Une belle journée malgré quelques petites déceptions, on ne peut que voir le verre à moitié (voir à 90%) plein !

Une belle journée malgré quelques petites déceptions, on ne peut que voir le verre à moitié (voir à 90%) plein !

Riner is just phenomenal   It's unbelievable how  France had to wait until him and the final individual event to get a Gold medal.

This was a legendary swim session:
 
The sprint GOAT  Sjöström finally gets her 2nd career Olympic gold, 8 years after her first one  Marchand gets his 1st gold medal in the 200m butterfly of the night beating the world record holder  Milak Arguably the female GOAT  Ledecky wins her 8th Olympic gold and 12th Olympic medal and now holds the top 20 times ever  Marchand completes the insane 200m butterfly-200m breaststroke double with yet another gold  Pan Zhanle smashes the 100m freestyle world record by 0.4 seconds to beat arguably the most stacked 100m freestyle field in history

Too bad for Guatemala  there is not Mixed Trap Team this Games. 

Well deserved silver for  Kirpichnikova 
 
Congrats to all of the French users on here!
 
@AlexMunegu59 @De_Gambassi @Bohemia@Benolympique @Styrka

Mallo-Breton lost her two gold on extra-time, so hard for her who made an unbelievable olympic !