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I think this counts as not embarrassingly bad. Color me satisfied.

Fencing in Lima this weekend. Foil is strong for M and W. We have 2 M ranked in the top 20 that we sent to Lima (Nick Itkin is 4, Gerek Meinhardt is 16). We also have 3 W in top 20 (already mentioned Lee Kiefer, who is 1 and married to Gerek, and Lauren Scruggs, who is 13...Jaelyn Liu is 2). Best of luck to our team!

In general, my school is not too picky. They're fine if we need a personal day (whether we're physically sick, mentally need a break, have to travel, etc.). They will care a little more (and might say no) if you want to take a day off right before/after a long weekend/break, or if you ask for two consecutive days off.

My wife is a big Women's Basketball fan, and it helps that USC (the one here in South Carolina ) has a killer team. She gets more into it than I do. She kids me for liking all the 'weird' sports.

Confession: I don't really do March Madness. I hardly pay attention to non-Olympic/international sport. The closest thing I get is college football, but even that is not as much as I used to. (I was in the band at Clemson, so I was at essentially all the games and loved following it.). And South Carolina doesn't have any pro teams, so I don't really do pro sports, either. (All these guys in the WBC were new to me.)

Just saw on FB that there won't be any live streaming available for us here with the Golden League (but they will be shown on Scandinavian TV, and the US team said they'd post live updates on Instagram, etc.).

lost to the other day, and ends up qualifying.

Love it. Reminds me of when I was in Spain in 2010 when they won the World Cup. (I fell asleep when it was still 2-0, then just saw the highlights...glad it was a good game. Congrats .)

At least I don't have a class at 8:00 in the morning, in case I do end up staying up for the whole game... Zzzz..... Let's go, boys!

Of course will be rooting for tonight, but so much love and heart for . I know it would mean a lot to all of you and for your country. (This Spanish teacher has a soft spot for mis hermanos americanos. ) Hope it's a good game, and may the best team win.

Keep your eye out for Wen Ruibo A star that's rising quickly!

Today was Women's Time Trial. US took 1-2 Kristen Faulkner won Gold (she won Gold in the RR in Paris, as well as Gold in the TP in Track Cycling!...and she also won Gold in this year's track PanAms in TP and IP). Emily Ehrlich (who also was part of the PanAm TP Gold, won Silver in the IP, and won gold in the TP and IP for 2025 and 2024...and who beat Faulkner in the 2025 USA TT on the road) came in Second. Men's TT is tomorrow (but I don't think we have any of our guys there). Women's RR is Saturday. Men's is Sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/@DeportesRCN/streams I found a Spanish live-stream of the Continental Championships.

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/OWS-LA28-Qualification-System.pdf

I do find it odd that USA had a day off, but Venezuela didn't.

This also seems to have the update Athletics schedule, too.

Just be a teacher like I am and it's no worries. Also, as an American, it's bonkers that Europeans can ask for two weeks off. That concept just doesn't exist here...most jobs here have like two weeks off total. (I like the European model for sure! I think we could use a little more down time here...but that means an entire culture shift.) Mine is different obviously, which is nice for the summer/Christmas...but for us in the school year, we can't ask for two consecutive days off without a serious conversation with the headmaster. We only have 7 paid days off during the school year (meaning, days when the students are there but we need to be gone for whatever reason).

Interestingly, not all the medal matches are in LA...the bronze medal matches are in San Diego...so we effectively have 3 cities that will host medal events (if we condense all of the LA metro area into 1 'city').

Too bad we still don't officially know how these teams are going to qualify...

So, now we have three full weeks of competition.

Lot of great success this past week in Squash, Road Cycling, Basketball 3x3, Rugby Sevens, and of course Baseball. Here's what's coming up this week (Week 10): Tuesday - Women's Basketball vs. on TruTV at 5 ET (Final qualifier for the WC that we've already qualified for), Baseball final at 8 ET on FOX Thursday, Saturday, Sunday - The US Men's Handball team will be playing matches in Denmark as part of Norlys Golden League. Thursday vs. , Saturday vs. , and Sunday vs. . (8, 4, and 4pm local time, so rewind 5 hours I think for ET). No idea if this will be streamed anywhere. Information is scarce online. No streaming here, but check the US Handball page for updates. Later this week, we have the Panamerican Road Cycling Championships - I don't think we have any elite Men, and just a few elite Women participating. No idea on streaming. Check Road Cycling page for streaming link. There will be TT and RR. Two team Equestrian events are happening in Florida - One in Jumping, and one in Dressage. Miami Open in Tennis (Men and Women) kicks off today. Level 1000, so all the top dogs are there. Beach volleyball has a Challenger (Tier 2) event in Mexico. Fencing will be back underway this weekend in Lima with Foil. (Should be able to stream on fencingtv.com) Judo will be in Tbilisi for another Grand Slam this weekend. Can watch live on judotv.com with no subscription (but with ads and no replays). Flag Football has an event in Los Angeles called the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, where Team USA will go up against some other NFL dudes it looks like. I think it's like 4-8 on Saturday on Fox. Our Men's Rugby Sevens will be playing in Montevideo this weekend, hoping to nab a spot in the World Championships coming up. There is an Open Water Swimming PanAm event in Aruba, but I haven't figured out if it's just a qualifier for the Central American/Caribbean Games, or if it's also a PanAm event that we might send someone to. Edit: No USA athletes participating. And finally, Road Cycling will be in Italy for the Milano-San Remo event for Men and Women this weekend.

I fell asleep (oops)...but happy to see the results!

Lucky to get out of that one unscathed

Judge for MVP.

I'll take a nice homer