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Guzi from came back strong! Congrats to the medallists...double gold for !

Lai from was down big in the second game against Shi from ...had two match points and was just a couple of centimeters away from winning. But Shi came back...decider time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-WYFJ7LTnY - tune in for Game 3! Edit: Lai fought hard, but Shi prevailed. But congrats for a bronze for !

I'm attempting to get chatgpt to help me with this so we can work smarter not harder :-)

Golden again for and today! World Taekwondo GP Challenge - Muju Taekwondowon 2025 Day 3 Results Men's -58Kg 1. Bae Jun-Seo 2. Kim Jeongmyeong 3. Tamirlan Tleules Women's -67Kg 1. Kristina Teachout 2. Ozoda Sobirjonova 3. Lena Moreno Reyes I've never followed taekwondo before...it's nice to learn some names of standout US athletes (Teachout apparently won bronze in Paris)...and congrats to the other winners as well!

Hopefully more people will discover this exciting sport...only 500 people or so watching live on Youtube. Congrats !

Yep, it's a 50 m pool. (They say so at the 2:00 mark here, and of course it can be seen as they swim later in the broadcast.)

World Taekwondo GP Challenge - Muju Taekwondowon 2025 Day 2 Results Men's -68Kg 1. Banlung Tubtimdang 2. Jung Woo-Hyeok 3. Damir Shulenov Women's +67Kg 1. Anistasiia Kosmycheva 2. Song Da Bin 3. Lauren Williams

was also 4th in Men's...a 17 year old at that! Took down the #1 seed from to make it to the SF. In the GM match with vs. , the athlete looked like he got hurt in the 1st round unfortunately.

Is there a way on the WT website to see the 'bracket' view for the draws, or do they just have a list of the matches in order? (Edit: I found it in the Results tab as a PDF, but looks like there's no live bracket during the comp. I guess BWF and WTT have spoiled me being able to see a bracket.)

It is of note that there are no Neutral athletes competing at the World Champs, but they regularly made the finals during the WC season.

And here are your Women's finalists. Congrats! KHALIL Farida CASTAUDI Rebecca GUZI Blanka TOGNETTI Aurora ISMAIL Malak KARBOWNIK Malgorzata CAZALY Louison BAUER Blanka WHITAKER Emma SEONG Seungmin JURT Anna OZYUKSEL Ilke MERCURI Maria Beatrice HEREDIA Laura ADOMAITYTE Elzbieta MARTINESCU Valentina FOLLETT Charlie GREEN Olivia Also, please don't let it get lost on you how amazing Farida Khalil is. She 14 years old. She is the U17, U19, and Junior World Champ, AND she won the Senior World Cup. The next youngest competitor is 20. The oldest competitor is 28...double her age! (Average age is 25-26 of these finalists.) Likewise, Moutaz Mohamed on the men's side is the Junior World Champ and winner of the Senior World Cup. Double gold for if the trend continues!

Looks like Diving is getting a different venue than previously advertised. https://la28.org/en/newsroom/la28-updates-diving-venue-for-the-2028-olympic-games.html "Today, the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games proposed to relocate Diving to the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in the Venue City of Pasadena...The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center offers an existing world class pool that meets Olympic Diving standards and requires fewer improvements in order to host Diving in 2028." Looks like the other one (Exposition Park, where they held it in 1932) had some safety concerns. From SwimSwam: 'World Aquatics “advised” LA28 that the pool does not meet the Olympic Diving standards due to athlete safety concerns of pool width and depth, orientation of the diving towers towards the sun, and inadequate clearance behind the towers.'

The stage is set for Saturday's Men's Final. Congrats to the athletes here for making it past the semi-finals: LAWRYNOWICZ Daniel MOHAMED Moutaz FLEUROT Ugo LUKES Matej GALL Andras POPOV Roman MICHELI Roberto KOVALCHUK Yuriy PURONAS Titas ROCHAT Mathis SHABAN Mohanad SZEP Balazs HULME James SALOMO Pau BORIES Leo SYCH Danylo BOVENZI Matteo LEH Tim

I just watched a video of that...looks super cool! And I like the idea of it being in the middle of the city. (Also, here's another vote for ice climbing and cross-country/trail running.)

Badminton's a sport I haven't followed, but I just learned that it's one of the sports that the US has never medalled in. (Surprising, perhaps?) Looks like our entries have some tough draws today and have either already lost or are the underdogs in an upcoming match.

Chance for redemption for

men didn't make the Semifinals. Oh well! Take a peek at qualis to see the primarily indoor competition...I like it! (I didn't follow MP before Paris, so I don't really know how it used to be...I imagine much different.)

losing to . Woof. (Congrats, Uruguay!) (Reminds me of when we almost lost to South Sudan right before the Olympics...except here Uruguay pulled it off. And with South Sudan we had our A Team.)

Actually, I just saw in the regulations that the deadline has passed: https://d1n1qj9geboqnb.cloudfront.net/ifsc/public/xwjumx8d1qt3sf6iwqi94dsa1ch6 And, Indonesia has competitors in Lead/Boulder registered. Perhaps didn't want to do World Games + IFSC WCH?

Also worth noting that Brooke Raboutou isn't currently on the list with her American compatriots. I know she was taking some time off, and perhaps she decided to let this one go. (No shame in that.) But Janja is there.

Currently no Indonesian speed climbers showing up on the Registration page...maybe they're still populating that list? Or does anyone know why they might not be going? https://ifsc.results.info/event/1417/

That last point of the Men's was insane. Go watch if you haven't! Congrats to Truls...first European man to win a Grand Smash!

I like it!

I've learned recently that Chinese fans will shout 'jia you' to encourage their players. But during the WS finals, when both athletes were Chinese, the crowd didn't shout that, probably so as to not sound like they had a favorite or discourage the other. It sounded like there were some other cheers they had, but I don't know what they are. Does anyone know what might have been being chanted? Congrats, Sha Sha...now on to the Men's!

Hi all, I'm happy to have found others who love the Olympics as much as I do. Random facts about me: 1) I'm an almost 40-yr-old dad from the States (South Carolina). I'm teaching my girls to watch international sport/the Olympics...they know that when it's Olympics time, the TV doesn't tune in to anything else. And now that I've discovered the international federations and the competitions in the 'off years', my wife/kids know there's no telling what sport I'll be watching...currently watching the table tennis for today's finals at the Europe Smash. 2) I grew up loving geography, maps, cultures, languages, etc. (I'm a Spanish teacher now.) I always watched the Olympics growing up, and my favorite part has always been the Parade of Nations (which I know makes me an outlier among all of my friends who are there for the sport). Have always just loved the idea of having people from virtually every nation all together. And to see the sportsmanship and the Olympic spirit on display between the nations is so inspiring. I'm a Christian, and one thing we believe is that one day in the afterlife there will be peace among all, and while the Olympics isn't a perfect representation of that, it's a nice glimpse. 3) I had the opportunity to go to a baseball game during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta (just a couple of hours from me)...I think it was Netherlands and Nicaragua. I got to see one of the bronze medals that the USA won in baseball that year, as one of the players (Matt LeCroy) was previously a student at my high school and he came to talk at our church afterwards. I also got to see the torch relay before 2002 in Salt Lake as it also came through South Carolina. 4) I grew up always liking figure skating and gymnastics, and of course swimming/diving/artistic swimming and track/field (athletics) were always fun to watch. But now, my sport that I follow most closely is Sport Climbing. I discovered it at the Tokyo Olympics and have been in love ever since. I didn't really think about it much after Tokyo, but leading up to Paris, I caught some of the Olympic Qualifier Series and discovered the IFSC. After Paris, I started watching all the comps in between. 5) Though Sport Climbing is my absolute favorite, when people ask what sports I watch in the Olympics, I have to honestly reply that I watch them all. I try to catch a little of each sport, trying to learn about sports that I'm less familiar with. Current secondary favorites are Table Tennis, Weightlifting, and Modern Pentathlon (and Curling in winter, and SkiMo has recently caught my eye). It also helps that I discovered more about the structure of International Sport, in that each one has their own federation, like the IFSC. I took some time to follow each of them on YouTube and Facebook, and I'll try to pay attention if there are some major competitions in the sports. 6) As I watch the Olympics, I also try to be intentional about watching athletes from as many nations as I can. Here in the USA, it's of course not surprising that NBC shows primarily stories related to our athletes...but I know other nations are just as proud of their athletes. So, in looking at other sports, I get to see other nations shine for a bit. I also try to watch things like the opening heats for the 100m in the pool or on the track to see athletes from all over the world compete. 7) I may or may not have purchased the soundtrack to the 2024 Opening Ceremony and listen to it quite frequently. (I also have gone back and watched the opening ceremony from the Olympics site a couple of times now, where it's ad-free and without NBC commentators checking in on Team USA. And interestingly enough, in the replay they uploaded, they fixed the error where North/South Korea were introduced as the other nation.) 8) Super happy to have found this site because of how it highlights qualification procedures. Growing up, I always wondered how people made it to the Olympics, and now that the Internet exists, I have found the Qualification docs on the Olympics site, and now there are sites like these that show when these events (and many more!) are taking place. I'm sure I have many other thoughts, but I'll let these suffice for now. Looking forward to following international sport over the next few years as we prepare for LA! (I hope to be there!)