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Gotta love technicalities... Next you'll be telling me that our 1936 ice hockey gold doesn't really count because the team was basically Canadian.

Ethan Katzberg with the meet of his life at the Kip Keino Classic. By a fucking mile. Before today his PB in men’s hammer throw was 81.25m at the 2023 World Championships, where he became a surprise World Champion. Starts off with 81.79m in R1, then 82.06m in R2, 81.50m in R4, 84.38m (!! yes you heard me right) in R5, and 83.26m in R6. That’s 5 marks under his previous PB (the other one was a foul), and a 3.13m improvement.
 
Edit: Also moves him to #9 on the all-time list, none of the athletes above him are still competing. 
 
Not to mention he’s only 21 (!) years old, in an event where athletes don’t peak until later on in their career. 
 
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Chinese Olympic trials begins tomorrow. The rules is to choose the any best result of 3 events to compare:
 
1: 2023 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A
2: 2024 WCH individual event finals and meeting OG standard A
3: 2024 trials individual event finals and meeting OG standard A
 
So based on the past 2023 and 2024 WCH, following swimmers already have eligible results and green parts are almost safe enough to guarantee the tickets before the trials. For relay swimmers, mainly considering trials results.
 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canadian-government-boosts-carding-money-for-athletes-ahead-of-paris-olympics/
 
Some good news! JT's government finally doing something right for sport.

Just being a bit of douchebag and saying I got it right here 

Glenn Howard, one of the greatest curler in history (though some users on this forum might know him better as the brother of 2006 Olympic gold medalist Russ Howard) has announced his retirement.
 
Glenn is a seventeen time Ontario champion, a four time Canadian champion, a four time World champion and was the runner-up at the 2009 Olympic trials.

Maybe she can represent in LA?
 
She does have close connections to the country, being married to a very famous Moldovan Olympic athlete.

And the women's quota will be between and

Jennifer Jones is a great person, by all accounts, and for my money the greatest curling player of her generation on the women's side. Really extraordinary career.

No more ties for gold in high jump / pole vault :P
 
(I don't actually think the money difference will matter, but still funny to think this will be a factor now - I'm assuming if there is a tie for gold the prize money will be split)

Bit of an anti-climax but  gets the last women’s team sprint quota after  withdraws due to an injury.

will have a full track cycling team!

will have a full track cycling team!

Probably still a bit tipsy from all the Champagne.
 
(I really don't know how much the Canadian sprint team cares about the results this week-end now that they all qualified for the Olympics tbh)

Probably still a bit tipsy from all the Champagne.
 
(I really don't know how much the Canadian sprint team cares about the results this week-end now that they all qualified for the Olympics tbh)

will have a full track cycling team!

Can we have a disqualification at some point? This  -  race is tedious xD

That part isn’t really relevant, Canada was guaranteed to finish above France by virtue of  losing to  and  having a walkover over

Bit of an anti-climax but  gets the last women’s team sprint quota after  withdraws due to an injury.

Yulimar Rojas (athletics) 
 
Reigning Olympic Champion in women’s triple jump, reigning World Record holder, reigning 4x World Champion and widely considered as the best athlete all time in this event, but won’t be defending her title at Paris after suffering an achilles injury during training. Wide open for the gold medal now. 

No but seriously, why isn’t the Netherlands a world power in bandy? It’s literally field hockey with skates!

49 - 11  was a nice ride whilst it lasted

If you really want to qualify, you’d have @Josh award the quotas to your closest rivals midway through the competition 

has qualified!

has qualified!