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Not the greatest start for us in women's foil, but I don't expect much from this team. The ECh will be crucial, we will have to finish above Poland, Germany and Spain to have a chance for the European quota.

Ukraine is a mid-tier nation in judo, anyone who cares about judo should care that a mid tier nation will miss the World Championships who already suffered enough in a defensive war against a nation led by a madman. Putin's favorite sport is judo and many of his judokas are military personnel. So being this dismissive on the issue is quite insensitive. It's baffling to see this coming from a Lithuanian as NATO is only reason why you are fortune enough to not have the same faith as Ukraine.

Also, apparently 6 of the Russian athletes allowed to compete at the Judo WCh are military personnel, which goes directly against IOC recommendations.

Fencing, Judo and Wrestling. Ofc Russians return in the three sports where they have the most influence over the the international federation.

After every great result in this sport the only thing I keep thinking about is that Paris will be the end of the road for all of our talented athletes, even for someone as young as Michelle Gulyás. They will have to either abandon elite sports or find another Olympic discipline because pentathlon will literally collapse the moment it will be officially out of the Olympic program, there's no future for this sport without the Games.

The provisional team for the World Championships These swimmers have locked spots for the WCh. They can withdraw from certain events and allow other Hungarian swimmers to compete. 24 swimmers are listed, others can gain spots in events where there aren't two locked athletes. M 50 free: Szebasztián Szabó W 50 free: Petra Senánszky M 100 free: Kristóf Milák, Nándor Németh M 200 free: Kristóf Milák, Nándor Németh W 200 free: Nikolett Pádár, Ajna Késely M 400 free: Kristóf Rasovszky, Balázs Holló W 400 free: Ajna Késely, Bettina Fábián M 800 free: Dávid Betlehem, Kristóf Rasovszky W 800 free: Ajna Késely, Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas M 1500 free: Kristóf Rasovszky, Dávid Betlehem W 1500 free: Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas, Nóra Flück M 50 fly: Szebasztián Szabó M 100 fly: Kristóf Milák, Hubert Kós M 200 fly: Kristóf Milák, Márton Richárd W 200 fly: Boglárka Kapás, Zsuzsanna Jakabos M 50 back: Áron Székely M 100 back: Benedek Kovács, Hubert Kós M 200 back: Benedek Kovács, Hubert Kós W 200 back: Katalin Burián, Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy M 200 medley: Hubert Kós, Gábor Zombori W 200 medley: Dalma Sebestyén M 400 medley: Balázs Holló, Dávid Verrasztó W 400 medley: Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas, Zsuzsanna Jakabos So Milák has both 100 and 200 free for now with 100 and 200 fly. Hubert Kós has a quite extreme program as well with 200 medley, 100 and 200 back and 100 fly.

Telegdy Ádám (férfi 200m hát) és Szabó-Feltóthy Eszter (női 200m hát) A-szintet úszott. Emellett Milák Kristóf (férfi 100m pillangó), Kovács Benedek (férfi 200m hát) és Betlehem Dávid (férfi 800m gyors) további számokban szereztek A-szintet. MAGYARORSZÁG (HUN) 10 sportoló 2 női sportoló 8 férfi sportoló 9 versenyszám 1 sportág 10 Úszás 50 GY 100 GY 200 GY 400 GY 800 GY 1500 GY 100 HÁ 200 HÁ 100 ME 200 ME 100 PI 200 PI 200 VE 400 VE váltó 10 km női 2 X X férfi 8 X X X X X X X X X X vegyes

5 more OQTs from Benedek Kovács and Ádám Telegdy in men's 200m back Eszter Szabó Feltóthy in women's 200m back Dávid Betlehem in men's 800m free Kristóf Milák in men's 100m fly

Négy A-szint a Magyar bajnokság 2. napján. Milák Kristóf és Márton Richárd férfi 200m pillangószásban, Kovács Benedek férfi 100m hátúszásban és Késely Ajna női 400m gyorsúszásban. MAGYARORSZÁG (HUN) 8 sportoló 1 női sportoló 7 férfi sportoló 6 versenyszám 1 sportág 8 Úszás 50 GY 100 GY 200 GY 400 GY 800 GY 1500 GY 100 HÁ 200 HÁ 100 ME 200 ME 100 PI 200 PI 200 VE 400 VE váltó 10 km női 1 X férfi 7 X X X X X X X vegyes

Well, Kovács got his official OQT anyway on the next day. Hungarian OQTs on Day 2 Kristóf Milák in men's 200m fly Richárd Márton in men's 200m fly Benedek Kovács in men's 100m back Ajna Késely in women's 400m free

Két A-szint a Magyar bajnokság első napján. Rasovszky Kristóf és Betlehem Dávid elérték az olimpiai szintet férfi 1500m gyorsúszásban. MAGYARORSZÁG (HUN) 4 sportoló 0 női sportoló 4 férfi sportoló 3 versenyszám 1 sportág 4 Úszás 50 GY 100 GY 200 GY 400 GY 800 GY 1500 GY 100 HÁ 200 HÁ 100 ME 200 ME 100 PI 200 PI 200 VE 400 VE váltó 10 km női férfi 4 X X X X vegyes

Two OQTs for Day 1, both in men's 1500m free: Kristóf Rasovszky and Dávid Betlehem

Aaand it didn't happen. 48.40, which isn't enough for the Olympic quota.

And the news dropped that we were "waiting for"... The big name Hungarian swimmer under doping suspicion is... Tamás Kenderesi. This is one of the reasons why he isn't at the Hungarian National Championships.

Huh, I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Anyway, I am guessing Milák will earn his Olympic quota today in Men's 100 free.

The Hungarian National Championships starts today, hopefully with multiple OQTs for Hungary. Live results are here (It's in Hungarian, maybe Google Translate can help): https://live.musz.hu/event/program?OnlineEventId=102699363 Morning sessions will be live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@magyaruszoszovetseg Evening sessions will be live on M4 Sport, you will need a Hungarian VPN to watch that: https://m4sport.hu/elo/mtv4live

Végre elkezdték a magyar sportolók az olimpiai kvótákat gyűjteni. Ezúttal nem a sportlövőinknek sikerült az első kvótát megszerezni, hanem az úszóinknak. Jövő héten magyar bajnokságot rendeznek Kaposváron, ott további kvóták várhatóak. Szabó Szebasztián az első párizsi magyar kvóta birtokosa, A-szinten úszott 50m gyorsúszásban. Kós Hubert pár nappal később csatlakozott Szebasztiánhoz, 200m hátúszásban úszott A-szintet. MAGYARORSZÁG (HUN) 2 sportoló 0 női sportoló 2 férfi sportoló 2 versenyszám 1 sportág 2 Úszás 50 GY 100 GY 200 GY 400 GY 800 GY 1500 GY 100 HÁ 200 HÁ 100 ME 200 ME 100 PI 200 PI 200 VE 400 VE váltó 10 km női férfi 2 x x vegyes

@phelps Who makes the call on this event, the EFC or FIE? Because EFC is very clearly against Russian participation and they are in a direct conflict with FIE on this. I have seen rumors that FIE wants to move this event to Budapest where Russians would be allowed to participate, but the European Federation would be very much against this.

They will have to work extra hard for the team quotas in that case because none of the Ukrainian teams would qualify to Paris based on the current world ranking. And if they won't participate in individual events, athletes like Olha Kharlan won't have a chance to get the individual quota from the ranking if her team fails to qualify.

Apparently the Poznan World Cup found its new home, in . It will be held in June. So yeah, FIE is winning this fight so far. It seems the World Cup will continue, just with less Western European hosts. And without Ukraine.

This kind of "both sides suck" thinking doesn't work in the current era of politics when one side clearly give MUCH more freedom to its people and its states. If both sides would be the same, UK wouldn't have had the chance to exit the EU, Hungary wouldn't get away with everything that its leadership did in the past 13 years and so on. I have been to both Western Europe and Russia, I have relatives living in both the West and the East, and it blows my mind when someone pulls the "both sides" card every time, because you need some high level mental gymnastics to believe in such a thing. And this also seems like a very dated, Cold War era way of looking at it, when it's far more simple. This entire conflict is the final death rattle of a dying, fading Russia, their last attempt at reviving their past glory before they fade from the world stage and officially become a middle-tier power. Russia is destroying themselves, not the West. So playing this "both sides" card is even more pointless, the West doesn't even have to be the good guys in this, just to be sensible to see that Putin is on the path of total self-destruction.

They will never nuke anyone unless they feel suicidal. NATO would literally obliterate the entire Russian army if they start nuking anyone close to the NATO borders and Russia knows that. The use of one nuke would be enough for the entire Western alliance to support a direct attack on the Russian army by NATO.

Part of literally every Western allied nation is into nazism. We had a literal neonazi militia marching in Budapest during the late 2000s, supported by a party that got 17% of the popular vote during the 2010 Hungarian elections. Does it mean that a Russian invasion of Hungary would suddenly be okay or that Hungary is a nazi state? Magyar gárda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyar_Gárda Neonazi murders of Roma people in Hungary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–2009_neo-Nazi_murders_of_Roma_in_Hungary And guess what, it would still not be okay if Russia would suddenly attack us. To some extent every nation has these kind of people, some have more support and power, some have less. But ultimately what matters is that Ukraine isn't controlled by neonazis, just like how the far-right party never got majority support in Hungary. If you call Zelensky a far-right leader, you might as well call Orbán that as well.

The people of Ukraine support their defensive war and the people of Russia support their "special military operation". Regardless of how or why that is the case and regardless of how they will feel about it in the future, it's the simple truth. Ukraine and its people want to fight this fight so we help them, and Russia and its people want to fight this fight so their allies help them. So I don't get this "it's easy for you to say that" narrative. I wouldn't support the war if the people of Ukraine would be against it. But they aren't. Most of those "pro-peace" people seemingly think that they know what's best for Ukraine (surrender), just like how Russia think they know what "best" for Ukraine (being neutral instead of being a NATO member state). Maybe what's best for Ukraine is what the people of Ukraine and its elected leadership think its best for the country. It's called self-determination, which is what Ukraine is fighting for in the past decade. And anything beyond that, like saying that they are "brainwashed by Western propaganda", just like what some said about the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, is deeply disrespectful to the Ukrainian people.

This is not the kind of war that ends until one side completely loses the ability to continue fighting. You want to end it "diplomatically", but what many pro-Russian people mean by that is that they want the West to stop aiding Ukraine because they know the only way this war can conclude if Ukraine loses the ability to fight Russia. And they won't lose that ability if they are supported by NATO. This war will only end if the Ukrainian army collapses once they run out of supplies or manpower or if Ukraine captures Crimea. There are no other alternatives because Ukraine won't give up any land. Hungary did the same under MUCH harder conditions against the "entire world" in 1919-20. We lost that war, but we didn't stop until the Romanian army captured Budapest. And that was in a divided Hungary, right after World War 1 and after a bloody Soviet revolution and we still fought till we had anything left because we were defending our historical borders. Ukraine is in a better position, united under a stronger leadership and aided by the strongest military alliance in the world. They won't stop till they have anything left to fight. The idea that they would agree to the Russian annexation of any of their land is ridiculous. Believe me, the people who would sign that treaty would forever be shamed and it would be historically seen as a much bigger national tragedy than the war itself. For Hungary the loss of our territory and the Trianon treaty has been seen as far bigger national tragedy than the loss of life during those times. Ukraine would view it the same way.