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While you can't see it you can follow each paddler as they go down the course here. https://www.canoeicf.com/canoe-slalom-world-championships/lee-valley-2023/results Click on LIVE next to the current event and you'll get the rankings as they change as well as the current status of the competitors on the course.

After winds of 40-45 knots on the first two days they appear to be down to 10-15 knots today as the storm abates. Hopefully we'll get some racing today. It's being livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube over the weekend.

Yes, there's a few who had poor first runs who'll definitely be in the running for top twelve spots, notably Jessica Fox who was way down.

Don't know if this is any use, Vlad. https://www.canoeicf.com/canoe-slalom-world-championships/lee-valley-2023/live-replays

After a hot dry September we've been hit by an Atlantic storm - the remnants of Hurricane Lee - over the last couple of days. Should be back to normal Autumnal weather from Thursday onwards.

Thanks. That was a point I tried to make more generally about countries deciding what if any events they will contest at the FQR.

With the provisos that have been made and bearing in mind that some of these crews could qualify in events that have continental qualifiers these were the next best crews at the WC. There are two spots available in each event at the final qualifier. Both single sculls events are complicated by the presence of Belarusian scullers so I've included those who might benefit from their absence should that be the case. MSS -Belarus/Bulgaria/Italy/Serbia MDS- Moldova/USA MLDS - Belgium/New Zealand MQS - USA/Norway MP - Denmark/Lithuania MF - Switzerland/Italy ME - USA/Italy WSS - Belarus/Switzerland/Spain WDS - South Africa/Great Britain WLDS - Poland/Italy WQS - Ukraine/Italy WP - Italy/New Zealand WF - Dennark/Ireland WE - Italy/China As you can see Italy have a lot of potential upside with seven crews (31 quotas) in with a realistic chance of qualification if they choose to contest all the events. The difficulty is assessing the make up of the lineups in each event and the makeup of the crews. Just as an example I can see GB contesting both the men's and women's double sculls but not bothering to enter more than at most one of the other three events they haven't yet qualified in. In the case of the men's double sculls they will have a much stronger crew than in Belgrade and will have a real chance of qualifying. This applies to many of the stronger countries so they may well challenge in boats against which their name doesn't appear on my list. My only cast iron tips are that the USA will qualify in the men's eight and Ireland in the women's coxless four. Other than that my money is staying in my wallet! 😎

I'm not sure that's possible Ben for the reasons others have mentioned about crew changes and resources being diverted into a smaller number of boats for the regatta. Also we don't know which events countries will even bother making an attempt to qualify in.

Actually to be even more specific it was their male scullers. Neither country qualified a single crew in any of the four men's classes.

GB now world and European champions in this event and yet not currently qualified for the OG as no male shooter has won a quota yet.

The US and Australian women actually did a good job with each country qualifying six boats out of seven. It was their male rowers who were below par.

You mean it wasn't John Cleese? 🤔

To paraphrase JC, Vinerunt, viderunt, non vicerunt...

Ben, presumably the quotas for the Eights should be nine - including the cox - rather than eight.

Seek inspiration in the First Punic War when your ancestors overcame the greatest naval power of the age! 😊

I seem to remember Italian strength always being in two and four person boats. It seems crazy to sacrifice this for the Eight where the fields are smaller but also very tough. If you're goung through a period with a limited talent pool surely you identify targets among the smaller boats.

I think it was you who told me a few years ago that the people running Italian rowing survive by claiming medals in non-Olympic events. Is that still the case Phelps?

No, but they've had their chance.

The same is true of baseball/ softball which is even slower and has much less action.

Those 4th place finishes are going to prove important if the weather is similar for the B finals.

Pity, it would have been a bit boring from a spectating point of view but lots of close races.

☠ Skulls, Josh? 😊

Yep, although September is another really busy month in terms of qualification. Things get a litle bit more sedate after that for a few months.

Just GB I think. You only earned a quota if you finished on the podium and the other two already had quotas. The two unallocated quotas will be added to those being drawn from the rankings. If I'm wrong I'm sure Rafa will correct me!

So you could be in a pickle if you draw Branston? 😊 Sorry. 🙄