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I would like to make an effort later this year to update the TISC stats for historical purposes and even create new stats but as you can imagine it’s a time consuming project. But I always feel it’s a worthwhile endeavour to have all sorts of data relating to the contest to make it more interesting and build up the history. If any of you have an interest and would like to help out, please message me to let me know, I’d appreciate it  

Perhaps swapping with China? Would fix 2 problems with 1 swap? @Vic Liu

Haven’t done an update on my dad since mid July, so thought I’d share.  
 
He ended up getting out of the hospital a couple days before the Olympics, and has generally been getting better the past couple of months. 
 
Unfortunately, the past couple of days he’s been really sick, and was vomiting for much of yesterday. He was taken to the hospital last night, and is expected to be there for at least a couple of days. 
 
Just sucks to see him struggling this much, hoping for as speedy of a recovery as possible 

I would like to make an effort later this year to update the TISC stats for historical purposes and even create new stats but as you can imagine it’s a time consuming project. But I always feel it’s a worthwhile endeavour to have all sorts of data relating to the contest to make it more interesting and build up the history. If any of you have an interest and would like to help out, please message me to let me know, I’d appreciate it  

I am really sorry to announce this, but I am forced to pull of from this edition.
 
I am sadly now too busy with outside life currently (mainly fresh new job which is consuming major part of my daily time), that I do not have time to visit and participate in the forum as much as I would wish, did not have time to even listening the songs at least once.
 
I knew this will happen when I was considering my participation, sadly, it appeared to be true.
 
Sorry for that @Cinnamon Bun one more time. I was really looking forward for your edition
 
It is definitely not a farewell, rather a temporary hiatus until my free-time will be more open and friendly, sadly, it is not going to be sooner than next year for sure.
 
 
Anyway, when I will have some time i will try to watch a take a look on the thread and contest.
 
Wish you all good luck and happy contest.

Bronze for Petrounias!! Another medal for him  

Javelin medal for Ireland… that’s not something you see everyday or in fact ever! 

No quotas basically means maximum number of placings possible in an event. So for example, Ireland participated in Men's Hockey there were 16 athletes but just 1 quota as the team can have just 1 placing

🇺🇾 Juan Izquierdo, 27, football player from Nacional. He had an arrythmia in the end of the match against Sao Paulo in Copa Libertadores, then cardiac arrest and brain damage before death. Shocking news, the saddest part is that he has two little kids and the younger one was born a couple days ago. 
 
https://x.com/Nacional/status/1828606877048950830

Impressive set-up...
 

No I know exactly what you mean, I think we'd all love to see him have a crack at even bigger heights to see what is the limit of his abilities but we know that won't happen.
This reminded me in the past when my mother would always be annoyed by Yelena Isinbayeva who according to her just hid under a towel all day and then would come out at the end and put 1cm on the bar to break the record. She never remembered her name and would call her "that annoying one with the towel"

Ireland will be there

The news of the day: 
 
Rhasidat Adeleke is a very beautiful woman !!!
 
 
and yes. Two guys broke some random world records. But whatever… Adeleke!

Ireland claim 4 medals at 2024 World Rowing Championships
 

 
 
Ireland wrapped up a successful week in the water at the 2024 World Rowing Championships in St.Catherine's, Canada with a haul of 4 medals including 2 golds and 2 bronze.
 
The highlight of the performances came from double Olympic champion, Paul O'Donovan, who claimed his third world title in the men's senior lightweight singles category.
Reigning champion Siobhán McCrohan claimed another medal in the women's senior lightweight single sculls, this time having to settle for the bronze medal behind 2022 champion and Olympic medalist, Ionela Cozmiuc of Romania.
 
 

 
 
In the Under 23 category, Ireland's Ciaran Purdy and Donnacha Keeley carried on the fantastic success of Irish men's lightweight rowing by claiming gold in the lightweight double sculls.
Meanwhile Brian Colsh partnered with Adam Murphy to claim the bronze in the men's heavyweight doubles sculls.
 

 
 

 
There were no medals for Ireland in the under 19 categories, but they did have a few creditable results, including a 4th place finish for the junior men's quadruple sculls squad.
 
Overall a good championships for Ireland with plenty of young blood to keep the success and momentum going into the future.
 
 
 
World Senior Championships:
 
 Gold  Men's Lightweight Single Sculls  Paul O'Donovan (30)  Bronze  Women's Lightweight Single Sculls  Siobhán McCrohan (37)  
World U23 Championships:
 
 Gold  Men's Lightweight Double Sculls  Ciaran Purdy (22), Donnacha Keeley (20)  Bronze  Men's Double Sculls  Adam Murphy (21), Brian Colsh (22)  6th Place  Men's Single Sculls  Andrew Sheehan (21)  6th Place  Women's Lightweight Double Sculls  Sophia Monahan (19), Aine O'Mahony (22)  7th Place  Men's Quadruple Sculls  Shane Rafferty (19), Fergus Bryce (20), Donagh Claffey (20), Fionn O'Reilly (21)  B Final (DNS)  Women's Double Sculls  Holly Davis (19), Grace Healy (21)  14th Place  Men's Four  Andrew O'Leary (19), Luke Dunleavy (21), Liam Walter (19), Rory Buckley (20)  
World U19 Championships:
 
 4th Place  Men's Quadruple Sculls  Michael McGrath (17), Jack Rafferty (17), Rian Claffey (18), Sean Morris (18)  5th Place  Men's Coxed Four  Dominic Casey (18), Mattias Cogan (16), Michael Daniel Lucey (18), Evan O'Byrne (16), Luke Fitzgerald (Cox) (17)  7th Place  Women's Double Sculls  Anna Brennan (18), Moya Knowles (18)  
 
https://twitter.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1827437214831140958|twgr^9b75ba1c2576db766cd12bc22890ba27a127c529|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Fsport%2Fother-sports%2Fpaul-odonovan-passionately-sings-national-anthem-after-winning-lightweight-single-sculls-final-at-world-rowing-championships%2Fa2127035969.htmlhttps://x.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958
https://x.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958
 
 

Yes, he will only increase by 1cm at a time, so for example if he was to reach 6.38m, that would need 12 more world record to be broken. So let's say, how many times is he likely to break a world record in a season. Logic tells you it will get harder and harder to do so. Let's look at the last few seasons to see how many times he broke the world record:
 
 
2022: 3 times
2023: 2 times
2024: 3 times
 
So if we say he is able to break the record 3 times a year (which will obviously get harder to do as he raises it further each time) to get to 6.38m it would take him another 4 years which I think is about doable. But it also depends on him staying at the current level and even getting better, which I think he can as well. Makes you appreciate getting to see Mondo and these WRs because in a couple of years time these might become very rare and might be one of those records that lasts for decades.
 
 

Paul O'Donovan won gold in the men's lightweight single sculls in what is most likely his last ever race in lightweight rowing. Well done Paul    
Siobhan McCrohan won bronze in the women's lightweight singles to add to her tally of world medals.
 
@Makedonas 2 medals for Greece in these events too

For a seasoned runner, that was a very amateur move to slow up way too early... and not just easing off either, basically just walking over the line. He got lucky this time!

2024 Boys World Junior Rankings
 
Now with the conclusion of the European Juniors, Olympics and Junior Pan Pacs, thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how the World Junior Rankings this year. These results were taken from a mix of the World Aquatics website, the Nuoto Mondiale Rankings and Swimcloud. With many competitions not contesting the stroke 50 events this year, I've decided to exclude them from these rankings. 33 countries are represented in these rankings.
 
*YOB = Year of Birth
 
50m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Lorenzo BALLARATI 22.20 European Juniors 2 2008 Luca HOEK 22.33 European Juniors 3 2009 Tajus JUSKA 22.34 European Juniors 4 2007 Joshua CONIAS 22.35 Australian Age Group Nationals 5 2006 Davide PASAFARO 22.39 Campionato Italiano di Categoria 6 2006 Ali SAYED 22.42 Canadian Trials 7 2006 Vlado NENADIC 22.45 European Juniors 8 2007 Nikita SHEREMET 22.46 European Juniors 9 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 22.50 French Juniors 10 2007 Roman ZHIDKOV 22.54 Russian Championships 100m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 48.14 French Elite Championships 2 2007 Carlos D'AMBROSIO 48.55 Campionato Italiano di Categoria 3 2006 KIM Youngbeom 48.65 Junior Pan Pacs 4 2009 Tajus JUSKA 48.74 European Juniors 5 2006 Vlado NENADIC 48.80 European Juniors 6 2006 Lorenzo BALLARATI 49.11 European Juniors 6 2006 Ali SAYED 49.11 Canadian Championships 8 2006 Kaii WINKLER 49.22 US Olympic Trials 9 2008 Gabriel SHEPHERD 49.24 European Juniors 10 2008 Luca HOEK 49.36 European Juniors 200m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 1:45.83 Italian Championships 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 1:46.28 Chinese Championships 3 2007 Tatsuya MURASA 1:46.59 Japan Meet Sagamihara 4 2007 Carlos D'AMBROSIO 1:46.78 Sette Colli 5 2006 Nikolai KOLESNIKOV 1:47.27 Russian Juniors 6 2006 Kristupas TREPOCKA 1:47.74 European Juniors 7 2006 Rafael FENTE-DAMERS 1:47.82 French Elite Championships 8 2009 Luka MIJATOVIC 1:47.96 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Ahmet ISIK 1:48.04 European Juniors 10 2007 Nicholas CASTELLA 1:48.41 European Juniors 400m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 3:45.82 Chinese Championships 2 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 3:46.42 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 3:47.48 Sette Colli 4 2006 Ahmet ISIK 3:48.53 European Juniors 5 2006 LIU Peixin 3:48.96 Chinese Championships 6 2009 Luka MIJATOVIC 3:49.24 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Johannes LIEBMANN 3:49.32 European Juniors 8 2006 Arne SCHUBERT 3:49.41 German Championships 9 2006 Nikolai KOLESNIKOV 3:50.06 Russian Juniors 10 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 3:50.41 Japan Olympic Trials 800m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 7:45.19 US Olympic Trials 2 2007 Kuzey TUNCELLI 7:47.29 Olympics 3 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 7:47.84 Chinese Championships 4 2006 Luke ELLIS 7:52.40 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2006 Arne SCHUBERT 7:53.92 German Championships 6 2007 Kazushi IMAFUKU 7:53.99 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2006 Kaito TSUJIMORI 7:54.50 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2007 KIM Junwoo 7:55.23 Korean Championships 9 2006 Yusuf OZDEN 7:55.32 European Championships 10 2007 Sean GREEN 7:56.47 US Olympic Trials 1500m Freestyle Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Kuzey TUNCELLI (WJR) 14:41.22 Olympics 2 2006 Luke WHITLOCK 14:53.00 US Olympic Trials 3 2007 Kazushi IMAFUKU 14:59.97 Junior Pan Pacs 4 2006 Luke ELLIS 15:00.24 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 15:04.00 Chinese Championships 6 2007 Johannes LIEBMANN 15:04.04 European Juniors 7 2007 William MULGREW 15:12.63 Speedo Summer Championships 8 2006 Kaito TSUJIMORI 15:15.04 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Bartosz KAPALA 15:15.69 Polish Championships 10 2009 Luke MIJATOVIC 15:15.95 Junior Pan Pacs 100m Backstroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Miron LIFINTSEV (WJR) 52.08 Russian Swimming Cup 2 2006 Aiden NORMAN 53.73 Junior Pan Pacs 3 2006 Ivan TARASOV 54.42 Russian Championships 4 2007 Daniele DEL SIGNORE 54.56 European Juniors 5 2007 John SHORTT 54.70 Irish Championships 6 2007 Gavin KEOGH 54.74 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Mantas KAUSPEDAS 54.80 European Juniors 8 2006 Blake AMLICKE 54.84 SE NAC Summer Sizzler 9 2006 Jakub KRISCHKE 55.02 European Juniors 10 2006 YOON Jihwan 55.04 Korean Championships 200m Backstroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Miron LIFINTSEV 1:56.61 BRICS Games 2 2006 Aiden NORMAN 1:57.67 Junior Pan Pacs 3 2007 John SHORTT 1:57.68 European Juniors 4 2007 Yaroslav LOZE 1:58.09 BRICS Games 5 2007 Gavin KEOGH 1:58.19 Junior Pan Pacs 6 2007 Matteo VENINI 1:58.22 Italian Championships 7 2006 Martin PERECINSKY 1:58.24 US Olympic Trials 8 2007 Ethan EKK 1:58.28 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2007 Daniele DEL SIGNORE 1:58.81 European Juniors 10 2006 Alexandru CONSTANTINESCU 1:58.91 European Juniors 100m Breaststroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2008 Max MORGAN 1:00.10 British Summer Championships 2 2006 Arsen KOZHAKHMETOV 1:00.44 Kazakhstan Championships 3 2008 Evangelos NTOUMAS 1:00.66 Acropolis Open 4 2006 Egor BAHOUR 1:00.83 Russian Championships 5 2006 Joe POLYAK 1:00.85 Junior Pan Pacs 6 2006 Xavier RUIZ 1:00.95 Atlanta Classic 6 2006 Adam MAK 1:00.95 Asian Age Group Championships 6 2009 Shin OHASHI 1:00.95 Junior Pan Pacs 9 2006 Campbell MCKEAN 1:01.00 US Olympic Trials 10 2006 Maksim MANOLOV 1:01.10 European Juniors 10 2006 Nil CADEVALL 1:01.10 European Juniors 10   Kirill SAVICH 1:01.10 Russian Championships 200m Breaststroke Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2009 Shin OHASHI 2:10.88 Junior Pan Pacs 2 2006 Josh BEY 2:11.02 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 Adam MAK 2:11.20 Asian Age Group Championships 4 2007 Jordan WILLIS 2:11.26 US Olympic Trials 5 2007 Gabe NUNZIATA 2:11.78 US Olympic Trials 6 2007 Ryu SAITO 2:12.19 Japan Olympic Trials 7 2008 Max MORGAN 2:12.24 British Summer Championships 8 2008 Oliver DAWSON 2:12.42 Canadian Trials 9 2008 Doruk YOGURTCUOGLU 2:12.49 European Juniors 9 2008 Evangelos NTOUMAS 2:12.49 Acropolis Open 9 2006 Haru OKAWA 2:12.49 Japan Olympic Trials 100m Butterfly Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Thomas HEILMAN 50.80 US Olympic Trials 2 2006 Kaii WINKLER 51.51 US Olympic Trials 3 2006 KIM Youngbeom 51.65 Korean Meet Gwangju 4 2007 Maxim SKAZOBTSOV 51.71 Kazakhstan Championships 5 2006 Daniele MOMONI 52.20 European Juniors 6 2006 Ethan DUMESNIL 52.38 European Juniors 7 2006 Maro MIKNIC 52.49 European Juniors 8 2006 German Zazhirskii 52.54 BRICS Games 9 2006 Lukas EDL 52.55 European Juniors 10 2007 Rowan COX 52.59 Junior Pan Pacs 200m Butterfly Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2007 Thomas HEILMAN 1:54.50 US Olympic Trials 2 2006 Alessandro RAGAINI 1:56.28 Sette Colli 3 2006 Samuel KOSTAL 1:57.26 Mare Nostrum Barcelona 4 2006 Logan ROBINSON 1:57.27 Junior Pan Pacs 5 2006 Vlad-Stefan MIHALACHE 1:57.42 European Juniors 6 2008 David ANTAL 1:57.67 European Juniors 7 2006 Riki ABE 1:57.83 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2006 Abdalla NASR 1:57.85 World Championships 9 2006 WANG Xizhe 1:58.30 Chinese Championships 10 2006 Kono MICHITORA 1:58.31 Japan Olympic Trials 200m Individual Medley Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Maximus WILLIAMSON 1:58.58 US Olympic Trials 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 1:58.97 Chinese Championships 3 2006 Riki ABE 1:59.48 World Championships 4 2007 Robert-Andrei BADEA 2:00.05 European Juniors 5 2006 Nil CADEVALL 2:00.34 European Juniors 6 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 2:00.37 Konami Open 7 2006 Gregg ENOCH 2:00.58 Junior Pan Pacs 8 2006 Joe POLYAK 2:00.60 US Olympic Trials 9 2008 Mikhail SHCHERBAKOV 2:00.76 Russian Swimming Cup 10 2008 Anatoliy GUSENKOV 2:01.06 BRICS Games 400m Individual Medley Rank Nation YOB Swimmer Time Competition 1 2006 Asaki NISHIKAWA 4:11.94 Konami Open 2 2007 ZHANG Zhanshuo 4:12.71 Olympics 3 2007 Robert-Andrei BADEA 4:14.37 European Juniors 4 2007 Iaroslav LOZE 4:16.69 BRICS Games 5 2006 Gregg ENOCH 4:16.80 USA Meet Indianapolis 6 2006 Luke ELLIS 4:16.84 Junior Pan Pacs 7 2007 Sean GREEN 4:17.84 US Olympic Trials 8 2008 Yomeki KOJIMA 4:18.84 Japan Olympic Trials 9 2006 Emanuele POTENZA 4:19.10 Sette Colli 10 2006 Ryan ERISMAN 4:19.35 NCSA Spring Orlando

Just a reminder that the U23 and Senior categories kick-off today and you can watch here on the World Rowing Youtube channel:
 

Israel Olatunde breaks Irish 100m National Record
 

 
 
Israel Olatunde set a new Irish NR in the 100m at the NEB Open meeting in London this afternoon. His time of 10.12 secs (+1.7 m/s) carved 0.05 secs off his current Irish record which he set at the European Championships in Munich in 2022.
 
Great start to the LA 2028 Olympic cycle by Olatunde . As a reminder, the automatic qualification standard for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo is 10.00 secs so he still has a little bit to go to reach that but this is an encouraging result in what has been a difficult 2 years for Israel.
 
 

Discussion Threads are moving from an annual cycle to a quadriennium cycle, and being merged with the Olympic Qualification Thread for the following Olympic Games.
 
Example: Alpine Skiing Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026
 
You might see the downside of this so I anticipate the benefits of it
 
- There will be no need to open discussion threads every new year, but just every 4;
- In the past we had some discussion threads very active and some with very few replies. Having also the general Olympic qualification discussion in the thread will guarantee each thread to be active during the Olympic quadriennium;
- We will still have separate threads for single Olympic qualification events, so these threads are only for general discussion related or unrelated to Olympic qualifications;
- In the past, we had to move lots of posts between Discussion Threads and Olympic qualification threads. This now will not be necessary anymore because there is a single thread for both.

Not sure where to post this since I don't want to just stick it in the music thread, but I have to say I absolutely loved Eurosport's Paris 2024 theme, which they played throughout. This really added to my overall experiences and memories of the Games. It sounds very dramatic and menacing at times, in a good way, but just loved it
 
 

Israel Olatunde breaks Irish 100m National Record
 

 
 
Israel Olatunde set a new Irish NR in the 100m at the NEB Open meeting in London this afternoon. His time of 10.12 secs (+1.7 m/s) carved 0.05 secs off his current Irish record which he set at the European Championships in Munich in 2022.
 
Great start to the LA 2028 Olympic cycle by Olatunde . As a reminder, the automatic qualification standard for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo is 10.00 secs so he still has a little bit to go to reach that but this is an encouraging result in what has been a difficult 2 years for Israel.
 
 

Karate and Breakdancing where both equaly terrible

I agree, it's quite distracting to be honest. Do we really need to see comments and replies from other threads on the right of the thread we are currently reading?