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Marcus Mepstead has announced on social media he has not qualified for Paris.

Just her social media this weekend has been a little downbeat which is making me fear she hasn’t been selected. They were told last week ready for Tuesday’s announcement.

I am not sure Freya Anderson is going to be selected.

It will become clear if it’s not an agreed absence if they in Paris for individual events and don’t appear for the relay.

I’m still amazed just how long David Weir has carried on competing for.

The problem is with the invite system is you would be making people more aware of people you then turning down an offer to have them at the games. Rejecting invites is already controversial enough.

The team is not due to be announced until the press conference on the 16th.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68783943

Max is doing the PB and probably the HB at the Europeans as well.

However it might well reduce the price broadcasters pay for the rights.

Those three are some of the more popular sorts in terms of viewing figures.

Is there a suitable velodrome in Nigeria or South Africa? That couid cover for Ghana?

The president of the Paris 2024 Olympics has admitted that the triathlon competition could be delayed, or the swimming leg even cancelled, if adverse weather conditions impact on water quality in the River Seine this summer. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/09/olympic-triathlon-swimming-leg-could-be-cancelled-over-seine-water-quality

Plus British Cycling know who they want and won’t want to take have fo someone they don’t want to because they did better at the trails.

In terms of integrated events but obviously Athletics can’t have the exact same selection procedure becuase the weather has a big impact. A bad day of weather might mean few making a BST on that day which takes away the big attraction. And also MC events work for some classifications and events but others wont be practical so the timetable would be bigger. Plus do Athletics want to make the selection more high profile when that increases the coverage the rejecting of invites would get. It’s clear British Athletics doesn’t have the trust of it’s competitors swimming has.

They will take some discretionary picks but not enough to fill all 30 I suspect.

It does seem like the Europeans will be a focus so some of those are mainly targeting a spot they and know they too far off a GB Olympic time. (They will be the invite rejected category which could be where the drama is.)

Plenty of done it before. David Davies, Keri Anne - Payne and Cassandra Patten in Beijing all competed in the pool and then medalled in the open water,

Team is announced the 16th April it seems.

The way they tweet about making the time makes me think the relays that haven’t are in major doubt,

My guess is we don’t have 30 in the team but 28 or 29. And only do 5 or 6 relays.