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Not too sure, she might've done - but I'm pretty sure the other 2 are still going so not sure why they're not selected to still go.

Think Bekah Walton is the only one to miss out who will get an invite, also what happened to Lizzie Bird, Charlotte Payne and Callum Wilkinson - did they all get injured or summat?

What's the deadline for athletes switching nationalities?

A good start to the meet today, hopefully this continues for the rest of the week: Smith getting a new PB by the looks of it, glad we've got a strong successor to Colbert in that event. Nowacki and Morgan putting in some good performances and will certainly challenge Peaty and Butler for the two quotas in LA. Taylor put in a good shift today and could challenge for a medal in tomorrow's final, quite good to have someone challenging Evans alongside Hanlon and also to have someone doing the 50 event. Kinsman didn't do as well as I thought she would, was hoping she would go sub 60 seconds but didn't even make it through the heats - Ransom did as expected and it's frustrating that we don't have anyone in the 400.

I'd like to think with it only being six teams and to ensure quality they will combine continents together - i.e. Europe and Africa, North and South America, Asia and Oceania.

I'll give a more in-depth opinion once I've watched some more of the events but here are some of the ones I think should/could be included: Dragon Boat Speed climbing relay Canoe Polo Finswimminh Wushu Speed slalom skating Freestyle slalom skating Speed skating Inlin3 hockey Karate Parkour Beach Handball Lifesaving Pool And here's some I think shouldn't: Korfball Floorball Fistball Drone Motosurf Wakesurf Racquetball

I concur, the CPL is like the IPL and T20 Bash where there are a mix of players from all over the world although I think a lot of the domestic CPL players play for the country they would represent at a games. I think in termsd of who would get the quota, it's most likely gonna be on both the men's and women's side who take it as they've represented at commonwealth level but the likes of and all have outside chances.

If the time from top 14 is slower don't they just keep the time the same as last time?

I think Lifesaving is on today so I'd definitely give that a watch, tbh I'd just watch bits of all of them because I can see some of these becoming Olympic Sports in the near and distant future.

Don't think it's as bad as it once was, Mildred is getting closer to that sub 51 mark and looked good this week - even MacInnes didn't do all that bad in the women's event so the signs are there thar the issue is getting resolved and the Guy void is getting filled heading into a big 2026.

@Orangehair43 Is that you?

I think they start coming in the autumn of this year, a lot of sports will have put their proposals to the IOC and I think it's taking longer than normal because of the change over at the top.

Don't think a lot of those girls had the appetite to compete at all, we had a system during London build-up that allowed members of the public to come forward and get assigned a sport to work on for the games based on a series of fitness and health tests - so I think a lot of these girls just wanted the experience of compete at an Olympics and Worlds, and after they achieved that it's looks like they basically decided to fuck the whole thing off and never touch the sport again.

I know but we came close a couple a months ago and Japan are the best out of those 3, think we might be able to catch China if we keep developing - they're probably the worst of the 3 and are most likely to have a bad game in them.

It's definitely hard but very much doable considering our competition outside of Europe - New Zealand, Japan and China are very much in our reach over the next couple of years and if we keep improving like we are then we can hopefully make further sure of our spot come the final qualifier (I don't think Russia will be back and it's looking likely South Africa will decline their quota again, however Israel could start causing us some problems with the way they're starting to play again).