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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.

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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).

Not as far as I know of, tbh we've only been prominent since Post Tokyo but with the women's team looking good to qualify for LA hopefully there will be a programme set up in place for future games. I think the way we work over here is if you do well without the support, you get the support so if the women can qualify I won't be surprised if we see us perform better across the board in years to come.

Not sure what it's like for us now but when I was a kid we hardly had any concrete youth teams for Water Polo, the only time most people in the aquatics sphere actually played Water Polo at youth club level was as a treat at the at of the last session before Christmas.

Disappointed in the girls today, thought they'd give them a run for their money after the world cup game but instead they got blown out the water. Still though this looking likely to be an incredible qualification period, with the extra 2 spots, Russia likely not to be involved and South Africa probably declining the quota if they continue to play like they are there's gonna be about 3-4 spots being contested between around 7-8 countries.

Disappointing for the women, who should be doing better than failing to win a match - pretty decent for the men who might be in a decent position to challenge for LA qualification.

I don't really see that as an imbalance but moreso just the nature of swimming, you get a lot of swimmers who are good at multiple strokes and that quality inevitably translates to medals. But with how unpredictable these splash and dash events are I doubt the dominant names would have it completely their own way. Also regarding country participation, Kirsty has also stated that she wants to eliminate the awarding of universality spots to events that don't warrant them and decrease the amount that each country gets - the 50m events are a good way to achieve both as you'd think the vast majority of countries would have a least 1 athlete who could do 1 length of an Olympic size pool.

Tbh if you increased the quotas by 2000, you could very likely have the best of both worlds.

You don't have to take out any events for the 50m's to be in, yes it would mean an increase of the overall athlete quota but it's definitely something that Kirsty would look at doing to include more events and to increase the participation of athletes.

There are a number of reasons why the 50m events would be a good edition: 1. They're good events to use for universality quotas, as opposed to 200 and 400m events which can often hold up events and put those who compete in them in a bad light. 2. There are plenty of splash and dash 50m specialists in fly, back and breast that are best suited to the longer 100m events. 3. The splash and dash nature of the events make it more entertaining for the audience to watch and the edition of 6 more events would give the spectators more value for their money. 4. More countries would have a good chance of winning their first swimming medals with the likes of and being in contention. Swimmers would have to manage their schedules around these events, like they have to do at the World Championships, and you wouldn't need to take out any events as all you need to do is extend the morning session by an hour and the evening by 30 mins.

I hope she's just pulled the wool over Bach's eyes and gained his trust just to get in this position, but only time will tell. Her position on trans athletes is positive, and I'd like to think she's for a 3 week Olympic games and an extension of the current athletes quota with her being a former athletes in recent times. Only time will tell whether she's good for the role, but this first year will likely be crucial to how successful here tenure is going to be with LA events and qualification routes to be decided and Milan-Cortina 26 taking place.

I don't think it'll be as bad as people think, Kirsty has gone against the Bach grain with some things such as the transgender issue so there could be a case here of Coventry using Bach just to get in this position. But the whole situation of almost all the members sucking up to Bach was really quite sickening.