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Thank god we've secured this one. I was getting concerned that we won't max out in sailing quotas, which would've been a disaster. Now all we need is the men's kite quota at the last chance regatta. Considering we bottled it completely in Portsmouth, we should be favourite to take one of the two spots.

It's not about Sky Brown qualifying for 2 sports in Paris for me, it's about having representation in surfing at the Olympics. The media coverage it would've gotten would've been amazing for the sport over here and would've inspired people to take it up which would've been great for the future success of the sport in . This is no matter who it was as well, even if it wasn't Sky Brown. Now the sport will mostly likely not be mentioned at all, or at best used as filler for half an hour.

I'm not saying she hasn't done well but when you put in a performance like that, for the second time this week, you can't not feel aggrieved towards it especially as it was so infuriating to watch. If she'd had completed as many waves as the others and still missed out, I'd have at least commended the amount of opportunities she gave herself.

Absolutely pathetic from Sky Brown. She arsed about for 20 minutes and in the end ran out of time. I really thought we'd pick up a quota here and to miss out like we have done when we were close to having it in the palm of our hands is ridiculous. And it's not like we get a chance to improve at the top level either with the Champions Tour being closed off to the same surfers from the same nations every year.

State of play on Women's side: ,x2,,,,,, and are still in with a chance of earning the last four quotas. is in a heat with 3 qualified/ineligible surfers, so she's got quite the task if she wants to get through her heat. , and are in a heat together so at least one of them will make it through. , and are in a heat together so at least one of them will make it through. And it most likely will be one as Carissa Moore is in this heat and it's highly unlikely she doesn't make it through. , and are in a heat together so at least one of them will make it through. However, if Olin and Moore make it out of their heats, fails to make it out of hers and the first makes it out of her heat, then the in this heat would effectively be classed as ineligible as would already have two qualifiers. There's a strong chance we could have all 8 qualifiers done and dusted by tomorrow. There's also a chance we could have to go into Saturday's Repechage 7, and another chance we could have a tie in placings for the last 1 or 2 spots.

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I think that could be the case. It could also be the fact that he hasn't go enough marathons under his belt to back up his time from last year, whereas Sesseman has.

If they're not likely to reach the final then they don't wanna know, simple as. Although tbf to them, unlike athletics, this hasn't hindered the progress or success of our athletes at all so they've got no reason to stop doing this. Edinburgh will be a good guide, in all unqualified events, as to how trials will most likely unfold. Blocksidge needs to knock 9 seconds off her current time and Evans 0.3 to reach the British Standard, and that's without even considering the 30 athlete cap they might have to contend with.

She may have achieved the OQT but she's still has to knock 3 tenths off to achieve the British Swimming standard. But if she continues in the same vein as she did at BUCS, where she knocked 6 tenths off her PB, she should have no problem achieving it.

Brilliant from Sky Brown to get to the third round. Stanley Norman gets there as expected and Arran Strong pulls off a shock as he pips Tudela to reach the third round. Barton was unlucky in her heat, hopefully she can have a run in the repechage with easier competiton. Sandland and Luke Dillon making it through would round off the day.

Maraton BP Castellon February 25, 2024 Men's: Kibrom Weldemichael Women's: No qualifiers

How many events are left till the 4th June, I know there's 2 world cups and a world championships but I'm unsure on whether the European Cups count towards the rankings.

If the neutral athletes weren't a factor, he'd only have to beat Gouzou to get the quota.

Does Hunt's U23 results count towards the rankings as well? If so we should be ahead of Colombia in the Women's for two spots.

Big results from Kai and Ross this weekend should put us back above both Holland and America. Despite Shriver's poor results, I'd like to think we're only 100 points off Colombia for the second spot - with Hunt U23's results also potentially counting towards the total.

Osaka Marathon February 25, 2024 Men's: Stephen Kissa Jemal Husen Kipkemoi Kiprono Xiangdong Wu Tebello Ramakongoana Women's: Waganesh Nekasha, Beyenu Degefa, Helen Tola Bekele Lisa Weightman The following athletes also reached the qualifying standard but their NOC have already announced their participants for The Olympics: Men's: Kiyoto Hirabayashi, Napoli Koyama, Yuya Yoshida, Daisuke Doi, Tatsuya Maruyama, Mizuki Higashi, Shohei Otsuda Women's: Kaede Kawamura

The second round heats have not turned out well for . Whilst Norman should be favourite to come through his heat, it's looking near impossible for Barton to come through hers with Vassi, Baum and Brooks. Furthermore, if all goes to plan Strong is set to have Florence in his heat along with the already confirmed Tudela. Brown should be OK if she comes through her first round heat, as should both Dillon and Sandland in the repechage.

It's doable as the Surfing ends on the 31st and the Park starts on the 6th. Never seen her surf before, so it'll be interesting to see how good she is compared to everyone else.

Arran Strong ending the day off well for , little disappointed with Dillon and Sandland but bar Dillon going to the repechage it was what I expected. Interesting to see how Sky does tomorrow, and hope Norman, Strong and Barton can make it safely into round 3.

Not anymore. Stanley Norman outperformed him at last year's games and has been putting up way better scores than him. He's in his early 20s, so he's definitely got a good career ahead of him. If he doesn't qualify, this will be Dillon's last competition as he's taken up a performance coach position at British Surfing.

How does the points system work for this?

Poor from Dillon who goes to repechage at the first time of asking. At least our 2 best surfers are still in the main draw.

Good draw for men, all of who should make it past the first round. The story is quite different for the women though. Sandland is almost a certainty for the repechage after being put with Tzsuski and Roett, with both Brown and Barton being in a three way tussle for two spots with Wright and Machado and Maeda and Ojeda respectively. A least a 4th round for the women and a 5th round for the men should be enough to put us in contention for the quotas.

Just go onto the world athletics calendar and edit the dates from now to the end of the qualification period.

Appalling from , I know Pitchford was injured but Drinkhall should've won his game from 2-0 up and Jarvis should've done better in his too. Given the position we were in coming into this, missing out on the quota is a major disappointment and sums up GB table tennis down to a T - the best we can hope/aim for now is 3-4 quotas from the singles qualifiers.