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Start list for the Second Stop of the World Cup in Toronto,
 
https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001170008FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF20.pdf

Chinese short course trials Day1
Women 400m free Li Bingjie 3:51.30 WR (First one on the chart)
Men 400m free Fei Liwei 3:41.56
Men 200m back Tao Guannan 1:51.75
Women 50m back Wan Letian 26.12
Women 200m fly Zhang Yifan 2:03.35
Men 100m breast Qin Haiyang 56.31 NR
Men 100m fly Chen Juner 49.95
Women 200m breast Tang Qianting 2:19.65
Women 50m free Zhang Yufei 23.82 NR
Men 50m free Pan Zhanle 21.54
Women 100m IM Yu Yiting 58.27 NR
Men 100m IM Pan Zhanle 53.10 
 

Not an athlete, but noteworthy, sadly: as mentioned, Steeman passed away on Tuesday. Now it turns out his mother has died of a heart attack yesterday. Damn. Her husband had left her at home to go to Portugal after Steeman's accident - the mother had broken her leg recently and so could not make the travel, and the father missed the Portugal races because he was at home caring for his wife.

Kenya keeps rolling...

The 400 I don't know, it will depend on her form. But it could be a good fight with McIntosh, even if Summer is still raw in terms of turns (a big part of the difference Katie made in Budapest IMO).
 
Titmus is weird. She has barely raced this year and broke a WR. She stayed in Europe after CG and took a break from training, so that could be a reason. But she could show up in SC worlds with minimum training and still collect medals. I think is more about mental health and also she is also too "Olympic" oriented. I mean, she skipped Worlds this year to avoid the pressure of a clash with Ledecky thinking already in being fresh for Paris.

Ledecky swimming SCM in Toronto and Indianapolis is a nice surprise. The only time she did it was the ISL in 2019 and there wasn't 800 and 1500 races there. So the WR should be on alert if she is on a decent form.

to me, it's as simple as it looks...
 
diversity can be accomplished in individual sports with at least 32+ competitors/groups/teams in each discipline.
 
if there are less than 32 spots per discipline, only the best must be included in the Olympic tournaments.
 
the Olympics must be the most important and most qualified tournament in each Olympic sport...if you're not good enough, you can always try and get your minute of celebrity at continental (and maybe world) championships.
 
I don't see why the Olympic tournaments must be destroyed and lose all of their interest/competitivness by allowing teams/athletes not good enough to play the same game as the best in the world.

Beijing or Sydney but I'll choose Sydney because I'm biased. I felt like Tokyo held great promise to become the best but then the pandemic happened and those ceremonies 

Kamalpreet Kaur (6th place in OG discus) banned for three years for stanozolol.
 
https://www.espn.in/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/34780371/kamalpreet-kaur-three-year-ban-doping-violation-stanozolol-explainer-indian-athletics

No, it's the other way around. Chatrier will be saved for the last tennis rounds when Lenglen will start being used for boxing bouts (early boxing stages will be held in another arena)

UCI ....
 

Van der Poel pleads guilty, gets a fine.
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11249561/Elite-Dutch-cyclist-pleads-GUILTY-assaulting-two-teenage-girls-fined-1500.html

This will be the first world championships (women) without a Dutch medal since 2014, and only the second since 2005  

I'm so surprised that nobody didn't voted yet for breakdancing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The destined match VS  
 

I wish our gov can get their shit together and switch to this. In the last election (2019), around 800 polling station staff members died from exhaustion because they have to finish the count ASAP

The same as "Right wing = Evil incarnate."   But we can't let loose of the narrative, am i right. Can't wait to see the doom and gloom, that will happen in Sweden and their drop in the World Development and Living standard position from 4th to 6th. I don't know how people would be able to live there now.

here we go...an Italian idiot caught with Meldonium in his blood...
 
in 2022!  
 
https://taketonews.com/athletics-ahmed-abdelwahed-positive-for-doping-he-had-been-silver-at-the-european-championships-in-munich-in-the-3000-steeplechase/

thanks, I didn't know (actually, I've never taken the question into consideration) that splits are considered official times also in Swimming...

I know it's basically impossible to do it 100% accurately but I was just giving some updates for swims I noticed.
 
Splits are definitely official and Grimes' swim is even listed in the FINA rankings. You can even break a WR in a split (the men's 800 WR has been broken quite a few times during a 1500).
 
All of the swims I listed are listed either in the FINA rankings or in the Nuoto Mondiale rankings.

@phelps
 
I played around with this last night before bed after seeing @Topicmaster1010's post and these are some differences I've found from @phelps' post.
 
Boys
 
50FR - #3 Isaac Cooper 22.25 AUS Nationals (born 2004 so still a junior)
400FR - #3 Stephan Steverink 3:48.27 Jr Worlds (born 2004 so still a junior)
1500FR - #1 Carlos Garach 15:00.90 ESP Nationals
100BR - #3 Yamato Okadome 1:00.70 Jr Pan Pacs (prelims)
400IM - #3 Stephan Steverink 4:16.44 BRA Nationals
 
Girls
 
50FR - #2 Hannah Casey 24.96 AUS Age Champs, #3 Olivia Wunsch 25.09 AUS Age Champs
100FR - #2 Hannah Casey 54.30 AUS Age Champs
800FR - Grimes is #1 with 8:21.26 if you count the first 800 of her 1500
100BK - #3 Jaclyn Barclay 1:00.16 AUS Age Champs
200BK - #2 Dora Molnar 2:09.34 HUN Nationals
 
If incuding RUS athletes Daria Klepikova would be #3 in the 50FR with 25.05 and #3 in the 100FL with 57.97.
 

Another Nigerian sprinter busted: Commonwealth gold medallist Nwokocha provisionally suspended for doping
 
Nwokocha is an NCAA athlete coached by the Duane Ross whose son, Randolph Ross, also coached by him, was busted for tampering earlier this year. To make it even more juicy Duane Ross was busted as a part of Balco back in the day. 

Good work but there's one caveat, Junior Pan Pacs allows girls turning 18 this year to compete while other junior meets only allow those turning no older than 17. Despite this Australia selects their team using the FINA junior rules so none of their girls are overage. In particular Erin Gemmell is no longer a junior by FINA rules.

If anyone's interested, I compiled the best times 3 times in each event from the European Juniors, Pan-Pacific Juniors, and the World European Juniors. Non-olympic events weren't contested at Pan-Pacs so I'm skipping those.
 
I think China is the only major country that didn't compete at any of the 3 events so this should mostly give an idea of what a full junior world championship medal table would look like. There's a few notable juniors that didn't compete. This was especially true at the Pan-Pacs because swimmers that competed at the world championships weren't allowed to compete there. At this point, I'm too lazy to compile a list of absent junior swimmers so if anybody wants to do that, that would be appreciated.
 
Men's 50m Freestyle:
1.  Diogo RIBEIRO, 21.92
2.  David POPOVICI, 22.16
3.  Flynn SOUTHAM, 22.36
 
Men's 100m Freestyle:
1.  David POPOVICI, 47.13
2.  Flynn SOUTHAM, 48.23
3.  Jacob WHITTLE, 48.65
 
Men's 200m Freestyle:
1.  David POPOVICI, 1:45.45
2.  Flynn SOUTHAM, 1:47.11
3.  Lorenzo GALOSSI, 1:47.71
 
Men's 400m Freestyle:
1. Lorenzo GALOSSI, 3:48.14 
2.  Stephan STEVERINK, 3:48.27
3.  Joshua STAPLES, 3:48.36
 
Men's 800m Freestyle:
1.  Lorenzo GALOSSI, 7:52.04
2.  Carlos GARACH, 7:52.73
3.  Vlad STANCU, 7:54.02
 
Men's 1500m Freestyle:
1.  Vlad STANCU, 15:05.47
2.  Carlos GARACH, 15:08.14
3.  Laszlo GALICZ, 15:12.71
 
Men's 100m Backstroke:
1.  Ksawery MASIUK, 52.91
2.  Pieter COETZE, 52.99
3.  Daniel DIEHL, 53.27
 
Men's 200m Backstroke:
1.  Pieter COETZE, 1:56.05
2.  Ksawery MASIUK, 1:56.62
3.  Hidekazu TAKEHARA, 1:57.00
 
Men's 100m Breaststroke:
1.  Zhier FAN, 1:00.74
2.  Volodmyr LISOVETS, 1:00.96
3.  Koen DE GROOT, 1:01.21
 
Men's 200m Breaststroke:
1.  Asahi KAWASHIMA, 2:11.81
2.  Yamato OKADOME, 2:12.19
3.  Nicholas MAHABIR, 2:12.50
 
Men's 100m Butterfly:
1.  Thomas HEILMAN, 51.98
2.  Diogo RIBEIRO, 52.03
3.  Jesse COLEMAN, 52.23
 
Men's 200m Butterfly: 
1.  Krzysztof CHMIELEWSKI, 1:55.49
2.  Aaron SHACKELL, 1:55.81
3.  Thomas HEILMAN, 1:56.52
 
Men's 200m Individual Medley:
1.  Maximus WILLIAMSON, 1:59.01
2.  Sanberk Yigit OKTAR, 1:59.89
3.  Tomoyuki MATSUSHITA, 2:00.64
 
Men's 400m Individual Medley:
1.  Riku YAMAGUCHI, 4:14.88
2.  Ei KAMIKAWABATA, 4:15.23
3.  Maximus WILLIAMSON, 4:17.58
 
Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay:
1.  United States, 3:15.79
2.  Australia, 3:18.06
3.  Romania, 3:18.84
 
Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay:
1.  Australia, 7:13.07
2.  United States, 7:15.18
3.  Italy, 7:17.08
 
Men's 4x100m Medley Relay: 
1.  United States, 3:36.65
2.  Australia, 3:36.96
3.  Great Britain, 3:37.44
 
 
Women's 50m Freestyle:
1.  Milla JANSEN, 25.19
2.  Nina JAZY, 25.22
3.  Anna MOESCH, 25.32
 
Women's 100m Freestyle:
1.  Erin GEMMELL, 54.13
2.  Milla JANSEN, 54.36
3.  Olivia WUNSCH, 54.50
 
Women's 200m Freestyle:
1.  Erin GEMMELL, 1:56.15
2.  Jaime PERKINS, 1:57.34
3.  Nikolett PADAR, 1:58.19
 
Women's 400m Freestyle:
1.  Erin GEMMELL, 4:05.07
2.  Jaime PERKINS, 4:06.64
3.  Jillian COX, 4:06.84
 
Women's 800m Freestyle:
1.  Merve TUNCEL, 8:28.32
2.  Jillian COX, 8:30.38
3.  Jaime PERKINS, 8:30.44
 
Women's 1500m Freestyle:
1.  Merve TUNCEL, 16:13.68
2.  Alexa REYNA, 16:21.46
3.  Michaela MATTES, 16:24.02
 
Women's 100m Backstroke:
1.  Maggie WANEZEK, 59.96
2.  Iona ANDERSON, 1:00.39
3.  Dora MOLNAR, 1:00.88
 
Women's 200m Backstroke:
1.  Yuzuki MIZUNO, 2:09.17
2.  Mio NARITA, 2:09.67
3.  Dora MOLNAR, 2:09.80
 
Women's 100m Breaststroke:
1.  Eneli JEFIMOVA, 1:06.50
2.  Piper ENGE, 1:08.58
3.  Karoline PIECHOWICZ, 1:08.73
 
Women's 200m Breaststroke:
1.  Kotomi KATO, 2:26.55
2.  Eneli JEFIMOVA, 2:26.85
3.  Justine DELMAS, 2:26.86
 
Women's 100m Butterfly:
1.  Roos VANOTTERDIJK, 57.85
2.  Lana PUDAR, 57.88
3.  Alex SHACKELL, 58.58
 
Women's 200m Butterfly:
1.  Airi MITSUI, 2:07.82
2.  Lana PUDAR, 2:08.92
3.  Yasuki FUJIMOTO, 2:09.63
 
Women's 200m Individual Medley:
1.  Mio NARITA, 2:11.22
2.  Ashley MCMILLAN, 2:13.31
3.  Lilla Minna ABRAHAM, 2:13.45
 
Women's 400m Individual Medley:
1.  Mio NARITA, 4:36.79
2.  Kayla HAN, 4:43.60
3.  Ayami SUZUKI, 4:43.70
 
Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay:
1.  United States, 3:37.99
2.  Australia, 3:39.04
3.  Canada, 3:40.90
 
Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay:
1.  United States, 7:54.70
2.  Australia, 7:55.85
3.  Hungary, 7:59.04
 
Women's 4x100m Medley Relay:
1.  United States, 4:02.14
2.  Japan, 4:04.01
3.  France, 4:05.33
 
  NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States 12 5 7 24 2 Japan 7 4 4 15 3 Romania 3 1 2 6 4 Australia 2 10 5 17 5 Poland 2 1 1 4 6 Turkey 2 1 0 3 7 Italy 2 0 2 4 8 Portugal 1 1 0 2 8 South Africa 1 1 0 2 8 Estonia 1 1 0 2 11 Belgium 1 0 0 1 12 Spain 0 2 0 2 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 2 0 2 14 France 0 1 2 3 15 Canada 0 1 1 2 16 Brazil 0 1 0 1 16 Ukraine 0 1 0 1 16 Germany 0 1 0 1 19 Hungary 0 0 6 6 20 Great Britain 0 0 2 2 21 Netherlands 0 0 1 1 21 Singapore 0 0 1 1