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Not quite Meet the superhumans, but very, very good. Nice balance of competition and cameraderie

I could defo see a women's 800 sweep at Europeans, especially if they picked Phoebe Gill as a fourth

Historically the German Dressage would have a shout, but since the brits arrived in 2012 that's not really seemed likely.

You could certainly have three GBR women at the pointy end of the Women's Triathlon, but a sweep in a race that includes Duffy, Knibbs and te French seems unlikely. Likewise, to be fair, three french women at the pointy end is equally plausible.

Collarbone breaks in cyclists heal very quickly if treated quickly - the normal process is to pin them. Usually you can get on rollers to keep aerobic fitness up within a couple of weeks, and if the break is clean without complications (as opposed to a Beloki-Froome-Bernal style wipeout) you can be properly back in the saddle in 6 weeks.

Not sure how the whole GB Basketball thing pans out until the seemingly inevitable faeces to fan moment hits re 777 Partners and BBL.

So, I got out my abacus, and by my calculation, Sky Brown on 130,000 pts has now definitely qualified for Paris. She currently sits an effective 9th when the 3 per nation rule is applied, so to lose out altogether she would need to drop 12 (effective) places minimum in Budapest. However, given the scoring system, it is not mathematically possible for 12 athletes currently below her right now all to get enough points to catch her - obviously, and one athlete can by winning in budapest to get 210,000 pts, but 11th only gets about 45,000 - I don't think there's any mathematical way that 12 athletes (not including 3perNOC duplicates_ can ALL get past her.

Oh, definitely SpiderBoy Hamish

I would say Skateboarding was a hiding to nothing from the moment sky pulled out, and I'm now not officially convinced she'll be fit for the Games. I expect the points she already has in the bag to be sufficient to get her there. I would need to know why Tambling DNS before opining on her, but all is far from lost. I quietly expect two quotas there when all is said and done. Climbing has been very fruitful so far. I fully expected Roberts to be our only entrant, and was happy, frankly, to have him, but Hamish and erin have REALLY stepped up, Molly is not out of it, the rest are a bit stranded. But you'd take Hamish and Erin's position right now, you really would! BMX free went about as well as could be hoped on the men's side. On the women's side, Charlotte has long ceased to be the same athlete that won inaugural gold, and that's ok - she did her post Tokyo job by guaranteeing one slot for the team in Glasgow. Sitting in 11 and 12 means they have work to do in Budapest, but again, all is far from lost. I don't care about the breaking and whether B-Boy Shiny is edging out B-B wax'n'Trim, so goodness knows. Away from Shanghai, It's been a decent day for the Brits (and lesser extent the Irish) Irish first, Sharlene Mawdsley did what she's threeatened for a while, ran a major 400m PB and grabbed the OQT! Meanwhile Rhasidat executd poorly in the 200 in LA and still ran a highly exciting 22.4, beating several big names - the news that neither Syd or Femke are doing 400 in Paris made up for any disappointment. Very good runs from nick Griggs and Eiday. Lowry also showing some great form in valhalla. for GB 3 new tickets were booked in Athletics (Megan Keith is a stormer of a talent), Shotgun (Matthew Colley profiting from Aaron Heading's poor last round) Table Tennis (.quite brilliant run from Anna Hursey) Disappointment in the BMX Racing worlds and some odd form in the European Canoe Slalom, although the work there on qualification is long since complete.

Megan Keith OQS and 1st place in main women's event and Brit Champs of Night of 10000m PBs, seat booked on the Eurostar. Patrick Devar won the men's British title, 2nd on night, got the Rome time but not the Paris.

Hmmm....Yee, Stapely and Bentley might be a nice set of post Paris men going forward. Fullager was one I noted to watch a while back, and again, may be well placed to step up post Paris.

Huge result from Anna. Not unexpected exactly, she always had a shout, but the way she did it was superb.

The big one is the Men's Skeet. Need an italian or Ben Llewllin to win for Llewellin to qualify, and set up a mixed team skeet shot.

My mistake.

Is three quotas the maximum an NOC can get?

If Amber can maintain her form, there does come a point where a superstar mixed team of MHS-Dobson-Anning-Neilsen becomes a better medal bet than the single sex relays

With Paris you have to factor in no radios as well.

GBR will have cause to be grateful for the slightly different system in Skateboard, I think. Because the points in the two OQS events rise so steeply, half the field would need to finish top 10 twice to pass Sky if she didn't get another point. Obviously that's just not going to happen, so I think, frankly, she's safe regardless, as are the top 6 or seven. Tambling DNS was a minor disaster, but the first day has worked out well for her in the circumstances - the Prelims have completely gone to form, which means the bulk of those behind her have not overtaken her - she should enter Budapest midtable with her fate broadly in her own hands (unless injury prevents her, then she's stuffed) Strachen in that context had a decent enough result - 21st bagged more points than 22 other people, obviously, and they are almost all now still behind here, she's probably going to emerge in the mid 20s, needing a good budapest result to stand a chance, but she was always going to need that, again because of the steepness. As for the climbers, early days but I'd say they're pretty happy at the moment with how its gone.

Sounds just like something those sneaky b***tards would do!

Looking at the numbers - and the finishers below 16th will now now their ranking points, It seems all but mathematically certain that Sky will qualify regardless. The ranking points rise so steeply around the top it would take pretty unlikely combination for 20 to get ahead of her from where they currently are. Tambling will go into Budapest with her fate broadly in her own hands, mid-table, and Strachan is not completely out of it but would need a MAJOR result in Budapest.

https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/olympic-qualifier-series-2024-shanghai/results/event/skateboarding-womens-park/reports

Well, that's a shambles of an event for GBR, isn't it. Sky injured, Tanbling DNS and Strachen out.

1, I think. Nove Mestro - not sure if Pidcock will do that one this year.

It's my own diginity I worry about - I don't want to sit by the TV as Adrain Moorhouse cheers on H2O-Boy Ben tries to edge out H2O-Boy Cameron,