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You have to admire the kamikaze nature of it, though. It's such an amateur move, in the best sense of that word - a devil may care, "why not" attitude while all her rivals, some already with the advantage on her, carefully and professionally plot their way to a singular target. As an Irishman I'm profundly amused, yet p that Dan Wiffen, on the eve of the most important 1500m of his life, has thought, bugger it, lets swim for 2 hours in the Seine sewer just for the craic as well! It's supposed to be fun. It's refreshing that some of them remember that.

The problem comes if and when they try to run them in heats, and get a lesson in the difference between squad and reserves.

327, I understand.

In my experience the UK Sport/Team GB Olympic targets reflect expectation management rather than anything else - again they have gone for the 50-70 style figure which suggests some confidence. Outside the W2x, I'm not sure there are as many slam dunks as some previous Games, conversely, it feels like there are more leigitimate 'chances' that could go either way. The swimming and Athletics numbers reflect Bucknerisation, and in so far as it goes, it has worked in swimming - GBR are clearly churning out a few more medal chances per cycle than they used to, although the women's side still seems soft - that said Blocksidge should come through for LA, along probably with Fleur Lewis, Pheobe Cooper and Theadora Taylor, and slightly belatedly, hopefully Leah Schlossan, just as GBR loses some of its golden 200 freestyle generation - as ever with GBR, men's side and women's side never seem to come through at the same time. I do not think Bucknerisation will work in athletics because the variation and tactical elements are so much more important in races over 400m - a lot will depnds on how Athletics go here, but it is very clear that the standards were set badly - there is a strong suggestion going around that almost everyone, regardless of form, who got the main Q mark or a UKA Q mark was picked, because if form had been factored in, the team would have been slashed even worse to the point of embarrassment, with one or two in the know suggesting there may need to be a post mortem on how it panned out with several people left behind they'd rather have taken (notably the hammer boys and Anna Purchase, Amy Hunt in the individual 200), and a few going they'd rather have left behind (who we won't name because it is unfair, they met the standard asked). Rugby Sevens is an absolute shambles - which feels odd since I'm thrilled with my Irish hat on how My boys and girls in green have done. Creating a team GB team has simply not worked - rather than bringing together the best full time, it's got mediocre players entirely orphaned from the home unions. Both BOA and the three home unions are going to have to think hard if they want to do this event properly, because at the moment it gives off the stink of the old GB amateur football teams being made fools of. more generally, the WR are going to have to work out how, and even if, this sport can be made more than a bit of fun, and actually attract talent to a legit career. Men's boxing has clearly been going backwards for two if not three cycles - is this McCracken going through the same problems Brailsford did? as for Judo, I don't really get the sense the governing body really know what they're doing, and wonder do we need to look seriously at the coaching set up - Taekwon do has managed to cycle through an entire generation - Stevenson, Cook, Cho, Stamper, Lutalo and now Walkden, and still have a healthy programme with a number more coming through. Judo...nada. We don't do wrestling, handball, pistol shooting, fencing, volleyball or waterpolo with any belief and I've made my peace with it. I find it harder to stomach basketball, but there we are....

Yes and no. with Buckner at UK Athletics, that team was always gonna shrink. There are a few poor misses - Men's sevens and women's football, that would have pushed the number up significantly, and the latter of which would have been a medal shout - other than that and boxing, it's more or less par. some sports are simply in the doldrums and need one of those UK Sport reviews - Men's Judo springs to mind there. The Archers dug themselves out of a hole, and you have to admire that - with the men's form, and Bryony showing again, there's even maybe a punchers chance there... Let's go in order, just for funsies: Archery: Full squad Miracle, nothing short. The heritage of Robin Hood and Agincourt lives to fight another day Artistic Swimming: duet As much as could possibly be realistically hoped for, and the pair are so good, a minor medal is not utterly implausible, if unlikely. Athletics : 63 GBR were spoilt during the Ohuruogu-Ennis-Farah-Rutherford era: 19 global titles (21 if you add Idowu and Greene), 7 Olympic golds between this foursome alone. Well that era is done. I'm gutted for those who achieved good rankings qualifications and still missed out, and leaving the two Hammer boys at home seems particularly stupid. The injury to Glave was unfortunate but the right three came through in the 100. Field events remain an issue, but that's been the case for a long time, and at least this time there is one genuine field event gold contender in Caudery. The team is thinner, but there are some intriguing possibilities - Hudson Smith, Kerr, Hodgkinson and Gill, Men's 4 x 1, Women's 4 x 1 and, hopefully, one last hurrah for KJT or Dina Badminton. WS x 1, MD x 1 This is a little disappointing, but it's been coming. GBR may have codified this sport, but they haven't really been a force in it for a long time, and given that arts of Asia revere the game in a way the west does with Tennis, I'm not sure there's an obvious remedy. Basketball: Dude. The issues in GB Basketball are MUCH MUCH bigger than failing to make the Games Boxing : 6 (3M, 3W) This is the major disappointment, but it is at least partially explicable by the qualification system and the reduction of men's weights. GBR remain quite near the top of the pile for qualification numbers, even with aussies getting ridiculously easy ride. My big question is Ireland got six women in, because Ireland take women's boxing very seriously. So do GBR, but yet only got three in. Breaking : nobody Don't care. Relieved, frankly, not to have the nation embarrassed. Canoe : Slalom, Full house, excellent Sprint : nobody Ok this is concerning, i grant you. I appreciate GBR does rowing more than it does canoeing but the facilities exist and the numbers are broadly ok. GBR are not a natural canoe sprint nation in the manner of the central europeans but having nobody qualified justifies a few questions. Cycling : Road - full squad, the only nation to do so, with at least one, possible two medal shots Track - full squad, one of few nations to do so, with countless medal shots - Archibald injury will hurt badly. MTB - full squad, with a serious medal shot BMX Racing - one of each, disappointing on men's side but they only have themselves to blame BMX Freestyle - one of each. Very unlucky not to get second M, the one we have is a big medal shout All in all, good work on the wheels, guys Equestrian : Full house Plenty of medal shouts here too Fencing : nobody A little disappointing, but we haven't really done very much since that freak win the European Games Field hockey: full House GBR women are coming down, GBR men are coming up Football: nobody The women's team screwed up, but were still very, very close - essentially a single goal from the finals. In this qualification program, you win or you die. Golf : Full house Never in doubt, decent medal shouts though not favourites Gymnastics Artistics, full squads injury mayhem on the women's side has screwed GBRs chances, and one wonders if the Gadirovas and Achompong might 'age out' before LA, though I very much hope not. The men's side has a few medal shots in individual apparatus, a long shot in AA, and a long shot in team. Can't ask much more than that, really. Trampoline : 1 M 2 W One strong medal shot, good Q figures in the context Rythmic : 0 quelle surprise. Handball: nothing Did we expect different? Judo : 5W with a couple of medal shouts, no M Right, here, I agree, is an issue. The land that gave us Neil Adamas and Brian Jacks should not have zero men. This, again, is review territory. but the women's hall is actually pretty good. Mod Pent: Full house Not favourites now, but I genuinely think Choony and French might still pull of a medal or two. But a full house in Q with reserves in both sexes. Rowing 10 boats out of 14 but a big squad (2nd biggest I think), and multiple medal shouts - pity they are obviously winding down the lightweights Rugby Sevens : 12 W, 0 M The third group of actual disappointment. An utter, utter shambles. THe women might do something, but I doubt it. The 'Team GB' thing has not worked Sailing: Full house, plenty shouts Shooting : team of 6 Quotas across all but one individual rifle and shotgun events - but that one cost a team place in a strong competition for GBR. That individual snafu is disappointing. Otherwise, pretty solid, really. We don't do pistols. Skateboarding : team of 3 That's about standard, bit unlucky with Lily Strachan but hardly disastrous. Sports Climbing: Full House in B&L, 0 in sprint Not sure we expected that, and in Roberts there's a genuine medal contender. I find our continued irrelevance in sprint, given we adore Gladiators, difficult to fathom. I can only assume the lack of a balding man in lycra chasing our athletes up the wall interferes with their motivation. given that "The Wall" is now an Olympic sport, and parts of the Eliminator are coming to Modern Pentathlon, it seems more important than ever that Gladiators has made a TV comeback - light entertainment that is clearly a secret Olympic talent spotting initiative. Surfing : Nada Sky Brown got closer than I thought she would but otherwise, not really a surprise. Table tennis 1M, 1W A little underwhelming but we never do much here, both tin tin and Paul had this in their grasp, possibly a little unfairly so, but let it slip. Taekwondo :4 entries, every one a medal shout. As good as it gets really Tennis : 6 men, 2 women, probably one genuine medal shout in MD, but in terms of Q, the British women slid a little downhill Triathlon 3 W, 2 M The men have really tailed off, but there are some signs of recovery for the next cycle. Still pretty solid Q Volleyball Dude 2. Weightlifting 1W Disappointing, but given the slashing of weights and numbers, glad to get anyone at all. Wrestling: Nada As per. Swimming 33 : 19 M 14 W All relays One or two of the women have not kicked on like we would have hoped, but there are solid medal chances throughout the team - I'd bet a minimum of 4 medals, at least one gold Water-polo Dude 3 Diving : full house Only us and china, and whle china will win almost everything, GBR have at least 4 possibly as high as 6 medal shouts (4=ASS, M3s, M10s, W10s, 6 = 4+Laugher, W3S) I'm not sure, looking through that, how disappointed we can be. Boxing dropped the ball, Judo has issues on the men's side and two of the teams struck out. Otherwise it was another solid Q, to be honest. Especially given the Bucknerisation of athletics

Full delegation for Paris announced on TeamGB.com https://www.teamgb.com/article/team-gb-at-paris-2024-full-list-of-athletes/7omYKygnLGqwCVhWQHrIPP Team GB full team out : Archery Conor Hall, Tom Hall and Alex Wise - men's team Penny Healey, Byrony Pitman and Megan Havers - women's team Mixed team : from above Artistic Swimming Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe - Duet Athletics Phoebe Gill, Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie, Georgia Bell, Laura Muir, Revee Walcott-Nolan, Megan Keith, Eilish McColgan, Cindy Sember, Jessie Knight, Lina Nielsen, Lizzie Bird, Aimee Pratt, Morgan Lake, Holly Bradshaw, Molly Caudery, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Jade O’Dowda, Dina Asher-Smith, Desiree Henry, Amy Hunt, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Daryll Neita, Bianca Williams, Amber Anning, Yemi Mary John, Hannah Kelly, Laviai Nielsen, Victoria Ohuruogu, Jodie Williams, Nicole Yeargin Charlie Dobson, Max Burgin, Ben Pattison, Jake Wightman, Neil Gourley, Josh Kerr, Sam Atkin, George Mills, Patrick Dever, Tade Ojora, Alastair Chalmers, Jacob Fincham-Dukes, Scott Lincoln, Lawrence Okoye, Nicholas Percy, Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Charlie Carvell, Lewis Davey, Ben Jefferies, Toby Harries, Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Callum Wilkinson Philip Sesemann, Mahamed Mahamed and Emile Cairess: Men's marathon Rose Harvey, Charlotte Purdue and Calli Hauder-Thackery: Women's marathon Badminton Kirsty Gilmour - Women's singles Ben Lane and Sean Vendy - Men's doubles Boxing Charley Davison - Bantamweight (54kg) Rosie Eccles - Welterweight (66kg) Chantelle Reid - Middleweight (75kg) Lewis Richardson - Light-middleweight (71kg) Pat Brown - Heavyweight (92kg) Delicious Orie - Super heavyweight (92kg+) Canoe Slalom Mallory Franklin: Women’s Canoe Single (C1) & Women’s Kayak Cross Kimberley Woods: Women’s Kayak Single (K1) & Women’s Kayak Cross Adam Burgess: Men’s Canoe Single (C1) & Men's Kayak Cross Joe Clarke: Men’s Kayak Single (K1) & Men’s Kayak Cross Cycling BMX Kieran Reilly and Charlotte Worthington - BMX Freestyle Park Kye Whyte and Beth Shriever - BMX Racing Road Lizzie Deignan, Pfeiffer Georgi, Anna Henderson (TT) and Anna Morris - women's road Ethan Hayter (TT), Tom Pidcock, Josh Tarling (TT/RR), Stevie Williams and Fred Wright - Men's road MTB Charlie Aldridge and Tom Pidcock - Men’s mountain bike Ella Maclean-Howell and Evie Richards - Women’s mountain bike Track Elinor Barker, Neah Evans, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jess Roberts - Women’s track endurance Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and Ollie Wood - Men’s track endurance Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull - Men’s track sprint Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant - Women’s track sprint Diving Tom Daley - Men's 10m Synchro Noah Williams - Men's 10m Platform, Men's 10m Synchro Kyle Kothari - Men's 10m Platform Jack Laugher - Men's 3m Springboard, Men's 3m Synchro Anthony Harding - Men's 3m Synchro Jordan Houlden - Men's 3m Springboard Scarlett Mew Jensen - Women's 3m Synchro Yasmin Harper - Women's 3m Springboard, Women's 3m Synchro Grace Reid - Women's 3m Springboard Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix - Women's 10m Platform, Women's 10m Synchro Lois Toulson Equestrian Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester, Charlotte Fry and Becky Moody (r) - Dressage Rosalind Canter, Yasmin Ingham, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen (r) - Eventing Scott Brash, Harry Charles, Ben Maher and Joseph Stockdale (r) - Showjumping Golf Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick - men's Georgia Hall and Charley Hull - women's Gymnastics - Artistic Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Jake Jarman, Luke Whitehouse, Max Whitlock - men's artistic Becky Downie, Ruby Evans, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Alice Kinsella, Abigail Martin - women's artistic Trampoline Zak Perzamanos - men's trampoline Bryony Page, Izzy Songhurst - women's trampoline Hockey Women's hockey - Miriam Pritchard (GK), Giselle Ansley, Hollie Pearne-Webb (captain), Anna Toman, Amy Costello, Fiona Crackles, Laura Roper, Flora Peel, Sophie Hamilton, Lily Owsley, Izzy Petter, Tess Howard, Sarah Jones, Charlotte Watson, Sarah Robertson, Hannah French Men's hockey - Ollie Payne (GK), Nick Park, Gareth Furlong, Conor Williamson, Liam Sanford, James Albery, David Ames, Jacob Draper, Jack Waller, David Goodfield, Zach Wallace, Phil Roper, Rupert Shipperley, Will Calnan, Sam Ward, Lee Morton Judo Chelsie Giles - -52kg Lucy Renshall - -63kg Emma Reid - -78kg Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown - -70kg Lele Nairne - -57kg Modern Pentathlon Joe Choong and Myles Pillage - men's event Kate French and Kerenza Bryson - women's event Rowing Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Hattie Taylor, Annie Campbell-Orde and Henry Fieldman - Women's eight Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford and Harry Brightmore - Men's eight Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten - Women's four Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson - Men's four Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw - Women's quadruple sculls Tom Barras, Callum Dixon, Matt Haywood and Graeme Thomas - Men's quadruple sculls Emily Craig and Imogen Grant - Lightweight women's double sculls Becky Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne - Women's double sculls Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George - Men's pair Chloe Brew and Rebecca Edwards - Women's pair Rugby Sevens Amy Wilson Hardy, Ellie Boatman, Ellie Kildunne, Emma Uren (C), Grace Crompton, Heather Cowell, Isla Norman-Bell, Jade Shekells, Jasmine Joyce, Lauren Torley, Lisa Thomson, Meg Jones Sailing John Gimson and Anna Burnet – Mixed Multihull (Nacra 17) Chris Grube and Vita Heathcote - Mixed Dinghy (470) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt – Men’s Skiff (49er) Freya Black and Saskia Tidey – Women’s Skiff (49erFX) Emma Wilson – Women’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL) Sam Sills – Men’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL) Ellie Aldridge – Women’s Kite (Formula Kite) Connor Bainbridge - Men's Kite (Formula Kite) Michael Beckett – Men’s Dinghy (ILCA 7) Hannah Snellgrove - Women's Dinghy (ILCA 6) Shooting Michael Bargeron - 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team Seonaid McIntosh - 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team Matthew Coward-Holley – Olympic Trap Nathan Hales – Olympic Trap Lucy Hall – Olympic Trap Amber Rutter – Olympic Skeet Skateboarding Sky Brown and Lola Tambling - women's park Andy Macdonald - men's park Sport Climbing Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur - men's boulder and lead Molly Thompson-Smith and Erin McNiece - women's lead and boulder Swimming Freya Anderson, Freya Colbert, Kathleen Dawson, Angharad Evans, Medi Harris, Lucy Hope, Anna Hopkin, Keanna MacInnes, Eva Okaro, Honey Osrin, Katie Shanahan, Laura Stephens and Abbie Wood Kieran Bird, Alex Cohoon, Tom Dean, Luke Greenbank, James Guy, Daniel Jervis, Joe Litchfield, Max Litchfield, Jonathon Marshall, Jack McMillan, Oliver Morgan, Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Jacob Whittle and James Wilby Leah Crisp, Hector Pardoe and Toby Robinson: Marathon swimming Table Tennis Anna Hursey - Women's singles Liam Pitchford - Men's singles Taekwondo Jade Jones - women's -57kg Rebecca McGowan - women's +67kg Bradly Sinden - men's -68kg Caden Cunningham - men's +80kg Tennis Jack Draper, Cam Norrie, Dan Evans, Andy Murray - Men's singles Katie Boulter - Women's singles Neal Skupski & Joe Salisbury - Men's doubles Heather Watson - Women's doubles Mixed doubles: from above Triathlon Alex Yee, Sam Dickinson: Men's individual Beth Potter, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Kate Waugh: Women's individual Mixed relay: from above Weightlifting Emily Campbell - Women's 81+kg

Team GB full team out : Archery Conor Hall, Tom Hall and Alex Wise - men's team Penny Healey, Byrony Pitman and Megan Havers - women's team Mixed team : from above Artistic Swimming Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe - Duet Athletics Phoebe Gill, Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie, Georgia Bell, Laura Muir, Revee Walcott-Nolan, Megan Keith, Eilish McColgan, Cindy Sember, Jessie Knight, Lina Nielsen, Lizzie Bird, Aimee Pratt, Morgan Lake, Holly Bradshaw, Molly Caudery, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Jade O’Dowda, Dina Asher-Smith, Desiree Henry, Amy Hunt, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Daryll Neita, Bianca Williams, Amber Anning, Yemi Mary John, Hannah Kelly, Laviai Nielsen, Victoria Ohuruogu, Jodie Williams, Nicole Yeargin Charlie Dobson, Max Burgin, Ben Pattison, Jake Wightman, Neil Gourley, Josh Kerr, Sam Atkin, George Mills, Patrick Dever, Tade Ojora, Alastair Chalmers, Jacob Fincham-Dukes, Scott Lincoln, Lawrence Okoye, Nicholas Percy, Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Charlie Carvell, Lewis Davey, Ben Jefferies, Toby Harries, Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Callum Wilkinson Philip Sesemann, Mahamed Mahamed and Emile Cairess: Men's marathon Rose Harvey, Charlotte Purdue and Calli Hauder-Thackery: Women's marathon Badminton Kirsty Gilmour - Women's singles Ben Lane and Sean Vendy - Men's doubles Boxing Charley Davison - Bantamweight (54kg) Rosie Eccles - Welterweight (66kg) Chantelle Reid - Middleweight (75kg) Lewis Richardson - Light-middleweight (71kg) Pat Brown - Heavyweight (92kg) Delicious Orie - Super heavyweight (92kg+) Canoe Slalom Mallory Franklin: Women’s Canoe Single (C1) & Women’s Kayak Cross Kimberley Woods: Women’s Kayak Single (K1) & Women’s Kayak Cross Adam Burgess: Men’s Canoe Single (C1) & Men's Kayak Cross Joe Clarke: Men’s Kayak Single (K1) & Men’s Kayak Cross Cycling BMX Kieran Reilly and Charlotte Worthington - BMX Freestyle Park Kye Whyte and Beth Shriever - BMX Racing Road Lizzie Deignan, Pfeiffer Georgi, Anna Henderson (TT) and Anna Morris - women's road Ethan Hayter (TT), Tom Pidcock, Josh Tarling (TT/RR), Stevie Williams and Fred Wright - Men's road MTB Charlie Aldridge and Tom Pidcock - Men’s mountain bike Ella Maclean-Howell and Evie Richards - Women’s mountain bike Track Elinor Barker, Neah Evans, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jess Roberts - Women’s track endurance Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and Ollie Wood - Men’s track endurance Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull - Men’s track sprint Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant - Women’s track sprint Diving Tom Daley - Men's 10m Synchro Noah Williams - Men's 10m Platform, Men's 10m Synchro Kyle Kothari - Men's 10m Platform Jack Laugher - Men's 3m Springboard, Men's 3m Synchro Anthony Harding - Men's 3m Synchro Jordan Houlden - Men's 3m Springboard Scarlett Mew Jensen - Women's 3m Synchro Yasmin Harper - Women's 3m Springboard, Women's 3m Synchro Grace Reid - Women's 3m Springboard Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix - Women's 10m Platform, Women's 10m Synchro Lois Toulson Equestrian Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester, Charlotte Fry and Becky Moody (r) - Dressage Rosalind Canter, Yasmin Ingham, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen (r) - Eventing Scott Brash, Harry Charles, Ben Maher and Joseph Stockdale (r) - Showjumping Golf Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick - men's Georgia Hall and Charley Hull - women's Gymnastics - Artistic Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Jake Jarman, Luke Whitehouse, Max Whitlock - men's artistic Becky Downie, Ruby Evans, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Alice Kinsella, Abigail Martin - women's artistic Trampoline Zak Perzamanos - men's trampoline Bryony Page, Izzy Songhurst - women's trampoline Hockey Women's hockey - Miriam Pritchard (GK), Giselle Ansley, Hollie Pearne-Webb (captain), Anna Toman, Amy Costello, Fiona Crackles, Laura Roper, Flora Peel, Sophie Hamilton, Lily Owsley, Izzy Petter, Tess Howard, Sarah Jones, Charlotte Watson, Sarah Robertson, Hannah French Men's hockey - Ollie Payne (GK), Nick Park, Gareth Furlong, Conor Williamson, Liam Sanford, James Albery, David Ames, Jacob Draper, Jack Waller, David Goodfield, Zach Wallace, Phil Roper, Rupert Shipperley, Will Calnan, Sam Ward, Lee Morton Judo Chelsie Giles - -52kg Lucy Renshall - -63kg Emma Reid - -78kg Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown - -70kg Lele Nairne - -57kg Modern Pentathlon Joe Choong and Myles Pillage - men's event Kate French and Kerenza Bryson - women's event Rowing Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Hattie Taylor, Annie Campbell-Orde and Henry Fieldman - Women's eight Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford and Harry Brightmore - Men's eight Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten - Women's four Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson - Men's four Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw - Women's quadruple sculls Tom Barras, Callum Dixon, Matt Haywood and Graeme Thomas - Men's quadruple sculls Emily Craig and Imogen Grant - Lightweight women's double sculls Becky Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne - Women's double sculls Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George - Men's pair Chloe Brew and Rebecca Edwards - Women's pair Rugby Sevens Amy Wilson Hardy, Ellie Boatman, Ellie Kildunne, Emma Uren (C), Grace Crompton, Heather Cowell, Isla Norman-Bell, Jade Shekells, Jasmine Joyce, Lauren Torley, Lisa Thomson, Meg Jones Sailing John Gimson and Anna Burnet – Mixed Multihull (Nacra 17) Chris Grube and Vita Heathcote - Mixed Dinghy (470) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt – Men’s Skiff (49er) Freya Black and Saskia Tidey – Women’s Skiff (49erFX) Emma Wilson – Women’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL) Sam Sills – Men’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL) Ellie Aldridge – Women’s Kite (Formula Kite) Connor Bainbridge - Men's Kite (Formula Kite) Michael Beckett – Men’s Dinghy (ILCA 7) Hannah Snellgrove - Women's Dinghy (ILCA 6) Shooting Michael Bargeron - 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team Seonaid McIntosh - 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team Matthew Coward-Holley – Olympic Trap Nathan Hales – Olympic Trap Lucy Hall – Olympic Trap Amber Rutter – Olympic Skeet Skateboarding Sky Brown and Lola Tambling - women's park Andy Macdonald - men's park Sport Climbing Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur - men's boulder and lead Molly Thompson-Smith and Erin McNiece - women's lead and boulder Swimming Freya Anderson, Freya Colbert, Kathleen Dawson, Angharad Evans, Medi Harris, Lucy Hope, Anna Hopkin, Keanna MacInnes, Eva Okaro, Honey Osrin, Katie Shanahan, Laura Stephens and Abbie Wood Kieran Bird, Alex Cohoon, Tom Dean, Luke Greenbank, James Guy, Daniel Jervis, Joe Litchfield, Max Litchfield, Jonathon Marshall, Jack McMillan, Oliver Morgan, Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Jacob Whittle and James Wilby Leah Crisp, Hector Pardoe and Toby Robinson: Marathon swimming Table Tennis Anna Hursey - Women's singles Liam Pitchford - Men's singles Taekwondo Jade Jones - women's -57kg Rebecca McGowan - women's +67kg Bradly Sinden - men's -68kg Caden Cunningham - men's +80kg Tennis Jack Draper, Cam Norrie, Dan Evans, Andy Murray - Men's singles Katie Boulter - Women's singles Neal Skupski & Joe Salisbury - Men's doubles Heather Watson - Women's doubles Mixed doubles: from above Triathlon Alex Yee, Sam Dickinson: Men's individual Beth Potter, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Kate Waugh: Women's individual Mixed relay: from above Weightlifting Emily Campbell - Women's 81+kg

I've known '10k to go' stages for decades - usually a whole batch of them in week 1 - as recently as th mid 2010's the race didn't really start as such until the first firday/saturday. I think sports evolve as well, and the use of radio and tv and gps has really hammered the classic escapoligists, like Chiapucci of old - part of the old classic trick of a good escape was to go a bit Keyser Soze, so the peloton did not really know for sure who was up in the breakway, and just how far ahead they were - you still get something of that in the deliberately throwback nature of the Olympics, with no team radios - and a bizarre brilliant gold medal for Austria in the women's road race from just such a Soze episode when the dominant dutch team completely forgot she was up ahead. any time UCI or the Tour have tried a radio-free stage, though, the peloton and race directors have rebelled. And the sponsor payoff for a few minutes on television is really not that big now - they get their value in other ways I think the tendency to break up the GC early with hard bumpy classic stages is a reaction to that, but long flat boring stages are going to be long flat stages until the end of time.

Looking more and more like a straight three up hit between Remco, Ganna and Tarling

Never bothered them before. Wouldn't bother them again.

In which case, UKA like British Swimming, will simply invent their own 'top 8' qualification marks.

Peter Charles?

'Trust' and 'fair' ain't got nothing to do with it. It is the most fundamental of errors to confuse the verb "should" with the verb "will". Management don't need athletes trust, and have little to no interest in it - so long as Athletes won't act in co-ordinated boycott - and they never will - the powers that be can do what they like; all they need is UK Sports money, and that is the only opinions they will value.

Interesting. Sportswise, I'm not a huge fan of the Netherlands, as it happens. Nor, oddly enough, Spain. The former too smuggly arrogant, the latter too angrily aggressive. On an individual human level of course, there's lots of great Dutch and Spanish athletes I like so it's not exactly a breeding hatred, just something of the character of some of their teams. The Italians are going through that stage of suddenly being good at lots of sports that the Brits went through around 2012, and it's fun watching the excitement and boundless unironic optimisim in Italian fans, that 'we're going to win everything' thing. If i'm honest, the other team that I tend to find myself sympathising with is Germany. They just get on with it, seem to have a sense of humility and don't whine, unlike the British media. Obviously, I can't currently abide any Russians of Belorussians in sport, despite having a few as friends who are lovely people. I quite like the Russian national character, the laconic, stoic, quality but I can't have the state as it currently exists, like a cartoon villain in a Bond film.

Day 1: Men's rugby Day 1: Men's rugby Day 1: Mixed team air rifle Day 1: Men's road cycling time trial

You did in the past - very much so. And they were ignored time and time again, and finally they stopped talking about it because they knew it wasn't going to chaNGE.

I always like the quirky "mini Roubaix" or "mini Strade Bianche" stages. It's a different test. Most TdFs have something with a hint of Flanders or Liege, but the pave and gravel are more fun, really.

In an ironic twist, one of the athletes selected by UK Athletes for a ranking spot, Pat Dever in the 10,000m has not made it in that event, falling below the cutoff. Happily, Dever is safely in the 5000m (I wish he'd got in the 10,000!)

And not at all connected to a certain pommel worker in green whose main rival's a brit.....

What death threat? I have racked my brain trying to see what you are talking about, and can only conclude you have never heard of the idiom "#1 with a bullet" which is nothng, nothing to do with guns. Please retract that ridiculous and offensive accusation now, please. she was 12. 12. edit: I see you have been enlightened by the dragon. Fair enough so.

I try not to root against people. It doesn't seem very Olympian. I try not to. But I regularly fail! So. 1 with a bullet - Dutch peado rapist ghoul. Seriously, Netherlands, what the **** are you smoking?? I mean outright dopers, cheats, loathe them, but you manage to find the one guy I'd actually cheer on the roided up junkie against! I'd cheer one of the bloody Russians against! This will stain the Netherlands authorities for years to come. Ok, onto the normals... "Some people like giants, some people like giantkillers" (Simon Barnes quote) As a rule, I go into the latter classification. I hope somebody screws up the 'perfect' goals of the Chinese diving and table tennis teams. I'm not wildly bothered which. I want the Chinese swim team decimated. you simply cannot be allowed to get away with what has obviously been going on (state-protected doping regime) Conversely I would love the Chinese to beat America in the Women's team gymnastics. Individuals: Zverev (thug) J Ingabrigtsen (not real dislike, it's just he's funny when he loses) Sydney McLaughlin (I simply can't stomach the love in for a Kersee athlete), Hoppel most of their team apart from faith. Sorry, guys, I like Kenya but your system's broken. Sedjati - I don't trust him an inch

I see the Pole immediately below Sophie Becker has got a reallocation, so that pretty much confirms Sophie is in.

I don't think the athletes did the refusing, but thats' academic - given GBR stance, always thought McCann was in. Barr, we wait and see, but specialism will hurt him here.

I think the points have to change - it's the rank of the pair, not some notional rank of the country. FWIW I think the doubles ranking of Watson (47)will be sufficent to get a mixed doubles spot with Salisbury (6) - total 53, there will undoubtedly be a withdrawal or two, or a tired singles player who can't/won't do all 3 (like boulter, for example!) i think Dart/Lumsden might currently be first or second reserve in women's doubles...

South Sudan in basketball Pogacar in the Road Race - I just like the thought of the nutter trying to get the triple crown AND Olympic gold in one calendar year - the smiley Cannibal Hannah Rpberts in BMX freestyle Djokovic in the men's singles