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Reeves clearly spent too much time watching Keely etc and not enough time watching hockey and other relative disappointments.

Contrary to predictions........

my cousin competes tomorrow in the Mens Junior race 

Lappartient sees the presidency of the IOC as a rung on the ladder towards being President of France

What an amazing performance by a Indian parathletes ..... We are 13th on the medal table with 24 medals ....  What an amazing performance by our paralympians..... They really have brought us so high on the medal table .... A position that India has never been at in either Olympics or Paralympics before .    

Well, that's unblocked the sink a bit!  

Silver medal out of nothing for Rhys Darbey in the 200m IM.  

Canoeing is our last strong suit I think.

Wow, Ellie Challis, that was just so incredible!  Went like a tiny steam engine.  

Archery Duo (plus a half) Team into the Gold Medal match with 156/160!

Best way to retire from the sport 

This has been a pretty exciting start to the day, wasn't at all expecting the blowout over

When you have complete control of a population of a billion or so, you can use the Jan Ullrich model.
 
As famously described, I think, by Tyler Hamilton, regardless of the doping, you had to understand Ullrich was ( a bit like Katrin Krabbe) the last prodigy of the east german system - and that system was notorious even beyond doping - it simply threw every talented egg it had as hard as it could at the wall, then selected the one's that  coped best in the long run - As Hamilton put it - Ullrich was the egg that couldn't break, except once GDR died, the system collapsed, and Jan found beer.
 
I get the feeling the Chinese trow a lot of eggs at a lot of walls, in the hope of finding a few that won't crack. What happens the broken eggs is not a matter that concerns the system greatly.

This might be one of the most impressive results of the entire event. Gold on the pursuit and silver on the kilometer, that is some range, damn.

If you can get a VPN then Channel 4 in the UK is a great broadcaster of para sport.

Google "The Last Leg" on YouTube.
It began as a 2012 Paralympic programme but has become one of the most popular programmes on UK TV since then.

I think the only question marks for automatic host quotas in team sports are 3x3 (since neither Japan nor France got host quotas in both) and cricket.
 
I really can't imagine the US won't get host quotas in handball and field hockey.
 
The men's field hockey team is definitively good enough to warrent a host quota IMO, they finished a respectable 4th at the last Pan-am games and kept it reasonably close agaisnt both Argentina and Canada.

Squash was likely from the lobbying effort of the Professional Squash Association. There is a lot of investment in terms of hosting tournaments in the United States.
 
Cricket was definitely influenced by the IOC. Given the delays of announcing which additional sports will be present in 2028, LA28 likely used that desire to bring flag football and lacrosse in.

That’s my read of what happened, too.

Archery
 
4 athletes in 4 events.
 
Nathan Macqueen - Men's Individual Compound : WR 3 and 2023 world silver medallist.
Jodie Grinham - Women's Individual Compound : WR 11
Phoebe Patterson Pine - Women's Individual Compound : WR 13 and 2021 Olympic Champion
Victoria Kingstone - Women's Individual Recurve : WR 9
Mixed Team Compound - WR 4 and European champions
 
In Tokyo the team sent 7 athletes and won a Gold and a Bronze. No golds are expected but are certainly possible, with the strongest chances being Nathan Macqueen and the Mixed team compound. 
 
GB have won every Women's Compound Gold since 2008 and both athletes have the ability to continue this streak.
 
My prediction - 0 gold, 2 medals

With the opening ceremony of the 2024 paralympics just a week away, I thought I would give a sport by sport preview of the GB athletes competing and their medal chances.
 
Great Britain are sending 215 athletes in 19 sports and have been set a medal target of 100 - 140. For context, in Tokyo, they sent 227 athletes and won 124 medals, including 41 golds.

Depends of the sport really. Baseball and Cricket have very strong profesionnal structures to go back to in case of being included on the 'cycle' or not. A sport like Field Hockey doesn't, it can't be put on a on/off situation every 4 yeats (just like Karate shouldn't either)

I believe His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will perhaps suggest mercy to His Majesty the King of Australia. His Mjaesty the King of Canada may wish to intercede at some point, I wonder if he has the other Kings' numbers...

It’s interesting that you believe the problem is with the countries that people wish to move to, and not with the countries that some are desperate to leave
 
None of this is relevant to an English born Australian returning to represent his native country of course 

It's a dirty job but someone, you kmow...