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two more wins tonight, which means 5 out of our 6 boxers survived the non-live-stream era. and from now on if they lose at least we can watch it 
 

Miroslava Jedináková made it to the Semifinals in the W -60kg. 
 
Saturday she will face Chelsey Heinen of , The winner of the bout will qualify to the Olympics, the loser will have one more chance in the Small Final. (Remember, Slovakia did never qualify in Womens Boxing under the five rings before. Would be absolutely amazing if she could do it and rewrite the history of our sport, but, it will be very difficult and she will need definitely also some good luck on her side)
 

I appreciate the faith in  
 
However I fear that we won't be winning enough golds to be top 5. I think  and  will be competing for 4 and 5, while  will compete with  for the 6-10 spots.
 
Our gold medal tally in recent world championships is heavily inflated, I fear Bol won't win the 400mH and 4x400m when McLaughlin is present (at least not both) and I don't see Steenbergen winning the 100m and 4x100m when Mollie O'Callaghan is back.

Medal for Pia Skrgzhgzhshhtdhxhowska

Klaver is of course super happy in her interview, she said she finished being happy with silver "and then to tell Femke about her world record, because of course she had no clue what was going on as per usual"  

Nice little course recon from a future Strade Bianche winner
 
 

Kata was the worst of all in Tokyo, both events basically were just a waste of time, we already knew who would win the gold.
 
I, for one, rather have Breaking on the Olympic program than.. that.

But predicting upsets is also....on the edge. Once people mention someone as a possible surprise, that person is barely still a possible surprise  The real surprises and upsets are those winners who nobody mentioned as possible winners, outsiders or anything.

@heywoodu has a point there.
 
This thread should be closed, cause there is no such thing as "lock". 😄

I don't know if you guys know much about artistic gymnastics, but this series is out of this world. It was already amazing, but yesterday Nemour simply connected a pak into an inbar, unbelievable. France will regret losing a talent like this for many years.

I don’t really care about any form of gymnastics (sorry), but I might actually watch it at Paris because of Nemour. She’s really really talented. 

France at least doing their job, that's nice.
 
Now if  lose next wednesday it is at least themselves bottling it.

Schouten who won 3 golden medals and 1 silver medal this weekend has decided to retire! She also won 3 golden medals at the 2022 Olympics.
 
Quite a surprise to be honest

So do I, the Dutch can't go through after knocking us out the way they did. 

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

WORLD RECORD again for Femke Bol - 49.24 
 
Lieke Klaver (50.10) and Cathelijn Peeters (52.08) with very good times as well. We are searching a fourth athlete to complete our relayteam.

WORLD RECORD again for Femke Bol - 49.24 
 
Lieke Klaver (50.10) and Cathelijn Peeters (52.08) with very good times as well. We are searching a fourth athlete to complete our relayteam.

WORLD RECORD again for Femke Bol - 49.24 
 
Lieke Klaver (50.10) and Cathelijn Peeters (52.08) with very good times as well. We are searching a fourth athlete to complete our relayteam.

Femke Bol just improved her indoor 400m record by another 0,02 seconds at the National Championships! 49,24
 
 
Meanwhile Lieke Klaver improved her indoor PB to 50,10 and 16 years old Madelief van Leur ran a NR U18 with 53,96 in the heats yesterday (improving the NR of Bol herself!).

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

qualified a men's 4x100 medley relayteam in today's prelims. Last time we entered this event at the Games was London 2012. Now finally we have a decent backstroke swimmer, Kai van Westering. Together with Caspar Corbeau/Arno Kamminga (breast), Nyls Korstanje (fly) and Stan Pijnenburg (free) a very nice team.

Congrats to our Canadian friends! It's great to have a competitive team like Canada going to Paris instead of South Africa (in my opinion, it's better for the sport). Although of course now that Greece finally qualified again, South Africa decides to decline the quota. Why couldn't they do that for Tokyo when we were the first alternates?