phelps

I think that funding is more than enough, especially compared with so many Nations that don't have anything but fractions of what we have and still manage to win bunch of medals at any level imho, we just don't have knowhow and attitude (and maybe we're a bit short in terms of youngsters practicing the sport, but this doesn't stop our success in other disciplines, so I don't consider that a key factor)

British Swimming Championships Day #5 men's 800m Freestyle 1.Tobias Robinson, 7.51.51 2.Tyler Melbourne-Smith, 7.59.59 women's 100m Fly 1.Keanna Macinnes, 57.92 2.Lucy Grieve, 58.31 men's 200m Breaststroke 1.James Wilby, 2.10.03 2.Gregory Butler, 2.10.48 men's 50m Freestyle 1.Benjamin Proud, 21.25 (British OQT) 2.Matthew Richards, 21.83 (British OQT) women's 200m IM 1.Abbie Wood, 2.08.91 (British OQT) 2.Freya Colbert, 2.10.46 (British OQT)

very impressive swim by Ben he's definitely one of the top (gold) medal candidates in Paris

well, the girls had some interesting results in the past years (Aurora Russo is the 2023 junior european and world champion) and Piroddu also had great results in the youth classes I don't really know why they just can't translate that once they enter the senior ranks? imho, we need to invest on top class coaches (and their "unconventional" methods, which might be hard to cope with here in our society) rather than going for athletes' shopping in Russia or in Cuba (especially nowadays)

Sailing World Cup, Trofeo Princesa Sofia ( Palma De Mallorca) ILCA 6 Gold: Maria Erdi Silver: Zoe Thomson Bronze: Matilda Nicholls ILCA 7 Gold: Michael Beckett Silver: Philipp Buhl Bronze: Jean Baptiste Bernaz 49er Gold: Diego Botin Le Chever & Florian Trittel Paul Silver: Hernan Umpierre Odini & Fernando Diz Becerra Bronze: Lukasz Przybytek & Jacek Piasecki 49er FX Gold: Jana Germani & Giorgia Bertuzzi Silver: Helene Næss & Marie Rønningen Bronze: Misaki Tanaka & Sera Nagamatsu Mixed 470 Gold: Camille Lecointre & Jeremy Mion Silver: Nora Brugman Cabot & Jordi Xammar Hernandez Bronze: Anastasiya Winkel & Malte Winkel women's iQFoil Gold: Mina Mobekk Silver: Maya Gysler Bronze: Lela Sorin men's iQFoil Gold: Pawel Tarnowski Silver: Nicolas Goyard Bronze: Yun Pouliquen women's Formula Kite Gold: Breiana Whitehead Silver: Daniela Moroz Bronze: Leonie Meyer men's Formula Kite Gold: Maximilian Maeder Silver: Riccardo Pianosi Bronze: Denis Taradin Mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Caterina Banti & Ruggero Tita Silver: Maria Giubilei & Gianluigi Ugolini Bronze: Anna Burnet & John Gimson Full Results & Rankings https://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall

so far, it's open also without vpn...let's see if it keeps going also when wrestling begins

https://www.trtspor.com.tr/canli-yayin-izle/trt-spor-yildiz/

https://tv.bnt.bg/bnt3 (with Bulgarian VPN, of course)

men's -89kg Gold: Karlos May Nasar (total: 396kg) Silver: Yeison Lopez Lopez (total: 392kg) Bronze: Li Dayin (total: 383kg) Full Results https://iwf.sport/results/results-by-events/?event_id=599 Group A Full Scoreboard

men's -81kg Gold: Ri Chong Song (total: 366kg) Silver: Maksad Meredov (total: 328kg) Bronze: Samuel Guertin (total: 315kg) Full Results https://iwf.sport/results/results-by-events/?event_id=599 Group A Full Scoreboard

if only he was born 10 miles more towards South...

British Swimming Championships Day #4 men's 100m Fly 1.Joe Litchfield, 51.71 2.Joshua Gammon, 51.82 women's 400m Freestyle 1.Holly Hibbott, 4.11.67 2.Amelie Blocksidge, 4.12.09 women's 200m Backstroke 1.Honey Osrin, 2.08.37 (British OQR) 2.Katie Shanahan, 2.08.53 (British OQR) men's 200m IM 1.Duncan Scott, 1.55.91 (British OQR) 2.Thomas Dean, 1.56.44 (British OQR)

women's -64kg Gold: Rim Un Sim (total: 258kg) Silver: Ri Suk (total: 248kg) Bronze: Svitlana Samuliak (total: 221kg) Full Results https://iwf.sport/results/results-by-events/?event_id=599

he's getting old... and he's never been comfortable in the -74kg class, he was at his best in the -65kg, but he couldn't keep that weight anymore after Rio and movin'up was inevitable

the federation has given Kim Polling permission to immediately switch to she's married to Andrea Regis (former player and now IJF official) let's hope that the Italian burocracy doesn't make any damage she would cover the very important -70kg class for us, which means that we could have a very competitive squad in team event, too

once again, playing the not-paying spectator role oh, man...how far away the times of "Pollicino" Maenza (or even Minguzzi) are!

there was a lot of hype for the men's 100m Free, but tbh, I'm a lot more impressed with Freya Colbert and Max Litchfield's IM races results if that's the standard, I think and can take care of the British 4*100m Free Relay, that was so impressive last year (they basically threw the world champs gold away with that senseless exchange in the prelims)

British Swimming Championships Day #3 men's 1500m Freestyle 1.Daniel Jervis, 14.47.94 (British OQT) 2.Tobias Robinson, 14.54.75 (missed out on the British OQT by 0.46 secs) women's 400m IM 1.Freya Colbert, 4.34.01 (British OQT) 2.Katie Shanahan, 4.36.67 (British OQT) women's 50m Freestyle 1.Anna Hopkin, 24.53 (British OQT) 2.Eva Okaro, 24.96 men's 400m IM 1.Max Litchfield, 4.09.14 (new National Record, British OQT) 2.Charlie Hutchison, 4.15.72 men's 100m Freestyle 1.Matthew Richards, 47.84 (British OQT) 2.Duncan Scott, 47.92 (British OQT) 3.Thomas Dean, 47.94 4.Alexander Cohoon, 48.20 5.Jacob Whittle, 48.39 6.David Cumberlidge, 48.41 7.Alexandr Painter. 48.44 8.Jack McMillan, 48.81

that's really unexpected! I thought fencing (and especially epee, which is the least "athletic" discipline) was one of those sports where people don't need to cheat like that I'm very surprised and sad because of this news

men's -67kg Gold: Ri Won Ju* (total: 333kg) Silver: Sergio Massidda (total: 317kg) Bronze: Ishimbek Muratbek Uulu (total: 294kg) C&J World record @ 189kg Full Results https://iwf.sport/results/results-by-events/?event_id=599

no, the qualification is nominative, not by NOC

as I wrote before, the capital mistake is not having a plan B (C, D etc.) first, they should have had some kind of internal competition when possible (and the -73kg is the perfect case, with Reyes that should have been moved down to push himself and Zanni) and then try to qualify more weights (again, Ficco in the 102kg is the first that comes to my mind) same for the girls, especially knowing how mentally fragile they are...gotta put them under pressure and see who deserves to go on the international stage

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ops...my mistake

Zanni is the first out of the qualifying positions, as have 2 in the top 2 (and only 1 man per class can go to the Games) he will surely get a reallocation (as will not select this class), but frankly he doesn't deserve that luck just forgot , make as if I didn't post the previous part... for instance, I don't know why they didn't try to make Reyes go down to 73kg or let Ficco go up to 102...it would have been a much more logical choice than the sh*t they did through those 2 years however, I still asking myself why there was no plan B? (and C, D, E, F and so on)