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Formula 2 race starts soon! LETS GO LANDO NORRIS!

I'm surprised we haven't gotten much if any information on the Pan American Championships for Archery yet it starts on August 14th.

I don't think so, I know thats how it works for the Pan American Games and maybe some other continental games but not for Tokyo 2020.

Yes, my bad.

5 teams total (1 from Asian Games, 1 from Pan-American Games, 1 from European Games, 1 from Pacific Games, 1 from African Games)

Happy Independence Day/ Fourth of July!

I'll be staying in a nice hotel

Going to Bratislava, Slovakia for two weeks in August and will visit Vienna, and either Budapest or Prague.

Week in Summer #10 - United States June 4th - July 1st NOTE: Happy I got this post out along with the Road to Tokyo ones this week, go check those out if you haven't yet. Still been working away on my spreadsheet, I've been reformating it to make more sense but it's a lot of work but fun! Archery No Archery news last week, the 4th stage of the Archery World Cup is coming up in July and in August is the Pan American Championship! Badminton Mongolia International Series 2018 Men's Singles This is the first time Christopher Kan is competing at an event in Singles, or at least thats what the BWF website says. Sadly he lost first round but still good to get some experience! Women's Singles Iris Wang was able to win the first round against Kherlen Darkhanbaatar (what a last name) and advanced to the second round where she beat I Kuan Ao. Sadly Iris lost to Chaasinee Korepap in the Quarter finals. But hopefully this will improve her world ranking above 585 where she is at right now. Peru International 2018 Men's Singles Enrico Asuncion Enrico Asuncion lost to Kevin Cordon in the first round. In Men's Singles Enrico is currently ranked 1,309th at age 19. Timothy Lam Timothy Lam was able to beat Enzo Sugiura from Brazil in the first round but lost to Osleni Guerrero of Cuba in the second round. Timothy is currently ranked 363rd in the World Rankings at age 20 moving up from 419th after this tournament. Women's Singles Isabelle Rusli Sadly Isabelle lost first round against Mariana Isabel Paiz Quan. Isabelle is currently ranked 246th in the World for Women's Singles! Disha Gupta Disha got a first round bye and ended up beating Mariana Ugalde from Mexico in the second round. In the quarter finals she faced off against Femanda Saponara Rivva and beat her aswell. Although in the semi finals she lost to Taymara. Disha Gupta is currently ranked 113th in the World Rankings for Women's Singles! Crystal Pan Crystal Pan (a name I actually recognize) played in this tournament and got a first round bye! In the second round she beat Nikte which allowed her to advance to the quarter finals where she beat Maria Delia Zambrano. In the semi finals she beat Fabiana Silva from Brazil and in the finals she won against Taymara who beat Disha Gupta another USA competitor. Crystal Pan is currently ranked 119th in Women's Singles World Ranking. Women's Singles Podium Basketball Men's Road to Tokyo Post Canoeing 2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup - Stage 2 Krakow, Poland Men's K1 - Heats Tyler was not able to make it out of the Heat Stage C1 - Final Casey was able to make it to the finals and place in 7th place! Women's K1 - Heats Both Sage and Ashley did not advance to the Semi Finals. C1 - Heats We had Harriet and Sage compete in the C1 but sadly they did not advance to the Semi Finals. Cycling No cycling last week Volleyball 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League Women's Final Round Group Stage We were surprisingly ranked 1st in our group beating Turkey 3-2 and Serbia 3-0! This means we would go against the 2nd ranked team in Pool A. Final Round Final Four In the Semifinals we beat China 3-1 and in the final beat Turkey 3-2! Which means we are the first time winner of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League inaugural season which is amazing!

I've been to Spain but when I was about 6 months old so I don't remember it. But, I' went to Italy about 3 years ago and loved it! I'm not sure where your going in Italy but assuming your going to Rome some of my favorite things I did was obviously get some gelato, visit Vatican City, and overall just enjoy and soak in all the amazing architecture (we don't have much here in the US). I'm not sure how set in stone your trip is but if you get the chance the country side is absolutely stunning and there are some amazing pizza places all throughout! Not sure if this was any help but I hope you have a fun time and I'm going to France in February (school trip) so I might need some advice from you on what to expect!

Hey! Can someone explain to me how the World Cup heats, semi finals, finals work? For example I'm using this website https://www.canoeicf.com/ and I look at the heats and then the semi finals but it doesn't show how many athletes from the heats make it to the semi finals and from semis to final.

Road to Tokyo 2020 United States July 1st, 2018 Basketball (Men) - 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) USA 93 - 62 Cuba La Habana (CUB) - Group C For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics? In order to qualify we must be one of the top 2 Americas teams at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup In order to qualify we must be one of the top 7 teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas) USA 93 - 62 Cuba Thank goodness we won this game and didn't get beat like we did against Mexico on Thursday. At the end of the first quarter we were down 28-24, but in the second and third quarter we score a bunch of points 26-9 in the second and 24-9 in the third. We had quite an even spread of points between our players with two players getting 16 points and six players getting ≥10 points. This win and game finalizes our group C games and now we head to the second round. Group C Final Results: Who will join us in the Second Round (Group E)? Pictures:

FIBA Website says "Group D: Italy and Netherlands through to Second Round; they will be joined by the winner of Sunday's game Romania v Croatia." Here's the website: http://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2019/news/13-more-teams-advance-to-second-round-of-world-cup-qualifiers-as-third-window-tips-off

Road to Tokyo 2020 United States June 28th, 2018 Basketball (Men) - 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) USA 70 - 78 Mexico Mexico City (MEX) - Group C For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics? In order to qualify we must be one of the top 2 Americas teams at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup In order to qualify we must be one of the top 7 teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas) USA 70 - 78 Mexico When you end the 1st quarter 10 - 31 you should be pretty worried. Our previous match against Mexico we beat them 91 - 55 so I'm shocked that we lost to them. Mexican player Francisco Cruz had an amazing game scoring 24 points! Meanwhile our best scorer was Marcus Thornton with only 14 points... Sad part is in an interview with our head coach Jeff Van Gundy he said "If we think we can go to Cuba or Mexico and do the same thing, fall behind early and hope for a late rally, we're making a huge mistake" well thats exactly what the team did. Thankfully we were already qualified for the Second Round. Group Results: Pictures:

There are some games today for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification - Americas Today! June 28th Virgin Islands vs Bahamas Virgin Islands will advance to Second Round if they win vs Bahamas Bahamas need to win against Virgin Islands to have a chance of progressing Argentina vs Panama Argentina have sealed a place in the Second Round Panama have the inside track to the Second Round, needing a win at Argentina or Paraguay to advance. Puerto Rico vs Cuba Puerto Rico would seal a sport in the Second Round with a victory over Cuba Cuba, to have a chance of progressing in the Second Round, must win both Puerto Rico (today) and the USA (Sunday) and hope that Mexico defeats Puerto Rico (Sunday) Paraguay vs Uruguay Paraguay needs two wins to have a chance of advancing Uruguay have already secured their spot in the Second Round Mexico vs USA Both Mexico and USA have secured their spot in the Second Round

Definitely will be rooting for Monaco and France!

Week in Summer #9 - United States June 3rd - June 24th NOTE: FINALLY in summertime now for this year so I have more time to work on this and my spreadsheet which I'm completely redesigning to make it easier for me to understand. Both Cycling and Badminton are a bit hard because there are so many small competitions and competitors that I'm probably just gonna end up sticking with the best in each category. Archery 2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 3 (Salt Lake City) Men's Recurve Qualification Round A pretty amazing qualification round for the USA men, as expected Brady Ellison got into the top 3. Jack Williams had an amazing improvement since Stage 2 (Antalya) where he go ranked 38. Mathew Requa also had a good qualification after ranking 58 in Antalya aswell. Brady Ellison Brady Ellison got a first and second round bye as he ranked 3rd after qualification. He then was matched against Wei Shaoxuan (35) from China and beat him 6-4. In the 4th round Brady lost to Steve Wijler (19) of the Netherlands. Again Brady has not been able to make it to the finals in a while. Jack Williams After ranking 9th after qualification Jack was able to get a first round bye! In the second round he was matched up against Andres Aguilar (57) and beat him 6-0. Third round Jack faced off against Crispin Duenas (24) and also beat him 6-0. In the fourth round Jack upset Li Jialun (8) from China winning 7-3. In the Quarterfinals Jack lost against Ryan Tyack (16) 1-7. Overall a great result from Jack Williams bumping up his world ranking! Matthew Requa After a first round bye Matthew beat Lucas Daniel (42) from France 7-3 and moved onto the third round where he beat Rick Van Den Oever (55) 6-0. In the fourth round Matthew lost against Thomas Chirault (7) 3-7. Thomas Stanwood Thomas got a first round bye but ended up loosing to Jeff Henckels (33) 3-7 in the second round. Women's Recurve Qualification Round GREAT qualification for the women! All the women seem to be back on form after a bad performance in Antalya. Mackenzie Brown Mackenzie Brown got a first round bye and in the second round beat Mariana Avita (28) from Mexico 6-0. Sadly Mackenzie lost 5-6 in the third round against Ana Maria Rendon (21). Khatuna Lorig Again Khatuna Lorig found it difficult to make it far in the bracket stage after loosing second round to Hayakawa Ren (20) of Japan 4-6. Erin Mickelberry & La Nola Shepherd Well would you look at that! Erin and La Nola got placed against eachother in the first round! Erin Mickelberry ended up winning but only to fall to Deepika Kumari (4) of India 2-6. Men's Recurve Team A 2nd place after qualification for the Men's Recurve Team is pretty great! Well the hype didn't last very long... after a first round win against Saudi Arabia (15) 6-2. We fell to Italy (7) 4-5. Women's Recurve Team A 5th place ranking after qualification is not the worst! We got a nice first round bye and quarter finals ended up beating China (4) 5-3! We moved onto the semi finals and lost to Chinese Taipei (1) 2-6. Mixed Recurve Team A nice 2nd place after qualification is very good! TBDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Badminton 2018 YONEX US Open Men's Singles - Q \ Howard Shu was able to get past the Qualification round by beating 2 opponents! Men's Singles Sadly he lost to Ygor Coelho from Brazil in the first round. Women's Singles Beiwen Zhang (1) was able to make it all the way to the finals of the tournament but ended up loosing to Ui Xuerui of China in the finals. Men's Doubles Our best Men's Doubles team of Phillip and Ryan Chew ended up loosing to Vinson and Bo who lost to Marcus and Chris. Basketball Men's We have a 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) game next week against Mexico on June 28th! Basketball 3x3 Women's 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup Group Stage We ended up 1st in our group which was a HUGE accomplishment as Russia was expected to be first but we ended up beating them 21-13! Knockout Stage Sadly we ended up going out in the Quarter Finals against Italy (8) loosing a close game 14-17. After not competing last year this was a good result coming back. Cycling Road - UCI World Tour Tejay Van Garderen - Tour de Suisse | 37th place (10 points), TL;DR Archery: Men's Singles: All the men did pretty well but Brady still hasn't been able to make it to finals Women's Singles: Great qualification but still can't find our footing in knockout stage Men's Team: Got upset second round after amazing qualification Women's Team: Surprisingly made it to semi finals Mixed Team: TBD Badminton: Beiwen Zhang is our only good player Basketball 3x3: Women's team made it to quarterfinals loosing to Italy

Both most recent seasons of Homeland and The Americans are AMAZING!

Just started watching the Mediterranean Games! Trying to figure out which country to root for...

July 7th Pool B: France (6) 19 - 9 Argentina (18) Kazakhstan (9) 14 - 16 Switzerland (14) Argentina (18) 10 - 9 Kazakhstan (9) China (1) 16 -14 France (6) China (1) 21 - 20 Switzerland (14) Pool B Standings after 5 Games: 1) China (2-0) 2) Switzerland (1-1) 3) France (1-1) 4) Argentina (1-1) 5) Kazakhstan (0-2) July 8th Pool D: Netherlands (4) 21 - 11 Philippines (20) Germany (11) 12 - 18 Spain (12) Hungary (3) 20 - 14 Netherlands (4) Hungary (3) 14 - 19 Spain (12) Philippines (20) 10 - 12 Germany (11) Pool D Standings after 5 Games: 1) Spain (2-0) 2) Netherlands (1-1) 3) Hungary (1-1) 4) Germany (1-1) 5)Philippines (0-2) Pool C: Russia (5) 22 - 8 Uganda (19) Iran (10) 7 - 21 United States (13) Uganda (19) 18 - 10 Iran (10) Andorra (2) 9 - 21 Russia (5) Will be updating as games happen today!

Week in Summer #8 - United States May 28th - June 3rd Archery No Archery news this week! The 2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 3 (Salt Lake City) starts on June 18th! These are the world rankings for our top 6 archers! Brady Ellison - 2nd Jake Kaminski - 39th Zach Garret - 55th Mackenzie Brown - 10th Khatuna Lorig - 58th La Nola Shepherd - 147th Badminton No Badminton competition this week but we are getting ready for the 2018 Yonex US Open which is June 12th - 17th which will feature many American archers! Basketball We have a 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) game this month against Mexico on June 28th! Cycling Road - UCI World Tour No events took place this week but we have the Criterium du Dauphine on June 3rd - 10th! Mountain Bike - UCI World Cup No news or events took place this week either but next week is the Val di Sole! Synchronized Swimming This week was the 2018 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series - #7 in Surrey BC! In the Duet Free we placed 8th place which is expected because our duet team is not the strongest! NOTE: Pretty quiet week for Team USA! But As the summer comes around more and more sports will be starting their leagues and such! Still trying to update my worksheet for everysport!

Week in Summer #7 - United States April 29th - May 28th Archery 2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 2 (Antalya) Men's Recurve Qualification Round Brady, Jack, and Matthew Requa all improved their qualification scores from Shanghai! This was 19 year old Matthew Nofel first ever Archery World Cup and placing 79th in qualification is great! Bracket Round - Brady Ellison Brady Ellison was able to get a first round & second round bye as he ranked 4th after the qualification round. In the third round he was up against Sanzhar Mussayev (29) and ended up loosing 6-5. This was a pretty big upset as Brady should be making it to the semi-finals or finals in the World Cup. Bracket Round - Jack Williams Jack Williams was up against Polish Archer Slawomir Naploszek (75) and ended up winning that match. Next Jack played against Xu Tianyu (27) and won the second round match up aswell! In the third round Crispin Duenas (6) was up against Jack and ended up beating Jack 7-3. Making it to the 3rd round is an improvement for Jack as he went out of Shanghai in the second round. Bracket Round - Matthew Requa Matthew started first round against Ben Adriaensen (55) and upset him in the first round. In the second round Matthew was up against Furukawa Takharu (10) from Japan and ended up loosing 3-7. Bracket Round - Matthew Nofel Matthew Nofel lost first round against Wei Shaoxuan (34) of China. Men's Recurve Team We ended up ranked 8th after the qualification round like in Shanghai, which let us get a 1st round bye in the bracket stage. After our Bye round we got matched up against Chinese Taipei (9) losing to them 6-2. Sadly we exited the tournament in the second round which is worse than Shanghai in which there we made it to the Quarterfinal. Women's Recurve Qualification Round Both Khatuna Lorig and Mackenzie Brown both had worse qualification scores than Shanghai. We had two new archers Amy Jung and Danielle Park join us in the World Cup! Bracket Round - Mackenzie Brown Mackenzie Brown had a very bad first round getting upset by Olivia Hodgson (80) from New Zealand. Bracket Round - Khatuna Lorig Khatuna Lorig again got upset first round by Natalia Lesniak (81) from Poland. Bracket Round - Danielle Park Danielle Park sadly didn't bean Alicia Marin (25) from Spain. Bracket Round - Amy Jung Lastly, Amy Jung lost 1-7 to Viktoria Budaeva (28) from Russia. Women's Recurve Team After the qualification Round we beat Team Ukraine (17) 5-4, and advanced to the 2nd round where we played Korea (1) and lost to them 0-6. Mixed Recurve Team Our Mixed Recurve Team performed worse than we did in Shanghai. After qualification round we ranked 9th (better than Shanghai 11th). First round was against IR Iran (24) and we beat them 5-1. Second round we faced against Germany (8th) and lost 5-3. Archery Overview: Very disappointing results from everyone in Stage 2 of the Archery World Cup. Hopefully we can pull it together for Stage 3! Badminton Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Open 2018 Women's Singles Crystal Pan competed in this tournament but sadly lost in the first round. Some good news came as Beiwen Zhang has qualified in Phase 2 for the TOTAL BWF World Championships for Team USA! Basketball 3x3 Women's This is the our group for the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup which starts on June 8th! Water Polo We were able to come up on top of our group which means we are headed to the Super Final which starts mid June! NOTE: Sorry I was absent for a whole entire month, I was gone for 2 weekends in Eastern Washington so I had no access to PC while I was there. Only 3 weeks till summer then the posts should be at regular times every Sunday.

Week in Summer #6 - United States April 15th - April 29th Archery 2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 1 (Shanghai) Men's Recurve Qualification Round The Qualification Round went great for Brady Ellison placing 3rd behind him was his teammates Jack Williams (54th), Matthew Requa (68th) and Thomas Standwood (87th). Bracket Round - Matthew Requa At the top of the Bracket Matthew Requa (68) got placed against Oibek Saidiyev (45) and ended up winning which was a great upset for him! The next round he got placed against Zurab Mestvirishvili (93) and ended up winning that match 6-2! Moving onto the 3rd round Matthew got paired up against Mateusz Ogrodowczyk (61) and upset him in a close match with a final score of 6-5. On the 4th Round Matthew got placed against Taylor Worth (4) and ended up loosing 4-6 overall it was a good finish for Matthew as he was ranked 68 after qualification round. Bracket Round - Brady Ellison Brady Ellison got a first and second round bye as he was ranked 3rd after qualification round. In the 3rd round he faced against Faith Bozlar (78) and won that match 6-2. On the 4th round Brady won against Denis Gankin (19) 6-5 in a very close match. Moving onto the Quarter Finals Brady played against Mauro Nespoli (22) and won again 6-5. In the Semi finals Brady was against Lee Woo Seok (2) and won 6-5! Moving onto the finals Brady Ellison played against Kim Woojin (1) and endded up loosing 6-2 overall it was a very good showing from Brady and he ended up getting the silver medal! Bracket Round - Jack Williams Jack started out his bracket stage run going against Yuriy Havelko (59) and won that match. Sadly, Jack lost the 2nd round match against Steve Wijler (11) 5-6. Bracket Round - Thomas Stanwood Thomas lost his first round match up against Kuraya Tomoaki (26) of Japan Men's Recurve Team We ended up with a 8th after the qualification round which let us get a 1st round bye in the bracket stage. After our Bye round we got matched up against Italy (9) beating them 5-4! After that we had the hardest match as we played #1 ranked Korea loosing 0-6 Women's Recurve Qualification Round We didn't have the best of Qualification Round for the Women but we can only go up from here! Our highest ranked was Khatuna Lorig with 43rd! Bracket Round - Mackenzie Brown Our currently highest ranked archer Mackenzie Brown had to face Celmence Tellier (64) first round and ended up winning 7-1. In the 2nd round Mackenzie got beat by Kawanaka Kaori 0-6. This was not the best of Mackenzie's performances so hopefully the stage of World Cup she can improve! Bracket Round - Khatuna Lorig Khatuna Lorig also had an underwhelming performance as she got knocked out 1st round by Luiza Saidiyeva (70) 3-7. Bracket Round - La Nola Shepherd La Nola also didn't do well as she got beat 1st round by Alexandra Longova (42) Bracket Round - Erin Mickelberry Lastly, Erin Mickelberry got upset by Alicia Marin (50) 1-7! Women's Recurve Team Somehow our Women's Team actually put on a good show so something good came out of them! We got ranked 19th which is not the best but ended up beating Russia and Georgia! Mixed Recurve Team Our Mixed Recurve Team also performed quite well we ended the qualification round ranked 11th and 1st round beat Thailand (22) 5-4. In the 2nd round we also beat China (6) 6-2! 3rd round we did a great upset against India (3)! Sadly though we lost the Semifinal to Turkey and the bronze medal match against Indonesia! Either way we proved our Mixed Team can compete quite well! Badminton Pan Am Badminton Championship Men's Doubles Great to see Ryan and Phillip Chew competing again and they did great! They made it to the finals but ended up loosing to team Canada. Basketball Women's The USA Women's National Team beat China 83-46 in a Seattle Exhibition match! NOTE: Had 5 tests last week so last Sunday I was studying so I didn't have time for this, currently I've got a massive stomach ache so I tried to do this quickly so sorry there are not many sports on here this week but wanted to get this up nontheless to make sure you guys know I didn't quit doing these! See you next Sunday!

Insane race!

Week in Summer #5 - United States April 8th - April 15th Archery No Archery news this week were just waiting for the 2018 Archery World Cup to start on April 23rd! Badminton No major Badminton events took place this week Baseball No Baseball news or events this week Basketball Women's The USA Women's National Team is set to face China in Exhibition Game on April 26th in Seattle! Prior to the April 26th game the USA team will train on the 24th and 25th in preparation for the 2018 FIBA World Cup which will be in Sept. 22-30 in Spain. Here is the 2018-20 USA Basketball Women's National Team Cycling Road - UCI World Tour Men's Amstel Gold Race We just had one major finish this race with Lawson Craddock finishing in 9th place earning 100 points moving him to 666th place in the World Ranking and 96th in the UCI World Tour Ranking! Women's Amstel Gold Race Alexis Ryan one of our current best Road cycler competed in this event and placed 5th giving her 85 points and moving her up 3 spots to 10th place in the Women's World Tour Rankings, and to 29th place in the World Rankings! Here is an update on where our USA Women stand in the Road World Rankings. Canoe No news this week I hate the USA Canoe website so difficult to find information! Diving Still waiting for the 3rd stage of the FINA Diving World Series to start back up in Montreal on April 27-29! Field Hockey Women's The Women's team completed their final match of their test series against 15 ranked Chile with a 1-1 tie. The Women's team will travel to Tucuman, Argentina from June 10-17 for a five-game test series against the host country as their final preparation before the Women's Hockey World Cup in London in July! Water Polo No news this week NOTE: Back from vacation, in the next two weeks there will be much more events I think because of the commonwealth games there was a pause in lots of the events!