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Early thoughts on Team Poland. A little bit more than 200 athletes. Around 10-12 medals, I would say 3 golds. Maybe 4 if there is a one big surprise like 50km race walk in Tokyo. By now, biggest chances for these 3 gold medals would be Tennis - Women’s Singles, Sports Climbing - Women’s Speed and Athletics - Men’s Hammer Throw. Other medal chances by now: Athletics - Women’s 4x400m Relay and maybe one more in athletics somewhere (Maybe Adrianna Sułek in heptathlon, hard to say). Swimming - Women’s 50m Freestyle 1 or 2 medals in rowing and canoe each We usually get at least one medal in combat sports and there is always at least one medal from an underdog, totally unexpected Men’s Volleyball - I won’t talk about medal here this time. Let them go through QFs first. I hope men’s handball team will improve and qualify, which will be hard already, not expecting medal here. Biggest fun for me personally would be a gold for Iga (which means her career would not only be a two-seasons fun), a medal in swimming (first since 2004), first Polish gold in canoe and/or cycling (we never had it but it will be extremely hard to get one) and good performances by our men’s volleyball and handball teams. If Patryk Dobek proves that he can perform well in 800m again, that would be great fun as well. Or any other of our 800m runners. An unexpected medal in athletics from a new, young athlete would be nice. Hard to guess who could do it though. And Anita Włodarczyk… Never underestimate the heart of a champion, they say… We will see.

Looking at the draft schedule we already got and trying to find out which events will be on particular days. Not an easy task in many cases though. Firstly, it is hard to say if there will be women’s or men’s rugby 7s first.

Anyone knows when the detailed Paris 2024 schedule - event by event, session by session - may be published? I don’t remember how it was for previous Games.

I have a feeling that it may be the end of Iga streak. Either today with Cornet or on Monday with Tomljanovic. But as all my predictions here are constantly wrong, I hope my own streak will continue…

Voting in this one ends tomorrow.

This is "interesting" that ATP and WTA decided to strip Wimbledon of its ranking points but that didn't stop them from putting awfully lot of Wimbledon news on both ATP and WTA official Facebook and Instagram accounts. Clickbites, I know. What a wonderful world. Am I surprised? No. There is another word for that.

Five Polish players in women’s singles 2nd round. I don’t think it has ever happened in the Grand Slam before. Nice. Very sad about Hurkacz loss though.

Hubert Hurkacz: I’d like to announce that starting tomorrow I am pledging to donate 100 euros for every ace I hit at Wimbledon to help support the people of Ukraine. Hope my serve works well! 🇺🇦#acesforaid

Sure. But I meant - it will be hard to watch the most interesting athletics finals LIVE. It is not so simple for me anymore to wake up at 3 or 4 a.m. to watch sports live like I did in the university times. Lots of work during the day… need to have some rest first.

I would prefer to watch some more swimming WCH… But swimming has ended 😞 so it is time to enjoy beautiful weather today outdoor. Maybe a bit of volleyball POL vs USA later on. And next in the line-up - business as usual - Wimbledon, F1, Tour de France and athletics WCH.

Poll #26. These are olympic champions in certain events. Imagine that all these champions are on the top of their game at the very same moment in time. Who would have won gold? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_table_tennis#Teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_table_tennis#Teams_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_taekwondo#Flyweight_(58_kg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_athletics_(women)#Pole_vault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_cycling_(women)#Sprint,_individual

Maybe you're right that these worlds were not as exciting as some previous ones, and they were very badly promoted, but still now when they're finished I already miss the competition. Good thing was that you could watch them on Polish tv and internet live, very easily. Two medals for Poland, one of them in an olympic event, couldn't ask for more. Some great races, men's 4x100 medley was the most fun for me. Some controversies, as always. But some great swims as well. I regret the most that we couldn't watch Chalmers vs Popovici in 100 free final. But maybe next time. Now waiting for Eugene... But that won't be so easy to watch due to 9-hours time difference...

Updated after Event #100 (Poll #25).

Updated after Event #100 (Poll #25).

Results: CANOE SPRINT - Women's K4 500m 1. Hungary 2. Germany 3. Romania CYCLING TRACK - Men's Team Sprint 1. Great Britain 2. Netherlands 3. France FENCING - Women's Team Sabre 1. Estonia 2. France 3. Russia SWIMMING - Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay 1. United States 2. France 3. Australia (T) SWIMMING - Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay 1. Australia 2. United States 3. Netherlands Thanks for voting!

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And a first small success for Team Poland. No repeat from Tokyo. This time half of a team didn’t have to head back home before the competition even started. 💪

That was very entertaining. Hope the next days will be even better. Congrats, Canada! And I wonder if Marchand gets gold for France on first day in Paris 2024. Hopefully he can keep this form for next two years and maybe still improve.

Welcome to Budapest!

My picks for today, probably all wrong. M 400 free - 1. Lukas Martens GER W 400 free - 1. Katie Ledecky USA M 400 IM - 1. Carson Foster USA W 4x100 free - 1. Australia but USA close 2nd M 4x100 free - I would like Australia to win but it will probably be USA unless some DSQ

Maciej Bonecki was the best. I would like to have his commentary this year too, but what can we do...

Obviously these entries are not updated - Duncan Scott pulled out but he's still included here.

Entries book https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001170000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF20.pdf

Entry lists https://www.fina.org/competitions/2902/19th-fina-world-championships-budapest-2022/results?discipline=SW&disciplines=&event=c91d1111-4699-4ed4-9e80-6c967a13e130

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Mack Horton x Elijah Winnington x Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens x Daniel Jervis Marco De Tullio Danas Rapsys Ahmed Hafnaoui Trey Freeman Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister Summer McIntosh x Li Bingjie Tang Muhan x Isabel Gose Waka Kobori Miyu Namba Erika Fairweather Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 1 June 18th 2022 Brendon Smith Wang Shun Leon Marchand Duncan Scott Brodie Williams Alberto Razzetti Tomoru Honda Daiya Seto x Lewis Clareburt Jeremy Desplanches Carson Foster x Chase Kalisz x Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia x Brazil China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy x Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia x Canada x China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 June 19th 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook Felipe Franca Silva Joao Luiz Gomes Yan Zibei Lucas Matzerath Fabian Schwingenschloegl James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi x Ryuya Mura Andrius Sidlauskas Arno Kamminga x Michael Andrew Nic Fink x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Brianna Throssell Lana Pudar Katarine Savard Zhang Yufei x Emilie Beckmann Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Elena Di Liddo Louise Hansson Claire Curzan x Torri Huske x Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Gabriel Santos Nicholas Santos x Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou Benjamin Proud Szebastian Szabo x Naoki Mizunuma Nyls Korstanje Thomas Verhoeven Diogo Ribeiro Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 June 19th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Mary-Sophie Harvey Sydney Pickrem Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu Anastasia Gorbenko Yui Ohashi Rika Omoto Kristen Romano Maria Ugolkova Leah Hayes x Alex Walsh x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Zac Incerti Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens x Thomas Dean x Duncan Scott Katsuhiro Matsumoto Hwang Sunwoo Danas Rapsys David Popovici Drew Kibler Kieran Smith x Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Moesha Johnson Lani Pallister x Kristel Kobrich Li Bingjie Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Simona Quadarella x Miyu Namba Merve Tuncel Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse Taylor Ruck Emma Terebo Medi Harris Anastasia Gorbenko Kira Toussaint Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson Claire Curzan x Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia Xu Jiayu x Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Mewen Tomac Luke Greenbank Apostolos Christou Thomas Ceccon Ryosuke Irie Robert Glinta Hunter Armstrong x Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Yu Jingyao Tang Qianting Ida Hulkko Anna Elendt Arianna Castiglioni Benedetta Pilato x Reona Aoki x Kotryna Teterevkova Tatjana Schoenmaker Lara Van Niekerk Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Samuel Short Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Any Chinese Athlete Lukas Martens x Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Any Italian Athlete Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk Charlie Clark Bobby Finke x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan x Madi Wilson Summer McIntosh Penny Oleksiak Tang Muhan x Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Charlotte Bonnet Freya Anderson Siobhan Haughey x Leah Smith Claire Weinstein Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 June 21st 2022 Leonardo De Deus Chen Juner Wang Kuan-Hung Leon Marchand James Guy Tamas Kenderesi Kristof Milak x Tomoru Honda x Krzysztof Chmielewski Chad Le Clos Noe Ponti Trenton Julian Luca Urlando x Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 June 21st 2022 Joao Gomes Caio Pumputis Lucas Matzerath James Wilby x Itay Goldfaden Simone Cerasuolo Nicolo Martinenghi Jan Kozakiewicz Huseyin Sakci Michael Andrew x Nic Fink x Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 June 21st 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands South Africa Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Elizabeth Dekkers Lana Pudar Summer McIntosh x Zhang Yufei x Zhu Jiaming Laura Stephens Katinka Hosszu Boglarka Kapas Kina Hayashi Ana Monteiro Hali Flickinger x Regan Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Any Australian Athlete Maxime Grousset Rafael Miroslaw Lewis Burras Tom Dean Nandor Nemeth Alessandro Miressi x Hwang Sunwoo David Popovici x Andrej Barna Brooks Curry Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Bronte Job Kylie Masse x Ingrid Wilm Mimosa Jallow Analia Pigree x Medi Harris Silvia Scalia Maaike De Waard Kira Toussaint Katharine Berkoff x Regan Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Finlay Knox Wang Shun x Leon Marchand Tom Dean Duncan Scott Daiya Seto x Lewis Clareburt Tomoe Hvas Matthew Sates Hugo Gonzalez Jeremy Desplanches Carson Foster x Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada x China x Hong Kong Hungary Italy Japan Sweden United States Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan x Shayna Jack x Penny Oleksiak Kayla Sanchez Yang Junxuan Zhang Yufei Marie Wattel Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey x Sarah Sjostrom Claire Curzan Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Jenna Strauch Kelsey Wog Yu Jingyao x Molly Renshaw Abbie Wood Francesca Fangio Kotryna Teterevkova Kaylene Corbett Tatjana Schoenmaker Sophie Hansson Lisa Mamie Kate Douglass x Lilly King x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Joshua Edwards-Smith Mitch Larkin Xu Jiayu Any French Athlete Luke Greenbank x Adam Telegdy Ryosuke Irie Radoslaw Kawecki Pieter Coetze Oleksander Zheltyakov Shaine Casas x Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook x Qin Haiyang Matti Mattsson James Wilby Yu Hanaguruma x Ryuya Mura Dmitriy Balandin Caspar Corbeau Arno Kamminga x Erik Persson Nic Fink Charlie Swanson Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Australia x Brazil China Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan United States x Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Zhang Yufei Emilie Beckmann Farida Osman Melanie Henique x Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson Sara Junevik Claire Curzan x Torri Huske x Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Bruno Fratus x Joshua Liendo Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou Lewis Burras Benjamin Proud x Kristian Gkolomeev Thomas De Boer Jesse Puts Any Polish Athlete Bjoern Seeliger Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Matthew Temple Josif Miladinov Joshua Liendo James Guy Kristof Milak x Szebastian Szabo Federico Burdisso Katsuhiro Matsumoto Naoki Mizunuma Jakub Majerski x Noe Ponti Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Katalin Burian Dora Molnar Anastasia Gorbenko Margherita Panziera Phoebe Bacon x Rhyan White x Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister x Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie x Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Ajna Kesely Simona Quadarella Any Japanese Athlete Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 7 June 24th 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada x China France Great Britain Hungary Japan Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Isaac Cooper x Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Ole Braunschweig Apostolos Christou Any Italian Athlete Ryosuke Irie Andrew Jeffcoat Ksawery Masiuk Robert Glinta Pieter Coetze Hugo Gonzalez Hunter Armstrong x Justin Ress x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Chelsea Hodges Jhennifer Conceicao Ida Hulkko Anastasia Gorbenko Arianna Castiglioni x Benedetta Pilato x Reona Aoki Ruta Meilutyte Tatjana Schoenmaker Lara Van Niekerk Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Lukas Martens x Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Akos Kalmar Daniel Wiffen Gregorio Paltrinieri Henrik Christiansen Ahmed Hafnaoui Sergii Frolov Mykhailo Romanchuk Charlie Clark Bobby Finke x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Meg Harris Shayna Jack x Any Chinese Athlete Melanie Henique Marie Wattel Anna Hopkin Any Dutch Athlete Katarzyna Wasick x Sarah Sjostrom x Erika Brown Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 June 25th 2022 Jenna Forrester Tessa Cieplucha Summer McIntosh x Ge Chutong Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu x Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Yui Ohasi x Ageha Tanigawa Deniz Ertan Katie Grimes Emma Weyant Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia x Canada x China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United States x Any Other Nation [/hide]