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@Josh any thoughts on Day 3? @MagyarBabu any thoughts on Days 2 & 3???

Yes, injury. https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/nina-derwael-gymnastics-world-championships-injury

It is so sad Nina Derwael is not here at home WCH.

Romania is back!!! I hope that's enough for W team to go to Paris!!!!!!!!!

So what about predictions for remaining quotas???

Updated after Event #225 (Poll #51).

Updated after Event #225 (Poll #51).

Results WRESTLING FREESTYLE - Women's Flyweight 1. Yui Susaki JPN 2. Iryna Merleni UKR 3. Carol Hyunh CAN 3. Hitomi Obara JPN (T) * WRESTLING FREESTYLE - Women's Heavyweight 1. Aline Rotter-Focken GER (T) 2. Erica Wiebe CAN (T) 3. Wang Xu CHN 3. Natalia Vorobieva RUS SAILING - Men's Sailboard (Windsurfing) 1. Dorian van Rijsselberghe NED 2. Nikolaos Kaklamanakis GRE 3. Gal Fridman ISR (T) SAILING - Women's Sailboard (Windsurfing) 1. Alessandra Sensini ITA 2. Charline Picon FRA (T) 3. Barbara Kendall NZL (T) WEIGHTLIFTING - Women's Flyweight 1. Hou Zhihui CHN 2. Sopita Tanasan THA (T) 3. Wang Mingjuan CHN (T) * Thanks for voting!

That was a tough one for Fiji. Glad they’ve won but TV here says a penalty before the kick for 10-9 was not correct. And this moment was gamechanger. anyway, looks like Flying Fijians will go to QFs!!!

Maybe Aneta Staniewicz in Air Rifle (she's currently 10th in world ranking) or Sandra Bernal in W skeet (16th)

I’m afraid there will be noone in boxing, i think we get one or two more quotas in shooting and i strongly believe W handball team will make it to Paris somehow. And basically, that’s it. Natan is one of my fav athletes so i hope he goes to Paris in single sculls but it’s rather wishful thinking i know. You made a great analyzis here. You should send it to Przegląd Sportowy or sth and they should print it immediately!

I didn’t know that!!! oh i book a flight for tomorrow then! Are they open on Sunday heh??? High jump is the best thing in sport for me. nothing can beat that

Go Fiji!!!

Day 3, Mon, 29.07 28. ARCHERY - M Team 29. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Team 30. CANOE SLALOM - M C1 31. DIVING - M Synchro 10m Platform 32. EQUESTRIAN - Eventing Team 33. EQUESTRIAN - Eventing Individual 34. FENCING - M Foil Ind 35. FENCING - W Sabre Ind 36. JUDO - W -57kg 37. JUDO - M -73kg 38. MOUNTAIN BIKE - M Cross-country 39. SHOOTING - M Air Rifle 40. SHOOTING - W Air Rifle 41. SWIMMING - W 400m IM 42. SWIMMING - M 200m Free 43. SWIMMING - M 100m Back 44. SWIMMING - W 100m Breast 45. SWIMMING - W 200m Free

My medal table after Day 2 (27 events) 4-2-2---8 4-1-3---8 4-1-2---7 4-1-1---6 2-6-1---9 1-4-3---8 1-0-1---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-1---2 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 0-2-1---3 0-2-1---3 0-1-1---2 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-0-2---2 0-0-2---2 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1

Maybe she can make a huge surprise and qualify for Paris in an individual European Quali Tournament. I will be watching her...

Day 2, Sun 28.07 15. ARCHERY - W Team 1. Korea Rep. 2. Germany 3. China Korea back to where they belong. 16. CANOE SLALOM - W K1 1. Jessica Fox AUS 2. Klaudia Zwolińska POL 3. Eliska Mintalova SVK First Polish medal in Paris. Jessica Fox is well ahead of the rest, but Klaudia gets her silver with a small time differences between other 5 athletes. 17. FENCING - M Epee Ind 1. Mate Tamas Koch HUN 2. Davide Di Veroli ITA 3. Romain Cannone FRA First gold for Hungary, 2023 WCH results once again. 18. FENCING - W Foil Ind 1. Alice Volpi ITA 2. Lee Kiefer USA 3. Arianna Errigo ITA Volpi gets a first gold in Italy but after much closer contest in the final vs Kiefer than expected. 19. JUDO - W -52kg 1. Uta Abe JPN 2. Amandine Buchard FRA 3. Diyora Keldiyorova UZB 3. Distria Krasniqi KOS Uta Abe defends her olympic crown quite easily. 20. JUDO - M -66kg 1. Hifumi Abe JPN 2. Denis Vieru MDA 3. Walide Khyar FRA 3. An Ba-ul KOR Abe family gets two golds one day yet again. 21. MOUNTAIN BIKE - W Cross-country 1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot FRA 2. Puck Pieterse NED 3. Mona Mitterwallner AUT Ferrand-Prevot gets gold only after great final lap for her. 22. SHOOTING - M Air Pistol 1. Damir Mikec SRB 2. Zhan Boweng CHN 3. Ismail Keles TUR WCH 2023 1-2 reversed this time. 23. SHOOTING - W Air Pistol 1. Jiang Ranxin CHN 2. Anna Korakaki GRE 3. Olena Kostevych UKR A first medal for Ukraine here!!! Klaudia Breś sadly 6th. 24. SKATEBOARDING - W Street 1. Rayssa Leal BRA 2. Momji Nisihiya JPN 3. Chloe Covell AUS Brazil gets gold for one of their nicest athletes these days. 25. SWIMMING - M 400m IM 1. Leon Marchand FRA 2. Carson Foster USA 3. Daiya Seto JPN French go mad as Marchand gets his 1st gold here. 26. SWIMMING - W 100m Fly 1. Torri Huske USA 2. Zhang Yufei CHN 3. Margaret Macneil CAN All 3 medalists within 0.1 sec here. Last stroke is decisive, that's butterfly you know... 27. SWIMMING - M 100m Breast 1. Qin Haiyang CHN 2. Nicolo Martinenghi ITA 3. Arno Kamminga NED Chinese well ahead.

Nice choices for as well. On the other hand, I really hope Gili Kuritzky will make it to Paris in fencing. I really liked her performance in Euro Games in Kraków and I follow her career now. Not a flag bearer in Paris yet, maybe she could raise your flag proudly in LA 2028???

Anyway, here in Poland we say being a flag bearer can be a kind of curse.

The same here. But quite often they pick the real medal chances but then they fail to get a medal. Agnieszka Radwańska, London 2012, first one I think of. She lost in the opening round, and a moment earlier she was in the final on the same Wimbledon court. But nevermind, I must admit that some of Radwańska matches were much more emotional for me than Świątek. I wonder why, maybe because she was the first. It's like Adam Małysz vs Kamil Stoch...

I wonder how it is in your country but in Poland we say: The flag bearer won't make it to the medal. In recent editions Polish flag bearers were usually well-picked (imho) but they failed to get a medal almost every time.

@thiago_simoes are you watching??? early thoughts?

Cape Town 2040 would be grat for me as well. The same timezone, easy to follow. Yep, European Games was bad (from what i've seen on tv), Athletics WCH in Budapest were simply great (from a fan's perspective, been there, an awesome experience) Budapest olympics with different political situation there and all across Central Europe - well... i would love it

From what i've seen I would say Barcelona 1992 olympics museum in Montjuic but i haven't been to Lausanne yet. What's your recommendations?

And i still hope we will have 2 riders in men’s road cycling…