rafalgorka

@Josh some very very interesting predictions from You for days 13 and 14 here, i will come back to it after work

Day 13 (August 8, 2024)
 
Athletics- Women’s Long Jump
Gold-  Ivana Vuleta
Silver-  Malaika Mihambo
Bronze-  Ese Brume
 
First medal for Nigeria at Paris! Despite having two excellent long jumpers in Quandesha Burks and Tara Davis Woodhall, US miss out on the podium. 
 
Athletics- Men’s Javelin Throw
Gold-  Jakub Vadlejch 
Silver-  Neeraj Chopra
Bronze-  Julian Weber
 
Vadlejch overtakes Chopra by 0.07m on his 6th round attempt. Finland’s Oliver Helander 4th. 
 
Athletics- Men’s 200m
Accidentally switches the men’s 100m and 200m. 100m was on Day 9, instead did the 200m. 

I’ll do the 100m now, and then switch it when I do my updated predictions. 
 
Gold-  Fred Kerley
Silver-  Zharnel Hughes
Bronze-  Akani Simbine
 
Athletics- Women’s 400m Hurdles
Gold-  Sydney McLaughlin
Silver-  Femke Bol
Bronze-  Janieve Russell
 
Athletics- Men’s 110m Hurles
Gold-  Hansle Parchment
Silver-  Grant Holloway
Bronze-  Rasheed Broadbell
 
Boxing- Women’s 54kg
Gold-  Hatice Akbas 
Silver-  Lenuta Perijoc
 
First gold medal for Turkey at Paris!
 
Boxing- Women’s 75kg
Bronze-  Atheyna Bylon
Bronze-  Lovlina Boroghain
 
First medal for Panama at Paris!
 
Boxing- Men’s 51kg
Gold-  Hasanboy Dusmatov
Silver-  Billal Bennama
 
Boxing- Men’s 57kg
Bronze-  Abdumalik Khalokov
Bronze-  Jahmal Harvey
 
Canoe Sprint- Men’s C2-500m
Gold-  Germany (Peter Kreschmer/Tim Hecker)
Silver-  Spain (Cayetano Garcia/Pablo Martinez)
Bronze-  China (Liu Hao/Ji Bowen)
 
Canoe Sprint- Men’s K4-500m
Gold-  Germany (Max Rendschmidt/Tom Liebscher/Jacob Schopf/Max Lemke)
Silver- Hungary (Bence Nádas/Kolos Csizmadia/István Kuli/Sándor Tótka)
Bronze-  Spain (Saúl Craviotto/Carlos Arévalo/Marcus Walz/Rodrigo Germade)
 
Canoe Sprint- Women’s C2-500m
Gold-  China (Xu Shixiao/Sun Mengya)
Silver-  Cuba (Yarisladis Cirilo/Katherin Segura)
Bronze-  Canada (Katie Vincent/Sloan MacKenzie) 
 
Canoe Sprint- Women’s K4-500m
Gold-  Poland (Karolina Naja/Anna Puławska/Adrianna Kakol/Dominika Putto)
Silver-  New Zealand (Lisa Carrington/Alice Hoskin/Tara Vaughan/Olivia Brett)
Bronze-  Australia (Ella Beere/Alyssa Bull/Alexandra Clarke/Yale Steinepreis)
 
Diving- Men’s 3m Springboard
Gold-  Wang Zongyuan
Silver-  Cao Yuan
Bronze-  Osmar Olvera
 
Field Hockey- Men’s Tournament
Gold-  Netherlands
Silver-  Germany
Bronze-  Belgium
 
Australia 4th. Great Britain, Argentina, and India all bow out in the quarterfinals. 
 
Football- Men’s Tournament
Bronze- Argentina
 
Argentina beats Spain 2-1 (3) through shootout. GOAT Messi (argue with a wall) with the 68’ minute goal for Argentina along with the game winning shootout goal. 
 
Sailing- Men’s Kite
Gold-  Axel Mazella
Silver-  Maximilian Maeder
Bronze-  Toni Vodišek
 
First medal for Singapore at Paris!
 
Sailing- Women’s Kite
Gold-  Daniela Moroz
Silver-  Lauriane Nolot
Bronze-  Eleanor Aldridge
 
Sport Climbing- Men’s Speed
Gold-  Veddriq Leonardo
Silver-  Wu Peng
Bronze-  Matteo Zurloni
 
China’s Long Jingbao 4th. 
 
Swimming- Women’s 10km Open Water
Gold-  Ana Marcela Cunha
Silver-  Sharon Van Rouwendaal
Bronze-  Oceane Cassignol
 
No medal for Germany’s Leonie Beck. 
 
Taekwondo- Women’s 57kg
Gold-  Luo Zongshi
Silver-  Lo Chia Ling
Bronze-  Skylar Park
Bronze-  Jade Jones
 
5th for Hungary’s Luana Marton and Iran’s Nahid Kiyani. 
 
Taekwondo- Men’s 68kg
Gold-  Bradley Siden
Silver-  Jin Ho Jun
Bronze-  Ulugbek Rashitov
Bronze-  Zaid Kareem
 
First medal for Jordan at Paris! 5th for Turkey’s Hackan Recber and United State’s Khalfani Harris. 
 
Track Cycling- Men’s Omnium
Gold-  Ethan Hayter
Silver-  Elia Viviani 
Bronze-  Benjamin Thomas
 
Canada’s Dylan Bibic 4th (lol)
 
Track Cycling- Women’s Keirin
Gold-  Ellesse Andrews
Silver-  Lea Friedrich 
Bronze-  Emma Finucane
 
Colombia’s Martha Bayona Pineda 4th. 
 
Weightlifting- Women’s 59kg
Gold-  Yenny Alvarez
Silver-  Kuo Hsing-Chun
Bronze-  Kamila Konotop
 
Weightlifting- Men’s 73kg
Gold-  Weeraphon Wichuma
Silver-  Francisco Mosqueira
Bronze-  Eko Yuli Irawan
 
Wrestling- Men’s 67kg Greco Roman
Gold-  Mohammad Reza Geraei
Silver-  Hasrat Jafarov
Bronze-  Luis Orta
Bronze-  Mate Nemeš
 
Wrestling- Men’s 87kg Greco Roman
Gold-  Ali Cengiz
Silver-  David Losonczi
Bronze-  Semen Novikov
Bronze-  Nursultan Tursynov
 
Internal Hungarian battle between Losonczi and Istvan goes in favor of Losonczi. 
 
Wrestling- Women’s 53kg Freestyle
Gold-  Akari Fujinami
Silver-  Dominique Parrish
Bronze-  Emma Malmgren
Bronze-  Vinesh Phogat (or the other Indian Antim Panghal)
 
Joint 5th for Greece’s Maria Prevolaki, and Ecuador’s Lucia Yepez. 
 
Medal Table After Day 13
 31-27-33– 90
 31-13-17– 61
 13-16-12– 41
 13-8-8– 30
 12-16-16– 44
 12-11-12– 35
 11-10-10– 31
 10-14-16– 40
 10-10-8– 28
 9-3-7– 19
 7-4-5– 16
 5-9-8– 22
 5-4-5– 14
 5-4-3– 12
 4-4-2– 10
 4-2-3– 9
 4-2-2– 8
 3-3-3– 9
 3-3-2– 8
 3-1-1– 5
 2-6-5– 13
 2-4-3– 9
 2-3-3– 8
 2-3-3– 8
 2-3-1– 6
 2-2-5– 9
 2-2-2– 6
 2-2-1– 5
 2-1-4– 7
 2-1-2– 5
 2-1-1– 4
 2-0-2– 4
 2-0-2– 4
 2-0-1– 3
 2-0-0– 2
 2-0-0– 2
 1-4-4– 9
 1-3-6– 10
 1-2-6– 9
 1-2-1– 4
 1-2-1– 4
 1-2-0– 3
 1-1-3– 5
 1-1-2– 4
 1-1-2– 4
 1-0-2– 3
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 0-4-3– 7
 0-3-3– 6
 0-2-4– 6
 0-2-3– 5
 0-2-1– 3
 0-1-5– 6
 0-1-4– 5
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-1– 2
 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
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-0-4– 4
 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
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1

Day 14 (August 9, 2024) (Side note, yes I’m posting this before I’ve finished most of my predictions, because when I did this last night my page refreshed, and all the content went away. Three hours… wasted. )
 
If you’re curious on the rest of my predictions, come back to this thread in around 8 hours and I’ll have the rest of my predictions/updated medal table up hopefully 
 
Athletics- Women’s 4x100m Relay
Gold-  Jamaica
Silver-  United States
Bronze-  Côte D’Ivorie
 
United States and Jamaica way ahead of the rest of the field, but ultimately Jamaica grabs gold. Marie José Ta Lou with a great anchor leg for Côte D’Ivorie to overtake Great Britain for bronze. 
 
Athletics- Women’s Shot Put
Gold-  Chase Ealey
Silver-  Gong Lijiao
Bronze-  Jessica Schlider
 
Chase Ealey way ahead of the rest of the field, with a mark of 21.02m. First time over 21m for Ealey! 
 
Athletics- Men’s 4x100m Relay
Gold-  United States
Silver-  Canada
Bronze-  Jamaica
 
IMO @rafalgorka I think you’re severely underestimating the Canadians, who won gold at last years Worlds, and bronze and silver at the Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the same four (DeGrasse, Brown, Rodney, Blake) athletes. Sure, they failed to advance from prelims at this years Worlds, but that squad was without Andre DeGrasse (our star sprinter) who chose to focus on the men’s 200m final (that happened after) rather than the men’s 4x100m heats. Canada was in a qualification position until the last leg, where Bolade Ajomale (heats runner at best) was something like 0.5s behind the rest of the field (Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but you get my point )
 
Anyways, with Andre DeGrasse back in peak form (no recent 100m time to judge from, but a 19.76 at the DL Final shows he’s definitely back on track) after years plagued by injuries and covid, we should be one of the medal favourites. 
 
Athletics- Women’s 400m
Gold-  Sydney McLaughlin
Silver-  Marileidy Paulino
Bronze-  Sada Williams
 
McLaughlin does the double! First medal for Barbados at Paris! Reigning Olympic Champion Bahama’s Shaunae Miller-Uibo 5th. 
 
Athletics- Men’s Triple Jump
Gold-  Pedro Pichardo
Silver-  Hugues Fabrice Zango
Bronze-  Jaydon Hibbert
 
Reigning Olympic champion strikes gold yet again, for Portugal’s first gold medal at Paris! Best ever result for Burkina Faso at the Olympics! (Previous best was Fabrice Zango who won bronze at Tokyo 2020) 
 
Cuba’s Christian Nápoles 4th, Italy’s Andy Diaz Hernandez 5th, Cuba’s Lázaro Martinez 6th, Will Claye 7th, Yasser Triki 8th. 
 
Athletics- Women’s Heptathlon
Gold-  Anna Hall
Silver-  Nafi Thiam
Bronze-  Anouk Vetter
 
Thiam leads Hall heading into the final event, but Hall with a massive 2:04 low in the 800m to win the gold medal. Both Thiam and Hall record marks over 7,000pts, and are well ahead of the rest of the field. 
 
Athletics- Women’s 10,000m
Gold-  Sifan Hassan
Silver-  Gudaf Tsegay
Bronze-  Letesenbet Gidey
 
After disappointment in the women’s 5,000m, where she failed to podium, Sifan Hassan grabs gold in the women’s 10,000m!
 
Athletics- Men’s 400m Hurdles
Gold-  Karsten Warholm
Silver-  Rai Benjamin
Bronze-  Kyron McMaster
 
First ever Olympic medal for British Virgin Islands!
 
Beach Volleyball- Women’s Tournament (For prediction purposes, I’ll just do women’s first, but the schedule isn’t completely out yet, it could be the men’s medal matches)
 
Gold-  Ana Patricia/Duda
Silver-  Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss
Bronze-  Melissa Humana-Parades/Brandie Wilkerson (probably one of my biggest medal hopes, Canada still hasn’t won an Olympic beach volleyball medal, and we’ve had three women’s teams reach the quarterfinals at Rio 2016/Tokyo 2020)
 
No medal for reigning World champions United States’s Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes (hopefully, I can’t stand Cheng) as they lose 1-2 in the quarterfinals to fellow teammates Kloth/Nuss. 
 
Boxing- Women’s 50kg
Gold-  Buse Cakiroglu
Silver-  Wu Yu
 
Boxing- Women’s 66kg
Gold-  Nikhat Zareen
Silver-  Buse Naz Surmeneli
 
First gold medal for India at Paris!
 
Boxing- Men’s 71kg
Gold-  Aslanbek Shymbergenov
Silver-  Sewon Okazawa
 
First gold medal for Kazakhstan at Paris!
 
Boxing- Men’s 92kg
Gold-  Julio Cesar La Cruz
Silver-  Aziz Abbes Mouhidiine
 
First gold medal for Cuba at Paris!
 
Breaking- “B-Girls”
Gold-  Ami Yuasa
Silver-  Dominika Banevic
Bronze-  Liu Qingyi
 
Canoe Sprint- Men’s C2-500m
Gold-  Hungary (Bence Nádas/Bálint Kopasz)
Silver-  Spain (Adriàn del Río/Rodrigo Germade)
Bronze-  Australia (Jean van der Westhuyzen/Thomas Green)
 
Canoe Sprint- Women’s C1-200m
Gold-  Yarisledis Cirilo
Silver-  Nevin Harrison
Bronze-  Katie Vincent
 
Diving- Women’s 3m Springboard
Gold-  Chen Yiwen
Silver-  Chang Yani
Bronze-  Chiara Pellacani
 
Football- Men’s Tournament
Gold-  France
Silver-  Brazil
 
Football- Women’s Tournament
Bronze-  Australia
 
3-2 win over Canada.  Unfortunately, that means Canada’s streak of Olympic podiums in women’s football ends at three. 
 
Field Hockey- Women’s Tournament
Gold-  Argentina
Silver-  Australia
Bronze-  Netherlands
 
Australia upset Netherlands 2-1 in the semifinals, but Netherlands recovers well to defeat Belgium 4-1 in the bronze medal match. First gold medal for Argentina at Paris!
 
Rhythmic Gymnastics- Women’s Individual All Around
Gold-  Darja Varfolomeev
Silver-  Stiliana Nikolova
Bronze-  Sofia Raffaeli
 
Sport Climbing- Men’s Combined
Gold-  Sorato Anraku
Silver-  Jakob Schubert
Bronze-  Adam Ondra
 
Swimming- Men’s 10km Open Water
Gold-  Domenico Acerenza
Silver-  Florian Wellbrock
Bronze-  Kristof Rasovsky
 
Table Tennis- Men’s Team
Gold-  China
Silver-  Japan
Bronze-  Germany
 
Taekwondo- Men’s 80kg
Gold-  Simone Allessio
Silver-  Richard Ordemann
Bronze-  CJ Nickolas
Bronze-  Seif Essa
 
Taekwondo- Women’s 67kg
Gold-  Magda Wiet-Henin
Silver-  Feruza Sadikova
Bronze-  Caroline Santos
Bronze-  Sarah Chaari
 
Track Cycling- Men’s Sprint
Gold-  Harrie Levreysen 
Silver-  Nicolas Paul
Bronze-  Matthew Richardson
 
Netherland’s Jeffrey Hoogland 4th. First medal for Trinidad and Tobago at Paris!
 
Track Cycling- Women’s Madison
Gold-  France
Silver-  Great Britain 
Bronze-  Belgium
 
Weightlifting- Men’s 89kg
Gold-  Karlos Nasar
Silver-  Li Dayin
Bronze-  Brayan Rodallegas
 
First gold medal for Bulgaria at Paris!
 
Weightlifting- Women’s 71kg
Gold-  Angie Paola Palacios
Silver-  Neama Said
Bronze-  Loredana Elena-Toma
 
No China. First gold medal for Ecuador at Paris!
 
Wrestling- Men’s 57kg Freestyle
Gold-  Stevan Mićić
Silver-  Zelimkhan Abakarov
Bronze-  Thomas Gilman
Bronze-  Süleyman Atli
 
First medal for Albania at Paris! 

Wrestling- Men’s 86kg Freestyle
Gold-  David Taylor
Silver-  Hassan Yasdani
Bronze-  Myles Amine
Bronze-  Javrail Shapiev
 
First medal for San Marino at Paris!
 
Wrestling- Women’s 57kg
Gold-  Tsugumi Sakurai
Silver-  Anzhelina Lysak
Bronze-  Hellen Maroulis
Bronze-  Anastasia Nichita
 
Volleyball- Men’s Tournament
Bronze-  Italy
 
Italy wins bronze in 4 over host-nation France. 
 
 
Medal Table After Day 14
 36-31-36– 103
 33-17-18– 68
 16-16-12– 44
 15-13-12– 40
 14-9-9– 32
 13-11-13– 37
 12-17-15– 44
 12-10-11– 33
 10-15-18– 43
 9-4-9– 22
 8-5-6– 19
 6-4-4– 14
 5-9-8– 22
 5-5-5– 15
 5-2-4– 11
 4-4-2– 10
 4-2-3– 9
 3-4-2– 9
 3-3-4– 10
 3-3-3– 9
 3-3-3– 9
 3-1-1– 5
 2-6-5– 13
 2-5-3– 10
 2-4-3– 9
 2-3-3– 8
 2-2-5– 9
 2-2-5– 9
 2-2-2– 6
 2-2-2– 6
 2-2-1– 5
 2-1-2– 5
 2-1-2– 5
 2-1-1– 4
 2-1-0– 3
 2-0-2– 4
 2-0-1– 3
 2-0-1– 3
 2-0-0– 2
 1-4-8– 13
 1-4-4– 9
 1-3-3– 7
 1-3-2– 6
 1-2-6– 9
 1-2-1– 4
 1-2-1– 4
 1-1-4– 6
 1-1-4– 6
 1-1-3– 5
 1-1-2– 4
 1-0-2– 3
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 0-3-1– 4
 0-2-4– 6
 0-2-3– 5
 0-2-1– 3
 0-1-5– 6
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 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
 0-1-0– 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
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1

Just ban the guy for trolling. 

Equipment rules (specifically bindings and their height), which coincidently our guys were using prior to the OG 2022, but were then instantly banned overnight. 
Ban on fluor in ski wax
Safety straps are now mandatory
New jersey rules and measurement equipment 
 
Some of the new rules are explained here. Most of our team both men and women have been critical of the new rules, even the coaches. 
E: Here's is an article in slovenian. In it you have Granerud saying that he got injured because of the new rules in the summer. 
 

Natalia Maliszewska (short track) lost the appeal and did confese that it was her fault for missing three doping controls, when she should be available for controllers, she is banned for 14 months from May 2023, so, she will be able to prepare for 2024/2025 season.

Please explain to me why Ukraine is going to boycott the Games.

Day 14 Fri 09.08
 
244. ATHLETICS - W 4x100m Relay
 
1. United States
2. Jamaica
3. Ivory Coast
 
After all the 100m and 200m and all the NBC hype this is an event which will be remembered for a long time. Jamaicans don't have great first 2 changes and Sha'Carri has a nice lead beginning the anchor leg. Shericka Jackson chasing hard but comes just short. CIV doesn't mess things up like in Budapest and they get awesome bronze. GBR 4th. POL nicely 6th with great anchor leg by Ewa Swoboda.
 
245. ATHLETICS - W Shot Put
 
1. Chase Ealey USA
2. Sarah Mitton CAN
3. Auriol Dongmo POR
 
Ealey winning quite comfortably.
 
246. ATHLETICS - M 4x100m Relay
 
1. Unites States
2. Jamaica
3. Japan
 
Great run by Japanese sprinters who deny Italians, Jacobs messed things a bit this time and ITA only 4th.
 
247. ATHLETICS - W 400m
 
1. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone USA
2. Marileidy Paulino DOM
3. Natalia Kaczmarek POL
 
Great competition between McLaughlin and Paulino. Wonderful medal for POL here, absolutely amazing. Natalia with new NR - 49.21 (previous NR: 49.28 set by Irena Szewińska when she won gold in Montreal 1976). Great traditional finish by Natalia made this bronze possible. This is my "Rebeca Andrade Tokyo-Like Moment" @thiago_simoes. I cherish Polish ind running medals so much, they are so rare... Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH back in competition but not in such a good form, and this is the main factor that leads 3rd place possible for Poland. If she was running under 49secs and McLaughlin is there, Natalia had no chances. Anyway, 4. Miller-Uibo BAH 5. Williams BAR 6. Klaver NED 7. Adeleke IRL 8. Bolingo BEL. Only one US athlete in the final but she gets gold for Team US.
 
248. ATHLETICS - M Triple Jump
 
1. Andy Diaz Hernandez ITA
2. Hugues Fabrice Zango BUR
3. Jaydon Hibbert JAM
 
Havana likes this one...
 
249. ATHLETICS - W Heptathlon
 
1. Nafissatou Thiam BEL
2. Katarina Johnson-Thompson GBR
3. Anna Hall USA
 
Hall messes things much and this lets Thiam to get 3rd olympic heptathlon gold in a row, coming back from injury. KJT very emotional in the victory lap, you rarely see anything like that.
 
250. ATHLETICS - W 10,000m
 
1. Gudaf Tsegay ETH
2. Sifan Hassan NED
3. Grace Loibach Nawowuma KEN
 
Only first gold for Ethiopia in Paris. What took them so long? I have to check ETH chances again...
 
251. ATHLETICS - M 400m Hurdles
 
1. Rai Benjamin USA
2. Karsten Warholm NOR
3. Alison Dos Santos BRA
 
Ha! Benjamin denies Tokyo olympic champ on the last 20m. We've seen Warholm running much faster before but this time he managed to clear all the hurdles according to the rules heh... McMaster 4th for IVB. So no olympic medal for them.
 
252. BEACH VOLLEYBALL - W Tournament (but it could be M - the schedule is not clear here)
 
1. Ana Patricia Ramos, Eduarda "Duda" Santos Lisboa BRA
2. Sara Hughes, Kelly Cheng USA
3. Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova LAT
 
Tina - Anastasija get a nice bronze but earlier they put on a furious SF battle against Hughes/Cheng losing 1-2 like in 2023 WCH but only 16-18 in 3rd set. Great BRA - USA final in a wonderful scenery in the evening close to the Eiffel Tower. Beach volleyball gets to be one of the most popular sport in Paris olympics. Deserved that for sure.
 
253. BOXING - W 50kg
 
1. Buse Cakiroglu TUR
2. Wu Yu CHN
3. Ingrit Valencia COL
3. Wassila Lkhadiri FRA
 
I need to check COL medal again though...
 
254. BOXING - W 66kg
 
1. Busenaz Surmeneli TUR
2. Yang Liu CHN
3. Charlie Cavanaugh CAN
3. Ivanusa Moreira Gomes CPV
 
Turks go mad - 2 wins one by one!!! Ivanusa gets her bronze but i need to check this event once again after Day 16 for sure. Anyway, Ivanusa - cool name.
 
255. BOXING - M 71kg
 
1. Sewon Okazawa JPN
2. Vahid Abasov SRB
3. Marco Verde MEX
3. Aslanbek Shymbergenov KAZ
 
256. BOXING - M 92kg
 
1. Julio Cesar La Cruz CUB
2. Aziz Abbes Mouhidiine ITA
3. Davlat Boltaev TJK
3. Jack Marley IRL
 
CUB vs ITA - what an amazing bout! Just awesome. Oh, we were waiting for sth like that for so long. Boxing is back, many say. This final will be still talked about when boxing finals will get started at Warsaw 2044 olympics...
 
257. BREAKING - W Ind.
 
1. India Sardjoe aka India NED
2. Dominika Banevic aka Nicka LTU
3. Liu Qingyi aka 671 CHN
 
LTU would prefer to get a basketball medal but if it is denied, they celebrate what is possible. POL would love to celebrate M high jump medal but if it is denied... Or wait, Norbert Kobielski made it to the Saturday final, let's see what he can do...
 
258. CANOE SPRINT - M K2 500m
 
1. Portugal
2. Hungary
3. Germany
 
First gold for Portugal in Paris.
 
259. CANOE SPRINT - W C1 200m
 
1. Yarsleidis Cirilo CUB
2. Lin Wenjun CHN
3. Nevin Harrison USA
 
CHN and USA athletes are so focused on each other that they let a third one get gold here. Fans dancing Salsa in the stands.
 
260. CANOE SPRINT - W K2 500m
 
1. Denmark
2. New Zealand
3. Poland
 
Carrington denied another gold by Dannish girls. A nice bronze for Poland here.
 
261. DIVING - W 3m Springboard
 
1. Chen Yiwen CHN
2. Chang Yani CHN
3. Maddison Keeney AUS
 
Canada surprisingly 4th here (Pamela Ware), a new experience for them.
 
262. FOOTBALL - M Tournament
 
1. France
2. Spain
3. Brazil
 
FRA gets gold after 92nd minute goal. This is one of the most cherished French gold medals in Paris.
 
263. HOCKEY - W Tournament
 
1. Netherlands
2. Australia
3. Argentina
 
Final is good but bronze medal game even better. ARG win over GER after furious fight.
 
264. RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS - W Ind. All-Around
 
1. Darja Varfolomeev GER
2. Sofia Raffaelli ITA
3. Daria Atamanov ISR
 
First non-judo medal for Israel in Paris. Seems like they are good not in the combat sports only, you know... I have a feeling I need to check back my W windsurfer predictions though.
 
265. SPORT CLIMBING - M Boulder/Lead
 
1. Jakob Schubert AUT
2. Tomoa Narasaki JPN
3. Jesse Grupper USA
 
First gold for Austria here.
 
266. SWIMMING - M 10km Marathon
 
1. Florian Wellbrock GER
2. Oliver Klemet GER
3. Domenico Acerenza ITA
 
GER 1-2 here.
 
267. TABLE TENNIS - M Team
 
1. China
2. Japan
3. Korea Rep.
 
TPE 4th after very surprisingly beating GER in QF.
 
268. TAEKWONDO - M 80kg
 
1. Simone Alessio ITA
2. Seif Eissa EGY
3. Daniel Quesada Barrera ESP
3. Saleh ElSharabaty JOR
 
269. TAEKWONDO - W 67kg
 
1. Magda Wiet Henin FRA
2. Jie Song CHN
3. Julyana Al-Sadeq JOR
3. Sarah Chaari BEL
 
First ever JOR woman with an olympic medal.
 
270. TRACK CYCLING - M Sprint
 
1. Harrie Levreysen NED
2. Nicholas Paul TTO
3. Jair Tjon En Fa SUR
 
This is only 3nd olympic medal for SUR, after 2 medals for Nesty in Seoul.
 
271. TRACK CYCLING - W Madison
 
1. France
2. Great Britain
3. Italy
 
Poland sadly 4th here. Missing this bronze by an inch... FRA wins a very important gold here in this battle vs Team GB for a 3rd place in medal tally.
 
272. WEIGHTLIFTING - M 89kg
 
1. Karlos Nasar BUL
2. Mirostafa Javadi IRI
3. Keydomar Vallenilla VEN
 
273. WEIGHTLIFTING - W 71kg
 
1. Liao Guifang CHN
2. Angie Palacios ECU
3. Loredana-Elena Toma ROU
 
274. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - M 57kg
 
1. Stevan Micic SRB
2. Arsen Haratyunyan ARM
3. Zalimkhan Abakorov ALB
3. Meirambek Kartbay KAZ
 
JPN only 5th here.
 
275. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - M 86kg
 
1. David Taylor USA
2. Hassan Yazdani IRI
3. Azamat Dauletbekov KAZ
3. Javrail Shapiev UZB
 
No medal for SMR here (Myles Amine).
 
276. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - W 57kg
 
1. Tsugumi Sakurai JPN
2. Anastasia Nichita MDA
3. Helen Maroulis USA
3. Elvira Kamaloglu TUR
 
Anzhelina Lysak POL loses bronze medal vs Maroulis.
 
Bronze-medal game in FOOTBALL - W Tournament: 
 
beats 3-1
 
Bronze-medal game in VOLLEYBALL - M Tournament:
 
beats 3-1
 
Other Team Sports:
 
BASKETBALL - W Semis
 
beats
beats
and we USA vs CHN final on the last day.
 
HANDBALL - M Semis
 
beats relatively easy
beats by 1 goal only
 
WATER POLO - M Semis
 
beats both M and W HUN water polo teams in the finals
beats after overtime
 

Here’s the teams have been confirmed for all three OQTs so far. (UOQT1/UOQT2/OQT)
 
Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament (TBD)
Host:
FIBA 3x3 World Rankings:  Netherlands,  Hungary,  Azerbaijan,  Egypt,  Mongolia,  Chile, TBD
 
Think Hungary will grab the quota, but I wouldn’t count out Netherlands, Azerbaijan or even Mongolia.  
 
I believe this event will be held in Israel? But FIBA 3X3 isn’t updating that information on their site for some reason  
 
https://www.fiba.basketball/news/israel-to-host-fiba-3x3-universality-olympic-qualifying-tournament-in-2024
 
https://fiba3x3.com/en/olympics/olympics-how-to-qualify.html#uoqt1
 
Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 (May 3-5, 2024 in Utsunomiya, Japan)
Host:  Japan
Africa Cup 2023:  Kenya
AmeriCup 2023:  Brazil
Asia Cup 2023:  Australia
Europe Cup 2023:  Netherlands
World Cup 2023:  Canada,  Germany,  Austria
 
Hard to imagine the quota not going to one of Canada, Australia, or Germany. Canada is the (somewhat heavy) favourite though. 
 
Olympic Qualification Tournament (Debrecen, Hungary)
Host:  Hungary
Federation Ranking Africa:  Egypt
Federation Ranking Africa:  Tunisia
Federation Ranking America:  Canada
Federation Ranking America:  Chile
Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania:  Japan
Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania:  Mongolia
Federation Ranking Europe:  Germany
Federation Ranking Europe:  Spain
Federation Ranking:  Netherlands,  Lithuania,  Azerbaijan,  Poland,  Czech Republic,  Italy,  Israel
 
Notable absence here being Australia. I’ll go with Germany, Spain and Japan. 

The problem is revolved.

2023 Toyota US Open - Greensboro (USA)
November 29th - December 2nd 2023
 
Meet Results
 
 
The following new OQTs were achieved
 
Men's 50m Freestyle
 Quintin McCarty
 Mikel Schreuders
 
Men's 100m Breaststroke
 Denis Petrashov
 
Men's 100m Butterfly
 Hubert Kós
 
Men's 200m Butterfly
 Michal Chmielewski
 Martin Espernberger
 
Men's 200m Individual Medley
 Chase Kalisz
 Hubert Kós
 
Women's 200m Backstroke
 Summer McIntosh
 Leah Shackley
 
Women's 100m Breaststroke
 Siobhán Haughey
 
Women's 200m Individual Medley
 Regan Smith
 
Women's 400m Individual Medley
 Anastasia Gorbenko

Finals canceled at yet another WC stop (are we even surprised anymore ) so the qualification results will stand as the podium. 
 
Slopestyle WC Stubai, Austria
 
Women
Gold-  Mathilde Gremaud (87.50)
Silver-  Tess Ledeux (85.50)
Bronze-  Ruby Star Andrews (70.50)
 
Men
Gold-  Evan McEachran (93.00)
Silver-  Mac Forehand (90.50)
Bronze-  Alexander Hall (88.75)
 
Full Results

Big Air WC Beijing, China
 
Men
Gold-  Alexander Hall (182.00)
Silver-  Edouard Therriault (181.75)
Bronze-  Andri Ragettli (179.75)
 
Women
Gold-  Mathilde Gremaud (175.50)
Silver-  Kirsty Muir (167.25)
Bronze-  Flora Tabanelli (160.75)
 
Full Results
 
This venue gives me such nostalgia from Beijing 2022 
 
Anyone know why Megan Oldham hasn’t been competing at any of the WC stops? 

and now  Denis Petrashov has qualified in the men's 100m breaststroke for Kyrgyzstan! Back to back days with qualifications by non-traditional swimming nations 

Letitia Sim also qualified at the Japan Open in the women’s 100m breastroke with a huge NR of 1:06.36!

Mikel Schreuders has officially qualified for Aruba in the men's 50m freestyle. That's now 50 NOC's that are qualified in swimming.

Got the late session at Phillippe-Chatrier on the 31st. Guess that's my schedule filled

not yet 

Quick recap after the  Italian Winter Nationals
 
Swimmers qualified to the Olympic Games (and to the World Championships, of course)
 
Benedetta Pilato (women's 100m Breaststroke) Thomas Ceccon (men's 100m Backstroke) Alessandro Miressi (men's 100m Freestyle) Gregorio Paltrinieri (men's 1500m Freestyle) Alberto Razzetti (men's 200m IM and men's 400m IM)  
Swimmers qualified "only" to the World Championships
 
Previously qualified thanks to Fukuoka 2023 Results:
 
Anita Bottazzo (women's 50m Breaststroke) Sara Franceschi (women's 400m IM) Benedetta Pilato (women's 50m Breaststroke) Simona Quadarella (women's 800m e nei 1500m Freestyle) Thomas Ceccon (men's 50m Fly & 50m Backstroke) Leonardo Deplano (men's 50m Freestyle) Nicolò Martinenghi (men's 50m e 100m Breaststroke) Gregorio Paltrinieri (men's 800m Freestyle)  
Qualified from the Italian Winter Nationals:
 
Simone Cerasuolo (men's 50m Breaststroke) Michele Lamberti (men's 100m Backstroke) Lorenzo Mora (men's 200m Backstroke) Ludovico Blu Art Viberti (men's 100m Breaststroke)

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If I stick to five, I'd say:
 
Athletics 400mH W
Athletics 4x400m W
Road cycling M race
Cross country cycling W race
Swimming 100m freestyle W
 
 
If Femke Bol, Mathieu van der Poel, Puck Pieterse and Marrit Steenbergen all win a medal that would be amazing! 
 
I also wanted to include the athletics 400m W, road marathons, rowing w1x, beach volleyball and sport climbing (boulder+lead), but five was not much...

I’ll go with my top 15, in no particular order:
 
3x3 Basketball: Women’s Tournament
Basketball: Men’s Tournament
Soccer: Men’s Tournament (depends on who plays)
Judo: Women’s -57kg (top 2 judoka in the OQR, unfortunately only one will qualify)
Volleyball: Men’s Tournament
Volleyball: Women’s Tournament (only if Canada qualifies)
Beach Volleyball: Men’s Tournament
Beach Volleyball: Women’s Tournament
Athletics: Men’s Decathlon (Pierce LePage and Damian Warner both in contention for gold)
Athletics: Men’s Pole Vault (cause Mondo )
Athletics: Women’s High Jump (cause Olyslagers )
Tennis: Men’s Singles
Swimming: Women’s 400IM (guaranteed gold for Summer McIntosh barring anything disastrous)
Boxing: Women’s 75kg (Tammara Thibeault is looking unstoppable right now)
Swimming: Women’s 400m Freestyle/Men’s 100m Butterfly (If Milak and Dressel can get back to form in time for Paris, men’s 100m butterfly would be tied on my list with women’s 400m freestyle and the highly anticipated battle between Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus, and McIntosh)
 
Also men’s 200m butterfly for Illya Kharun. 
 
IMO Wasick is more of a medal favourite in the women’s 50m freestyle than Chmielewski in the men’s 200m butterfly considering how consistent she’s been, but we’ll see what times he can produce at the US Open in a couple of days. 

Either Doncic or Giannis. Sad. I would like to see them both in Paris

Tournament 01 ( Valencia)
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Tournament 02 ( Riga)
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Tournament 03 ( Piraeus)
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Tournament 04 ( San Juan)
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