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I’m not sure, but I can try a check.

The schedules this morning didn’t match what was taking place at the venue either. Although, the squash calendar does look accurate now.

Maltese National Broadcaster will have a selection of live feeds available on YouTube. Link: https://youtube.com/@tvmsportmt First action starts in 10 minutes

I spent much of my day catching up on sleep and rest from the long trip to Malta, but I did go check out the National Swimming Centre this afternoon. It looks very nice and certainly ready for use during the Games. There isn’t too much branding around the island (at least that I’ve seen) advertising the event, so hard to gauge local population’s interest in it. A little bit of preliminary action in basketball (5x5), squash, and tennis tomorrow before the opening ceremony. It’s been more than a decade since squash was last contested at the GSSE, but the entry list is pretty solid in terms of participation.

Anna Hall moves to 5th on the all-time performance list. Just needs to find a little extra somewhere and she could break the 7000 barrier this year. I saw another track personality comment on it, but worth pointing out that Jana Koščak registered the best mark for a U18 athlete in senior competition @dcro

As per usual, I didn’t want jinx anything ahead of time, but… I just arrived in Malta to cover my ever second multi-sport games. I will be writing content for Discover the Games this time. I met the guy who runs the website in Birmingham last summer, and we got to scheming this spring. We just launched the new site last week. We’ve got a couple stories about the USA Teqball Tour and European Beach Handball Championships on there, along with some older stories by my colleague. I’m definitely looking forward to experiencing the GSSE in person. If you’ve got any questions about what the event is like in-person, I’d be happy to try and answer them.

We don’t seem to have a GC favorite at the moment, but we have a good handful of very talented riders at the moment. I haven’t felt this educated by US riders in a while. Tokyo was probably the first time I had optimism watching Olympic cycling from an American perspective.

I believe there will be globally available livestreams as well, but I’ve yet to see much info about that. Maltese Public Television will be showing a lot of competition though based on their upcoming broadcast schedule.

Results system link: https://results.european-games.org/GSSE2023/eng/zz/engzz_general-general-schedule.htm

I believe the qualification document says qualified teams can’t compete. should get a reallocation, unless it’s too late to reallocate.

Guess we’ll have to wait a while to sort out the Jacobs v. Kerley drama

Badminton quotas were posted by the EOC: https://www.eurolympic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/All_Badminton-1.pdf Happy to see get quotas

They should take a page out of the ICF’s book and just have teams of three complete a timed run down the competition piste for each discipline

admitted as first African member of the FIL.

There’s been a lot of withdrawals for various reasons. Covid took one of the main favorites out. In general, I feel like the Giro has been the “weakest” of the grand tours for last few years. It just doesn’t seem to get the riders and attention that the Tour and Vuelta do, in my opinion.

I’d imagine this is the most the region will have qualified for any sport?

are reportedly interested in submitting bids for the 2027 Jeux de la Francophonie: https://www.francsjeux.com/breves/benin-announces-its-candidacy

We should have a Discord mixer at some point. I think that would be fun.

I graduate with a bachelor’s degree next week You give the same exact advice I’d give to anyone else in communications, entertainment, or management.

They should just make the three of us the Gen Z Comms Team

I’m happy working either side of the communications industry. I think I prefer journalism a little more to marketing/PR, but my field of study (and soon to be degree) is in public relations.