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Speaking of Angelina Solari, she will compete for the Louisville Cardinals. Cyclist Ciro Pérez had two flights cancelled from Italy to Paraguay, and had minimal rest before his races. Also in cycling, Thomas Silva is allegedly in negotiations with Astana, a World Tour team.

Uruguay had 121 competitors at the 2025 Pan American Junior Games, where they claimed 13 medals. The single gold was Luciano García in rowing (men's single sculls. Cloe Callorda won a bronze in women's single sculls. Canoeing brought three medals, with Matías Maccio / Tadeo Arca earning silver at men's K2 500m, and Emilia Milich earning bronze at women's K1 200m and 500m. In karate, Tomás Dotta was silver in men's 84 kg, and Bruno Ayphassorho was bronze in 67 kg. In taekwondo, María Sara Grippoli was silver in women's kyorugi 49 kg, and Matías López was bronze in men's kyorugi 68 kg. In athletics, Manuela Rotundo was silver in women's javelin throw. In cycling, Ciro Pérez was silver in men's road race. The Teros were silver in the men's sevens tournament. In swimming, Angelina Solari was bronze in women's 100 m freestyle.

Uruguay had 121 competitors at the 2025 Pan American Junior Games, where they claimed 13 medals. The single gold was Luciano García in rowing (men's single sculls. Cloe Callorda won a bronze in women's single sculls. Canoeing brought three medals, with Matías Maccio / Tadeo Arca earning silver at men's K2 500m, and Emilia Milich earning bronze at women's K1 200m and 500m. In karate, Tomás Dotta was silver in men's 84 kg, and Bruno Ayphassorho was bronze in 67 kg. In taekwondo, María Sara Grippoli was silver in women's kyorugi 49 kg, and Matías López was bronze in men's kyorugi 68 kg. In athletics, Manuela Rotundo was silver in women's javelin throw. In cycling, Ciro Pérez was silver in men's road race. The Teros were silver in the men's sevens tournament. In swimming, Angelina Solari was bronze in women's 100 m freestyle.

Once again, the FIba AmeriCup aired exclusively on DirecTV, which most Uruguayans don't have, including myself.

World Rugby annoucned today the new SVNS format for 2025/26: https://www.svns.com/en/news/999470/world-rugby-unveils-evolved-svns-model Division 1 will have just 8 teams with 6 tournaments, and Division 2 will have 6 teams with just 3 tournaments. The top 4 teams will advance to the playoffs together with the 8 Division 1 teams. Division 3 will be a single tournament with 8 teams, where the two finalists will advance to Division 2. The 2025 Los Angeles repechage tournament will determine which four teams will play Division 2. The other four teams will play the continental qualifiers for Division 3. I love that they didn't bother to explain what the hell will happen at the end of the season, because the answer is probably the end of the SVNS. And by love I mean hate.

Here's the official broadcasts of the Pan American Road Championships: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

In rowing, Osvaldo Borchi retired as the national team coach after 10 years. In shooting, Julieta Mautone finished 4th in 10 m air pistol at the World Cup of Lima. In swimming, Nicole Frank got three gold medals at the American Athletic Conference Championship. In surf, Ignacio Pignataro won the Uruguay Natural Longboard Festival, the fisrst ever WSL win for a Uruguayan, whereas Inés Beisso finished third. In cycling, Ignacio Maldonado won the Rutas de América, Anderson Maldonado won the Vuelta CIclista del Uruguay, and Thomas Silva finished fourth at the Gran Premio Miguel Induráin in Spain. In triathlon, Federico Scarabino won the Ironman 70.3 Punta del Este with 3:48'34. In tennis, Ariel Behar reached round 3 of the Australian Open, and the final of the ATP 500 Dallas. The men's national team lost to Ecuador at the Davis Cup, with is unsurprising.

In athletics: * Valentín Soca got the national record in 10,000 m at The Ten with 27'37.65, and in 3,000 m at Boston with 7'34.10. He also won the the San Fernando 10 km run with 29'10. * Santiago Catrofe got the national record in 10 km road race at the Maratón de Valencia with 27'15. * Martín Cuestas won the Doble San Antonio 8 km with 24'57. * Manuela Rotundo impvoved her national record in javelin at the Florida Relays with 64.17. * The Pista Oficial Darwiñ Pineyrúa in Montevideo was reopened after two long years, and hosted the Grand Prix Estrella Puente y Darwin Piñeyrúa.* Julia Paternain, a Mexican-Uruguayan that just switched nationalities, smashed the national marathon record at Valley Cottage with 2:27'09.

A lot has happened in the past seven months... In football, the men's national team has won one match out of the past 12 matches. Peñarol won the First Division championship, after winning both stages. In rugby union, the Teros lost to Spain 33-24, lost to Japan 36-20, and defeated Romania 23-21. In rugby sevens, the Teros 7s finished 10th at the SVNS, claiming first ever wins over Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. They will play the Los Angeles repechage tournament, which was meant to give four spots for the next season, but that's about to be confirmed to be cancelled...

The Charrúa Awards were held last Monday. * Golden Charrúa: Fernando Diz and Hernán Umpierre (rowing) * Silver Charrúa for best competitor abroad: Federico Valverde (football) * Silver Charrúa for best performance abroad: Bruno Cetraro (rowing) * Silver Charrúa for sports feat: María Sara Grippoli (taekwondo) * Silver Charrúa for newcomers: Gonzalo Perdomo (bocce) * Charrúa Energy: Henry Borges * Uruguayan Rowing Federation: 5 medals at the 2023 Pan American Games. * Crystal Charrúa: Uruguayan Football Federation (100 years of the Paris gold medal) * AIPS Abelardo Raidi Award: Daniel López Moroy * Quijote Awards: Mario Uberti (journalism) and Juan Olano

Fernando Ucha was elected president of the Uruguayan Olympic Committee. He is 57 years old and was the Uruguayan and Pan American rowing federations. Ucha got 30 upvotes and one abstention. https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Deportes/El-exremero-Fernando-Ucha-fue-elegido-como-nuevo-presidente-del-Comite-Olimpico-Uruguayo-uc901201

At the París Paralympics, Henry Borges competed at the 60 kg J1 (fully blind judo), where he lost to Shiwen Zhu on golden score, and 14-year-old Hanna Arias competed at the of S9 (minor amputee swimming) with 1'19.11 in freestyle and 1'28.32 in 100 m butterfly. The Punta del Este Marathon was held last weekend. Nicolás Espinosa and Simone da Rocha Cid won with 2'21.45 and 3'06.15 respectively. Martín Cuestas and Lorena Sosa won in half marathon with 1:06'31 and 1:19'53. Agustín Lima and Aldana Sabatel won in 10 km with 30'39 and 38'10.

Most importantly, Julio César Maglione announced not to run for president at the Uruguayan Olympic Committee elections, so he will step down after 37 years (!!!). https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Deportes/Comite-Olimpico-Uruguayo-Julio-Cesar-Maglione-dejara-de-ser-su-presidente-tras-37-anos-uc898701

Post-Olympics: In athletics, Valentín Soca got a new South American under-23 record in men's 3,000 m with 7'43.48. In boxing, Chris Namús fought again after two years, losing to Elia Carranza by TKO on round 6. In rowing, several Uruguayans competed at the World Championship: Felipe Klüver was 7th in men's lightweight single scull with 6'52.57. Luciano García was 14th in men's under-23 single scull with 7'10.17. Nicole Yarzón finished 8th in women's lightweight single scull with 7'51.49.

More results at the Paris Olympics: In sailing: Hernán Umpierre and Fernando Diz finished 8th at the 49er medal race, as they were penalized for crossing the starting line a few seconds too early. The duo finished 10th in the overall classification. Lola Moreira finished 22nd in ILCA 6. She is considering moving to a lighter class. In rowing, Bruno Cetraro finished 6th in the B final of the men's single scull, as a paddle holder got broken (!). In kayak, Matías Otero did 3'30.48 in K-1 1000 m, and finished 14th. In taekwondo, María Sara Grippoli lost in first round against Adriana Cerezo by 11-4, 7-0. In athletics: Emiliano Lasa did 7.87 m in long jump, and missed the final round. Santiago Catrofe did 13'56.40 in 5,000 m. María Pía Fernández did 4'16.46 in 1,500 m.

The fully Swiss format is awful, as Heywoody says. I would prefer a 4-vs-4 cross-pool format. But adding more matches at the group phase is a big problem too, the calendar was already too congested.

Some say that Kim Jong Un made 18 holes in one on his first attempt...

The Charrúa Awards have announced the nominees in 64 categories: https://www.cpdu.org.uy/destacados/51a-edicion-premios-charrua/ There's split categories for men's and women's in 8 disciplines: athletics, basketball, cycling, football, futsal, handball, rowing and swimming. The ceremony will be held on September 23 at the Auditorio Nelly Goitiño.

I'm afraid I have little time to vote.

I disagree, Olympic rugby sevens is thrilling to watch. Rugby sevens is organized in tournaments (like tennis and motorsport), very differently from the typical 2-hour team sport. That's not a disadvantage, much less a problem. United States is excellent in lots of unpopular sports, thanks to the state-funded college system. So the situation of rugby sevens is hardly unusual. Yes, and I agree with that.

Uruguay's chances dropped significantly, as rower Bruno Cetraro ran out of steam in single scull semifinals.

It's never easy to do a strong partnership between a successful sports competition and a successful sports game. Fifa and Electronic Arts had it, and it went away. F1 and Codemasters (now part of EA) has it. The Olympics, Nintendo and Sega was a strong partnership. Dropping it to chase NFTs is so stupid.

In rugby union, the men's national team lost to Scotland 31 - 19, with a pretty good performance. Here's my photos. In sailing, Fernando Diz and Hernán Umpierre qualified to the Olympics men's 49er final. The were fighting for the lead when it was suspended for lack of wind, and later it was suspended a second time. In judo, Mikael Aprahamian lost in first round of the Olympics to Takanori Nagase. In swimming, Leo Nolles did 50.58 s in the Olympic men's 100 m freestyle. In rowing, Bruno Cetraro ran out of steam in the Olympic single scull semifinals, and qualified to the B final.

In rugby sevens, the men's national team finished 11st at the Olympics. In rowing, Bruno Cetraro qualified to the Olympic semifinals in single scull. In sailing, Fernando Diz and Hernán Umpierre are in medal race positions at men's 49ers.

The Teros just made too many ball handling errors. At least the France match was close. As for rules, the boring part of sevens is that a good sprinter can beat a team of good but not so fast players. I have seen a few rugby 10s matches and I enjoy them more than sevens. Players need good teamwork to advance, yet it's much faster than 15s. However, I've been told by a Uruguayan female players that rugby 10 is much more prone to injuries than sevens.