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2nd medal and 1st gold Viktória Forster (again) this time in the 100 Hurdles. Won with a time of 12.72 to set another her new NR and thanks legal wind +1.0, should be also the Paris 2024 standard. Way to go Viki ! We proud of you.

12.72 new NR Viki Forster

and she did it at 16, in her WCh debut, she is in the semifinals ! Already Best ever result for Sport climbing way to go Martina ! step by step girl, maybe she really can bring us in this to the Olympics in LA ! because based on this season, only the sky will be her limit in the future it looks

Barbora Mokošová (our flagbearer) did qualify to the finals in both her apparatus she competed in here (UB & BB). Medals are probably out of reach but still Happy for her that she achieved such nice results Another positive news arrived from Athletics: A couple of hours after her silver in the 100 dash, Viki Forster advanced in the 100 Hurdles to the semifinals, Also Ján Volko who came to Chengdu only for the 200m advanced from the heats to the semis. On other side, Quite hard luck for Daniela Ledecká who finished 4th in the W 400 Hurdles also Matej Balúch in the M 400 Hurdles missed the final very nearly finishing 9th (1st under the cut) and our W Tennis pair who lost to the host in the quarterfinal.

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Was asking because our Škvarková is 42nd in the road to Buda. 40 qualify, but since Tobi Amusan will not be likely allowed to compete, I was searching for one other who is listed but participation should be questionable, and I found Sember. So if not, then Škvarková should be the 40th then.. I know ! I know... quite selfish..

Slovan Bratislava after eliminating 0:1 & 2:2 Zrinjski Mostar also made it to the 3rd Qualifying round. A stage they´ve never reached before in this competition btw. Next one is Maccabi Haifa. However, they also have secured at least the Conference League group stage, which is another 10 matches in Europe this fall and at minimum 3 Million EUR (which was obviously their goal of the season)

What´s the situation with Cindy Sember, Is she going to compete ? She did not run the whole season as far as I know

Well, unlucky for the kids for sure, however, this 2006 year is very weak. We knew it and had no expectations, Last 2 years classes were great and amazing, now we have to survive this one, the next year group should be a bit better than the 2006 one, however still not as great like the 2004-05 classes were though

thanks again

Great, thanks sir. How many will progress to the semis ? Is it by placing among best in different groups or by general ranking from all athletes ?

and our first (hopefully not last ) medal is around the neck Odd Fun fact: Viki will compete also in the 100 Hurdles here. There no many athletes doing the 100 dash and Hurdles combination at a single multisport competition. Can not remember who was the last one to do it.

Looking forward to see how our supertalented Martina Buršíková will do here at her first careers seniors world championship. Obviously, we are not going to enter the Olympic qualifiers (no reason for that, she has time until LA 28, she is barely 16 now) so the federation registered her only for the bouldering, If I understand correctly tomorrow late evening are the qualifiers, right ? Not sure if she can realistically aim for qualifying to the semifinals, but at her only World Cup appearance so far last month in Austria, she managed to make the semis, so let see, all in all, if she will succeed, that would be a ridiculous historic achievement for us.

Medal We are again not returning empty-handed home. Medal winning streak at universiades continue again with another edition Viktória Forster (W 100m Silver) Congrats Viki

Bored during your school summer break ? No problem One very well done history class video provided by Knowledgia.

Team Slovakia Men - Recurve Juraj Duchoň Miroslav Duchoň Daniel Medveczky Men - Compound Jozef Bošanský Matúš Durný jr. Šimon Šedivý Women - Recurve Denisa Baránková Elena Bendíková Kristína Drusková Women - Compound Petra Kočutová

That was one terrible defending of last corner action in a match lol

At the end will have 2 riders in the M Road Race. federation announced today, we apparently received a reallocation (?) and thus Matúš Štoček will help Peter Sagan in the Glasgow roads

and it finally happened. Last night. After looong and embarassing 8 years, Košice (the second biggest city of the country) finally returned to the top tier championship, and what a return it was. Yesterday in the 1st round we hosted as the newly promoted team the reigning champion, the arch-rival Slovan Bratislava. More than 5 000 spectators and great atmosphere. despite the final result 0-0 it was a great evening Now hopefully we will be able to avoid relegation, after when we returned from 8 years hiatus lol

that famous francophone country

Final score of mini-team in Maribor, is 2 Golds and 3 Bronzes Mia Pohánková & Soňa Depešová won our second gold of the games, in the Girls Tennis Doubles. Bravo girls, well done ! So at the end very successfull EYOF for us, unexpected 3 medals in Judo (well, at least 2 were very unexpected, the gold of Patrícia Tománková was not as much while looking at her season so far, she was predicted as favorite for gold, being world ranking #1 in her class, so thanks god she delivered - which is also quite rare for us), 1 gold in Tennis, marching in the steps of last year EYOF successes of the rising star Renáta Jamrichová and that super shocking bronze in Swimming yesterday.

You have a like from me for the time and effort you probably spent looking for all these times in this post.. Yep, that´s one of the main problems of our sport. Our only above level swimmer in the entire history was Martina Moravcová, and only thanks her studies in Dallas. Yes, she was exceptionally talented, but I don´t believe she would have achieved even a third of her successes if she had not gone overseas before. The other main issue is the infrastructure. No money, No fun. I do not know if we have even a single 50m pool in the country, we for sure have only a limited couple of small pools in the biggest cities, I do believe more than half of our population do not even know how to swim (yeah I likely exaggerating here, but you got the point), so it is hard to think high in this sport in such conditions. However, it is not only in Swimming I could write novels about the lack of money, state support consequently bad coaches, resulting in many young athletes losing motivations early and leaving sport etc..., but Anyway, generally, besides Hockey all our sports education and system is outdated and ineffective. When you look at it, the majority of our "above level" athletes in individual sports come more from the family system, so outside of the "national" system.

How is possible that 2 Concacaf teams are in the same group btw ?

what a header from Wendie Fox