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[Rdbc 47]

40 minutes ago, suchyy7 said:

Came here by an accident but how impressive these weekly posts are. Great job @Rdbc

 

Thank you! It means a lot!

[Rdbc 47]

Weekly post will be out either later today or tomorrow. I finished typing everything but then had some issues and lost all my work . But be on the look out later today or tomorrow when I have the motivation to retype everything! 

[Rdbc 47]

  Week in Summer #14 - United States  

July 22nd - July 29th

 

 

Archery

No Archery events or news last week, on August 8th - 10th is the 134th U.S. National Target Championships which will be the first Stage of for the World Archery Championships & Pan American Games.

 

 

 

 

Badminton

Yonex Akita Masters 2018

Japan | July 24th - July 29th

 

Women's Singles

 

 

Jennie Gai competed in the Yonex Akita Masters and in the 1st Round got matched up against Shiori Saito and ended up loosing 8-21 and 5-21. Overall it was good experience for the 17 year old! Jennie is currently ranked 108th in the World!

 

Russia Open 2018

Russia | July 24th - July 29th

 

Women's Singles - Crystal Pan

Crystal Pan competed in Russia facing off against Lianne Tan in the 1st Round. In the round it was close but Crystal lost 21-23. In the second round Crystal lost 17-21. Crystal currently is 97th in the World Rankings.

 

Women's Singles - Iris Wang

Iris Wang had a good competition in Russia making it all the way to the Semi Finals! In the 1st Round she beat Olga 21-4 and 21-9. In the 2nd Round she beat Mugdha from India 21-4 and 21-13. In the Quarter Finals she faced off against another opponent from India and beat her 21-17 and 21-13. In the Semi Finals she lost to Shiori in a close third match loosing 16-21,19-21,20-22.

 

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The TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018 is going on this week the action on the Olympic Channel and root for Beiwen Zhang!

 

 

 

 

Basketball

Last week was the Team USA Men's Basketball Mini Camp, as said by the head coach multiple times the mini camp was mainly for team bonding. Here's a few photos from the camp. 

 

 

 

Fencing

2018 Fencing Championships

Wuxi, China | July 19th - July 27th

 

Medal Table

Not bad for us in the overall medals taking home 2 of each for a total of 6!

 

Team Epee - Men's (Section 1)

In the Round of 32 we beat Sweden 39-34 which allowed us to head to the Round of 16 and play against the Czech Republic where we beat them 42-36. In the Quarterfinals we lost to France in a close match 44-45.

 

Team Epee - Women's (Section 4)

We started against DR Congo in the Round of 32 and beat them. In the Round of 16 we beat Hong Kong 45-30. In the Quarterfinals we beat Estonia in a close match 24-23.  

 

Team Epee - Women's (Finals)

In the Semifinals we found ourselves against Russia and we won that match 27-25. In the Final we beat South Korea 18-17 allowing us to win the Gold Medal!

 

 

 

 

 

Field Hockey

2018 Women's Field Hockey World Cup

England | July 21st - July 29th (for the US)

 

The 2018 Women's Field Hockey World Cup continued last week with 2 more games. As we were down 0-1 we needed wins to let us not be eliminated. Our next game was against England where we tied them with a score of 1-1, giving us one point. The last match was against India and we also tied with them with a score of 1-1, again giving us one point. Sadly even though we tied for points with India the next classification was for goal difference which we had -2 meanwhile India had -1. This was our worse finish in a Women's Field Hockey World Cup, so thankfully this doesn't affect Tokyo.

 

 

 

 

 

Football

2018 Tournament of Nations (Women)

United States | July 26th - Ongoing

 

We had two games for the Tournament of Nations last week. The first match was agtainst Japan, we beat Japan with a score of 4-2. In the second match we tied with Australia (defending champions) 1-1 with an amazing 90' minute goal. Our next match is against Brazil on August 2nd.

[Rdbc 47]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

August 3rd, 2018  

 

 

Softball

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 5 - 2 Mexico 

Chiba, Japan - Group A

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. 

 

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

In order to qualify we must win this Championship or become runner up if Japan wins.

 

 

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 5 - 2 Mexico 

In the World Championship opener, we defeated Mexico, 5-2. Head Coach Ken Eriksen said "I thought we played well for Game 1 of the tournament. Anytime that you come out for the first game, there's always going to be butterflies and nervousness. We have one of the youngest teams in the tournament, from player 1-17. Team USA is still developing and working towards not only this week but the future." In the fourth inning we were ahead 2-0 which was a good start! 

Group Results:

 

Pictures:

 

 

 

[Rdbc 47]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

August 4th, 2018  

 

 

Softball

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 7 - 0 Chinese Taipei 

Chiba, Japan - Group A

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. 

 

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

In order to qualify we must win this Championship or become runner up if Japan wins.

 

 

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 7 - 0 Chinese Taipei 

In the World Championship 2nd game, we defeated Chinese Taipei, 7-0. Head Coach Ken Eriksen said "It was great to see the hard work Keilani Ricketts has done the last month pay off today with a stellar performance". We has a great start in the top of the first after Haylie McCleney singled and second baseman Ali Aguilar was issued a walk. This win helps stay undefeated so far along with Puerto Rico.

Group Results:

 

Pictures:

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Just wanting to chime in (I *am* a US resident  ) to thank Rdbc for the write ups. They are quite good.

[Olympian1010 7,470]

24 minutes ago, Nate River said:

Just wanting to chime in (I *am* a US resident  ) to thank Rdbc for the write ups. They are quite good.

Oh, Canada 

[Rdbc 47]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

August 5th, 2018  

 

 

Softball

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 11 - 0 Netherlands 

 USA 7 - 0 New Zealand 

Chiba, Japan - Group A

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. 

 

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

In order to qualify we must win this Championship or become runner up if Japan wins.

 

 

2018 Women's Softball World Championship

 USA 11 - 0 Netherlands 

First game of the day was against The Netherlands who previously had a score of 1-2. Going into this match we were feeling confident after a great day yesterday beating Chinese Taipei. This game started slowly but in the third resulting in an 11-0 win. The Netherlands is currently ranked No. 8 in the world and surprisingly we beat them pretty dominantly. The first two innings were scoreless but a three-strikeout in the bottom half of the third put us back out on the plate.  

 

 USA 7 - 0 New Zealand 

After the 11-0 win earlier in the day against Netherlands our spirits were high and continued to be high throughout the game. In the first inning we had a two-run thanks to Arioto and Moultrie. New Zealand is currently ranked No. 11 in the world and has not had the best few games coming into this match with a 0-2 W-L. 

 

Group Results:

Finally tied for 1st place in the group along with Puerto Rico. I believe with one more win we will lock ourselves into playoffs. 

 

Pictures:

 

[Rdbc 47]

  Week in Summer #15 - United States  

July 29th - August 5th

 

NOTE: Olympic Qualification events are starting up so start expecting more of those posts. On Sunday I will be arriving in Slovakia for 2 weeks so the next 2 posts will be on the 13th and like 22nd or 23rd.

 

Archery

No Archery events or news last week, on August 8th - 10th is the 134th U.S. National Target Championships which will be the first Stage of for the World Archery Championships & Pan American Games.

 

 

 

 

Badminton

TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018

China | July 30th - August 5th

 

Women's Singles

 

By far our best competitor at the World Championships was Beiwen Zhang. Coming into the tournament she was ranked 12th so Beiwen was able to get a first round bye. In Round 2 Beiwen got matched against Chloe Birch a very good player from England who put up quite a match against Beiwen. In the end Beiwen ended up winning 13-21,21-18,21-15. In Round 3/Round of 16 Beiwen had to go against Tai Tzu Ying the #1 player in the world. Beiwen had a close first match against her loosing 19-21 and in the 2nd match she just couldn't hold on and lost 14-21, thus ending Beiwen tournament at the World Championships. Beiwen is currently ranked 13th in the world now and hopes to bring back up her ranking in the coming months of competition. 

 

Women's Doubles

Ariel and Sydney Lee came into this tournament ranked 47th in the world so they were matched up against a pretty good duo of Ekaterina Bolotova and Alina Davletova. The match didn't go to well for the sisters who lost 7-21,9-21. Thankfully their ranking didn't go down after this loss but I'm hoping they will continue to improve for the Qualification Season!

 

Men's Doubles

Long time no see Phillip and Ryan Chew! Coming into the tournament ranked 50 I was not expecting them to win any games or maybe even not win any matches. But they ended up winning the first match 21-13 but lost the next two 19-21,15-21! Their first match was very good against Jelle Maas and Robin Tabeling but they couldn't continue the groove into the next two. 

 

Mixed Doubles

Ouch this result hurts... Props to Mathew for competing at 61 years old and still being the best Mixed Doubles team alongside Isabel Zhong but they lost 6-21,4-21 which is not a close match by any means. 

 

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Yonex-Sunrise Vietnam Open 2018 is this week with Crystal Pan and Jennie Gai competing! 

 

 

 

Basketball

Cool little miniseries about the Men's national team is online here --> https://www.usab.com/basketball/media/videos/2018/07/2018-mnt-the-national-team-episode-201-the-transition.aspx

 

 

 

 

 

Football

2018 Tournament of Nations (Women)

United States | July 26th - August 2nd

With our last game of this tournament against Brazil we needed a big win to win the tournament and thats what we got! A 4-1 win against Brazil allowed us to win the 2018 Tournament of Nations and take away the defending champions trophy from Australia! 

 

Edited August 6, 2018 by Rdbc

[Rdbc 47]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

August 5th, 2018  

 

 

Sailing

2018 Sailing World Championships - Day 4

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

Quota Places!

 

 

2018 Sailing World Championships - Day 4

 

RS:X (Men)

43: Geronimo Nores | 36 Points 

61: Pedro Pascual | 52 Points

75: Carson Crain | 69 Points

 

Coming in hot from the 2018 Youth World Championship where he won the gold Geronimo Nores is hoping to get some more experience at the World Championships. Pedro Pascual came 28th for the USA in the Rio 2016 Olympics but has not had a great start here scoring 19,33,(38) in 3 races. 

 

Laser Class (Men) 

29: Christopher Barnard | 55 Points

33: Charlie Buckingham 57 Points

58: Henry Marshall | 92 Points

63: Malcolm Lamphere | 102 Points

89: Paul Didham | 128 Points

102: Marek Zaleski | 152 Points

103: Patrick Shanahan | 154 Points

119: Marshall McCann | 169 Points

121: Ford McCann | 171 Points

151: Scott Rasmussen | 226 Points

 

Charlie Buckingham competed at Rio placing 11th and almost qualifying for the Medal Final. Charlie is hoping for a good performance. In 2014 he was able to get 7th place but at this World Championship he has not had the best of starts already at 57 Points. Christopher Barnard does have a chance of being able to get in the top 14 if he is able to do good in the upcoming races.

 

Finn Class (Men) 

22: Luke Muller | 52 Points

27: Caleb Paine | 57 Points

 

Luke and Caleb will really having to get some good place finishes if they want to be able to get into the top 8. Caleb has had a good Race 6 coming in 4th place. Luke finished 1st in Race 3 and Race 4. 

 

470 Class (Men)

10: Stuart McNay & David Hughes | 35 Points

38: Wiley Rogers & Jack Parkin | 85 Points

 

Stuart and David are very close to the top 8 with wins in Race 2 and 4. Hopefully they will be able to win a few more races so they can get themselves into the top 8.

 

49er Class (Men)

34: Christopher Rast & Trevor Burd | 42 Points

46: Andrew Mollerus & Ian Macdiarmid | 52 Points

47: Nevin Snow & Maximiliano Agnese | 53 Points

50: Judge Ryan & Hans Henken | 54 Points

58: Ian Barrows & Joseph Kiss | 59 Points

73: Bradley Funk & Samuel Hodges | 78 Points

76: Harry Melges IV & William Rowe | 82 Points

 

Cristopher and Trevor will have to step it up if they are going to want to get within the top 8. We don't really have many amazing teams in the 49er class but hopefully they can show themselves and get some better scores!

 

RS:X (Women)

51: Farrah Hall | 50 Points

 

Farrah having finished 2 races so far sits in 51st place. She needs some very good finishing to be able to push her up into the top 10. 

 

Laser Radical Class (Women)

3: Paige Railey | 22 Points

15: Erika Reineke | 48 Points

20: Haddon Hughes | 63 Points

48: Christina Sakellaris | 102 Points

90: Hanne Weaver | 195 Points

109: Kelly Cole | 244 Points

 

Woohoo! Paige Railey is doing amazing winning in Race 2 and coming in the top 10 in all 6 races so far! She should and Erika should be able to place into the top 18 and secure quota places for the USA!

 

470 Class (Women)

36: Nikole Barnes & Lara Dallman-Weiss | 154 Points

38: Atlantic Brugman & Nora Brugman | 161 Points

 

Nikole and Lara have been doing alright, finishing around the 29th place average. With only 4 races left I'm not sure how much they will be able to do. 

 

49erFX Class (Women)

21: Stephanie Roble & Margaret Shea | 40 Points

47: Kate Shaner & Charlotte Mack | 76 Points

 

Stephanie and Margaret still have a chance to possibly secure us quota places but it will be hard and they will have to show themselves in the upcoming races!

 

Nacra 17 Class (Mixed)

10: Sarah Newberry & David Liebenberg | 10 Points

35: Bora Gulari & Helena Scutt | 31 Points

44: Riley Gibbs & Louisa Chafee | 39 Points

58: Ravi Parent & Caroline Atwood | 51 Points

 

Sarah and David are very close in securing us a quota if they can just do a tad bit better than they have been doing. They had a rough day on Race 3 where they finished 8 but if they can start getting in 5th they should be able to get us a quota!