Taekwondo write up

http://www.teamgb.com/news/sansum-an...y-world-champs

And good news this morning for Team Brownlee - next years Triathlon World Series will feature a race from Leeds. Don't fancy the swimming leg much.

This weekend we have:

Canoe sprint World Cup #2 from Germany. Live on Eurosport on Saturday and Sunday mornings. This will be the first event of the year in which the full GB Squad compete, so they need to start getting near to London form again.

Also live on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYu_1Gosxjs

Diving World Series from Windsor, Ontario. Team GB have been medalling consistently all year. Live streaming on Fina TV

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fina/diving/index.html

Cross-Country Mountain Bike from Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. Live on Red Bull TV. on Sunday at 10:00 Women and 13:00 Men.

http://www.redbull.tv/videos/event-s...-country-women
http://www.redbull.tv/videos/event-s...ss-country-men

Some big events this weekend

Rowing. First meeting of the season for the full GB Rowing Squad, the European Championships in Poznan from Friday to Sunday.

Full coverage on BBC Red button Sunday morning 09:30-13:45
BBC2 coverage of the major finals 11:30-13:50

Streaming coverage
http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesu...ite/index.html

British team news
http://www.britishrowing.org/news/20...onships-poland

Triathlon

The World Series reaches London on Sunday, the now-traditional Hyde Park Course. It's over the shorter sprint distance, which doesn't usually favour the Brits.

BBC2 Sunday 14:50-18:00 Men's race 15:05, Women's race 16:45

http://wts.triathlon.org/news/articl...d_on_home_turf
http://wts.triathlon.org/news/articl...for_wts_london

Canoe Sprint

World Cup 3 from Copehagen. Eurosport are in all-tennis mode, so only coverage is streaming via YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe-5t7mOltw

Canoe slalom

Didn't see this before, but this weekend also sees the British Slalom team in International action for the first time this season, at the European Championships in Markkleeberg,Germany.

British team details here.

http://www.canoeslalom.co.uk/info/28...hips_Press.pdf

Don't see any streaming or other coverage.

Lots of very encouraging performances from British performers this weekend in all the Olympic sitting-down-and-floating sports.

Rowing European Champs
6 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze, so 10 medals out of 15 finalists.
http://www.teamgb.com/news/glover-an...ow-class-euros

Canoe Slalom European Champs
1 Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32910805

Canoe Sprint World Cup 3 in Copenhagen
1 Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/...1911--spt.html

A few things this weekend apart from the usual and the sports in Baku

World Cup Sailing from Weymouth -
Sunday 11:00 BBC Red Button, Coverage of the medal round of races.

Women's Basketball
Britain's women's basketball team are in the last chance saloon this weekend, they need to get some heroic wins against big-name nations at the European Champs to continue their hopes of Rio qualification and retain their lottery funding. Coverage on BBC Red Button and streaming all weekend.

First game, GBR v Russia 18:00 Tonight.

Full details of the British team schedule here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/basketball/32753413

And the overall competition website is here.

Women's Hockey
The World League semi-finals are going on in Valencia. 10 countries competing, top 3 get automatic early qualification to Rio 2016, GBR off to a good start, beating Spain 2-0 last night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/hockey/32890742

Coverage on Sky Sports all weekend.

Good weekend for Britain's sailers in the Weymouth World Cup - in the Olympic class races we got 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze, so well on target for Rio. Golds for Giles Scott in the Finn, Nick Dempsey in the windboard and Mills/Clark in the 470.

Not so good for the women's basketball team, they have lost all three of their games so far, so are definitely out of the Rio qualifying places.

And the women's hockey team are well on course for qualification for the semis, with wins over Spain, Argentina and Canada. Final group game is against China on Tuesday.

The major event this weekend is the Rowing World Cup from Varese, Italy. After GB's success in the Europeans a couple of weeks ago comes a real test against the rest of the world, especially New Zealand and the Aussies. 10:35 Sunday, BBC Red Button.

And Team GB's rowers managed to continue their form from the European Champs - 4 golds, a silver and 4 bronze in Varese.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/33215299

Next World Cup is in Lucerne, 10-12 July.

They won gold in the LTAMix4+ as well (full results here), so 5 gold / 10 medals overall. 7 of those (4 gold + 3 bronze) were won in Olympic classes.

Table Tennis
07:30 Saturday, Japan Open from Kobe.

Expect to see all the Europeans from last week knocked out in the early rounds.

Canoe Slalom World Cup

11:30 Saturday Live Coverage from Krakow, Eurosport

Injury for Jonny Brownlee makes him a doubt for the Olympic selection races in Rio and Chicago at the end of the summer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33340943

Universiade

This weekend sees the beginning of the biennial summer Universiade - ie the World Student Games. Unlike the European Games, it sticks quite tightly to Olympic sports only and isn't dragged out over 18 days. The east European, Asian and North Americans always send very strong teams, often including people competing at the top world level. We don't send any teams at all, but it's possible that some individuals might be competing. Expect cute manga-type mascots.

There's lots of coverage all next week on Eurosport, starting on Sunday.

Rather eccentric Korean-English Official Site here.

http://www.gwangju2015.com/

Full programme on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Summer_Universiade

Canoe slalom
Third Canoe slalom World Cup event of the season, this time from Liptovsky, Slovakia. Team GB have been doing pretty well in the last two meets, a good haul of minor medals and lots of athletes getting into the top 10 final runs. No space on Eurosport, but streaming on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/CanoeKayakTV/featured

The Modern Pentathlon World Championships were held in Berlin at the weekend - again, no TV coverage, not even streaming. Team GB didn't do very well - best was Sam Murray in 5th in the womens, but none of the men made the top 20, so no early Olympic Qualifying places

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/modern-pentathlon/33393805

Next up will be the European Champs in Bath in August.

Up this weekend

Rowing
Third and final World Cup of the season from Lucerne, Switzerland. BBC coverage is a bit truncated because of Wimbledon, but it's on BBC Red Button 2 on 12:30, Sunday, highlights on BBC 2 on Monday. Full stream is on Eurovision sports

http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesu...ite/index.html

Universiade
Eurovision has lots of coverage - this weekend is mostly athletics, swimming, volleyball. From what I have seen so far the standard is pretty high - the Russians etc seem to be sending their World level athletes in several sports.

Triathlon
European Championships from Geneva this weekend. The main races are on Saturday, with a mixed relay on Sunday. British teams are

Elite senior women
Lucy Hall, Jessica Learmonth, India Lee, Emma Pallant, Jodie Stimpson

Elite senior men
David Bishop, Thomas Bishop, Matthew Sharp, Grant Sheldon

Don't see any TV or streaming coverage.

5 medals for GB's rowers in Lucerne, all in Olympic events - 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze. The men's eight was a great battle with Germany, with GB just getting the last surge time right.

In the European Triathlon, we had two top-ten finishes in both the men's and the women's races, and bronze medals from Ben Dijkstra in the Junior Men and from the Mixed Relay.

The World Fencing Championships start this week in Moscow - we are sending pretty much the same team as went to the European Games in Baku. No doubt the French and Italians in particular will be looking for revenge in the Men's Team Foil.

Big event this weekend is the resumption of the Triathlon World Series from Hamburg - two sprint races on Saturday, a mixed relay on Sunday. The Brownlee brothers are out through injury so Britain's men will be Gordon Benson, fresh from his win in Baku and Mark Buckingham. Women's team is Non Stanford, Vicky Holland and Jodie Stimpson.

BBC Red Button Saturday 14:15 - 18:15
BBC Red Button Sunday 15:30-17:30
BBC 2 Monday 13:20-14:20

Some good results from the Hamburg Triathlon - in the women's race a silver for Vicky Holland and a bronze for Non Stanford. More importantly, Vicky Holland was the only person so far this year to get anywhere near the all-conquering Gwen Jorgensen.

The men didn't do so well in the solo race, but they made up for it on Friday with a bronze in the mixed relay (Holland, Gordon Benson, Stanford & Mark Buckingham). Actually they were a bit lucky - the Germans would probably have beaten them but for a 10 sec penalty.

Next event is the Rio test in two weeks time - it's not clear if this will be on TV or not. Any top 3 finish guarantees an Olympic place.

Our fencers could not repeat the Baku miracle in the World Champs in Moscow - the men's team foil eventually finished fifth overall. We beat Germany, but lost to silver medallists Russia in the quarters. However, we then beat the USA and South Korea in the ranking competition to finish fifth overall.

British Squads named for the World Rowing Champs in Aigubelette, France, 30 Aug-6 September

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/33606951

Hadn't known these were on, but Jennifer McIntosh has just finished fourth in the European Shooting Championship in the Women's Rifle Three Position, so secured Britain's first earned Olympic place in the women's rifle since 1988 - we already have three other places, all in shotgun.

http://www.teamgb.com/news/mcintosh-...io-quota-place

This weekend sees the BMX World Championships from Belgium.

Friday: Qualification and Time Trials
Saturday: Elimination and Medal Races.

BBC have livestream coverage from 16:35 Saturday, plus Red Button Coverage from 18:00. BBC 2 Highlights 09:35 Sunday

Live stream: http://www.bmxzolder.be/wkbmx/en/

News from the British team here

And next week also sees yet another Multisports event, the European Youth Olympic Festival from Tblisi, Georgia. 9 sports are represented, Athletics, Basketball, Road Cycling, Gymnastics, Handball, Judo, Swimming, Tennis & Volleyball.

http://tbilisi2015.com/en/

Britain aren't sending a full team - hardly surprising given that there is so much else on - but we have strong representation in Cycling, Gymnastics and Judo.

http://www.sportsaid.org.uk/news/art...ympic-festival

5 medals for Team GB in the first two days of the European Youth Olympics Festival [ie athletes in their mid-teens, so one step younger than the Baku teams] in Tbilisi

GOLD! for the men's gymnastics team - Hamish Carter, Joe Fraser and Gianni Regini-Moran. Plus tons of high qualifying places for the individual overall and apparatus finals.

Silver for Rebecca Sutton in the 400m Individual Medley

Silver for Emily Large in the 200 Butterfly

Bronze for Lauren Dolan in the girl's cycling individual team trial.

Bronze for Elinor Southward in the 100m backstroke

Congratulations on these results.

Something special could be on the cards in Tbilisi - Joe Fraser added overall boy's GOLD to his team gymnastics gold yesterday. He is also qualified for all four apparatus finals.

We've also added five bronzes: Fred Wright in the Boy's Cycling Road Race, Katie Robertson in the 100m Breaststroke, Sophie Hobbah in the 200m Backstroke and the the 200m IM and Annalea Davidson in the 400m Freestyle.

And since I posted this, GOLD for Gianni Regini-Moran and Silver for Hamish Carter in the men's floor!

And Joe Fraser takes silver on the pommel horse and bronze on the rings.