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Sadly Britain's best chance of a top 8 performance, Zoe Smith has had to withdraw from the weighlifting World Champs with a virus. A missed chance to get Olympic qualifying points.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/weightlifting/30008104 The lighter-weight men who have been in action so far have not been doing well in competitions largely dominated by the Asians. |
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Women's Boxing World Championships have started this week in Jeju, South Korea. In this competition boxers fight for the home nations, so the complete team is
Lisa Whiteside, England 54 Kg (has won her first fight) Chantelle Cameron, England 60 Kg Charlene Jones, Wales 60 Kg (also won first fight) Sandy Ryan, England 64 Kg Stacey Copeland, England 69 Kg Savannah Marshall, England 75 Kg Lauren Price, Wales 75 Kg Finals day is 24 November |
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Two British fighters got through to the finals of the Women's Boxing World Championships today - Lisa Whiteside in the Flyweight, and Sandy Ryan in the Light Welterweight. Unfortunately, they both got beaten, so two silver medals was the final haul.
http://www1.skysports.com/boxing/new...n-claim-silver http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/30168577 |
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Another big event coming up over the next couple of weeks in Hockey - the Champions' Trophy. First up is the women's event, being held in Argentina starting on Saturday and running till Sunday 7th Dec - England have qualified. Lots of games live on Sky Sports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wo...ampions_Trophy |
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Another thing - the World Short Course Swimming Champs from Qatar (well, at least not so bad for swimming as for others sports). Not much TV or even streaming coverage as far as I can see, but quite a few of the big British names from the summer will be there
http://www.swimming.org/britishswimm...he-world/22645 The British Gas GBR Swimming team comprises: Adam Barrett - British Gas GBR National Centre, Loughborough James Guy - Millfield Adam Peaty – City of Derby Ben Proud – Plymouth Leander Chris Walker-Hebborn - British Gas GBR National Centre, Bath Jazz Carlin – TBC Georgia Davies - British Gas GBR National Centre, Loughborough Fran Halsall - British Gas GBR National Centre, Loughborough Hannah Miley – Garioch Siobhan Marie O’Connor - British Gas GBR National Centre, Bath Sophie Taylor – London Aquatics Centre |
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More about the World Short Track. Ross Murdoch was also scheduled to go but had to pull out with an infection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/swimming/30289683 |
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More about the World Short Course Swimming - Eurosport have the rights, but they aren't showing it live in the UK because snooker 24/7. It might be live on the Eurosport Player, though. There are various highlight packages over the weekend.
First set of medals will be tonight, news here http://www.teamgb.com/news/miley-lea...g-night-worlds |
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I didn't get to see any of the swimming last week, but Britain's swimmers continued their good run - 7 silvers and 1 bronze and 18 British records. Particularly good were Adam Peaty and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, both got 3 silvers.
Full list Adam Peaty: Silver - 50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke and 4x50m mixed medley relay Hannah Miley: Bronze - 400m individual medley Jazz Carlin: Silver - 800m freestyle Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: Silver - 100m individual medley, 200m individual medley and 4x50m mixed medley relay Fran Halsall: Silver - 4x50m mixed medley relay Chris Walker-Hebborn: Silver - 4x50m mixed medley relay James Guy: Silver - 400m freestyle http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/swimming/30368934 |
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The 127th IOC Session is underway. So far, 13 of the 40 proposals in 'Olympic Agenda 2020' have been approved (none rejected yet).
Of most interest to me is that the 28-sport cap in the Summer Olympics has been replaced by caps on athletes (10,500) and events (310). This means that the likes of squash may have another chance to join the programme in a relatively short space of time. |
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Time to revive this thread, there are a few things starting to happen, many of them with Olympic qualifying relevance.
First up, the Modern Pentathlon World Cup season begins this weekend in Florida British Team here |
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Good news from the Modern Pentathlon World Cup - Samantha Murray won in Sarasota, and Kate French took bronze.
http://www.teamgb.com/news/olympic24...d-while-whelan |
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And Team GB do the double in the Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Sarasota - James Cooke won the men's event yesterday.
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Triathlon World Series starts up again in Abu Dhabi this weekend - both men's and women's races on Saturday, BT Sport 2 and BBC Red button.
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More news about the British team for the opening leg of the World Triathlon Series
Jonathon Brownlee and Jodie Stimpson will lead the British Team. Alistair Brownlee has an ankle injury, and Non Stanford and Helen Jenkins are both fit, but still in training. The races themselves are sprints, not the full two-hour distance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/triathlon/31716142 |
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Not sure if this is the correct thread but pleased to hear that Kelly Sotherton got her medal back after the Crimewatch appeal
(The culprit put it in a letterbox) |
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Round 2 of the Triathlon World Series from Auckland, New Zealand overnight tonight.
23:45 Women's Race - BBC Red Button and BT Sport 2 04:30 Men's Race - BBC Red Button and BT Sport 1 |
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The FA have scrapped plans to send GB Men's and Women's Football teams to Rio
The home nations couldn't agree on it and the FA abandoned the idea yesterday. Both teams reached the quarter finals at London 2012 |
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Free and totally legal sport all week on Youtube - www.ehlhockey.tv/ the European Hockey League where men's club teams battle it out for the annual trophy, with 4 quarters of 15' and shoot-outs after draws!
Think we should have a single thread where viewers can alert us to what's on live, free and legal? |
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Would be a great idea, I find it hard to follow sports like sailing, diving, martial arts etc where there is a lot going on and it's hard to know what are the important competitions and which aren't
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Would be a great idea, I find it hard to follow sports like sailing, diving, martial arts etc where there is a lot going on and it's hard to know what are the important competitions and which aren't
*Ask the mods to make it a sticky??* |
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British Gymnastics have named the team for the European Championships later this Month in France. This championships have individual All Around and Apparatus titles up for grabs.
With no team competition and on the back of his British title on Pommel last week Louis Smith gets a call up to the British team for the first time since London 2012. With Berki missing from these champs it may be a chance for Louis to finally get a major individual gold medal (and it could be his last chance as for the Worlds in Glasgow later this year and Rio he probably won't get selected as the team event will be a big priority). Max Whitlock has also been selected although he's been ill recently and tweeted earlier this week that he had been diagnosed as suffering from low level glandular fever. I wonder given this if he will just do Pommel rather than All Around. Ordinarily he'd obviously have a great chance of winning All Around gold but I'd rather he didn't push his body too much as we want him 100% for Glasgow later this year and of course for 2016. The rest of the men's squad is experienced too with Sam Oldham returning after his nasty ankle injury he picked up at the Commonwealths. The women's team is a mixture of youth & experience with last year's breakthrough star Claudia Fragapane joined by Becky Downie. Also making their senior Team GB debuts are Becky's younger sister Ellie & new British All Around champ Amy Tinkler. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/gymnastics/32173972 |
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The British Canoe Slalom team for the summer events has been named after last weekends' selection races.
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/...4253--spt.html First major event are the European Championships 28-31 May, then 5 World Cups over the summer, the World Championships at Lee Valley in 16-20 September and a Rio test event in November. |
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For those seeking to attend the 2015 Canoe Slalom WCh, here's the website (programme / tickets / etc).
Here's the equivalent for the 2015 Artistic Gymnastics WCh. |
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Several things this weekend.
Round 3 of the Triathlon World Series from the Gold Coast, Australia. Live on BBC Red Button and BT Sport on Saturday morning. Johnny Brownlee looks like he is going for the overall World Series win this year, but no sign yet of Alistair or our top-ranked women. 02:00 Women's race 05:00 Men's race Round 3 of the Modern Pentathlon World Cup from Rome No details about web streaming, but it will be here https://www.youtube.com/user/uipmchannel/videos BT Sport have started showing the highlights of earlier rounds of the World Cup, so there is some coverage on TV again. European Weightlifting Championships from Tbilisi, Georgia. Runs all next week, full coverage on Eurosport as usual. British team news |
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And we also have the World Taekwando Championships starting on Sunday in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Don't see any TV coverage, but the web source is here. Feature about Jade Jones, our Olympic Gold Medallist. Full GB squad. |
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