Sailing and Volleyball have updated their qualification systems to the Paris 2024 Olympics. Sailing The main addition to Sailing’s procedures is confirmation that the 2024 Last Chance Regatta is now confirmed to take place in Hyeres, France, on 18-27 April 2024. The event will qualify five boats each in the Windsurfing and Kite competitions (for …
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Hill bags GB another shooting quota place in Larnaca
With the European Shooting Championships (Shotgun) still going on in Larnaca, there were two more chances for British shooters to punch their tickets to Tokyo early on in the cycle in the Men’s and Women’s Skeet competitions, with the top two getting a place. In the Men’s Skeet, Ben Llewellin, Karl Frederick Killander, and Michael …
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Shooting: Brits head to Wrocław chasing unlikely Paris spot
While the European Shotgun Championships continue in Larnaca, Cyprus, the next shooting qualifying event is about to begin. The European 25m/50m Championships take place, and all the rules in Larnaca apply in Wrocław, but for four different events (the Men’s and Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions, the Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol, and the Women’s 25m …
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Hall snags GB’s first shooting spot at Paris 2024
Lucy Charlotte Hall was the toast of British shooting yesterday after a silver medal at the European Championships (Shotgun) in Larnaca, Cyprus confirmed GB would be sending a team to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With the Men’s and Women’s trap events taking place, the top two would get a spot. On the men’s side, …
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Coward Holley among Brits in Cyprus looking for Paris spot
It’s August in Cyprus, and like every year, all of Europe is eager to visit. Thousands of Europeans (and more importantly, millions of Euros) will descend of the beaches, restaurants, and hotels of the paradisaic island nation. But a significant amount of Europeans will instead be heading to the small village of Teresefanou (population: 1300): …
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BMX Freestyle: Paris 2024 qualifying procedure revealed
The last and most modern Cycling discipline, BMX Freestyle has had its qualification system for Paris 2024 announced. BMX Freestyle BMX Freestyle has two events: a Men’s and Women’s Park event. Both have twelve quotas at the Games, up from nine in 2020: at most two per NOC per gender. The systems are the same …
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Herning: GB jumpers qualify with brilliant bronze
With an expected qualification in dressage coming a few days ago, the second and final Olympic qualification event at the 2022 FEI World Championships came in the jumping competition. In Olympic jumping, there will be 20 teams of three in Paris, with seventy-five individuals: the sixty team members and fifteen who qualified separately. This would …
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Equestrian: Jumping places the latest to be decided in Herning
After a silver medal shaped success for our dressage team in the 2022 FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark, the focus now turns to the Jumping competition where five team places (and hence fifteen individual ones) are up for grabs. There are seventy-five athletes in the jumping competition in Paris 2024: the three members of …
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Silver medal in Herning GB’s ticket to Paris
Equestrianism is a unique sport on the Olympic calendar: the only sport where there is no distinction between sex or gender, and now that modern pentathlon is abolishing the equestrian part of its programme, it will be the only sport involving animals from Paris 2024 onwards. And perhaps dressage is the most unique event of …
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GB Riders hoping for no drama in Herning
The first qualification spots for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the sport of equestrian will be decided in Herning, Denmark, as the 2022 FEI World Equestrian Games come to town. In the Olympics’ only non-gendered sport, there are three events: Dressage, Eventing, and Jumping. Spots for the team event in Dressage and Jumping will …
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