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Last month, the World Men’s Handball Championship took place in Poland and Sweden, with the winner qualifying for the Olympics. However, GB did not qualify for the event. The 32 teams were: At the 2022 European Championships, we failed to emerge from Qualification Phase 1, coming third in our group, beating Ireland but losing to …

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Hello GB Games readers, and sorry for the absence. I decided to take some time off this blog for a couple of reasons, those being a vague busyness, especially with my visit to Qatar for the World Cup, and the fact that there weren’t any Olympic qualifier events anyway, apart from the BMX Freestyle World …

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The first qualification event for the sport of BMX Freestyle to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has taken place. The 2022 Urban Cycling World Championships in Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates saw two places up for grabs for both genders in the BMX Freestyle Park Contest. The venue was set up on …

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Handball is a sport that is well liked in Europe. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the podiums for both tournaments (men’s and women’s) were populated solely by European countries. But there is no history of it in this country, or at least, not much of it. A GB team entered the Olympics in 2012 for …

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The 2022 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were a great success for both the men’s and women’s teams, as both have now qualified for the Olympics. With a team qualifying, this also means the maximum of five individuals will also compete. Therefore, with over a year and a half to go to the Games, Great Britain …

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Great Britain’s male and female Artistic Gymnastics teams will enter a home World Championships knowing that Olympic qualification is on the line. The top three teams in both competitions will earn a place in the men’s and women’s events at the Olympic Games, which will also come with five individual spots. Held at the M&S …

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British shooters in the 50m and 25m events failed to make it past the qualification events in the World Championships (Rifle and Pistol) in Cairo, Egypt. With the top four places getting places in Paris (with the caveats that athletes that already earned a place were not eligible, and each country could only get one …

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Great Britain’s 10m shooters performed decently at the World Championships (Rifle and Pistol) in Cairo, Egypt, but didn’t make any progress in Olympic qualification. The top four athletes qualified, with the caveat that only one athlete per event could qualify from the same country. Starting with the Men’s 10m Air Rifle, Dean Bale and Michael …

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The next Olympic qualification event will again take place in shooting, with the World Championships (Rifle/Pistol) taking place in Cairo, Egypt. Held at the Egypt International Olympic City, a sport complex under development that will supposedly earn Africa its first Olympic Games in 2036, it will yield qualification spots for eight events: the Men’s 10m …

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Already-qualified Amber Hill won a silver medal at the World Championships (Shotgun) in Osijek, Croatia, but no athletes reached the Paris 2024 Olympics in the Skeet competition. The top four athletes in both the Men’s and Women’s Skeet competition would qualify, with at most one per NOC and the stipulation that those already qualified could …

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