Olá amigos,
Com pouco mais de 100 dias para ir , a abundância de aspirantes do Rio e selecionados os atletas estão em ação no fim de semana (With just over 100 days to go, plenty of Rio hopefuls and selected athletes are in action over the weekend).
Our shooters are in Rio for the test event, our sailors are in France for the World Cup and our mountain bike athletes kick off their World Cup campaign in Cairns.
Sport: Shooting
Event: Rio Test Event (Rio, Brazil)
Start time: Friday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing include: Dane Sampson, Warren Potent, Keith Ferguson, Paul Adams
http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/news/willett-claims-first-world-cup-win-in-rio
Sport: Triathlon
Event: ITU World Tritahlon Series #3 (Cape Town, South Africa)
Start time: Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Erin Densham
Sport: Cycling - Mountain Bike
Event: World Cup (Cairns, Australia)
Start time:
AUS athletes competing: Daniel McConnell, Cameron Ivory, Brendon Johnston, Scott Bowden, Rebecca Henderson, Peta Mullins
http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/news/cairns-world-cup-crucial-for-aussie-s-rio-hopes
Sport: Taekwondo
Event: German Open (Hamburg, Germany)
Start time: Saturday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Caroline Marton, Carmen Marton, Safwan Khalil, Hayder Shkara
http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/news/three-podiums-for-aussies-at-spanish-open
Sport: Diving
Event: World Series (Kazan, Russia)
Start time: Saturday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Melissa Wu, Esther Qin, Maddison Keeney and Domonic Bedggood.
http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/news/australians-look-to-make-a-statement-in-kazan/
Sport: Golf
Event: Texas Open (San Antonio, USA)
Start time: Thursday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Geoff Ogilvy, Greg Chalmers, John Senden, Rhein Gibson, Matt Jones, Cam Percy, Stuart Appleby, Rod Pampling, Ryan Ruffles
Sport: Golf
Event: LPGA Classic (San Francisco, USA)
Start time: Thursday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Minjee Lee, Sarah Kemp, Su Oh, Sarah Smith, Katherine Kirk
Sport: Tennis
Event: Bucharest ATP (Bucharest, Romania)
Start time: Thursday-Sunday
AUS athletes competing: Bernard Tomic
Sport: Athletics
Event: IAAF Race Walking Challenge ( Taicang ,China)
Start time: Saturday 23 April
AUS athletes competing: Jared Tallent
Sport: Athletics
Event: London Marathon (Great Britain)
Start time: Sunday 24 April
AUS athletes competing: Craig Mottram, Shawn Forrest and Cassie Fien. N.B. Liam Adams is also racing in the Warsaw Marathon.
Sport: Canoe Slalom
Event: Pyrenes Cup (Seu, Spain)
Days: Saturday and Sunday
AUS athletes: Lucien Delfour
