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Russia-Ukraine Crisis Consequences in Sports
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World Athletics has made a decision to exclude all Russian, Belarusian and ANA-athletes from Russia from World Athletics events for the foreseeable future. 

 

Upcoming events includes:

 

- World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 2022

- World Athletics Indoor Championships 2022

- World Athletics Championships 2022

 

https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-athletics-council-sanctions-russia-and-belarus

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis Consequences in Sports
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2 hours ago, Wumo said:

A rumour, from a source, states that FIFA will suspend all Russian national teams from its' competitions.

 

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/fifa-set-suspend-russia-internationals-source-2022-02-28/

It has now been confirmed by FIFA. All Russian national and clubs teams have been suspended until further notice.

 

https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/fifa-uefa-suspend-russian-clubs-and-national-teams-from-all-competitions

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Athletes Deaths Thread
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Athletics sprinter, :ECU Alex Quiñonez, has been found dead at the age of 32. Cause of death is according to official sources due to gunshot wounds.. :(

Quiñonez won bronze at the 2019 World Athletics Championships at the 200m distance.

 

https://olympics.com/en/news/olympic-sprinter-alex-quinonez-found-dead-in-ecuador

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Your Country's 2020 Sportsman/Sportswoman of the year???
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- Sportsman: I would say it's pick between Viktor Axelsen (badminton) for his All-England win as the first European and Danish Men's Singles winner since 1999, or Sverri Nielsen (rowing) for his gold at the European Rowing Championships in Men's Single Sculls (M1x). I would personally pick Sverri Nielsen. Maybe because Viktor Axelsen has already won sportsperson of the year before. 

 

- Sportswoman: Pernille Harder (football). Honourable mention would be Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (cycling)

 

- Team of the year: Track cycling 4km Pursuit Team. They set 3 world records during the World Championships. Without a doubt the sports performance of the year from any Danish athletes. 

 

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Your Favorite Olympic Moments
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My Olympic memories doesn't go that far back due to my age. 

 

Athens 2004 - My  first Olympic memory ever was me watching the men's shot put final from the Ancient Olympia Stadium and see Joachim B. Olsen winning bronze, later upgraded to silver. My favourite moment from the games however was the epic women's handball final between Denmark and South Korea. I remember little me was very entertained and excited throughout this final. 

 

Torino 2006 - I didn't follow these games very much as I was still only watching sports occasionally. My favourite moment was probably watching Vincent Defrasne winning gold in men's pursuit, biathlon. 

 

Beijing 2008 - First Olympics I watched clinched to the tv screen and tried to record as much of it on my tv-recorder.  My favourite moments from these Olympics are Usain Bolt's gold and WR on men's 100m and Yelena Isinbayeva's gold and WR in women's pole vault. An honourable mention should also go to Kirketerp and Warrer's dramatic gold medal in the 49er-class, sailing. 

 

Vancouver 2010 - Simon Amman's double gold in men's ski jumping was a true Olympic moment for me. 

 

London 2012 - David Rudisha's incredible WR in men's 800m and Usain Bolt's 200m WR, athletics. Special mentions go to MIchael Phelps becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time and Lasse Norman's Gold in omnium, track cycling.

 

Sochi 2014 - Tina Maze and Dominique Gisin's shared gold in women's downhill, alpine skiing. Also Kamil Stoch's double gold in ski jumping was a personal highlight. 

 

Rio 2016 - So many favourite moments from these games! Pernille Blume's 50m freestyle gold in swimming, the Danish men's handball team winning gold, Sara Slott Petersen's winning silver in women's 400m hurdles, athletics, and lastly Jakob Fuglsang's silver medal in men's road race, cycling. My favourite of these are probably Sara Slott Petersen's silver as it's really rare for a Danish athlete to win a medal in athletics. 

 

PyeongChang 2018 - Ester Ledecká's gold in women's super-g, alpine skiing, was incredible to witness.  Sven Kramer' wining his 3rd gold medal in a row in the 5000m distance, speed skating.

 

Tokyo 2020 - Hopefully seeing Armand Duplantis setting a new WR in men's pole vault, athletics. Following closely how Anna Emilie Moller will do in women's 3000m steeplechase, athletics. Hopefully a top 10 will be achieved. 

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Athletes Retirements Thread
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Alpine skier, :NOR Maren Skjoeld, has decided to end her career after she was not selected for the Norwegian team for the upcoming season. 

Skjoeld won bronze with the Norwegian team in the Team Event at the 2018 WOG in Pyeongchang.

 

Spoiler

 

 

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International Olympic Committee News
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I stumble upon this interesting article on playthegame by Jens Weinreich about how dependent many IFs are on the revenues from the Olympics:

https://playthegame.org/news/news-articles/2020/0644_how-federations-share-the-revenues-from-the-olympic-games/

 

Some paragraphs from the articles:

"...In 15 of 28 federations, the share of IOC revenues is between 35 and 96 percent. Some of these international federations are therefore in a situation that threatens their very existence: Gymnastics, Boxing (already almost insolvent and banned), Rowing, Shooting, Weightlifting, Archery, Fencing, Hockey, Canoeing, Triathlon, Wrestling, Sailing, Taekwondo, Golf and Modern Pentathlon. (Golf is an exception. Because the IGF was basically founded only to supervise the sport at the Olympic Games.)"

 

"The best insurance comes from Russian billionaires
At least half of the 28 federations can draw on large reserves in an emergency. It is often around 20 to 30 million francs in Swiss accounts. These reserves can help them survive the crisis, even if the IOC will not pay anything in advance but only at the end of 2021.

However, some federations such as Weightlifting have been living on these reserves for years because they cannot cover their expenses from ongoing operations. The situation seems to be most dramatic in the ICF (Canoeing) and UIPM (Modern Pentathlon) with over 90 percent dependency on the IOC.

According to annual reports, two federations, Shooting (ISSF) and Fencing (FIE) have hardly any substantial marketing revenues apart from the IOC royalties. The ISSF also receives more than 90 percent from the IOC. But in times of need, Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin will stand up for the ISSF.

"Shooting and fencing have the best insurance of all federations," said one IOC member.

In Fencing (FIE) the president, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, already donates an amount almost big as the IOC shares (on average over a four year period). There is not that much audited information provided by FIE. But there is an interesting and telling part in a report from the congress in 2018, held in Paris and financed by Usmanov.

The FIE delegates discussed the 2017 revenues: 11,582 million CHF overall with 5,764 million CHF from IOC - and 4,950 million as a donation from Alisher Usmanov, of course.

"I think our federation deserves it," said the billionaire.

"Applause" followed, according to the congress minutes.

Usmanov then continued: "In any case, for the future we need to understand that at present the financing of our federation is primarily supported by the President’s donations."

 

It's astonishing to see how dependent some IFs are. I kind of knew for some IFs the revenues from IOC and the Olympics contributed to a large part of their overall economy, but to see IF's like ICF and UIPM who's entire revenue almost comes from the IOC alone is baffling. 

Also no suprise to see how a few billionaires basically keep some IFs single-handedly alive with their contributions beside the revenues they get from IOC. 

 

I'm also going to link this article by Liam Morgan from ITG:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1093690/federations-coronavirus-opportunity

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Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak
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UEG has cancelled the following events:

  • European Championships in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics – Paris (FRA) – 30 April to 3 May 2020
  • European Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline – Gothenburg (SWE) – 7 to 10 May 2020
  • European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics – Kyiv (UKR) – 21 to 24 May 2020
  • European Championships in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics – Baku (AZE) – 27 to 31 May 2020

 

UEG have contacted FIG to find a solution as many of the events work as Olympic qualification events.

https://www.ueg.org/news/covid-19-update-event-cancellations

 

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Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak
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Athletics - "Due to the growing number of countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, the first three meetings of the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season, scheduled for 17th April in Qatar, 9th and 16th May 2020 in China, cannot be held as planned. This decision was made in close consultation with organising committees, local authorities and sports governing bodies... The current plan is to stage the Shanghai event on 13th August. New dates for Doha and the second meeting in China remain to be announced. It could be that they will be held after the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich from 9th through 11th September, where the Diamond League Champions will be crowned, should the global situation allow".

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/news/wanda-diamond-league-suspends-early-season-ev

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The IFSC African Championships (March 19-22) in Cape Town (RSA)  and the IFSC Oceania Championships (March 28-29) in Sydney (AUS) have been postponed. New dates of these two competitions have yet to be decided.

https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/319-update-on-ifsc-competitions

 

World Archery has suspended all international competitions until April 30th. 

https://worldarchery.org/news/178285/international-archery-suspended-until-30-april-due-covid-19-outbreak

So, the Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico (23-29 March) and the Oceania Championships in Fiji (5-9 April) will be postponed. 

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Badminton 

"The BWF announced late this evening, Kuala Lumpur time, that it had taken the necessary step to suspend all HSBC BWF World Tour and other BWF-sanctioned tournaments from Monday 16 March until Sunday 12 April 2020.

Tournaments affected include the YONEX Swiss Open 2020, YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2020, Orléans Masters 2020, CELCOM Axiata Malaysia Open 2020, and Singapore Open 2020, as well as a number of international Grade 3 tournaments.

A number of the tournaments impacted as a result of the suspension fall within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying period. BWF will make a further announcement on regulations related to Olympic qualification points at a later date".

https://corporate.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2020/03/13/bwf-sanctioned-tournaments-suspended-16-march-12-april/

 

Tournaments affected:

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Sport Events going on during the Coronavirus Outbreak
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2 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

In terms of Olympic qualification, we have the Pan American wrestling qualifiers and European boxing qualifiers set to begin this weekend. As for events ending next weekend we still have the African Sport Climbing Championships though based on the starting list it might as well be a national championship. No word on the women's handball Olympic qualification tournament though.

Yesterday, IHF wrote that the women's OQT will go ahead as planned. 

The men’s OQT in Germany and Norway will be played without spectators. However, as people travelling from Republic of Korea are currently not allowed to enter Norway, the organiser of the men’s tournament in Norway will need to provide a solution or the tournament will be re-allocated.  

In France, the current restrictions, which would not allow the tournament to be held with spectators, are valid until 15 April. 

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/ihf-tokyo-handball-qualification-tournaments-be-held-scheduled

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Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak
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Table Tennis - ITTF suspends all activities provisionally until end of April. The suspension comes into effect from Monday 16th March 2020 and relates to all ITTF sanctioned events, High Performance and Development activities and ITTF Foundation activities that had been due to start between the above date and the end of April 2020.

https://www.ittf.com/2020/03/13/ittf-suspends-activities-provisionally-end-april/

 

So these Olympic Qualification events will be postponed:

Asia Qualification Event (April 6–12) in Bangkok, Thailand

Latin America Qualification Event (April 15–19) in Rosario, Argentina

Oceania Qualification Event (April 19–20) in Brisbane, Australia

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 WBSC Baseball Americas Qualification Event has been postponed.

https://olympicbaseball.wbsc.org/en/2020/e-2020-americas-baseball-olympic-qualifier/news/americas-olympic-baseball-qualifier-postponed

 

Climbing:

IFSC European Championships in Moscow (RUS), initially scheduled to take place from March 20 to 27 has been postponed. The competition is now scheduled from June 15 to 22.

Postponement of the IFSC World Cup in Meiringen (SUI), initially scheduled to take place from April 3 to 4, and the IFSC World Cup in Seoul (KOR), initially scheduled to take place from May 8 to 10; both competitions will likely be held between September and October.

Postponement of the circuit of IFSC Europe cups and IFSC Europe youth cups that were scheduled to take place in April and May; the IFSC Europe Sport Department is working closely with each event organiser in order to establish a new calendar for the competitions affected by this issue.

Two IFSC World Cup competitions initially scheduled to take place in Wujiang (CHN) and Chongqing(CHN) in April have been postponed.

Relocation of the IFSC Asian Championships initially scheduled to take place in Chongqing (CHN) from April 25 to May 3.

https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/319-update-on-ifsc-competitions

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