Unless anything changes, we have 83 going to Tokyo. Our smallest team since Barcelona 1992...
However this is including 9 in artistic swimming and 13 in water polo, so I guess some might say we have 81 and not 83?
I don't think in artistic swimming allowing 1 P card athlete. I mean we also want to use this P card if it exists because our duet athletes are 30+ years old and really wanna some rest. But the federation said the rules force them joining the team and only 8 quotas allowed.
Chinese fans call on our NOC to support and follow Korean’s movement to protect our athletes. We just can’t wait to politicize everything in OG. Let’s call it freedom of food.
Looking forward to seeing the banners from Korean. I would pick "No Nuclear Food","Apologize to Comfort Women" and "Dokdo is Korea". Chinese will not express their views on court, but if encouraged I will pick"Apologize to Nanjing Massacre", "Get Out of Diaoyu Islands" and "Releasing Nuclear Water is Genocide of Human Kind".
I highlight the unofficial sports with yellow and the rest part is official, still 408 is the best estimate number.
Athletics 52 is most probably correct based on Road to Tokyo list. I don't see any intention that we may give up any quotas including relays.
Diving 10 may change due to double starter situation, ranging from 9-10.
Swimming 30 may change due to relay consideration, ranging 30-33. Based on what I know China will not use maximum relay quotas.
Other issue, boxing may receive a reallocation quota in M91+kg due to Australian withdrawal and China count water polo 13 quotas due to unclarity on the qualification document as well as Japan counted 13.
China failed to exchange the unused men 10m air rifle quota so someone may receive this reallocation quota in coming days.
I highly doubt the opening uniform will be any different... I remembered one comment in a forum back in 2016 which that say Chinese opening uniform is always "omelette with tomatoes"
Maybe this time no omelette just tomatoes. The main color will be white and red this time. Still I don’t have any expectation either.
Yeah only Japanese and Korean have the possibility to do this.
It is still possible for Hong Kong to march as "Chuugoku Honkon (中国香港)" - we can't be sure on anything until the opening itself
I guess not but I’m looking forward to seeing the result. In this case Hong Kong should not be separated by China. Then only Taipei is separated. It’s not a beautiful art anymore and the purpose is over exposed. Obscurity is the art of Japan.
So China is actually not offended if Chinese Taipei marched before them except when China is hosting... I always thought that Nagano 1998 uses English because of this case.
Anyway it is Katakana instead of Hiragana
China is not offended at all. China hopes to lead right after Hong Kong and Taipei, but it’s fine if it doesn’t make it. Taipei asked to split them from China in Beijing 2008 and China agreed so I think it will not be barrier for other OG. But still it needs some sort of art to make it natural as what Japan just did.
Japanese are quite smart. Only Korea, China and Japan three NOCs are written in Kanji (Chinese Character), all other NOCs are written in Hiragana(phonetic Romanization). On one hand, it shows respect to neighbors because Kanji seems more classic than Hiragana. On the other hand, it splits Chinese Taipei and China to avoid sequence next to each other if written in Kanji at the same. It makes all sides satisfied.
And what if Laurel Habbard will win gold and the other competitors will decide to protest it, then is it legit? What subjects consider ok to protest? Is one agenda is ok and another is not?
Pro liberalism is allowed. Pro conservatism is forbidden. How dare you go against universal values!
I wouldn't agree. Athletes can still choose to compete if they have diarrhea. They are forbidden to compete if they have COVID.
For the withdrawer more or less similar, it's both very unlucky for them. But for their opponents(and opponents' future opponents), not for withdrawers, it's the real unfair part. Why could they benefit from opponents's withdrawal for one specific reason? They could withdraw for 100 reasons, but one of them makes me go to the next round.
It’s not that fair as it looks. it’s humanitarian but not fairness. For example, I lost in semi final but my opponent found COVID positive after that so I advance in final. And then I cherish this opportunity a lot, I defeated my opponent in final so I am the champion. To conclude I lost semifinal but I am the champion just because my opponent got a specific virus called COVID. But if he withdrew due to diarrhea then it’s a another story.
13 Badminton should be 14, I think it just a little counting error.
2 Modern Pentathlon should be eventually 4. The remaining 2 are still pending for confirmation of the federation(the women's quota is based on the assumption of wild card reallocation).
1 Tennis should be eventually 6. China directly qualified 3 women's single through ranking, but after the withdrawals and reallocation, China will qualify 6 women's full team.
2 Trampoline should be 4. The ranking period already ends just pending for announcement.
2 Beach Volleyball. FIVB already released the list. And another women and men's pair possibly qualify through Asian cup, so eventually number should be 4 or 6.
6 Judo. Women's 48, 57, 63, 78, 78+ by world ranking and women's 70 by continental quota.
Some extra information of other pending issue:
Golf should be eventually 4. 1 man and 2 women through ranking and 1 man pending for reallocation as top3 in waiting-list.
Artistic Gymnastics should be 12 after Doha World Cup stage finished.
Athletics is around 51-53 people including marathon and race walking, Swimming is around 30-32 people excluding open water.
Diving with 16 quotas but China will send up tp 11 people squad though list not released yet.
Based on my calculation and speculation, the final size of China will be around 410-415 without counting highly possible use of P cards.
WTF ?! so Derafshipour and Mahjoub are refugees !!! I really need to learn what the word refugee means. these guys still travel to Iran regularly.
Derafshipour is a world bronze medalist in Karate, he lost Iranian trials then moved to Canada. now he can go the Olympics without doing anything while the guy who beat him in the trials has to go through 80-man bracket in World Qualifiers to qualify.
this is the most disgusting thing from IOC, if these guys could qualify themselves by merit that was at least OK but even when they lost in the qualifiers, IOC found a way to let them in. lots of athletes around the world had to kill themselves to qualify for the Olympics while these guys can just walk to Tokyo.
Politics is everywhere especially when it seems political correctness.
According to Japanese tabloid Daily Shincho, in a Japanese Olympic athletes press conference, media are told not to raise question about vaccine and OG cancellation. Because if athletes tell the truth that they hope OG will be held then they will face backlash on internet.
I think it perfectly illustrated why we always see tennis/golf these rich professional players want OG canceled.
Japan might be slow in the vaccination campaign, but I don't understand how their situation can be considered that bad if the numbers shown on worldometers are correct. Having a quick look at the last days, they have like 6000 cases and 80 deaths per day and a total 1200 serious cases which is nothing if I compare those numbers with the Italian ones (the only ones I know on a regular basis). We have had days with 40000 cases and 800 deaths per day, with half of the population of Japan
As east asian I can understand. Generally East Asian are quite cautious of the virus. It’s more like emotional burden not really medical resources collapse. Currently Taiwan have around 200 cases per day, they also went crazy.
But I am always 100% confident OG will go ahead as scheduled. Another typical East Asian character is that we are superstisious. If the OG canceled, it would be seen as the fall of national fate and Japan’s future is screwed up.
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accepted their quota (based on the 
It’s not a beautiful art anymore and the purpose is over exposed. Obscurity is the art of Japan.
) will be the 4th nation into the stadium after Greece, the refugee team and Iceland.
Roger Federer could win men's single in his maybe last five events.
so Derafshipour and Mahjoub are refugees !!! I really need to learn what the word refugee means. these guys still travel to Iran regularly.
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I don't think in artistic swimming allowing 1 P card athlete. I mean we also want to use this P card if it exists because our duet athletes are 30+ years old and really wanna some rest. But the federation said the rules force them joining the team and only 8 quotas allowed.
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