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Very surprised to see that there will only be 1 event in Alpine Skiing (Slalom for men and women). Does anyone know why that is? 
 

looking back to when Harbin hosted past Universiade’s they’ve had super-g and giant slalom events. Seems like a very limited programme for what will no doubt be one of the most widely participated in sports.

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  On 3/5/2024 at 2:58 PM, thepharoah said:

African Games isn't a direct qualifying competition in Table tennis , we have the African Qualifiers in Kigali in May 

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Ah my mistake, got confused there! Would make sense as there would be no Egyptian involvement then

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  On 3/4/2024 at 8:08 PM, uk12points said:

So the qualifiers for the men’s table tennis quarterfinals from what I can tell are:

 

 

in that case who would get the 4th quota given Egypt has already qualified a team? 

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It appears that the results system is wrong and  beat  in one of the Round of 16 matches. 
 

Therefore the 4 qualifiers are Nigeria x2, Congo and Senegal.

 

Crisis of the 4th qualifier averted. 

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For the women the quarterfinalists are:

 

 

More straightforward for qualification 

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So the qualifiers for the men’s table tennis quarterfinals from what I can tell are:

 

 

in that case who would get the 4th quota given Egypt has already qualified a team? 

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Nordic Combined 

 All earn 4 quota (2 per gender)

 All earn 1 male quota 

 

 

 

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  On 8/4/2022 at 3:02 PM, Grassmarket said:

Do you know why? Usual reason in Para is classification issues.

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Apparently they turned up late and missed the necessary checks

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Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand have all withdrawn from the upcoming Universiade. Australia and USA won’t be sending athletes in swimming, unclear about other sports.

 

Main issues from GB appear to be Russia/Belarus (now resolved as they are banned), Covid-19 and travel restrictions (in particular the extensive regulations being required by China/organising committee, as athletes for these games are self funded and receive limited organisational support) 

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Great Britain team 

 

Alpine Skiing (4)

Boys - Ted Slade, Aidan Urquhart

Girls - Alexa Elliff, Isla Ward

 

Biathlon (1)

Girls - Anna Berger

 

Figure Skating (2)

Boys - Edward Appleby

Girls - Elena Komova 

 

Nordic Combined (1)

Girls- Mani Cooper

 

Short Track Speed Skating (1)

Boys - Adam Hill

 

Snowboarding (1)

Boys - Koby Cook

 

 

Our best chance of a medal will likely come from Edward Appleby in the Figure Skating, has had some very promising results in the past couple of years.

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  On 8/28/2019 at 8:43 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Would make perfect sense for them to host in 2023. @bestmen start campaigning . In all seriousness, I think  could pull it off.

I also wouldn’t count out a country like , , or

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2023 has already been awarded to Ghana and they seem pretty serious about it 

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Only medal event today was the Women’s Beach Volleyball:

 

G)  Egypt 

S)  Kenya

B)  Mozambique

 

The semi finals and medal matches for the men’s tournament will take place tomorrow. Hosts  Morroco play  South Africa, whilst  Rwanda face  Gambia for a spot in the final.

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  On 7/1/2019 at 1:46 AM, Olympian1010 said:

So, according to the Samoan government, the brand new Multi-Sports Complex (which will host the majority of the sports at the games) was founded and built by the People’s Republic of China. Apparently they got tired of building new Olympic Parks in every major city in China, so now they’re exporting them . Although If I had to guess the PRC offered to build the complex of a token of gratitude for Samoa recognizing them over ROC. 

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You're absolutely right! And guess who is building the main venues for the Solomon Islands Pacific Games in 2023, Taiwan! Because Solomon Islands still recognises ROC! The whole thing is called 'Stadium Diplomacy' and China and Taiwan are building stadiums across the developing world because of it. There was a funny story in Grenada where the contract for building the stadium was literally swapped from Taiwan to China halfway through construction because the government swapped their allegiances! 

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These games really lost momentum throughout the week for me, and the forum too it seems. First few days were exciting with lots of events and generated much discussion on the thread. By the later stages there were only a few events per day and lots of similar sports, the thread also seemed to lose interest too. It will be interesting to see what happens in Krakow, hopefully a proper aquatics and athletics program will make the games more exciting.

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  On 6/22/2019 at 12:17 PM, Olympian1010 said:

 just pulled of the heist and crime of the century by “beating”  performance of the century. I can’t believe  had the best routine I’ve ever seen. 

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Execution seems to be the main difference between them and one of the execution judges is Belgian!! The others are from France, Britain and Ukraine.

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Some info about the road race! It's very flat and 8 laps of a 15km circuit, the distance between the highest and lowest points is 32 metres!

 

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The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games organising committee have announced the final list of sports and venues for the Games. The major change compared to Gold Coast 2018 is that Beach Volleyball, Shooting and 5x5 Basketball have been dropped and replaced by Judo, Basketball 3x3 and Wheelchair Basketball

 

These are the sports:

• Aquatics - Diving, Swimming (Para)
• Athletics (Para)
• Badminton
• Basketball 3x3
• Boxing
• Cycling - Track (Para), Mountain Bike, Road
• Field Hockey
• Gymnastics - Artisitc, Rhythmic
• Judo
• Lawn Bowls
• Netball
• Rugby Sevens
• Squash
• Table Tennis
• Triathlon (Para)
• Weightlifting (Powerlifting)
• Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
• Wrestling

The venues for the games will be spread within Birmingham and the West Midlands region, with only 1 venue (London Olympic Velodrome) falling outside of the West Midlands.

• The Birmingham city centre venues include the National Exhibition Centre and attached Genting Arena, Birmingham Arena, Symphony Hall and Victoria Square.
• Other Birmingham venues include University of Birmingham, Alexander Stadium, Villa Park Stadium.
• The West Midlands venues include the planned Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Coventry Arena, Royal Leamington Spa Bowls Club, Sutton Coldfield Park, Cannock Chase.

I'm impressed by this plan, mainly as only 1 venue (Sandwell Aquatics Centre) will have to be newly built and other venues will be upgraded at the University and Alexander stadium which will become a stadium worthy of being the home of British Athletics. It's a shame Shooting was unable to make the program, the National Shooting Centre is in Surrey and had been proposed but it is a few hours drive away, but since it is only an optional sport the Gommonwealth Games Federation surely saw it's exclusion coming!

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Since there has been a discussion throughout the games about how NOCs have been claiming mixed team medals as their own I thought I'd have a look and see who the mixed team medalists are! Prepare for a long list!

 

Italy: 6-2-0 (8)

Hungary: 4-1-0 (5)

Bulgaria: 3-1-0 (4)

China: 3-1-0 (4)

Spain: 2-2-2 (6)

Mexico: 2-1-2 (5)

Ukraine: 2-1-2 (5)

France: 2-1-1 (4)

Vietnam: 2-1-0 (3)

United States: 2-0-7 (9)

Australia: 1-3-2 (6)

Egypt: 1-2-3 (6)

Japan: 1-2-3 (6)

Russia: 1-2-3 (6)

Chinese Taipei: 1-2-0 (3)

India: 1-2-0 (3)

Germany: 1-1-4 (6)

Colombia: 1-1-0 (2)

Portugal: 1-1-0 (2)

Belarus: 1-0-1 (2)

Canada: 1-0-1 (2)

Poland: 1-0-1 (2)

Slovenia: 1-0-1 (2)

South Africa: 1-0-1 (2)

Sweden: 1-0-1 (2)

Uzbekistan: 1-0-1 (2)

Azerbaijan: 1-0-0 (1)

Cambodia: 1-0-0 (1)

Croatia: 1-0-0 (1)

Denmark: 1-0-0 (1)

Haiti: 1-0-0 (1)

Honduras: 1-0-0 (1)

Mongolia: 1-0-0 (1)

Panama: 1-0-0 (1)

Singapore: 1-0-0 (1)

Sri Lanka: 1-0-0 (1)

Switzerland: 1-0-0 (1)

Venezuela: 1-0-0 (1)

Argentina: 0-4-2 (6)

New Zealand: 0-3-0 (3)

Great Britain: 0-2-1 (3)

Netherlands: 0-2-0 (2)

South Korea: 0-2-0 (2)

Thailand: 0-2-0 (2)

Belgium: 0-1-1 (2)

Czech Republic: 0-1-1 (2)

Ecuador: 0-1-1 (2)

Kazakhstan: 0-1-1 (2)

Kyrgyzstan: 0-1-1 (2)

Tajikistan: 0-1-1 (2)

Zimbabwe: 0-1-1 (2)

Costa Rica: 0-1-0 (1)

Estonia: 0-1-0 (1)

Fiji: 0-1-0 (1)

Hong Kong: 0-1-0 (1)

Madagascar: 0-1-0 (1)

Malaysia: 0-1-0 (1)

Morocco: 0-1-0 (1)

Norway: 0-1-0 (1)

Algeria: 0-0-2 (2)

Austria: 0-0-2 (2)

Brazil: 0-0-2 (2)

Burundi: 0-0-1 (1)

Finland: 0-0-1 (1)

Greece: 0-0-1 (1)

Guatemala: 0-0-1 (1)

Kosovo: 0-0-1 (1)

Mauritius: 0-0-1 (1)

Namibia: 0-0-1 (1)

Peru: 0-0-1 (1)

Turkmenistan: 0-0-1 (1)

Zambia: 0-0-1 (1)

 

 

This list means that technically 106 nations will be taking medals home from Buenos Aires with Costa Rica, Cambodia, Guatemala, Fiji, Haiti, Panama, Singapore, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Turkmenistan, Namibia and Peru winning medals in mixed team events but not individual events.

Edited October 19, 2018 by uk12points

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Very impressed by the crowds in Buenos Aires! They could double the capacity of all the venues and it seems like they would still be packed full!

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  On 10/15/2018 at 4:26 PM, nitinsanker said:

which event 

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Women's 2000m Steeplechase

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Lots of middle distance medals decided in the Cross Country this morning, here's a summary:

 

Kenya (3 gold, 1 silver)

Ethiopia (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)

Uganda (1 gold, 1 bronze)

Burundi (1 gold)

Australia (1 silver)

France (1 silver)

Morocco (1 silver)

Eritrea (1 bronze)

Sri Lanka (1 bronze)

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  On 10/14/2018 at 4:53 PM, Quasit said:

So much for Zambia in Show Jumping and Hockey5s.

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They've still got some good chances in the mens and womens 400m

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Beach Soccer Qualification

 European Beach Soccer League 2018, Various - 22 June - 9 September 2018

 

Men's Tournament (Top 8 Teams, 96 athletes):

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  On 10/11/2018 at 2:47 PM, LDOG said:

 

In our tv they talk like it's a mixed event, that is, that the scored of the boy and girl of each country is added and there is one set of medals to be awarded.

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Yeah I've got that wrong, thought it was just BMX racing that was mixed teams. So no medals just for women but Germany, Argentina and Japan are the only countries that can now win medals in the mixed team event anyway!

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In the new BMX Freestyle event that will debut in Tokyo Germany have just won the Women's event, second, Japan third.

Now the men have to compete and the combined rankings will determine the medallists! Another fantastically pointless IOC team event

Edited October 11, 2018 by uk12points

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  On 10/11/2018 at 2:02 PM, thepharoah said:

in Egypt our NOC counted medals our players got in mixed international events to total medals Egypt got is this true that IOC will count medals in mixed international events in each country medals tally ? , they even counted 2 medals Egyptian players got in Gymnastics with Max Whitlock and Oksana teams 

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Our NOC is doing the same (our mixed NOC equestrian medal is our only medal so far!) But whilst the athlete wins a medal it is not officially attributed to any specific NOC so it is very cheeky for NOCs to claim them.