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37 minutes ago, bestmen said:

i can understand for Andora Monaco & Liechtenstein but for the rest :finger:

Cyprus only had chances in shooting but they didn't win any medal. With 15-16 sports it's difficult to expect much, there should be 24-25 sports at least with few newer sports like sport climbing, skateboarding, beach handball, breakdancing apart from fencing, beach volleyball, swimming, taekwondo, weightlifting, futsal etc. 

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11 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Cyprus only had chances in shooting but they didn't win any medal. With 15-16 sports it's difficult to expect much, there should be 24-25 sports at least with few newer sports like sport climbing, skateboarding, beach handball, breakdancing apart from fencing, beach volleyball, swimming, taekwondo, weightlifting, futsal etc. 

 

Plus it’s just a selection of sports, so another sport Cyprus would have a chance of winning a medal in would be sailing. And even then their sailing federation or coaches might decide to skip the event in favour of other tests or to prepare for other events, cost analysis, etc.

 

So it’s meaningless to try to analyze who is coming where in the medal table or who is doing better or worse than expected. A lot of nations haven’t focused much on this, or maybe the sports they are better at aren’t here, or maybe they are and they decided there are other more important events on the calendar, or maybe certain athletes individually skipped the event.... and so on.

I think the level of media interest reflects the fact that these Games have a long way to go before they are taken seriously on the sporting calendar across all sports and all nations.

But still, got to hand it to Belarus for doing so well and winning so many medals.

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10 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

same population, same size but totally different outcome...respect :bowdown:

 

 

Problem for Ireland has been that they do well in all the minor boxing tournaments, but when it come to super-corrupt Olympic boxing, they always get beaten by Tajikstan, Kirghizstan etc etc.

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1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The only event that was added to boost Belarus' medals was sambo, though I guess they liked acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics being added too. Even if you removed those events, the nation is still in an easy second place. Not their fault other nations only competed with their B teams.

Acrobatic and Aerobic events were all present in Baku too. UEG wants to show off some the other disciplines.

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11 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Acrobatic and Aerobic events were all present in Baku too. UEG wants to show off some the other disciplines.

 

Yeah, my bad. The original point stands, Belarus did not pull a Turkmenistan and flooded the event with pro-Belorussian sports.

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