Supporting Small and Lesser Known Nations at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Belle 1,046]

As promised I will update about my mother’s native country Syria  in this thread.

 

But before looking forward to Paris 2024 I will tell you about little of Syria’s Olympic History.

 

Syria first participated in London 1948 when Zouheir Shourbagi was their sole competitor in the whole games. He get a 10th place in diving. 

 

Syria has 4 Olympic medals in the history. 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. 

 

The Historical Gold is one of my favorite moments ever from the Olympic Games. 

 

Ghada Shouaa won the gold medal in Heptathlon at the Summer Olympics Games in Atlanta 1996. My mom was proud, I was proud. 
 

Syria‘s three other medalists are:

 

Joseph Atiyeh, silver in wrestling at Los Angeles 1984.

 

Nasser Al Shami, bronze in boxing heavyweight -91 in Athens 2004

 

Man Asaad, bronze in weightlifting +109 in Tokyo 2020(2021)

 

A woman won the only gold and that feels so good. The last medal came in the last Olympics in Tokyo. Can Syria  win any medal in Paris? Let’s see and hope. More updates soon. 

 

 

 

[Belle 1,046]

To add the Syrian Olympic Committee was created in 1948 and was also accepted by IOC in the same year. As I said 1948 was the year Syria debuted in Olympics games. 

 

 

[rafalgorka 1,821]

@Topicmaster1010 simulation:

 

Tanzania*: 7 (+4)

(Athletics - 4, Judo - 1, Swimming - 2)

 

Tanzania has two swimming universality quotas, 3 quotas in men's marathon, 1 quota in the women's marathon and a judo universality quota in the men's -66kg.

[rafalgorka 1,821]

As not much is going on about Tanzania I think I will be involved in another NOC in this thread as well.

 

And it is CYPRUS

Edited February 4, 2023 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,821]

Cyprus had only one silver olympic medal - London 2012 - Pavlos Kontides - Sailing - M Laser

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_at_the_Olympics

 

In Tokyo 2020 they had 15 athletes, Pavlos Kontides finished 4th in M Laser

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics

 

 

 

@Topicmaster1010 simulation:

 

 Cyprus: 15 (0)

(Athletics - 5, Road Cycling - 1, Artistic Gymnastics - 3, Rowing - 1, Sailing - 2, Shooting - 1, Swimming - 2)

 

No CYP athletes qualified for Paris 2024 yet

 

CYP had 2 gold medals at 2022 Commonwealth Games: Judo and Gymnastics

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_at_the_2022_Commonwealth_Games

 

their last WCH medals in olympic events can be seen here

 

https://totallympics.com/qualification-tracker/paris-2024/qualification-by-nation/cyprus/cyprus-world-championships-medal-count-r1916/

 

who got their single 2022 WCH medal??? Yes, you guessed it correctly, Pavlos Kontides.

 

Here is his cv:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlos_Kontides

 

tbc...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[canadafan2024 140]

First of all, a big shoutout to Topicmaster's quota simulation, without which I would have no idea competed at a high level in surfing. The surfers in the linked article are the only athletes projected to make it to Paris (or in this case, Tahiti) outside of athletics and swimming for Barbados.

 

https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/27/top-finishes-for-burke-and-tuach-at-isa-world-surfing-games/

 

 

 

[Olympian1010 8,307]

In the hope of breathing some more life into this thread, and reminding users it exists, I’m going to announce  as my choices. I’ll provide some updates on their qualification efforts in the coming weeks.

[owenp_23 564]

I choose and

[canadafan2024 140]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1134658/thomas-bach-caribbean-tour-barbados

 

Must be nice to be Bach and get to take a two-week business trip to the Caribbean

[owenp_23 564]

Manami Iijima places 9th out of 16 at the Africa Triathlon Cup event at Swakopmund, Namibia.

 

Earlier this year, she participated at the Oceania Triathlon Cup race at Taupo, New Zealand where she took 12th out of 25 finishers.

 

Iijima has a World Ranking of 263 and is currently on the Start List for the next Africa Cup event in Zimbabwe on Saturday.