Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[Olympian1010 8,284]

19 minutes ago, dcro said:

Curious if any of the two road cyclists will get a call-up.

 

The chance of completing the race - 0%.

Ahmad Badreddin Wais finished 47th in the 2018 Mediterranean Games road race. Interestingly, he’s listed as competing for Syria there. However, that might have been administratively necessary to compete, since the CIJM doesn’t currently recognize a refugee team.

 

For record he did finish the race, but over the time limit.

[Jur 689]

Cyclist could do time trial

[dcro 10,210]

8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Ahmad Badreddin Wais finished 47th in the 2018 Mediterranean Games road race. Interestingly, he’s listed as competing for Syria there. However, that might have been administratively necessary to compete, since the CIJM doesn’t currently recognize a refugee team.

 

For record he did finish the race, but over the time limit.

Oh well, the Olympic course will have a tougher field, harder terrain, and will be almost twice as long.

 

Still, he would be a much better pick than the Afghan girl.

 

I can understand athletics, swimming and judo having refugee athletes with little international experience. But cycling would be pretty odd, just because of that possibility of getting removed from races.

[hckošice 16,572]

14 minutes ago, intoronto said:

 

Could be political asylum.

 

And you really think  will have less than 35 athletes?

Maybe.

 

 

well, I hope not but there not many chances remaining to be honest.

 

MTB Cycling lost quota in the last race thanks hyper motivated Dasalu, W Canoeing Sprint, Salkazanov, Skateboarding Street quotas also lost in the absolute finish of the qualifiers & more than probable 0 quotas in tennis and Triathlon did not really help us.   But yeah if we fail to qualify at least 40 athletes to Tokyo this will be seriously embarassing. We need ball hockey at the Olympics and pronto

[hckošice 16,572]

20 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Check the entry for Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on Wikipedia

Good point. I Forgot about this.

[Olympian1010 8,284]

15 minutes ago, Jur said:

Cyclist could do time trial

Fair point. I didn’t even think to check those results. He came 16th out of 20 in the time trial, finishing 2:55 behind the winner from Italy. The race was over 25km for reference.

[JoshMartini007 2,821]

Badminton, shooting and weightlifting could also seamlessly add athletes though I don't think they have reached the minimum requirements.

 

Currently only marathon runner Tachlowini Gabriyesos has reached the qualification standard.

[intoronto 6,851]

31 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Maybe.

 

 

well, I hope not but there not many chances remaining to be honest.

 

MTB Cycling lost quota in the last race thanks hyper motivated Dasalu, W Canoeing Sprint, Salkazanov, Skateboarding Street quotas also lost in the absolute finish of the qualifiers & more than probable 0 quotas in tennis and Triathlon did not really help us.   But yeah if we fail to qualify at least 40 athletes to Tokyo this will be seriously embarassing. We need ball hockey at the Olympics and pronto

wow 35 just seems way too less for Slovakia

[hckošice 16,572]

2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

wow 35 just seems way too less for Slovakia

well, what can we do but Czechoslovakia will have around 100 athletes for sure

[JoshMartini007 2,821]

Off the top of my head Slovakia can get 2 more in artistic swimming, 1 in golf, 1 in judo and maybe 1 in tennis. Plus maybe some people in swimming