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As for Ukraine, I can see that our biggest hope for medal in new event is men's K4, because our guys are really close together, they train together, have Instagram account for their squad, so I can see medal can be coming to our country. 

I've long noted a strong anti Australia  attitude on this site

Guess they are the obvious target for many users who resent the large teams Australia qualifies for Olympics  or maybe it's just Europeans being European  and pessimistic about everything and looking for someone to vent their anger on

Americans of course see all non Americans (aliens?) as inherently inferior

 

 

  On 1/27/2024 at 4:31 AM, rajiv said:

I've long noted a strong anti Australia  attitude on this site

Guess they are the obvious target for many users who resent the large teams Australia qualifies for Olympics  or maybe it's just Europeans being European  and pessimistic about everything and looking for someone to vent their anger on

Americans of course see all non Americans (aliens?) as inherently 

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I love Australia, but their team is really too big. For example, in Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Paris Olympics we will have an Australian group, which has a very low technical level compared to groups that were possibly left out, such as Azerbaijan, Greece or Poland, with a very high technical level, wouldn't it make more sense to give Oceania individual quotas instead a full group? The same thing in artistic swimming, the groups from Canada and the United States are possibly out, but we will have a place for Oceania, couldn't this place be a duet and Australia try to win a place per group like all the other countries? In Boxing, Brazil achieved 9 Olympic places through the very difficult continental competition in the Americas, while Australia managed 12 Olympic places in a continental championship with a low technical level. My opinion, no hate on Australia, but I think the Australian team is inflated and gets quotas very easily compared to countries on other continents. But of course this is not the fault of the Australians, their geographical location. But couldn't Olympic quotas be a little more meritocratic?

Personally I don't think Oceania should even exist as a separate region but I don't think Asia would accept us merging with them and no other solution makes sense. I don't think many Australians outside the rhythmic gymnastics and artistic swimming communities would even notice if Australia didn't have those teams at the Olympics.

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  On 11/18/2023 at 7:05 AM, Nickyc707 said:

For :GBR perhaps Toby Roberts in sport climbing. He's currently no.2 in the boulder and lead world rankings and gained a quota at the recent European qualifier by a comfortable margin. He's still only eighteen and improving rapidlly.

 

It's a bit of a cop out given it's only the sport's second appearance at the OG. Anyway it definitely won't be in artistic swimming, basketball, breaking, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, surfing, table tennis or volleyball which are the other sports in which they've never won a medal.

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Toby Roberts came through for me with a gold to give us our first medal in sport climbing. On the other hand I may have been overly pessimistic about artistic swimming where there is a possibility of a bronze medal, although the Netherlands may get in the way of achieving a first in that sport.

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Rhys McClenaghan came through for Ireland to win our first medal in artistic gymnastics.


Daniel Wiffen becomes the first Irish man to win an Olympic medal in swimming (x2).

  On 8/9/2024 at 10:48 PM, Nickyc707 said:

Toby Roberts came through for me with a gold to give us our first medal in sport climbing. On the other hand I may have been overly pessimistic about artistic swimming where there is a possibility of a bronze medal, although the Netherlands may get in the way of achieving a first in that sport.

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And having got Sport Climbing right I was proved totally wrong on Artistic Swimming where the British duet won silver. So two sports crossed off the list in Paris. 😀

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