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So, the world league and champions trophy will be replaced by some sort of home and away league that will serve as qualification for the next olympics. FIH asked nations to send bids to participate in both or either men's and women's competition and these were the nations that made the first cut:

 

Both men's and women's: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain.

 

Only Women: China, Italy, USA

 

Only Men: Malaysia, Pakistan

 

Canada was the only top 16 men's nation that didn't bid, Malaysia also wanted to bid for women's but were rejected due to low ranking. The final cut will be down to 8 or 9 per gender and those nations will participate in the new league.

I would say that Argentina, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and England are 99% sure going to get both teams in. Also I think India and Belgium men and USA/NZ women are 99% in too. So, that would leave 1 or 2 spots for men and women available..

 

 

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:ESP and :POL qualified for semifinal round of women's world league. With :SCO taking 3rd, it means :ITA has also qualified due to higher ranking. However, Scotland has a high ranking (17th), so they will qualify too as long as India doesn't finish 3rd in the last tournament of this second round.

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Naomi van As of the Netherlands :NED and John-John Dohmen of Belgium :BEL have been chosen as players of the year 2016 :cheer:

 

Full 'results' and the other awards can be found here:

http://www.fih.ch/events/hockey-stars-awards/hockey-stars-2016/hockey-stars/winners/

 

 

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:MAS & :CHN advance to the next round of Men's World League. :EGY still has a chance to advance as a best 3rd though, but they have to wait.

 

 

Today starts the second round 2 tournament in Belfast, :IRL big favorite to win. 2nd place should be between :AUT  or :FRA. A bit behind are  :POL and :WAL

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13 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Italy team = 7/18 argentinians if I counted correctly :d

They was italo-argentinians :evil: Btw, i know this problem but I think that it was legal for the Italian law, so they have italian parents or grandpartents :p You know, a lot of Argentinian was Italian too :lol: 

 

18 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

 

Congrats! Italian men's team are much stronger than Ukraine :yes

In really we have the lowest ranking of the group :p 

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