Summer Olympic Games 2020 Team Sizes

[Griff88 1,952]

1 hour ago, Benolympique said:

juts 1 Athletes ?

So far the NOC page only posted about her...

[dcro 10,210]

Very interesting opinion piece from the South African Olympic Committee.

 

https://www.teamsa.co.za/looking-beyond-the-medals/

 

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SASCOC, the country’s Olympic controlling body, has come in for a lot of criticism over the years for a variety of issues, including that of not funding athletes to go to Tokyo. In past Olympics’ they had stricter qualifying selection criteria. For these Games, and taking the hardships and heartaches suffered from the Covid-19 pandemic, they have relaxed selection. Now, everyone who qualified is being sent to the Games. It means the largest-ever squad will go to the Olympics.

 

This means that they’ve fitted a lot more in line with Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s modern Olympics dream of, ‘it’s not the winning that’s important, it’s the competing’, than the proverb, ‘second is first loser’.

 

Therefore we’ll see sports that you might not even know were Olympic disciplines – surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing, for instance, representing Team SA. There are admittedly a number of no-hopers, the waterpolo squad for instance will be under the pump on this big stage, but they are going. And in that light SASCOC deserves credit for sending them. We could do with some good news given the Covid pandemic.

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Often SASCOC has been given poor media out of naivety. For instance, I was disappointed that men’s hockey this year got an independent company to run a crowd-funding campaign. My disappointment wasn’t because they took that route, but the published reasons for doing so. The message was that SASCOC was not paying for men’s hockey to go to Tokyo and the players would need to pay for themselves. That narrative has been trotted out elsewhere too.

 

It’s fake news.

 

Basically, SASCOC delivers Team SA to a multi-sport Games. They are paying all travelling costs to Tokyo (return from South Africa), plus accommodation, full kit and all meals. What men’s hockey effectively were looking for was funding ‘to prepare for the Olympics’, which is very different to ’players are having to pay to go to Tokyo’. 

 

[Nickyc707 382]

 Badminton +1

 

GB have announced a squad of seven players rather than the expected six. Only one player will now double up.

 

https://www.teamgb.com/article/badminton-squad-named-for-tokyo-2020/1bN0mmDg8as1QDlDQHtuQZ

[vinipereira 3,240]

On 24/05/2021 at 18:41, vinipereira said:

No counting the Rio Games (450+ athletes), record for was Beijing 2008 (277). It will be hard (if not impossible) to surpass this number this year. Thankfully for us, quality > quantity.

 

 

I was a little pessimistic regarding our number of athletes. As of today Brazil has qualified 278 athletes, which is now our record excluding the home Games.

 

[Benolympique 2,398]

Weighlifting - Reallocation Places -

 

29 June 2021

Weighlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Men's - 61 Kg

•   Peru (1 Quota)

Weighlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Men's - 73 Kg

• Saudi Arabia (1 Quota)

 

Weighlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Men's +109 Kg

• Netherlands (1 Quota)

[Benolympique 2,398]

Gymnastics Artistic - Invitations Tripartite -

 

29 June 2021

Gymnastics Artistic at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Women's All Around Individual

• Cayman Islands (1 Quota)

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[Benolympique 2,398]

https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/Le-comite-olympique-de-russie-enverra-335-athletes-aux-jeux-olympiques-de-tokyo/1266879

  335

[Illya 511]

7 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/Le-comite-olympique-de-russie-enverra-335-athletes-aux-jeux-olympiques-de-tokyo/1266879

  335

There are no Russian flag in Tokyo-2020

 

[intoronto 5,638]

Sri Lanka - 9 athletes

Athletics - 2

Badminton -1 

Gymnastics - 1

Equestrian - 1

Judo - 1

Shooting - 1

Swimming - 2

 

5 wild cards + 4 qualifiers. Same team size as in Rio.