Griff88 1,737 Posted June 28, 2021 #571 Share Posted June 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Benolympique said: juts 1 Athletes ? So far the NOC page only posted about her... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,189 Posted June 28, 2021 #572 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Very interesting opinion piece from the South African Olympic Committee. https://www.teamsa.co.za/looking-beyond-the-medals/ Quote 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. Quote 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’. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 306 Posted June 28, 2021 #573 Share Posted June 28, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinipereira 3,058 Posted June 28, 2021 #574 Share Posted June 28, 2021 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. OlympicIRL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,739 Posted June 29, 2021 Author #575 Share Posted June 29, 2021 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,739 Posted June 29, 2021 Author #576 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Gymnastics Artistic - Invitations Tripartite - 29 June 2021 Gymnastics Artistic at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Women's All Around Individual Cayman Islands (1 Quota) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illya 429 Posted June 29, 2021 #577 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,739 Posted June 29, 2021 Author #578 Share Posted June 29, 2021 https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/Le-comite-olympique-de-russie-enverra-335-athletes-aux-jeux-olympiques-de-tokyo/1266879 335 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illya 429 Posted June 29, 2021 #579 Share Posted June 29, 2021 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 Jan Linha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,307 Posted June 30, 2021 #580 Share Posted June 30, 2021 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. Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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