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Good, I hope for surfing in Tahiti, skateboarding in Guadeloupe, breakdancing in French Guiana...so we can forget that they're part of the Olympics.

After the prelims I think the following divers will get the quotas for Tokyo: CAO; XIE; LAUGHER; HAUSDING; DINGLEY; WOO; PACHECO; KUZNETSOV; SHLEIKHER; KOLODIY BOUDIA; HIXON; Dark Horses: CARTER & IMBEAU-DULAC

Good day for Taithi, a sad day for the Olympic Moviment

Ok, b teams from USA and Canada i rugby. If we don't get that gold everyone should be fired.

Next available duet from the European competition will qualify.

It's "Marca Claro". In Argentina TyC Sports.

Farsi = Persian . this is amazing people don't know that. Farsi is the Persian word for "Persian" in Iran ! we don't use the word Persian or Persia in Iran, in Kabul they call it something else but it's exactly the same. there are other languages in Afghanistan too. same as Iran, half of Iran population speak a second language (Turkish/Azeri, Arabic, Kurdish, Turkmen, etc) of course there are small differences, some common words in Iran are different in Afghanistan. (and Tajikistan, they also speak Persian)

I made this nice list of multi-sports games Broadcast Intros. I think it’s the most extensive collection on YouTube. Enjoy! Playlist: Here

St. Louis 1904 was worse (Those games will also be the first story of Totallympics Audio Service’s new show coming up sometime this year (autumn most likely)

oh no way, the situation is even worse (comparing to few years ago) these days. this probably got boring for western media to report about Afghanistan but since we share the same language, whenever I listen the news there is always one explosion in Afghanistan per day among them. specially right now in middle of these "so called" negotiations. (even though I don't know how you can make a deal with them, they will never give up an inch about what they believe) and remember football was somehow banned in Afghanistan in Taliban era, they don't like such things. an international football match in Afghanistan is a potential target for them. btw looks like they are not happy with having their matches in Iran, they can have packed stadium here (even 100,000 big Azadi stadium was packed once for U23 match !!!) but it seems they are not happy with their financial agreement with Iranian football federation last time. they wanted Qatar but now they can't because Qatar is in the same group with them.

She probably defeated an Italian, hence unsportsmanlike.

I thought Afghanistan would play their home matches at home by now. I mean, I know it's not exactly going great, but somehow I thought in most parts of the country it wasn't completely abnormal for the region anymore..

Women's Pole Vault Xu Huiquin at least 4,70 metres in Jockgrim Here are the live results: https://laportal.net/Competitions/Details/2167 There are currently other women attempting 4,70 metres as well. And later there's the men's competition as well (with Duplantis, among others).

Yes, you are right. It is not the entry list from the official website, but there are names of qualified athletes, with only two exceptions. However, I believe that it will not so different from this. I'll check that when the official website releases the names.

That isn’t the final entry list (sorry), it was the quota breakdown.

Number of qualified athletes per nation after the preliminary round (bold indicates nations that have at least one qualified athlete in all 6 events): 23 athletes France 22 athletes Italy, South Korea, United States 21 athletes Russia 20 athletes Hungary 19 athletes China 18 athletes Japan 15 athletes Ukraine 14 athletes Germany 13 athletes Canada, Hong Kong, Poland 10 athletes Great Britain, Romania 9 athletes Spain, Venezuela 7 athletes Egypt 6 athletes Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Turkey 5 athletes Estonia, Mexico 4 athletes Cuba, Iran, Tunisia 3 athletes Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Netherlands, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Vietnam 2 athletes Belgium, Belarus, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Greece, India, Luxembourg, Thailand 1 athlete Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia

as far as I know the current Yemen NT is founded by the Saudis. (hard to believe I know) of course some players probably "don't like" Saudi Arabia but it's not like they will boycott the match. the last time Syria played its home matches in Malaysia. so maybe they even play their home matches in East Asia again. obviously Yemen and Afghanistan also can't "host" their matches. but Iraq will host its WCQ matches after a while. I think the last time was in 2002. and from what I heard we have to play Iraq in Basra , not a really good choice. hope they take the security very seriously.

qualified teams. qualified duets, only.

I think Group E anf F are the easiest, Group A is also easy, it will be between Syria and China. if we consider AFC teams in 2018 WC as the main contender here I think only Iran and maybe Saudi Arabia are in a bit of danger in the first round. Saudi Arabia and Palestine in the same group will cause problems. Saudi nationals can't/don't travel to Palestine, they will probably force FIFA/AFC to play Palestine's home match somewhere else. assuming Qatar winning group E, we will have 5 runner-ups in the second round, I think group G won't be one of them. those SEA teams will take points from each other. Group H is also balanced after South Korea. will be hard for runner-up from that group to qualify. hard to pick the last one, but I guess it will be either C or D. maybe B. so here is my prediction : A: B: C: D: E: F: G: H:

Full draw for AFC World Cup qualifiers- Second Round: Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Group E: Group F: Group G: Group H: All the group winners and 4 best runner-up will advance to third round.

Ha. I was behind the Pitcairn Islands one. All I did though was send a few emails to their government and the PGC asking about the possibility (in theory). Far as I know they do have young people who could compete in some sports (on-island and off) and they seemed interested when I talked to them. However, haven’t heard from them lately and I’m not sure they’ll end up applying. It’s hard to keep up a correspondence on Pitcairn, even though email.

per previous tournaments, it will be the 5th best runner-up. this is the method AFC used in its previous tournaments. of course it will be better to see the official document about it but I'm 90% sure about what I said.

He restarted the jump after losing balance. Received -2 from each judge.

They better because I already booked my flight . (Please no one actually show up. The US military will probably kill you if you try to run in)

Yes he has a good future if he gets support from your federation. I really wanted him and Poland's Lesiak to go into semis, but qualifying in men's diving is always cutthroat.

Mohab Ishak was really close from qualifying , if only that 3rd attempt which he got 37 this guy finished 4th in a WC in USA this season , i guess he has some good future , but he needs support from our federation at least to participate in some WCs

Think they should worry about getting out of the group first...

Japan's a big market so I think we might see some pressure from sponsors to make sure the big players go to Tokyo. Same thing in golf too.

Team Canada Training Camp Roster Forwards Oshae Brissett Dillon Brooks Aaron Doornekamp Melvin Ejim Mfiondu Kabengele Trey Lyles Kelly Olynyk Dwight Powell Thomas Scrubb Marial Shayok Kyle Wiltjer Centres Khem Birch Chris Boucher Brandon Clarke Tristan Thompson Guards Nickeil Alexander-Walker R.J. Barrett Aaron Best Luguentz Dort Brady Heslip Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Cory Joseph Naz Mitrou-Long Jamal Murray Andrew Nembhard Kevin Pangos Phil Scrubb Andy Rautins Nik Stauskas

Here are the ten largest athletic teams so far qualified to the Olympics (I took the top three athletes for nations with more than 3 eligible athletes) 1. United States - 73 2. Jamaica - 32 3. Kenya - 31 4. China - 30 5. Great Britain - 26 6. Germany - 23 7. Poland - 21 8. Ethiopia - 20 9. Japan - 19 9. Russia - 19 Relative to last month, Canada and Spain both drop off after tying with Russia for 10th. Overall it was a big month for Great Britain whom gained 9 athletes, as many as the United States and one more than Jamaica. Japan had the least gains among the top 10 only adding a single athlete over the month. Overall 88 nations have qualified at least one athlete.

Nice! It's easier to appreciate what athletes do when you're involved with the sport somehow, but as an spectator I'm not committed to invest my time on this sport as of yet. In fact, I disapprove of many of the additions, including karate, skateboarding and the dreadful break dancing.

I think it's boring. I mean, what's the excitement when some races end in 5 seconds?

that feeling.. anyway, still better than in the distant past of the tdf, when they were a bit too more strict

In the ZDF Mediathek, you can see the last 20 minutes: https://www.zdf.de/sport/zdf-sportextra/freiwasser-10km-schlussphase-schwimm-wm-2019-100.html

Amazing Surfing venue :

Men's Rugby Seven Tournament Qualification Olympic 2019 Colomiers (France) - 13 July 2019 - 14 July 2019 Rugby Seven at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Men's Tournament Great-Britain (12 Quotas)

Women's Rugby Seven Europe Tournament Qualification Olympic 2019 Kazan (Russia) - 13 July 2019 - 14 July 2019 Rugby Seven at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Women's Tournament Great-Britain (12 Quotas)

phelps is a very old man, everyone knows that breakdancing, freestyle skatesurfing and rap battling while dressed as ninja turtles are the future of the Olympics...no more boring sports for middle-aged and rural people!

All these islands only initiate as always but never make it to the games finally.

Anita Wlodarczyk has undergone a knee surgery and is done for the season. There goes our safest gold pick for Doha