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  1. The World Orbán Games
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  2. IOF decided to split the WCH into two. "Distances/Forest" championships every odd year and "Sprint/City" championships every even year. The reason for this decision is to make it possible for more countries to bid for a WCH. Some countries don't have "enough" forest to hold a WCH. IOF hopes that this new system makes it possible to bring more awareness of orienteering in the world. I have heard that Hong Kong is planning to bid for a Sprint WCH. Before that wouldn't have been possible for a country like Hong Kong to bid for a whole WCH, but now it is possible. Also, money I guess. More countries have the possibility to host a WCH which probably mean more federations in IOF, which can lead to more publicity in new countries, which can mean new sponsors to IOF. So yeah.... money!
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  3. zato sto to ljudi gledaju sa emotivne strane
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  4. Nowadays Modern Pentathlon is really stupid with all the "innovative improvements", The only and real Modern Pentathlon was the one that lasted full 5 days and the fencing part was traditionally the longest Olympic event which started before 08 AM and finished around midnight. All this bonus ranking points system, one day program and laser shooting + running combined etc...totally destroyed this marvellous sport. yeah I´m not urban, and I´m proud
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  5. Since we now know which nations are eligible to receive a tripartite invitations I decide to take a closer look. Currently 18 eligible nations have at least one shooter that has reached the MQS, including Kuwait which has already qualified quotas. Given that there are 24 quotas, it is likely we will seem some of them reallocated, though as Bolivia showed in 2016 nations could be given multiple tripartite quotas. One big difference relative to 2016 is that there is now a fixed quota for each event (2 per event) whereas 2016 the quotas could be spread however they pleased. This has a huge impact on the competition for the quotas. Overall the 10m events have the most competition with women's 10m air rifle having 11 eligible nations, including 3 nations (Andorra, Bhutan and Nepal) having their only MQS mark in this event meaning we can't even have all 18 nations entered. On the flip side both the men's 25m rapid fire pistol and men's skeet have two eligible nations (OMA/PAK and MLT/PAK respectively). Oman has the most options with eligible athletes in all events except the men's skeet. They also have an athletes with a MQS that's in the top two in five events, one more than Malta, Pakistan and Kuwait (ignoring events they have already qualified in). Of course, the quota doesn't necessarily go to the best tripartite nation as they take into account universality and how quotas in other sports are given out. This is why Bhutan is likely to be given the shooting quota despite being the second weakest nation in the women's 10m air rifle. Here's a list of current eligible nations from each event and their best score Men's 10m Air Rifle 1. - 624.7 2. - 621.9 3. - 617.0 4. - 616.8 5. - 616.3 6. - 614.0 7. - 602.7 8. - 599.4 (only MQS) 9. - 595.2 (only MQS) Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. - 1161 2. - 1152 3. - 1136 Men's 10m Air Pistol 1. - 577 2. - 574 3. - 573 4. - 572 5. - 570 5. - 570 7. - 569 8. - 565 9. - 563 (only MQS) Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 1. - 583 2. - 571 Men's Trap 1. - 121 2. - 119 2. - 119 4. - 116 5. - 115 Men's Skeet 1. - 122 2. - 118 Women's 10m Air Rifle 1. - 620.6 2. - 618.8 3. - 617.3 4. - 614.7 5. - 614.2 6. - 613.6 7. - 609.7 8. - 604.3 (only MQS) 9. - 602.5 (only MQS) 10. - 601.8 (only MQS) 11. - 596.5 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. - 1145 2. - 1142 3. - 1130 4. - 1125 Women's 10m Air Pistol 1. - 574 2. - 568 3. - 563 3. - 563 3. - 563 6. - 561 (only MQS) 7. - 560 8. - 556 9. - 553 Women's 25m Pistol 1. - 577 2. - 574 3. - 571 3. - 571 5. - 569 Women's Trap 1. - 121 2. - 120 3. - 112 4. - 104 Women's Skeet 1. - 115 2. - 101 3. - 97
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  6. after the race
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  7. And on multiple YouTube channels about a day after the competition
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  8. it has nothing to do with Olympic sailing... it's just because the French are more than obsessed with those trans-oceanic races and would like to celebrate their popular heroes also at a global event... some kind of activity, as entertaining and exciting they could be, are just not tailor made for the Olympic Games and their environment...this is one of those (otherwise, why not a full America's Cup kind of class and format? surely it's more exciting and tv friendly than this thing)...
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  9. all races are live on Norwegian public channels NRK1 and NRK2, which are available in streaming (also ondemand) on their official website (provided you use a VPN)...
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  10. I like that you can use an app the virtual compete against them in near live time. It’d be interesting to see if any can beat real Olympians on the Olympic course. I also like the on-board 24/7 cameras, and the fact the race for 24 hours. I think it should really reenergize the program. I really hope to see some great sailing and great sailors. I’m totally ready like you, to give it a chance.
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  11. Women's Trap: Olympic quota for (Penny Smith) (Satu Makela-Nummela)
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  13. so apparently now is more urban to write letters instead of numbers, and floorball aspiring to enter one day into the Olympics is showig how is prepared to adapt to all the IOC new wave agenda. 2k19 oh dear...
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  14. justony

    Slovenia National Thread

    OLYMPIC FOCUS I will try to go through all previous performances and to find out, what the future brings, if particular sport will have representatives in Tokio. PART 3 Athletics This is probably one of most demanding topics in my trip through Slovenian sport, so apologies if I miss something. Athletics is by far the most attended sport in Slovenian Olympic history. In all sporting events there were around 451 athletes so far representing this country (or previous one, such as Yugoslavia, Austria,...). 93 of them came from Athletics (50 men, 43 women), therefore almost a quarter of all. Let me start with our biggest achievements. In Atlanta 1996 Brigita Bukovec, who competed in her second Olympics after Barcelona, took silver medal in women's 100 m Hurdles final, missing gold to Enquist (SWE) by a single hundred of a second. Eight years later, in Athens, Jolanda Čeplak (now Batagelj) finished strong in an 800 metres women final, being 7th 100 metres before finish line, and ending with bronze. Jolanda was then already a World Indoor Record holder (still is, since 2002) and a top 10 all-time runner on this distance. Then came Beijing 2008 and Primož Kozmus. For hammer thrower this were his 3rd Olympics, finishing in Sydney at the bottom and being 6th in Athens. But in Beijing he was performing as main favorite to win and so he did. He became first ever Slovenian to win a gold medal in Athletics. Later on, he took also silver medal in London 2012. To wrap things up, Slovenia won so far 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal. Other significant results were: 4. Brigita Langerholc (800 m W; Sydney 2000) 4. Marija Šestak (Triple Jump W; Beijing 2008) 5. Stanko Lorger (110 m Hurdles M; Melbourne 1956) 5. Draga Stamejčič Pokovec (Pentathlon W; Tokio 1964) 5. Nataša Urbančič Bezjak (Javelin Throw W; Muenchen 1972) 5. Rok Kopitar (400 m Hurdles M; Moscow 1980) First Slovenian ever to compete in Athletics at the Olympic Games was Stane Perpar in Paris way back in 1924. He took a 200 metres race and was eliminated in the heats. First female athlete was a sprinter Alma Butia, as she attended 1948 London Olympics. Since 1992 there was always at least one finalist, in Rio it was Tina Šutej in women's pole vault (11th). Biggest delegations were in Sydney and Athens with 19 athletes, but most of those in Sydney 2000 competed only in relays (there were not so strict standards back then, so we had 3 relay teams, all except women 4x100). In Beijing 2008 there were 17 athletes, four years later in London 11, and in Rio only 10, which shows, how really harsh these standards are nowadays. Slovenian Athletics Federation will be celebrating 100th anniversary next year, hopefuly with a medal in Tokio, but it will be hard. On this day (16/08/19) only two athletes are already confirmed. Tina Šutej will compete in Pole Vault on her 3rd Olympics and Maruša Mišmaš in Steeplechase on her first. Very close to achieve entry standard are Martina Ratej (Javelin), which will put her aside Primož Kozmus, as the only one competing fourth time, and Luka Janežič (400 m), semifinalist in Rio. Other candidates are: Maja Mihalinec (100 / 200), Anita Horvat (400), Maruša Černjul (High Jump), Barbara Špiler (Hammer Throw), Nejc Pleško (Hammer Throw), Kristjan Čeh (Discus Throw), maybe even Matija Kranjc (Javelin Throw) or Agata Zupin (400 H). I counted 12 names, mystery remains around mixed relay, most likely final number of athletes will be same in Rio or maybe even lower. Realistic goal is 2 to 3 finals (Ratej, Mišmaš, Šutej), with only Ratej or Šutej (with some luck) to contend for a medal. And at the end a special dedication to a woman, who put in her own Slovenian athletics and sport itself to a world map. The one and only Merlene Ottey competed for in Athens 2004, where she came in as 10th at 100 m at the age of 44. This is her one of final competitive run footage from Nova Gorica, where she was still able to run under 12 second in 100 metres, and obviously she won. Four weeks after this she competed at her last big event, in a relay at the European Championships in Helsinki. Thank you, Merlene, for all!
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  15. bestmen

    African Games 2019

    the live results is working , Beach Volley this sport shouldn't be in , was already in the beach African games
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  16. looking at his speed results in theprevious world cup stages, the only good lead/boulder specialist who's really worse than him is Alex Megos... and he's close but always behind a few others...normally he's slower than all of his rivals... I'd be surprised if he can stay in the top 20 of the Combined event here in Hachioji...and however, he has no chance to make the top 7 and qualify directly this week (not even the top 15, tbh)... simply, he's a (Lead) specialist...he's not the man to count on for the Olympic Combined...and I don't understand why our federation has not worked seriously with the only guy who has the talent to achieve an historic qualification...
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  17. Here’s our new logos!: Full Logo/Branding: Icon/Short Form Logo:
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  19. If I can be of help Blog 2020 Tokyo Olympic Qualification https://clasificacionolimpica2020.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Triatlón The changes of the Olympic Program in Tokyo, with respect to Rio. Of that they consist Mixed relays The Qualification Process summarized and detailed Study of how to set the Olympic rankings triatlon mixed relay and individual
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  20. Gianlu33

    Athletes Deaths Thread

    Felice Gimondi has died No words for this tragedy
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  21. dareza

    Serbia National Thread

    Milosavljevic i Lucic su bukvalno kao od stakla. Nesto tipa kao Nisikori u tenisu. Malo malo pa se povrede.
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  22. bestmen

    African Games 2019

    the result of the first match , the first sport of the event i know that will not win any medal in this sport , they participate for nothing the Gold is between / : Mauritius lost to Nigeria
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