Dragon

Gracenote predictions are usually good but they do have some weaknesses.

They underestimate good performances by sportspeople breaking through to top level competition at a young age and, where certain parts of the world have a big advantage over other continents, they rely too much on older global results over newer continental results

6 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Seems a bit bonkers in some ways that Broadhurst will become 'British' quicker than Ngamba, multiple British champion...

Well, all Amy has to do is to change "sporting nationality" rather than gain a "legal nationality" but yes, it is odd

On 4/10/2024 at 5:50 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

 

Joining them on the squad are Olympic qualified Rosie Eccles F66Kg and Cindy Ngamba W75Kg

Sorry that makes it sound like Ngamba is on the Team GB squad?

Is that a typo?

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

It does make it easier and better to view for non-regular viewers if the differences in the categories are only limited to the number of athletes in the boat and the oars (or however it's called) they're using, and something less visible like weight isn't really a thing anymore. Lightweight classes have often felt a bit like a category for rowers who are too small, like if there's a special volleyball competition for people under 1.65m  

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Said as someone who only watches rowing at the big events and isn't knowledgeable about it at all, I am aware of that  

 

Speaking as someone who is 1.64m tall I'm in favour of that rule

OK. Something odd seems to be going on. Somebody sent me a message that World Taekwondo are showing Jade Jones as being "suspended" in the Olympic Rankings. No one knows anything about this. Is this a big story or a mistake from WT?

Outside chances of medals in both medals in men's and women's events but there are other countries who are better prepared/

OK, If this was anything but clay there would be a reasonable chance of a medal.

But this is clay and Britain are not good at clay.

Maybe the men's doubles has a reasonable choice at a medal. Nothing else seems a  good chance.

Russian doping news from 2012. 

CAS has ruled that Yekaterina Poistogova-Guliyeva is to be stripped of her silver medal from the London Olympic 800m following evidence from the Moscow lab database

4 hours ago, Art Art said:

IOC bars Russian freestyle wrestler and two-time Olympic champion Abdulrashid Sadulaev from participating in Olympic qualificaiton. Sadulaev participated in rallies in support of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

It's being reported this was a UWW decision and not the IOC

Russian climbers will miss the qualifying competitions for the Olympic Games in Paris. Thus, athletes will not compete at the 2024 Olympics.

“ The only opportunity for Russians to qualify for the Olympics is a series of tournaments organized by the International Olympic Committee in Shanghai and Budapest. Russian athletes will not take part in them, so there will be no Russian climbers at the Olympics in Paris ,” TASS quotes the press service of the International Federation of Sport Climbing

4 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Think they were only eligible to compete in the single/double sculls and the pair right? 

Not completely sure

Finally

"Even earlier, the leadership of Russian artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, diving and weightlifting declared their reluctance to perform at international competitions and specifically at the Games in Paris in a discriminatory status. So it is already obvious that in Paris, if we see neutral Russians, it will be at a minimum."

Archery

"A few days earlier, Russian archers, who, we recall, won two silver medals at the Tokyo Games in 2021, abandoned the Olympics in Paris. “Firstly, our leading athletes represent Dynamo or CSKA. We interviewed the entire team. The team said that without a flag and anthem, in a gray uniform, they have no desire to participate in the selection and in the Olympic Games. "

Sailing

"In sailing the situation is almost similar. True, according to SE information , only Russian champions in the Nacra 17 class Elizaveta Zherebtsova / Mikhail Ushkov, who now live outside our country, are going to the Olympic selection. But, let's say, on my own initiative. The first numbers all refused to go"

Boxing

"“Russian boxers will never go to competitions in a neutral status. We cannot change our Motherland! We do not condemn anyone, but we have a clearly formed position. This is the opinion of the entire boxing family,” TASS quotes the words of Tatiana Kiriyenko, Secretary General of the Russian Boxing Federation.!

Confirmation that Russia will not attempt to qualify for Olympic places in rowing

IBA is basically dead after this.

EDIT - I meant to say more dead than it was before this.

17 hours ago, phelps said:

men's -55kg (non-Olympic event)

 

Gold:  Pang Un Chol (total: 270kg)

Silver:  Natthawat Chomchuen (total: 269kg)

Bronze:  Lai Gia Thanh (total: 268kg)

Am I correct that North Korea can not qualify for the Olympics now?

15 year old wins Chinese women's 60m championships

Adjusted rankings for men for March

37 minutes ago, bestmen said:

Crash of bridge in baltimore  ,i gess hundreds of dead 

 

 

No, because it was the middle of the night when it happened, it seems no more than 8 people were killed

This seems to have missed but the retesting of samples from 2016 has claimed a victim.

 Christos Volikakis

https://ita.sport/news/olympic-games-rio-2016-re-analysis-the-ita-notifies-cyclist-christos-volikakis-of-a-potential-anti-doping-rule-violation/

3 hours ago, avlar said:

This 10-9 scoring system is absolutely useless at the 3-round distance. 

And of course so many sports implemented system where scores of such "judges" are to be discarded when removing the highest and the lowest marks.

I agree.

In this system there are only nine decisions to be made.

If two of them are very wrong the result is ruined.