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Yeah, it’s interesting to see all the Europeans complaining about diversity when the program was shaped by their interests and strengths for basically a century.

Skylar Park wins gold at the Taiyuan GP, the first of her career!

It reminds me of when Europeans complain about baseball's inclusion because only certain countries bother with it. Yes, and fencing, show jumping and rhythmic gymnastics is practiced on the streets of every major metropolitan center outside your continent.... The Subcontinent has so few sporting bones to pick at, cricket is the least the IOC can provide. There's enough competition to justify a tournament and it will get millions of eyeballs. Now let's get back to mocking the truly ridiculous, like breaking and flag football.

unlikely to be eligible to compete in the continental qualifiers because we already have Jade Jones and Bianca Cook qualifying through the rankings so only way Williams qualifies is by getting herself into the top 5.

Look I don´t mind, 5-6 new added sports I really don´t mind at the end, the more the merrier as someone once said... The sole and only important question however still remains, how much it will affect the other disciplines, will be the quota limits removed, or specially increased for the new sports or the added new sports will even take their quotas from them/other disciplines removed/other events quotas reduced to minimum ? If it is A then Super, go ahead, no problem, welcome Cricket, Croquet, Flag-nofootplay-ball, lacrosse, squah etc... If B - Even better, I will be first to sign If C- Then NO. Enough with Bach and his "improvers youth/urban-agenda strategy" that ultimately only lead to destroy the entire Olympic value, built up for so long in the past

Great. Another plenty of sports in which Slovakia will again not qualify

No, sport climbing was included on the provisional sports program by the IOC. Sports Climbing, Skateboarding, and Surfing are basically all main program sports now.

I was surprised breaking got the first chance 😂

Day 4 (July 30, 2024) Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Team Gold- United States Silver- Brazil Bronze- China fourth. Fencing- Women’s Epee Team Gold- Italy Silver- Poland Bronze- South Korea Judo- Women’s -63kg Gold- Clarisse Agbegnenou Silver- Megumi Horikawa Bronze- Lucy Renshall Bronze- Andreja Leški Sharir and Piovesana place fifth, losing their bronze medal bouts. Judo- Men’s -73kg Gold- Tato Grigalashvili Silver- Mathias Casse Bronze- Takanori Nagase Bronze- Saeid Mollaei Rugby Sevens- Women’s Tournament Gold- New Zealand Silver- Australia Bronze- United States Shooting- Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold- China Silver- South Korea Bronze- United States Shooting- Men’s Trap Gold- Giovanni Cernogoraz Silver- Jirí Lipták Bronze- Derek Mein Surfing- Men’s Shortboard Gold- Gabriel Medina (or maybe that’s what I’m hoping for haha) Silver- John John Florence (aka. the GOAT) Bronze- Filipe Toledo Brazil still needs to win the team event at the 2023 ISA Surf Games though. Surfing- Women’s Shortboard Gold- Carissa Moore Silver- Vahine Fierro (home break, and placed 3rd at the 2023 WSL Tahiti Pro) Bronze- Molly Picklum Swimming- Women’s 100m Backstroke Gold- Kaylee McKeown Silver- Regan Smith Bronze- Katharine Berkoff Swimming- Men’s 800m Freestyle Gold- Ahmed Hafnaoui Silver- Sam Short Bronze- Gregorio Paltrinieri Swimming- Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Gold- Great Britain Silver- United States Bronze- South Korea just off the podium in 4th. Table Tennis- Mixed Doubles Gold- China Silver- Japan Bronze- South Korea Triathlon- Men’s Individual Gold- Alex Yee Silver- Léo Bergére Bronze- Vasco Vilaça Hayden Wilde finishes in fourth. Medal Table After Day 4 10-2-3– 15 6-11-10– 27 5-5-3– 13 4-6-3– 13 4-3-5– 12 4-3-4– 11 4-3-3– 10 4-0-2– 6 3-2-1– 6 2-2-7– 11 2-1-2– 5 2-1-0– 3 2-0-0– 2 1-2-1– 4 1-1-2– 4 1-1-0– 2 1-1-0– 2 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-0– 2 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-2– 2 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1

Good news for is that Sonia O’Sullivan is holding back the clean sweep with the prestigious 2000m!

I can't see these 5 effecting current quotas. And no one has mentioned mp boxing and weightlifting as well. It's just not possible to squeeze all 8 into the current 10500 limit

No it´s not 1st April today. No worries. Anastasiya Kuzmina will compete at the European Championships in Osrblie, and according to her words, if she will feel it doable she is open to participate at the World Champs in Czechia. Remember our biathlon team is almost inexistant now, with Paja missing the season due pregnancy (and yet not decided if she will even return to the sport next year) and Ivona Fialková retired this summer... so any help for us would be more than appreciated https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/kuzminova-comeback-me-oznam

sport climbing, skateboarding and surf have become core sports they're in and will stay for a long time p.s. in LA sport climbing should finally have all of its 3 disciplines in their original version and get rid of the technically senseless combined event

the 10-team World Cup is a technical choice, they could have invited/qualified way more than that West Indies are not such an issue...they will split into the single Nations normally being together under the WI Flag (and there will be at least 4 or 5 very competitive teams resulting from that) overs and runs are just like in baseball, only with a different format...the basic principles are not so complicated (Baseball has even more heavily impacting obscure rules to know before you can properly understand the game, tbh) that's not true...WBSC has 183 full members and 8 provisional members Baseball is played all over the world, even if the African Nations are not competitive and Europe is definitely not a dominant force (still, there are more good baseball teams than cricket's in the Old Continent)

Good luck in selling cricket in USA. You could hardly accept soccer which is the most popular sport in the world. And now you want cricket in Los Angeles? Some of these US fans would be more interested in hot dog eating competition than cricket IMO Cricket is fine for Commonwealth Games to celebrate centuries of colonialism but there's a reason why countries outside of the British rule never found any interest in that.

Climbing still there, I think it became a permanent sport. very nice one and fits in the olympic program in my opinion too.

The bottom line is cricket only has like 5-6 countries that can play this sport at elite level. And West Indies wouldn't qualify for OG anyway. What's the point of having blow out games at this level? All this talk about diversity @ Olympics and they choose one of the least diverse sport there is. Other than former British Empire colonies this sport has gained zero traction across the world. Even baseball is more diverse despite the all too-predictable USA vs Japan WBC final almost each time.

Ultimate have applied for the last three Games and never got close to making the shortlist. Have to ask if they're serious about it or just wasting time and money

Only now am I realizing that there's a Canadian judoka called David Popovici

They organize events sporadically, and their website as a mess. Ultimate could definitely contest for a spot on the program, but the WFDF needs to get more serious.

No way India would risk losing to Pakistan by leaving out their best players

UWW provisionally suspended multiple time World bronze medalist Mohammad Ali Geraei because of what happened in Belgrade during the World Championships. his brother M. Reza (World and Olympic Champion) was about to lose his lead in 1/8 final match against a Japanese wrestler until someone from the crowd (later revealed to be his brother) threw a bottle of water to the mat, stopped it for few minutes, giving his already-dead-brother some minutes to recover a bit and somehow survives the match 10-10 or 11-10. Reza lost his next match heavily (he was already dead) but came back the next day to win the bronze and the Olympic quota. that was a very shameful act and he deserves a long ban I would gladly give up that quota/medal. we were always proud of our wrestlers being fair and committed to sportsmanship

Team World Ranking Lists updated as of October 10th, 2023

We currently have 3 Men, but the outside chance of getting a 4th one is slim. Fisherov was supposed to be that guy at 102, but after missing the Worlds he is out. There is another guy Marinov in the same category, but he needs to improve. Plus the 61 one isn't certain yet.

Thank you @phelps this will be very helpful for my Paris predictions. weightlifting is one of these sports I know nothing about

A) men: 61, 89, 102; women: 49, +81 and one between 71 or 81 B) given that are already out, I'd say no, almost every Nation has 3 or less weight classes in which they are good enough to qualify, maybe the among the women, but I doubt they will have more than 3 in the end

Los prvi dan za naše. Samo je Nika Karabatic upisala dvi pobjede da bi u 1/4 finalu 1-2 tijesno izgubila od Korejke. ostali su svi izgubili prvu borbu. I Stojkovic opet u kategoriji do 49kg bez izgleda, poražena od relativno nepoznate protivnice iz KSA. sutra nastupaju Golubić, Pole i Klepac. I opet prilično los ždrijeb za sve naše.

Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of October 10th, 2023

DAY 3 - July, 29th ARCHERY - Men's Team 1. KOR 2. USA 3. Türkiye ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC - Men's Team 1. CHN 2. JPN 3. ITA DIVING - Men's Syncro 10m Platform 1. CHN 2. MEX 3. GBR CANOE SLALOM - Men's C1 1. a guy from Slovakia 2. someone from Germany 3. any athlete from Czechia EQUESTRIAN - Individual Eventing 1. random 2. random 3. random EQUESTRIAN - Team Eventing 1. random 2. random 3. random FENCING - Men's Individual Foil 1. T. Marini 2. M. Hamza 3. N. Itkin FENCING - Women's Individual Sabre 1. T. Gkountoura 2. S. Balzer 3. Y. Ilieva CYCLING - Men's Olympic cross-country 1. S. Gaze 2. N. Schurter 3. V. Koretzky JUDO - Women's -57kg 1. L. Enkhriilen 2. C. Deguchi 3. N. Gjakova H. Bozkut JUDO - Men's -73kg 1. S. Hashimoto 2. D. CArgin 3. M. Lombardo M. Yuldoshev SWIMMING - Women's 400 Ind. Medley 1. S. McIntosh 2. A. Walsh 3. K. Grimes SWIMMING - Men's 200m Freestyle 1. D. Popovici 2. M. Richards 3. T. Dean SWIMMING - Women's 100m Breastroke 1. R. Meilutytė 2. L. King 3. T. Schoenmaker SWIMMING - Men's 100m Backstroke 1. T. Ceccon 2. R. Murphy 3. J. Xu SWIMMING - Women's 200m Freestyle 1. M. O'Callaghan 2. A. Titmus 3. S. Haughey SHOOTING - Men's 10m Air Rifle 1. H. Yang 2. Z. Pekler 3. F. Smetana SHOOTING - Women's 10m air Rifle 1. J. Han 2. Z. Wang 3. T. Sen

Breaking for Gold Ranking Lists updated as of October 10th, 2023

Para Taekwondo Paralympic Ranking Lists updated as of October 10th, 2023

Yes the Lyrics video works perfect. Now I’m ready for the second listen of all songs. Wohoo

Local politics coming into play is sort of an inevitable consequence of allowing the host organizer to pick some additional sports. Especially when presumably there was some quid pro quo wrt adding cricket, a sport that was obviously not *really* picked by the LA organizers.

That's local politics, which should not be IOC concerns. If IOC validates such a weak international sport, that would be a travesty of the olympic universal ideals.

That would be great! Maybe the Dutch NOS article was just confusing in its wording then, they mentioned it was picked by the hosts Tokyo and Paris but was not on LA's list as a host. If it becomes permanent that's still technically correct I guess. I hope you're right and I just misread it, thank you!

Something like one in five human lives in the Indian subcontinent, I think it’s pretty reasonable for to get one sport. Plenty of very Eurocentric and East-Asia centric sports in the Olympics already (and the addition of Lacrosse and Flag Football is *very* North America centric - and heck we even have a sport that is dominated by tiny Oceania!).

My idea for the team event... Mixed National Pairs: There would be 18 pairs of two nations. The format would be similair to Mixed Team Skeet/Trap. If a national jury awards points to your nation or your partner, you get a "hit." A perfect score would be 36, with eliminations beginning after the 19th jury votes. The pair with the lowest number of hits would be eliminated from the competition. In case of a tie, the team with the least number of "double hits" (where a jury gives points to both nations) is eliminated. If still tied, the team with the lowest total points is eliminated. This format could also be done in teams of three if preferred.

The key is Lacrosse is an indigenous sport in the US, and North America - in a way even flag football and basketball are not. There are major political benefits, potentially, to including a sport like that.

I'd heard the federation was not considered very 'professional'.

None of these new sports have any depth. I mean even cricket World Cup has 10 teams playing and they make it an Olympic sport? How they will include West Indies anyway? Another change for a change chasing the mythical new fans? Good luck in explaining the tiktok generation the overs and runs scored

will send 631 athletes to Santiago. Link: https://www.usopc.org/news/2023/october/09/usopc-announces-2023-u-s-pan-american-team 42/50 states being represented is a neat stat.

I don't think the federation is well regarded. Ultimate would have been a popular choice in my opinion. There's a professional league, and all the local universities have teams. It isn't hard to find local "pickup" games either. Venue requirements would be easy, since any football/soccer stadium could host. The sport has a lot going for it, but I do think an opportunity has been squandered here.

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Although I would rather not see T20 cricket (or any form for that matter) on the Olympic program, as I find it incredibly boring, can’t deny that it does bring a whole lot of fans to the Olympics. Flag football being included as a potential sport is a complete joke though. So f*cking boring to watch, and the US would pretty much have both gold medals guaranteed. Squash finally getting it’s chance was long overdue, although doesn’t help that an idiot like Mostafa Asal is near the top of the men’s World Rankings - he doesn’t exactly embody the Olympic principle. Stoked that Softball/baseball will be featured as well, really enjoyed watching both at Tokyo 2020. Fingers crossed we can have a full strength tournament with all the top MLB players participating. Sad that Karate/Kickboxing/Ultimate won’t be at LA 2028, hoping to see them included in future editions. Anyone know why Ultimate wasn’t even shortlisted for inclusion? Over one hundred registered NFs, has gender equality, has youth appeal. Don’t know where the venue would be though. Is it due to the lack of viewership? And as for breaking, well bye

now it's better

Best part is breaking might be out?

Here are all quotas secured by India till now for next year's Paris Olympics! https://thesportsgram.in/2023/10/09/india-at-paris-2024/

Disney Hotstar is offering free streaming in India. Not sure if vpn is required to watch from elsewhere https://www.hotstar.com/in

Palestine and Gaza Strip did massive in attack Israel. According reports soon Hezbollah will join to war. This attack was called by Israeli PM as beginning of total war...

the reason is always the same, my friends... https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1138605/kazakhstan-weightlifting-doping-scandal