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Team Ireland Men Leon Reid (60m) Israel Olatunde (60m) Dean Adams (60m) Mark English (800m) Cian McPhillips (800m) John Fitzsimons (800m) Andrew Coscoran (1500m) Paul Robinson (1500m) Luke McCann (1500m) John Travers (3000m) Seán Tobin (3000m) Darragh McElhinney (3000m) Women Ciara Neville (60m) Joan Healy (60m) Molly Scott (60m) Phil Healy (400m) Sophie Becker (400m) Sharlene Mawdsley (400m) Nadia Power (800m) Síofra Cléirigh Buttner (800m) Georgie Hartigan (800m) Ciara Mageean (1500m) Michelle Finn (3000m) Sarah Lavin (60m Hurdles) A team of 24 athletes for Ireland (12 men and 12 women) and not a field event athlete in sight. One day we might have someone who can jump or throw something far.

Dems tell sportswomen they’re worthless, take another step to the destruction of uniquely female spaces. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9297811/Justice-Department-withdraws-suit-stop-transgender-high-school-athletes-competing.html

Amnesty International is no longer supporting Alexei Navalny Russia is having a field day in 2021 after Biden's quiet approval of Nord Stream 2 and now this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

Not enough quotas

Team Spain 37 Athletes (19 M + 18 W) Men 60m: Sergio Lopez, Daniel Rodríguez 400m: Óscar Husillos, Lucas Búa, Samuel García 800m: Álvaro de Arriba, Mariano García, Pablo Sánchez-Valladares 1.500m: Jesús Gomez, Ignacio Fontes, Abderrahman El Khayami 3.000m: Adel Mechaal, Mohamed Katir, Gonzalo García 60m Hurdles: Asier Martínez, Enrique Llopis, Luis Salort Long Jump: Eusebio Cáceres Heptathlon: Jorge Ureña Women 60m: María Isabel Pérez, Paula Sevilla 400m: Aauri Lorena Bokesa, Andrea Jiménez 800m: Daniela García 1.500m: Esther Guerrero, Marta Pérez, Águeda Muñoz 3.000m: Marta García, Blanca Fernández, Lucía Rodríguez 60m Hurdles: Teresa Errandonea, Caridad Jerez, Xenia Benach Long Jump: Fátima Diame Triple Jump: Ana Peleteiro Shot Put: Belén Toimil Pentathlon: María Vicente

Not a fan of the German song at all

Kramer choked too!!!

First ever win for Milchev

Men's Skeet Gold: Mykola Milchev Silver: Jesper Hansen Bronze: Rashid Hamad

South Africa has lowered their strict requirements for qualifying to the Olympics. If a team (or athlete) can show they are competitive then they will accept quotas won during continental qualifiers. For field hockey, they likely used a provision in the qualification document that states nations must rank in the top 20 in order to be considered for a continental reallocation as an argument that the FIH considers a top 20 world ranking as competitive. For water polo, their federation likely used South Africa's performance at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships where the men finished 12th and the women finished 14th as proof they are competitive (even though we all know the truth). Sadly for women's rugby sevens they were unable to place a passable argument. The team failed to qualify as a core team for every world series during this Olympic cycle and the team finished 14th at the 2018 Sevens World Cup and unlike water polo, I imagine the South African Olympic Committee knows more about rugby sevens and whether or not that was a competitive performance.

It's a tight fight between probably two or three countries to get inside the top-30 (women) and get a second women's quota... This was also the Brazilian goal, but one might wonder how much of it is still alive. At the very least Jaque Mourão will have to start in all the other races she can do (because yes, there has indeed apparently been an exception made so not only yesterday's top-2 is qualified, as was rumoured yesterday).

Looks like Democrats have to find a new scapegoat now that Trump is out of office and they can't blame everything on him anymore. New York governor Andrew Cuomo is suddenly feeling the heat https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56120500

Men's Sprint Classical Final Results KLAEBO Johannes Hoesflot 3:01.30 VALNES Erik +0.66 TAUGBOEL Haavard Solaas +0.80 Final Results HERE Semifinal Results HERE Quarterfinals Results HERE Qualification Results HERE

Women's Sprint Classical Final Results SUNDLING Jonna 2:36.76 FALLA Maiken Caspersen +2.32 LAMPIC Anamarija +2.35 Final Results HERE Semifinal Results HERE Quarterfinals Results HERE Qualification Results HERE

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/event-details.html?sectorcode=CC&eventid=47230&seasoncode=2021

If there was a Tanning Event in Cross-Country skiing, Richard Jouve would be Marit Bjoergen.

Well the next time SOG goes back to Asia Pacific will be after 2040. Hope I am still healthy that time.

Meanwhile Denmark will be sending our largest squad in a long time at 15 athletes. And that's even without several of our major names.

To be fair, she's good friends with the Argentinian and has simply had much more contact with her during the years Much better result than yesterday, this time she still clearly had some power left in the end, unlike the total blow-up of yesterday. Jaque Mourao is simply stronger at the moment, especially her race yesterday was very impressive.

Bruna hugging all around on the finish line with Dominguez, not so much with Mourao

Brisbane and south east Queensland was by far the best choice . people who know about these things know that Australia does these things very well and many people ( although none here ) like Australia and Australians . People will have a smile on their face in Australia . Other countries not so much

Sorry I meant to say recently. Germany's last hosting was in 1972. All of the bigger countries have hosted an Olympiad since then.

I missed this, but last month the WFFD announced the countries qualified for the ultimate event in Flying Disc. Here is their explanation for how the quotas were allocated: “The WFDF Ultimate Committee led by WFDF Vice President Brian Gisel has considered whether a standalone qualifying tournament for TWG2022 would be feasible and it considered an early 2022 event proposal, but ultimately decided that it would not make sense. For that reason, and in light of the cancellation of WUGC 2020/21, the qualification of countries for The World Games 2022 will be based on Section 2 of the Qualification System for WFDF Ultimate World Games Events, Version 2008 – 1.1 (approved May 18th, 2008, and updated in 2019) which states: “The qualifying event for the World Games will be the most recent Ultimate World Championship event, which was held at least 8 months prior to the World Games.” In this case, the most recent Ultimate World Championship event is WUGC 2016.” So the countries qualified in Flying Disc are: Poland is the only country that participated in Wroclaw that failed to qualify for Birmingham 2022.

What does politics have to do with anything? This is about sports. Should Denmark not be allowed to host the men's handball championships because they aren't as relevant politically, yet are one of the top nations in the sport? I also don't mind Austria or Switzerland hosting the Winter Olympics because they too are quite relevant in winter sports. Similarly the Netherlands could host the Summer Olympics if it wants to. We are also talking about a 32 year gap, in different cities so I don't see quite the fuss.

Yeah, it has do with how FIS Points work. Bendika was seeded much lower than she should be, since she normally competes in Biathlon. Because a “weaker” skier won the race, the points were factored higher than if a lower seeded skier had won. Becuase Bendika skied so fast, and was ranked so low, the FIS Points were factored in a difficult manner for slower athletes. Hopefully that makes sense, maybe someone like @heywoodu could explain it more eloquently than me.

Nevermind. She didn't compete there after all, at least she isn't on the list with results, but few hours ago she was there on the start list, I don't know what happened

Serbian Open Indoor Meeting, Beograd, Feb. 24, 2021 Women's High Jump: Morgan Lake (1.96m) https://www.worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7154986

Bach also raised the possibility of kicking weightlifting off the program. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1104676/bach-latest-iwf-warning

Russia has been banned from taking part in these Championships wholesale. Let's hear it for integrity values, we're back to 2016 collective responsibility again

My heart is broken... We were weak and poor in 2008.

At last Takanashi is on the podium... 3 medal and no win. Sadly.

Good, I hope that an independent Scotland and united Ireland will be a reality as soon as this year.