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1:51.40 from Kristóf Milák in men's 200m butterfly. 2nd fastest time ever, faster than anyone else ever, including Phelps.

OQ simulation for the pairs after short program... 3 2 1 China, USA, Japan, Austria allowed to enter an additional pair for Nebelhorn.

Meanwhile a giant container ship by mistake blocked the Suez Canal Apparently the traffic may be blocked for some good while

CAF–CONMEBOL play-off 10 - 13 april (turkey)

Quick and dirty OG simulation after the ladies short: 3 spots: 2 spots: * * 1 spot: * * * countries that have the chance to qualify an additional spot at the Nebelhorn Trophy It appears that every country that qualified a skater for the long program got a spot, the question is will something weird happen near the top to allow a country that didn't qualify for the long program to get a quota. It will be pretty hard to qualify out of Nebelhorn with the USA, South Korea and potentially Canada all trying to grab an extra spot, along with France who still hasn't qualified.

It's max 9 qualifying races (done) + max 7 Final Series races (3 today, 3 tomorrow, 1 on Friday) + 1 Medal Race (on Friday)... Racing Format and Daily Schedule can be found on the Attachments C and D respectively of the Sailing Instructions... https://www.lanzarotewinterseries.com/international/files/documentos/1616172276-sislanzarotequalifier_final.pdf All possible last minute changes can be found when available on the Notice Board of the Official Website... https://www.lanzarotewinterseries.com/international/documentos.php

Will not happen. If the Iroquios are accepted then why not Gibraltar, The Falkland Islands, Tibet, South Ossetia, Northern Cyprus, Inner Mongolia, Western Sahara, Nagorno-Karabash, Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Heligoland....

I think that World Championships have higher priority, so, if Blessing will qualify also from African/Ocenian qualifier I believe that next best African girl will qualify, but I would be glad to be wrong and see our girl as qualified to Olympics in different way

Some curiosities: 1) In the norwegian song, when it finish, the singer say in spanish: hola, mi nombre es Miguel, ¿tu como te llamas? (hello, my name is Miguel, whats your name), WTF? 2) The song from kazakhstan use the base of the song of an 80s movie: Beverly Hills Cop, the youngest users may be dont know. 3) Why the slovenian singer had a bloody shirt?, he want marry or kill the blonde women? 4) Probably, the clip from Czech Republic is one of the creepiest i can remember share your curiosities please.

yes I did and this is the post since that day the TPE guy is also got disqualified and he is out too. first let me explain that Aramanau didn't really participated at +109kg. to qualify for the Olympics you have to participate in 6 events but 4 of them will be counted, so most weightlifters had two "DNS" . means they just participated in the weigh-in and then withdrew. they usually do that in the upper weight to not cut weight. that's why you see Aramanu or Yang Zhe in the ranking. they never really participated at the +109kg. both Belarus and Armenia have just 1 quota to use. Armenia has Simon Martirosyan who is the clear gold medal favorite at 109kg. so unless he gets injured they will never send anybody else. same goes to Belarus. Ziaziulin has a chance for medal but Aramanau has a chance to challenge Martirostan for gold and his silver is almost secured. if I was Belarus I would send Aramnau for sure, again unless he gets injured. after all he is not young. removing Armenia and Belarus leaves Fernando Reis Saraiva as the 3rd best result among the remaining athletes. you can go here and sort the athletes by their "best total" I believe it will be between Brazil, Algeria, Turkmenistan and Syria . https://www.iwf.net/qualif/menu/ and Davoudi chokes sometimes, of course winning silver should be very easy for him. he just lifted 451 in total in a local competition couple weeks ago. almost everybody here thinks he will win the silver in Tokyo (no more, no less) Iran is also limited to two male weightlifters, and Davoudi (barring injuries) will get one of those 2. not because he is great, but because our coaches also did all these calculations themselves even though "officially" we still have 4 weightlifters in race for Tokyo and Davoudi is just one of them. if we remove ineligible weightlifters, here is the best official result (by official I mean results in IWF sanctioned international competitions) of remaining weightlifters in past 2.5 years. 484 Talakhadze 441 Davoudi 436 Reis 431 Bidani 430 Asaad 427 Toychyyev 427 Seim 418 Kucera

This is the Pan American championship bracket. The Olympic qualification tournament, to be held on Friday and Saturday, brackets are here: Men's Women's

Doha 2064, Argentina qualifies in archery, diving and badminton. Mark my words.

He also served as a referee during the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Izašao je ranking za boks putem engelske federacije Tu trenutačno kvotu ima Marko Milun 91+ ..on je na svjetskoj ljestvici 16.boksač,a od eurpoljana je 3. U kategoriji 91 Toni Filip drži 32 mjesto..od europljana je na 9 mjestu

Czech commentator (former figure skater) is savaging the Belarus team. "Neumí bruslit"

Quotas World Ranking http://boxing.athlete365.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210318_Tokyo2020_BOX_Quotas.pdfs

http://boxing.athlete365.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210318_Tokyo2020_BOX_Quotas.pdf

Relay resumes in a few hours.

Belgium finished last in Race 11 and didn't start race 12. Ireland now has two boats ahead of Italy (3 boats) and Belgium. Ireland's lead over Italy is 38. I think they have to avoid any more disqualifications though!

49er : After 11 Races 35 pts 77 pts 80 pts

Nations like Malta, Macedonia, Oman, Nicaragua ,Bhutan, Nepal, Aruba, Myanmar, Belgium,Ireland, Senegal, Montenegro, Iraq, Bolivia, etc are some of the nations who will probably join the qualified list through reallocations or tripartite invitation accordingly. Can't say all of the above but around 40-50% of above

Overall. You qualify an athlete in any event, through any means (ranking, competition, tripartite or even reallocation), you are ineligible for any more reallocations.

I think it’s 17 races. 3 tomorrow and thursday, one fleet race on Friday and then the medal race.

Kristóf Milák's time at the Hungarian National Championships in men's 200m butterfly: 1:52.50 That's the 5th best ever time in men's 200m butterfly. I believe that if everything goes well the WR is within reach for him in Tokyo. He's obviously our best chance for a gold in swimming. Boglárka Kapás is also looking really strong, 2:06.85 in women's 200m buttefly, that's almost the same time she had at the 2019 Worlds where she won the gold, we can expect a new PB from her in Tokyo.

Will we get some voting status updates in the first post?

This is a completely bogus story. It is NOT a list of happy countries, it’s a list of countries that have lots of thing that academics like - welfare states, good public transport, windmills, crusty bread, art galleries, statues of mermaids etc etc. Back in 2011 someone did a survey of which countries were ACTUALLY the happiest. The winner? Nigeria. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2011/jan/04/nigerians-top-optimism-poll

Holy shit, Kaunas is preparing for Independence day hard this year Can't wait to become red on Thursday.

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, Swimming Canada has invoked the unexpected circumstances clause of its Olympic team nomination criteria, and is postponing the Olympic and Paralympic Swimming Trials until late May. Swimming Canada will also plan a supplementary Olympic qualifying opportunity in June. The clause allows the Swimming Canada Selection Committee to determine if unexpected or unusual circumstances have arisen during the process of applying these Criteria and have the full and absolute discretion to resolve the matter as it sees fit, taking into account factors and circumstances that it deems relevant. Any such exercise of discretion shall be subject to the Canadian administrative law principles of fairness. The following swimmers have been provisionally nominated by Swimming Canada’s Selection Committee for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, for the following specific individual events: Kylie Masse (Lasalle, Ontario), 100m and 200m backstroke Margaret Mac Neil (London, Ontario), 100m butterfly Penny Oleksiak (Toronto, Ontario), 200m freestyle Sydney Pickrem (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 200m breaststroke, 200m and 400m individual medley Taylor Ruck (Kelowna, British Columbia), 100m freestyle Markus Thormeyer (Delta, British Columbia), 200m backstroke More: https://www.swimming.ca/en/news/2021/01/22/six-swimmers-provisionally-nominated-to-represent-team-canada-at-tokyo-2020/

Former snowboard world champion Julie Pomagalski dies in avalanche Snowboarder Julie Pomagalski, who won the women's snowboard cross world title in 1999, has died at the age of 40 after being caught in an avalanche in Switzerland. Pomagalski was a two-time Olympian, competing at Salt Lake City 2002 and Turin 2006 in parallel giant slalom, finishing sixth on both occasions. The French athlete was also the Snowboard Cross World Cup runner-up in 2004, five years on from winning the world title in Berchtesgaden in Germany. She later claimed silver at the World Championships in parallel giant slalom in 2003. Former snowboard world champion Pomagalski dies in avalanche

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Both teams play bad, it's just the dutch have an awful coach on top of that.