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Oh alright. Well, we're talking about the beautiful Paisley pattern here. Shweshwe is African, Argyle is the Scottish diamond pattern and Herringbone is presumably old European. Pts. 4,000 Which of these textile patterns is of Persian origin and is best described as teardrop-shaped? ♦ A: Shweshwe ♦ B: Paisley ♦ C: Herringbone ♦ D: Argyle

Right, the team events severely limit participation in Fencing. If the FIE/IOC wanted to increase participation, they’d have to reform how quotas are distributed for teams events, or drop the team events all together.

But 24 of those quotas are reserved for the team athletes. If you are not a great power and don't have a competitive team, you only have 2 quotas by ranking (in Europe) and another one by the Qualification Tournament. For a small country in fencing like us is extremely hard to get a single quota.

I don't think that it would be good idea. But as I said it many times before, I HATE IOC of that because they have adding multiple events, new sports and so on, but number of athletes remain unchanged or even is lowered in few sports, just like now in wrestling where two places per continental quota and in world qualifier is laughable and no B standards in athletics.... If they are adding new events, also number of athletes should raised respectvily to number of events.

Siess without quota, dissapointed after good performance in Doha Grand Prix. There should be available at least two quotas per continent, not just one, its not fair at all...

96kg ranking - Tian - 4481 1. El-Bakh - 4217 2. Rivas - 4034 (COL with 3 doping cases) 3. Pliesnoi - 3919 4. Santavy - 3768 - Mkrtchyan - 3750 (NOC is limited to 1) 5. Yu - 3631 6. Yamamoto - 3503 7. Vallenilla - 3466 - Jang - 3438 (2nd KOR) 8 Saez - 3368 - Tsikhantsou - 3357 (no) (NOC is limited to 1) 9. Rasulbekov - 3226 - Shoraj - 3189 (NOC is limited to 2) (needs 1 more result at 96) 10. Moradi - 3090 11. Iakovidis - 3073 12. Chen - 3066 13. Veli - 3039 - Gregorio - 3034 (2nd BRA) 14. Opeloge - 3010 (Oceania) according to our Chinese friend, Tiao is not going to be selected for China, but that's not a sure thing, injures are always possible. ==

I agree. We'll start with you and Pts. 125,000 next weekend.

You know what? It's 'The Ghan'! Opened in 1929, a popular passenger train. Pts. 64,000 What is the name of the Australian passenger train, popular among tourists, that travels between Darwin and Adelaide? ♦ A: ♦ B: Malt ♦ C: ♦ D: Ghan Question by OlympicIRL ♦ P t s . 6 4 , 0 0 0 ♦

Ah yes, the poor Buffalo Bills who impressively made it to four consecutive Super Bowls but also somehow managed to lose all fours. Quite sadly for the Bills fans. Their team seems to look much better now and they can hope for maybe a Super Bowl in the near future. A is my answer.

I remember seeing picture of that dish or speciality and was quite frightened by the sight. I'm not a picky eater but this dish I would probably prefer to skip. As I remember it's a young duck fetus in its egg. A is my answer.

Extraliga, Finals, Game #4 A lone goal by Matej Stransky about 9 mins into the OT decided the 4th episode of the Czech Final Series... Once again, actually, more than ever, it was a close, tactical battle, but to be honest, also a rather boring match, where really few exciting plays happened... Now HC Oceláři Třinec are leading the series 3-1 and next Monday they have the chance to close things down in a home clash... Game #4 in fact is scheduled for next Monday, April 26th, at 5 p.m. local time (CET) in Třinec... Bílí Tygři Liberec - HC Oceláři Třinec 0-1 after OT (series score: 1-3) Game #4 stats: https://hokej.cz/zapas/2894222 Highlights

Yeah he has been treated properly and it's doing okay. I'm sorry to hear about your former. I hope his treatment is helping him with the symptoms.

Karatsev just beats Djokovic in semifinal of ATP 250 in Belgrade

@Wumo Pts. 500 Who had a glorious career in the 2000s in short track speed skating? ♦ A: Posidon Ivan Yikes ♦ B: Hercles Roman Ouch ♦ C: Apolo Anton Ohno ♦ D: Hephastus Pavel Goodgrief

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When I was about 8 I got a big geography with all the countries of the world, at that time, I learned all the countries, their capitals and flags. I can still recall most of it and European capitals are just donw my alley. C, Bratislava, is the capital of Slovakia. I bet hckosice would have loved this question

Awesome, then you're my contestant for tonight. wumo ♦ ♦ Denmark You're also the fourth player to go for their second run here. Like on your first run, do you choose 3 lifelines or 4 this time? Also, please give me a number between 1 and 5 for your random stack.

These are the chosen ones for Mexican delegation the Opening Ceremony

I honestly believe that with this idiotic quota reduction it´s time for team competitions to abandon the program. When you actually see that between 5-8 fencers in each weapon and gender will only be in Tokyo because they´re needed to fill a quota for a team (the one's with continental / host places in particular), and some very competent individuals being left out because of that ridiculous 8 team "competition", then you should left space for more countries to send their best, respecting the 3 per country for those powerhouses that can actually qualify them.

Because mixed weapon team events are a joke, and it’s literally impossible to do a mixed gender fencing event in a way that is fair (same problem the mixed judo team event is running into).

I would want know too, but there is no news why Walczyk isn't competing here, I assume that Jelińska was choosed as she performed better in previous world cup event.

It doesn't make any sense in fencing to have a mixed team. They already tested in cadets and the Youth Olympics and it was a mess.

Count me as an expert

That's amazing, thanks for all the work everyone! Already having fun just scrolling through the schedule and the Games haven't even started. I don't mean to nitpick, but if you're ever doing some corrections: I found a 'men's 500m freestyle' swimming on sat 31st july. I assume that's supposed to be 50m.

What I would prefer is to have separate qualification for the individual and team events, meaning that no one would qualify for the individual event just because they are a member of a qualified team. But that would never happen as it would potentially raise the number of athlete quotas. Or maybe give only two quotas for the nations that qualified for the team event, and then give them the opportunity to win a 3rd individual quota.

Obviously enough, Wang Zhouyu secure a ticket by her impressive performance.

YEEEEEES!!!! Choupenitch made it!!! Qualified for his second Olympic Games!!!

Here: https://www.agu-gymnastics.com/. Click on "copy of AGU calendar 2021-2024". The document was uploaded on April 19th, so it's the most recent information we have. Now, it's important to note that there is an active link on the website stating that the Asian Championships will take place on May 29th in a different city in China, but I believe it's just a leftover link they forgot to delete. Anyway, conflicting information on their own website... Expected, given the federation is a mess, but still frustrating.

Any unused quota places obtained at the World Teams/Singles Qualification Tournaments will be reallocated to the next best-placed eligible team / athlete of the same gender, not yet qualified, from the respective World Team/Singles Qualification Tournament. Looks it will be France, but not official yet

What said above by Wumo, but consider that Pustilnik never made the top 8 in the qualifying period so it could end like in 2016 (Hatuel won but Israel NOC refused the quota).

sure It wasn't supposed to be the last event for Asia, Pan-Am and Europe. but they postponed for 2-3 months and imagine if it gets cancelled which is very possible these days. it will be "funny" Colombia itself is facing a complete ban from the Olympics, if they receive that ban (they hope they can postpone it to a date after the Olympics) there is no point to host a qualification event.

@hckošiceCanada's entry should be changed to Jeremy Hazin in the men's singles event.

Tomorrow, both Freilich in men's epee and Pustilnik in women's foil have good/decent chances to take a spot. Freilich is the second highest-placed fencer according to the ranking in his weapon and Pustilnik is the top seed in her weapon. Biggest chance is probably Pustilnik.

Simon Martirosyan lost two of his world records today!! Yang broke the snatch WR while Nurudinov broke CJ ! interestingly none of them are going to Tokyo

A cheap substitute for having to endure the sight of yet more French failure!! ?

I am always happy when the British are eliminated !!

And you for double quota in Women's)

Semi vs vs

FRANCE WIN 2 QUOTAS!!!

Paula Jukić u četvrtfinalu,trebaju joj još 3 pobjede za Tokio,ne znam kolke su joj mogućnosti,ali svejedno vrlo zanimljivo Danas nastupa i Petar Fileš

yes, it's wrong... this is the official qualification sheet by IWF (paragraph B5): https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2020/05/FINAL-2020-05-26-Tokyo-2020-Revised-Qualification-system-Weightlifting-eng.pdf

There was an interesting broadcast last evening in sky sport news, titled Football's Civil War about the ESL debacle. Here is in youtube if someone is interested:

The European qualifiers are about to start with women's epée, there are 23 fencers in that event, and 7 of them are in the Top100 on the world ranking: 10. Kryvytska 25. Ndolo 40. Rottler-Fautsch 48. Moeschlin 60. Kun 70. Botvinnik 73. Sica

Mixed Relay means Single Mixed + Mixed.

Women's All Around (BBC Coverage)

Goodbye Grand Final is over, medals has been given, scoreboard presented and everyone are drunk, it's good moment to say goodbye We will finish the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest with this amazing old Polish song called "Ostatnia Niedziela" which mean "The Last Sunday" Once more congratulations to the winner @intoronto, silver medalist @Belle, bronze medalist @OlympicIRL, who also helped me a lot, to @Olympian1010 and @mrv86 for making this contest possible and to @dcro for keeping Team Challenge during Final and also finding my mistakes, which always could happen. Thank you also to everyone who competed at this contest! I'm already looking forward for next Annual contest, but yet before, for Open contest for which Serbia have hosting rights. Bye!