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  1. Too easy for Osaka...the career of already established tennis, golf, (male) basketball and football players, etc. wouldn't be affected at all by a cancellation. Let's hear the opinion of athletes for whom the Olympics are really a life and career goal and have worked for years to qualify.
    7 points
  2. The Japanese government is doing a terrible job anyway. For such a rich country it's unexcusable that the vaccination rate is still so low. It's not the Olympics that cause death and harm and Japan. It's that the Japanese have barely vaccinated their people. Maybe they should stop discuss the Olympics and start giving the vaccination to the doctors.
    4 points
  3. https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/tokyo-2020-handball-tournaments-match-schedule-confirmed Handball schedule was confirmed. @Sindo @Matej
    4 points
  4. They shouldn't be punished if the worst happens, it's not their fault that we are still in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. And I can tell you that in almost all the countries a lot of people would be protesting against the Games. The only reason there aren't any protest against the Aquatics ECh here because people at this point have given up, they know that Orbán doesn't care about them, but I am sure the vast majority of Budapest wanted the event to be cancelled. I think we need to realize that if Tokyo2020 happens, it's going to be biggest achievement in the history of modern sport, we are asking a lot from Japan. And democratic countries like Japan doesn't have the luxury to just ignore public opinion like everything is fine. But I think they still got enough time to turn things around. Hopefully they will. IOC must be really concerned, Bach wanted the Games to be secure by May, and now he delayed his visit to June, they must know by now that this can go down to wire thanks to the current wave of COVID.
    3 points
  5. USATF Golden Games - 5000m Women Julie-Anne Staehli 15:02.34 Laura Esther Galvan Rodriguez 15:02.48 -NR @Braulio @RiSeGwangFan Natalia Hawthorn 15:05.91 Jessica Judd 15:06.02 19th qualified competitor in Athletics.
    3 points
  6. Can we stop with the narrative that the Olympics are going to be a super-spreader event and that it's a threat to the rest of the world if they're held? That's ignorant garbage. All of these athletes are going to be monitored and tested regularly, so the odds of them bringing COVID to Japan or taking it home to their own country is minimal. The much bigger issue is what it's doing to medial resources in Japan, but that's a different story altogether. Speaking as an American where we did a piss poor job handling the pandemic early on, all of our sports leagues are running now with few if any major problems related to COVID. This was after many people were saying to shut it all down because it's not safe to play sports during a pandemic. That seems pretty ridiculous now. NPB is playing through their season with fans in attendance, so obviously "we can't play sports" is not the issue. I can't speak to what's happening in Japan and why they're struggling so much while many other countries seem to have better control over the pandemic. Most countries experienced the fall wave that most experts said was going to hit, but many of those countries are seeing reduced COVID cases and not necessarily just the ones where vaccines are availalbe. We all get this is being done for TV money at this point, as is much of the sports world. Again though, we all thought Japan was the right place to be able to handle COVID and at the same time be a relatively safe location to hold the Olympics. Why is it they are no longer capable of doing both when 3 months ago that looked to be the case?
    2 points
  7. I wont stop, because, if they used half the effort from looking for excuses into actually doing effective vaccination/ preparation / coordination we wouldn't be in this situation. And this is the nation that was said for decades has biggest work ethic and discipline in the world.. If it was almost any other nation, i could understand the situation. But from the top 5 richest, perfectly organized Japan, it's not acceptable.. And of course no one cares about the Olympics, just before 4 billion people watch every single day. Happens every time. Internet filled moralists aren't the world, no matter how much they scream and cancel in 2021.
    2 points
  8. This is absolutely normal for like 90% of summer sports. There is simply not enough space for everyone within the 10,500 athletes maximum.
    2 points
  9. Seriously, what the hell was that? It's a global pandemic. Yes, I understand that Japan has not always made the best decisions, but I'm pretty sure 80% of the rest of the world would have dealt with this situation with much, much worse consequences. Japan is hosting a big event at the worst possible time and they have no responsibility about the events that led to the pandemic. Besides, of course they have to focus on their own nation and worry about the safety of the citizens. The Olympic Games, at the end of the day, are just fireworks and flashy lights. Yes, we love them, we love sports, but we don't need them to happen right now. It would be great, of course, but not absolutely necessary!
    2 points
  10. LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RECORD ALERT Anyways, I decided to be a little bit fancy today with this extra presentation, but today Agnė Lukoševičiūtė broke her own hammer throw record by more than 5 metres. The new Lithuanian women's hammer throw record is now 66.09m and this was the first competition for Agnė after a long covid hiatus. It also got her a huge sum of Olympic qualification points and she is actually now on the radar of athletes that could have a chance at an Olympic quota and nobody really expected that it could happen this year, but if she keeps throwing around the 66 metre mark in a few other important competitions, she really has a good shot. Edit: also, forgot to mention that this was historically the weakest discipline for Lithuanian athletics of all time and could only have been compared to our pole vaulting. If we go back two-three years, the women's hammer throw record was below 50 metres.
    2 points
  11. WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT 192/192 athletes 12/12 countries QUALIFIED TEAMS QUALIFICATION EVENT QUALIFIED NATION NOTES Host Nation Japan Aug 18 - Sep 2, 2018 2018 Asian Games Jakarta/ Palembang *reallocation to Olympic Qualification matches *the Champions, Japan, already qualified as Host Nation Jul 26 - Aug 11, 2019 2019 Pan American Games Lima Argentina Aug 12 - 18, 2019 African Olympic Qualification Event Stellenbosch South Africa Aug 16 - 25, 2019 2019 European Championships Antwerp Netherlands Sep 1 - 8, 2019 2019 Oceania Cup Rockhampton New Zealand Oct 26 - Nov 4, 2019 Olympic Qualification Matches Australia China Germany Great Britain India Ireland Olympic debut Spain
    1 point
  12. There will be definitely no +20 goals defeat You won against France in the preparation, it is an opponent that is not always easy to beat. Plus a world championship match is still a world championship match, so I am not worrying about lack of motivation. Each scored goal and played match at this level is a feast. You have won your maintain in the top division fairly, so I am pretty sure the boys will want to enjoy the tournament and confirm that it was not a fluke. Well, you know, here in Slovakia, Italy has always been considered as a team of naturalized North Americans. (I will never forget how Rišo Lintner during one WCh, I can not remember which one it was, said that once at lunch when he did not find a place in the Teams hotel canteen, he sat down at a table with players wearing Italian uniforms and was surprised that they communicated with each other only in English during the whole lunch ) That stereotype has changed in recent years and today's Italian team built on its own players is much more sympathetic to our lay public.
    1 point
  13. Catalina Ponor will be spokesperson during Grand Final! Meanwhile after next day with rehearsals jumped in odds to 4th place, falls to 8th and enter top10 Also on the top passed
    1 point
  14. Liiga, Finals, Game #3 Thanks to a goal in the 18th minute of the opening period and a couple of empty netters in the last couple of minutes of the final period, Lukko Rauma won the 3rd game of the Finnish Liiga Finals on the ice of TPS Turku and now they lead 2-1 in the series, with the chance to close things down and win the title in the next match, tomorrow. Game #4 is scheduled for Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 11th at 4 p.m. local time (3 p.m. CET) once again in Turku. Game #3: TPS Turku - Lukko Rauma 1-3 (series score: 1-2) Game #3 stats: https://liiga.fi/en/ottelut/2020-2021/playoffs/55523/seuranta/ Highlights: https://liiga.fi/en/ottelut/2020-2021/playoffs/55523/kooste/
    1 point
  15. It wasn't a walkover, but the french was a RPO
    1 point
  16. OMG can we stop with the planted propaganda polls every damn week! God, how i wish it was august already, so everything can be over and i won't have to bother with the insanely moronic Olympic qualifications, preaching internet nutjobs and the country of Japan acting like a child going through puberty..
    1 point
  17. I have uploaded the speaker failure on OK because this is one for the history books, I doubt anything like this happened at the Aquatics ECh before: https://ok.ru/video/2147581889118
    1 point
  18. Men Africa - Asia - America - 2019 WCh - 2019 WCh (U23) - (or if Romania is through on rankings) Women Africa - Asia - America - 2019 WCh - 2019 WCh (U23) -
    1 point
  19. Incredible solo win for Taco van der Hoorn. Not very often you get a breakaway win on Week 1 of a GT. His brother Burrito & sister Quesadilla must be delighted.
    1 point
  20. Update from UCI on how Qualification will finish - https://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/the-uci-announces-the-updated-qualification-systems-for-mountain-bike-bmx-racing-and-bmx-freestyle-for-tokyo-2020
    1 point
  21. Update from UCI on how Qualification will finish - https://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/the-uci-announces-the-updated-qualification-systems-for-mountain-bike-bmx-racing-and-bmx-freestyle-for-tokyo-2020
    1 point
  22. 2 races 2 podiums for Danka Barteková 1st place in last month, 3rd place today in Good Olympic season start for our only IOC member. hope she will be able to repeat it also in Tokyo
    1 point
  23. considering the Colombia event and World Juniors start list. by my count these athletes are 100% qualified. 61kg: Irawan Mishvelidze Baru (Oceania) 67kg: Ergashev Zanni Matam Munoz (Pan-America) Ioane (Oceania) 73kg: Cummings Mayora Calja Ben Hnia Wakeling (Oceania) 81kg: Pizzolato Bonnat Rejepov Maurus Suharevs Muller Mata (Europe) McTaggart (Oceania) 96kg: El-Bakh Pliesnoi Santavy Opeloge (Oceania) 109kg: Djuraev Chumak Michalski Plesnieks (at least Europe) Kitts (Pan America) Lydement (Oceania) +109kg: Talakhadze Davoudi Reis Assad Toychyyev Bidani Wilkes (Pan America) Liti (Oceania) ------------------- has to pick 4 from 61, 67, 73, 81, 96 and 109 (no chance for 109) has to pick 2 from 96, 109 and +109 (sure thing). they want 96 but not this guy currently in top 8. has to pick 2 from 61, 73, 109 (and maybe 81) may qualify in 6 weights (all except 81) 61, 73 and 96 are more likely to qualify still alive in all 7 weights! 61, 67 and 73 are almost guaranteed. 96 is more likely to get the last one has to pick 1 from 109 and +109. they have guys high in ranking in other weights too but no chance for them has to pick 1 from 61, 96, 109 and +109. (probably no chance for 61) has to pick 1 from 73, 96, 109 and +109. most likely 109 has to pick 2 and I assumed that will be 67 and 109 since both of them are medal contender
    1 point
  24. Nakhon Patom in Thailand (instead of China) will host the AVC Beach Continental Cup from 25 to 27 June
    1 point
  25. Yeah that's true too. Iran might want a few more wrestlers like 2 in a category in at least 1-2 categories
    1 point
  26. There's loads of factors at play. Triathlon was mentioned earlier but that's mass start and the difference between 35 starting and 55 starting isn't that much logistically. The same way they're going to allow over 80 now in the marathon in Athletics. Others are a bit more difficult to keep a rein on but they've even tightened up in swimming with the removal of the B time automatically allowing A time holders competing in multiple events. There are plenty of sports with only one entrant per NOC too; sailing, rowing, weightlifting and all the combat sports. All of which is to say that we all have our favourite sports, and we all know which sports give our countries a better chance of medalling, but it's not an easy job for the IOC and the sports federations. It's OK that we don't all get our wishlist
    1 point
  27. Vit Prindis, Vavrinec Hradilek, Denis Gargaud Chanut, Nicolas Gestin, Camille Prigent, Roman Prigent, Mathieu Biazizzo, Lucie Prioux, Elena Apel, Lena Stoecklin, Franz Anton, Joe Clarke, Adam Burgess, Sophie Ogilvie, Gabriela Satkova, Vojtech Heger, Vaclav Chalupka, Alexander Slafkovsky, Michal Martikan, Jana Dukatova, Martin Halcin, Sona Stanovska, Miren Lazkano, Viktoria Wolffhardt, Luka Bozic etc... this is only a short list of names of athletes who will have to miss the Olympics because they unfortunately lost their national internal qualifiers thanks 1 single boat per NOC rule..and the list is much more longer If you find it normal then there something wrong. it is appropriate to ask the question whether the Olympic Games aspire to the title of the most prestigious sports competition (in the case of canoeing slalom it certainly failed) or just for some entertainment for the whole world with lesser prestigious sports value (in this case it obviously succeeded for canoe slalom) don't get me wrong, I have nothing against other sports, Nothing !, I don't envy them at all !. I also do not have anything against small countries and free quotas for them, Nothing at all. you just have to look at it also from another angle. there is still talk of same value for each olympic discipline, of total equality of the games blah blah blah . nonsense. Go and try to explain to a Czech or a Slovak or a Slovenian that they can only send one of their competitors to a canoe slalom event, even if they have 3 that may very well fight for medals, but the same organizer allow three fencers from the same nation to go to compete at the same event and even all three of them are allowed to win a medal in that competition. again, not get me wrong, nothing against fencing, I do not envy hem, let they have 3 athletes per NOC, let them have 12 events, same for athletics or all other sports.. just do not talk about equality and fair values
    1 point
  28. a genius does not need to read manual to know how to wear a mask
    1 point
  29. No, not official. FIG will apparently only release a statement in June, after the continental championships end and a decision about the Doha World Cup is made -- i.e., if it will happen or not.
    1 point
  30. maybe you can watch here like me - European Aquatics Championships - Budapest 2021 - video Dailymotion
    1 point
  31. http://budapest2020.microplustiming.com/indexBudapest2021_mobile.php?s=Q2hlY2tKc29uVG9Mb2FkKCdBU0YnLCAnMDAxJywgJzAwMycsICcwMDEnLCAnJywgJycsICdTb2xvIExpYmVybycsICdTb2xvIEZyZWUgLSBQcmVsaW1pbmFyeScsICdTb2xvIExpYnJlJyk7&cat=&page=&spec=&bat=&td=CAL_CIS_DAY&hg=&descIT=&descEN=&descFR=&curCatSel_M_F=undefined&sport=Synchro You can watch it in streaming on "RaiSport", with a VPN
    1 point
  32. Imagine the world titles being decided on the Wall of Kigali, oh man. In terms of atmosphere it would be (by far!) the best big cycling race in history
    1 point
  33. Philippines rower Cris Nievarez qualifies for the men's single sculls at Tokyo 2020. He placed 9th in the single sculls at the Asia Oceania Continental Qualification regatta. PH rowing's Cris Nievarez qualifies for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
    1 point
  34. He is already qualified in the 5000, and is talking about doing the double, which mind you has heats on the same day
    1 point
  35. USATF Golden Games Justyn Knight 3:33.41 - 1500m
    1 point
  36. 1 point
  37. The worlds in Kigali would be great.
    1 point
  38. Alex Rose was reported tonight as having broken the world discus record by throwing 79m. Unfortunately the real distance was 59m
    1 point
  39. More rehearsals of remaining first semifinalists. @dcro @Glen @Dnl @IoNuTzZ @Illya
    1 point
  40. Maria Andrejczyk with a massive throw of 71.40m in women's javelin throw at the European Throwing Cup. It's a massive PB with an improvement of over 4 meters of her previous one. It's the 7th longest throw ever in women's javelin with the current javelin model. Only Olisdeilys Menendez and Barbora Spotakova has thrown longer. She is also only the third ever female javelin thrower to throw over 71m with the current javelin model. https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-javelin-throw-fnl-a00100-.htm Edit: @rafalgorka We had the same thoughts at the same time.
    1 point
  41. Maria Andrzejczyk 71.40 in javelin. WR is 72.28 Totally awesome!!! https://twitter.com/KubaSeweryn/status/1391432121600946180?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1391432121600946180|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.pl%2F
    1 point
  42. Brazil has withdrawn from the olympic qualification tournament
    0 points
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