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I could already imagine a not-so-knowledgable Indonesian commentator will be hyping up the ship from Monaco4 points
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Im actually looking forward to this. It has potential. We see going to be going from the Worst Olympics in recent memory next year to something extraordinary opening the games in 2024. Can't wait!2 points
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You laugh but someone falling down while celebrating and knocking over a stone has decided a curling world championship before.1 point
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is almost guaranteed to win the round robin at the final qualification tournament, and to qualify directly for the Olympics. All they need is to win one of their remaining two matches or to have lose one of it's three remaining matches.1 point
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Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022
Dennis reacted to Olympian1010 for a topic
One compromise solution could be that a quota is only transferable if a) the maximum number of athletes has not been reached after original allocation b) the athlete fulfilling the quota has met the qualification standard. I do agree with the principle that with the scarcity of available quotas, quotas should be allocated to specific athletes, not NOCs.1 point -
Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022
heywoodu reacted to ahjfcshfghb for a topic
I agree with that conclusion. So that means Mirlene Picin would not be eligible for the Sprint? What would happen if Picin has a better FIS points average, but only Bruna can start in two events?1 point -
That would be my conclusion, yes. Leaves no room for another interpretation.1 point
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Van der Poel will start in both distances and that's fine. However, if another athlete who qualified in both 5/10k for example decides to start only in the 5k, then the qualification system allows the 10k starting place to be assigned to another athlete from the same nation, even if that other athlete was nowhere near qualifying by himself. That is my issue with the qualification system.1 point
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I think it a very long and complicated process to determine the head-counts of each NOC but it's not definitely to be a cruel quotas cut as it seems. For example, Van De Poel earned two quotas on 5000m and 10000m for but they will just send one person and Huang Yu-ting earned 3 quotas on 500/1000/1500m for , also very likely just sent herself alone. So I think all depends and we have to wait trials results.1 point
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Athletes Retirements Thread
Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo reacted to Grassmarket for a topic
Three British sailing gold medallists at Tokyo retire after their classes are removed or changed for Paris. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sailing/596363201 point -
Oh yeah, such flops are likely to be very common. "and here is Slovenia once again..." But I am mostly afraid we will have somethig like that. I can already picture this will happen... "and we see Burkina Faso with 6 athletes, here is the French delegation passing under the xyz bridge, what a great team it will be for the host country, now Burundi with a couple of athletes, and we see the french team waving to the passionate audience, what a lovely images and now this is, Cameroon...wait we should have had Cambodia first...however...does not matter anyway, look at the French team so happy to be here on the Seine waving to the public..."1 point
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Commentator: Wait a minute our team is only a few athletes? What is going on?1 point
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What are the chances that a certain Tongan flagbearer will start swimming in Seine?1 point
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Maximum number of athletes per NOC: Country Women Men Total 9 9 18 8 8 16 8 8 16 8 7 15 8 7 15 8 5 13 6 6 12 5 7 12 4 8 12 6 5 11 5 5 10 8 2 10 4 5 9 1 6 7 7 0 7 2 3 5 3 2 5 2 1 3 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 If all countries will use the maximum number of skaters, a total of 210 names will be sent to the IOC (108 women and 102 men), but the maximum number of qualification places is 166 (83 women and 83 men). That should not be too much of an issue on the women's side as 77 different skaters won a quota for their NOC. On the men's side however, I expect that the quota of 83 is too little. I'm curious to see what will happen in that situation. According to the rules, it could lead to a reduction of event quota on the 500m, 1.000m and 1.500m. @Benolympique1 point
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Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 News
Laraja reacted to Olympian1010 for a topic
Yeah, I was left with a positive outlook on large public opening ceremonies after Buenos Aires 2018. There’s clearly some places to improved, but I’m highly interested in how this idea will turn out.1 point -
the "grandeur" is a very bad disease... however, they forgot to say that the opening speech by the 1976 Olympic Champion aka the IOC President dr. Thomas Bach will feature the greatest breakdance show ever as the intro...1 point
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Mesdames et messieurs, welcome to the first edition of the Urban Circus Games.1 point
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An incredibly fortunate (for Hamilton) red flag right after he made a mistake which would have taken him out of any significant points contention. Due to the red flag, he got basically a free fresh start with an all fixed car and could cruise to 2nd. Not unlike Silverstone, where he sent Verstappen straight into the barriers with a way too enthousiastic move, damaged his front wing in the process...but could have the whole thing fixed due to the red flag. It truly has been a season where Hamilton got lucky every single time. Now, for once, it didn't fall his way, and (English) social media is full with stuff about how Hamilton was robbed....like all those people watched literally one race and nothing else this year1 point
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Jesus Christ this parade of Nations will be a total mess for TV, I already can imagine some nations will not be even shown or cameras will find them only for some seconds...1 point
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Auto Racing Discussion Thread
Monzanator reacted to NaBUru38 for a topic
Yesterday I attended the last round of the Uruguayan Circuit Auto Racing Championships at El Pinar. Here's some photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gran_Premio_Autojuntas_AUVO_20211 point -
https://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SW-Final-Sport-Entries_Abu-Dhabi.pdf1 point
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Weightlifting IWF World Championships 2021
thepharoah reacted to MHSN for a topic
that's pretty normal for our coach they always do this for almost everybody. having a low 1st attempt and then jump as much as possible for the next attempts. this time the jump was bigger Dehdar had lifted 219kg before so it wasn't completely out of his reach but not today. we have a very weak team here in general. I was only expecting one medal at 102kg. (81kg medal was quite surprising) our top weightlifters (Moradi and Rostami) are boycotting the national team and Olympic silver medalist Davoudi decided to take a break.0 points -
97 different skaters won at least one spot for their NOC0 points