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You know what's truly incredible? China won the quota in EVERY Olympics discipline.

Introducing text about No. 3 "WHAT IS GOOD TO BUY IN CZECH STORS?" Does exist some typical Czech food products? Of course, let's introduce some of them! BEER Beer is probably the best-known and most popular drink not only in the Czech Republic. However, Czech brands are known all over the world, and since 2008 the name Czech beer has been protected as a geographical indication. According to Czech regulations, beer is defined as: a foamy beverage produced by fermentation of wort prepared from malt, water, unmodified hops, modified hops or hop products, which, in addition to the alcohol (ethanol) and carbon dioxide produced by the fermentation process, also contains a certain amount of unfermented extract. The Czechia has the highest consumption and production of beer per capita in the world. The most famous Czech brands are: Pilsner Urquell, Staropramen, Gambrinus, Lobkowicz, Radegast and Budweiser Budvar. KOFOLA Kofola is a sparkling non-alcoholic drink of the cola type, which was created in 1959 in Czechoslovakia as an alternative to competing drinks Coca-Cola or Pepsi, which were unavailable at the time. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, it competed with foreign brands that entered the newly created attractive market. Then came a period of bankruptcy and trademark litigation. Many companies produced their own "kofolas", although they had nothing to do with the original and just used an established brand. The Kofola company recovered at the beginning of the 21st century and today the drink is served on tap in almost every Czech pub. The company even produces limited flavors for each year. The strawberry flavor is currently on sale for 2022. PARDUBICE GINGERBREAD The history of Pardubice gingerbread dates back to the 15th century, and the tradition of its production is still maintained today. There are many different forms of gingerbread. They can be glued with jam, decorated with sugar icing with texts and pictures or topped with different flavors of icing. Gingerbread is also used as a confectionary material when making gingerbread houses (according to a Czech fairy tale). They are especially popular during the Christmas holidays and often people don't eat them and keep them as decoration. OLOMOUC CHEESE CURDS Olomouc cheese curds is a type of Moravian ripening cheese that is made from skimmed milk, so it has a minimal fat content. However, it is very aromatic, similar to Romadour cheese. It is produced in the village of Loštice near the city of Olomouc. They began to produce already in the 15th century. They are called Olomouc because they were sold at the markets in Olomouc. The industrial production of curds was introduced by Josef Wessels in 1876 and continues to this day. There is a pastry shop in Loštice, where they will prepare pastries made of cottage cheese - cream rolls, scarves, cakes, ice cream sundaes, etc. But they are best with bread and butter. And you can see on this video. There are many others Czech products. To be honest, the products are much more tastier then that guy shows!

goes 8/8 for Olympic quotas and are in a good position to do it again at the 2023 Worlds. This will open things up for the other Asian nations at their qualifiers.

First two Brits in World Cup action today in the Freeski Big Air in Chur, . Qualifiers this morning, finals this evening. Unfortunately we are geo-blocked for the livestream….. Chris McGregor in the Men’s & Kirsty Muir in the Women. Both have chances of making the Final, don’t want to put the Commentators’ Curse on them.

in women’s and in men’s get a quota in Road Cycling from Caribbean Championships. The men’s quota was awarded to the rider in fourth place as cyclists & finished in the first 3 positions.

Well, it was about time Lance Stroll reminded everyone he's only riding his daddy's wallet in F1...

So by extension handball is only an Olympic sport when it's held in Europe, presumably.

Kofola is available to buy in Poland's Lidl's

Waldemar Fibigr, the Czech sprint canoeist from 1988 and 1992 Olympics, died on Friday. Really interested to see what @bestmen's opinion is on that...

Another very obvious way to free up spots for more worthy team sports like cricket: get rid of 4 teams in men's football. I mean, this is a no brainer. How much time will it take for them to do this? This is the one quota reduction that no one will be upset about because no one cares about the men's football tournament at the Games, yet it has 16 teams, unlike any other teamsport.

Athletics, men's Long Jump...I agree with @Dragon I just can't go against Carl Lewis, even if my all-time favourite is Ivan Pedroso. Swimming, men's 200 IM...I don't think I should even write who gets my pick...it's Michael Phelps, obviously. Table Tennis, women's Singles...close call between Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining...I go with Zhang Yining only because modern TT is more demanding than in the Nineties. Badminton, women's Doubles...I also go with the double Gold medallists, Ge Fei & Gu Jun. Badminton, mixed Doubles... Zhang Jun & Gao Ling are my pick.

Yeah, finding 180 quotas for a bare minimum tournament is a hard ask. Most sports are already at their limit so the IOC would have to kick out a sport with significant quotas for it to work. Also a 6-team tournament would be useless (like it was for baseball/softball). Even from a money point of view, sure is the big prize, but and are the 5th and 8th most populous nations and a 6-team tournament likely leaves two nations with relatively minimal Olympic interest off the table.

Great Pakistan !!! 2 quotas !!

Indian TV money beats that...

Last quotas on this WCH go to

get the quota places.

Athletics - Men's Long Jump I can't go against a man who won it 4 times in a row although I can't say I like his personality, but Carl Lewis gets my vote. Beamon's performance was fantastic but the doubt over the wind reading for his jump has to be noted. Swimming - Men's 200m Individual Medley Phelps, 4 wins. Nothing more to be said Table Tennis - Women's Singles Always vote for China in table tennis. Badminton - Women's Doubles I go for the 2 time champions... Badminton - Mixed Doubles Tempted to go for the 1972 demonstration champions from but since they were not an option, the 2016 gold medalists were totally dominant.

You are almost right: the Italian singer Gianni Morandi is from Bologna not from Parma so the song is sponsored by Granarolo founded in 1957 in Bologna Anyway, votes sent! Very interesting music this year!

Only if the IOC drops the hard athlete quota limit

5 NOC for 4 quotas on last event Men's 25m pistol

300 days to go (hopefully...), tickets will be on sale by the end of November.

The KING is back. What a game! What an innings!

great start for the Italian team

That's because the government isn't allowing stores to sell oil, sugar and flour on their market price, they are stuck on the same level as their were in October 2021. Same goes for gasoline. Orbán has to be ensure that people won't literally starve, so that's his solution. 480 HUF for gasoline for example for more than a year now. So there are a few stuff that are crazy cheap compared to the rest of Europe, while everything else is becoming a luxury item for many Hungarians as their wages are worth less and less as the Hungarian currency is on track to hyperinflation.

All host country quotas are found here https://totallympics.com/qualification-tracker/paris-2024/qualification-by-nation/france/qualification-tracker-r1117/ By my count they have 355 athletes qualified so far

looks like I was right to ask this question, I just knew it will come to this good for Rostamian, two World medals + an Olympic quota. perfect tournament for her. at least a good news finally.

finally! it was time, 14 years after Alessandra Sensini and after so many medals (but not the gold one), the Olympic windsurfing class world title is back in Italy

Another chance for us to lose to the US team, nice!

Voted, it was dificult for the good average level of the tournament, thanks people for share this good music, i only dont like 3 songs. After saying that, for the tranquility of everyone: another tournament without "jokes songs" Some conclusions after this: and : i dont have to see the list to say "its obvius this song is from .....", too many tournaments with both of you @hckošice and @dcro : It was the story for a guy who try to find a blonde woman without any respect for Traffic Laws. : two represents of the good compite for who will figth against evil......and (spoiler alert) they finally finish merged. : a "subtle" advertise for drinking milk......sponsored by Parmalat? : i understand is a romantic song but putting "my love" in the cellphone is too much...... : you can be with a beautiful woman only knowing singing. : a group of people gathering in the forest at nigth........clearly vampire activity. : the most fashion heroine of all times remember us how bad is in fantasy stories to eat and apple.

Another loss for This time it is 68 yo Aristidis Rapanakis, who won a bronze medal in sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow