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Men's Basketball. It'll also be the first ever team sport they'll participate at the Olympics.

I wasn't expecting much from this World Cup. we shouldn't even qualify (we did only because AUS forfeited the game in Tehran) still we should beat CIV with better officiating and LBN was also beatable. but that's OK it was more like "let's have fun" kind of tournament for us. but our best basketball player ever announced his retirement today , despite being old, injured, tired etc he never turned his back to the national team. he was our Luis Scola (the player I admire the most)

Got the ticket for vs tomorrow! Can't wait to see the local fans in Indonesia Arena, or maybe I should say the second Riga Arena

Brazil is going full force in Beach Volleyball with Duda/Ana Patrícia (World #1) and George/André (World #5).

Japan qualify at Olympics Games.

Until Paris 2024 they have only sent a total of 5 athletes to the games, and now they already passed this number

Have Qualified for the Olympics!! Civil Wars, poverty, corruption, independence struggle and so on.. Now they are into the Olympic Games!

Second for Arop at the Xiamen DL, clocking a time of 1:43.24 in the men's 800m, setting a new PB in the process

Trenutno stanje nakon GP u Parizu M68 1. Sinden GBR 414 2. Rashitov UZB 401 3. Recber TUR 369 4. Golubic CRO 296 5. Kareem JOR 294 ---------------------- 6. Perez Polo ESP 284 7. Cala ESP 257 8. Jin KOR 252 9. Pontes BRA 244 10. Liang CHN 215 11. Alhalwani JOR 198 Ako svi uzmu do kraja godine 40 bodova iz G1/G2 turnira, sto je vrlo vjerovatno, onda je poredak: 1. Sinden 434 2. Rashitov 401 3. Recber 400 4. Kareem 315 5. Golubic 308 ------------------ 6. Perez Polo 286 7. Cala 270 8. Jin 253 9. Pontes 244 10. Liang 215 11. Alhalwani 214 Rashitov, Sinden i Recber su mislim sigurni. Treba napomenuti da ce se jos odrzati Presidents Cup u Aziji i Ameriki, tu se może uzet dodatnih 20 bodova, to vazi za Rashitova, Kareem, Jin, Pontes, Liang i Alhalwani. Inace su ostali jos GP u Kini (60 bodova) i GP Finale isto u Kini (100), gdje nastupa samo najboljih 15. Golubic je prijavljen za G1 u Poljskoj iduci tjedan, bilo bi dobro uzet nesto bodva da se sto prije popuni kvota od 40 bodova.

Yes so unless Iran makes a comeback the teams which advance to the OQT are plus the 11 teams in the second round which don't get an Olympic quota. are eliminated from Olympic qualification

Correct. They have also advanced to the Olympic Qualification Tournament

Nije predao, izgubio Kareem. Ovaj drugi Jordanac ima teoretsku šansu, ali morao bi osvojit GP i GP finale. Golubic u 17.30 protiv Uzbekistanca, koji je po meni favorit.

Congrats South Sudan , it's a country that breathe basketball and very deserved qualification to Paris , they were only recognized by FIBA in 2013

We are so close to history!

Fiji beat Papua New Guinea 2-0 and advance to the next round.

I was always interested to see how other Slovaks do when learning french, because I know it from my own experience, it is damn hard for us ! It may not look so, but french is probably harder for us than Arab or Chinese lol, especially because of the french for us, a completely illogical composition of sentences and different tenses trust me it was first for me a real pain in the ass So really pleasantly surprised to see a guy in 2 months doing quite well

So basically a forever rotation between North America / Japan and former british colonies. That's a fantastic idea.

Personally, I've long believed that baseball/softball and cricket should be rotated. Neither needs the Olympics every four years, but each would like to be Olympic sports, both represent a particular family of sports - bat-and-ball, or 'safe haven' sports (along with GAA rounders and a few others). To me, the obvious solution is to put them in rotation - the Olympics becomes a genuine once in a life time opportunity, and hosts can bid knowing which Games suits them - So if LA did baseball, and Brisbane did Cricket, the 36 bidder would know it was baseball again, and an India or South Africa might wait until 40 for cricket again. Everyone's a winner.

Mislim da je GP finale u Manchesteru.

Paris Grand Prix Results - Day 2 Men's 68Kg Gold: Ulugbek Rashitov Silver: Edival Pontes Bronze: Zaid Alhalawani & Marko Golubic Men's 80Kg Gold: Mehran Barkhordari Silver: Apostolos Telikostoglou Bronze: Carl Alan Nickolas & Muhammed Emin Yildiz Women's 67Kg Gold: Zhang Mengyu Silver: Song Jie Bronze: Hyo Rim Hong & Magda Wiet Henin

Why the big difference between the points total - the leader in 1 event has over 20 points but the leader in the other has only 5?

officially received confirmation about getting quota in K2 https://www.ltok.lt/lietuvos-baidarininkai-uzsitikrino-antra-olimpini-kelialapi/

WDSF Oceania Championship - Sydney 27 - 28 October 2023

Australia left Oceania because it was too weak

Golubic dosta dobar, u polufinalu je. Cala ispao u prvom, Jin i Polo u drugom kolu. Jedino je Jordanac usao u polufinale (ocekujem da ce mu predati ovaj drugi Jordanac).

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Form rankings M1X W1X M2- W2- M2X W2X LM2X LW2X M4- W4- M4X W4X M8+ W8+ 1 GER NED GBR< AUS NED ROU IRL GBR GBR AUS POL NED GBR ROU< 2 DEN AUS ROU> ROU CRO< LTU FRA ROU< AUS ROU NED CHN NED GBR 3 NZL NZL SWI NED ITA CHN< SWI FRA NZL GBR ITA GBR AUS CAN 4 JPN SWI ESP IRL IRL> USA ITA USA< NED USA GBR SWI ROU< AUS 5 GRE GER IRL GRE ROU FRA CZE IRL USA NED AUS UKR GER USA 6 BEL USA LTU GBR ESP IRL ESP GRE> FRA IRL ROU GER USA> CHN 7 CRO AUT SRB USA BEL AUS GRE NZL ROU CHN EST< ITA< CHN ITA 8 BUL UZB< AUS LTU CHN GRE< BEL CHN UKR DEN UKR< USA> ITA GER 9 NED> SRB< DEN< CHI NZL NED NZL ITA SWI< NZL IRL CAN CAN 10 LTU CHN> USA DEN MDA NOR UKR CAN CHN< ESP GER AUS AUT 11 CAN BUL AIN (B) ESP USA POL MEX> POL GER> POL NOR FRA 12 AIN (R) ESP CRO< CZE> FRA GER NOR SWI POL GER SWI ROU 13 SRB LTU NZL CRO AUS GBR POL AUS RSA> CAN LTU CZE 14 HUN ITA< ITA GER NOR< ITA CHN AUT IRL> MEX CHN 15 ITA> AIN (B)< RSA POL GER NZL GER GER ITA USA 16 NOR CZE CAN ITA GBR CZE POR ESP DEN CAN 17 URU< TUR NED NZL GRE CAN AUS DEN CZE 18 BRA ROU TUR CAN CZE SWI> USA TUN 19 ESP GBR> POL AIN (B) SRB RSA TUR> PER 20 AUS UKR FRA FRA POL> AUT EGY 21 USA AIN (R) CHN CHN UKR< EST 22 POR FRA GER PAR SWE< URU 23 AIN (B) JPN HUN LTU UZB> 24 CHN POL SLO BUL ISR 25 SLO NOR< CZE URU> EGY 26 TUN LAT< EGY RSA 27 TUR SLO CUB 28 MON PER EGY 29 ROU KUW PER 30 CYP BRN BRN 31 ISR TOG 32 AZE 33 SWE> 34 EGY 35 MEX> 36 ESA< 37 BER 38 FIN 39 PAR 40 ZIM 41 CIV< 42 IRQ 43 GEO 44 BAR 45 ANG 46 BEN 47 SUD 48 LIB So I did this exercise of trying to rank every boat's form coming into these champs. I did this last year for myself and well it wasn't particularly accurate in terms of trying to predict results but hopefully offers some perspective on where boats might finish and expectations for number of Olympic qualifiers. > means I think a given boat will finish higher than where I have ranked them and < means I think it will actually finish lower than where it is ranked here. Anyone know why Japan withdrew all their boats except for their single scullers. I assume it is Asian games related but the likes of their W4- would have at least been competitive here

Congrats to South Sudan, always nice to see that kind of a story. Luol Deng has did wonders for them. I have massive respect for people like him and Dončić who go back to its roots even though they don't get nothing in return financially.

Seems very unlikely that European countries outside UK and Ireland would chose cricket over Baseball. Both are minority sports, but Baseball seems the more popular on the continent

Also big NR for Galvan.

SAFF U16 Men's Football championship beat 1-0

Good news, the Fourcade Fest is on Discovery Plus today!

Okay, I'm done. I must to take a rest from being on last places...

Nothing yet. I do know the quotas are finalized and 11 countries got quotas. panamsports needs to finalize before a list can be provided.

In the men's tournament the loser of vs will get in semifinals which already will be a deciding match since the bronze medalist won't even have the chance to participate in the Olympic qualification tournaments. For me is slightly ahead for men's quota and is stronger on the women's side.

Sorana Cirstea takes out Elena Rybakina in three sets so that's the highest women's seed gone so far.

Once upon a time, Melbourne hosted its equestrian events in Stockholm. Next year, Paris will host its surfing events in the Pacific. If LA doesn't have a suitable venue, it should have said so - but I would be as certain as is humanly possible that somewhere could host the rowing Olympic regatta on LA's behalf

Handball draws: https://twitter.com/PanamSports/status/1697740899575316723?s=20

Yeah swimming too along with a cut in quotas in judo, remove team events in fencing,mens football, synchronized swimming, completely eliminate modern pentathlon, dressage, breakdancing, skateboarding and we'll have a great games

Sources tell Reuters the decision on which additional sports will be included in the LA 2028 program will be made on September 8th. https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2028-idCAKBN3061MC

because they want to use the iconic Long Beach Marina and not the place that was chosen when they presented their bid if IOC and World rowing were serious institutions, they would have recalled the arrogant LA organizers to stay with the original plan same for the Slalom Canoeing Center in Oklahoma City rather than in the LA area

Confirmation of the story. https://www.letsrun.com/news/2023/09/noah-lyles-just-announced-hes-skipping-the-first-diamond-league-final-ever-held-in-the-us/

Iga Świątek needed only 49 minutes to beat junior BFF Kaja Juvan 6-0 6-1

Two Egyptians and two Australians qualified to paris via African & Oceania Championships 🏆 Malak Ismail 🇪🇬 Ahmed ElGendy 🇪🇬 Genevieve van Rensburg🇦🇺 Rhys Lanskey 🇦🇺

She was very, very impressive - left a lot of finalist quality athletes in the dust. Do wonder if her strength from 1500 might be the best antidote to Moraas sprint speed and construction - just put the hammer down after 300 metres and don't stop. The big three are all 400-800 style runners, Mary extremely so. Of that top group (the Big Three, Rogers and Reekie) only Reekie is more of an 800-1500, but she's only getting her bearings back.

most probably to the next wrestler in the standing, the loser of 5th place match. (this time only 5 quotas are available at the WCh for each weight, not 6) and if two AIN wrestlers finish in top 5 (both RUS and BLR) I assume the quota goes to the 7th place guy who will be determined by the classification points (which is based on pure luck)

from what I found out, Russia registered its wrestlers in freestyle too. they are not on the list because UWW still has to check them one by one for those "neutrality" criteria. this is the list Russia wants to send, I mean those who won their freestyle trials. not sure if UWW accepts all 10 of them. 57 Zavur Uguev 61 Abasgadzhi Magomedov 65 Shamil Mamedov 70 Evgeny Zherbaev 74 Zaurbek Sidakov 79 Akhmed Usmanov 86 Arslan Bagaev 92 Vladislav Valiev 97 Abdulrashid Sadulaev 125 Abdulla Kurbanov

Not really IMO, to put it very simply: any team inside the top 10 of ranking is almost certain to qualify for Paris. I don't see Argentina or Brazil dropping below those places by June next year.

Far from lowering costs, football is a HUGE revenue generator for the Olympics. All stadia are already there and ticket sales far, far exceed any costs associated with staging the games Its not going anywhere