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So as we steadily move towards the end of yet another year here is the collection of best viral sporting moments this year.

I wish these were back;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_South_Asian_Beach_Games https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_South_Asian_Winter_Games

Actually Montenegro getting the rights is no suprise. North Korea is not interested bcoz its little difficult for them to qualify they didn't even participate in Asian Championships. No way Norway can get it as the Euro is scheduled there next year for Men and women. Montenegro will host in 2022 so it would be a good check to host one now.

I'd even put ' Football ' and 'Athletics ' in inverted commas. All countries have their own sport preferences. In fact each state of India has a different view for all sports. If you say that England won the cricket world cup, people won't even like care in states like manipur ( football, wushu, karate, judo, even weightlifting is more popular than cricket) and so many north east sides(Arunchal Pradesh, Sikkim just like Bhutan) that the media will only report it as a normal news and then you go to Andaman and Nicobar Islands you would be asked what is cricket unless you went to mainland as cycling and canoeing are way tooo popular. Athletics isnt considered a sport in many states but entering Kerala it's pretty common to be an sprinter or jumper. Then there are states like Gujarat and all where football is known to very small rural population. My friend's once laughed when I watching some squash but in Tamil Nadu you'll find them keen to learn as its pretty popular. Carolina Marin, Tai Tzu Ying are all very famous in Telangana just because the state follows badminton very much. Even in my state if I say Mohmad Ahsan or Wang Yilu they surely differentiate their events easily if not all at least a sizeable number. Not to forget the wrestling craze of UP and especially Haryana where thousands flock to watch the bouts . So what happens is media reports important news only when it's famous or popular so there's regional prefernces across the world.

And what about Beijing. Iran were behind India when the games completed so after reallocations are they still behind India.

They won England's first ever cricket world cup and Ben Stokes was the player of the match is the finals as well as tournament.

ICC Women's Cricket Awards 2019

Thats not a problem. But I'm more interested to know what happened to Nepal

There is nothing like a chance or anything. Only for exposure we are sending 5 teams. We are very bad in this event. At the 2018 Asian Championships we finished 10th and 11th behind China, Japan, HKG, Singapore, both Korean Thailand pairs and behind 1 Malaysian team and the gap is just huge like 19 and 60 points between Korea and India. So no question about qualifications.

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At most we can have 5. But thats over optimistic. Women's Laser Radial Should be easy quota for Nethra Kumanan who finished 5th at AG 2018 as 4 nations above her are qualified. She just needs to do better than Singapore athlete to qualify. Women's 49erFX Silver medallist pair from AG 2018. The gold medalist have qualified already but they need to be above Thailand and China like in AG but championship in China . Men's 49er Bronze at AG 2018 just 0.5 points behind Korea.Japan winners already qualified. So it will be a 3 way battle with even Oman in the mix . So 1-5 sailors at Tokyo 2020, hopefully at least 3.

I like the Kazakshthan national anthem very much that I learnt it byheart with lyrics

You mean this? Strangely it's Germany and Canada at the top for K2SO4 and KCl exports.

Since it's a senior event with Olympic qualification spots it's all OK. Italy need to do better hard work. More over it's a team sport. So everything is done fairly . If it was a European Youth games with multiple events and Italy didn't get an athlete (which is not possible) then surely need for a tripartite arises.

World Games 2021 in Birmingham irrespective of India qualifying 20 athletes or 0 athlete ,enjoyed it last time. I also am with all para multi sports because I feel they deserve the same rewards as able bodied. So even that Winter deafylampics is a thumbs up from me. Nothing against Winter Olympics but winter YOG was the problem bcoz I feel that was the right stage to turn government heads towards winter sports as youth is important.

Winter Olympics lack anything to be called a proper multi sport event . Nothing is done to improve it either so a Pakistani qualifying and Indian not qualifying doesn't change my view about the games. Last time Paksitan didn't but that's not the point these games are a thrash so I can miss this multi sport event and won't even feel like I missed bcoz Jan 9 -26 is reserved for Euro handball and I don't want to waste it on such useless events.

So even Summer Olympics will not have all 207 NOCs

For that they should be allowed to participate in winter Olympics. Other wise no one would really care.

What matters is global representation I'm ok even if they take 5 minutes, because you have to start some time now or later.

Interesting final up. Netherlands have a habit of making it to the final and loosing so I expect this time. But it may be a very close match, with very few goals separating each other or who knows penalty shoot out

Forget India. All these what do you have to say? It's not that qualifications should be easy. Infact all unqualified nations MUST be allowed to send 1 athlete in either speed skating, short track speed skating ,alpine or cross country skiing. Otherwise these games won't improve.

OK so @Olympian1010 is wrong. The qualifications for these aren't easy. IOC at complete fault.

Why is it worse?

No wait not Russia. They can't host a Olympic Qualifier.It will be Belgrade probably