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I know people here are making what ifs on reallocations, but war and politics apart ' Neutral ' Russia is officially in Paris 2024, and I don't expect any reallocations from UWW or IOC.

Authorized International Neutral Athletes - - Qualified 1st athlete - Zaurbek Sidakov - Men's Wrestling 74kg.

It looks like cricket is all but assured to return to the LA2028 games along with flag football as confirmed by various Indian and Australian sources. The organizing committee agreed to add cricket on the condition that flag football be included.

An Indian news channel interviewed Thomas Bach who said cricket could be part of future games, but to have it in 2028 would depend on organizing committee.

Should get the European quotas here

Right despite all the regular drama both will be there. I personally have no 2nd thoughts over that

I think is lock for cricket. They finished top 8 in the most recent WC and also have qualified for ODI WC. Nordic countries host a lot of international cricket and have a stadiums too. Denmark has even played at WC before.

Would be interesting how European nations decide if at all something like that happens. I believe British Isles and the surrounding , Nordic Countries, Spain, France, Portugal, Turkey etc almost 90% of Europe would go for cricket. If at all we have the games in Africa (just imagination for now) it'll be cricket. Except Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan all of Asia would go for cricket too.

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

101-78 win for In the end!

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

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

I don't plan to waste my time on that. But yeah even with the non Eueopean explaination given it's still way below par sport. Maybe cricket can call itself to be more competitive globally even if you remove expat countries from the list.

Rowing has to be one of the least competitive sports to be part of Olympics. Europeans might not like it but yeah it should be cut down to just 4 or 5 events per gender. Surely over 100 non Olympic sports exist which have a more competitive field than rowing.

Is it just me who is reminded of the holy ciborium (the vessel used for keeping the Eucharist) seeing the logo. Feels like it's a church event rather than a sports event!

Medals at world athletics championships : - 1 (silver) - 0

Fail to win a single medal at the championship

Happy with the gold. But I don't think it'll be easy for gold in Paris for Neeraj unless he improves further to 90+. A NR in steeplechase for Parul was good. Long jumpers have been dissapointing. Not entirely happy with the overall performance.

That was an exciting women's relay to end reversing the 1st final event of the championship

Not a great championship to be honest. Really failed miserably in pistol events with no quotas. Rifle was good with 3/4 quotas. Anything less than 2 golds and 5 medals in Olympic events was always bad. It's good to have something like that now so that expectations will be less next year. 50m3P is our pet event now in both genders. One of the other big event is women's 10m Air Rifle where we won bronze courtesy Mehuli Ghosh and missing in quota due to 1 per nation rule, Tilottama Sen at 4th place, the 15 year old. Expecting both to make it to Paris next year through trials. 10m Air Rifle Women is the first event at the games which will decide our shooting teams as well as entire country's Olympic performance.

Any streaming for the event? If someday I feel bored with nothing to watch I might just watch some action

At least people complain about Sailing should be at the games or not. I don't think so most people even care to open the modern pentathlon thread to comment about it, shows how many are really interested in the sport.

What a mouthwathering semis. The Ashes of Football

World Cup favourites Matildas struggling against France. Still 0-0.Hope the Australians will win on penalties for a semis against Colombia and the finals against Sweden.

Isn't it 5 - 5