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If a horse is changed it's fine to keep MER, else I refuse to agree with the concept if same qualified horse has to have MER. Yes it is still ridiculous in my opinion.

@dcro Why these MER are even required ? Shouldn't qualification be enough or MER should be in qualifying only like I hate this sport but this qualification is absolutely ridiculous. India qualifying or not is a different thing but this MER is absolutely nonsense.

The last diving poll will be after a couple of weeks!

Let's see! Results will be known by tonight!

Women's wrestling is getting harder and harder to predict even with local grown talents

So after a small break here we are

If that happened we'd have lots of Greek, Ukrainians, Turks, Armenians, Nigerians, Egyptians etc. It's okay to watch one sided matches as long as it's original content ( I mean athletes of that country itself). It's true most sports won't do it, but I have seen the fairytale stories in many sports. From nowhere to best that happens only with homegrown talent. Canada for example was in top 10 nations or so in the 1990s but they continued with expats and today they are like not even in top 20. PNG for example was nowhere today they are seeded 12th for T20 WC 2021 later this year. Also reminds me of Thailand where federation refused to allow expat women and believed in Thai school kids who last year qualified to the 10 team world cup and have already beaten Sri Lanka once. It's a non olympic sport but will soon become a olympic sport ofc in 2-3 editions, no doubt on that because cricket will give more money then 10-15 Olympic sports combined.

They should allow but with a 4 year buffer period. Can't see these wrestlers making wrestling popular either unless it's a country with very less sucess at Olympics like macedonia

Problem is not with your coaches, it's with the UWW allowing Russian athletes to represent all other European nations. At least your wrestler was a Ukrainian

U can't say that! He's a Russian so wish him in Russian. Congrats Russia! P.s: I agree with @Federer91 . I just can't watch men's wrestling anymore with so many naturalised Russians. Would be nice if that Polish Guy from other SF got the quota he seemed to polish or at least the real cuban whom slovakia defeated.

To qualify for Olympics or be in the rankings they have to submit whereabouts by May 23 failing to do so will not include them in the ranking to be released on June 1. So if they change their mind it should be done in the next 15-17 days.

Tonight in 2 hours time

Hoping the Israeli wins and faces Iran in 1st round at Tokyo Olympics .Woah that could be a must watch at the Olympics. I wonder who will win

Angola and Guniea Bissau have withdrawn from the tournament I believe.

UAE, Vanuatu were not on the start list while Sri Lanka could not participate

Not sure they are +ve and hence didn't participate today.

Beating Chamizo he has shown to be a contender. If he doesn't qualify here I'll consider his performance at European Champs a fluke. OK that is an overambitious project I think 2 medals but hang on you can get 5-6 medals too, just buy some good Russians, Georgians and it'll be achieved .

Salkazanov is favourite for the gold both here as well as Tokyo (at least a medal in Tokyo, anything less will mean lack of form or injury)

Ah well I remember reading this. Not sure if the replaced Georgian guy will win the gold.

Actually I meant with tripartite places ,beach volleyball and current qualified Vanuatu will have its biggest squad ever at Olympics. I'm closely reading Samoan Newspapers once a week. I'm happy with their preparation for the Olympics. They can win a medal (or 2 with some luck) in weightlifting and rugby team is preparing well since last year I don't know about France though for the Qualifiers.

Oh well I'm hoping the cases to decrease. We have a foolish idiot as PM who is happy to see people dying. Still people are closing their eyes and worshipping him like god . Nonetheless some of the best medal contenders will be in Croatia starting next week while many may opt for other nations (some in Bulgaria, USA already)

Now I just hope Miller/Toko can qualify for Tokyo , they have to do it they should do it for Vanuatu Beach Volleyball. That could mean the biggest squad with universality places

Jessica MacDonald of Canada. Can't rule out the Uzbek and Taipei girl too.

I'll be happy if we don't get any quota because our federation is shameful not sending it's best athletes in women's category 1.Seema is out of form don't expect much. She isn't the best in the weight 2.Nisha is horrible.She lost by fall to Korea and she's the 2nd best Indian. Asian champion in 68kg from 2020 who could have won medal at Olympics, Divya was not chosen Bcz she was recovering from covid when trials happened. She did win gold in non olympic category though. 3.Pooja is the 2nd best Indian here not the 2nd best wrestler though. World silver medalist from 2018 Yasmine Adar of Turkey is also here. Pooja has more chances than other Indian women wrestlers here but Kiran could have won the 2nd quota easily. At least Divya and Kiran should have been there

Lol. Btw which scoring system is in Olympics? Live score?