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After one year out from me is back!

Thinking back to London 2012 there was a fantastic atmosphere all around. Particularly at the public screens so it would be worth finding out where they are. Also don’t forget the free events! Just make sure you give yourself plenty of time to get to the venues by public transport and get through ticket gates and security, can take longer than you think and you don’t want to miss anything!

Best - Rio 2016 becoming the first nation ever to win more medals at the subsequent games than at their home games! And beating China to second place on the medals table. Worst - Atlanta 1996 we won just 1 gold medal, but it turned out to be exactly what we needed! The government and national lottery decided to invest in elite sport to ensure such a humiliation never happened again and it's only got better ever since!

Men's Sitting Volleyball Tournament at the Parapan American Games 2019 Lima (PER) - 23 August 2019 - 28 August 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Sitting Volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Tournament Brazil

Wheelchair Rugby Tournament at the Parapan American Games 2019 Lima (PER) - 23 August 2019 - 27 August 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Wheelchair Rugby at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Tournament United States

Para Table Tennis at the Parapan American Games 2019 Lima (PER) - 22 August 2019 - 27 August 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 1 Cuba The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 2 Mexico The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 3 Argentina The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 4 Chile The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 5 Argentina The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 6 Chile The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 7 Brazil The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 8 Brazil The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 9 United States The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 10 Brazil The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 3 Mexico The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 4 Brazil The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 5 Chile The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 7 Mexico The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 9 Brazil

Paracanoeing ICF World Championships 2019 Szeged (HUN) - 21 August 2019 - 24 August 2019 The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Kayak KL1 200m Brazil China France Great Britain Hungary Italy The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Kayak KL2 200m Australia Brazil Italy New Zealand Ukraine Uzbekistan The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Kayak KL3 200m Australia Germany Great Britain Russia Spain Ukraine The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Va'a VL2 200m Brazil Hungary Poland Portugal Russia Spain The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Va'a VL3 200m Australia Brazil Great Britain Ireland Russia Uzbekistan The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Kayak KL1 200m Chile China Germany Great Britain Japan Ukraine The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Kayak KL2 200m Canada Germany Great Britain Hungary Russia Ukraine The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Kayak KL3 200m Australia France Great Britain Iran Poland Uzbekistan The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Para Canoe at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Va'a VL2 200m Australia Brazil Germany Great Britain Italy Russia

Wheelchair Rugby IWRF European Championship 2019 Vejle (DEN) - 7 August 2019 - 11 August 2019 The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Wheelchair Rugby at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Tournament Denmark Great Britain

Para Table Tennis ITTF Asian Championships 2019 Taichung (TPE) - 23 July 2019 - 27 July 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 1 South Korea The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 2 South Korea The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 3 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 4 South Korea The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 5 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 6 Thailand The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 7 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 8 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 9 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 10 Indonesia The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 11 Japan The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 1-2 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 3 South Korea The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 4 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 5 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 6 South Korea The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 7 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 8 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 9 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 10 China The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 11 Hong Kong

Boccia BISFed Asian/Oceanian Championships 2019 Seoul (KOR) - 5 July 2019 - 9 July 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Team BC1/BC2 Thailand The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Pairs BC3 Hong Kong The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Pairs BC4 Hong Kong The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Individual BC1 Thailand Thailand The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Individual BC2 Thailand Thailand The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Individual BC3 Hong Kong South Korea The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Boccia at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Mixed Individual BC4 China Hong Kong

I’ve been away! Working on it today though! Read my mind!

2023 has already been awarded to Ghana and they seem pretty serious about it

Only medal event today was the Women’s Beach Volleyball: G) Egypt S) Kenya B) Mozambique The semi finals and medal matches for the men’s tournament will take place tomorrow. Hosts Morroco play South Africa, whilst Rwanda face Gambia for a spot in the final.

It was a British selection event! I believe they would both have been selected so that’s why they may have been jointly celebrating!

The National sport of England is Cricket, but I would also put football up there too! My county, West Sussex, has an official sport though, it’s called Stoolball. It’s basically a cross over between cricket, baseball and rounders and is very popular in villages and schools across the county.

You're definitely right about GBs lack of strength in the field events. I agree with most of your picks but there are a few other candidates: Ugen and Sawyers (W Long Jump), Bramble (M Long Jump), Baker (M High Jump), Ogbeta (W Triple Jump), McKinna (W Shot Put), Emerson (Heptathlon).

The next few weeks should be really good for us too with the London Anniversary Games, British Championships and Birmingham Diamond League. Hopefully we can start to qualify in the field events where we’ve only got 3 athletes qualified across all the events at the moment

Men's Goalball IBSA Paralympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019 Fort Wayne (USA) - 2 July 2019 - 9 July 2019 The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Goalball at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Tournament Lithuania Turkey The following Nations have qualified 1 Quota Place for Goalball at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Tournament China United States

Wow!! Russia defeated us comfortably at the start of the tournament!

Liberia qualified in Athletics, Emmanuel Matadi (100m) https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/liberia/emmanuel-matadi-255584

You're absolutely right! And guess who is building the main venues for the Solomon Islands Pacific Games in 2023, Taiwan! Because Solomon Islands still recognises ROC! The whole thing is called 'Stadium Diplomacy' and China and Taiwan are building stadiums across the developing world because of it. There was a funny story in Grenada where the contract for building the stadium was literally swapped from Taiwan to China halfway through construction because the government swapped their allegiances!

Great Britain have been set a target of winning 68 medals in Tokyo, bettering the Rio 2016 total of 67. Whilst it is unlikely that Britain will maintain their second position in the medal table, it is possible for Britain to better their medal count from Rio. I was surprised when my individual calculations came back with an average of 72 medals, however what is always important to remember when talking about GB's medal prospects is that everything builds up to one moment. We saw in PyeongChang how Britain's top secret technology won 3 medals in Skeleton, despite limited form coming into the games. More summer sports have the engineering, research and design structures in place that set GB apart from the rest of the world at the Olympic Games, including Cycling, Rowing and Canoeing. I'm honestly not sure how it's gonna go, we will either shock the world and have another amazing games or return to more realistic Beijing medal standards (52), sparking a rethink in the whole elite performance sport sector. Archery (1-2) Athletics (4-8) Badminton (1-2) Boxing (3-7) Canoe (3-5) Cycling (7-14) Diving (2-4) Equestrian (3-5) Fencing (0-1) Hockey (1-2) Golf (0-1) Gymnastics (2-5) Judo (0-2) Modern Pentathlon (1-2) Rowing (3-6) Rugby Sevens (0-2) Sailing (3-6) Shooting (1-2) Swimming (5-11) Taekwondo (2-4) Tennis (0-2) Triathlon (3-4) LOW ESTIMATE: 47 HIGH ESTIMATE: 97 AVERAGE: 72

Para Table Tennis ITTF African Championships 2019 Alexandria (EGY) - 30 June 2019 - 2 July 2019 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 1 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 2 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 3 Nigeria The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 4 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 5 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 6 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 7 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 8 Nigeria The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 9 Nigeria The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 10 Nigeria The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Class 11 Tunisia The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 5 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 6 Egypt The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Table Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Class 10 Nigeria

These games really lost momentum throughout the week for me, and the forum too it seems. First few days were exciting with lots of events and generated much discussion on the thread. By the later stages there were only a few events per day and lots of similar sports, the thread also seemed to lose interest too. It will be interesting to see what happens in Krakow, hopefully a proper aquatics and athletics program will make the games more exciting.

There are more and more differences now with devolved governments using their powers in innovative ways! For example university is free in Scotland, £3000 in Wales and £9000 in England a year! Since every sport also has a commonwealth level organisation for each nation, the 2 tier system already exists in many sports.