uk12points

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games organising committee have announced the final list of sports and venues for the Games. The major change compared to Gold Coast 2018 is that Beach Volleyball, Shooting and 5x5 Basketball have been dropped and replaced by Judo, Basketball 3x3 and Wheelchair Basketball These are the sports: Aquatics - Diving, Swimming (Para) Athletics (Para) Badminton Basketball 3x3 Boxing Cycling - Track (Para), Mountain Bike, Road Field Hockey Gymnastics - Artisitc, Rhythmic Judo Lawn Bowls Netball Rugby Sevens Squash Table Tennis Triathlon (Para) Weightlifting (Powerlifting) Wheelchair Basketball 3x3 Wrestling The venues for the games will be spread within Birmingham and the West Midlands region, with only 1 venue (London Olympic Velodrome) falling outside of the West Midlands. The Birmingham city centre venues include the National Exhibition Centre and attached Genting Arena, Birmingham Arena, Symphony Hall and Victoria Square. Other Birmingham venues include University of Birmingham, Alexander Stadium, Villa Park Stadium. The West Midlands venues include the planned Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Coventry Arena, Royal Leamington Spa Bowls Club, Sutton Coldfield Park, Cannock Chase. I'm impressed by this plan, mainly as only 1 venue (Sandwell Aquatics Centre) will have to be newly built and other venues will be upgraded at the University and Alexander stadium which will become a stadium worthy of being the home of British Athletics. It's a shame Shooting was unable to make the program, the National Shooting Centre is in Surrey and had been proposed but it is a few hours drive away, but since it is only an optional sport the Gommonwealth Games Federation surely saw it's exclusion coming!

Since there has been a discussion throughout the games about how NOCs have been claiming mixed team medals as their own I thought I'd have a look and see who the mixed team medalists are! Prepare for a long list! Italy: 6-2-0 (8) Hungary: 4-1-0 (5) Bulgaria: 3-1-0 (4) China: 3-1-0 (4) Spain: 2-2-2 (6) Mexico: 2-1-2 (5) Ukraine: 2-1-2 (5) France: 2-1-1 (4) Vietnam: 2-1-0 (3) United States: 2-0-7 (9) Australia: 1-3-2 (6) Egypt: 1-2-3 (6) Japan: 1-2-3 (6) Russia: 1-2-3 (6) Chinese Taipei: 1-2-0 (3) India: 1-2-0 (3) Germany: 1-1-4 (6) Colombia: 1-1-0 (2) Portugal: 1-1-0 (2) Belarus: 1-0-1 (2) Canada: 1-0-1 (2) Poland: 1-0-1 (2) Slovenia: 1-0-1 (2) South Africa: 1-0-1 (2) Sweden: 1-0-1 (2) Uzbekistan: 1-0-1 (2) Azerbaijan: 1-0-0 (1) Cambodia: 1-0-0 (1) Croatia: 1-0-0 (1) Denmark: 1-0-0 (1) Haiti: 1-0-0 (1) Honduras: 1-0-0 (1) Mongolia: 1-0-0 (1) Panama: 1-0-0 (1) Singapore: 1-0-0 (1) Sri Lanka: 1-0-0 (1) Switzerland: 1-0-0 (1) Venezuela: 1-0-0 (1) Argentina: 0-4-2 (6) New Zealand: 0-3-0 (3) Great Britain: 0-2-1 (3) Netherlands: 0-2-0 (2) South Korea: 0-2-0 (2) Thailand: 0-2-0 (2) Belgium: 0-1-1 (2) Czech Republic: 0-1-1 (2) Ecuador: 0-1-1 (2) Kazakhstan: 0-1-1 (2) Kyrgyzstan: 0-1-1 (2) Tajikistan: 0-1-1 (2) Zimbabwe: 0-1-1 (2) Costa Rica: 0-1-0 (1) Estonia: 0-1-0 (1) Fiji: 0-1-0 (1) Hong Kong: 0-1-0 (1) Madagascar: 0-1-0 (1) Malaysia: 0-1-0 (1) Morocco: 0-1-0 (1) Norway: 0-1-0 (1) Algeria: 0-0-2 (2) Austria: 0-0-2 (2) Brazil: 0-0-2 (2) Burundi: 0-0-1 (1) Finland: 0-0-1 (1) Greece: 0-0-1 (1) Guatemala: 0-0-1 (1) Kosovo: 0-0-1 (1) Mauritius: 0-0-1 (1) Namibia: 0-0-1 (1) Peru: 0-0-1 (1) Turkmenistan: 0-0-1 (1) Zambia: 0-0-1 (1) This list means that technically 106 nations will be taking medals home from Buenos Aires with Costa Rica, Cambodia, Guatemala, Fiji, Haiti, Panama, Singapore, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Turkmenistan, Namibia and Peru winning medals in mixed team events but not individual events.

Very impressed by the crowds in Buenos Aires! They could double the capacity of all the venues and it seems like they would still be packed full!

Women's 2000m Steeplechase

Lots of middle distance medals decided in the Cross Country this morning, here's a summary: Kenya (3 gold, 1 silver) Ethiopia (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze) Uganda (1 gold, 1 bronze) Burundi (1 gold) Australia (1 silver) France (1 silver) Morocco (1 silver) Eritrea (1 bronze) Sri Lanka (1 bronze)

They've still got some good chances in the mens and womens 400m

Wheelchair Tennis at the Asian Para Games 2018 Jakarta (INA) - 7 October 2018 - 12 October 2018 The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Wheelchair Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Men's Singles Japan The following Nation has qualified 1 Quota Place for Wheelchair Tennis at the Summer Paralympic Games 2020 - Women's Singles Japan

ASIAN PARA GAMES 2018 MEDAL COUNT Rank Country G S B Total 1 China 172 88 59 319 2 South Korea 53 45 46 144 3 Iran 51 42 43 136 4 Japan 45 70 83 198 5 Indonesia 37 47 51 135 6 Uzbekistan 35 24 18 77 7 Thailand 23 33 50 106 8 Malaysia 17 26 25 68 9 India 15 24 33 72 10 Hong Kong 11 16 21 48 11 Philippines 10 8 11 29 12 Vietnam 8 8 24 40 13 Kazakhstan 5 15 13 33 14 Sri Lanka 4 6 4 14 15 Iraq 3 6 11 20 16 Singapore 3 2 5 10 17 Chinese Taipei 2 9 14 25 18 United Arab Emirates 2 6 3 11 19 Saudi Arabia 2 3 3 8 20 Timor Leste 2 0 1 3 21 Pakistan 2 0 1 3 22 Kuwait 1 3 4 8 23 Oman 1 3 1 5 24 Jordan 1 2 0 3 25 Mongolia 1 1 3 5 26 Laos 1 0 0 1 27 Myanmar 0 4 2 6 28 Bahrain 0 2 1 3 29 Macau 0 2 1 3 30 Syria 0 1 4 5 31 Unified Korea 0 1 1 2 32 Qatar 0 1 0 1 33 Turkmenistan 0 0 1 1

There will be 14 Badminton events at the 2020 Paralympics, all they did here was just add some extra doubles events and split some combined classifications. But I agree with you about the number of athletics and swimming events, they shoud reduce the number of events per classification. For example the S3 classification doesn't need a 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle event on the program, just 2 would be sufficient.

They were but the IOC scrapped the planned year change last year, hence why the next Summer Youth Olympics will be held in 2022, not 2023 as originally planned.

Beach Soccer Qualification European Beach Soccer League 2018, Various - 22 June - 9 September 2018 Men's Tournament (Top 8 Teams, 96 athletes):

Yeah I've got that wrong, thought it was just BMX racing that was mixed teams. So no medals just for women but Germany, Argentina and Japan are the only countries that can now win medals in the mixed team event anyway!

In the new BMX Freestyle event that will debut in Tokyo Germany have just won the Women's event, second, Japan third. Now the men have to compete and the combined rankings will determine the medallists! Another fantastically pointless IOC team event

Our NOC is doing the same (our mixed NOC equestrian medal is our only medal so far!) But whilst the athlete wins a medal it is not officially attributed to any specific NOC so it is very cheeky for NOCs to claim them.

Wow!! And in a time that would have put him 4th at the 2016 Paralympics!

I find the fact that Pia of Laos only took up the sport 6 months ago hard to believe since there was a para power lifter by the name of Pia competing for Laos in the -49kg event at the Rio 2016 Paralympics! But maybe he has a brother?

Another gold for India! Manu Bhaker in Women's 10m Air Pistol! Silver to Bronze to

Interesting video about Dakar 2022, seems like most the venues are already under construction or completed

China will most likely build the stadium. They have just built a 20’000 seat Wrestling Stadium in Senegal https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/largest-in-africa-chinese-built-wrestling-stadium-helps-senegal-promote-national-sport.568922/ This is very common across most sporting events in developing countries and often comes with unusual loan structures, for example Angola’s Chinese built stadiums are paid off by oil exports and other smaller stadiums are gifted by the Chinese government. It’s very controversial though!

After Day 1 at the Asian Para Games we have 18 nations with medals: And from a quick look at the Day 2 morning results we've got even more nations winning medals today:

The award for worst mixed team event (in a very competitive field) surely has to go to the new Mixed Youth Team BMX Race. Not only is it conducted as 2 individual competitions - 1 for men and women each. The reuslts website doesn't even acknowledge a final combined ranking. And the interaction between team members is non existant, simply win points for a combined team score. And what has the result been.... it has denied Latvia and Ecuador of medals they would have won had it been separate individual events. BMX is already 'youth' and 'exciting' enough without the need for a confusing mixed team event that has resulted in neither of the event winners taking home a gold medal!!!

Each nation has entered a man and woman, their position points will be added together to determine the winning overall team. Can't really see the point of it as they are conducting it as 2 separate events but there you go.

Late afternoon medal update: POWERLIFTING: Men's -49kg Gold: Laophakdee Pia - 133kg Silver: Farman Basha - 128kg Bronze: Parmjeet Kumar - 127kg WHEELCHAIR FENCING: Women's Foil Category B Gold: Zhou Jingjing Silver: Jana Saysunee Bronze: Chun Yuen Ping Sakurai Anri WHEELCHAIR FENCING: Men's Foil Category A Gold: Cheong Meng Chai Silver: Sun Gang Bronze: Chen Yijun Sim Jaehoon SWIMMING: Men's 200m Freestyle S14 Gold: Tang Wai Lok - 1:57.02 Silver: Cho Wonsang - 1:59.40 Bronze: Nakajima Keichi - 2:00.82 SWIMMING: Women's 200m Freestyle S14 Gold: Kitano Amiso - 2:17.66 Silver: Inoue Mami - 2:19.30 Bronze: Indriani Syuci - 2:20.80

I think the webiste is more accurate than the app, it struggled to understand the concept of a failed lift this morning during the -41! Also 115 would make sense as the old world record she set in September was 114kg.

POWERLIFTING: Women's -45kg Gold: Guo Lingling - 115kg WR Silver: Guion Achelle - 67kg Bronze: Solodukhina Alina - 66kg Still to come today there are 4 medal events in Wheelchair Fencing, an unknown number of swimming finals because events have had to be combined and another powerlifting event I think.