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the problem with football is that it would draw all the attention from other sports, if they participate with the overall bests...
 
it would be all day Messi and Ronaldo and Neymar, with no place on the stage for the Bolts, Karelins, Phelps of this world...

I think surfing and skateboarding deserve a little more respect around these parts tbh. I get that they aren't everybody's cup of tea, but those are sports that managed to build long lasting and consistently high quality International competition circuits with no real support from NOCs or the IOC. Those are sports that are doing fine without the Olympics. I'm sure the Olympics will help them grow, but I think the IOC would be crazy to not include them.
 
That's also how I feel about tennis and golf in the Olympics. Are the Olympics the apex of those sports? No. Is it better for the Olympics to have the PGA and the ATP/WTA as partners rather than as competitors? Absolutely.

Users are given the opportunity to throw a sport off the Olympic program, and y’all aren’t choosing Boxing or Weightlifting 
 
This was the easiest poll yet. I went straight to weightlifting and pressed submit vote 
 
I love weightlifting, but there’s just too many problems at the moment. 

So if  my counts are correct, we have the qualified skateboarders for Women's Park
 
1-Misugu Okamoto 
2-Sakura Yosozumi 
3-Sky Brown 
4-Poppy Starr Olsen 
5-Lizzie Armanto 
6-Dora Varella 
7-Isadora Rodrigues 
8-Bryce Wettstein 
9-Brighton Zeuner 
10- Yndiara Asp 
11- Julia Benedetti 
12-Jordyn Barratt  (She will compete on the final and even if she gets the last position, she will overtake Mina Stess who is qualifying right now)
13- Lilly Stoeephasius 
14- Xin Zhang 
15- Madeleine Larcheron 
16- Amelia Brodka 
17- Josefina Tapia Varas 
18- Bombette Martin 
19- Melissa Williams 
 
There's still one quota to be defined at final, among Mami Tezuka, Kokona Hiraki and Kisa Nakamura from 
 
It's important bear in mind that this ranking will close only on June 31st. So, all NOCs may still organize national events and add points to the ranking (If they haven't added two national championships yet). So, in this case.... Bombette and Josefina still can lose this spot till there, maybe Amelia has a little bit of chance, but I dont believe on that.

If it’s the same terminology the X Games use, it’s a para-sport category.

@Benolympique your athlete has for sure olympics spot. Quota for 3xJPN, BRA, USA, GBR, FRA, FIN, GER, ESP sure.    15 place China Xin (semfinal here, I think she is sure also), next Poland, Chile (semfinal), AUS, ITA x2, RUS, must wait for results of Trew (Australia), Martin from UK,  Ebert from Canada, from ranking 19 places and one place for Africa.  Top 8 gives them many points.  For 1st place - 40000 2nd - 2400, 3- 21600, 4- 17280, 5- 9200, 6-7300, 7-5900, 8-4700,9-1620, 10-1450, 11 - 1340, 12-1200, 13-1080,14-980, 15-880, 16-790

Yeah, my bad, I forgot that.... the heat 4 was delayed because of the rain....
 
But, anyway, the girl from South Africa will finish the competition in a better position and qualify
 
The top 20 among those 4 heats will qualify to the semifinal, and compete again against the top 12 of the ranking, who were pre-seeded.
 
So 32 on semifinal, and then top 8 to the final.

That poll supposedly said 43% cancel, 40% postpone.  So, I see two things here, 53% are in favor of the Games being held, but most just don't want them this year.  But second, these polls should stop asking do you want the Games postponed, as I think most of us here believe IOC, TOCOG, and JPN Gov when they say further postponement is not an option.  That said, I know other polls, when the question is its just a straight cancel or hold show 60% cancel.  But this poll suits the media's McGaffrey's need when they can just scream 83% of Japanese don't want to hold the Olympics, without his bothering to break down the numbers. 

Japan might be slow in the vaccination campaign, but I don't understand how their situation can be considered that bad if the numbers shown on worldometers are correct. Having a quick look at the last days, they have like 6000 cases and 80 deaths per day and a total 1200 serious cases which is nothing if I compare those numbers with the Italian ones (the only ones I know on a regular basis). We have had days with 40000 cases and 800 deaths per day, with half of the population of Japan

Swiatek DRAGS Pliskova 6-0 6-0 in Rome final
 

Seeing how happy and relieved all these people are that they have qualified, I really hope these olympics will not be cancelled.

* means that an athlete won't compete in Tokyo. Jordan has no citizenship yet, she just changed Federation allegiance (PZBad accepted this) as surprisingly Poland has better conditions for badminton training than Wales (according to her).
 
That means there will be three reallocations and as my friend who knows much about badminton calculated, it means that Wiktoria Dąbczyńska will get the quota probably. Nothing can be said for sure until official statements from the International federation tho. 
 
Edit: typo

Oh, well familiar with those douchebags.  They raise valid points about the negative aspects of Olympic hosting that don't get highlighted, particularly in a place like Los Angeles which is probably the best example of how a city can host an Olympics and not go deep into debt.  Those guys need to find a better hobby though.  Make the case against potential hosts that have no business hosting an Olympics.  Ask for reforms to the IOC and to the Olympic movement that are desperately needed.  But at the end of the day, do better than to make this another case of cancel culture where you're trying to destroy something because you don't like it.

If proper health and safety protocols are in place, the risk of the Olympics being a super-spreader will be minimal.  There's way too much fear-mongering that the virus is going to come into Japan from all corners of the globe.  As long as athletes are tested, that shouldn't be a major issue.  Tokyo just held multiple test events with zero positive cases.  It can be done.
 
The bigger concern is the availability of medical resources in Japan as the pandemic is worsening there.  But that's on them, not the fault of the Olympics.  I'm torn between having sympathy for the struggles of Japan and questioning why they are having these struggles when a lot of other countries are on the downswing from the fall wave.  Maybe it's my viewpoint as an American where the case load here is the lowest it has been since late last Summer and restrictions are loosening because so much of the country is vaccinated.

Men K2 1000 m - should be only 1 quota (for Hungary). Unfortunately Poland without olympic quota.

has entries in MK1 200/1000, WK1/WC2 500 and MK2 1000.
 
 
Winner of MK2 1000 gets the boat quota, as do the top two in WK1/WC2 500 and MK1 200/1000. However, nations in top two of both MK1 events only get 1000 quota; 200 quota passes on to highest-placed nation not qualified in the 1000. (Same goes for WK1 200/500.)

People who don't usually watch wrestling find women's freestyle very appealing, because the action is non-stop. The girls usually go for many attacks and their defense isn't very good, which makes the matches very exciting. The men's matches have way more tactics and "dead space" until 1-2 vital attacks, that will get you the win and then you wait out the clock. It's much more hard to make a fireworks men's match in modern times. 

Just gonna put it here 
 

2018 Weightlifting World Championships had a lot of stripped medals as well: source
 
Which medals were stripped at last year's Wrestling World Championships ?
 
@MHSN Since I guess most of the stripped medals come from Weightlifting and Wrestling, can you please tell me if there were more reallocations during the 2017-2020 quadriennium ? Thanks!

There is no limit as to how ridiculous adding the monobob for 2022 was. No idea if it's at the world championships next time, but surely it should be...just like in the World Cup..

Well in this case the only way is to say "Even though my religion says it's a rest day, I'll run anyway because it's my dream."
 
Most likely she won't, I guess, so she can't run. It really is/was entirely up to her and if her Olympic dream is less important than her having to follow religious rules without any chance for an exception, then that is the only choice she could make.

Meh, it's not a bad design at all, but I don't see how this logo is relevant to Olympics. It kinda looks like redesign of Tinder to me. 

Definitely, because Cali is in Colombia

The best thing for race walking would be...Keeping judges but not in their current form. I say we have 5 on-course judges and 5 replay judges (the replay judges must be from nations not entered in the event, or from countries that didn’t finish in the top 20). When a judge thinks an athlete is breaking a rule they call it in to the replay judges. Judges will watch the footage and determine if the athlete has broken the rule. If the athlete has broken the rule, a course judge will notify them with a card. Also, shoe chips would be worn to help supplement some “easier calls”, so judges can focus on more technical stuff.

It's the rule that needs to be reviewed asap