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There should be a livestream here: https://athletics.eurovisionsports.tv/

Costa Rica qualified in Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/costa-rica/andrea-carolina-vargas-275002

Update - Week 32 - August 05 to August 11 - 2019 Men's 800m +1 +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/marco-arop-320925 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/puerto-rico/ryan-sanchez-301002 Men's 110m Hurdles +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/barbados/shane-brathwaite-236314 Men's 400m Hurdles +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/poland/patryk-dobek-265425 Men's Triple Jump +1 +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/cuba/jordan-alejandro-diaz-fortun-304419 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/benjamin-williams-244235 Women's 200m +1 +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/brazil/vitoria-cristina-rosa-284136 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/switzerland/mujinga-kambundji-248630 Women's 100m Hurdles +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/costa-rica/andrea-carolina-vargas-275002 Women's 3000m Steeplechase +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/albania/luiza-gega-256102 Women's Pole Vault +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/slovenia/tina-sutej-199320 Women's Javelin Throw +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/kara-winger-206356 Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 384) Women (Total Quota: 370)

Yeah you can't give two reactions on the same post, so I need to do this:

As I have already stated in a post, handball is Denmark's national sport. PERIOD! Don't dare to argue with me, @Agger!

Most Danes would say football is our national sport. It's the most played sport. Many, including myself, would probably say handball. It's said that handball was invented here in Denmark and many young people play this in the winter or if they don't want to play football. These are tier 1 sports in Denmark. Gymnastics is widely exercised among children in Denmark. Children mostly learn skills and techniques from artistics gymnastics and combine it with music. It's not really rhythmic gymnastics, more like basic jumps from articstic gymnastics combined with music. Swimming also has a big tradition in Denmark. Many children learn to swim from an early age and some continue on a more competitive level. Badminton is the big racket sport in Denmark. Many great results from Danish badminton players has made thie sport popular. Tennis would probably be bigger if it wasn't for all the rain we get... Denmark is a cycling nation, but few people is part of a club and pursue a professional career. We have also incorporated many of the traditional sports from the British Empire back in the late 1800's and some are still widely exercised, like sailing and rowing. Cricket has disappeared, but we still have a national team. A niche sport like speedway is relatively big in Denmark, but not on the same level as in Poland. For winter sports, curling is probably considered our national winter sport. Though, most danes prefer to ski during the winter, either alpine or cross-country, when they are on vacation in Norway, Sweden or the Alps. Some sports that are growing in Denmark are floorball, basketball, american football and ice hockey. The last three are due to more focus on NBA, NFL and NHL.

If you mean qualification ranking for WCH, this should help you: https://www.tilastopaja.com/roadtodoha/

Nothing really. The target numbers are just there to have some sort of maximum limit/cap of athletes at a WCH. At the moment these distances and disciplines have more than the target number: Men's 5000m 43 (TN: 42) Men's High Jump 38 (TN: 32) Men's Marathon 128 (TN: 100) Men's 20km Race Walk 63 (TN: 60) Men's 50km Race Walk 56 (TN: 50) Women's 100m 49 (TN: 48) Women's 200m 57 (TN: 56) Women's 10000 29 (TN: 27) Women's High Jump 34 (TN: 32) Women's Pole Vault 33 (TN: 32) Women's Long Jump 35 (TN: 32) Women's Shot Put 33 (TN: 32) Women's Heptathlon 25 (TN: 24) Women's Marathon 127 (TN: 100) Women's 20km Race Walk 61 (TN: 60) Currently there are 84 athletes more than the target number. However, some federations have a stricter qualification standard than the WCH standard, so the final number will fall.

No, she is still half a minute from the WCH Standard, and there are already 27, (29 to be precise), athletes that have achieved the WCH Standard. The target number is 27, so no room for her. But she might start in next year's ECH in Paris on the 10,000m, and with many of the best Europeans focusing on the Olympics, she could have chance to win a medal. Of course this depend on who are actually going to compete in next year's ECH because she is nowhere near a medal if the best starts.

Bob Bertemes threw 22.22m in men's shot put at a meeting in Luxembourg yesterday! https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/luxembourg/bob-bertemes-266203 This throw makes him the 20th best male shot putter of all time (best = longest thow by an athlete). It also makes him the 7th best European male shot putter of all time! The only other European who is better than him, and not from the 80's, is Michal Haratyk with 22.32m. As many have said about this season in men's shot put, wow!

Updated General Standings and Medal Tables available here

Individual General Standing Updated as of August 5th, 2019 Rank User Nation +/- # Avg. Points 1 chrischi08 0 14 566,6 7933 2 amen09 +3 14 377,0 5278 3 africaboy -1 14 348,2 4875 4 Henry_Leon +3 14 332,4 4653 5 hckosice -1 12 357,0 4284 6 ady48 +2 14 291,1 4076 7 toulousain -1 12 334,1 4009 8 Dolby +2 14 281,2 3937 9 Monzanator 0 14 272,7 3818 10 wumo26 -7 8 467,5 3740 11 Speedy +1 14 262,2 3671 12 Vojthas +1 14 237,0 3318 13 Pablita +5 14 230,6 3228 14 bestmen +10 14 229,1 3208 15 Wanderer -1 13 230,2 2992 16 heywoodu 0 14 210,8 2951 17 juliosilva -6 10 288,3 2883 18 Federer91 +2 13 220,1 2861 19 Dunadan +29 4 697,5 2790 20 Ufilov +1 13 211,2 2746 21 SteveParker -4 11 248,6 2735 22 vlad +7 11 239,2 2631 23 tuniscof -4 14 185,9 2603 24 Topicmaster1010 -2 8 306,9 2455 25 Agger -10 9 260,6 2345 26 vinipereira 0 8 289,0 2312 27 George_D +16 8 246,8 1974 28 LDOG -3 6 320,0 1920 29 dcro -6 7 267,9 1875 30 thepharoah -2 6 295,0 1770 31 titicow +3 8 219,6 1757 32 OlympicsFan -1 5 344,6 1723 33 Michal Hroch -3 8 208,4 1667 34 Cobi NEW 3 400,0 1200 35 Kirkpatrick -8 4 298,8 1195 36 Finnator123 -4 2 487,5 975 37 Werloc -4 1 900,0 900 38 Bearas -3 6 122,8 737 39 Olympian1010 +6 4 178,3 713 40 Gigs -4 2 330,0 660 41 hoversaBR -4 4 150,3 601 42 crovitlaci -4 2 267,5 535 43 intoronto -4 2 252,5 505 44 EselTheDonkey -4 2 239,0 478 45 rybak +10 3 156,7 470 46 Jahiegel -5 1 455,0 455 46 sounak 0 4 113,8 455 48 sami-eg -1 2 218,0 436 49 AlFHg -7 3 142,0 426 50 Dimitar -6 1 405,0 405 51 Herberth Nelson B. S. -2 2 111,0 222 52 orangeman NEW 1 205,0 205 52 RiSeGwangFan -2 2 102,5 205 54 szy123 -3 1 185,0 185 55 Laraja NEW 1 157,0 157 55 NikolaB -3 1 157,0 157 57 Shravan Kumar NEW 1 147,0 147 58 Ustatsch NEW 1 129,0 129 59 Fly_like_a_don -6 1 126,0 126 60 ofan -6 1 115,0 115 61 Huganxiazhi NEW 1 105,0 105 62 mihamiha -6 1 95,0 95 63 Benolympique -6 1 90,0 90 64 thiago_simoes -6 1 85,0 85 Team General Standing Updated as of August 5th, 2019 Rank Nation Points +/- User 1 Pt. User 2 Pt. User 3 Pt. 1 Romania 11582 +1 africaboy 4875 ady48 4076 vlad 2631 2 Poland 10807 -1 Monzanator 3818 Speedy 3671 Vojthas 3318 3 Italy 10671 0 Henry_Leon 4653 Pablita 3228 Dunadan 2790 4 Germany 10134 0 chrischi08 7933 OlympicsFan 1723 EselTheDonkey 478 5 Tunisia 7881 +1 amen09 5278 tuniscof 2603 - - 6 Brazil 6952 +1 juliosilva 2883 vinipereira 2312 titicow 1757 7 Denmark 6085 -2 wumo26 3740 Agger 2603 - - 8 India 4539 +3 Dolby 3937 sounak 455 Shravan Kumar 147 9 Slovakia 4284 -1 hckosice 4284 - - - - 10 France 4099 0 toulousain 4009 Benolympique 90 - - 11 Croatia 3605 -2 dcro 1875 Kirkpatrick 1195 crovitlaci 535 12 Bulgaria 3266 +2 Federer91 2861 Dimitar 405 - - 13 Algeria 3208 +3 bestmen 3208 - - - - 14 Canada 3165 -2 Topicmaster1010 2455 intoronto 505 orangeman 205 15 New Zealand 2992 -2 Wanderer 2992 - - - - 16 Netherlands 2951 -1 heywoodu 2951 - - - - 17 Egypt 2206 +2 thepharoah 1770 sami-eg 436 - - 18 Greece 1974 +6 George_D 1974 - - - - 19 Argentina 1920 -1 LDOG 1920 - - - - 20 Czech Republic 1667 0 Michal Hroch 1667 - - - - 21 Lithuania 1637 -4 Werloc 900 Bearas 737 - - 22 Spain 1200 NEW Cobi 1200 - - - - 23 United States 1168 -1 Olympian1010 713 Jahiegel 455 - 24 Finland 975 -3 Finnator123 975 - - - - 25 Austria 660 -2 Gigs 660 - - - - 26 Mexico 205 -1 RiSeGwangFan 205 - - - - 27 Serbia 157 -1 NikolaB 157 - - - - 28 Switzerland 129 NEW Ustatsch 129 - - - - 29 Great Britain 105 NEW Huganxiazhi 105 - - - - 30 Slovenia 95 -3 mihamiha 95 - - - - Individual Medal Count Updated as of August 5th, 2019 Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 chrischi08 5 1 1 7 2 Dunadan 2 1 0 3 3 amen09 1 1 1 3 4 africaboy 1 1 0 2 5  hckosice 1 0 1 2 6 Agger 1 0 0 1 6 Werloc 1 0 0 1 6 Vojtas 1 0 0 1 6 vlad 1 0 0 1 10 wumo26 0 2 1 3 11 toulousain 0 1 1 2 11 ady48 0 1 1 2 13 juliosilva 0 1 0 1 13 thepharoah 0 1 0 1 13 Finnator123 0 1 0 1 13 Dolby 0 1 0 1 13 SteveParker 0 1 0 1 13 Speedy 0 1 0 1 19 George_D 0 0 2 2 20 bestmen 0 0 1 1 20 Topicmaster1010 0 0 1 1 20 Kirkpatrick 0 0 1 1 20 Michal Hroch 0 0 1 1 20 Henry_Leon 0 0 1 1 20 Wanderer 0 0 1 1 Total 14 14 14 42 Team Medal Count Updated as of August 5th, 2019 Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Germany 5 1 1 7 2 Italy 2 2 1 5 2 Romania 2 2 1 5 4 Denmark 1 2 1 4 5 Tunisia 1 1 1 3 6 Poland 1 1 0 2 7 Slovakia 1 0 1 2 8 Lithuania 1 0 0 1 9 France 0 1 1 2 10 Brazil 0 1 0 1 10 Egypt 0 1 0 1 10 Finalnd 0 1 0 1 10 India 0 1 0 1 14 Greece 0 0 2 2 15 Algeria 0 0 1 1 15 Canada 0 0 1 1 15 Croatia 0 0 1 1 15 Czech Republic 0 0 1 1 15 New Zealand 0 0 1 1 Total 14 14 14 42

I'm often a bit "harsh" and skeptical went it comes to Danish perfomances, but a top 3 is not at all impossible. I will be very happy for them if they became 2nd or 3rd.

Update - Week 31 - July 29 to August 04 - 2019 Men's Shot Put +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/nigeria/chukwuebuka-enekwechi-282372 Men's Hammer Throw +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/france/quentin-bigot-248059 Women's 100m +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/switzerland/mujinga-kambundji-248630 Women's 5000m +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/germany/konstanze-klosterhalfen-282210 Women's High Jump +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/romania/daniela-stanciu-225760 Women's 20km Race Walk +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/mexico/ilse-guerrero-249875 Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 378) Women (Total Quota: 364)

Isn't it still very likely that Cepede-Royg will qualify via a continental qualification place/quota? According to the qualification document about reallocations: 2. Continental Qualification places: - Pan American Games, Asian Games or African Games place(s) – reallocated to the next highest placed athlete in the respective tournament (e.g. Asian Games Silver Medallist) who must have a minimum ranking of 300 in the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020. Should the next athlete be equalplaced with another (e.g. two losing semi-finalists), reallocation will go to the athlete ranked highest on the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020. If there are no athletes with a minimum ranking of 300, the place will be reallocated to the next highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020 notwithstanding the continent from which such athlete comes, respecting the maximum number of quota places per NOC. Dolheide will not qualify, as you have described above, so will not use it's quota here. Let's say Podoroska stays in top 300 and takes one of the quota places, then it would be a battle between Cepede-Royg and Alves about the second quota place. Cepede-Royg is currently ranked 153rd and Alves is currently ranked 334th, so it looks like will get the second continental quota. Of course I could have misunderstood this paragraph.

Danish Team Some few thoughts. 4 years ago we won the 2nd League, which was a huge succes for Danish athletics. I highly doubt this will happen again. We have some few strong names in our team, Anna Emilie Møller, Sara Slott Petersen, Andreas Bube, Jannick Klausen. Generally, our women are the strongest part of the squad. If they can deliver, the Danish team can probably reach a 3rd place at best. I do think some will not top perform here and it will cost us some points in the end. So my final prediction for the Danish team would be a 5th place. Though, a place between 4-7 is the most likely scenario. I wish the Danish athletes, good luck. Makes us proud! Women 100m - Astrid Glenner-Frandsen 200m - Ida Karstoft 400m - Annemarie Nissen 800m - Mathilde Diekema Jensen 1500m - Anna Emilie Møller 3000m - Anna Emilie Møller 5000m - Maja Alm 3000mS - Simone Glad 100mH - Thea Haahr 400mH - Sara Slott Petersen High Jump - Rikke Andersen Pole Vault - Caroline Bonde Holm Long Jump - Janne Nielsen Triple Jump - Janne Nielsen Shot Put - Maria Sløk Hansen Discus Throw - Kathrine Bebe Hammer Throw - Katrine K. Jacobsen Javelin Throw - Marie Vestergaard 4x100m - Mette Graversgaard, Ida Karstoft, Astrid Glenner-Frandsen, Emma Beiter Bomme og Louise Østergård 4x400m - Sara Slott Petersen, Annemarie Nissen, Sarah Sækmose, Louise W. Jørgensen og Mathilde Kreiberg Skou Men 100m - Frederik Schou-Nielsen 200m - Tazana Kamanga-Dyrbak 400m - Gustav Lundholm Nielsen 800m - Andreas Bube 1500m - Nick Rostgaard Jensen 3000m - Mikkel Dahl-Jessen 5000m - Andreas Lommer 3000mS - Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen 110mH - Andreas Martinsen 400mH - Nicolai Hartling High Jump - Janick Klausen Pole Vault - Oliver Chabert Long Jump - Sebastian Pedersen Triple Jump - Jannick Bagge Shot Put - Kristoffer Thomsen Discus Throw - Emil Mikkelsen Hammer Throw - Hans Barrett Javelin Throw - Arthur W. Pedersen 4x100m - Albert Ranning, Tazana Kamanga-Dyrbak, Frederik Schou-Nielsen og Simon Hansen 4x400m - Gustav Lundholm Nielsen, Nicolai Hartling, Kasper Olsen og Philip Braun

Are you sure you are talking about the same Maryna Novik? https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/belarus/maryna-novik-201808 This is probably her you are talking about. She was javelin thrower, so I highly doubt she is now long distances runner. https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/norway/maryna-novik-336505 Norwegian Maryna Novik.

The FIFA Council has unanimously agreed to expand the number of teams taking part in the Women’s World Cup from 24 to 32, with effect as of the next edition of the tournament in 2023. https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/fifa-council-unanimously-approves-the-expansion-of-the-fifa-women-s-world-cup-to

Yep. Steira also won the 5000m in 2009 and Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen has a bronze medal on the 5000m. Jacobsen also starts in the 5000m this year. By the way, Johaug's personal best is 33:36 (10km), but that is set on road, so she is probably faster on track.

Oh look! Everybody's favourite lipstick-eating cross-country skier starts in Women's 10000m at the Norwegian National Championships.

I wonder how many of you I will see in the Second League in two years?

Here are the groups: And the schedule: https://www.teamunify.com/uana/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/pagprelimgameschedule_064107.pdf

Yes I will. The general standings and medal tables should be updated in about a week.

@hckosice With all you posts about Ecuador, you might convince me to start supporting them in sports. Though, Uruguay will always be my number 1 when it comes to South American countries I support.