Josh

The medals look really nice

Bag of a fag-packet calculation:
 

As the article suggests this is a mixed team. The best placed NORCECA team not qualified will qualify for Santiago 2023 as well

Team for Worlds: https://athletics.ca/blog/2023/08/03/athletics-canada-reveals-2023-world-athletics-championships-team/

Duenas won a World Championship medal in 2013 and it led to nothing. I'm really really hoping we are able to qualify a men's team, I think its unlikely but there's unpredictability in this sport. 

Provisional Standing after Day 1
 
Rank User Nation Total 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 #PP #4 #3 #2 1 Agger 17 17                     1 2 2 1 2 maestro 17 17                     1 2 1 1 3 Surreal 16 16                     1 2 1 1 4 valtellina 15 15                     1 1 1 2 5 toulousain 15 15                       1 1   6 Pablita 14 14                     1 1 1 2 7 CiroMennella99 13 13                     1 1 1 2 8 Ogreman 12 12                     1 1 1 1 9 africaboy 11 11                       1   1 10 vlad 11 11                         1 2 11 Ufilov 10 10                       1 1 1 12 Henry_Leon 10 10                       1   1 12 heywoodu 10 10                       1   1 14 SteveParker 10 10                         2 2 15 Josh 8 8                       1     16 ady48 7 7                       1     17 Adriano 5 5                           1 18 Hipooo 3 3                             19 Cinnamon Bun 1 1                       1   1 01: August 3rd - Day 1
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09: August 11th- Day 9
10: August 12th - Day 10
11: August 13th - Day 11

Prediction Design for the Round of 16 in Women's Football FIFA World Cup 2023 Prediction Contest can be found here
Deadline is August 5th, 17:00 (GMT +12)
 
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Provisional Standing of Women's Football FIFA World Cup 2023 Prediction Contest after Day 15 is available here

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It is slightly concerning how few qualifiers we could have in some of the events

Team Rankings and Individual Adjusted Official Ranking Lists updated as of August 1st, 2023

Olympic Rankings updated as of August 1st, 2023

Deandre Ayton of the Phoenix Suns will play for at this event. Looking like a decent squad for this event getting Buddy Hield and Kai Jones to play as well.

yeah looks like there are some normal things nobody talks about since they are too obvious! 
 
for gymnastics apparently it's 2 years. and we have just 1 guy left with a valid licence ! (don't know for how long) 
 
personally I'm more angry on FIG, because I thought this is their only job to protect and defend the athletes. but it's like they say "goodbye, call us whenever our friend is back" 

A normal thing in sports as far as I know. For example every.... year (?) or so I hear Bruna about how she needs to fill in some document for the national federation to renew her FIS license. Standard procedure really, unless there are some major issues at the federation level....as seems to be the case in Iran's gymnastics federation, judging by what you wrote. With of course the athletes ending up the victims of that, as per usual when federations (or whoever at that kind of organizational level) mess stuff up  

Iran sent 3 gymnastics to Chengdu but only 1 of them is on the startlist because the other 2 guys need their licences to be renewed. (what the hell is that?) which doesn't happen. because FIG still recognizes the old president of Iran Gym. federation and that lady is facing some charges and the sport ministry doesn't work with her (for stealing money or something) FIG only accepts documents from her and she doesn't send a thing. as simple as that. for that reason Iran didn't participate at the Asian Champs and also won't participate (most probably) at the Worlds. 
 
Universiade has a different registration system, therefore Iran could participate but then this licence thing happened  which means also no Asian Games for them (unless a solution emerges) and this is happening when we have couple of gymnastics who can be competitive in world competitions for the first time 
 
personally I don't know who is right or who is wrong. and I don't even care. I only care about the athletes. it's just a battle between some corrupt individuals but FIG is taking side and that's disgusting. weren't they supposed to be on the side of the athletes?  Iran gymnastics is in this turmoil for 2 years for this reason and FIG simply doesn't care, they just want their curropt friend back. (only temporarily Iranians were allowed to compete for few months early 2023)

Indonesia defeated South Korea in the women's event, for the frist time since 1999 South Korea will not be medallist in this event. 

Indonesia won with Korea, wow! 

but at the Olympics there are way less rounds and matches (and only 1 field for the knockout stage part of the event) 
 
however, they should at least have the full coverage from the quarterfinals on, showing only the medal matches is really a bad job

Someone just won perpetual vacations into North Korea

Semi-Final
 
Men's
vs.
vs.
 
Women's
vs.
vs.

won 6-2 vs  
 
dramatic 4-4 tie between  and  
 
always on the men's side

b.  5-1 in the men's tournament
 
 leading 4-2 vs