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Spain's only female winter olympic medallist, Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, bronze in Albertville 1992 in Slalom, has been found dead at 56 years.
 
 
She was quite a celebrity here, and very loved, so her going missing since the 23 in August has been fully covered in the media. Searching teams have been working hard these days in some mountains looking for her, but sadly her body was found today 

And yet, we will not see a sanction to US Track & Field... IAAF's double standards, covering English world athletes. I wouldn't be surprised that a few years from now the likes of Bolt & Farah are uncovered as cheaters.

First Gold for Mexico at a World Championships, even if it's in a non Olympic event... great result 

And yet, we will not see a sanction to US Track & Field... IAAF's double standards, covering English world athletes. I wouldn't be surprised that a few years from now the likes of Bolt & Farah are uncovered as cheaters.

less than two months to the final ranking. Another prospectus regarding the current scenario.
Road Race - 02 - Sep.xlsx

https://www.usada.org/whereabouts-violation-case-against-usa-track-field-athlete-christian-coleman-withdrawn/
 

Very good to hear, especially because it should shut up all those people who never can imagine that even in a country like Jamaice underage athletes are doping. Of course this also doesn't make Ato Bolden more trustable.

Women's Relay
 
1. Mexico
2. Hungary
3. South Korea

Greetings from Budapest!

Almost, but in the end, US team performed better.
 
Yet this is Mexico's best ever participation at the Parapan American Games.

Wow, congratulations to Mexico!

Congrats! Hoping Puerto Rico will beat Brazil and Canada will qualify tonight 

wins the women's Goalball quota to Tokyo after defeating Mexico at the bronze medal match.
 

It's also the first ever gold medal for at the African Games.

Holten Poulsen What was this.

Women's K2 1000m - 1.   2.   3.  
 
Men's K4 1000m - 1.   2.   3.  

and another year passed.
 
it´s 51 years now from the night of 20-21 August and the coward occupation of the warsaw Pact armies under the control of USSR of Czechoslovakia during the night.
 
destroying and stopping the hope of liberalization of millions of czechs and slovaks  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
 
#neverforget
 

 

 
 

I see they know no fear... :S It was the biggest amount of drug police caught at the Sziget fesztivál. Ever. On day 0... Even printing flyers with price list. Idiots.

I can kinda see this happening now though. Some Dutch sprinter providing her with the goods and Marit sailing her boat to the other side of the world  

How did you think the relatively strong performances of late were funded?  

It certainly was a qualification event, in terms of points, for the mixed relay - and quite a generous one, as it happens with the same 800 max points as a world series mixed relay event.
 
I think only there may be only one mixed relay scoring event left, the World Series vent in Abu Dabai next march, before the cutoff on 31 March. I don't think there are any continental champs left to score in...https://www.triathlon.org/uploads/docs/itusport_2018-individual-oq-ranking_20171210.pdf
 
The top 7 nations in the rankings get an auto 2+2 athletes in both individual and relay race, while a further three can win 2+2 and relay spots in the final qualifier mixed relay race proper in May in Chengdu - the lucky top 7 will, of course, be excluded from that race, as will any lucky countries who've managed to hit 2+2 'organically' within the individual rankings  - the indy rankings will award 26 places 'sequentially' on rankings, but will a) ignore the first two for the 'lucky 7' (sensibly enough), and will also, of course ignore any from a nation that has hit it's max of 3 per NOC in that individual event - several US, GB and French, for example, will be skipped over - notably GB for example, hit it's women limit as high as world ranked number 7 (non standford, currently GB #4 - which is not to say GB can't select Non, they can, but they only get three spots, come what may) - the effect is that ranking qualifications could very easily go into the mid forties early fifties, and even into sixties and seventies, despite technically only going to #26
 
Given all that, my rough and ready calculation is that no team outside the top 7 can catch Germany, who are currently 6th, even if Germany don't even turn up in Abu Dabai - The Netherlands, currently seventh, can be caught, theoretically by Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Canada, but Germany are simply too far ahead. 
 
so, to all intents and purposes the following teams have already mathematically secured a minimum 2+2 from the mixed relay: FRA, AUS, USA, GBR, NZL and GER.
 
The following has a guaranteed host 2+2: JPN
 
Slightly more mathematically tenuous, I think the following have guaranteed relay spots by dint of having athletes who cannot be squeezed out of 2+2 individual spots; Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, South Africa.
 
The three nations most likely to need the Chengdu event, it seems to me are likely to come from Canada, Russia, Portugal, Norway  and Brazil - decently strong relay teams, with some very strong individuals, but lacking in numbers (all 5 have an automatic 2+1 from individual rankings) unless a final qualifier makes a late surge. Canada, however, could still realistically take the seventh spot through the Abu Dabai event, in which case the netherlands are probably safe anyway, and it becomes three from 4.

Gender equality my friend, the freaking gender equality in all canoeing sprint/slalom events

I have a dream, just not stop to kick the ass of the person responsible of removing the K4-1000 from the Olympic program

When you're so atention starved you don't think clear 

When you're so atention starved you don't think clear