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CONCACAF's qualification format confirmed.
 
Top 6 teams in FIFA's ranking by June 20, 2020 will contest the Hexagonal round. Top 3 qualify to the World Cup.  
The other 29 teams will contest a separate qualification round: Round one: 8 round robin groups, 5 groups of four teams and the rest with 3 teams. Group winners advance to two legged knockouts, until a winner is defined. Winner of the knock out round will face Hex's 4th place to advance to the Intercontinental playoffs.  
 

Honestly, multi-juries would work best with preferential voting, but of course that would require jurors to rank all of the songs and not just top 12...

I think that’s a fair suggestion so if the new change is implemented we will look at it after the contest and maybe even after each of the first couple of editions to see if it is proving effective.
One thing to look for is whether (a) the favourite of each member is making it into the combined vote and (b) whether the songs that are being voted for by each member or by the majority are still making it in also. I think if those 2 conditions are being met it will prove to be a good change. If not then we can consider revising the scale. 
 
I don’t have access to the individual votes of the Italian jury from previous editions so I can’t project how it might operate so I can only review it after each of the next couple of editions and then offer a review of how it seems to be working and what isn’t working. 

Update  - Week 3 - January 13 to January 19 - 2020
 
Men's High Jump
 +1
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/darryl-sullivan-309585
 
Men's Marathon 
 +1 (Achieved via a Top 5 result in a Gold Label race)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/ireland/stephen-scullion-223786
 
Women's Marathon 
 +1 (Achieved via a Top 5 result in a Gold Label race)
 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/azerbaijan/marege-hayelom-274423
 
Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 465) Women (Total Quota: 452)  
After some quiet weeks, we can finally add some more athletes to the list of qualifed athletes for Tokyo 2020. 
In the women's marathon in Houston,  Ursula Sanchez was really close to achieve the Olympic Standard with a 6th place and a time of 2:29:32. Only 2 seconds shy of the Olympic Standard! 
https://track.rtrt.me/e/HOU-2020#/leaderboard/top-women-marathon-_ALL/FINISH

Syria lost after extra time.

Ugandan umpire officiating at Indonesia Masters had her bag stolen.. She lost her important documents, credit card, and a few hundred dollars 

First, and in the foreseable future, only Mexican medalist in a Winter discipline 

Event 30/81
 
ICE HOCKEY

Women's Mixed NOC 3-on-3:
 
1. TEAM YELLOW    
Magdalena Luggin (AUSTRIA)
Anke Steeno (BELGIUM)
Zuzana Trnkova (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Ludmila Bourcet (FRANCE)
Leonie Bottcher (GERMANY)
Elisa Innocenti (ITALY)
Luisa Wilson (MEXICO)
Iris Van Houten (NETHERLANDS)
Katya Blong (NEW ZEALAND)
Nora Pollestad (NORWAY)
Shin Seo-Yoon (SOUTH KOREA)
Eva Aizpurua (SPAIN)
Nubya Aeschlimann (SWITZERLAND)
2. TEAM BLACK    
Courtney Mahoney (AUSTRALIA)
Zhang Xinyue (CHINA)
Chang En-Ni (CHINESE TAIPEI)
Emilia Kyrkko (FINLAND)
Amy Robery (GREAT BRITAIN)
Luca Marton (HUNGARY)
Carlotta Regine (ITALY)
Reina Sato (JAPAN)
Kimberly Collard (NETHERLANDS)
Alicja Mota (POLAND)
Daria Petrova (RUSSIA)
Nikola Janekova (SLOVAKIA)
Angelina Hurschler (SWITZERLAND)
3. TEAM BLUE    
Nikki Sharp (AUSTRALIA)
Karolina Hengelmuller (AUSTRIA)
Maria Runevska (BULGARIA)
Aya Juhl Petersen (DENMARK)
Maya Stober (GERMANY)
Mirren Foy (GREAT BRITAIN)
Regina Metzler (HUNGARY)
Yuna Kusama (JAPAN)
Anna Kot (POLAND)
Yana Krashenina (RUSSIA)
Zuzana Dobiasova (SLOVAKIA)
Valerie Christmann (SWITZERLAND)
Sidre Ozer (TURKEY)
 
Full Final Result HERE

Also world number 1 in doubles  Robert Farah also is suspended by doping 

Nicolas Jarry was found positive to an antidoping test and is currently suspended from ITF

I'm just glad a Mexican athlete will earn a medal in women's mixed team 3x3 hockey. 
 
That would probably make her the first athlete from a Latin American NOC to earn a medal in a Winter Olympic Games 
 
 

Congratulations Canada 

Canada came back from two sets down to win against Cuba.

@hckosice

New winter Olympic sport?
 
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/the-absolutely-positively-insane-sport-of-icecanoeing/article28947992/

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1089018/panam-sports-esports-santiago-2023
 
Goodbye

no, she's currently 58th in the OQR...no chance for her to climb up so many positions in the standings...
 
her only shot at the Olympics is the global tournament in Paris next May, as it's a 1-day shot with 3 spots up for grabs for all who doesn't make it through the OQR (or the continental/host Nation places)...
basically, it's a true world championship, where the 3 medallists book their ticket to Tokyo 2020...

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Santiago, CHI)
 
 
today's action recap...
 
 
women's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: Viviana Bottaro vs Dilara Eltemur
Bronze Medal match #1: Sakura Kokumai vs rosa Almarza
Bronze Medal match #2: Sanae Agalmam vs Ayse Yilmaz
 

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal match: Irina Zaretska vs Silvia Semeraro
Bronze Medal match #1: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Halyna Melnyk
Bronze Medal match #2: Miroslava Kopunova vs Gong Li

women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal match: Cao Hanqi vs Hamideh Abbasali
Bronze Medal match #1: Sofya Berultseva vs Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol
Bronze Medal match #2: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez
 

men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal match: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Douglas Brose
Bronze Medal match #1: Oussama Edari vs Dany Cabello
Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev

men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal match: Alì Elsawy vs Burak Uygur
Bronze Medal match #1: Didar Amirali vs Andres Madera Delgado
Bronze Medal match #2: Assylbek Muratov vs Christian Wever

men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Breno Teixeira
Bronze Medal match #1: Thomas Scott vs Erman Eltemur
Bronze Medal match #2:  Yermek Ainazarov vs Yassine Sekouri
 

When they gather all their best players and train a little they are better than Chile. 
 
Chile scheduled this match on the first day on purpose because they thought they would arrive unprepared like always, but this time they played several friendlies with Cuba. 
 
 

Martha Del Valle easily confirmed her MER after scoring 68%+ in Wellington. Path is now wide opened for the selection.

Came across a little something...
https://www.lausanne2020.sport/results/nh

... what they really are.

Ajan is the main reason for corruption  this is a common knowledge in Weightlifting community . people don't talk about it because almost all national WL federations made deals with him. he sold lots of World/Olympic medals to different countries.
 
that ARD report sounds correct to me. it fits with what i knew about IWF and Ajan himself. I give you guys some examples regarding Iranian WLers. these 3 examples are 100% confirmed for me, there are more stories though.
 
back in 2000 Olympics, 1999 World Champion and top favorite for the gold Shahin Nassirinia came to the stage, injured his arm in his first snatch attempt and left the competition. at the time it was just bad luck but later his teammates (and later himself) admitted that was fake, he was told by IWF to pull out, because IWF has "proofs" against the Iranian team (and specially Nassirinia) and will disqualify the whole team if he doesn't pull out ! it turned out IWF wanted their boy Pyrros Dymas to win his 3rd Olympic gold medal. Nassirinia never officially got suspended or even accused of doping. and Iran won two gold medals in the next days. (mostly because Nassirinia followed the order and let Dymas take that gold medal)
 
and in 2006, the whole Iranian team tested positive for doping except just one guy, Hossein Rezazadeh, he was double Olympic Champion and face of World Weightlifting at the time. simply the best weightlifter in the world at the time. IWF didn't want him to get caught. I heard from some of his teammates that someone else gave urine samples instead of him. obviously they were using the same drugs (thanks to the Bulgarian coach)
 
and one more example, back in 2009 in South Korea, the host nation didn't win a gold medal in men's weightlifting until the last day, they wanted that gold but there was an Iranian guy Saeid Alihosseini who had broken the WR in training and everybody knew he will win the gold. 2 days before the competition he was told to fake an injury during the training and leave South Korea because IWF found some evidences about his doping and if he leaves he won't get suspended. he did but still they suspended him. and that Korean guy who the gold medal. ironically that guy An Yong-Kwon never won any title (even continental) beside that gold medal !

Maybe not the most beautiful female names, but my favorite sequence of them: Sandra "Maria Magdalena"

Happy New Year everyone 
 
May 2020 be a great year for each of you and Totallympics.