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We know how the IOC works, and its not going to work. I for one absolutely hate the idea of gender equality, but we know in 2024 it will be equal. Under Bach the IOC and the Olympics have become a joke. Bring back Rogge!

Football/Field hockey are the only possible team sports that can reduce quotas (Handball already subtracted one in the last quad) and all others are 12 or less. Its hard to subtract, but they need to come from somewhere.

Thought of this idea for a thread. Where would you make cuts across the current core sport program to "free" up additional quotas for more sports, while making the least amount of problems possible. You cannot reduce the amount of teams in a team sport or drop a sport. Here my ideas (note: these are just ideas, and may or may not work). Artistic Swimming = Reduce the team event to only 7 per team. =10 Football: -1 in each team = 28. Additional athletes will be allowed as alternates away from the village (and for all other team sports listed below). Field hockey: -1 in each team = 24. Equestrian -9 in each discipline, which would mean a loss of three teams per event = 27. There is a disparity among the best and the lower teams. Golf = -10 in each gender. No reason why this sport needs that many per event, especially since its an individual event. =20 Artistic Gymnastics -2 in each gender, there is no reason why this sport needs this many quotas = 4 Rhythmic gymnastics -12 (bring it back to the 12 groups + 24 individuals) = 12 =115, you can add squash + maybe another sport Notes: I didn't touch the sports that received quota reductions for Tokyo 2020. I also did not touch judo as that is a very universal sport. There really isn't anything else you can do without jeopardizing the quality of the competition.

lol we are going to end up with like 5 entries per event at this rate. More sports in the same quota = less athletes competing per event. Stupid idea. If you are going to add sports, increase the quota. If you do not want to do that, don't add anything.

I would put my money on Spain, safe choice with experience hosting winter multi-sports events.

Field hockey pools Men Pool A: Pool B: Women Pool A: Pool B:

Norceca has it being held in Canada, but it never took place. My guess is that either Canada/USA withdrew and the spot auto went to the other.

So COPACI allowed athletes to qualify more than one spot, which effectively screwed Belize out of a spot in cycling.

will replace in the baseball qualifiers, this means the groups have changed. Group A will now be: Group B will now be:

Looks like gap is narrowing in women's hockey...

Women's volleyball tournament +12

Yikes at Group B next year.

Lightning Sailing +3 +3

If the IIHF wants it and has the support of Canada/USA it will happen. Especially since if they smaller ice helps in bringing the NHL to Beijing.

Big news: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/international-hockey-competitions-may-move-nhl-sized-ice/

Rip Denmark

Belize was screwed

Pan Am qualifier will be held in San Jose on March 11, 2020

Like I said earlier, COPACI is the worst continental or international federation for information lol

Made up in that there is no info to suggest how many quotas per event (sprint Keirin etc.). So if that is not published, how are the qualified teams known?

Well for road and track cycling, we can say that it's made up lol

BMX/MTB appears to be right, but impossible to know for road/track. The qualification system does not specify how quotas are distributed by event, and Wikipedia looks to be a pure guess at this point.

they are* I think you need a geography lesson as well ...

@hckosice https://www.golfdigest.com/story/south-african-born-rory-sabbatini-becomes-a-citizen-of-slovakia-eyes-playing-in-2020-olympics