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Happy 150th Birthday to Canada!!  

Totallympics member Carfu is in Algeria for the championships...

All the events have hard qualification times than in 2014, except the women's 500.

Wow Andorran athlete beat two time Turkish Olympic medalist!

6 hours ago, George_D said:

World League 2017 Final Round:

 

Group J1: , .

 

Group K1: , ,

Last time Canada was in the final 6, they got Russia and Brazil. However they did get one victory back then, so maybe they could do it this time too.

Lol Canada is better than both Japan and China... What a joke.

1 hour ago, dareza said:

9.69 for De Grasse

The wind was illegal

Though this is promising:

Asia will get the same number of guaranteed teams as Europe and Americas 

Oceania gets one, what a joke, they should have merged it with Asia (the amount of slots)

Anyways, Canada (and I would imagine other Commonwealth Countries) are skipping the Worlds, in favour of the Commonwealth Youth Games (which slightly conflict with each other).

1 hour ago, bestmen said:

who cares about europe/canada , both are not favourite in this event

 Fun fact: Canada won more track and field medals in Rio than Algeria has won at the last 4 Summer Olympics across all sports. 

6 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Parhetic as usual... No words. Wrestling with one of the most variety when it comes to country participation, gets hammered once again for some joke events. 16 quotas aren't enough for only Europe..

It likely has to do with the controversies from Rio, and its not a popular sport among the EB (after all it was dropped).

Just now, DaniSRB said:

i wonder how many naturalized players will be allowed in 3x3 team 

Qatar will have all 4 naturalized 

Just now, heywoodu said:

You mean 'aren't'?  

 

I have absolutely nothing against the same number of men and women of course, but why not give certain women's events time to become 'a thing' first? And the mixed stuff is even worse, who on earth cares about the 4x400m mixed relay 

 

And come on, be a decent freestyle swimmer and you can win 4 Olymic golds without ever going less than 200 meters. It's just so stupid. 

Yes I did mean aren't

7, with the relays (50m, 100m, 200m, and the four relays now)

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Only disappointing for sycronized swimming is that they didn't add the mixed duet

They should have cut duets to 12 from 24. 

That would allow for each water polo team to have one additional athlete. 

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Almost all. Literally taking away dozens of quota from certain sports, the forced, politically correct addition of mixed events everywhere (even a 4x400m in athletics, come on, that whole event is not even a 'thing' in professional athletes), three (!) more events on the overloaded swimming programme instead of cutting some events to make place for others. Those are the worst parts in my opiniion. 

Its plain madness, I agree. Politically correct or not, women's sports are as globally developed as their men's counterpart (though with these additions, that should hopefully change?)

Just now, heywoodu said:

This is so incredly disappointing. Honestly, I'm so mad 

Which part(s)?

Quite disappointing to see them keeping synchronized swimming intact, while reducing from swimming/water polo. This goes to show you how dumb these people are.

1 minute ago, dareza said:

but 4x400 mixed relay

They had to be compensated for losing 200+ for Rio and now +105. 

4 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

but how many players per team they will allow now, 11 or 12?

11

If its 11*22 teams that's the total quoted in the document.

Also a total of 339 events and 11k athletes scheduled for Tokyo.

Agenda 2020: max 10.5k athletes + 306 events (lol the difference is quite big).

Just now, rybak said:

That's deserved

I agree

1 minute ago, DaniSRB said:

so in water polo we will have 12 men's teams and 10 women's?

 

or 12 - 12 and 11 players per team? 

Yes for first one. 12 men's and 10 women

Full Tokyo 2020 program

https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document Library/OlympicOrg/Games/Summer-Games/Games-Tokyo-2020-Olympic-Games/Tokyo-2020-event-programme.pdf

Wrestling moves from 19/20 per weight category to 16 per weight, just like taekwondo.

But no cuts in synchronized swimming/gymnastics 

Just now, Federer91 said:

 

How?

They lost a significant amount of quotas each (64 for weightlifting and 56 for wrestling) and weightlifting loses a men's event.

Wow wrestling and weightlifting got destroyed