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Never understood why the IOC can't overtake running weightlifting for 2024 like it did with boxing for 2020

I was looking at other nations numbers and Germany seems to have the exact same problem than us witch very similar numbers. Since 2012, on average, they have 'lost' 6 medals and 2.8 golds each winter and summer olympics vs the last world championships (-5.6 and -2.4 for France)
 
Now, we understand why @OlympicsFanis constantly angry.

E sports

E sports

E sports

As you know, e sports were actually close to be selected for Paris. Fortunatelly, there was someone in IOC who had more than 1 functioning brain cell so luckilly we wont watch Call of Duty at least until LA. 

E sports

In 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Greek women won the same amount of medals as Greek men. This time Greek men won 4 medals and Greek women on 0 medals. First time since 1988 that Greek women didn't win any medals.
 
We had Stefanidi get 4th in pole vault, Sakkari in mixed doubles 5th, Bourmpou/Kyridou 5th in rowing, Korakaki 6th in two shooting events, Tzeli 7th in taekwondo, Teltsidou 7th in judo, Drisbioti 8th in 20km walk, Kyriakopoulou 8th in pole vault, Ntountounaki 9th in 100m butterfly, Karachaliou 9th in sailing etc.
 
We are similar to Canada in a way, based on what @JoshMartini007said, because we also are generalists and don't focus on specific sports. All 4 of our medals this year were in different sports. In Rio we won 6 medals all in different sports except 2 shooting medals which were from the same person. In London and Beijing we also did not win more than 1 medal in a single sport. In this way I think Greece and Canada are similar.

As one of the most active National Threads on Totallympics, I would like to inform you that if you are interested I could create a sub-domain only for Canadian sport fans, named like canada.totallympics.com (and where instead of canada we can put any word you prefer), with the same structure of Totallympics (sections, threads etc.).
 
You can find more info in this thread. Let me know if you are interested

Cities now dictate what they want and the IOC approves.

Sad it's over, glad we got to have it finally.  Not long till Beijing 2022, and I just happen to live here (currently going through a Covid outbreak, though).  

I think we saw that with the games here. They were very open to changes. The velodrome for ex. Had 3200 seats vs 5000+ in others....which leaves me to understand if Toornto to bid, then the Milton velodrome would be acceptable.

Cant wait for a certain user to call the women's sprint a disgusting result ?

CanFund will be dishing out a total of 
 
$720,000 for gold medals
$165,000 for silver medals
$350,000 for bronze medals
 
for a total of: $1,235,000

RBC training ground has produced two gold medalists at these games (and other strong results). Expand the program right now!

CanFund will be dishing out a total of 
 
$720,000 for gold medals
$165,000 for silver medals
$350,000 for bronze medals
 
for a total of: $1,235,000

With Bevridge's 9th place in the omnium, that concludes Canada's participation at Tokyo 2020!
 
Hopefully all of us will stick around and cheer our athletes in the non-Olympic period.

No they are not. They are only approved around the Winter Olympics. Likely the 2022 ISSF Championships will be the first one to hand out quotas as per tradition. 

No they are not. They are only approved around the Winter Olympics. Likely the 2022 ISSF Championships will be the first one to hand out quotas as per tradition. 

Best medal-haul ever for Canada in a non-boycotted summer games, highest placing in the medal table since 1992, first team gold in a summer sport since 1908, two big stars (de Grasse and Warner) winning their first global title... this is definitively on the upper end of what Canada is capable of at the summer Olympics.

Countries shying away from hosting the Olympics/other multi sporting events need to look at Canada. Hosted the 2015 Pan American Games, which built the only velodrome in Canada + a new pool in Toronto (there were only two, older pool in all of the region). And it has turned around and provided Canada with 1/3 of its medals here. Without the facilities, I doubt Canada would have this level of success.  This is also a successful legacy, something that is always omitted when discussing these mega events. 

Cant wait for a certain user to call the women's sprint a disgusting result ?

Cant wait for a certain user to call the women's sprint a disgusting result ?

Countries shying away from hosting the Olympics/other multi sporting events need to look at Canada. Hosted the 2015 Pan American Games, which built the only velodrome in Canada + a new pool in Toronto (there were only two, older pool in all of the region). And it has turned around and provided Canada with 1/3 of its medals here. Without the facilities, I doubt Canada would have this level of success.  This is also a successful legacy, something that is always omitted when discussing these mega events.