intoronto

There are 3 sports/disciplines that I could care less about on the Olympic program: Artistic Swimming, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Equestrian Dressage. 

claims the last berth! First ever Czech appearance in the sport at the Olympics?

claims the last berth! First ever Czech appearance in the sport at the Olympics?

BWF will not change the scoring system. They lacked one vote to get the 2/3 majority for the change.

Women's Park, no chances.
 
For Men's Park there are two guys, Adam Hopkins who didnt get good result today and probably won't make it.
 
And Andy Anderson who finished second on qualifier, a very nice result and he can conquer his spot tomorrow
 
 
For Street, only Annie Guglia at women's side. She has a small chance.
 
At Men's side, there are three guys with good chances, but probably 1 or 2 will get their quotas. Ryan Decenzo, Matt Berger and Micky Papa.

I don't mind precision sports like archery, curling or darts, even if I don't enjoy (watching) them personally.
 
This might be a reach and a controversial one at that, but my reasoning is: the Olympics is also about inspiring a generation and no child should be inspired to take up shooting firearms, unless they are enrolled in a police academy or the army.
 
I know that stuff like archery bows and even javelins are also weapons in essence, but that's a very different story to me.
 
In the same argument I don't mind at all if kids are inspired to take up and strive for excellence in other 'controversial' Olympic sports like skateboarding, artistic swimming or breakdancing. 

as many already know  imho many of the listed activities are not even to be considered "sports" and should all be thrown off the Games...
 
Artistic Swimming, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline, Park Skateboarding are just a few of them...
 
and I'd happily get rid of quite a few other sports from the current schedule...
 
but the poll is about 1 and only 1 sport to be removed...so, I picked the best "example" of non-sport activity (and the most boring to me)...Artistic Swimming, of course... 

Athlete from withdrew

According to wikipedia her name is Mia Krampl. @Fly_like_a_donwhat have you been watching?? 

rower in men's single sculls is born in 2000,  one of their two in LM2x is 2000, one from  is from 2002. I am sure there is more.

The IOC declared it was too late to move it

Thanks for putting this together! This is really fantastic and great showing for Canadian athletes. I share your optimism about the archery team.
 
I'm assuming that it'll be a no on LVL's quota in canoe?

Sadly Eric Lamaze has withdrawn for consideration for Canada's jumping quota
 
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/equestrian/show-jumping/canadian-show-jumper-eric-lamaze-withdraws-tokyo-short-list-1.6029581

Sadly Eric Lamaze has withdrawn for consideration for Canada's jumping quota
 
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/equestrian/show-jumping/canadian-show-jumper-eric-lamaze-withdraws-tokyo-short-list-1.6029581

I think Kuwait gets the unused host quota in men’s single sculls, as they actually competed and finished 13th place at the Asian qualifiers, one position ahead of the Kuwaiti female rower (14th), who due to rules can’t take the spot.
 
In an irony, as the women’s host quota couldn’t be awarded to any other Asian or Oceania nation, it will get reassigned to the next best competitor in the final qualifier, like they did in LW2x.
And guess what? It goes back to Japan 
 

The Lebanon that has suffered many civil wars? 

Pretty impressed with the results. Not one person thought any  boat would qualify, but I was expecting all 3 to do so. 2 of the 3 boats (m4 and m1x) had never raced internationally in a senior event till this competition. Both boats were competitive here and perhaps can be outside medal chances. Men's rowing in Canada was a disaster after Rio... and to qualify 4 out of 7 boats (only 2 in Rio) is a testament to the future of the sport here.

@intoronto Jakub Buczek, who was a member of Canadian four which qualified today, is a grandson of Antoni Piechniczek - a head coach of Polish National Football Team who finished 3rd in FIFA World Cup in Spain 1982.
 
https://sport.tvp.pl/53835793/tokio-2020-wnuk-antoniego-piechniczka-wywalczyl-kwalifikacje-olimpijska

the brutal fuck is happening to
 
15 players tested positive before the departure yesterday... They had to select alternate players, they travelled to Riga with only  23 players and without bigger stars, for example the goalie Damiano Clara has 16 years !
 
They had to remove from the roster players like Andreas Bernard, Gianluca Vallini , Marco De Filippo, Jan Pavlu, Ivan Tauferer,
Luca Zanatta, D. Kostner, Morini, Insam, M. Marcheti, Alberga, Mantiger, Traversa, S. Kostner, Ramoser and Lembacher
 
Jesus christ. RIP Italy

Pretty impressed with the results. Not one person thought any  boat would qualify, but I was expecting all 3 to do so. 2 of the 3 boats (m4 and m1x) had never raced internationally in a senior event till this competition. Both boats were competitive here and perhaps can be outside medal chances. Men's rowing in Canada was a disaster after Rio... and to qualify 4 out of 7 boats (only 2 in Rio) is a testament to the future of the sport here.

I posted on the other thread but here’s all the quotas won today 
 
W2-  
W2x  
W4-  
W1x  
W4x  
M4x  
W8+  
M8+  
M2-  
M2x  
M4-  
M1x  
LW2x  
LM2x  

men's fours 

Women's 10,000
 Andrea Seccafien 31:13.94
 
This is also a NR and she is already qualified in the 5,000m
 

Women's 10,000
 Andrea Seccafien 31:13.94
 
This is also a NR and she is already qualified in the 5,000m
 

https://worldrowing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Seeding-proposal-for-FOQR-2021.pdf