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does we really need those speeches ? I assume we can not have a worlds in Russia without Putins monologue

Rio 2016 reveals 'look' of tickets for Olympic and Paralympic Games
 

 
Rio 2016 unveiled the 'look' of the tickets for the Olympic and Paralympic Games on Friday (20 May) morning at the organising committee's headquarters. And the colourful yet practical designs will soon be winging their way out to sports fans around the world who have bought tickets to the Games.
 
"From 1pm (Brasília time) today, the tickets will begin to be sent out from the graphic design company and somewhere in the world someone will receive the first ticket," said Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman. Find out how to buy tickets to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The tickets feature the Rio 2016 sport pictograms, which for the first time in Games history, have one for each Olympic and Paralympic sport.
 

 
The tickets are being produced by the same graphic design company in the USA that produced the tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Staff at the company, which has 30 years of experience in ticket production, "live to produce tickets" said Donovan Ferreti, the Rio 2016 ticketing director.
 
More than four million tickets for the Olympic Games – 67% of the total available – have already been sold. Two million tickets remain on sale and every Thursday a new batchs of tickets, including for some of the most sought-after events, are going on sale to Brazilian residents. "We will want to tell our grandchildren about the Rio 2016 Game and these are also our tickets to history," said Mário Andrada, executive director of communications at Rio 2016.
 

 

Canada named its Olympic team
Cynthia Meyer: Trap
Lynda Kyjeko : 10 m air pistol/25 m pistol 

Its in the rowing thread...

Apparently this will be the OBS intro for Rio Olympics:
 

^ That's not going to happen, yes that's true IOC recommended that long time ago back in 2004 if I'm not wrong but in general Greco-Roman is more popular around the world (not in my country though) specially in Europe. Lalovic (UWW president) himself is from Serbia, freestyle doesn't even exist in his country

True, plus the tripartite commission looks at all sports at the same time. I wish the commission would publish the list of nations which applied to each sport. It would be interesting to see which nations applied

If i noticed well, all qualified athletes from Bahrain are naturalized 

wtf no Afghanistan???
 
what were they smoking?

Have some patience
 
 

You are not safe yet

Yeah, if they take 1-2 quotas away from those countries then there will be a lot of reallocations!
 
As for Azerbaijan, in theory 1-1=0... But we are talking about Azerbaijan here so I guess it could be 1-1+x=x

I'll make one now!

You just insulted a Bhutanese archer.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_%28archer%29

Sorry, but where exactly did i say that Semenya is disgusting? I just find the thought that 3 athletes who absolutely dont look like women win the medals in womens 800 disgusting. Semenya did nothing wrong and i dont blame her for anything. I also dont understand why Semenya is allowed to compete but not someone like Rehm, although its obvious to anyone that Semenya has a bigger advantage. Semenya comes from a very poor background, most people would do the same in her situation, but IAAF has to exclude her from all womens competitions. Do you want to "hurt" the right of 3 or 4 woman or the right of all other women who have no chance against competitors like Semenya? CAS ruled that IAAF has to prove that Semenya has an advantage, i think the same would apply for Rehm, so he should have a good chance to compete in Rio, if he decides to sue IAAF. I know that IAAF has other problems (doping), but if they dont exclude Semenya now, she will win an olympic gold medal and i am sure that after that they will be forced to exclude Semenya. Semenya just has to hope that IAAF will be too busy to care for her case in the next couple of months, than i see no one who could stop her on her way to at least one olympic gold (maybe except Niyonsaba). You obviously didnt follow the case or you dont really know how to express yourself, otherwise i dont know what "Semenya has been tested and allowed to participate under the rules" is supposed to mean in this context. Dopers betray on purpose, they are cheaters, unlike Semenya, but in some sense she is "worse" than all dopers. Everyone can start to dope, in order to make up for the unfair advantage of dopers, but its impossible for other athletes to "copy" Semenya, they will never have the chance of running fast. In my opinion there are three fair options:
1) Semenya stays as she is and competes against men.
2) There has to be some new sort of "category" at the paralympic games for athletes like Semenya.
3) She takes whatever is required to lower her testosterone level, so that she has about the same level as "normal" woman.

"Morning honey, that was great last night. Ooooh waaaait a minute..... " 
 
 

I don't think anybody is actually having an issue when you post the daily CAN qualifiers, at least I'm not and I don't hear anyone else complaining

Ya, it's pretty impressive. They both have a very good shot at making the finals in Rio (and maybe contend for a medal) with that kind of time.
 
Edit: Nobody qualified in the men's 200m free. Bleh.

that´s not metalic. it´s a  rubber, but yeah, trust me it hurt when you receive a good shot (personal experience, once I got one from very near distance into my unprotected part of my leg, and I couldn´t walk for a while, and one my friend got it in the head, that wasn´t cool at all)

I don't know what's suspicious about that. It's definitely not the extremely childing Russian thing of "OMG it's a Western conspiracy to make us look bad!11!!!!", because if that was the case, Russia wouldn't have voted for the inclusion of meldonium on the WADA list. And besides, that's Russia's standard reaction. They don't like something, they make it "a Western conspiracy". Grow up Russians. 

I remember that famous Madagascar vs Sierra Leone lucky semifinal draw from London 2012 (in one of the women's categories). Hoping for something similar this time.

Fiji has more athletes than Azerbaijan.

 
My problem was in fact a bit harder
 
During the whole past week I learned so much about my PC, probably I would never learn so much even at some IT university
man I tried everything possible and impossible, from removing cookies, cache, to upload and restart all known browsers, updating new alternative DNS adresses to reinstalling the whole system etc...
 
btw thanks to Sindo for his patience with me and responding to all my boring and annoying mails

Prasanth already posted..I have not noticed