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The greatest Judoka ever, the symbol of freedom, sportsmanship and blah blah is going to represent Azerbaijan from now on
 
https://www.ijf.org/judoka/68901
 
he said at the end of "his 3 years contract with Mongolia" he now signed another 3 years contract with Azerbaijan.   this is still amazing how come he sold his Hollywood style fake story to the world.
 
how many athletes represented 3 completely unrelated countries ( I mean not Soviet or Yugoslavian breakups kind of things) at the Olympics ? he is a rare type.

It would be urban after all

It would be urban after all

There really isn't any strong argument to dropping shooting imo. Only thing I have read is venue requirements being an issue (but both Australia and England have hosted the games this century with the sport...). Rhythmic is easily accompanied in the same venue as artistic....but I never understood its inclusion either as the sport has almost no tradition in the Commonwealth.

Yeah, the gripe about shooting or weightlifting is a bit unfounded. The team and the snatch/C&J events were only there to inflate medals. I'd have the same feeling if they removed the individual apparatuses in rhythmic gymnastics.
 
When I look at whether a sport/event should be part of the Commonwealth Games, I ask myself, "are there at least 8 competitive nations?" Admittedly, that helps Great Britain more since they are split at the games. England and Scotland are major players and Wales and Northern Ireland can add depth. Throw in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa who tend to have similar interests and it's not too difficult to find a couple of other nations to make the event competitive. Meanwhile for India (or other nations), if they don't have the support of the previously mentioned nations it will be hard to find enough nations to make the event viable.
 

commonwealth Games is becoming such a farce 
 
what is the purpose of any multigame event ......  I believe it is to foster sports , participation and interest in all the countries which form the nations which are part of the nations involved .... There are 70 odd participants to the games ( but look closely and you will find there are only53 countries in the commonwealth so all the rest are overseas territories  or Ok adding isle of man and jersey as seperate team )
 
so  lets look at the 53 countries 
 
an africa group which includes kenya , uganda , whose primary interest would be athletics 
a carribean group like jamaica, bahamas etc whose primary interest would be athletics 
 
 
 
so possibly 15 -20 odd countries who would have a wider interest in a multigames program which would be divided into 
 
the core dominion countries - UK , Australia , canada and NZ 
Large african countries - Nigeria , SA 
South asian cluster  - India, Pakistan , bangladesh srilanka 
SEA cluster  - singapore , malaysia 
 
 
now let us look at the sports they have increased medals in or cut in the last 20  years  ( last 5 games ) 
 
They  have cut shooting 40 to 0 where india dominated , but also the sole medal winner for bangladesh 
 
They have cut wrestling from 14 to 0  where it was a sport where india dominated and nigeria did well and so did pakistan ( this took a lot of effort as they had to change the whole framework as 
 
they have reduced the weightlifting medals from 45 to 15  a sport where india dominates but the smaller oceanic countries like soma, fiji , etc did well in, also pakistan and srilanka get a majority of their medals . I am seeing this as the next target as this is a sport the dominion do badly at and other countries somoa , india and nigeria do well at  
 
so cut  a 100 medals here 
 
what sports have they increased or added 
 
aquatics gone up from 48 to an incredible 66 ...... this event is almost wholly dominated by the dominion 4 and SA 
 
cycling gone up from 15 to 26 ...... the event is almost wholely dominated by the dominion 4 
 
lawn bowls gone up from 6 to 11 again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 
 
gymnastics gone up from 15 to 20 odd adding rhythmic gymnastics again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 + cyprus 
 
judo has been added by UK and dropped by Aus every time a desperate ping pong in sport of 14 medals again dominated by UK \
 
Para atheletics around 10-12 events carefully selected to reflect the dominion 4 only 11 /12 medals only by them 
 
triatholon and squash with 10 or so medals have been added which are events where all the gold medals are won by the dominion 4 
 
so added a 80 odd  medals here 
 
so if you add the athletics program of 60 or so , , almost 200 medals out of 270 or so ( 75% comes in just 6 sports .with the new changes l ) ...... 5 out of these 6 sports almost exclusively the dominion of the 5 dominion countries .........and you cut a 100 medals in sports like weightlifting , wrestling and shooting where  non dominion countries did well in and completely dropped shooting and wrestling pretty much mainstay programs 
 
if india protests it is a fair protest  ....... this is turning into a dominion games.... of interest of only the 4 dominion countries and possibly SA ........ so go ahead you are killing interest in the CWG  in all countries except the 4 dominion countries and SA ............ anyway  commonwealth para games , commonwealth youth games , cCWG winter games are already killed  .......very soon the main CWG will die or you convert them  into a quadrilateral games and drop the multigames tag 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

add 1 from Italy!  

Congratulations, you just cursed everyone.
 
They'll find a way to round it down to 10000 now  
 
Can't wait for Squid Game to become an Olympic sport in 2032 

First, every single one of our canoeing specialists had to change their discipline, European and World Champions had to forget about sprints and learn longer distances, jump into different boats, never having canoed in doubles or fours.
 
Then, this whole modern-pentathlon shake up in which we have a long and successful history.
 
It feels like this is a master plan to sabotage Lithuania, with many of our strategic sports under fire. 
 
I don't care about making Olympics more hip with the youth, I was young when I fell in love with the Olympics and I don't particularly feel that the event catered to me, because it didn't have to. Rollerskating, skateboarding, wall-climbing, golfing, breakdancing, 13yo gold medalists... it's just ughhh making this a joke for me.
 
Don't blink, they'll find a way to ruin Athletics, Rowing and Swimming for me too.
 
 

Thomas Ulsrud of Norway (Vancouver silver medalist, among other accomplishments) passed away from cancer.

This is really sad
 
RIP

Thomas Ulsrud of Norway (Vancouver silver medalist, among other accomplishments) passed away from cancer.

Thomas Ulsrud of Norway (Vancouver silver medalist, among other accomplishments) passed away from cancer.

GB fans going all crazy
 

It is right up there with the best Canadian results of the season. Very respectable finishing score and a bit of a breakthrough for Vermont.
 
Although, saying that, Dana Cooke & Mississippi have been the Canadian shooting stars of the year so far.

Tammara Thibeault won gold! And Charlie Cavanagh won Silver (she looked good in the first 2 mins, but then was dominated the rest of the way). Cavanagh is still young and should develop. The other who competed (Scarlett Delgado and Priyanka Dhillon) lost to eventual medalists in their events.
 
Thibeault and Delgado are guaranteed the Commonwealth Games, and at least two men will be named to the team, leaving two slots open. Cavanagh is not guaranteed a spot according to the qualification system, as events until April are looked at. Would be a travesty if she is not sent.

Might have been a one hit wonder though. My team beat them Huge twice one week after the nationals.
definately an unpredictable sport

The same Swedish junior team that won the Swedish mens championship in, winning over Edin etc

Too bad Sweden didn't bid again.

Too bad Sweden didn't bid again.

Austria was so close 

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup
 
Women's Individual Foil ( Incheon)
 
Gold:  Lee Kiefer
Silver:  Eleanor Harvey
Bronze:  Alice Volpi &  Anne Sauer
 
Semifinals
Kiefer b. Sauer 15-5
Harvey b. Volpi 15-13
 
Final
Kiefer b. Harvey 15-11
 
Full Ranking & Results
https://fie.org/competitions/2022/457