Benolympique

brazilian uniform for opening ceremony
 
Ok, I give up 

First leg
 
 3 X 2 

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Voting is now open!
 
You have until Sunday, March 15th, at 23:55 CET (GMT+1), to cast your votes in private to @dcro. You can vote using the following template:
 
 
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The (almost) final map
 

 
Debuting countries (1):  
 
Returning countries (5):  (A2019),  (A2019),  (A2018),  (O2013),  (O2017)
 
Countries who participated at O2019 and didn't return (5):     

ICF confirmed Oceanian spots.
 
No surprises, although New Zealand apparently still has to choose between K1 and K2.

Deaths of Olympians in February.
 
 Ryszard Olszewski, 87 - Basketball
 Jana Vapenkova, 72 - Volleyball
 Alexander Skvortsov, 65 - Ice Hockey (1×G, 1×S)
 Eugene Plesko, 71 - Cycling
 Giancarlo Bergamini, 93 - Fencing (1×G, 2×S)
 Abadi Hadis, 22 - Athletics
 Brian Glennie, 73 - Ice Hockey (1×B)
 Maurice Girardot, 98 - Basketball (1×S)
 Bill Robinson, 71 - Basketball
 Tamas Wichmann, 72 - Sprint Canoeing (2×S, 1×B)
 Karel Neffe, 71 - Rowing (1×B)
 Renzo Chiocchetti, 74 - Cross Country Skiing
 John Cockett, 92 - Hockey (1×B)
 Jaime Amat, 78 - Hockey
 John Robertson, 90 - Sailing
 Istvan Gali, 76 - Boxing
 Usman Ullah Khan, 45 - Boxing
 Janos Gorocs, 80 - Football (1×B)
 Jan Kowalczyk, 78 - Equestrian (1×G, 1×S)
 Braian Toledo, 26 - Athletics
Craig Mackay, 92 - Speed Skating
 Teresa Machado, 50 - Athletics
 Eva Szekely, 92 - Swimming (1×G, 1×S)
 
And three late reported deaths from January.
 
 Herbert Voelcker, 90 - Shooting
 Sandra Kalo, 75 - Handball
 Irina Laricheva, 55 - Shooting
 
A bad month for Hungary with five deaths including Tamas Wichmann who won three medals in sprint canoeing between 1968-80. He also won nine world titles. Eva Szekely was Olympic champion in the 200m breaststroke in 1952 and followed up with silver in 1956. From a sporting family, her husband Desso Gyarmati won medals at five consecutive games in water polo including three golds. Her daughter Andrea was also a swimmer and won two medals in Munich in 1972.
 
Alexander Skvortsov was a member of the Soviet ice hockey team that famously lost to the Americans at Lake Placid in 1980. However, he gained redemption when the Red Machine got back on track to win gold four years later.
 
Last, but not least, the deaths of two athletes who competed at the last Olympics in Rio. Abadi Hadis was an Ethiopian middle distance runner who, although only 22, had been ill for sometime. Braian Toledo of Argentina was Youth Olympic champion in the javelin in 2010 and went on to compete in London and Rio where he finished tenth. Sadly he died in a traffic accident aged just 26.
 

France 100 cases 

Today's Quotas @hckosice
 
Men's Sprint (+ quota in Keirin):
 
      
 
 
Women's Madison (+ quota in Omnium):
 
       
 
 
Women's Omnium:
 
            &  with a continental quota @thepharoah

disaster for prades.

Men's 10m Air Pistol
Gold: Artem Chernousov
Silver: Paolo Monna
Bronze: Ismail Keles
Olympic Quota: Italy, Slovakia

Already 813 new cases today in South Korea.

will battle for the two spots in men's 10 m air pistol.

So we in NZ have our first case of Coronavirus, since the news broke it has caused panic buying. 

Finally a good news

Draws are out.
 
Apparently several nations withdrew (Kiribati, Solomon Islands).

And considering that draws are missing for several weight, it looks like as much as 3 free quotas will be awarded.
 
 

Asian qualifier has been postponed. 

Podium:
 
 Bouwmeester  Jonker  Host  
 Van der Vaart (7th) and  Akkerman (10th) also in the top 10. 

has announced their sailors for Tokyo 2020 in the men’s 49er & Women’s 49er FX events 
 
Sam & Will Phillips will be in the Men’s 49er 
Jaime Ryan & Tess Lloyd will be in the Women’s 49er FX

Courtesy of worldometers here is the current league table:
 
 
Country,
Other
Total Cases New
Cases Total
Deaths New
Deaths Total
Recovered Serious,
Critical China 78,514 +450 2,747 +32 32,954 8,346 S. Korea 1,766 +505 13 +1 24 18 Diamond Princess 705   4   10 36 Italy 655 +185 17 +5 45 35 Iran 245 +106 26 +7 54   Japan 207 +35 4 +1 32 13 Singapore 96 +3     66 7 Hong Kong 92 +3 2   18 6 USA 60       6   Kuwait 43 +17         Germany 41 +14     15 2 Thailand 40       22 2 France 38 +20 2   11 1 Bahrain 33           Taiwan 32   1   5 1 Spain 25 +12     2 2 Australia 23       15   Malaysia 22       20   U.A.E. 19 +6     5 2 U.K. 16 +3     8   Vietnam 16       16   Canada 13 +1     3   Macao 10       6   Sweden 7 +5         Iraq 6 +1         Oman 6 +2         Switzerland 6 +5         Austria 5 +3         Norway 4 +3         Philippines 3   1   2   Croatia 3           Greece 3 +2         India 3       3   Israel 3 +1         Lebanon 3 +1         Finland 2       1   Pakistan 2           Russia 2       2   Afghanistan 1           Algeria 1           Belgium 1       1   Brazil 1           Cambodia 1       1   Denmark 1 +1         Egypt 1       1   Estonia 1 +1         Georgia 1           North Macedonia 1           Nepal 1       1   Netherlands 1 +1         Romania 1           San Marino 1 +1         Sri Lanka 1       1   Highlighted in green = all cases have recovered from the infection. Highlighted in grey = all cases have had an outcome (there are no active cases).

Yeah, this was their best chance to qualify...
 
 
Athletics only allows one spot now and they did not participate at the world aquatics championships so no swimmers.

Quotas @hckosice
 
Men's Team Pursuit (+ quota in Madison):
 
       
 
 
Men's Keirin (+ quota in Sprint):
 
       
 
 
Women's Team Pursuit (+ quota in Madison):
 
       

Thank you very much.
 
I´ll add them later today to the posts

Quotas in Women's Sprint:
 
      
 
@hckosice

They are also in, but iw will only be confirmed after eightfinals.

It's really interesting how Mozambique already has 5 athletes qualified - all women!
 
Looking at their complete Olympic history, they have only had 13 women competing altogether (1980-2016), and in fact they never had a female athlete outside of athletics or swimming.