Benolympique

Expected individual Olympic qualifiers:                

Dark horses for individual qualification:          



Expected group Olympic qualifiers:     

Dark horses for group qualification:    

Groups already qualified:   

 

Expected tripartite invitation:
 

All Around individual finals on Friday, and Groups All Around competition on Saturday, if you're looking for Olympic qualification only. Both will be streamed in FIG's Youtube channel, along with apparatus finals on Tuesday (hoop, ball), Thursday (clubs, ribbon), and Sunday (Groups 5 balls, 3 hoops/2 clubs)

Bronze medal 

WORLD CHAMPIONS!!! 
 
I think nobody here in Spain expected this a few weeks ago, but it is incredible to win this title 13 years after the first time. The only thing I am sad is not having Pau Gasol in the roster, because he deserved this more than anyone else. 

The Asian quota for  Shun Murakami
 
The men's competition result:
 
1- Italo Ferreira 
2- Kolohe Andino 
3- Gabriel Medina 
 
And, I haven't seen the result of team points yet, but I believe that gold goes to Brazil.
 

Just saying... Cuba won the NORCECA men's championship. They defeated the A team of Canada and the B team of USA. They even had visa problems to enter Canada and because of that they only played with 9 players!
 
Roberlandy Simón returned to the team for this competition. Hopefully we will see a few more returns soon. Really promising in perspective for the olympic qualifier.   

To be read as quota for Greece and Island Greece 

European quota goes to Frederico Morais from 
 
A rainy and windy day in Japan today, so the competition ended early
 
 
The Asian quota is between the surfers from  Shun Murakami and the  Rio Waida. They are at the same heat in Repechage Round 10.
 
As for the competition itself, on Round 7 the contenders are Gabriel Medina and ítalo Ferreira from  and Kolohe Andino and Kelly Slater from . They will fight for two spots at the Final.

meanwhile, the first 3 quarterfinals are already over:
 
Israel 8-2 France
 
Netherlands 17-2 Belgium (after 5 innings)
 
Spain 5-4 Czech Republic (after 10 innings)
 
therefore, the first semifinal pairing is NED vs ESP, meanwhile ISR are waiting for the winner of the GER vs ITA match-up...

AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT!!! Barbora Šumová beated both girls she was fighting for Tokyo with, earned her FIRST BIG MEDAL - Bronze and moreover, got Olympic Quota - very talented  skeet shooter!!!

Argentina will be a favorite to me against Spain

Olympic quota for   in women's skeet

Congrats argentina !

The Hungarian formal wear for Tokyo 2020 (yep, it's our turn to be the European country that shows up in a formal wear that's kinda similar to the non-white host's traditional clothing)
 

Congratulations to France, finally they were able to play as a team. They always have amazing players, but normally they don't work very well as a team. Also i think that it is good for basketball that the US can't win with a C team, next year they will be dominant enough. France has a great future with guys like Ntilikina, Hayes, Doumbouya, Maledon, Wembanyama, Hoard, Cazalon or Begarin. They clearly have the 2nd best talent pool in the world, ahead of Australia and Canada. Overall this is an amazing year for french sport, first their massive overperformance at the judo world championships and now this ...
Not sure if France can be considered the favorite now? I think France and Australia have been more impressive than Argentina/Spain, but if they battle it out in the semifinal, then Spain might profit from that in the final. I think France could become the 3rd country in history to hold the world title in football and basketball at the same time. Brazil did it in 1958/1959 and 1962/1963 and Spain did it in 2006/2010. France could also become the 4th country to win world cups in both sports, the other nations that did it are Spain, Brazil and Argentina.

tomorrow

Group Stage day 1 - results so far
 
Pool A
Bulgaria 3-0 Greece (25-22/25-16/25-20)
 

After the end of today's competition, a update about the olympic quotas for men.
 
Asia:  are in round with 3, 2 and 1 surfer, respectively. At repechage round 3 there are the other surfers from  and only one from  and 
 
Africa: Only  has a surfer in Round 3.  has its three surfers in Repechage
 
Oceania: Only  may get this quota. Billy Stairmand is the best athlete from this continent so far. He's at Round 3. The other two surfers are in Repechage. (Again, I'm not counting Australia)
 
Europe: Round 3:  and at Repechage: (They will qualify through WSL)

this is the hall of Karate "  the Nippon Budokan "
 

 
 

 
 
 

The president of NOC today officially send our aplication to the Tokyo Organizing committee via mail and by this officially confirmed our participation in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games
 

 
and look, look who was there, during the ceremony, and had a speech, no one else than Rory Sabbatini
 

 
also Takuya Haneda the most Slovakian of the Japanese
 

No idea. I just discovered this news on our Volleyball federation site. I don´t know anything else. Maybe it will be unveiled later, the tournament starts 18th September, there 2 quotas to be awarded for both finalists.

Natalia Dubovcová/Andrea Štrbová had to decline their participation in the World Olympic Qualification tournament in China scheduled next week due to health problems  Poland will receive their spot and replace them in the top 16 not already qualified countries pairs tournament

France winning this would be very unpleasant, go Argentina.
 
AUS-CZE 33-30 at half time.

France