El Analyzer

Two upsets for team (but not really surprises): Men 57 kg: Sigauque defeated Samghouli 3:2 Women 66 kg: I. Khelif defeated O. Belhabib 5:0 tough draw for Belhabib and Samghouli

Rejepov is suspended with doping offince, he will miss Paris 2024. and Alexey Churkin too

Based on Egyptian Boxing Federation facebook page: " IOC said it's unlikely to broadcast the quarter finals on Wednesday, but they will stream the finals only" who exactly said that or is he a reliable source? ..no idea !

correct, it's not on the schedule list but still showing the tournment link (I hope will be updated on time) 2023 Boxing Africa Qualifier for Paris 2024 - Dakar, Senegal (olympics.com)

many thanks, that's very helpful. do you know if they have live scoring or just PDF results sheet after each session?

Round of 32 and 16 still ongoing for all weight categories, no surprises from yesterday contests. today is the remaining of round of 16. tomorrow is off and the quarter final which will be broadcasted on IOC channel (I hope) will start on Wednesday. following up results is a nightmare, waiting each NOC to announce on their facebook page its athletes results !! ..and you can expect if he/she was defeated nothing posted

Portugal? Mediterranean ? ..personally I always think that Portugal belongs to Mediterranean culture and ethnic group so I am happy with that but geographically is not a Mediterranean country! also is a landlocked country both participated before but as a host city not being on Mediterranean is a bit strange!

hahaha ..it should show DNS at least the (D) is right .. Kata team and rowing team both failed to get visa on time and didn't fly to Greece

I'll go with your predictions as they are realistic (some different opinion regarding the order but not major) from yesterday results two surprises: W 60KG -Felestars defeated Nesrin Amine 3-2 M-71 Maina depeated Rabii by KO !!! Rabii is the bronze medalist from Rio and played profissional boxing afterwards! remaining results are expected

it means missed also qualifiation to 2025 world championship, huge disappointment for them. now has a great chance to top the african ranking if they claim gold in this edition

that was the case in Tokyo qualification and was disqualified.

that makes sense, my expectation is close to yours 49kg, 71kg and+87kg (but not dicounting 81kg). however, someone like Lui Shifang in 59 kg category, she has not great margin with Konotop from but she is solid and not easy to come close to her total lifts... anyway, good luck for your team and wish the best athletes to be slected

Legally you’re correct but with the new testing methods which can detect more substances I doubt those samples were actually clean.. but of course can’t change the rules 🤷‍♂️

The announcement said the sample she tested positive with is from Russia lab scandal in 2013 … but I believe retesting of her 2012 sample should carried out again (if physically possible)

Was amazing and magical feeling.. returning back from school to watch summary of the day (summary at 4 pm local time due to time difference) you may guess now that olympics.. at that time no internet no live broadcast except few events Presenter’s sound was like from under sea .. since then I became addicted 😍

May be a bit late but a quick introduction I am Ahmed Egyptian/ British.. really proud to be part of this community Mad about Olympics since I was 6 yrs (will let you guess which Olympics was that😜) thanks for the friendly atmosphere and looking forward to being a good team member

will have to choose three athletes only between 5 weight categories they are dominating in women competition... just wondering what would be their selection criteria

they can go with all (respecting athletes quota cap) ..of course difficult but theortically can do.

If that what they mean by bringing it "closer" to fans, I prefer to keep it far then

absolutely correct ..de coubertin got a medal in art competetion during 1912 olympics, it should cover different aspects (but under correct names and titles) should be a worldwide festival for all talents (but this is like a dream) ...again ..well said my friend

what you are saying is making absolute sense (from IOC point of view) specially second item for me as a normal olympic fan I would only watch golf if my brother is playing ...mmm ..actually I will give him a call after the event asking "how was it?"

weightlifting world championship african volleyball cup -men basketball world cup Euro 2024 qualifications (and FIFA week)

I have some thoughts but could be totally wrong: Team sports (which is my favourite sports outside the Olympics) are the most boring sports in the program Spending 90 min watching two teams trying to finish a game 0/0 or watching 7 sports in the same duration (I’d go for the latter) Why IOC not adding to each program a sport which could add to the medal tally of the small nations, It would be more fair imho to get (for example) on the medal table Karate is a repeat of similar Martial arts Olympic sports, would it be more fair to have 2 out of karate, Taekwondo and Judo each Olympics and keep rotating? Kickboxing can be added too Similar for squash why not rotating with badminton and table tennis Breaking is not a sport with all respect, otherwise Salsa and Tango should be included Boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon are part of Olympic heritage, can’t believe they could be excluded (but each of them needs to work on some internal issues) Golf at Olympics, I would be surprised to see between each 100 persons one is watching it at Olympics!

great analysis mate, but looks like you already dropped Squash from your list (or you can't find pros and cons ) I like your last comment about Breaking

I think she will, till now she is thebest african in 49 kg weight category, also she boosted her total by ~ 30 kg (now she has 170 kg total)