El Analyzer

Squash, Cricket and Lacross have a good setup but don't know if Flag Football (can't believe this name) and Baseball /Softball can compete at olympic level or too difficult!

Nice topic ..I'll go with potential surprise medals (not the most obvious ones) Sarah Chaari - Taekowndo -67 kg-W

Initially yes, but all the rumors expect to reinstate Boxing alongside with Weightlifting and even Modern Pentathlon has a great chance to remain in the program too, we will know for sure during the IOC session

This is my Weightlifting prediction, I don't think it fits within the day by day thread and don't want to disturb the good work done overthere, therefore decided to put them here: Weightlifting: M-61kg Fabin Li Theerapong Silachai Eko Yuli Irawan M-73 kg Shi Zhiyong (Unless china skipped this weight category) Rahmat Abdullah Weeraphon Wichuma Bozhidar Andreev M-89 kg Karlos Nasar Dayin Li /Tao Tian (Unless china skipped this weight category) Brayan Rodallegas Mir Mostafa Javadi M-102 kg Huanhua Liu Fares Elbakh Lesman Paredes M+102 kg Lasha Talakhadze Varazdat Lalayan Gor Minasyan In women category I’ll put a Chinese athlete in each category as the selection would be too tight W-49 kg Huihua Jiang Jordan Delacruz Mihaela Cambei Thanyathon / Surodchana (whoever selected) W-59 kg Shifang Luo Kamila Konotop Yenny Alvarez Maude Charron W-71 kg Guifang Liao Angie Palacios Loredana Toma Olivia Reeves W-81 kg Xiaomei Liang Sara Samir Tamara Salazar Solfrid Koanda (if played in this category) W+81 kg Wenwen Li Heyjeong Park Emily Campbell Duuangaksorn Chaidee

I know there is 1 qualification slot for Grand Prix, but is it the grand prix final winner or the grand prix top ranked athlete?

Twenty-eight sports included in youth-focused LA28 Initial Sports Programme - Olympic News (olympics.com) here you are, originally they were proposed as replacement for Weightlifting, Boxing and Modern Pentathlon, but if the three with the great heritage reinstated it doesn't mean they will drop surfing, climbing and skateboarding as they became part of the core program.

Climbing still there, I think it became a permanent sport. very nice one and fits in the olympic program in my opinion too.

Honestly speaking Breaking is not a bad sport.. it’s not my type but it claims a lot of attention from young generation specially atmosphere of the competition is very nice and adds amazing and attractive beauty to the event

I was surprised breaking got the first chance 😂

I think this is a good idea no surprise would happen between the awarding date and the new sports announcement date .. so why not it’s clear from day one and votes go to a host + sports

My take about this suggestions: - Baseball / Softball are popular in USA and all fields are ready to host and will attract a lot of audience - same with Lacrosse and Flag football but to a bit less extent - Cricket is very popular in Asia and economically a great choice with decent number of Fans worldwide - Squash is a great surprise.. very cheap to setup a court anywhere.. I guess it has been selected to balance the situation with some European countries like happy for & .. hope they claim few medals

Omar Abdelhady won the last quota in 25 Rapid Fire Pistol men (silver and bronze went to too)

waiting FIFA international week ..other than that ...waiting rumors from IOCbefore the next session

Tomorrow the rest of qualification and the final

Nour Abbas qualified to Paris in 25 m Pistol women event

very big surprise that Abdelaziz Mehelba (african no. 1) is out of the final with very bad results ..he is the older brother of Azmy Mehelba Skeet bronze medalist in this year WCH

some news from Moroccan sports pages claiming that Italian Karate Federation received a letter from WKF saying Karate is outside LA 2028 program.. I don’t know how genuine this letter is would appreciate any confirmation specifically from Italian friends

Gulraaj from is doing very well, is he originally from ? ..his name doesn't seem Kenyan for me

1-0 for you at that time I was in Aisa following Aisan games

The Pan American Games will provide direct qualification quotas for the following sports: Archery Artistic swimming Boxing Break dancing Climbing Diving Equestrian Handball Hockey Modern Pentathlon Sailing Shooting Surfing Table Tennis Water polo In addition to Athletics & Swimming which are direct qualifier if the athlete meet the standard cut Some other sports serves the qualification rankings but not direct qualifiers. Hope I didn’t miss something 😊

thanks Josh for clarifying that to me earlier, no more tournments for African nations, you were right mate ..I have got a confirmation from VOLLEYBALL FEDERATION

To answer the last question from experience with African sports federations: let’s say it .. if it happened we would be the first people said it… if not .. nobody is taking us seriously anyway 😜

You know how difficult to get correct information for any African event the announcement of african games was saying the volleyball is a qualifying event.. since it’s not a direct qualifier for sure that means it will be counted towards ranking (could be totally wrong though) for challenger cup it was counted towards ranking in 2023 do you know why not in 2024 (or it will be after the cut off date?) appreciate if you could clarify.. and thanks for your help

African games and challenger cup both will be counted towards the world ranking

What a comeback.. specially the 4th set but both teams are still far from competing in high level yet