LDOG

18 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

ah yes well I didn't understand the question! I thought it was personal desires

You understood well, it's just that the title is ambiguous: it says "you will add if your country hosts" (which could be interpreted as if you were personally in charge of the decision) when I think the intention was to say "what sports do you think your country would add if they were to host".

I would add nothing but the imaginary organizing committee would try to get water ski, polo or pelota in.

23 hours ago, Henry_Leon said:

Can you share the link in first page?

Thanks

☝️please olympian.

 wins in the last play. Crazy.  

Fiji still advances.  

Fiji can qualify even losing by 6 points to Portugal. 

They scored a try to equalize just now but they were losing by 7 lol

5 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

Brazil qualified?

Is it too much work for you to read the previous page?

Renan quédate 

On 9/29/2023 at 4:22 PM, LDOG said:

Some random predictions: 

  

- Brazil will lose to at least one of GER, IRI and CUB (but probably still qualify). 

 

- Turkey will beat at least one of JPN, SLO or SER. 

 

- China won't win more than one match.

☝️

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

There isn’t much government funding for athletes in the US, so I guess we already solved that problem 

Obviously I meant countries that have no private sector to rely on for funding sport. Basically most countries in the continent. 

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

NOCs really don't want quotas this cycle 

 

I wonder how much of it has with this being at the start of the offseason for many athletes? Plus, the very saturated multi-sports games calendar this year...

 

Edit: I would be quite sad for the girls. I thought they looked good (relative to the region) at the CAC Games. They aren't a team that will challenge for the podium, but they aren't going to embarrass their nation either.

Post-covid world governments finally realizing that using taxpayer money to fund the 30th best athlete in the americas is pointless. Was about time. 

Ok Mexico, you have one simple job now (?)

Italy and Cuba are currently tied in wins, points and set ratio.

If Italy beats Brazil, Cuba can grab the quota if they beat Iran with a better score (eg. ITA wins 3-1, CUB needs to win 3-0).  

If they win by the same score, Italy will probably qualify because their points ratio is much better.

If Brazil wins none of the above matters and Brazil qualifies.

I'll put it very simply:  

The loser of Brazil v Italy, Argentina and Slovenia are 99,99% qualified by ranking. 

Then other place for Egypt or Tunisia.  

And the final place is going to be for Serbia (most likely) or Cuba/Canada/Netherlands/Iran (low chance).

13 minutes ago, FireRun said:

Rankings come into play after June 2024. A lot of games until then (whole nations league). There's only 5 open spots. 1 will go to Africa, 1 will go to Italy/Brazil as they are far too ahead in the rankings, which leaves only 3 empty spots. If they allow Russia back that will likely take one more spot as their ranking is frozen. I dunno if Oceania gets 1 spot, but they could take one as well. Which leaves only 1 empty spot and considering how tight rankings are around us, I don't see us taking it. 

There's no Oceania in volley. Slovenia has an enormous difference over Serbia who are next in ranking. Only a shockingly terrible VNL performance would prevent them from qualifying.

Will play OQT.

If only Poland wouldn't have dropped a point to both these teams we'd still have a realistic chance. 

But Poland's coach probably assumed they were not tough opposition beforehand... oh well.

Just now, orangeman said:

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD SERVE A FUCKING BALL

Now you know the feeling. 

1 hour ago, George_D said:

will you make separate thread for Panam games?

Si. 

Bronze medal match

 2-1

Gold medal match

 5-1

will play OQTs.

I wonder if  will play it given they were chosen as host of one. Probably not, they have been happy to host hockey tournaments in which they don't participate recently.

Leon made all the difference. Without his serves in key moments Poland doesn't win today.   

He rests out with Canada but plays today. 

The men's volleyball roster is stronger than I expected, I think they are favorite for gold now.

Here's our song:

33 minutes ago, hckošice said:

and by the way, why exactly Paraguay ?

 

I keep thinking about it and I can nott find a single reason why. It is like someone threw a blind dart at the map and hit somewhere next to Asuncion

Because Conmebol HQ is in Paraguay and its president is almost always a paraguayan. They have a lot of political power. It's pretty telling that Chile doesn't get any game despite they were in the south american bid too.