LDOG

Good final push with 7 golds today but not enough.

It's mostly because they will win everything in skating (8 medals with no serious competition in this continent...) and because of one boy that won everything in gymnastics except the rings (7 golds lol). Other than that it's not really an impressive performance from them.

Rulli gifted 3,5 of the 5 goals to Liverpool. Terrible keeper.

I believe it's because there was a big shift between kids that already finished and those that compete this week. The lodging in these games is limited (there's nothing like an athletes village, I think they are in hotels). Understand, all this is being organized with pennies.

Boys rugby final 53-0 Other than the girl gymnastics it's a discreet home performance so far.

Spain is disqualified (for the second consecutive time) due to fielding an ineligible naturalized player. Romania qualifies in their place and Portugal goes to the Intercontinental repechage.

Me too, mistook Uruguay for Brazil.

The plays that Algerians complain about were basically 50/50s so probably nothing will come out of it unless they can prove that the ref took bribes or something like that.

Dayron Robles is cuban, not canadian.

WA, FINA, FIFA radio silence

won a world series stage after 13 years by defeating Fiji in the Vancouver final. Amazing season so far for the boys with one gold, one silver, three bronzes and just a 5th place as worst result.

Around 150 athletes. Right now our delegation would only compete for top places in a few team sports and nothing else. But, that projection could improve after I see the results of a few individual World Championships this year.

What a waste of money to send a team to this. I hope they enjoy the city landmarks at least.

You mean publicly? Easy to do when you don't have to go back to Russia.

Rugby 7 M Rugby 7 W Basketball M Basketball W

I'll do only for the ones that released qualification procedures. I'll also assume Russia will be still banned. Volleyball M Volleyball W Handball M Handball W Hockey M Hockey W

The document already says both teams are qualified due to satisfying the condition of being top 25 ranked.

A few (just MP and Hockey) more documents have been uploaded. From the team sports, only Hockey. For both genders it'll be: Host nation + 5 continental champions (Eurohockey, African and Oceania cups, Asian and Pan American Games) + 6 quotas from olympic qualifier tournaments (2 tournaments of 8 teams, best 16 ranked not-yet-qualified teams will play them, top 3 in each tournament will qualify).

Zero doubts this system was planned with the sole purpose of preventing a weak south american team from qualifying in either gender

If the ban is just to "prevent internal propaganda" then yeah, i'm not for sporting sanctions. We're overestimating the importance of sport. It's not gonna be a deterrent for a tyranic government. As proven by North Korea or Cuba they can even tank massive economic sanctions for decades without giving a damn (and Russia is much bigger/self-sufficent), why would a ban from something as trivial as sport achieve any better results? It'll only affect the athletes themselves at the end of the day. Now, I think a better argument than the one about internal propaganda was the one dcro brought up, that ukranians cannot compete in equal conditions. Yet, if we want to be fully coherent with this criteria a good bunch of countries should also be banned for leaving others in "non competitive conditions" (Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc). I'm not necessarilly against banning Russia if we are fully coherent with this...

In a dictatorship you can be jailed or get blacklisted and never be able to find a job again for simple disent to an order like that, it's not comparable to getting fired by a company or from a state job in a democratic country. Btw systematic (and mandatory) state-sponsored doping has also been characteristic of dictatorships historically. In a democratic country if someone (eg. The coach) attempts to force an athlete to dope, the latter can always denounce the situation while having some degree of expectation that justice will be done. And I believe "publicizing the army" if you mean in an open way is on the border of breaking the regulations regarding political manifestation that many international sport competitions have. In theory shouldn't be allowed per se independent of this situation.

1) in a dictatorship everyone is a hostage, we can never be certain about the motivation of those athletes to appear at rallies. Maybe they genuinely support Putin, maybe they were told "come or you'll be homeless by tomorrow morning". Who knows. 2) a military athlete that is busy competing elsewhere is one that isn't in the battlefield. Isn't that good?

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I don't think they are too aged other than Modric. Good replacements have appeared, just not in the striker position. It's not so much that I think Croatia has gotten worse but more that Canada is genuinely good and well oiled.