LDOG

Both in Iran and Afghanistan in 70s Muslims were the much bigger numbers of population , the only things have changed are regimes which enforced wearing hijab over their people which's totally against Islam , Allah told his prophet Mohamed in Quran in Surat el Nahl : Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided. So  those regimes with all due respect used Islam for enforcing their ideas over their people , it doesn't make the problem in Islam , and btw the Islamic world map and regimes changed for ever cuz of US and USSR conflicts , they wanted to replace stable kingdoms with republics where their presidents are much loyal for them 

What an interesting contest, we have to guess what the producers and script writers of WWE have in mind.

I had cut/reduced the size of photos
 
 
@Dolby  i forgot the name of this one
 
 
the monkeys steal your items
 
 
the twin towers
 
 
 
 
the castle of Ssultan "the king" , the Yellow flag means he is into the castle

 
 
 
the @hckosice's Bridge
 
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@heywoodu
 
 

The u20 championship of next year won't be the qualification event for conmebol. A special u23 competition to be played in Colombia in 2020 will award the quotas for OG.

As for team sports, only for Field Hockey because it's an olympic qualification event. Same for the other 3 individual sports which are qualifying events (archery, sailing and tennis). And a few other sports which could have lots of posts, to avoid having them all in the main thread. I have thought about Athletics and Swimming (big sports), Badminton and Wrestling (very high level).
 
If there won't be many comments it will be very easy and quick to merge the thread in that sport's discussion thread at the end of the Asian Games. And vice versa, if many comments in the main thread will be about one single sport, we can split the posts into a separate thread.

Is there any point in having two different discussion threads for each team sport in multi-sport events that aren't the olympics?
 
I mean, how many posts you will see about women's or men's [insert team sport] at the asian games? 

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"I'm gonna prepare my own prediction contest with black jack and hookers!" 

Yes! Finally after eons I win a medal again 
 
(Since Rio 2016 actually, with an unofficial Australian open gold in the middle)

Option z - stop caring about general standings.
 
 
Come on wanderer, count those sailing points 

I love OG in Asia because I love watching events at 4am for personal life reasons it will be more difficult for me to follow 2020 than it was in 2008 but still, i will enjoy those nights falling asleep in the sofa with a rowing race on tv.

Subscribe entirely to this mediterranean athletes last longer at the top. Same with Belmonte.

A bit late but, hey @Wanderer the laser sailor from Australia is called Tom Burton. Tim Burton is a film director 

No.
 
Because corruption is way too deep into AIBA.
Because the results aren't serious 50% of the time.
Because the best boxers don't compete at the olympics and I don't like that in any sport (men's football, Baseball, etc).

What? not really, it was all determined by ranking and serpentine system: pool A: (1st, 8th, 9th & 16th), B: (2,7,10, 15), C: (3, 6, 11, 14), D: (4, 5, 12, 13)
 
The semifinal was supposed to be England-Argentina (2v3), it's just that both teams (and New Zealand too) failed to perform.

I would never call anyone "big favorite for gold" in shooting. 

Riner looks closer to lose every year. He should have lost in semis last wch but referee helped him.
 
Yes, I know it sounds silly but it's the truth.

I would never call anyone "big favorite for gold" in shooting. 

Tokyo Qualification Events have already begun and this year we have many of them.

Earlier we had a thread about Early Team Sports Qualification Predictions, but now with little less than two years to the beginning of the Games, it's time to open thread for official qualification predictions.
 
 

Here is a Template you can follow for a detailed prediction by Sport.

Copy, paste and edit the text inside the brackets.
 
 
Archery: add your text/number here

Artistic Swimming: add your text/number here

Athletics: add your text/number here

Badminton: add your text/number here

Baseball: add your text/number here

Basketball: add your text/number here

Beach Volleyball: add your text/number here

Boxing: add your text/number here

Canoeing - Slalom: add your text/number here

Canoeing - Sprint: add your text/number here

Cycling - BMX: add your text/number here

Cycling - Mountain Bike: add your text/number here

Cycling - Road: add your text/number here

Cycling - Track: add your text/number here

Diving: add your text/number here

Equestrian: add your text/number here

Fencing: add your text/number here

Field Hockey: add your text/number here

Football: add your text/number here

Golf: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Artistic: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Rhythmic: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Trampoline: add your text/number here

Handball: add your text/number here

Judo: add your text/number here

Karate: add your text/number here

Modern Pentathlon: add your text/number here

Rowing: add your text/number here

Rugby Sevens: add your text/number here

Sailing: add your text/number here

Shooting: add your text/number here

Skateboarding: add your text/number here

Softball: add your text/number here

Sport Climbing: add your text/number here

Surfing: add your text/number here

Swimming: add your text/number here

Table Tennis: add your text/number here

Taekwondo: add your text/number here

Tennis: add your text/number here

Triathlon: add your text/number here

Volleyball: add your text/number here

Water Polo: add your text/number here

Weightlifting: add your text/number here

Wrestling: add your text/number here


Total Sports: add your text/number here

Optimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Realistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Pessimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Tokyo Qualification Events have already begun and this year we have many of them.

Earlier we had a thread about Early Team Sports Qualification Predictions, but now with little less than two years to the beginning of the Games, it's time to open thread for official qualification predictions.
 
 

Here is a Template you can follow for a detailed prediction by Sport.

Copy, paste and edit the text inside the brackets.
 
 
Archery: add your text/number here

Artistic Swimming: add your text/number here

Athletics: add your text/number here

Badminton: add your text/number here

Baseball: add your text/number here

Basketball: add your text/number here

Beach Volleyball: add your text/number here

Boxing: add your text/number here

Canoeing - Slalom: add your text/number here

Canoeing - Sprint: add your text/number here

Cycling - BMX: add your text/number here

Cycling - Mountain Bike: add your text/number here

Cycling - Road: add your text/number here

Cycling - Track: add your text/number here

Diving: add your text/number here

Equestrian: add your text/number here

Fencing: add your text/number here

Field Hockey: add your text/number here

Football: add your text/number here

Golf: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Artistic: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Rhythmic: add your text/number here

Gymnastics - Trampoline: add your text/number here

Handball: add your text/number here

Judo: add your text/number here

Karate: add your text/number here

Modern Pentathlon: add your text/number here

Rowing: add your text/number here

Rugby Sevens: add your text/number here

Sailing: add your text/number here

Shooting: add your text/number here

Skateboarding: add your text/number here

Softball: add your text/number here

Sport Climbing: add your text/number here

Surfing: add your text/number here

Swimming: add your text/number here

Table Tennis: add your text/number here

Taekwondo: add your text/number here

Tennis: add your text/number here

Triathlon: add your text/number here

Volleyball: add your text/number here

Water Polo: add your text/number here

Weightlifting: add your text/number here

Wrestling: add your text/number here


Total Sports: add your text/number here

Optimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Realistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Pessimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

Happy belated birthday @LDOG still hope you had a great day

You forget that also in those games India lost 6-0 the bronze medal match to England...

Serbian PM left and Croatian couch right 
 
Plus Croatian President after Croatia won  England in semi final