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Stano injured after stepping on a bottle thrown by someone else, so goodbye to the 2nd team for Italy, and maybe 2 big Olympic medal chances, individual and relay, already gone.

Stano injured after stepping on a bottle thrown by someone else, so goodbye to the 2nd team for Italy, and maybe 2 big Olympic medal chances, individual and relay, already gone.

July Ranking. After the zonal championships.

https://twitter.com/ge_aldrig_upp/status/1781646848865767884

some guys named Tilli and  Di Bella,well Italian of course,i don't know which channel,i saw a post on twitter from an Italian stating this.

Oh my god. I don't know if this is related but it'd be a huge coincidence if they aren't given they're both reported on the same day.
 
 
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/olympics/bombshell-more-than-20-chinese-swimmers-allowed-to-swim-at-the-tokyo-olympic-games-due-to-contamination-of-a-positive-drug-tests-prior/news-story/8dd18a84a9cd21f426016d81f9f4d724

don't know, you need to contact them 

they clearly named it like that to get media attention...it's not even an "Olympic qualification championship" but it sounds better than "event similar to a world cup with Olympic quotas at stake" .

I can not stop laughing. This just made my day
 
 

Maybe Liverpool is too big for European League especially with their current form  hopefully they can win all titles this season 

This 59 years old federation president from  competing? Nice. 3 points per arrow average so far.

She's been living in Italy for years (at least 7 when EU citizens only need 4 consecutive years of residency) + married and had a daughter with an Italian (which should cut in half the waiting period), I'd be surprised if she didn't already go through  all the paperwork. Especially considering that her instagram post suggests she also need it for her post-judo life.
 
This nationality switch is way more authentic than all those fake refugees, if the Dutch federation has accepted to waive the waiting period I see no problem.

All these complaints but what if next time Italy/France etc. fails to qualify a team and the 2nd Italian/French fencer takes the spot from the 1st Greek or similar...in the above mentioned case for Rio 2016, a Swiss won the European QT, if the 2nd Italian, Navarria, had been allowed to take part there's a good chance she would have taken the spot. i bet that then that fencer would complain that the system hurts smaller fencing nations.
 
Fencers and NFs knew that similar cases of top fencers missing the Games have happened and could have happened again, but noone in the last years made a reasonable proposal to change the qualification system- the only one that gained some support by other smaller countries was Sweden with their idiotic proposal of limiting team competition to 4 teams and individual competition to 1 fencer per NOC (and even the IOC said that proposal was shitty). In that case, a lot more of cases like the one of Georgiadou would happen. A small curiosity: the FIE Interim President and head of the working group in charge of proposing changes to the Olympic qualification system is Greek.

No way. It's clearly stated that unused tripartite quotas go to the highest ranked eligible fencers.

I'm sad for her but the post is giving sore loser. And she knew about the qualification process years in advanced, nothing is new.

With Arnautovic up front they would have probably scored 2 goals instead of 6.

After yet another Olympic cycle, where we couldn't get an athlete quota in this sport, the reserve plan has been activated.
 
The first ever woman Olympic medalist for  Kimia Alizadeh is going to get a Bulgarian passport in the coming days. The quota she earned at the European Qualifier as an EOR will be changed to a Bulgarian one and we will have our first ever "official" participation in taekwondo.  
 
 

I forgot Kuwait already got a quota. I was thinking men's sabre for them.
 
There's no participation requirements for tripartite athletes in fencing. In other sports, I've seen nations which did not participate at all get tripartite quotas.

M sabre: 

+ Bazadze, Szabo, Ferjani, Yoshida, Alshamlan, Di Tella
 

M sabre: 

+ Bazadze, Szabo, Ferjani, Yoshida, Alshamlan, Di Tella
 

M sabre: 

+ Bazadze, Szabo, Ferjani, Yoshida, Alshamlan, Di Tella
 

Should be over for epee. Qualified:
 
W epee

+ Kong, Kun, Moellhausen, Differt, Ndolo, Yoshimura
 
 
 
M epee

+ Freilich, Wang, Loyola Rodriguez, Kim Jaewon, Elkord
 

Definitely qualified.

Loyola tied Beran in the Olympic ranking at 76 points but Beran is ahead beacause he has a win. So Loyola has to hope for a  team qualification tomorrow in order to grab the 2nd European individual quota.
 
 

Loyola tied Beran in the Olympic ranking at 76 points but Beran is ahead beacause he has a win. So Loyola has to hope for a  team qualification tomorrow in order to grab the 2nd European individual quota.