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Romania- Hungary 2-1If the Italians don`t advance at home this year this team will probably have to be disbanded.

I thought Garozzo didn't make Italy's squad for the Olympics because his ranking was too low: 5th place. In your opinion, who will be the 4th person among the girls: Batini or Palumbo?

Yesterday, Italy's exhausting victory over Japan and today a key match against Slovenia. Honestly, neither Ita, Hun nor Slo make a very good impression here. The future star of Italian hockey - 19-year-old goalkeeper Damian Clara didn`t play well yesterday.

I think it's a metaphor: his heart is broken because he wasn't named to the Olympic team. I understand that. In Fie ranking he is the 5th Italian and apparently the decision was made not to join the team as a reserve. The decision is a bit strange but I trust Cerioni.

The general tendency is that the IOC reduces the number of quotas + introduces some additional preferences for weaker continents and countries. The result is that there are disciplines in which it is more difficult for a European country to qualify for the Olympics than to win a medal. To me this is absurd. I understand the promotion of sports around the world, but then let's just increase the number of quotas in most sports and, for example, throw out weird things like break dancing, surfing, etc.

Look at rowing... During the European Championships, special qualifying regattas are organized for European countries that have won less than 2 qualifications in total at the World Championships. Moreover, in the same place. As if it wasn't possible to simply make an open European Championship and distribute the quotas to the best crews who havn`t yet qualified. In my opinion, the IOC and their stupid rules are to blame because these absurdities apply to virtually every sports federation.

Nothing can beat the stupid qualification rules in sailing anyway... Yesterday, the Italian crew in 49 became the victims. And all this because of constant fiddling with continental quotas and inventing some strange preferences based on unclear rules.

I wonder if in Lucerna will finally start the golden team from Tokyo: Rodini-Cesarini or the one from there: Rodini-Corsio? As of today, two qualifications should be fought: GRE, ITA, FRA (they haven't competed yet this year but they will definitely be dangerous). For now, Greece is slightly ahead of Italy (the finally composition of the crew is still an open question). If Rodini and Cesarini can qualifying for the Olympics, that will be a great success for us. Defending gold or even winning bronze remains a dream.

Our top judokas are apparently planning to take part in the World Championships to can 100% seeding in Paris, which is rather certain in the case of Scutto, Bellandi, Lombardo and Parlati. The exception is Giuffrida, who may prefer to start in the European Championship and focus only on the Olympics. She is an experienced competitor and you can trust that she knows her body and has a good plan. The rest of our team - the potentially worse part of it - made good use of these competitions: - Manzi/Piras basically agreed the amount for Italy, it's just a matter of which one for them, - Antonio Esposito took 5th place today and promotion to the Olympics is already certain for him. The only thing I have doubts about is Toniolo and Tavano, who would have 100% chance of getting a ticket to Paris if they had taken the points here. The same goes for Polling but perhaps it's too early for her debut in NT. She definitely must start in some big tournament before the Olympics: Slam/World Championships, because currently her advancement is not certain yet.

Good news: https://www.sportnews.bz/artikel/eishockey/internationale-ligen/nationalteams/der-star-ist-im-anmarsch-damian-clara-kommt-zur-wm

Have you had such cases in the past?

Does this apply to women and men in 49? For me, it would be total stupid to send a total of 5 teams (3 male) to the qualifications and not accept the quota. Personally, I don't wish this on them, because what's the point of doing sports and training if you can't go to the Olympics?

Where does this information come from? https://www.instagram.com/p/C6MK1jPtReE/ "However it is still unsure wether Germany will send any team to @paris2024 🥂 still a very big achievement from there guys, so congratulations!". Maybe this?

Why would they not accept the quota if they sent as many as 3 German crews to the Olympic qualifications regatta? That would be idiocy on their part. Can you give a link to this information?

My understanding is that if Africa didn`t use its quota, so it`s place should go to the last qualifying regatta. I didn't expect this promotion after the previous days but that makes it even worse for me. I would rather take last place today if Hong Hong won, then I would know that we were simply weaker.

Don't worry, Spain will have more than us this year I mean that I was happy twice and I was cheated twice after some time. Just enough. They could have written yesterday that Hong Kong had already secured promotion, so I wouldn't have expected it.

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I only know that in April they took away two qualifications from us: Chamizo in wrestling due to Azerbaijan's corruption and now in sailing because the federation came up with some stupid rules. And this whole circus is invented by the IOC in every discipline.

t makes me laugh about these special countries. There were qualifiers in Asia and Hong Kong could have won there. Two, Hong Kong already has 2 qualifications in the remaining classes. I feel cheated and I'm very sorry that once again someone took away our promotion.

I don't understand why Hong Kong should get some special status when he has 2 other qualifications in different classes? There were Asian qualifications and China advanced there. I don't understand why Europe should be discriminated again and again? Nobody can`t Hong Kong from winning against China in Asia. For me, the Olympics are getting more and more ridiculous. Only money and deals count.

For me he should have gotten a better QO. The Italians were 1 point better. Hong Kong is not an emerging country because it has obtained 2 other qualifications. This federation is ridiculous because it can`t establish clear qualification rules. They are turning it into one big circus with some quotas for continents, some specially treated nations, etc. It's just strange that Italy is always harmed: Chamizo, sailing, rowing, etc.

Yes, 4.

But after what suffering :P We can thank to Hong Kong for doing so well in the last race :P Is`t possible to see a video of this race somewhere?

Thank you I'll wait for the official results, because with such a small difference there may be some changes but the result surprised me. I didn't even know the racing was so early today.

Little chance for Italy. They must be 4 positions higher than Hong Kong in a situation where the entire top team will no longer fight for anything. The Italian crews failed at the most important start of the season. Most of the season they swam at the level of Germany but here they definitely lowered their level. This means they will watch the games at home.