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It still didn't work and lead to a bunch of baffling decisions. Landing the greatest number of punches is also fundamentally not what Boxing as a sport is about.

This is going to be an extremely short thread.

The NBA is on hold indefinitely.

I feel like there is a pretty big asterisk next to that win...

Because those rules are set by the individual sport federations, not the IOC.

Depending on the draw Zhang and Wang actually have a decent shot at matching Canada's best ever result in Table Tennis (Wenguan Johnny Huang's fifth place finish in men's singles in 1996).

Rounds 2 and 3 were one-sided. Either way, it makes no sense for one judge to give round 1 10-8 one way and for another judge to give it 9-10 the other way.

One judge had it 30-24, another 29-28 xD

"I guess this will be a 10-7 across the board for Kumar" in reaction to Kumar actually winning the second round.

On one judge's card, Kumar won a round 10-8 over Muskita (another judge gave the round 10-9 to Muskita). The commentators are so outraged they are wondering aloud if Kumar's brother is scoring the bout.

They can come and get it.

Oh ya, Hayden is out of retirement isn't he?

Eugene Wang qualified for his third Olympics.

It’s what happens when people forget that Central America and the Caribbeans are part of North America.

Mo Zhang has qualified for her fourth Olympics.

I kind of hope Hazin and Huang win their singles matches, since that way Canada could send four players to Tokyo assuming Wang and Zhang win their mixed doubles match tomorrow.

Insidethegames is reporting that the IOC will be inviting athletes outside of per sport/even quotas and outside the tripartite process to ensure every country has at least one male and one female competitor.

I know they aren't eligible because they already qualified a female athlete, but they should just be given a wildcard in men's archery.

Saeid Mollaei, who we just discussed above, will be competing for Mongolia at the Olympics. His change of sporting nationality has been accepted by the IOC.

I only watched a couple fights, but from what I've seen I agree.

Dick Pound is actually basically the only trustworthy IOC member.

I registered on my way out of the citizenship ceremony. There was a voter registration booth. I actually got a voter card that was valid from the last week of November 2019 to the end of 2019 (since Texas registration cards are always valid for a two year cycle), which is kind of amusing since there was literally no election of any kind anywhere in the state during that time. I got my voter registration card for 2020-2021 in the mail without having to do anything. Texas has an open primary (but you can only vote in one party's primary for any given cycle). The only complication there is that for all offices other than the presidency there is the potential for a primary runoff in May, which will almost certainly include the US Senate race on the Democratic side.

I get to vote in my very first US election next month (all the primaries in Texas are on March 3rd, not just the one for president). We'll see how voting machines compare to the good old paper ballots they use in Canada. The biggest difference, though, is the huge number of elections going on. I have to figure out who to vote for in the US senate primary, the state house primary, the board of education primary, the railway commission primary (despite it's name, the Texas Railroad commission has absolutely nothing to do with railways but rather deal with regulating the oil and gas industry) and various judicial primaries. No US House primary (my district has a Democratic incumbent who is running unopposed in the primaries) or state senate primary (my state senator got elected to a four year term during the midterms - in Texas during the midterms half the senators get elected to two year terms and the other half to four year terms, determined by lottery).

This will look so bad if an athlete has a major injury this week-end.

I think it’s laudable (and overdue) for the IOC to go on a gender equality kick, but I really fail to see how having a mixed relay accomplishes this better than by having a men’s relay and a women’s relay. I think that their obsession with mixed events kind of misses the point, though I do like them being introduced in sports that would likely otherwise never get a team event (like triathlon, luge or figure skating) or in sports where mixed events really do have a different dynamic than their gendered equivalent (curling, the racket sports). But when it comes to sports that already have gendered team events, they feel redundant. I don’t think anyone was really clamoring for a 4th event for 100m freestyle specialists. I don’t really mind them as long as they don’t take the place of the existing gendered team events, though I think their addition in swimming and track are wildly excessive (if the IOC really wanted mixed events in those sports they should have done the mixed relays in open water swimming and race walking). Oh, and the judo mixed team event under the current format is a giant joke.