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Slovenia making the Olympics in 2014 was a shock, them making it twice in a row is just extraordinary. They did great in 2014, though, so it's nice to see them back.

Sad for Denmark, they have done really well over the last couple of quads yet they always come short from qualifying for the Olympics. At this point I really hope France and Latvia qualify. I wanted Denmark to make it from the other tournament so I don't have a real preference anymore.

Don't be silly, we don't want to remove the whole sport. We just want to get rid of the sprint

It's a subcontinent that accounts for a billion and a half people and who are severly underrepresented at the Olympics. It's a huge potential growth area for the IOC.

Cricket would add a lot of diversity since it's the most popular sport in India / Pakistan / Bangledesh / Afghanistan / Sri Lanka.

Archery: add mixed team event. Athletics: remove 50km walk. Badminton: add men's and women's team events. Have 64 player singles draws, 32 teams doubles draws and 16 team mixed doubles draw. Remove group stages. Baseball/Softball: remove. Boxing: add two women's weight classes. Cycling: add road team time trial, road criterium, track madisson, BMX time trial. Canoeing Slalom: remove men's C-2, replace it by women's C-1. Hold team events for all boats. Canoeing Sprint: men's and women's C-1 200, C-1 1000m, C-2 1000m, K-1 200, K-1 1000, K-1 10000, K-2 1000 and K-4 1000. Fencing: add two team events so we can stop the farce of the team event rotation. Golf: add a men's and women's team event (four person scramble over the first two rounds of the individual event) and a men's, women's and mixed pair matchplay event. Gymnastics: add men's and women's synchronized trampoline and tumbling. Judo: add men's and women's team event. Karate: remove kumite, add team kata. Modern Pentathlon: remove. Rowing: remove men's LW4-, add women's 4-. Sailing: have men's and women's sailboat, one person dinghy, two person dinghy, skiff, kitesurfing and multihull. Shooting: have men's and women's 50m pistol, 25m rapid fire pistol, 10m air riffle, 50m air riffle three position, trap, double trap and skeet. Skateboarding: add vert. Sports Climbing: change the name to climbing. Remove combined event, add speed, lead and bouldering events. Surfing: remove. Swimming: add men's 800m freestyle and women's 1500m freestyle. Synchronized Swimming: remove. Table tennis: add men's, women's and mixed doubles. Allow three per country in singles. Taekwondo: add two weight classes per gender. Tennis: add men's and women's team event. Triathlon: add mixed relay. Weightlifting: add an eighth women's weight class. Wrestling: remove Greco-Roman, add seventh freestyle weight class for both men and women. Squash: men's and women's singles and team.

Looks like we aren't losing our only ever weightlifting bronze medal for long

Seems insanely early this year...

This is getting ridiculous. They should just wait eight years before awarding the medals >.>

I believe women's canoeing is also likely to be introduced (looks like the C2 in slalom and the K2-200m and the C1-200m might be removed to make room) and that rowing is going to have seven men's events and seven women's event (the most sensible plan I've seen is to remove the men's lightweight four to replace it with the women's four). Golf, table tennis and archery also want mixed events.

Windsurfing is a completly different sport.

I can't believe I'm feeling bad for an "Azeri", but damn, Sotomayor got robbed. Ridiculous.

What a great performance full of promise for the future. This should be a great quadrennial

Passivity (running away, really) from the Mongolian.

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Sagan with a mechanical problem right after the tech zone. He's practically out. Also, thanks for taking out one of our guys Russia >.>

That was actually a really nice way to close out the conpetition xD

Eric Gillis finished tenth in the marathon. Not bad at all!

Really surprised to see women's field hockey get funding over, well, just about anything else.

This is incredibly damning: http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/topstories/canoe-kayak-canada-reeling-from-internal-strife-report-1.3729726

This is always a bittersweet time for me with the games comming to a close. I don't want it to end, but I need the extra sleep and to go back to my normal routine. It's exhausting xD Small day for Canada tommorow, I believe only Reid Coolsaet and Eric Gillis (Marathon), Léandre Bouchard and Raphaël Gagné (Mountain biking) and Haislan Garcia (Wrestling men's -65kg) are the only athletes on deck. Since none of them are expected to be serious medal contenders this is a good time to reflect on just how promissing this crop is going forwoard. The teams in athletics and swimming have improved so much this quad. It more than makes up for the dissapointments in rowing and canoeing (hopefully there will be improvements in these sports). It was also great to see former champions like Rosie MacLennan and Eric Lamaze back up their previous gold medals. I can live with less bronze medals next time though.

There has been a lot of talk about poor or inpolite crowds in Brazil, but the crowd at taekwondo was very good today, chanting for Niger and Nepal.

I'd be okay with adding Lacross, let Canada defend it's two titles!

Lagat got a medal O.o

This women's high jump level was at a very low level. Nice to see Vlasic with another medal.