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Genuinely what does that even mean?

Kind of crazy all the drama around athletes given how few of them there will be in the end.

Baseball is indeed the most popular sport in Puerto Rico.

Commiserations with , best fans in the sport.

should worry a little bit, we all remember what happened the last time was at the Olympics, and in the same group as the USA.

That should be a fun matchup

Oh these past two years definitively felt like a decade for me xD

Good think it's going to be a coalition government then :P

Like this feels like a pretty good result for Macron. The RN was polling first, they finished third.

Based on what? He’s going to have an opposition PM that is propped up by his own party, so what? He’ll be able to govern for the rest of his term and his successor gets to blame all the problems on the left, it’s not that bad of a situation.

Did I miss Macron announcing his resignation?

The big question I have is why the women’s C-2 (and C-1) events weren’t fully developed in the 90s or early 2000s? The men’s C-1 and C-2 were inevitably going to disappear from the Olympics without a women’s counterpart, this was a really predictable consequence, and I honestly don’t understand why more wasn’t done to safeguard the C-2 event from this fate. Is it just incompetence on the ICF’s part? They suffered more from the gender equality push than any other federation except maybe the UWW, and they seemed to completely inexplicably take the longest to create more opportunities for female athletes. Like I really do not understand why canoeing, of all sports, was among the most complacent when it comes to gender equality concerns.

The C-2 event is a casualty of the fact the ICF didn’t bother to start developing women’s canoeing in the 90s or earlier. The sports that waited the longest to develop more women’s participation are the ones that got hit the hardest when gender equality became a bigger concern, and that’s not really a coincidence. I genuinely don’t think there is any way the ICF could have kept the men’s C-2 in Tokyo short of already having a women’s C-2 event developed.

The only athletes I'll really be rooting against are the ones that have known or highly suspected violent, sexual or domestic crimes or doping violations.

This is about what I want, not about what is possible :P

I think my biggest non-Canadian wishlist item is for to win a gold medal in table tennis. Beyond that: and in field hockey Nadeem in the men's javelin Wiffen in swimming Literally everyone who plays against Zverev in tennis Routliffe and Sun in the women's doubles in tennis Ondra in climbing The Alexandri sisters in the women's duet in artistic swimming McIlroy in golf Yulo in gymnastics Nemour in gymnastics And any athlete from a country that has never won a gold medal.

Don't give the IOC any idea, soon they will only allow eight athletes per event

Vite, allons tous chier dans la Seine!

There's almost no such thing as tourists that can qualify to the Olympics anymore. Skiing is the only sport I can think of where mediocre athletes from a big country can still qualify, outside of a few edge cases for some continental quotas. Someone is always going to finish last, but when only 45 athletes can qualify in the 1500m you're a pretty dang good athlete even if you get the last ranking spot. I think in this era where there are very tight qualification standards it doesn't make a lot of sense to have internal standards that are harder than the official qualification standard (outside of continental quotas, some of whom do in fact go to athletes that are genuinely not competitive)

Some extremely different reactions to Cavendish's win I see xD

I'd say the closest thing to a gold medal lock Canada has is McIntosh in the 400m IM, but I hesitate to call McIntosh a shoe-in in any race.

There could be additional athletes added on July 7th

5pm ET

In either case, very happy Tsimanouskaya qualified, and hopefully she will have a much, much better Olympic experience than in Tokyo...

women's table tennis team men's table tennis team women's basketball team women's gymnastics team