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Like anyone in the Netherlands would cheer for '#TeamKingdomNL' instead of simply 'the Netherlands'  You know, in case anyone in the Netherlands cared.

You are the first person I met who wish an athlete to finish on 4th place

I didn't think I could like Evan any more, but here we are. He ain't afraid to speak his mind.

I didn't think I could like Evan any more, but here we are. He ain't afraid to speak his mind.

We’ll try to pick him up after Tokyo 

I wish more federations had this mindset: "But Quillota in the middle of December can’t be used as an Olympic qualifier, as it’s an addition to the FEI calendar and only established events are allowed to act as qualifiers, to avoid NOCs putting on extra events simply to push their own riders through."
 
3x3 is, like, the exact opposite of this.

Mongolia in basketball... Surprise, surprise...

What an absolute farce. Canada had won multiple tournaments in the womens event this season and cnanot compete in the qualification tournament. While countries like can compete. What a complete joke.

Canada not even having a chance to qualify for the women’s tournament is an absolute joke. The Canadian women have one of the best team on tour...

Canada not even having a chance to qualify for the women’s tournament is an absolute joke. The Canadian women have one of the best team on tour...

I was bored, here is what the top 10 would look like if we only used the top 4 players from each nation (I only looked at the top 1000 players).
 
Men
1.   Serbia - 6,234,720
2.   Latvia - 6,036,160
3.   United States - 4,971,879
4.   Slovenia - 4,555,680
5.   Lithuania - 4,475,760
6.   Canada - 4,006,120
7.   Netherlands - 3,964,080
8.   Russia - 3,162,320
9.   Mongolia - 2,714,920
10. Switzerland - 2,519,560
 
Women
1.   France - 2,176,360
2.   Canada - 1,549,480
3.   Russia - 1,438,010
4.   Italy - 1,393,680
5.   China - 1,389,720
6.   Spain - 1,361,900
7.   Netherlands - 1,264,200
8.   Poland - 1,150,100
9.   Japan - 1,121,503
10. United States - 1,012,950
 
Both genders only have one team (Serbia and Russia) which overlaps with the current ranking list. Additionally, the host quota would go to the women. For those curious, in the men's ranking China is ranked 12th while Japan is ranked 14th and in the women's rankings Romania is 13th while Mongolia is 17th.
 
I'm surprised how well Canada is doing, though I knew they were trying to send a quality team. Hopefully they will compete in the qualification tournament, though it will be hard to defeat the European teams.

List of participating teams for Olympic qualifiers in each continent
https://www.fivb.org/en/Volleyball/viewPressRelease.asp?No=89193&Language=en
 
 
Europe:

 
Africa:

 
Asia:

 
South America:

 
North America:

wait Canada scoring in hockey the winners in last second to broke opponents dreams ?... 2019 souvenirs, souvenirs...
 
 
 

 

 

What a match! It is very tough to see the Irish players at the end of the game. It might be one of the worst forms of losing an Olympics quota...

Holy. Shit. 

And Canada is going to Tokyo. What drama... gotta feel for the Irish, that was snatched from them at the last second twice.
 
Amazing results from the Canadian team though, despite not playing that well. Credit for never giving up.

I am sorry to the Irish fans, this is the worst way to lose.

Sure sounds like the ISU was offering unreasonable terms. Not being able to get the CBC on board is astonishing.

Congrats to Bahrain, they deserved it more than anybody else here. I don't like some of Bahrain teams (in other sports, specially football) but their handball team is great for such a small nation. Bahrain's population is smaller than the city I live !
 
Korea had the lead for something like 40-45 minutes but Bahrain finally took the lead and never gave it back to Korea. I hope they play good at the Olympics and don't make a joke of Asian Handball
 
and South Korea has no chance in the qualification tournament, if it was Qatar (or even Bahrain) yes maybe but Korea no way.

Now it's a matter of hoping the dude didn't make a mistake or misread something and made her really, really happy for nothing  

It's time for FIBA to just cancel the WR qualification and let 6 or 7 teams qualify from the QT depending on which host team gets the automatic quota. 

I don't care if it worked, 4 out of 8 teams are going to qualify for the Olympics (and the other teams coming from the OQTs also depending on ranking) through a ranking which is flawed, open to manipulation (like Mongolian schoolgirls playing each other) or plain cheating (who knows how many fake or irregular tournaments are included) and also not public anymore while they try to check and fix it. This is not funny anymore, it's a disgusting system, IOC should step in and force FIBA to organize a qualification tournament, or  use next year's World Cup as a qualification tournament.

I have no words.

Men's marathon
 
+1
 
Women's marathon 
+1 
 
 

@OlympicIRL Safe travels: