JoshMartini007

Wonder if they'll get a couple more floor crossers to strengthen their majority.

Cricket is an "old boys club" more so than other sports. There are a lot of people in the organization that want to limit things to the 12 full members and make it hard for the other members to do anything.

At this point Brazil is the favourite to take the Olympic quota. They were unfortunate in their draws during the league stage. Based on their pre-suspended performances, Russia is a good team and Georgia has been on the edge of being decent. On a good day Canada can defeat Brazil, but we also have days where we lose to Ukraine, a team that loses to Malta on the regular. As for 2028, let's hope South Africa decides to compete. We could also take on China/Japan.

Meanwhile baseball already has and and could add to the tournament. Softball has an opportunity for and . If they can get MLB on board to send its best players, the sport will no doubt be a huge success.

Here's what the bracket for the Division 2 World Cup looks like. Top 2 (plus ) advance to the Super Final. (RUS) v v v v v v v v

Pretty much. I hope this is just a layover when the 10,500 athlete quota was for all sports, including the invitational ones. When cricket likely returns for 2032, I hope they expand it to 12 teams and have a real tournament. Yes, getting more involved at the Olympics is the big prize, but and are both in the top 10 in world population, yet currently do not care about the Olympics. It would be so easy for the IOC to get those nations invested in the games.

And that's why the event is going to ultimately fail. There is basically no money to be made there.

Darts is one of those sports where biological sex likely gives little to no advantage.

While this was reported earlier, I'm disappointed they are going with world rankings. I guess they don't want to risk India missing the Olympics.

The women's weights are okay given the distribution of competitors. The men's weights are definitely underweight. Adding 2-3kg in each event would make it more balanced.

World Rowing will select who gets the reallocated quotas. There's no set criteria.

Mexico won twice during the double round robin, but ended up losing in the final.

Basically, NOCs can attempt to qualify in additional events without gaining athlete quotas. For example, let's say a nation already qualified in the 4- and 4x, they can use the athletes they plan to send in those events and try to qualify in the 8+. That's where the extra coxswains will be used. If a nation intends to attempt to double-up they must let World Rowing know before the final qualifier regatta. There's a good chance the quotas may not be used and will have to be reallocated. Looking at 2024, only would have been eligible for the men while the women there's . With that said there's no guarantee they would have wanted to double-up their athletes. In reality we are more likely to see the reverse, nations who qualified in the 4x, 4-, or 8+ doubling-up athletes for the 1x, 2x, 2-.

Portugal wasn't really a top team until the late 90s, early 00s. Before 2002, they only qualified in 1966 and 1986 and their Euro Cup performance was similar

At this rate they are closer to being a baseball nation than football