JoshMartini007

Congrats to Iran

It might come down to who can stay up

Excited for Olympic qualification events to get started after a month break. Can't wait to start blogging again

5 days while possible is pretty intense for weightlifting, a 7 day program is more realistic. Not sure why they need 10 days. A lot of the sports using "generic indoor venues" are already doubling up and to squeeze a third sport is quite difficult. Still, looking at the venues for Rio and Tokyo you could easily knock off 2 stadiums. I don't think a third week will increase operational costs that much, especially when you consider that it would decrease the number of stadiums needed.

Timing becomes a bit of an issue. Extending the Olympics to a third week would help quite a bit

Overall 3 medals in swimming for Canada.

For a second I thought this was high jump.

I think a second boat can compete at the Olympics, but the athlete has to qualify in a different event. I asked the ICF for clarification.

Sprint canoeing is always so complicated (especially reallocation) and they rarely tell us who is qualified. So it looks like a nation will be able to compete with two boats in the same event. Australia/New Zealand will need at least one (or two if they other qualified) other Oceania nations to compete in order to gain continental quotas.

The squads are made based on the ranking from the individual events

Great 200m back. Silver for Canada

US only sends top athletes to sports that actually attempt to have top talent.

To be fair badminton is non-existent in Argentina. Still, good for Laos on getting a win.

If I had my way I'd completely separate all events that award medals. In gymnastics' case, a separate team all-around, individual all-around and apparatus qualification round. That may be asking a lot though...

The Youth Olympics encourages nations to use existing venues. Overall it looks good.

Yeah cycling has been pretty terrible in terms of Youth Olympics since 2010. There's no need for combined/mixed events. They can easily have boys and girls events. 16 for BMX (plus the 9 for freestyle), 16 for mountain bike and 24 for road, it's not that difficult

If there is one place where a referendum on the Olympics can pass it would be Canada. If it fails here the IOC pretty much needs to change its stance on the type of control hosts can have (smaller stadiums, large hosting area, sport/event choices etc.)

Only a matter of time before Canada wins by default

At this point I just want them to release the qualification document. Same with canoe sprint. Athletics is on thin ice by not releasing their qualification times, making their qualification document useless and don't get me started about FIBA not updating their document after changing the women's qualification.

I suggest we take all those now extra athlete quotas and use it in other sports. Maybe we can get a proper baseball/softball and karate events.

Maybe that will be the push needed for pressure sensitive technology in race walking

I wonder what exception performances is for the IAAF is it the A Standard with a fancy name or will it be even harder?

They went even with the United States, so don't worry too much. Their depth may be an issue.

Nigeria still had to go through Turkey to get to this position. It's a big win for them and the region.

Given their performance in the group stage a victory over Greece was very possible. It'll be interesting if they can keep this form in Tokyo.