JoshMartini007

Probably. Qualification to the Winter Olympics is less entertaining since most of them are rankings published 1-2 months before the games. As for biathlon their host quota allocation is a bit weird too. At the top they reserved one quota for a man and a woman, but in the host section they say South Korea would be given a team should they not qualify one.

Baseball/Softball has only been added for the 2020 program (though should US win the 2024 games it'll likely make an appearance again) I'll post my thoughts later.

Women's rugby (and women's football) are listed under summer sports instead of team sports for some reason. As for women's field hockey getting funding I remember reading that the federation convinced OTP that they are worth investing due to their youth team. We'll probably see changes in the funding model once they take Olympic results into account.

What are they protesting? Are they arguing that the pass wasn't fully completed until the athlete entered the passing zone?

Canada is one away from tying the non-boycotted record of most medals won at a Summer Olympics. We still have a few chances though none I would say are favourites (women's 800m is the most likely one IMO) This is assuming we get to keep the 4x100m relay medal.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but while Canada may end up at around the same medals as 2012 our diversity has dropped. Yes it is nice (and important) that we are winning medals in swimming and athletics, but it isn't worth it if our other sports drop in quality (though to be fair sports like rowing were already dying before swimming and athletics rose)

Our nation is hyping up the bromance between the two. I thought it was funny, they almost burst out laughing in the middle of the race while all of the other guys were dying to cross the line and then Bolt is like "lol, not this time." It even looked like he slowed down just a bit just so he can barely beat him.

I don't think we'll see diving over the line becoming the norm. Normally it is not an effective way of moving (you need to slow down in order to get a decent push off) if Miller continued running she would have won, though to be fair it looked like she couldn't take another step so it worked for her here.

What a weird rivalry we ended up having with France. I wonder if they've noticed that.

With USA and France gone I think any of the four teams will fancy their chances. If Germany can get their stuff together they would be the heavy favourites, but they haven't looked dominant at all here, including losing to Canada (though to be fair both teams rested some of their players and the match didn't mean too much as both teams were advancing)

That's on Tuesday, though I'd say Barber has a better chance.

So, Canadian men, are you ever going to win a medal? Looking at the schedule their best chance will be on Monday (though a man could win on Sunday).

The men's fours team made the final, hopefully the women's eights will do the same. They need to save the sport from disappearing in Canada.

Good performance from Canada, it looks like it won't be enough to medal (she'll likely finish somewhere between 4-7)

No gold medals allowed for Canada. Though honestly out best chances at winning gold will be at the end of the week or in the second week.

South Korea currently holds the top three spots

North Korea is moving up as well

Europe with only 2 Italians in the top 16 so far.

Better than Canada, that was a terrible set

Still very early, but we are on pace for an Olympic record

In fact all three Americans are in the same 16th of the bracket

It's pretty extraordinary when it is the world record.

Also Canada is having a bad second half. He's already gone from 9th to 32nd

Relatively bad set for Kim Woojin. He can only be off by four points to gain a new world record

Men's Team Event Rankings After Half 1 Republic of Korea 1026 2 United States 1011 3 Italy 1007 4 France 1000 5 Australia 999 6 Taipei (Cn Taipei) 998 7 Spain 994 8 China 993 9 Netherlands 991 10 Indonesia 985 11 Malaysia 966 12 Brazil 966