JoshMartini007

Competition started today with rowing and shooting ahead of the opening ceremony

That's one way for Brazil to finish at the top of the medal table. We see it in the Commonwealth Games albeit with a very limited para program. Only way this works is if they expand the games to three weeks.

Yeah, not sure if they are using AI to write stuff, but you should really review the work (regardless if it was AI or human generated).

Glad they gave proper continental qualifiers this time

Very nice. These are very cheap sports to host with a long history at the Pan American Games so I'm glad they remain. Too bad FIBA won't let us host a senior tournament

Yeah, allowing them to compete, even under the Olympic flag would open such a can of worms. Many separatist nations will try to compete using the same logic.

The men's 2020 Olympic tournament had that. The women's football tournament was also scheduled like that until Canada and Sweden requested a change (also helped that the United States didn't make the final ).

Some of the rugby purists don't like it, but the difference is sevens had its own circuit with its own following. American football is lacking greatly in that department. It doesn't help that people see flag football as a stepping stone to tackle rather than a separate format.

Too be fair, most of the sports at the World Games don't cost much to host. The only sports which scored low were track speed skating and softball. The only other costly venues were swimming pools which would use existing Olympic venues.

With the World Games about to start, here's my tier lists of the sports/disciplines most deserving to be included at the Olympics. This was constructed using the following criteria: Number of active nations participating, cost to host, and uniqueness. There is no order within tiers. S Tier Karate A Tier Billiards Dancesport Orienteering Roller sports (Road speed skating) Squash B Tier Archery (Compound) Boules (Petanque) Gymnastics (Acrobatic) Gymnastics (Aerobic) Gymnastics (Trampoline) Lifesaving Roller sports (Track speed skating) Sport Climbing (Speed Lane) Triathlon (Duathlon) Waterskiing (Wakeboarding) C Tier Air Sports (Drone Racing) Archery (Field) Boules (Lyonnaise) Floorball Flying disc (Disc golf) Flying disc (Ultimate) Gymnastics (Parkour) Handball (Beach) Ju-jitsu Kickboxing Korfball (Indoor) Muaythai Powerboating Racquetball Roller sports (Freestyle inline skating) Roller sports (Inline hockey) Sambo Softball Tug of War Underwater sports Wushu D Tier American Football (Flag football) Canoeing (Canoe marathon) Canoeing (Canoe polo) Canoeing (Dragon boat) Cheerleading Fistball Korfball (Beach) Lacrosse (Sixes) Powerlifting (Classic) Powerlifting (Equipped) - Karate was easily the top tier sport, it is widely practiced with an excellent world distribution and can be held at a generic indoor venue. It did lose a bit in uniqueness as it competes with the already included combat sports. - Dancesport checked enough boxes to be considered A tier. I know people are still having nightmares about Breaking, but if Latin and Standard were also included the sport may have stuck around. - I was surprised to see Billiards rank so high, but it would be a very relatively cheap, unique sport to host. It currently has enough nations competing, but would probably like more. - Disciplines of sports which are included in the Olympics obviously took a uniqueness penalty which have cost most of them a tier - Softball in C Tier may surprise some people, but the sport being very expensive to host and the men's world distribution being a lot lower than men's baseball pushed it down.

A bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay in which she only participated in the heats. In individual events, she got three 4ths.

Team Trophy Results 1. - 842 2. - 657 3. - 643 4. - 481 5. (B) - 454 6. - 417 7. - 363 8. - 339 9. - 315 10. - 301 11. - 235 12. - 233

Yeah, people need to remember that she's not the auto-winner in all events. Especially against the GOAT of the event in a resurgence year. Currently, I'd argue she beatable in all events except the 200 Fly and 400 IM

Malta likes water polo and arguably has the third strongest men's team in the Commonwealth behind Australia and Canada.

I sometimes wonder how history will treat her. Very few Canadians have won individual Olympic medals at three Olympics, but I feel very few people will remember her. She rarely made huge headlines, but was always there putting up great result after great result for a decade now. I'll always remember her, but that's because the backstroke was also my stroke.

Oceania is OC, which means the "R" is probably part of "European" rather than "Record"

If anyone is following, here's the Team Trophy standings after 28/42 events 1. - 545 2. - 485 3. - 444 4. - 330 5. - 261 6. - 253 7. (B) - 243 8. - 211 9. - 196 10. - 179 11. - 163 12. -155 Unsurprisingly, the United States lead. Despite winning fewer medals, China is ahead of Australia thanks to their better depth. Italy is on its own island while the fight for 5th is very active.

Yeah, the elitist attitude of cricket which hurt the development of the sport is showing again. Any nation should be given a chance to qualify.

Looking at the times at the heat, not sure if they will go with Angove or MSH as the 4th member. I'm predicting a 7:47.xx in the final

Yeah, at this rate she may not even be chosen for the final.

Yeah, using 2024 as the base for the first 12 teams, it's logical to give Asia and Europe an increase of 1 and 2 quotas respectively. The final quota though has many possibilities ranging from giving Europe a 5th quota, an inter-confederation match between two continents or creating a final qualification tournament. I imagine Argentina will push for a more favourable qualifier.

Sometimes I wonder how much these rights holder pay for certain nations. Like I don't imagine there was a lot of competition for Canada.

There are many reasons not to perform a rescue, with too much wind being a common one. It depends where she's located and how much space they have to work with. There are scenarios where a helicopter rescue is impossible and you'd have to go in by foot.

I imagine neither federation wanted to figure out the logistics of travelling and playing in Greenland. It would be like if Canada hosted its matches in Iqaluit

The women lost to Uruguay 2-0 and are eliminated. Additionally, takes the North American Pan American Games quota.