JoshMartini007

While I disagreed with them adding breaking to 2024 due to the lack of international competition, since then the WDSF has done a great job at promoting it. Just look at how many nations took part at the World Championships. I always felt that dancing should be part of the Olympics, but just like they did with skateboarding, I doubt the IOC will include the more standard dances in future games.

Can't see past the paywall, but is he trying to use equality to try and get more money out of broadcast stations?

Australia is considered to be part of Oceania for the most part plus the culture of the two nations are different. I think they have a good chance if a nation outside of Europe is going to win.

This is first Olympic quota

Good start for Canada, all the more reason to fast track this sport to a permanent spot at the Olympics.

One part of me feels that the West Indies team is coming to a close. Even if cricket never becomes an Olympic sport, I don't think many people feel nationalistic towards them, but they probably are towards their respective nation. There's enough talent on paper for to compete at the World Cup level. Even alone would probably be the favourites against Canada and the United States. The downside of course is funding. Can these nations increase their funding 3-5 times to match the current spending of the West Indies?

The drop off of the West Indies is sad, but as other countries continue to invest in cricket the region is getting left behind. Perhaps a new generation will step up.

Quite excited to see how this goes. The number of entrants is a good size, 53 nations in B-Boys and 43 in B-Girls, that's a more than a few of the traditional Olympic sports. Also love some of these names, it's great we have another sport besides the horses in equestrian with some funny and ingenious names.

Not too surprised, China and India have been investing hard into the rifle/pistol side of this sport. South Korea is a bit snake-bitten while Russia is banned from competing.

To be fair, events with less than 12 entrants should not have continental quotas. At that point you are causing top entrants to miss out. Though if I was in charge I wouldn't have any events with less than 12 competitors. If your event doesn't have at least 12 competitive nations then maybe it doesn't deserve to be in the Olympics (yes I understand that for some events the low number of entrants is due to athlete quota limitations, but I'd also increase the athlete quotas to account for that).

That's a weak excuse. The MER should be focused on safety not talent (unless they want to admit to "score inflation"). They're just trying to exclude the Group F team or individual riders without outright saying it.

For the most part there are enough spots to have both the top athletes and continental representation. For example, a 16 athlete event would have the top 10, the five continents and the host. Besides, the continent/host quotas aren't all complete wastes as some are filled with athletes that deserve to be there.

Remaining NOCs (Potential Events they can qualify in) None Total NOCs Remaining: 0

There's always been a struggle between having the best and having diversity, especially in sports where the best are not very diverse. I'm not a huge fan of world rankings because it benefits athletes who compete more (more money) rather than the best athletes. Personally I've always liked the "World Qualifier - Continental Qualifier - Final Qualifier" format. It gives athletes three opportunities to qualify (can't say they had a bad day) and promotes some diversity without it always going to the same large non-European nations.

Medal Comparison vs. 2018 (Gold Medals) Brazil +43 Argentina +16 Aruba +3 Paraguay +2 Uruguay +2 Panama +1 Chile 0 Curacao 0 Ecuador 0 Guyana 0 Suriname -2 Peru -3 Bolivia -4 Venezuela -12 Colombia -15 Medal Comparison vs. 2018 (Total Medals) Brazil +115 Argentina +32 Paraguay +18 Colombia +16 Uruguay +8 Aruba +3 Panama +2 Curacao +1 Chile -1 Guyana -2 Suriname -3 Ecuador -16 Peru -18 Bolivia -26 Venezuela -26 The big winner of the South American Games was clearly Brazil who sent a much more competitive team relative to 2018. Despite the downward pressure caused by Brazil, Argentina also had a great games. Despite losing the most gold medals relative to 2018, Colombia still won more medals, thanks to an increase in events. As hosts, Paraguay was able to win a good amount of medals, but struggled to convert them to gold. The previous hosts, Bolivia saw a huge drop in medals getting less than 25% of the medals won in 2018. Venezuela saw large drops while Ecuador and Peru saw drops in the total medals only.

No, not anymore.

In Canada's defense, the Olympic qualifiers haven't been favourable. Our best chance so far was probably in football and equestrian and we were far from the favourites, heck even for the remaining qualifying events in 2022, our best chance will be in the Pan American Shooting Championships and that also is a bit of a long shot. Typically sailing has a qualifying event by now which is usually when Canada qualifies their first quota. The beginning of 2023 looks pretty light (though to be fair many events still have dates as TBC), but there is a good chance that our first quotas may be in athletics or swimming.

Yeah, it looks like Chile will have a similar performance relative to 2018. That's not a terrible thing when you consider Brazil came to play here and won over 100 more medals relative to 2018. A result like that essentially pushes everyone down so staying the same can be seen as an improvement.

Another three nations with their first quotas!!!

have qualified their first athlete to the Olympics

There's still the family issue, it won't be an easy decision if she decides to drop to 52kg.

63kg is just as tough while her sister is in 52kg, she doesn't really have many options.

Medal Table (After Day 13) Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Brazil 130 94 81 305 2 Colombia 72 76 91 239 3 Argentina 52 59 74 185 4 Chile 35 29 59 123 5 Venezuela 30 42 57 129 6 Ecuador 23 20 30 73 7 Peru 19 17 36 72 8 Paraguay 7 21 14 42 9 Uruguay 6 14 17 37 10 Aruba 3 3 0 6 11 Panama 2 1 7 10 12 Bolivia 0 1 5 6 13 Guyana 0 1 2 3 14 Curacao 0 1 0 1

Glad to see the men's side showing some life. Hopefully the can develop in time for the Olympics.

Funding cuts make it difficult to field a team. It also doesn't help that their rugby sevens team has dropped in quality recently with both Jamaica and Mexico overtaking Guyana as the best teams outside of Canada/USA.