Nickyc707

I'm not sure how reliable this is but I think it is pretty accurate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_–_Qualification I you click on the individual sections it lists the numbers qualified for each individual event for each country to date. It lists the athletes with qualifying performances unless a country has more than three athletes with such performances in which case it is marked [a].

Austria's Johanna Bassani who won a silver medal in the Nordic Combined Mixed Team event at this year's Winter Youth Olympic Games has been found dead just a few weeks after her 18th birthday. https://www.web24.news/u/2020/05/great-hope-of-austrian-skiing-found-dead.html

The delay in holding the Games seems potentially likely to effect qualification in golf - and likely tennis - more than most sports given that it is based on rankings and players now have potentially another year to amass points.

And not a speed skater to be seen!

Only the ones that have died this year so far. Abadi Hadis, 22 - Athletics (long term illness) Braian Toledo, 26 - Athletics (traffic accident) Vesa Tornroos, 37 - Shooting (cancer) I could probably provide you with information for the intervening years but you may have to wait a week or two as I am fairly busy at the moment.

Deaths of Olympians in April. Goyo Benito, 73 - Football Keizo Yamada, 92 - Athletics Eric Verdonk, 60 - Rowing (1×B) Thio Gim Hock, 82 - Water Polo Kenneth Farnum, 89 - Cycling Borje Stattin, 90 - Gymnastics Ferenc Fuzesi, 59 - Handball Adlin Mair-Clarke, 78 - Athletics Donato Sabia, 56 - Athletics Fariborz Esmaeli, 79 - Football Roger Chappot, 79 - Ice Hockey Lars-Eric Lundvall, 76 - Ice Hockey (1×S) Guy Miserque, 74 - Hockey Marianne Lundquist, 88 - Swimming Alfred Hagn, 72 - Alpine Skiing Francisco Aritmendi, 81 - Athletics Alfonso Marquez, 82 - Basketball Peter Whiteside, 67 - Modern Pentathlon Nate Brooks, 86 - Boxing (1×G) Vesa Tornroos, 37 - Shooting Eric Mergenthaler, 56 - Sailing Bojana Milosevic, 54 - Basketball (1×S) Victor Hendrix, 84 - Rowing Walter Hoover, 85 - Rowing Lukman Niode, 56 - Swimming Francois Lafortune, 87 - Shooting Margit Otto-Crepin, 75 - Equestrian (1×S) Kevin Gill, 58 - Shooting Noureddine Diwa, 83 - Football Hartwig Gauder, 65 - Athletics (1×G, 1×B) Edward Winchester, 49 - Rowing Zarbeg Beriashvili, 80 - Wrestling Abolfazi Salabi, 96 - Basketball Francesco Perrone, 89 - Athletics Maryna Bazhanova, 57 - Handball (2×B) Luigi De Rossa, 84 - Athletics Janis Lusis, 80 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S, 1×B) Gerson Victalino, 60 - Basketball Billy Ringrose, 89 - Equestrian Chuni Goswani, 82 - Football Doug Anakin, 89 - Bobsleigh (1×G) Robert Beck, 83 - Modern Pentathlon (2×B) And four late reported deaths from March. Alain Macle, 75 - Ski Jumping Mykhaylo Storozhenko, 82 - Athletics Bruce MacDonald, 92 - Athletics Jim Bailey, 90 - Athletics As @Olympian1010 surmised there has been a significant rise in the number of deaths this month with forty two reported to date. They include three former Olympic champions. Eric Gauder of the former East Germany won a gold medal in the 50 km walk at the 1980 Games in Moscow. As at all the Games between 1976-84 the athletics programme was diminished by significant political boycotts but Gauder demonstrated his class at the highest level by winning the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships and followed this up with a further bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics. Janis Lusis was a Latvian who represented the former Soviet Union at four games between 1964-76. A javelin thrower he won the Olympic title in Mexico city in 1968 and followed this up with a silver in 1972. He had earlier won the bronze in Tokyo in 1964. Finally, Nate Brooks of the USA won the gold medal in the flyweight boxing class in 1952. The Belgian shooter Francois Lafortune never won an Olympic medal but with appearances at seven Games between 1952-76 he is his country's record holder. Only fourteen athletes have competed at more Games. However, he was not the only Olympian in his family as his father competed at five Games between 1924-60 and his uncle at four between 1936-60. They too were shooters and all three competed together at the 1960 Games in Rome. In addition, another uncle won a silver medal for gymnastics on home soil at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Altogether the four men competed at seventeen Olympic Games between them which is a record for any family from any country. Lastly it was particularly sad to note the death of 37 year old Vesa Tornroos of Finland from cancer. He is the third athlete to compete at the last summer Olympics to have died in the past three months. UPDATED to include the death of Doug Anakin who was a member of Canada's gold medal winning four man bob team at Innsbruck in 1964. UPDATED to include the death of Robert Beck of the USA who won bronze medals in both the individual and team modern pentathlon events in 1960.

Sadly you're right. I already have 32 deaths to report including those already mentioned in this thread.

For what it is worth all-time medal tables for individual sports at world and continental level all seem to take the same stance on those countries which have emerged from the break up of former countries or in the case of Germany split and reunified. We may or may not agree with them but there is little chance that the treatment of the medals won by those countries or their successors is going to change.

Thanks for that, although it isn't a direct comparison as it only includes gold medals. Nevertheless, it sounds more realistic than the figures quoted previously.

At the time the Soviet Union was dissolved Russians accounted for 50% of the population. What evidence do you have to support your claim that 80-90% of the USSR's medals were won by Russians?

The 1912 Games began with tennis on 5th May and didn't close until 22nd July so like the others it was a lengthy affair. Paris in 1924 also lasted three months. Amsterdam in 1928 was the first two week games and that continued in 1932 and 1936.

2016 rowing gold medalist Tom Ransley retires due to this year's postponement. https://www.teamgb.com/news/olympic-rowing-champion-ransley-retires

That may well be correct although Yuste is the first one I've seen that definitively attributes death to the Coronavirus. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people both in and out of the sporting world who are going to die from Cofid-19 without it necessarily being identified as the cause of death, particularly among the elderly. As you say it would be surprising if some of the other deaths among Olympians over the past few months haven't been down to the virus.

Deaths of Olympians in March. Robert Shavlakadze, 86 - Athletics (1×G) Levan Moseshvili, 79 - Basketball (1×S) Geza Uto, 90 - Rowing Tatyana Prorochenko, 67 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S) Jozef Gyuricza, 86 - Fencing (1×B) Wolfgang Hofmann, 78 - Judo (1×S) Kevin Bacon, 87 - Equestrian Dana Zatopkova, 97 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S) Henry Smith, 64 - Athletics Chris Reed, 30 - Figure skating Phil Olsen, 63 - Athletics Aarne Kainlauri, 104 - Athletics Mohammad Ami-Tehrani, 84 - Weightlifting Malcolm Yardley, 79 - Athletics Tadashi Kato, 85 - Cycling Edi Ziegler, 90 - Cycling (1×B) Vladimir Zabrodsky, 97 - Ice Hockey (1×S) Borislav Stankovic, 94 - Administrator Singaram Balasingam, 72 - Hockey Behrouz Rahbar, 74 - Cycling Jack Henn, 79 - Volleyball John Davies, 90 - Swimming (1×G) Daniel Gevargiz, 79 - Weightlifting Petra Hillenius, 52 - Swimming Pearson Jordan, 69 - Athletics Kwasi Owusu, 72 - Football Daniel Yuste, 75 - Cycling Ivo Mahlknecht, 80 - Alpine skiing And two late reported deaths from February. Guillermo Sola, 90 - Athletics Balbir Singh Kullar, 77 - Hockey (1×B) I believe March has seen the first death of an Olympian attributed to Cofid-19 following the passing of former Spanish cyclist Daniel Yuste yesterday. We will be fortunate if he is the last. On a more positive note more than seventy Olympians have lived to be centenarians. Aarne Kainlauri who died in March aged 104 was the third Finn to achieve that mark. The longest lived Olympian was American shooter Walter Walsh (1907-2014) who died five days short of his 107th birthday. The oldest living Olympian is another American John Lysak (born 16/8/1914) who competed in flat water canoeing at the 1936 Games in Berlin. A number of the other Olympians who died last month have already been discussed earlier in this thread including the great Czech athlete Dana Zatopkova. Among the others who have passed away in March were John Davies of Australia who won a gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Games and Robert Shavlakadze of the former Soviet Union who was the Olympic champion in the high jump in Rome in 1960. Wolfgang Hoffman of the United Team of Germany competed in the first Olympic judo tournament in Tokyo in 1964 winning a silver medal. There were only four classes at this first outing for the sport and all were for men in the days before the IOC gave any thought to equality. Japan won three of the four golds with the Netherlands winning the other. Finally I have included the administrator Borislav Stankovic who although both a player and coach never competed at an Olympic Games. He did serve on the Yugoslav NOC and the IOC, but it was as Secretary General of FIBA between 1976 and 2002 that he had most influence. Among other things he changed the rules to enable professional players from the NBA to compete at the Olympics bringing about the arrival of the USA's so-called "Dream Teams" at the Games.

There were earlier games which shared elements of what is now Badminton but the game as we know it was invented by the British.

Which sport?

He is a she!

To be resumed in May subject to circumstances.

A good question! I suppose completing the tournament enables them to present "medals" and perhaps more importantly give boxers more experience of competing in an Olympic-style event. Otherwise I can't think of any reason for it. I can't believe they are really going to ask the sixteen boxers who have already qualified for Tokyo to turn up for the rest of the qualifying tournament in May or whenever it resumes when it would serve no purpose and only expose them to the risk of infection from Coronavirus.

And in the men's 57 kg division McGrail Galos Kistohurry Aliyez Butsenko Quiles Brotons Batyrgazrev Shadalov

The qualifiers in the men's 52 kg division Bennama Alakhverdovi Irvine Mascunano Yafai Soghomonyan Girleanu Ciftci

A combination of badminton on TV and boxing on my mobile.

We shall have to agree to disagree. Dubois stood off to some extent in the last round knowing she'd done enough in the first two rounds and I narrowly gave the Belarussian the round as she was going forward and landed a few more punches, although nothing special. The gap in performance was clearly greater in the two earlier rounds. The point is claiming a decision is controversial when it clearly isn't - even the Belarussian knew she'd lost - undermines the case against genuine controversies. As for British amateur boxing I've spent the last ten years frustrated at the bad decisions they've been given in a string of fights, not least London 2012 where Tom Stalker got a shocker against an Indian fighter.

So, basically you judged the fight on one round, the third which was also the closest, while ignoring the first two rounds which Dubois won pretty comfortably. I would suggest that it is your view that is the controversial one in this instance!