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  1. Nickyc707
    If you do find the list this site shows player's results going back over the years. Luiten had quite a few top ten finishes in 2022 and 23. Whether they were in the right tournaments though.................. https://www.espn.co.uk/golf/player/results/_/id/4831/joost-luiten
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    In fairness the Italians are not shooting badly as they lie second behind GB in the team event. The problem is they have been too consistent with all three scoring 96. A couple of 97s and a 94 would have been much more helpful to the British cause.
  3. Nickyc707
    Given the financial difficulties faced by most UK local authorities in recent years there are few if any who could afford to meet such costs. Most don't have adequate funding for the services they are legally required to provide let alone discretionary spending of this type.
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    Luiten and Darius van Driel.
  5. Nickyc707
    Unusually it's Hinchliffe, Dragon.
  6. Nickyc707
    You're right the US won 12 out of 13 golds in the men's events while East Germany won 11 out of 13 in the women's events. The Cold War in sports in action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics Wilkie also won silver in the 100m breaststroke following an earlier silver in Munich in 1972. If Mary Peters was GB's star in Munich then it was probably Wilkie who fulfilled that role in Montreal.
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    There appear to be at least six players who have stated they do not wish to be considered for inclusion. Tyrell Hatton Brooks Koepka Louis Oosthuizen Thomas Pieters Adam Scott Marcel Siem
  8. Nickyc707
    You've excluded the coxwains who are included in the quotas for those NOC's who have qualified for the eights.
  9. Nickyc707
    Time for Italy (Rome) to return to the days their vessels carried battering rams to gain victory?
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    The individual pursuit seems to have survived fairly well at the moment albeit with diminished fields at most championships, although whether that is sustainable is anyone's guess. I thought the C2 Canoe Slalom might at least hang on in its European stronghold but was quite surprised to see it was no longer part of the programme at the recent continental championships. Sadly the IOC's equivalent of the Black Spot is pretty deadly.
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    It's the most popular element in the UK too and draws the biggest crowds.
  12. Nickyc707
    Good question! Getting info on PG paracycling quotas is one of the toughest tasks in all of sport.
  13. Nickyc707
    The IOC's liking for mixed events is hardly a justification for having one!
  14. Nickyc707
    It can't help the eventers that they jump after a usually gruelling xc the previous day. Moving from dressage to jumping and then xc might actually be beneficial for the horses and performances.
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    I have no problem with a matchplay tournament as we see little enough of this format on any of the golf tours. I could even live with a mixed event with two days of strokeplay to determine a matchplay field of 16 or 32. What I don't see any reason for is a mixed team event. Incidentally aren't foursomes and alternate shot the same thing? Do you mean foursomes and fourballs?
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    Why? It's not as if they compete together normally.
  17. Nickyc707
    As Rafa said some did prior to the removal of the men's lightweight four from the programme. Having a squad of say eight lightweight rowers was sustainable where 2-3 is not, particularly when the writing was on the wall for the lightweights at Olympic level. And once it goes from the OG it slowly dies a death at WC level as we've seen with the small number of entries - usually led by Italy - in non-Olympic classes. It's happened in other sports as well, e.g. the double trap in shooting.
  18. Nickyc707
    Stronger nations running down their lightweight programmes as this is their final Olympic appearance, perhaps?
  19. Nickyc707
    46 rowers + 2 coxswains = 48 quotas!
  20. Nickyc707
    Peaking in climbing is always a positive move.
  21. Nickyc707
    Can beat you both in a different sport. GB will not have a fencer at the Games for the first time in 120 years. In St Louis in 1904 at least there was the excuse that very few non-Americans participated in any of the sports.
  22. Nickyc707
    OQTs for Lina Nielsen (W 400m hurdles) with 54.73s in Poland and Andrew Pozzi (M 110m hurdles) in 13.23s in France over the weekend.
  23. Nickyc707
    Andrew Pozzi showing some revived form to secure an OQT of 13.23 in the 110m hurdles in France today.
  24. Nickyc707
    Plus Lina Nielsen took a big step towards selection in the 400m hurdles with her OQT in Poland yesterday.
  25. Nickyc707
    Team GB has confirmed Coward-Holley's quota so seems likely that these are all now official, Ben.
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