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The one thread no one wants to open is “athletes who don’t want to be in the Olympics “

The one thread no one wants to open is “athletes who don’t want to be in the Olympics “

The one thread no one wants to open is “athletes who don’t want to be in the Olympics “

Just a routine maintenance which I prefer to do before the Olympics

speaking of devil, have you heard the story when our hockey team had an audience with the Pope before the Winter Olympics in Torino, and someone from the team had the great idea to give to the pope a gift and for some reason choosed our captain's jersey.
 
you know, the former captain.
 
a certain Miroslav Šatan
 
which as you know is by english pronunciation written somehow like that
 

"the Summer equivalent of Prince Albert of Monaco"? Seriously?
 
Johannessen may very well be on the way to a European Tour Card, Campos is on the PGA Tour, Yuan (at the moment) on the way to a PGA Tour card, Gavin Green is on the European Tour and Zanotti the same. That's the bottom five at the moment all on (or with chances of reaching) the top 2 tours.
 
The main issue is that the golf schedule is already packed and the Olympics haven't got the prestige (yet). Plenty of major golfers still feel strongly about participating and some of those who withdrew 5 years ago have made it clear that they regret doing so.
The universality is a major part of the Olympics and one of few things that still show some of the spirit of the first Olympic Games. Making a selection where even decent golfing nations like Denmark and Germany would struggle to qualify (in the men's tournament) would make things so unolympic that even I as a supporter of Olympic golf would say that it should be left out!

Championships France Qualification Tokyo 2020 (DAY 1)
 
400 M Freestyle Men's
No Qualified
 
100 M Breastsroke Men's
No Qualified
Théo Bussiére Qualified Relay 4x 100 M Medley (ONLY)
 
400 M Individual Medley Men's
Léon Marchand 4.09.65
 
100 M Butterfly Women's
Marie Wattel 57.37
 
 
200 M Individual Medley Women's
Cyrielle Duhamel 2.11.57
Fantine Lesaffre 2.12.47
 
 

phelps from Totallympics (almost every sport) 
 
medial meniscus of the left knee has gone (ligaments have also suffered some damages)...  

Beijing 2008 Gold Medalist, Markis Kido, passed away today
 
 

Slovakia failed to qualify first time since 2008 Gajdošová was in last position during the wole last 2 weeks just to throw the quota in the very last race
 
I swear we will not even have 35 athletes, bunch of losers we are
 
 

History for Liechtenstein.
 
A microstate qualifying in an event like this (with fully home-grown athletes) is rocket science, but apparently possible.

I tried to calculate the European quotas. There are many ways I could have messed this up, so don't think that this is an official confirmation.
 
  w70 - 2915 - #1 female European quota
 
  m90 - 2875 - #1 male European quota
 
  w70 - 2842 - #2 female European quota
 
  m90 - 2837 - #2 male European quota
 
  w57 - 2778 - #3 female European quota
 
  m73 - 2694 - #3 male European quota
 
  m90 - 2518 - #4 male European quota
 
  m90 - 2495 - #5 male European quota
 
  m81 - 2417 - #6 male European quota
 
  m73 - 2339 - #7 male European quota
 
  w57 - 2337 - #4 female European quota
 
  w78+ - 2326 - #5 female European quota
 
  m100 - 2247 - #8 male European quota
 
  m100 - 2244 - #9 male European quota
 
  m100 - 2190 - #10 male European quota
 
  m60 - 2157 - #11 male European quota
 
  m73 - 2148 - #12 male European quota
 
  m90 - 2103 - #13 male European quota
 
At this point we have reached the limit for male European quotas (13).
 
  w57 - 1985 - #6 female European quota
 
  w63 - 1872 - #7 female European quota
 
  w78+ - 1825 - #8 female European quota
 
  w52 - 1786 - #9 female European quota
 
  w48 - 1753 - #10 female European quota
 
  w63 - 1712 - #11 female European quota
 
  w63 - 1688 - #12 female European quota

I have checked the world rankings and I think I haven't made any errors in my previous calculations. Which means that these should be the world quotas.
 
Women's 48kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 60kg
 
                                   
 
Women's 52kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 66kg
 
                                   
 
Women's 57kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 73kg
 
                                   
 
Women's 63kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 81kg
 
                                   
 
Women's 70kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 90kg
 
                                   
 
Women's 78kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 100kg
 
                                   
 
Women's +78kg
 
                                   
 
Men's +100kg
 
                                   

wonderful act of fair play by Asahina earlier today in the gold medal match against her teammate Tomita...
 
since Tomita was injured at the end of the fight and couldn't even walk anymore, Asahina carried her on her shoulders and tokke her to the locker room...she did even make the salute to the judges and the tatami with her (not so light) teammate on her shoulders...
 
chapeau! 
 

 
 
we saw some very entertaining judo this week, but for me this is the picture of the championships...

Liechtenstein now has a huge lead over Switzerland!!
 
Provided Colombia does nothing crazy, history will be written tomorrow.

Watching live competition from Osijek World Cup at the national television is a sad, sob story...
 
And always the same thing. The commentators are cheering for every mistake of the home athletes' opponents. It's like they got their commentating degree in Pyongyang.
 

After the free routine (prelim)...
 








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- everyone else scored below 80 pts

a raw footage from the competition 

I have to say I made a mistake here. a big one I noticed that yesterday
 
I remember I read somewhere that the re-allocated quota will go the NOC "not represented" yet so I assumed if India declines the 81kg quota (which they did) Ireland will get that one but now I think I was wrong, that goes to Albania. per rules I posted above that simply goes to the next ranked athlete.
 
but still that applies to unused host quotas, but that depends on Wild Cards. there will be 4 Wild Cards and after that there will be 3 unused host quotas. they will be awarded after the wild cards. they want to know which 4 weights will be selected for the WC. the other 3 will be available for reallocated quotas.
 
these are highest ranked athletes from NOCs with 0 quotas. they have priority to receive reallocated host quotas. (even though the rules don't say that's guaranteed)
 
61: Al-Saleem
67: Pineda
73: Robu
81: Brown
96: Mugurdomov
109: Sidiskis
+109: Nagy or Kuworge
* Nagy most probably will take the African quota.
 
no unused host quotas for the women's side.

a raw footage from the competition 

Another story from my days in . Every year there was a national sports meet, of which the highlight was the Slow Bicycle Race, sort of like a track stand. For many years consecutively it was won by the father of the Monarch, the elderly Seri Begawan Sultan, who somehow always managed to beat the cream of the nation’s young, fit, jungle combat-trained Army Officers.  People in Brunei are very polite, everyone clapped.

in,  out in women's 78kg and  in,  out in men's 100kg.
 
Women's 78kg
 
                                   
 
Men's 100kg
 
                                   

a raw footage from the competition 

a raw footage from the competition 

a raw footage from the competition