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Also very early thoughts. Aquatics Swimming - similar to Paris, depending on how many relays we get - 18 Open water swimming - 2 woman Diving - 2 women and a men in platform. - 3 Water Polo - 26, both teams should qualify easily Artistic swimming - 8, no doubt here. Archery - 1 men / 1 women in recurve, not good enough in the men's side of compound - 2 Athletics - similar to Paris, maybe one rellay more. - 60 Badminton - 1 women. No man, our best athlete here is still Pablo Abian (40 yo) who's been to 5 olympics already, He's still going strong but sadly I dont see him getting into LA and there's no one with potntial behind him. - 1 Basketball 3x3 - the women's team should be there - 4 Basketball - I don't see the male team qualifying this time, it will be one of the biggest misses for us. - 12 Boxing - i'll go for 4 male and 2 female. Canoe Sprint - we should qualify in everything, I would say 15 doing the math. Canoe Slalom - 2 woman, 2 men, no extra quota this time around - 4 Cycling BMX Freestyle - 0 BMX Racing - 0 Mountain Bike - 1 man Road - 4 in males, 2 in females - 6 Track - a male madison team and being lucky. - 2 Equestrian - I don't see any team making it. 2 in dressage, 1 in the other 2 events - 4 Fencing - 2 individual. No teams, they can't get it together when it matters. Football - women with ease now that there are 16 teams. I don't see it for the men. 18 Golf - 2 man, 2 women Gymnastics Artistic - I dont see any teams this time around. 2 male, 2 female. - 4 Rhythmic - The team should be a medal contender, I don't see it for the individuals - 5 Trampoline - 1 male Handball - we have lost so much star power in the women's team I dont see it gaining it back in time for LA- male should be there - 14 Hockey - both teams should be there. - 32 Judo - Around 7 i would say Modern Pentathlon - 1 female for sure, maybe we can have a clutch male but I dont see it at this moment. - 1 Rowing - Men's 2- and 2x and women's 2x. A small chance of a women's skiff but I dont see it. - 6 Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints - 4, no doubt about it Rugby Sevens - Maybe the boys can clutch a qualification after this good year they have. No chance for the girl, very dissaponiting last years. - 12 Sailing - everything but the men's kite - 13 Shooting - 2 male / 2 female in skeet being lucky. One of them probably fails so I settle go for 3. Skateboarding- I'm confident in who good this sport is growing, I'm going with 8. Sport Climbing - 1 male and 1 femanle in lead for sure. I'm confident in another qualification in speed. 3 Surfing - 2 female, one male. All basque,, probably - 3 Table Tennis - one male, one female - 2 Taekwondo - at least 3. But I feel that we go worst every year so I wouldnt be surprise if ti less. Or more. It's very random. - 3 Tennis - 3 women, 4 men I would expect at least. But since people reject it.. who knows.... - 7 Triathlon - 2 man, 2 woman, the rellay should qualify. - 4 Beach Volleyball - 1 Women pair - 2 Volleyball - none. It's our worst sport, and even the women's team is getting better I don't see a chance. - 0 Weightlifting - probably 0, not that I care that much for this sport either way Wrestling Greco-Roman - no chance - 0 Freestyle - I don't see the iranian guy that got nationality qualifying, he's our best chance - 0 Cricket - 0, no chance. Flag Football - Our women's team is decent, maybe with a bigger bracket we could have made it. - 0 Baseball - I hope they are at least in contention for the european quota. - 0 Softball - 0 Lacrosse - 0 Squash - we have a guy that's like 16 of the world, he could figth it but I don't see it. - 0 So if we add it all it's 323 if i did my maths well. I'm not being that optimistyc, just what I see happening. It will probably would end up being more. Obviosly way less than our Paris team (383), but because it went almost perfectly during the last qualification, specially in the team sports. This time I don't see men's footbal and basket and women's handball in the games, but I see the guys rugby team. No chances at the new sports with only 6 countries taking part.

M8+ and W8+ are not the brightest stars in the galaxy either. What glamour? lmao

With a men on the team. Way to go Dennis, marking the first steps of future generations!

Anyone but the Lord

M8+ and W8+ are a flop with only a few countries competing throw the year and little entries at the Olympics. It would be a great idea to take them out of the games to create more quotas for other events.

And Coe's family comes from slave trading, he was friends with Lamine Diack and visited Epstein Island several times. We can all play that game.

I'm guessing that INTERPOL-Searched Diack's BFF is losinbg badly, cause they dont have no choice but to resort to biased headlines. Oh, what a pitty.

When do you all think we can expect the full sport programe released? Cause I was hoping for early december but hasnt happend yet

This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

Nordic Combined isnt a big loss. A widely umpopular sport consisting of mixing more popular sports that doesnt really hook anyone. I rather had his quotas go to SkiMo or Cyclocross, to be completely honest

I'm pretty sure that the only purpose for UCI to created Snowbike Events was to get in the Winter Olympics And considering next winter Olympics are in France, David Lappartient is president of both UCI and french NOC and IOC candidate..... I think it's a done deal.

And watching Artistic Swimming or Ice Dancing you can get impressed with the choreo and the artistic elements... Im just still trying to understand Kata. All seemed the same, all doing the same... why someone won? Cause they shouted more? It was veeeery weird Not that Kumite was any better. I failed to understand that too. Karate had it chance and it fumbled the bag pretty hard. Almost as hard as Breaking.

Karate and Breakdancing where both equaly terrible

Athletics probably tried with Cross Country; Handball for sure proposed Beach Handball, Gymnastics probably tried with Tumbling and Acrobatic, Swimming with High Diving and Archery with Compound

- I would love for a Mountain Running event in the Mountain Bike course. - Freestyle 1500m series are long and boring. I would remove the event and change it to a Open Waters short event, even maybe a relay? 4x200 should be a direct final with the best 8 teams. - Mixed duet in Artistic Swimming should be in LA. And also Men's Rhytmic Gymnastics is so needed. Same for Women's Grecorroman. If sports can't have parity can't be in the olympics, that's my take. - I wouldn't be mad if they changed Boxing for Kickboxing. - Cricket and Baseball/Softball should be a 10 team tournament at least, and part of the core programme in the Olympics. - Karate was the most boring event in Tokyo, is good out of the Olympic Programme. If another contact sport is wanted, Wushu is the correct option. - I don't mind each host selecting some events, but to an extent. Maybe just events, and not whole sports? IDK. I live with fear of Brisbane choosing Netball and that weird version of Rugby only them play. - Men's football should be down to 12 teams. - I want that Sailing Off-Shore event they wanted for Paris back. Find a way to work around it, but it sounded amazing. - I'm okay with Ligthweight-Rowing dissapearing. But they shound change it for Coastal Rowing instead. - I want a long distance Canoe/Kayak event. - 4x400 mixed in Athletics doesnt work. I would rather it change for a Medley Distance Relay or something among the lines. Also, Women's 400 Hurdles need higher hurdles, they are to low and it isnt a challenge for athletes anymore. It's just basically 400m 2.0. - Out with Equestrian. It's 2024, no need to put animals through it. And why is the best event (cross country race) not an individual event? That's all that I can think about.