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And why don't just host European under23 championships and thats it? I rather had nothing than this, to be honest.

So, Catalonian president just declared the independence of Catalonia. Just to overthrow the independence in the next sentence and start a negotiation with the Spanish goverment again. So, Catalonian indepence lasted a record time of 32 seconds, must be a new world record.

SPANISH ENTRY. Well, I hope you like it. It's mi go-to karaoke song, I really enjoy the rhythm.

They had to create their own league. Acording to spanish liga rules no international based team can play, so

That's the thing. This voting was a joke since the beggining and literally no one was going to take the results seriously, but the stupid president decided to use police and now all the world is talking about palice brutality against democracy in Spain instead of talking of the Catalonians politiancs going against the law to pursue their personal agenda.

I'm in. Not so hard on spanish music but I'll try to find something cool.

And the worst part of all is that the goverment is sending extra police to deal with the independence people and it's doing nothing with the people who gathered together a few days ago in Madrid doing the nazi salute and wearing flags and singing the anthem of the former spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

No, 80% of the Catalonians want the independence referendum to happend. But that doesn't mean that they all support independence. To be honest I really think that if the referendum was made, NO will win. It's a feeling we all got here in Spain (even pro independece catalonians, that's why they are making the referendum today, cause it's looking bad for them next elections and they are in danger of losing the power, they had a slight mayority in the catalonia parlament now), but the spanish goverment is just plain stupid and they are using police brutality to stop something it was been seeing as a joke to the rest of the country and raging all spanish people. Like, I'm not from Catalonia, I'm basque (another part of Spain that has battle a lot for independence, sadly know by terrorist group ETA) and I'm pro-Spain but all this bullshit the president and the ministers are doing is really taking my nerves and I'm siding with pro-referendum now.

I'm rooting so hard for Julian Yee to get one of the spots! GO

Austria RUINING the iconic The Proclaimers hit............

shady DJ playing True Colors by Cyndi Lauper after the north korean couples routine.

Wishing good luck to Aritz & Laura. ¡GO TEAM!

I would love to see ice climbing and ski mountaneering. And I really think both of them could easily be added any time some, they make sense. Also, cyclo-cross and athletics cross country would be asewome adds to the Games, an certainly they would bring new countrys and fans to the games.

I wanted to see athletics

Where can I sign for Basque Pelota? I'm basque so I would live for it cause it's our national sport, but honestly, don't think it has realistic chances. They didn't even try for Tokyo 2020. Also I hope they staged surf in Biarritz, I live really close and would be awesome to have the chance to see an olympic competition. Apart from Surf and the utopia of Basque Pelota, I'm rooting for Sport Climbing (I'm so hyped about this event in Tokyo, would love for it to have continuity in the games), and Roller Sports (I' a simple dude, I love races where one comes first and other came last, and they can also add Skateboarding there) and even Boules Sports (They are staged at Mediterranean and Commonwealth games, and they offer something new). I would love Ballroom DanceSport to be added, but sadly it has no chance (Damn it, IOC, this is a sport were mixed events have logic! lol) Personally I don't like Squash and I don't want another contact sport like Karate, but they are big and make sense in the games. Also I hope they don't add another team sport. If Weightlifting gets out, they had a lot of quotas and events to be designated. So it could be fun.

I already enjoy national selection competitions in events where various spaniards can took a spot.

Well, and we are talking about Slalom, where all nations had the chance of sending a member in every event, unlike other sports, so I don't see the point on really complaining.

Olympics is a global competition, and the fun in the thing is watching athletes for all over the world compiting. For me, it adds more to the event having a girl from Cambodia over 3 hours in marathon than the chance of having the worlds 50 fastest kenyans racing. Giving rich countrys the chance of upraising their chances takes the spirits of the games away.

Well, I'd rather had a global representation than having europeans +north americans + australians dominating all over the place. And well, you don't care about a chinese athlete the same way they don't care about how many frenchs can win a gold medal.

I thought it was the IAAF having some criteria and accepting more women to enlarge the field... poor peruvian women who came second in that race being left out.

Susan Randall from US, PB 4:54 is now listed in the entrys in women's 50km. ¿Why? She clearly didn't reach the mark. I mean Spain has a women in 4:47, why can't we send her?

Not triying to brag about anything, but in Spain we have the women's team selected since April, and about 8 women with the 20km standard that weren't chosen. If just they new there was another chance they probably would had try it. Like the 1500 race that has her own mark for mille races, IAAF could have done the same and say "If you have under 1,30 in 20km you can get listed for 50km", for example.

According to portuguese press, Inès is compiting in 50km: http://www.record.pt/modalidades/atletismo/detalhe/mundiais-de-londres-divulgada-a-lista-dos-21-atletas-portugueses.html Well I hope the 2 chinese athletes and the brazilian compete. In my opinion IAAF should open their hand a little bit and invite up to 10 athletes, at least for having an accepting number...

Also, any news in the women's 50km race walk entrys? Inês Henriques and Erin Talcott both confirmed they would compete, but what about the other three girls that matched criteria?

No. He didn't compete at National Championships because he expected his performance in 2016 to be enough to be added to the team, but 3 men match the qualification criteria and he was left out.