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Soon it will be goodbye to the   British Indian Ocean Territory as they will become part of Mauritius.
 
No permanent residents, but the descendants of expelled indigenous residents from the 70s have a “Chagos Islands” football team. Ironically, just a few months ago, they played their first match under the “BIOT” name, and their shirts had the flag which looks pretty amazing.

Everything

Still somehow I thought polo was more likely than squash and cricket lol

I think even the Squash folks were shocked their sport was included in the Olympics

This aged very well considering it was posted in 2017. I was reading through some of the old Paris 2024 threads, and came across it.

Yes if you doesn’t include the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh. 

The extremist left have no boundaries.

Luckily so far the first indications seem to be that he is not in life danger.

Yeah, but, let qualify first men and we will see

You think that’s bad wait until Olympic qualification when they have to play Mexico

They were trying their best to win back the support of @ahjfcshfghb 

Just a brief correction: It looks it is simply because of age restriction She is still ineligible to play at seniors world championships for one more season...

I grew up there and I always thought I was eligible for Czech citizenship but due to a technicality I’m actually Slovak-American
 
Ah.. hopefully she will make her debut in Olympic Qualification and score 5 goals against Iceland

I just received Slovak citizenship  so they are my team now, not Czechs.
But imagine my surprise when I looked at the roster and… no Lopusanova?

Ah! So you are a fellow American :D
 
Congrats on acquiring citizenship, it's always a huge milestone to gain a new citizenship ^^

I just received Slovak citizenship  so they are my team now, not Czechs.
But imagine my surprise when I looked at the roster and… no Lopusanova?

Congrats !  and welcome to the Dark side
 
sincere condolences   That´s however a very brave decision which will imply a lot of sufferance, sorrowfull frustrations and neverending disappointements, but hey once in a loooong period time when there is a sporting success somewhere, the feeling of joy and pride is incalculable I promise you
 
Yeah, not many official info being published into the public, but, I guess her club did not want to release her as her Bishop Kearney is going to play the American Hockey Chamipionship in a couple of days...

I just received Slovak citizenship  so they are my team now, not Czechs.
But imagine my surprise when I looked at the roster and… no Lopusanova?

I think these are all very exciting choices. With cricket and football, it’s the first time the top 10 most viewed global sports will all be at the Olympics (in some form). It’ll be unprecedented. And removing breakdancing was the right call.
 
I can’t help but think about how confusing cricket will be to everyone in the Czech Republic 😋 I don’t even know the rules myself…
 
I don’t like that we are getting even more discount spin-off versions of popular sports (lacrosse 6s, flag football). Hurts the prestige of the Games IMO especially since they are barely developed at a high level

Ah too bad, so Bruna missing a year of competition already automatically makes those two events an impossibility. Oh well, considering expenses are paid by the federation only for the two qualifying races (and so staying for the team sprint of Sunday would already be expensive because we have to pay that ourselves), I don't think she'd do the 10k anyway, let alone the races even later in the program if it was even possible

A certain amount of points is only necessary for the Skiathlon and Mass Start. Top 10 is enough for the individual.
Good luck!

From usually well infromed sources the different national hockey federations were already informed about the Men tournament qualification format for Milano/Cortina 2026.
 
Same format will be played as the Vancouver, Sochi, PyeongChang and Beijing tournaments.
 
12 teams tournament, 8 qualified directly via IIHF ranking after next year 2023 World Championships, 1 automatical host quota for Bella Italia and 3 will advance from 4 rounds qualification Tournaments, with 9th, 10th and 11th ranked IIHF 2023 country hosting the final qualification tournaments.
 
The final IIHF world ranking will be counted the usual way:
 
 
Last 4 WChs and last Olympic Tournament will be counted,
 
with the 2023 WCh having 100% counts, 2022 WCh 75%, WCh 2021 50% and WCh 2020 (since was not played due pandemic the 2019 will be used instead) 25%  and The last Olympics have 100% counting value.  
So basically the qualifying ranking right now for Milano looks so
 
Rank NOC WCh 2023 WCh 2022 WOG 2022 WCh 2021 WCh 2020(19) Total 1.     1200 1160 1120 1760 2.     1160 1060 1160 1690 3.     1040 1200 1200 1680 4.     1060 1120 1040 1615 5.     1120 1000 960 1580 6.     1100 960 1100 1580 7.     1000 1040 1000 1520 8.     940 1100 1020 1510                 9.     960 1020 1060 1495 10.     1020 900 900 1440 11.     920 920 940 1385                 12.     880 880 920 1330  
 

I don't think I'll be watching these Games any more. Not that they aren't fun, but it's obvious from the Opening Ceremony and today's short track that they're all about making a genocidal regime look good + pulling whatever strings possible to get them medals.
 
There are just better things to do with my time than supporting that. Especially since I'm a child of refugees from Communism, got to have some self-respect  Bye for now.

Well this is an actual disgusting result

Wonder what was on that clipboard the official was writing on.
Probably "what's your bank account number?"