Braulio

Qualified Team Men's

It’s a miracle 

bottle a 4-0 lead and lose 5-4 to . Gonna be some shock qualifiers today. 

You want some real Mexican telenovela drama?
 
Well, it turns out that our team qualified two competitors for the Women's final, Mariana Arceo & Tamara Vega. Either one could surprise and get a direct ticket, just like Emiliano Hernandez did last year, but also they're in direct competition for a spot via ranking, with Arceo having a decent advantage against Vega.
 
Anyway, some time ago, Vega disclosed that she was the victim of grooming & sexual violence by his former coach Sergio Escalante (himself a former Olympian) and as a result, a criminal case was filed against him, with resulted in his exclusion at competitions by both the national federation and UIPM.
 
However, at last year's World Championships, Escalante (who had been acting behind the scenes as Arceo's coach) found his way into the athletes lodging and is claimed that when Mexican delegation found out, they asked security to escort him out, which caused an outburst from Arceo who immediately went wild and accused Vega of orchestrating the whole thing, even going as far as to make death threats to Vega.
 
So, of course, competition tomorrow between those two will be personal, even more because our NOC has already nominated Mayan Oliver as part of the Olympic team (a quota she gained at the PanAm Games) and thus, they are not likely to change their mind and reject the continental quota, even if both competitors could qualify via ranking.

The stuff of dreams! 
 

Since her injuries KJT has only been average at the hurdles. She only ran 13.50 in Budapest last summer on her way to the World crown.

Just got worse for @heywoodu
 Niels Laros misses Paris

Final men’s and women’s quotas go to  Pereira and  Cossio.
 
@mrv86

Andy Pereira for Cuba

Marcos 
 
He always got eliminated at this tournament, the exception being the 2016 Olympics, and now he can repeat.

Hello everybody,
 
I am new to this forum - I am a huge fan of the Olympic Games and Eurovision as well. I had been to London and Rio in 2012 and 2016 - furthermore I had been to Düsseldorf 2011, Malmö 2013, København 2014, Wien 2015, Stockholm 2016 and Lisboa 2018. I follow Eurovision since 1976 closely and the Olympics since Sarajevo 1984.

I cross my fingers for the following six songs/countries to qualify from semi 1:
 
 Hrvatska,  Ireland/Eire,  Lietuva,  Luxembourg,   Polska,  Slovenija

I cross my fingers for the following two songs/countries to qualify from semi 2:

 Nederlanden,  Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera

My favourite TOP TEN this year:

 France,  Hrvatska,  Ireland/Eire,  Italia,  Lietuva,  Luxembourg,   Nederlanden,  Polska,  Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera,  Slovenija

 

World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup - Leg 2: Paris 
 
 
 
Women Duet Technical Final:
1.)  Shortman / Thorpe - 260.0517
2.)  Higa / Yasunaga - 258.1783
3.)  Lamothe / Simoneau - 255.3716
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4.)  Aleksiiva / Aleksiiva - 254.6116
5.)  Moshynska / Shmonina - 248.1433
6.)  Czarkowski / Remati - 242.2415
7.)  Hur / Lee - 227.7783
8.)  Hoevertsz / Morales - 218.9385
9.)  Goncalves / Vieira - 207.9351
10.)  Ozhogina Ozhogin / Tio Casas - 207.5833
 
 
 
Team Technical Final:
1.)  - 273.5379
2.)  - 269.5396
3.)  - 253.6042
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4.)  - 247.0567
5.)  - 233.0584
6.)  - 206.3875
7.)  - 194.3211
8.)  - 184.0911
9.)  - 171.2335
10.)  - 170.5758
11.)  - 163.6380

Here: https://ckc.immediac.com/draws/result
 
And Women'c K2 500 Quota -  

My moments since I began watching the Olympics, for Mexico, not that we win a lot of medals but at least since Sydney the haul is more 'decent' than before that edition.
 
- Mexican Soccer Team in London taking the gold unexpectedly, first and probably most important achievement for this sport like ever
 
- Soraya Jimenez weightlifting gold medal in Sydney, first for a mexican woman ever
 
- Maria Espinoza and Guillermo Perez taking gold medals in taekwondo at Beijing 2008
 
- Aida Roman & Mariana Avitia Silver & Bronze in Women's Archery in London 2012, first time 2 mexican women stood on the same podium
 
- And maybe an infamous moment, Sydney 2000 Men's 20 km walk, Mexico wining gold and bronze, Bernardo Segura wining, celebrating, but getting DQ and notified while he was having a call on national tv covering the games with the then selected as Mexico's next president 

Uruguay has just 10 Olympic medals, so there's not much to choose.
 
The top two are the 1924 and 1928 gold medals in football, of course.
 
The latest medal was a silver by cyclist Milton Wynants in 2000.

Great result for the new pairing in the men's 3m synchro, now Osmar Olvera with Juan Celaya who placed 4th in Tokyo at this event.
 
But now a big controversy is coming about the situation of who will be competing in Paris with Osmar? the organising body that rules aquatic sports in Mexico already announced that Osmar & Rodrigo Diego were the selected divers for the Olympics in the synchro event, BUT given Rodrigo slowly but steady going downhill with bad competitions and a bit of a mental struggle state in the last months, now they decided to change and give a try with Juan Celaya.
 
This pairing with Celaya makes their debut and what a result, a big 420 points total and lots of improvement in the synchronised part of course.
 
What will happen? kick out Rodrigo? but they already selected him, now how they tell him sorry but no, we take back. Rodrigo could challenge this of course but in al fairness if he is struggling he could sacrifice his spot and let Celaya take the better opportunity.
 
I dont want a scandal with this situation to affect mexican aspirations on this event at Paris, for me the 3m synchro is the biggest chance to get a medal among with Osmar individually wining at least the bronze.
 
 

China has been stripped of their gold medal in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay because of a doping violation. Updated podium is,
 
Gold:  USA
Silver:  Australia
Bronze:  Canada

Cervantes

Russian doping news from 2012. 
 
CAS has ruled that Yekaterina Poistogova-Guliyeva is to be stripped of her silver medal from the London Olympic 800m following evidence from the Moscow lab database

I thought that this time no mexican fencer would be at the Games but thanks to Gibran Zea we will have representation. 
 

I thought that this time no mexican fencer would be at the Games but thanks to Gibran Zea we will have representation. 
 

Quotas aside, Mariana Aguilar from Mexico finished top 10 for the second year in a row 😃
 
I hope she can also be in the medal race at the Olympics.

Mexico is going to have a fencer, at least.
Another sport that we’ll be present @Braulio

I hope Nasar wins the Gold and the doper Lopez doesn't make to the podium in Paris

Mexico’s best chance for a quota, Nataly Michel (women’s fool), is out as she announced her pregnancy, and thus, a reserve will be forced to compete unprepared in less than a week.