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@phelps how many World Cups we have till the end of Olympic qualification (April 2024) ? speaking of men's Sabre, I see only two more World Cups scheduled, in Italy and Hungary. shouldn't be another one between Feb-Mar-Apr ? (maybe that was supposed to be in Poland and FIE is looking for a new host?)

after the first half it looked like Brazil is going to win 6-0 or something. the first half was this one-sided I know U17 WC is not a big deal but that was a fun match. it's rare to see such a turnaround in a match

Yes I think it will be reallocated based on the individual world ranking which means (if I'm not wrong) only 2 to 5 individual quotas will be available in the final individual qualifiers. minimum 2 and max 5.

Great, 3 in the semifinals in total but 0 quotas. most probably nobody in Archery for the first time since 2004. this 2024 Olympics is just getting better and better.

actually he is here facing one of our guys in QF in about 30 minutes he is listed as Dhiraj

it's tough to have two in the semis and losing them both! Fallah just needed an 8 to win but ... and now she is crying while she is shooting for the 3rd place! never saw such a thing in this sport

I'm watching this AFG/AUS match on a Afghan TV (and they are showing commercials after every single stop ) Cricket is probably the thing that everybody in Afghanistan likes, even those Taliban Neanderthals. I think they already made history by winning 4 matches but I hope they continue their dream run today and even advance to the SF. people in that country suffered (and still suffering) enough, they deserved a bit of happiness at least.

I wish 😁 but im afraid not That will be reallocated to the final OQT

I think there will be a separate ranking round as well. At least that was my understanding when i checked the schedule

what if Australia wins the gold in Qatar ? will they take the Oceania quota ? or that will open the spot for NZ ? I mean which one comes first ? World quotas or Oceania quota ?

I'm a bit confused here, Asian Championship (which is also an Olympic qualifier) is a different event than the Asian OQT ? the Asian OQT will be held right after this one Asian Champs is about the team quota and Asian OQT is about the individual quota so what if South Korea wins the gold in men's team recurve (which they will anyway) the Asian quota will go the next best team or will be reallocated to the final OQT ?

Our shooting is in disastrous situation and our shooters can't even make it to the finals, let alone winning quotas (the only girl who went to the final and eventually won the silver already had the quota ) and our Olympic Champion can't even make the team ! but we had a surprise today, winning two bronze medals in Trap ! (team and individual) our NOC didn't even send the Trap team to the Asian Games because they were considered "weak" it's weird to make your international competition final debut at the age of 53! I believe it's our first ever medal in Shotgun events. but still finishing 3rd (despite being a great result) is disappointing with only 2 quotas available.

actually that wasn't his decision just because he is good in both styles he was forced to do that because of the great Lopez. that was a desperate try to just be in the Olympics, he knew top FS guys will beat him quite easily poor guy tried FS for few months and when he went to the Pan-Am qualifiers he was told "no sorry you can't wrestle because you won a quota for Cuba before" I don't know what's in his mind this time, will he try to beat Lopez ? I mean he is 100 years old and Pino is like a giant, he has to beat Lopez but yeah Lopez is not human aging doesn't apply to him. ps: same as 2020, Pino can't qualify in FS because he already won a quota for Cuba in GR.

let me give you a detailed answer people who know nothing about this sport usually can't understand the difference between GR and FS. I even remember some "wise" people even in totallympics suggested having 3 GR weights and 3 FS weights, like a wrestler can easily switch between styles. 50 years ago? maybe but nowadays you can't find a single wrestler in high level who tries both styles (yeah Taishi Narikuni tried Greco after winning the world title in FS but failed miserably) kids switch styles when they are younger to find what they can do better. but when they settle into one of those two styles that never changes. those genius guys in UWW (previously FILA) tried to find a way to show the world these styles are different. as far as I know they came up with two solutions. (there were other solutions like having different mat colors but that was costly) 1) let the Greco guys wrestle naked ! obviously I mean just the upper body I remember I heard one of their officials saying that's more "attractive" 2) having different weight classes they eventually went for #2. this way they just want to show the world these styles are different. and yes I know this is extremely stupid but UWW/FILA officials were never smart

Japan easily manhandled Korea to join Bahrain in the final I think it's fair to say that QAT-BRN and JPN are in tier 1 in this continent. with IRN, KOR, KSA and KUW in tier 2 and while surprises happen sometimes but there is a big gap between tier 1 and 2. Qatar is still the better team but their top guys are aging. today Frankis Marzo singlehandedly gifted the win to Bahrain by his two dumb attempts in last 2 minutes . he used to be their top scorer. both of their Cuban guys had a terrible day, Capote also missed lost of shots. Cubans don't work anymore. maybe it's time to naturalize some Danish players

big big surprise. Bahrain beat Qatar in the semifinal and they did it without two of their best players (one got injured early and the other one received a direct red card in the 1st half) history repeated once again, 4 years ago Bahrain also defeated Qatar in the SF. if I'm not wrong that was the only defeat of this Qatar team (World selection team) under Valero Rivera in an Asian competition.

This is officially the worst Karate competition ever, maybe after all IOC has some valid reasons to not keep Karate in the Olympic program with this kind of terrible organization They are trying a new scoring system, refs are apparently not familiar with it and BIG BIG mistakes happen a lot. I mean something like Blue lands a punch but they give a point to the red I already saw two matches being replayed because of those kind of mistakes (that's what I'm aware of, the number is probably much more)

The World U23 Championship starts this Monday but without Iran, why ? because Albania denied visa the entire team. simply and Iran was supposed to send a strong team including some of our senior team members Finland was supposed to host this event, but UWW took it away from them and gave it to Albania because they wouldn't allow Russians to participate. how funny there must be severe consequences for countries doing this. but there isn't and even tiny little Albania allow itself to do what it's daddy does all the time. lesson 1: if you don't want certain team to participate, don't say that out loud months before the event (like what Finland did)

because they are morons ? most continents use their continental Champs for the Olympic Qualifier (except Pan-Am for obvious reason of having 2 confederations) but in Asia we always had a separate qualification tournament which is totally unnecessary . but this all started with that West vs East war in Asian Handball. things look cool now but at some point 20-25 years ago every match including a west Asian team vs an East Asian team was a war with biased officiating, fights etc. people probably still remember what happened in 2008 Olympic qualifiers. where IHF finally stepped in and ordered a re-match. so I guess nobody ever realized "we don't need this separate qualifier anymore" yet Asian Championship at the start of 2024 could be the Olympic qualifier too. Asian Games was in a bad time, some teams didn't have their full squads. (we still don't have ours, some of our Euro-based players didn't show up again)

Draw

two more medalists on the doping list https://ita.sport/sanction/asian-games-hangzhou/ one guy from Pakistan Kabaddi team (probably that only disqualifies him, not the whole team) but ... 63.5kg boxing gold medalist Baatarsukh, Chinzorig from Mongolia is here too. that's something ps: I really thank ITA for making a list. in past few editions it was impossible to have a full list of doping cheaters. and OCA never even cared to fix the medals. for example I know some guys in Kurash and Jujitsu tested positive in Jakarta 2018 but OCA never said anything about medal reallocation or even disqualification of those cheaters.

I was hoping to see they crown Tommy B as the lifelong king of IOC. he shouldn't be just IOC's president, he should be the King. I mean he acts like a true dictator, why not giving him a throne

I can tell you 9 of them, no idea about the other 2 (sailing maybe ? I'm not familiar with that sport at all) 2 Kayak Cross events Group all-round Gymnastics rhythmic 2 surfing events maybe with 4 different weightlifting classes

oh well, this guy single handedly eliminated our team in the QF Iran finished 5th with just 1 defeat which was by just 1 point in a game this guy scored 36pts (including the last and winning basket) that's totally unfair I think our basketball team deserved a medal after all. a wooden one at least

They have some conditions to award a wild card but they are very very easy to achieve, technically if they can't allocate it based on universality places. that will come back to the next best athlete in the ranking but in Taekwondo they usually can find a suitable athlete in each weight for the Wild Card. or at least that's what I expect