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They removed the Canoe Sprint file (at least for now)

and some people thought Taliban is different this time in their official announcement they said women better to not leave home at all !! but if they do they have to cover their faces. if not their male relatives (husband or father) will go to jail! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/7/taliban-orders-afghan-women-to-cover-their-faces-in-public

and this time next year we will have the news about Chendgu 2024 ...

Really really disappointing, having the games in 2023 will conflict with lots of Olympic qualifiers. I hope OCA seriously looks for another host. you can't trust China with hosting things anymore even though it's probably not possible to organize such a huge event in less than a year.

when we are supposed to have all qualification documents ? June 2024 ? with Tommy B in charge nothing surprises me anymore (the last time I criticized him here they realized few documents in less than an hour so I hope it works again) but what's interesting for me that some sports didn't even notify everybody about their qualification documents being published. for example nobody in my country knows that Wrestling qualification is already out there. our WR federation is usually pretty quick in publishing these kind of news and they certainly doesn't know that. even in weightlifting, IWF didn't write a thing about it in its website. I had to contact some journalists and send them the PDF, now it's published in news websites here and everybody knows. specially in weightlifting everybody should know the qualification system already to make plans. (also be more careful about doping and watching younger athletes) I believe half of those sports wrote something in their websites about Olympic qualification documents being published. in most of them still nobody knows

who knows. maybe they are in Australia uploading files while in vacation

this is the 2nd K1 event that Iranians are missing. they missed last year World Championship in UAE too. actually since Olympics Iran didn't participate in any non-Asian tournaments !! I'm afraid we won't see them in international competition for a while (except Asian tournaments) reason? officially nobody knows. unofficially I heard things but I can't write them here.

Shotokan is the dominant school here as well. that's surprising to see most big names come from Shitoryu (and even Gojoryu)

it's 14 actually. yeah 12 will qualify but I believe France will qualify 1 athlete at least itself (which will annul host nation's direct quota) and there is a good chance they can't find an eligible athlete for the wild card. still it will be really hard to qualify for everybody.

This is very disappointing to cancel such a big event this close to the competition. specially when things are going back to normal in most countries postponing it to the next year is also a bad idea because of the Olympic qualifiers in most sports next year. I still hope it doesn't happen. @Vic Liu I asked you about this couple times before sorry but now I have a valid reason to ask again. what's our chance ?

all FINA qualification documents are now removed from IOC website

oh thanks. I read it something like 5 times and didn't notice that

I have hard time to understand weightlifting qualification https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Weightlifting.pdf that section "Consequences due to Anti-Doping Rule Violations" can someone explain this one in simple English how many doping violations will get you banned ? 2 or 3 ? what's the difference between parts (b) and (e) the rest of the qualification is easy to understand, much better than the 2020 version which was probably the worst qualification system ever

the last time we had an update (on qualification documents) was 8 April, 11 days ago. any idea when Tommy B is going to publish more of those PDFs?

first ever IWF Street Weightlifting Competition in mixed team format https://iwf.sport/2022/04/14/iwf-unveils-new-iwf-street-weightlifting-competition-and-athlete-ambassador-program/ those two words together to makes Tommy happy

does it mean China is slowly changing its policy of (almost) not going anywhere? or this is just an exception since Mongolia is your neighbor.

Asian Championships entries https://uww.org/article/wrestleulaanbaatar-asian-championships-entries very surprised to see Japan, Korea and China altogether in the start list ! specially China they are ignoring most of the World Championships even in their favorite sports and all of a sudden they want to send a team to the Asian Wrestling Championship!? @Vic Liu how come that's even possible ? even though I won't believe it until I see Chinese wrestlers on the mat it looks like most of Asian countries are bringing their A team probably preparing for the Asian Games. but for Iran this is a mixed team. a mixture of underachieved veterans, some bright future talents and bunch of nobodies per our "rules" Asian Champ is a part of our trial process for the Worlds/Asian Games and those who won a World/Olympic medal last year are exempt from competing here (it sounds weird because participating at the Continental Championship should be an honor not a burden ) therefore none of our big names are here thanks to these new weird rules. (there are only 2 former world medalist in 20-man squad )

in a world without double standards they should ban those athletes (for 10 years) and countries (for 4 years) instead of just saying "Ok, bye" but unfortunately we don't live in such a world.

yeah that's why I was confused. either way this part is not clear and I believe we will have some problems when the qualification tournaments start. if they seriously have such a rule (which I doubt) it's better for Oceania to cancel its qualification tournament, that way they still can have 8 athletes in the Games.

it doesn't make sense, they didn't mention it anywhere else in the document they didn't make Oceania an exemption , and they also didn't mention two quotas. it says "a quota place" to me it makes sense to take the 2nd quota in this situation (with 3 or 2 competitors) but still the tournament champion qualifies for the Olympics

how do you read this (from Taekwondo document) does it mean they don't award quota if less than 4 athletes registered for a weight ? it doesn't make sense that happened a lot before and it's highly possible again even in Africa and Asia in heavier weights. in Oceania it's a sure thing in almost all weights (because they limit NOCs to 2 per gender)

there was no extra quota actually in case that was necessary they would take it from Asia

interestingly UWW gives no quota to the host country (in Tokyo Japan was guaranteed 1 quota for each gender in case they fail to qualify and everybody knew they won't) I believe France will qualify at least 1 or 2 wrestlers (most probably in the women's side) but nothing is guaranteed for them. it's possible to not see a single French wrestler in Paris 2024!

IOC itself is uploading more sports including basketball, boxing, rugby and Archery (beside wrestling and shooting) https://olympics.com/ioc/documents/olympic-games/paris-2024-olympic-games

only one change World Champions now offers 5 spots (instead of 6) and there will be 1 more quota available for the last chance qualifier. it will be 3 instead of 2