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Bermuda (and Caymans) are still British territory so it's not that bad.

Fiji will not change its flag at the end... Why did they change their mind? - Because Fiji won rugby gold in Rio. "It has been deeply moving for me as Prime Minister to witness the way Fijians have rallied around the national flag as our Rugby Sevens team brought home Olympic gold for Fiji ... and I know this sentiment is shared by most Fijians," Mr Bainimarama said in a statement. Yep, let's just have those colonial flags forever ...

Eights are almost similar to those weird gymnastics events from early Olympics which had a lot of people in the team.

Great, remove one of the most exciting boats and replace it with one that just isn't competitive. Great. W4- had a grand total of 5 boats at the last year's Worlds, with USA winning the title by 6 seconds...

It's strange that they have a special mascot

Well, we all know that these new additions are a joke. What, we will have 6 teams in baseball/softball, 10 people per category in karate... And people think that women's boxing quotas are thin.

Big changes were made in eventing during that time. It became much more TV and spectator friendly, most importantly.

I must have forgot that. But anyway, I do remember that he didn't celebrate like some winter world champion

Nah, but punching the air would be just fine

I don't think others are much too excited either. For example, I watched men's pursuit today and it's not like Otcenas was crazy happy with his win

Summer biathlon has always been just some Eastern European competition

Meite tied NR WJR for Kejelcha in 3000m

WRs are just flying away this year

Rumour has it that women's slalom is also on blacklist

We have some new emoticons it seems

Korea

It's interesting how many people want canoe slalom and 50km walk out. The only events where Slovakia won gold

See more at boxing thread

Would this count as a connection? "My father has a factory of sport clothes in Togo and we took the opportunity to represent this country," said Dipol, sporting Togo's bright yellow racing suit.

Or these beauties http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2567921/The-totally-fraudulent-lives-Montana-couple-created-Dominicas-Winter-Olympic-team-consists-them.html

Yes, and that's Simon Kammerlander. Beautiful Bolivian name... I mean, it's cool when countries like Lebanon and Pakistan send their own sklers, but recently so many weak skiers are just looking to represent some exotic nation at the Olympics (whether they have some distant connection with the country or not even that). That really isn't Olympic spirit, it really isn't.

For Sochi it was only 1 year

Yeah, we will not only know all of the teams, but we will also know all of the groups one and a half year before Olympic tournament starts. Makes so much sense.

@hckosice How many threads are left?

Samoa Chinese got cought