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33 days to the Opening and exactly one month left to the first football matches.

DeeDee Trotter is the next casualty. Long story short, there are actually a lot of medalist that failed to qualify.

Wales and Iceland obviously. Wales - Iceland (ALE ELA)

And the prophecy before quarterfinals was "Polyan" (meaning that Poland would win it).

Busy day today. Dressage from Fritzens (with switching to Tour de France on breaks) Finish of women's cross country at MTB Worlds Finish of Utah Beach stage Golf PGA Tour (trying something new before Olympics ) ITA-GER penalites at Euro

Reese performed the longest jump in the World since 2004.

They got only five host quotas for boxing.

Draws are available on AIBA twitter. https://twitter.com/AIBA_Boxing

What kind of joke this is? 79 boxers for 26 quotas. 10 or more boxers in only two categories... 6 boxers for 3 quotas in -52kg (and one of them is Nicaragua)...

She was easily in 2nd place, but had a puncture with less than 1km to go. After changing the tyre she lost the bronze in a photo finish sprint. Just can't be more unlucky than that.

No German victory on Utah Beach.

What a crazy last lap... And what a heartbreak for Wloszczowska who is crying in the finish.

Anyone has entry list for the final tounrament?

Tour de France of an Olympic year starts... Always a sign for me that Olympics are sooo close.

Wow, that record took some beating.

Meanwhile, Canadian federation is making a huge mess with their selections. Unlike all other nations, they are keeping their selection criterias in secrecy. Riders literally didn't know that they were in contention for Rio selection until FEI published the nominated entries (national federations had to send their nominated entries to FEI...). So much about being transparent and fair. This caused all kinds of other problems. For example, their dressage riders believed that average of top 4 scores counts as criteria for selection. But later it turned out that these 4 scores must come from at least 3 different competitions. This also caused some "promotional judging" among Canadian judges. More about it here. http://www.equestrianconnection.com/newsshow.asp?int_id=1493

Estonia

We shall accept that quota if offered. I haven't found any recent article about that yet, but back in February our federation said that Marić will be waiting for an invitation.

Not fully official yet, but some other users here also say she's in. You have a summary of qualification here.

Amen to that.

Sweden Dressage Team Patrik Kittel (Deja) Therese Nilshagen (Dante Weltino) Juliette Ramel (Buriel) Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven (Don Auriello) Great mixture of experience and inexperience. Kittel and Vilhelmson-Silfven have already represented Sweden at a lot of championships while Nilshagen and Ramel never did so (Ramel only on junior levels while Nilshagen not even that).

Eventing -1 -1 +1 +1

FEI updated the qualification list. Switzerland and Belarus declined quotas in eventing and that's how Poland and Italy got them. Sadly, we now lose Belarus in equestrian. Don't know what happened. Tseliapushkina was supposed to go with Passat to their third straight Olympics... Competing on the same horse for three Olympics is remarkable achievment and it very rarely happens.

MTB Cycling -1 -1 +1 +1 MTB Cycling -1 +1

Added mountain bike, with and getting wild cards!