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Looks like Inge Jansen will not be going to RIo. Hard Dutch standards. http://www.inge-jansen.com/

Switching now to some cycling from 1948 in London.

Tonga in badminton.

Wow, what a surprise! Good for Tonga.

Who knows, maybe hckosice secretly cheers for Slovenia (aka Slovenian wins make him happy too).

3:0 No idea why I predicted 2:2

Yep, that's Ilya Ilyin for you. The weightlifter of the year. Looks like he was doped since forever. Seriously though, how many athletes have lost gold medals from two different Olympics?

And the USA eventing team has been named. Phillip Dutton (Cubalawn) Lauren Kieffer (Veronica) Boyd Martin (Blackfoot Mystery) Clark Montgomery (Loughan Glen) Travelling reserve is Maya Black with Doesn't Play Fair. What a cool name for a horse. Phillip going to his 6th Olympics, Boyd going to 2nd.

Some schedules are just weird and senseless. Also the swimming with very late finals, or athletics with morning finals.

What? This is a very non-Olympics schedule! What happened to having women's team sports on odd days and men's team sports on even days?

Similar to Sharapova's case really, not knowing what you should know is not an excuse.

This is the first time that Tajikistan will compete in some men's stadium event that is not hammer throw.

Here's some rowing from Rome Olympics in 1960. Beautiful venue.

The qualification period for MES (minimum eligibility standards) ended yesterday. I think all made it, the only questionmark is South Korean dressage rider. Germany announced their long list for eventing in Rio. Long list actually contains "inner circle" which is the likely team for Rio. Blocks 1 & 2 is likely the reserve list. How much would I like to see Bettina Hoy in Rio though! Inner circle Sandra Auffarth (Opgun Louvo) Michael Jung (Sam, Takinou, Rocana) Ingrid Klimke (Hale Bob) Andreas Ostholt (So is et) Block 1 Bettina Hoy (Designer) Julia Krajewski (Samourai du Thot) Dirk Schrade (Hop and Skip) Block 2 Claas Hermann Romeike (Cato) Andreas Dibowski (It's me) In other news, USA eventing team will be named today. Meanwhile, Danish dressage championships ended. Podium finishers Dufour, Kasprzak and Kirk Thinggaard are in "crystal water" for selection. Final team to be confirmed on July 17th.

Boxing -49kg -1 +1 Boxing -52kg -1 +1

List is quite big. I might stick with equestrian this time, and mountain bike.

I think this was the only chance for those countries to do something. By 2020 a lot of new countries will emerge (that are not very limited with their population). This only became an Olympic sport. Samoa failed to qualify, if Fiji fails to win a medal they never will. More or less.

Okay, another sport I won't be following in Rio.

Belgium scores

http://www.worldrugby.org/live-blog/128

Final game is actually extra long. All other matches lasted just 14 minutes (2x7 min).

Here's a lecture for Spaniards.

Technically they lost quite easily to Hong Kong yesterday, so you never know.

Looks like Spain really wants to do "France" in water polo...

It's scheduled for 18:30 CET