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Kudos to the United States federation who clearly raised the best points. Even if teams of 4 coming back is unlikely if not impossible. Uruguay wrote a whole essay for eventing. They are perhaps announcing their intent of qualificationright here.

Feedbacks from the NFs are back. And damn... Some of these federations are just delusional. This mostly includes all these federations who believe that teams of 4 can make a comeback just because each team is entitled to enter an alternate athlete. As if the IOC would even consider raising the number of quotas from 200 to 251 (!!), which would be a necessity for the teams of 4 to be back. Czech Republic. "Jumping: teams of 4, while maintaining advance of 2 teams from the special qualifying competition of our qualifying group C, as per proposal". Okay, Czech Republic, whatever you say. I would also like if Olympic quotas could grow on trees. Austria is uber-bitter over Max Kuhner not making the Olympics in jumping. They propose the most ludicrous MER system ever. And Kuhner is not even a real Austrian. He is a German who took an easy way out (in terms of making championships)! https://inside.fei.org/system/files/ANNEX_15.3_GA 2021_PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION SYSTEM.pdf

Well, one would assume he would be very handy for a road time trial. He has raced over 150km on gravel roads.

How come this Ashton Lambie character is not even an Olympian or anything...? As small time of a WR holder as you can get these days....

Well, let's hope the IOC approves this and thus ends the dark age of joint flag bearers. I am not exactly hopeful, though...

Is that confirmed or is it a conspiracy theory?

Riesebeck will host the 2023 European Dressage Championships, meaning Germany will get to host it twice in a row. Normally, the Iberian peninsula would have been the prime candidate, but both Spain and Portugal withdrew their bids late in the process, so there you go.

Votes sent.

Apparently a Japanese gymnast got severely injured after falling off uneven bars. Injuries include spine damage...

And the award for the most convoluted system goes to.... Too mamy spots are reserved for the relays. And the mixed relay will only make things worse than it used to be.

She travelled for some acai too.

His claims were never about skiers weaker than him qualifying. He is roughly at the same level as them, if not lower. He merely got (extremely) jealous because the Project Bogota played smart.

Ellis O'Reilly was in Rio, though.

And yet he only gets 165 FIS points. FIS

At least he has a realistic chance of qualification, unlike the Guatemalan speed skater, who just doesn't. Considering it was someone's job to compose this list, they should have at least made some background checks.

We are present once again. As ever, we will be hoping for some Steven Bradbury qualification.

Oh no, again Champs Elysee

Lol the Guatemalan candidate will not even qualify. Same goes for Seun Adigunova. Though at least she already has the Olympic status.

Down to 26 songs. I was targeting 20 at this stage, but accepted additional 6 for 'further consideration'.

Boyd Martin beats Oliver Townend by 0.1 pens to win the inaugural Maryland 5* ! First American winner of a five-star event since 2008. What a crazy couple of months for the American eventing. It's a renaissance officially.

Suffice to say, Eteri's girls end up having fairly short careers due to overtraining. And if their bodies continue growing (like it tends to happen with teenagers), then their technique becomes useless and they end their careers extremely abruptly (see Zagitova). And this was while they were only doing the triples... Who knows what will become of the current quad pioneers...

The technical element score of 44. They scored 39.21 in Finland. http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs_pb_00110439.htm

First listen completed. Curious songs all around. This edition must be the low-water mark for the songs in English, right?

They got their qualifying score for the rhythm dance in Finland, but failed in the free skate. Still plenty of time left, though.

15-year old Kamila Valieva set a new WR for the free skate of 174 pts. But she is another pupil of Eteri Tutberidze, so of course we can already tell where this is going...