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Cycling.

Meanwhile, America is allowed to enter a time trial-only athlete, against all regulations and precedents.

Interesting how Mr Bach keeps insisting he makes a trip to Hiroshima, even though locals are against it, and the actual key people of the Olympics - the athletes - are dropping like flies at this point due to both true and false positive tests, or just ludicrous quarantine rules. But then again, who am I to question the Master of the Universe himself?

Technically they did not refuse. They forwarded the invitation to the player and then he was the one who declined.

is also there, ahead of Bolivia.

Opti Evans De Minaur

So Honduras will get a full swimming introduction. Wow.

Projected heats draw for dressage.

Cerundolo is in, but not Balazs?

Maybe Jozef Kovalik will sneak in. @hckošice Dellien is getting closer too.

Looks like Sweden dropped out of women's road cycling too... Nobody got the reallocation? Mexico got it for the time trial. This would suggest that declined. https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/official-documents/tokyo-2020---olympic-games/20210714-tokyo2020-entries.pdf

Fast facts about the first Liege-Tokyo flight from Tuesday evening. 18 hours 15 minutes – flight time Liege to Tokyo, with a touchdown in Dubai Aircraft detail: Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777-F (flight numbers EK9388 LGG-DXB, EK9442 DXB-HND) 19 flying stables on-board Dimensions of the flying stables: 317cms long, 244cms wide, 233cms high 14-17° Celsius – on-board temperature 36 Dressage horses – teams from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Portugal and host nation Japan, and individual horses from Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Morocco. 22,700kgs +/- total weight of horses flying from Liege 630kg is the average weight of a Dressage horse 13,500kgs of horse equipment 12,000 kgs of feed (not including in-flight meals & snacks) 40 litres of water per horse Total transport trivia. 247 - total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Olympic Games 78 – total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Paralympic Games 630kg – average weight of a Dressage horse; 515kg – average weight of an Eventing horse; 610kg – average weight of a Jumping horse 14 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games 5 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games 100,000kgs - total weight of the horse equipment (including saddles, bridles, boots, bandages, rugs, lungeing equipment, headcollars, grooming kits, shoes & studs, wheelbarrows & pitch forks) 60,000kgs – total feed weight (feed/haylage) 185 – total number of truck journeys between Haneda airport and the equestrian park at Baji Koen

Wait a minute... Did Samantha Stosur seriously qualify for the singles here by virtue of being the 2011 US Open Champion?? This qualification system.

I can't wait for softball openers. I will be working next week, so no football for me (maybe just a replay or two). Also no Opening Ceremony (which will depressing anyways).

Safe golds for China/Russia are indeed pretty much the safest golds overall.

There were cases of athletes receiving reallocations even after the Opening ceremony, but I guess we are living in special times right now.

Well, I remember muting Bach's speech in Pyeongchang, so I am building on it...

Now let's hope our girl gets her in the draw, just to achieve one victory...

Has anyone seen 'First' (London 2012 Official Film)? I just did, and it is astonishingly bad! Around 95% of the film is in slow-motion for no reason.

For reference, the previous record field in canoe sprint dates back to Sydney 2000 (M K1 1000 m - 31 athletes).

Meanwhile, there are 42 athletes entered for W K1 500 m. A possibility not even predicted by the ICF's progression system. Crazy to have a sport increasing max starters per NOC at this day and age.

Let the Olympic Village challenge begin! First confirmed neighbors -

It appears Estonia declined one of their M time trial places. It went to Latvia. Also, somehow was allowed to send a time trial-only athlete - Amber Neben?? This is so shady. https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/cycling-road/entries-by-event-women-s-individual-time-trial.htm