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As someone, who thinks ICC rankings are useless, I would be happy if they are not a criteria for qualification but I think they will have atleast 1 quota via rankings to ensure that the top 3 (India, England and Australia) don't miss out.

With only 6 spots, don't think there is space for Continental qualifiers and Host quota. I would have 2026 World Cup Winner. Three qualifiers (these can be semi-continental with some continents merged) with 1 spot each. Rest 2 to rankings.

There won't be Olympic Games in 2036. After cancellation of 28 and 32 Games, the world would simply stop caring for Olympics.

Don't agree at all. This is surely good news for all conspiracy theorists. Either the declassified files validate their theory by agreeing with it or are further proof that "X" is using this declassification as smoke screen to hide their involvement.

And the winning Nigerian team has such an interesting set of names: "Peculiar, Lucky, Victory, Annointed with Beauty on the bench"

Absolute loyalty is the main criteria for any job in dictatorship. (USA is not but Republican party is fully under Trump's control). Also, more tragicomic is the situation of Pro-Palestinian people who were angry with Biden-Harris and may have either switched sides or not voted. Trump is gonna have the most Pro-Israel Security Establishment in years. Edit: I absolutely disagree with the quoted tweet. We shouldn't expect the people who are fighting inflation to care about global events.

Try and see if you can access Disney+Hotstar with VPN. https://olympics.com/en/news/pro-kabaddi-league-pkl-2024-season-11-watch-live-streaming-telecast-india

After Zika, Covid and bed bugs we have found the new reason because of which Olympics are going to be cancelled. Brace for 3.5 years of updates on how Trump's X policy or Y statement will result in cancellation of LA Games.

Though I don't agree with Kho Kho and Yoga as Olympic games, I don't see why should we not put them on the long list as sports we are ready to drop. And if Lacrosse, Flag Football, Breaking can be Olympic sports, anything can be. Of course this all depends on us actually winning the right to host. There was much enthusiasm around bidding when Mumbai hosted IOC session but after that (and after Modi's reduced mandate in last elections) I am not sensing same commitment from government. And even if govt. was fully committed, winning the rights is not easy.

Big swing towards Republican across USA. Is there any state where Harris has done better than Biden?

ICC will devise the qualification rules in such a manner that there is very very high chance that India qualifies. I am expecting ranking based qualifications. And no host nation quota.

One suggestion. Reserve the first post for qualification details. PDF/Overview/Important dates, whatever format everyone agrees on. Personally, I see this change as a positive, as it reduces the clutter and athletes/fans anyway think more on the line of 4 year Olympic cycle rather than year.

One of them might have been deliberate but most were genuine foul throws wherein he lost balance.

But he was struggling. He had 5 foul throws. Its just his class that the 1 valid throw was enough to get Silver.