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Honestly, more than Olympics, DT is dying due to non-inclusion in World Cups. What is stopping ISSF from including DT, 50m Pistol and 50m Rifle Prone in World Cups? Pistol and Rifle events (like Center Fire Pistol, 25m Standard Pistol, Prone in Rifle) and all such have already died but they still have decent participation in WC because it is easier for Rifle and Pistol shooters to focus on Olympic/WC events year long and take part in these additional events as practice or those who miss out on main events can take part in these events. Sadly, there are not many shotgun shooters who regularly take part in two events. So, there is simply no incentive for a shooter to continue shooting Double Trap just for one event in the whole year. If it was also part of World Cups, then it going out of Olympics would still be a blow but atleast manageable.

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 27th - July 7th, 20198 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 6th 2019, h. 16:00 Argentina 1 0 Chile Final Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 7th 2019, h. 17:00 Brazil 2 0 Peru [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round June 22nd - July 7th, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 6th 2019, h. 17:00 England 1 0 Sweden Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 7th 2019, h. 17:00 United States 2 1 Netherlands [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round June 29th - July 7th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Final Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 7th 2019, h. 21:15 (GMT-5) Mexico 2 1 United States [/hide]

[hide] Knockout RoundJuly 5th - July 19th, 201916 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 5th 2019, h. 18:00 Morocco 1 0 Benin July 5th 2019, h. 21:00 Uganda 0 1 Senegal July 6th 2019, h. 18:00 Nigeria 0 0 Cameroon July 6th 2019, h. 21:00 Egypt 2 0 South Africa July 7th 2019, h. 18:00 Madagascar 1 0 Congo DR July 7th 2019, h. 21:00 Algeria 2 0 Guinea July 8th 2019, h. 18:00 Mali 1 2 Cote d'Ivoire July 8th 2019, h. 21:00 Ghana 0 0 Tunisia [/hide]

A lot of Indians wanted India to lose yesterday, to eliminate Pakistan. But, the matter of fact is Pakistan is not eliminated even after India's loss. Pakistan can still qualify for Semis. Also, Indian think tank would have preferred to win all the matches, qualify for Semis as top team and hope we face Pakistan in semis, because frankly it would have been a cake walk for us. Now, we will finish 2nd behind Australia and most likely face winner of New Zealand/England match in semis, which is a much tougher match. Also, if you have followed cricket in last couple of years, you would know England is a very good team who have been consistently scoring 350+ scores when batting first for quite some time. So, they scoring 300+ yesterday means nothing. Heck, even in this WC, they have scored 300+ everytime they have batted first including massive 386 and 397 against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. All three matches that England have lost in this WC have been while chasing. While, of late India have been better at defending the score and not chasing (since we have brittle middle-lower batting line-up). So, all this theory of India throwing the match to eliminate Pakistan is believed by a) Indians who think no one can be better than us on a given day and hence, all the matches we lose are part of some grand strategy b) Pakistanis who believe Indians are always trying to hurt them. and c) naive people who believe in every conspiracy theory they read on internet.

[hide] Knockout Round June 29th - July 7th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Semifinals Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 2nd 2019, h. 19:30 (GMT-7) Haiti 0 1 Mexico July 3rd 2019, h. 20:30 (GMT-5) Jamaica 0 1 United States [/hide]

Yes because this is the first time England have scored 300+ runs in an ODI

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 27th - July 7th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 2nd 2019, h. 21:30 Brazil 1 0 Argentina July 3rd 2019, h. 21:30 Chile 1 0 Peru [/hide]

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 22nd - July 7th, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 2nd 2019, h. 21:00 England 1 2 United States July 3rd 2019, h. 21:00 Netherlands 1 2 Sweden [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round June 29th - July 7th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 29th 2019, h. 19:00 (GMT-5) Haiti 1 0 Canada June 29th 2019, h. 22:00 (GMT-5) Mexico 2 0 Costa Rica June 30th 2019, h. 17:30 (GMT-4) Jamaica 0 1 Panama June 30th 2019, h. 20:30 (GMT-4) United States 2 0 Curaçao [/hide]

After the completion of FIH Pro League and FIH Series Finals, following teams are qualified for Olympic games qualifiers: From Pro League: From Series Finals: As Japan, who finished second in Series finals Tournament 2, have already qualified for Olympics (both as hosts and Asian Champs), their place in Olympic qualifiers has been reallocated to rankings list. Similarly, if any of the above teams also win their continental championships, even their position will be reallocated to rankings list. So, we will have atleast 5 spots for rankings at present. At present top 5 not already qualified in Ranking are: With Argentina, Australia almost sure to win their continental tournaments, and European winner also most likely coming from the above mentioned teams, an additional 3 spots should be open for teams on basis of rankings. Next 3 in line are : Next two in line are and . But they are quite behind in points and it would be tough for them to overtake them in the next ranking update. P.S. South Africa are almost sure to win African championships but they are expected to refuse that quota. There is no other African team close to top 20 in rankings, so unless someone upsets South Africa at African championship, African quota will be returned to FIH. In such a case, out of the 7 losing teams of the qualifiers, the one with the highest ranking will qualify for the Olympics.

Yes. China can select three different shooters for these events. Shooter A and B for individual events and shooter C for mixed event.

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 22nd - July 7th, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 27th 2019, h. 21:00 Norway 1 2 England June 28th 2019, h. 21:00 France 0 2 United States June 29th 2019, h. 15:00 Italy 1 2 Netherlands June 29th 2019, h. 18:30 Germany 2 0 Sweden  [/hide]

I think we would be in hunt for quota in couple of events. Can't remember which events but there were couple of events where we did decent in Asian Games and which have Asian quotas. So, assuming 2-3 chances, we should realistically have 1 quota in sailing. Optimistically, it might reach 2 as well.

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 27th - July 07th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 27th 2019, h. 21:30 Brazil 2 0 Paraguay June 28th 2019, h. 16:00 Venezuela 0 1 Argentina June 28th 2019, h. 20:00 Colombia 2 0 Chile June 29th 2019, h. 16:00 Uruguay 2 0 Peru [/hide]

No, 2018 Asian games have not been included till now. At present, Asian ranking includes 2017 Asia Cup, 2016 Asian Champions Trophy and 2014 Asian Games. I think they will update all continental championships together only.

There is a decent chance that someone might win a international quota (and not continental one) in Rio WC while finishing out of top 8.

Egypt is favourite to be finish in top 2 in African qualifier and this time FIH has allowed the quota to be transferred to losing finalist in case winner doesn't accept the quota and loser is ranked in top 20. So, Egypt are very likely to qualify as African team. Even if African quota is not claimed, there won't be 8th match. Among the 7 losing teams from the qualifiers, the team with the highest WR would qualify for Olympics in that case.

All sports. Team and individual sports

Because they only send the athletes/teams qualified via international route and always relinquish quotas earned at continental tournaments.

After the completion of FIH Pro League and FIH Series Finals, following teams are qualified for Olympic games qualifiers: From Pro League: , , , From Series Finals: , , , , , Remaining 4 spots would go to rankings. If any of the above mentioned teams win Olympic quota by winning their continental qualifier, there place will also be taken by next teams in ranking. At present top 4 not already qualified in Ranking are: , , , With Argentina, Australia almost sure to win their continental tournaments, and European winner also most likely coming from the above mentioned teams, an additional 3 spots should be open for teams on basis of rankings. Next 3 in line are : , and Next two in line are and . But they are quite behind in points and it would be tough for them to overtake them in the next ranking update. P.S. should qualify as African team even if they finish second in the tournament behind provided South Africa relinquish their spot and Egypt maintain top 20 ranking. (They have a healthy lead over 21st ranked Poland). P.P.S. I am also assuming that FIH won't impose any more sanction on for withdrawing from Pro League midway. And Pakistan in pot 4 would face a top 3 team (India or one of the top European teams) which would be a mouth watering clash.

I have one request to all the persons who are posting the format for Knock-out rounds and/or starting the contests. If you can link the format post I would be grateful but even without that, just a post informing that I have posted the format, you all can copy-paste that to make your predictions would be immensely helpful.

[hide] Knockout RoundJune 22nd - July 07th, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 22nd 2019, h. 17:30 Germany 2 0 Nigeria June 22nd 2019, h. 21:00 Norway 1 2 Australia June 23rd 2019, h. 17:30 England 2 0 Cameroun June 23rd 2019, h. 21:00 France 2 1 Brazil June 24th 2019, h. 18:00 Spain 0 2 United States June 24th 2019, h. 21:00 Sweden 0 1 Canada June 25th 2019, h. 18:00 Italy 2 0 China June 25th 2019, h. 21:00 Netherlands 2 1 Japan [/hide]

Genetically, culturally or just skin color? Genetically, I think Indians are their own genetic group with a lot of mixing with Central Asians. Some groups in Central India and Andaman Islands are genetically very close to African groups. Some groups in North East are genetically very close to Mongoloid groups of East Asia. There is some recent addition of Caucasian genes in a small group as a result of colonialisation. Culturally, there is a very small group, mainly in large cities, which think they are whites but rest all are once again uniquely Indian culturally as well. As far as color of skin is concerned, we have a wide variety ranging from pitch black to milky white, sometimes even in the same family.