Milan

Great result from Gorsa so far. I thought 10m air rifle was his weakest discipline. Cernogoraz starts the day with a perfect series. Probably too late.

Glasnovic is on 4th Position after day 1 with a score of 72. 23, 21 and 23 is really quite bad for Cernogoraz, I guess we can kiss him goodbye. The scores overall seem to be weaker than four years ago, but all he can achieve is 117 and that probably wouldn't be enough. The result in handball is a disaster. At least nothing is lost and they have a chance to rehabilitate themselves. Normally we should have a chance against any of our possible quarterfinal opponents.

I haven't seen anything of the match, but watching the scoreboard it seems that Cilic and Draganja were getting heavily outplayed by Djokovic/Zimonjic. I didn't see that coming. A few wasted break points early in the match, since then no Chance. It looked like a good day for us , but it ended with two rather large disappointments.

I had my doubts about our team after that disappointing European Championship this year with basically the same team and also without Obradovic and Paskvalin. But first we should avoid playing Serbia in the quarterfinals. With Hungary, Greece and Australia being the other possible opponents it will be tough anyway.

Lenier Pero is about the same age as Hrgovic and has been less successful so far. Its tough but should be winnable for Hrgovic. Overall today's draws were bad for us. Hrvoje Sep would face top favorite in quarterfinals. Coric hasn't impressed this year, but there are many players in the field he could have beaten. But he very likely won't beat Simon. Cilic and Draganja would face Melo/Soares in Round 2. Draw for Cilic in singles also could have been better under these circumstances. He can beat everybody except for Murray and Djokovic, but he could also lose in early round. Konjuh's draw could have been worse, but she is the underdog anyway.

Vlasic will remain a mystery until the competition starts. She apparently is secretly preparing for the Olympics. At least according to her she doesn't have any pain anymore. Would be a shame if such an exceptional athlete would have never won an Olympic gold medal. Kljakovic Gaspic would have been a legit medal contender in the past two years, unfortunately he hasn't had a good year so far. I agree that 470 is our only great hope for a medal in sailing.

Maybe, but unfortunately this isn't possible anymore. I also don't know why Darija Jurak is not there. The double Konjuh/Jurak apparently has not been nominated for women's doubles by our federation, otherwise they should be in by now. Shame, we could have had much more than four tennis players in Rio.

I haven't heard anything, but if they do, I hope they will nominate Draganja instead of Coric. Draganja is the better doubles player, he has played mixed doubles with Konjuh more recently (I think they reached QF in Wimbledon last year) and their combined ranking would be better than with Coric.

Me too. If I'm not mistaken there are still nine of the current Olympic sports in which we have yet to qualify since independence (Archery, Badminton, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Modern Pentathlon, Rugby sevens, Synchronized Swimming and Triathlon). Qualification in (men's) Football can always happen, but is pretty tough, since only a few Europeans qualify and our under-21 team has never been quite successful. I am not too enthusiastic about the Olympic football tournament anyway. In badminton we had some good female junior players. Maybe Sutara or someone else will progress to be good enough in the future. In Archery and Synchronized swimming we were not that far away from qualification this time. I guess qualification in Weightlifting is also kind of new, since I think we have had no one else than naturalized Pesalov qualified before. Does anyone know when the draws in Boxing, Judo, Taekwondo, Wrestling, Tennis and Table Tennis will be made?

Thanks for the schedule, dcro. But Day 1 is on 6th of August and I think you forgot our Water polo team.

I was thinking the same after their match on Saturday. With our current team chances for a medal in tennis are small. As long as Dokovic, Murray, Federer, Nadal, Wawrinka and Nishikori all participate Cilic probably doesn't have much of a chance to win a medal in singles on this surface. And in doubles there are some very strong teams like Melo/Soares, Murray/Murray, Herbert/Mahut, Kubot/Matkowski and the Bryans. With Dodig we would have had a chance, but I doubt that Cilic/Draganja can beat them.

Great win against USA. Cilic now has a 6-0 record against Isner and Croatia has a 4-0 Davis Cup record against USA. I really couldn't see Coric beating Sock in his current form, but he proved me wrong.

Croatian Tennis Federation has confirmed entry of Ana Konjuh. http://www.hts.hr/izdvajamo/5652-i-ana-konjuh-na-olimpijskim-igrama

I don't think that Allertova is in. This would be the case if she was among the 56 top eligible players, but she isn't (yet). Duque-Marino should be in now.

With the rankings she got in the months before the cut off (90-95) this would in fact have been realistic by now. Pity that we likely won't have a women's double. Contrary to what I originally thought, there actually was a chance for it since the limit of 86 players per gender has been surpassed anyway and some of the doubles which got an ITF Place have a lower combined ranking than our best possible combination has. Wouldn't surprise me if they didn't even nominate Darija Jurak.

No, not yet. It might again take a few days until ITF publishes the updated entry list. Or maybe HOO will say something about it. According to qualification system unused OST invitations should have been reallocated by 10 July. But lets see, I still hope she might be in.

This is like 1980 or like Egypt 2013. Didn't expect this to happen in Turkey now. I guess Erdogan now doesn't really have a chance to stay in power if most of the army is against him.

Cilic losing after 2-0 set lead.. Nothing we haven't seen before, but this match has probably already decided the tie. This was the only rubber in which we were favorites to win.

Not exactly a surprise, she already communicated a few weeks ago that she was concerned about Zika and may decide not to compete. Konjuh and Buyukakcay are the most likely replacements now.

Great. Sometimes the unexpected happens. So that is one more athlete for us and one more sport we are in. Not qualifying in wrestling for me was one of the larger disappointments of this qualifying period.

HOO again just mentions Samardzic and Todorovic in swimming. So thats probably it with our swimming "team" at this year's Olympics.

Apparently Wang Qiang replaces Schiavone in singles and Mitu/Olaru (Romania) replace Knapp/Schiavone in doubles. http://www.itftennis.com/media/232325/232325.pdf

Congrats Portugal! Certainly not the most spectacular champion, but the nation deserves a title after having reached at least the semifinals in three of the last four European Championships. Although they were lucky in some moments, they have beaten highly rated Croatia and France without penalties and didn't stumble over Wales like Belgium did.

So our basketball team saved us from having the smallest Summer Olympics team since 1992 (In 2004 we had 81 competitors). Seems that I was wrong about them, didn't think they could make it. Great job. That is indeed pretty much the end of our qualification hopes. Though I am still hoping for another Invitation in swimming, but I don't expect that to happen anymore. Ana Konjuh should still have a chance to slip into the tournament field, but I am not sure if she would be able to play after injuring her ankle in Wimbledon. Mulabegovic was our last hope for Athletics, but unfortunately he didn't make it.

That was nerve-racking to watch. Italians gave us a good fight. Very talented team which unfortunately will again not be at the Olympics. I thought that our free throw percentage would kill us in the end. Luckily that didn't happen.