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That's ridiculous.

It probably didn't help that Chinese swimmers and their coaches were caught smuggling human growth hormone into Australia a few years ago

ICF: But they are individuals! They just so happen to be in the same boat at the same time going towards the same place.
 

Quota Double Mixed (Ranking Olympic)

 
https://www.ittf.com/2024/05/07/paris-olympics-mixed-doubles-cast-complete/
 
Australia – Minhyung Jee and Nicholas Lum (Continental Qualification) Brazil – Victor Ishiy and Bruna Takahashi (Continental Qualification) China – Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin (Ranking Qualification) Chinese Taipei – Chen Szu-Yu and Lin Yun-Ju (Ranking Qualification) Cuba – Jorge Campos and Daniela Fonseca Carrazana (Continental Qualification) Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea – Kim Kum Yong and Ri Jong Sik (World Qualification) Egypt – Omar Assar and Dina Meshref (Continental Qualification) France – Alexis Lebrun and Jianan Yuan (Host Quota) Germany – Nina Mittelham and Dang Qiu (Continental Qualification) Hong Kong, China – Doo Hoi Kem and Wong Chun Ting (World Qualification) Hungary – Nandor Ecseki and Dora Madarasz (Ranking Qualification) Japan – Hina Hayata and Tomokazu Harimoto (Ranking Qualification) Korea Republic – Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin (Ranking Qualification) Romania – Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs (Ranking Qualification) Spain – Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao (World Qualification) Sweden – Christina Kallberg and Kristian Karlsson (World Qualification)

And last year UWW immediately moved tournament from Poland when russians were not able to compete there - "defending the rights of athletes". Now we see that they defend athletes from certain states only.

Congratulations, neighbour!

The general tendency is that the IOC reduces the number of quotas + introduces some additional preferences for weaker continents and countries. The result is that there are disciplines in which it is more difficult for a European country to qualify for the Olympics than to win a medal. To me this is absurd. I understand the promotion of sports around the world, but then let's just increase the number of quotas in most sports and, for example, throw out weird things like break dancing, surfing, etc.

Récapitulatif Final Today
 
Foil Women's 
 
Sabre Men's 

Malina Calugareanu  will fight Carolina Stutchbury for the ticket to Paris 

Thanks, it's an important win for our girls; they were twice world champions, but never European champions
 
See you tomorrow!

I didn't even realise there were some finals today otherwise I would've watched, happy for our girls getting silver in LW2X. Congrats to yours for the gold!
 
I'll probably watch tomorrow, we have M1X M2X and W2- finals for 

Anyone watching? Makedonas, maybe? 

Me, during a studying session

I’m sorry, but I can’t take any of her results seriously when she was one of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for TMZ…

Best throw since  Ivan Tikhon  in 2008!

Luptatoarea Andreea Ana s-a calificat la JO Paris 2024 la categoria 53kg, dupa ce le-a invins la turneul european de calificare de la Baku pe Tatiana Debien din Franta (4-1), Veronika Rjabolova din Macedonia (11-0) si, in meci decisiv, Annika Wendle din Germania (5-4).

First quota for Romania! What a crazy match!

Romania has solid chances today in WW; I believe at least one of Ana (53 kg), Anghel (68 kg) and Axente (76 kg) will book tickets for Paris.

Ukraine asks IOC to investigate russian Russian and Belarusian wrestlers

https://mms.gov.ua/news/zaklykaiemo-vidstoronyty-rosiiskykh-bortsiv-vid-kvalifikatsiinykh-turniriv-na-olimpiadu

That Their boyfriends should probably all dump them.

FIRFIRICA WITH 66.07,CURRENT EUROPEAN LEAD . 

You make me remember Maximus Decimus Meridius with "spaniard".

do you mean...TARTARE!?  
 
meat...

 
or fisch (tuna)?

Simona Halep wins her doping appeal, and has been cleared to return to the WTA tour. 
 
https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/39658678/simona-halep-wins-doping-appeal-cleared-immediate-retur

that's not a legal dilemma, it's just another fuckin' corrupted sentence by that bunch of criminals named CAS, the most dangerous institution for the world of sport  
 
just cancel CAS...and the world will be better