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Well, the whole Russian flag thing turned out to be a non-issue. She will only see Rio if she googles it.

hace 6 minutos, dcro said:

 

There was also one pro (with record 14-0-0, apparently) who lost on knockout in the first minute of round one.

LOL. The guy that beat him is from my hometown. 

COC has stated several related goals: 

More than 1 gold

Top 30 in the medals table

Equal or bigger total medals than in London (8)

Third in Latin America (behind Brazil and Cuba)

Ahora, Maxim Fastovsky said:

dont think we will send a team on a moment's notice, anyway they lost , probably Uruguay would be the correct choice

I'm pretty confident Argentina will make it tho.

1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

What happens if they withdraw? Someone replaces them or since its so close there will.be only 15 teams in the tournament 

The Uruguayan press is already all over this lol. They say that the rules indicate that FIFA will appoint a replacement and fine Argentina. They think they could go as being since they were next in line (third at Juventud de America 2015) and they're from the same confederation (their very powerful NOC President is already on the case) or that it could be the United States since they were the ones thet lost the play-off with Colombia. They're even analysing the rivals (slow news day in Uruguay, I guess).

hace 10 minutos, LDOG said:

 

You forgot Ibarguen.

 

IMO Colombia (barring always possible accidents) should win 3/4 golds. It's highly unlikely ARG, MEX or VEN win that number of gold so, I think that "objective" is safe.

I did. What a terrible brainfart lol.

I can see Argentina getting 2 at least tho. Not a sure thing, but possible.

The stated goal from our NOC is more than 1 gold for the first time ever and at least 8 total, top 30 in the medal table and above Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina. I can see 2-5 in cycling, 1-3 in weightlifitng, 0-1 in judo, wrestling and gymnastics and there's probably some bronze coming out of nowhere. Not so sure about Argentina but I do think above Mexico and Venezuela.

Yeah, the Colombian team is having the same issues. Olympic participation might not be worth the headache

hace 3 minutos, nitinsanker said:

Well in badminton we have saina who was a silver medalist at the world championship last year and some hopes in boxing and wrestling , mixed doubles in tennis we have some hopes ( sania has been dominating womens doubles with martina ) and we have good mens doubles tennis player , archery our womens team won a silver at the world championships......also in mens hockey finally we seem to have our act together though a medal may be tough ,   but unlike you guys we do not have a huge depth in one sport but tend to be spread in a large number of sports ................... but colombia and India do have one thing in common that we started doing well in the last olympics and this time have further improved our numbers ( last time we got 6 medals and so I think did you guys ) ........and this time both hope to improve so 

Oh yeah, Leander, right? I think he also plays with Martina in the mixed doubles. And hopefully both our nations will! I mean, I've been enjoying the Games for years without watching Colombia win a lot and I still would but it sure would make it a lot more fun lol

Ahora, nitinsanker said:

welll this year we also crossed a 100 places for the first time ........................and hope to come beat our six medals at rio 

 

Coming to colombia ....... I know that you have a strong cycling and weightlifting team .... But this time around the best hopes are ? 

We're hoping for Pajon to repeat her BMX gold. She just won the worlds (although at home). Ibarguen has dominated women's triple jump for 3 years (although she's been a little off this year) and Fernando Gaviria has won the last two world titles in men's omniun. The road race team is pretty good but I don't dare make any prediction for that race.

What about India? I know shooting always does well for you but what else are you going after this year?

Ahora, nitinsanker said:

Great dude .......hope you guys do well 

Thanks! 

What about India? What are you guys expecting/hoping for?

hace 9 minutos, dcro said:

 

Imagine that she wins it after comment like this.

 

Anyway, it's strange to say that something is rigged before the results come up.

It is very weird. Her sponsors probably warned or she's trying to put them on the spotlight and avoid any shenanigans. Btw, this is Colombia, Congress elections are still two years away and I can tell you right now that the results are rigged lol.

hace 45 minutos, nitinsanker said:

wow............................did not know that colombia qualifies so many people .............. is this partially because brazil is getting host quotas and that helps colombia or this is the usual number ?

Neither! The last 8 years COC's gotten more money and have also gotten way smarter with how to spend it. We've gone from being beaten by Venezuela every year to leaving them behind and actually ending up above Mexico and Argentina in the last PanAms. In the Olympics, from barely taking 60-something and hoping to scratch a couple of bronzes here and there now we actually expect to get above 7 medals. Basically we got our sh*t together and if we don't mess it up this could be the new normal.

Colombia is on 137. The latest two in swimming (100 BF men, 50 FR women)

Men:

Andrés Pila

Women:

Natalia Sanchez

Ana María Rendón

Carolina Aguirre

hace 9 minutos, Gianlu33 said:

 I think that is very stupid make a survey for select the flag bearer.

 

Ps. welcome in Totallympics

Agreed. Although, tbh, I'd be fine with any of the 7 candidates so I don't mind it too much this time. I voted for Ibarguen, anyway.

Ps. Thank you!

Little bit of controversy in Colombia. The people voted for the flag bearer out of 7 options until June 30th and results are expected to be revealed on Wednesday. Yesterday, Ibarguen tweeted that she won't win because the sponsor of the contest is a rival of her main sponsor and that the contest is rigged. COC has denied this.