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http://www.rio2016.com/tickets/ticketingguide/guia_de_ingressos_en.pdf

Ooops, didn't see it.

Maybe it is time to open a thread for the flag-bearers for Rio. Unsurprisingly after his 2012 absence Rafael Nadal is chosen to be Spains flag-bearer.

And any chance for Petya Nedelcheva or is she too far behind in the rankings?

So, the European Championships start today and i hear they are the final qualification for europeans for Rio? A final chance to score good points for the rankings i suppose? Does someone know how important is the championship for the quotas?

I slightly prefer Moment of Silence to be honest. I think before it was pulled it was on the fence of qualifying, maybe 9-12 place. But like others have said, EBU should have taken that decision either before this year, or after the show, not 2 weeks when the guy has done promotion and expected his participation etc.

In a statement today, the European Broadcasting Union confirmed that it has withdrawn member services from Romanian public service broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) after the broadcaster clocked up debts of over 16 million Swiss franc (14.5 million euro). This means that as of now, Ovidiu Anton cannot compete in Stockholm with his song “Moment of Silence”.

"Great" day for us, just wonderful...

Yes, you have 2 finalists - A and B And all the wrestlers that lost to A and B go to the repechage rounds. Path 1 - losers to finalist A - 1 round loser in the 1/8 goes against the loser in the 1/4. Their winner goes against the loser in the 1/2 for the bronze medal. The same goes to Path 2 for the second bronze medalist. And then the two bronze medalists go against each other for the olympic quota.

Normal repechage system for getting the two bronze medalists. Then those two fight for the olympic quota.

Still no draws, why are they doing it so slowly...

Wow, great story All the best to them then and one day in the World Cup. It would be a lot of fun having Brazil in a winter sport.

I may have missed it, but was is your obsession with Brazils biathlon team?

Actually i think Thiem said that he won't go a couple of weeks ago.

By the way those countries aren't banned as of now, but could be in the future. April 20 is the date when things could be more clear, because that is the date FIBA has given all federations to state their position, based on this letter that i passed by. It is to Turkey and i'm sure the other countries received more or less the same letter.

I think FIBAs initial idea was to weaken ECA with the loss of the Eurocup and strengthen the Champions league with the teams that came from the Eurocup. And then when the Champions league became much stronger and the conditions better they would take a swing against the Euroleague with much better offering than it is now. But many of those second tier teams from the Eurocup didn't want to switch for some reason and FIBA has to make another attack to split things up. I'm all for FIBA controling basketball and don't have this private corporation catering only for itself, but they are swinging a bit chaotic. Instead of banning the national teams, they should have banned the players from the teams that stay with ECA from national teams. That way those players lose their chance of competing in Olympics and Worlds. Plus bann those players from transfering to clubs associated with FIBA. And finally and most important FIBA should give all they have to their relationship with the NBA, because if they reach an agreement that the NBA teams don't transfer players from the ECA teams, now that is a real gamechanger. Let's see with those factors if the rich european clubs can take FIBA so lightly.

Gasparotto lol, now with double win in the Amstel Gold. By the way, why no Sagan today?

Awful performance, only 1 quota...

All it takes to take out Jordi Bertomeus ClownLeagues out of european basketball. There is enough time till Eurobasket, so i think FIBA is just trying to see if the countries will rethink their participation in ECA/ULEB next season before it starts.

Still got some moves.

Really impressed by Vladimir Dubov, not a single point against him in all 4 matches, overall score 42:0 Maybe the competition wasn't as strong, but if he repeats such a form in Rio i think we can get a medal.

We shall see!

Yes, a little correction, we have 5 wrestlers now in Serbia in GR and 4 are in Mongolia. And both teams are divided by some strong wrestlers and some newcomers. Now in Serbia we have Kostadinov (59), Stas (66), Iliyan Georgiev (75), Nikolay Bayrqkov (85) and Lyubomir Dimitrov (130) While in Mongolia we have send Angelov (59), Nikolay Vicev (66), Hristo Marinov (85) and Miloslav Metodiev (130) For me Angelov and Marinov are better in 59 and 85 and i think Stas and Dimitrov are better in 66 and 130, so like i said both teams have some strong contenders and some who are with smaller chances. Maybe our federation wants to give a chance to more wrestlers to see how will they perform before the final qualifying tournament if we haven't got the quotas. Plus i just found out that our medalist from the European Games last year Daniel Aleksandrov is injured, so maybe that is the reason he isn't in Mongolia. He will compete in 75 in the final tournament.

Ivo Angelov is in Mongolia. Our GR team was divided into 2 groups of 4 for both competitions and the team for Mongolia is already there, as to cope with the time difference.