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Question 1: Should national juries consisting of 2-members be allowed the right to opt-in to a voting process that guarantees that a song(s) which receive votes from both jury members will appear in the final top 12 combined list of that nation's votes? (Read above for details of the proposed method). (a) Yes (b) No Question 2: Should there be an option for a nation to co-host the contest with another nation? (a) Yes (b) No Question 3: Should co-hosting be limited to nations with a cultural and / or geographical link? (a) Yes (b) No Question 4: Regarding potential co-hosting, there should be the following restriction: (a) Limited to 2 nations (b) Limited to 3 nations (c) No limit

has 5 boats: KL1, KL3, VL2, VL3 (men) and KL2 (women)

TEAM SPAIN K1 200: Carlos Arévalo & Saúl Craviotto K2 1000: Francisco Cubelos-Iñigo Peña K4 500: Carlos Arévalo-Saúl Craviotto-Marcus Walz-Rodrigo Germade K1 1000: Undecided (Francisco Cubelos or Marcus Walz if they want) C2 1000: Cayetano García-Pablo Martínez C1 1000: Undecided K1 200: Teresa Portela K1 500: Isabel Contreras C1 200: Undecided (internal selection between María Cobera, Antía Jacomé and Antía Otero)

In Spain Carlos Garrote, 2018 World Champion in K1 200 will miss the Olympics because we will send K4 500 + K2 1000 and he didn't make it into the K4.

And.... it's another quota for Spain !!!!

Quota Place women's K1

After the good score of Beatriz Ferrer-Salat with Elegance, what do you think of the Spanish team? 6th place in Tokyo?

Ranking after Race 5: 29 points 35 points 52 points 76 points 93 points It seems it's going to be a very tough fight tomorrow between Croatia and Spain.

Team Spain K1 500: Isabel Contreras K2 500: Sara Ouzande - Carolina García C1 200: María Corbera C2 500: Antía Otero - Antía Jacomé C1 1000: David Barreiro C2 1000: Tano García - Pablo Martínez The C2 events are our best chance to get some extra quotas. We already have a full team in men kayak.

There have been some problems between the staff and two key players (Laura Nicholls and Marta Xargay) and they will not be part of the team this summer. Due to this, I think that a medal is going to be very difficult for us this year, so my picks are USA (gold), Australia (silver) and France (bronze). Hopefully we could avoid these teams in the QFs and get another medal. Let's see.

Rankings After 3 Race : 14 Points 31 Points 43 Points 48 Points 56 Points 59 Points 64 Points 76 Points 83 Points 88 Points 111 Points 117 Points 122 Points 125 Points 146 Points The first three boats without quota are from Spain!!!

Ranking after Race 2: 9 points 12 points 22 points 31 points 40 points 41 points 45 points 46 points 55 points

Yes, you will probably have 2 or 3 quotas. Both women, especially Wiet-Henin, are very talented and well ranked. In men, Ravet is very young and he won the European Championship a few weeks ago, so even though in his weight there are athletes with a better ranking, he could defeat them. Chellamootoo is one of the favorites, but there a few of good athletes and only 2 quotas, so the draw will be very important.

will send two women: Adriana Cerezo (-49 kg) Cecilia Castro (-67 kg) We already qualified three men through the ranking, so we cannot send more athletes. Adriana should qualify if everything goes right, and for Cecilia it will be harder, but she has some chances.

I am not expecting more than 5 golds for Spain. We have a lot of decent chances to win medals (we will probably tie or even beat our record of 22 in Barcelona 92), but gold medals are very difficult for us. The biggest chance is probably Sandra Sánchez in karate, but being the Japanese her biggest rival I am not so sure if it's going to be gold or silver. We also have good chances in badminton (Carolina Marín), tennis (Nadal or the doubles), shooting (both traps and the mixed team with Fátima Gálvez and Alberto Fernández), judo (Niko Sherazadishvili), sailing (470W should be our best shot, but some gold chances also in 470M, 49er and 49er FX), canoeing (in Rio we had the surprise in slalom of Maialen beating Fox, so it might happen again with David Llorente or Nuria Villarubla. In sprint we will have some chances in men kayak in K4-500, but I think that Germany will take it), golf (Jon Rahm), taekwondo (same problem, our 3 men and Adriana Cerezo, if she qualifies this week, should get a medal, but none of them is the best of their category) and team sports (men handball, even though Denmark is the biggest favorite, and maybe men waterpolo, where we have improved a lot this cycle and we have already beaten Serbia and Croatia). In summary, I think that we will get more medals than Poland, but in golds Poland is the favorite unless we have a very good performance at the Olympics (or Poland underperforms). In the othe polls I am going with Iran and Sweden.

I voted for Qatar (although I think both countries will win one gold medal each and I would prefer Israel ahead in the medal table), Ireland (they will have at least two gold medals in rowing, while Portugal have a few chances, but all of them have strong rivals) and Ukraine (no doubt here).

Spain will also have 2 Flag Bearers. The man will be Saúl Craviotto (canoeing) for sure and the woman has not been confirmed yet, but Mireia Belmonte (swimming) is the best candidate. Lydia Valentín (weighlifting) and Carolina Marín (badminton) have some chances.

She thought it was only the 2nd assault and not the 3rd. It's shameful to have that mistake in the most important match of her life...

What are your predictions for tomorrow @Dunadan? We have the 2nd seeded athlete in foil and sabre and the 3rd one in epee. The president of our national federation said he was hoping to get at least one quota, but I am not as optimistic as him...

It doesn't make any sense in fencing to have a mixed team. They already tested in cadets and the Youth Olympics and it was a mess.

But 24 of those quotas are reserved for the team athletes. If you are not a great power and don't have a competitive team, you only have 2 quotas by ranking (in Europe) and another one by the Qualification Tournament. For a small country in fencing like us is extremely hard to get a single quota.

and take the quotas in Laser. However, I think the Ducth sailor has not met the national standards, so would be the next in line to get the reallocation.

It is going to be tougher than I initially thought, but I hope Spain can take one of the quotas. ¡Vamos Joel!

24th place for Spain but receiving points from 15 national jurors, which is not far from my personal record (6th place in the 2019 Open with 17 countries). As expected, the song is not good enough to be at the top of the lists (no medals and a 5th place as our best result), but it has managed to score a lot of low points, which is always nice. As I said this morning, I was afraid that nobody would vote for it given the high average quality of the edition. It has been a tough year for Spanish music, with trap and reggaeton being the most listened genres and sending those songs is very likely an invitation to score 0 points, so I just chose a typical pop song, hoping to do it decently. My goal for the Open edition is to get back to the top10. I will be sending one of the most popular bands of the country, but I am still undecided which song will be… Thanks again to everybody who has given points to Spain, especially @Werloc, @hckošice and @Wumosince it is the first time I receive points from Lithuania, Slovakia and Denmark. Hopefully, Romania, Greece, Canada, the US and the other Nordic countries will join that list soon . Apart from “Cuando éramos dos”, my other candidate to represent Spain this year was “Chico Pum”:

Congratulations ! And also to the members of Knights for the team bronze medal! Good job !