hace 1 hora, Benolympique dijo:

I WANT RUSSIA TO QUALIFY AS A MEN'S FOIL TEAMS

They are already qualified. There are only 2 remaining spots between Korea, Hong Kong and Germany.

hace 2 horas, phelps dijo:

Men's Individual Foil (Cairo, EGY)

 

Final Results

 

Gold: Carlos Llavador

Silver: Andrea Cassarà

Bronze: Alexander Massialas & Alessio Foconi

 

Semifinals:

Llavador b. Massialas 15-3

Cassarà b. Foconi 15-11

 

Gold Medal Match:

Llavador b. Cassarà 15-6

  

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138

Incredible and totally unexpected performance today by Llavador! It's the first World Cup medal for Carlos, even though he had already won two bronze medal at Worlds and Europeans, and the timing is just perfect. He is now very close to qualify unless Kleibrink, Choupenitch or Siess won a medal in the next Grand Prix.

SPANISH ENTRY

Aitana, Cali y El Dandee - +

Lyrics:

hace 6 minutos, hckosice dijo:

 

This is some quite impressive squad as well, will be interesting to see if Elosegi will be finally able to improve his olympics pb

I think we have a pretty decent team to obtain at least one medal, but for me Elosegi might be the weakest option of the 4. Anyway, after two 4th places I would be very happy for him if he finally wins an Olympic medal.

David Llorente has been officially selected to represent  in K1. He joins Ander Elosegi (C1) and Maialen Chorraut (K1) in the Olympic team, so women's C1 is the only category to be decided.

¡Amigos para siempre!

This version played by Los Manolos during the closing ceremony is still part of the playlist of many summer parties (verbenas) in Spain:

Congratulations @dcro! I am sure you will be a great host.

hace 7 minutos, Jur dijo:

 

I just think Madrid is ugly and a non-interesting city to host the Summer Olympics.

I think Madrid is ugly too, at least compared with the rest of Spain, but it would be a good city to host the Olympics as it would be possible to have all the venues in a relatively small space. Furthermore, it has a lot of hotel rooms for tourists and the weather is not usually very extreme (with exceptions).

Justo ahora, hckosice dijo:

 

well.. then sorry but I hope Sapporo will win it, because this is one really bad idea

I hope so too. I would prefer hosting the Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040, as we have the venues already built and we would not need to spend such huge amount of money nor ask other coutries to host events. I don't care if the host city is Madrid or Barcelona.

hace 1 minuto, hckosice dijo:

 

Bosnia ???

Yes. Skeleton, bobsleigh and luge would be held in Sarajevo. Ski jumping in Switzerland, Austria or France.

Apparently they contacted with Bosnia because Barcelona and Sarajevo are twin towns.

hace 15 minutos, hckosice dijo:

 

well, that´s pretty ambitious plan, will have to build almost all venues, and I mean all, from ski jumping to a bobsleigh sliding center Obviously the indoor sports can be held in already existing big arenas in Barcelona or even somewhere else, but it looks to me like too much cost to pass

The idea is having those sports outside the country. The main option right now is Bosnia and the second Switzerland. I do not like the candidature of Barcelona to be honest, as I think we are not as good prepared as other cities like Sapporo.

I'm not the biggest fan of Winter sports, but I will pick short track, snowboarding and alpine skiing.

hace 44 minutos, Olympian1010 dijo:

There are, in fact, actively entered into the bidding process for 2030 according to the IOC.

Yes, but until now the project has been directed by Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya (in Spain, each region has his own institution to organize the sport within the region. They perform a similar work to NOCs but at a lower level), without the support of the Spanish government (they didn't ask for it). According to IOC, without Spanish government support, it is impossible that they give us the Olympics against Sapporo, so COE (Spanish NOC) has been trying to negotiate with both parts so they can finally reach an agreement to cooperate. Finally, this week both presidents had a meeting and one of the proposals of the Spanish president to improve the relationship between both parts is to bid for the Olympics and work together as they already did for Barcelona 1992, where all the institutions coordinated very well. However, in order to increase the chances of victory, COE has to direct the project instead of Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya, which would still cooperate on the organization but not leading the bidding.

hace 38 minutos, Vojthas dijo:

That sounds either like a joke or a shining example for Olympic Truce. Hoping for the second one.

That's the story they want "to sell" to the IOC: the Olympics as a way of improving the comunication between the central and the regional government. For that reason, they will include venues both in Catalonia and Aragon (probably Jaca, host city of a Winter Universiade a long time ago).

It is not official yet, but it seems that Madrid will NOT bid for the 2032 Olympics, as many politicians and the Spanish NOC president think that it isn't the right moment due to the existence of very strong competition. However, Madrid's major said today that he is not giving up, but the citizens do not want to lose again, so probably the candidature will be postponed.

Right now Spain is studying now bidding for the 2030 Winter Olympics in Barcelona. The Spanish government has made an offer to the Catalan government to work together on the project.

hace 45 minutos, Khadidja Aisha dijo:

I am ome of them, who likes the exotic flahs what ever, specialy when they take one from Europe, and can admit to, if i could to that, i should do that.

Personaly i cant se any different between Germany, England and France all are western  european countries.

If you can't see the differences beween Germany, England and France, maybe you should study more...

It seems some people on this forum (like you and the Indian guy) have some problems with Western countries, because that argument is the same that saying that we should not have swimmers from Angola at the Olympics because we already have good swimmers from South Africa, and all the Africans are the same.

 SPANISH ENTRY 

Aitana, Cali y El Dandee - +

Lyrics:

hace 12 minutos, Olympian1010 dijo:

Definitely made this weeks quiz too hard ? I apologize for that, and I’ll try to make a little bit easier next week.

I would prefer easier quizzes and more focused on sport (almost nobody remembers who wrote a poem for an opening ceremony). I'm glad I had 8/10 last week, but I have to admit that I was lucky in a couple of questions.

PS. Good job! I'm looking forward to the next quiz!

hace 19 minutos, JoshMartini007 dijo:

 

I'm fine with rowing in general, but coxed eights have very few nations competing and it has a lot of athlete quotas so I can see it being axed one day.

 

Yes I know the history and prestige of the event, but why should it be an Olympic event if no one is practicing it.

I am in favour of eliminating eights (and lightweight boats) to save a few quotas and introduce coastal rowing for example.

In Spain, our federation created an eight in 2014 with the best rowers we had at that moment (sacrificing a four that could have tried to qualify to Rio) and the distance with the rowing powerhouses was insane. Obviously, this boat was eliminated in 2016. I think it is impossible for the rest of the world to reduce the distance with bigger countries.

hace 4 minutos, Olympian1010 dijo:

Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing Field Hockey, Diving, Golf, and Rowing kicked off the program, but it wouldn’t be wise. Just like how kicking the new sports off the program wouldn’t be wise.

I could understand why you want to get rid of field hockey and golf (even though I think both sports deserve to be at the Olympics). But, why do you want to kick diving and rowing? You are the first person I know that complains about Olympic rowing. 

hace 35 minutos, Shravan Kumar dijo:

Ok So one thing is first point of the source says that births are not equal. So it is 105-100. So the one point I agree is about the desire for a boy. In a lot of communities and religious homes, this is common belief. But that doesn't mean feamle foeticide is undertaken by all. In most urban and educated families the urge for male children is decreasing. 

 

One more point, you are mentioning the stat of 1972. I don't know how accurate the stats are. I don't consider most stats before 1990's because most of them are not reliable in Indian perspective.

Last point is one of the common things now is birth certificate. This is compulsory for everyone. Before 90's there was not a lot of emphasis on  recording your child birth and all. 

 

The development of India is undeniable. The country is progressing a lot and I'm sure you are going to succeed in Tokyo with more than 10 medals, which is usually a good indicator of social and economic development.

I have never been to India, even though I plan to travel there in 2 or 3 years so I have been reading about the country, and it seems that cities are now "more organized" (I don't know how to express exactly this idea in English). However, as was mentioned before, India is enormous, so an important part of the population lives in small cities or towns, and these places have not followed the same growth that the rest of the country. So I think the country is on the right path, but the government stills have a lot to do.

hace 7 minutos, Shravan Kumar dijo:

It doesn't amount to something around 0.00004 percent of the population. 

I am not sure where you got the data. 

The figure you are mentioning is in 20 million births in 2019.

Well, according to some sources, this problem is not being solved. In 1972, the sex ratio at birth in India was 106 male births per 100 female births, while in 2017 (last year I found data), it was 111 male births per 100 female births, which is a huge difference compared to Western countries (105-106 in average).

It is a shame not having 2 top teams at the Olympics instead of 1 because South Africa wants to send a team that it is not competitive at all...

I know that Spain and Russia might be the 2 most benefited teams, but it is unfair that only 2 of the Netherlands, Italy, Hungary and Greece are going to participate in Tokyo. In my opinion, Africa should not have a regional spot in women waterpolo, at least with only 10 teams. Good luck to these 4 teams at the OQT! I will enjoy a lot that tournament as a neutral spectator.

hace 1 hora, dcro dijo:

 

Well, if that's the case, then they can already reallocate all quotas from German Open, Qatar Open and Japan Open. There is just no chance that someone outside of will be making the finals.

 

In any case, if quarterfinals are enough, then and have qualified just now.

According to our national federation, you have to reach the finals to qualify.

The Spanish song, Universo, has just been released.