Dunadan

Yeah parking the bus is what Italy did in all their matches after scoring the first goal (apart from the first 5 out of 6 here and 95% of the previous games under Mancini)

team confirmed- the only change from the OQT is Danilo Gallinari in, Awudu Abass out

It's clearly to limit the costs for the hosts, a 100m runner takes less space in the Olympic village and eats less.

I don't know if waterpolo should count as "reserve" given the recent news. oh well, there will never be an agreement on how to count these anyway.

Honestly I watched lots of, for example, field hockey on tv - Rai2 if I'm not mistaken, not streaming- on tv during Rio 2016, but you can't expect them to prioritize it against an Italian who is fighting for a medal (even in a sport you don't like) this time with Eurosport/Discovery having full rights... and I think you are bigly exaggerating as always because, in fact, you do not watch it- i'll count the number of sports they will show at least one hour of and it will be probably close to the maximum

Honest question: why do you even bother looking at what's on Rai (which this time is rectricted to having only 1 channel showing the Olympics and so of course will have to jump between sports trying to entertain the general public) if you have a gazillion streaming subscriptions, satellite channels and devices? Leave it to those of us who only have access to public tv ( or at best have another screen with Eurosport Player on, when their apps decide to work) to complain if necessary. P.S: I believe Rio 2016 with full tv rights owned by Rai (tv+streams with very good platform/apps who worked well on all devices) was the best edition ever to follow the Games for >90% of Italians who are not willing to pay the hundreds of euros per year that Sky wanted.

Who are you counting as the 13 replacements (which sports)?

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3 out of 4 hosts already out

Because they count reserves (example: fencing, cycling), which they shouldn't for the official number - maybe only the one in water polo should be counted given the news of the post above

Davis Cup participation is not mandatory to be eligible - ITF can clear athletes based on other criteria (Musetti is born in 2002, it's not like he could play in Davis Cup for the whole Olympic cycle)

The irony is that the IOC did not suspend her of course. And her suspension ends before the Games for what concerns international authorities. So it's the Americans themselves with their trials system which are preventing Richardson to compete at the Olympics. No one from the IOC is forcing them to chose their team based on only race's results.

Any news about the German squad?

So it's safe to lift heavy weights while high? No risks whatsoever?

If Italy got a penalty like Belgium with a half-dive there would be ten times as much posts here

Congrats to Spain for reaching the final, just start bullying the useless full-backs that we've left and it will be an easy win.

More or less a 25% chance

nice that she could foresee the future, since boxing governance was a mess and the date of the qualifiers wasn't known when she got pregnant, in 2018. I wonder what she'd have done if they had set them for 2019 when she wasn't yet fit to compete.

But her Trials results are cancelled? Isn't USATF legally forced to choose the top 3?

She is new to the elite scene, it's likely that WA did not review her case completely yet...she is not banned from competing yet but she might have been warned, and the case would have blown up if she tried to compete at the Olympics. Namibia or the coach throwing away this medal (and even gold) chance to follow their development plan? Impossible.

Rules for athletes with DSD apply in 400m but not in 200m...

Link to that forum?

What about doing the "guess the team medallists" contest here and the "guess every game results" in a league on some external site which automatically calculates results and everything during the Olympics?

It was fake news that Rossi didn't want to shoot with De Filippis. She denied it in May already.

They should do it for all team sports. With many officials and "accompanying guests" not being allowed to go there must be some space for more athletes and they absolutely don't want entire teams to withdraw for a couple of positive cases.