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People at Gracenote: "Hey, we don't have enough data about recent competitions for this event, what shall we do?" "Give one more medal to the Netherlands, nobody will notice it"

35 medals with 9-10 gold for Italy in order to be considered a good performance - it would be similar to Rio (8 gold, 28 total medals) if we consider the fact that there are many new events in which Italians are good. As usual there aren't many #1 favorites (so with a "Gracenote-style" medal prediction we'd end up with less gold medals) but a lot of athletes with a smaller chance.

I still think they should have waited to cancel it last year. Now, worldwide and in Japan, the situation has not improved at all.

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Wasn't a Diniz team or training mate also caught doping a few years ago - before Rio 2016- but of course Diniz knew nothing about it? And yet he knows for certain about Schwazer. Same with Dunfee that, if I remember correctly, was live tweeting during the last Euro Champs that someone from Belarus was on EPO (the proof, according to him: she was bleeding from the nose. We might as well say that his red hair is a product of doping and everyone who raises doubts about it as a cheater).

Llavador is clearly ahead. Look here for the olympic ranking before today https://tokyo2020.fie.org/ranks#tab-table If you look at the FIE ranking you still have of course to discard the last event before the qualification period started- it will be updated later or tomorrow.

To sum it up, quota for: Men's foil Lee Kwanghyun Takahiro Shikine Marcus Mepstead Carlos Llavador Guilherme Toldo Mohamed Samandi Women's foil Jeon Hee Sook Chen Qingyuan Leonie Ebert Irem Karamete Ines Boubakri Saskia Van Erven Garcia

Tchaikovsky is obviously linked to Russia, I heard from a reliable source that WADA's proposal to play some Texas country music for anyone competing under IOC flag has been accepted.

Ouch, poor Tristan Tulen (and Daniel Giacon).

Egyptian women (who will be tied with Japan if they win) have a 1st place. In any case yes, a 3rd place is better than a 13th

Yes, Egypt is ahead in case of tie because they have a better best result (a 1st place in the zonal champs)

If I'm not wrong, Estonia has no score to discard so they could pass Egypt in the ranking even if they lose this match

Already done at youth level. It's a format that doesn't take into account that the difficulty of scoring in each weapon is vastly different. This is like having a relay in athletics with a 100m, a 400m and a 1500m runner- that would simply be a 1500m with a small difference at the start, with 2 legs out of 3 irrelevant to the final result

Archery (with teams made of 3 archers) has 64 entries per individual event, fencing (with teams made of 3 fencers) has 32-34, a tiny field if compared to other competitions like World Cups, etc. I'm not sure that World Archery would accept an halved number of entries in recurve to make space for compound.

That's team foil - qualification finished a year ago, now there is only one individual left. For some reason they forgot to stop the ranking on the FIE website and added the 2021 Il Cairo WC (cancelled, worth 0 points) instead of the previous one, the final ranking for olympic qualification is which is exactly the FIE ranking as of now, since there were no more team events during the last events

Don't agree. Results count, not potential of being a top 10 - out of 4 disciplines Gut has been one of the best in 2, Vlhova in 1, with almost the same points in GS. Add two downhill and a SG and Vlhova wouldn't stand a chance. As for the men, I guess it's true that Pinturault was luckier

Good for Goggia who won't risk to injure herself more than she already has, but very unfair to Gut, having less speed races is the only reason for which she will lose a deserved overall globe.

At the Olympics there is no draw, it's all set according to the FIE ranking at that time: 1st vs 8th (or the winner of 8th vs 9th if there are 9 teams), 4th vs 5th, 3rd vs 6th, 2nd vs 7th.

In World Cups only the top 4 teams are seeded exactly according to world ranking. The rest are drawn in pairs (so the 5th ranked can be either 5th or 6th seeded, the 7th ranked can be either 7th or 8th and so on)

Men's sabre - France and Russia will battle for the team quota tomorrow, the rest is confirmed: Team: and one of Russia/France Individual: Sandro Bazadze / Apithy/Ibragimov Fares Ferjani Xu Yingming Kento Yoshida Shaul Gordon

Is the salary good? I heard Sindo makes a few million dollars every year thanks to the website

And this is what should be highlighted a hundred times rather than discard the whole thing as a "he is a cheater, who cares"...that at the official lab where a lot of antidoping tests are still performed, instead of doing their job and analyzing the samples with integrity, they do what officials from WADA, IAAF, (and even old or retired officials from the athlete' s federation who had a decades long beef with the athlete's coach) tell them to do, and at WADA they refuse to look into the issue and consider it as a conspiracy theory even after a long and detailed criminal court trial - they are acting like the Russian government did for years.

Well played France, I bet they will qualify next time.

Another disastrous WCh edition for Italy after loads of World Cup wins and podiums, year after year nothing changes. It's probably better to cut funding for all of these athletes unless they bring home medals and start redeveloping an advanced vitaminic program.

All written in the rules - like it or not, until the semifinals the winner of the 2nd run advances, in the finals you can have a tie - can't say they changed it after the event