Dunadan

Teams with high paid NBA players have to pay a lot of money for their insurance anyway, so why not add a few million euros to play the OQT at home.

I don't believe that. You were doping control assistant maybe, not DCO.

No athlete should be forced to provide samples to three random people who show up claiming to be doping control officers or assistants. Now we know for certain from the previous panel and this hearing that, quoting from swimswam ( https://swimswam.com/breaking-down-sun-yangs-case-part-4-what-did-the-doping-panel-find/ and https://swimswam.com/live-recap-wada-vs-sun-yang-fina-cas-hearing/) : - the blood collection assistant was not certified; -the doping control assistant behaved like an idiot trying to take photos of Sun Yang during the test (If I recall correctly, but I'm not sure of this, he turned out to be a former schoolmate of the DCO who "showed up in flip flops") - the doping control officer did not provide identification, is a liar, but then admitted she was not correctly accredited Now WADA is saying that the DCO can show up at an athlete's door with an unnamed "letter of authority" (not even the letter of authorization to perform the test) which does not need to contain the names of the athlete and of the doping control officer...this is completely crazy for me, anyone could fabricate (or get in possession of) one of those letters and the athlete has to accept to submit to the test. Sun's mistake was to accept to get his blood drawn in first place, he should have run away.

The more I read on this, the more I think that Sun Yang should not be banned for this case and WADA is out of their mind.

The latest report on the Olympic qualifiers includes the president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, Arvydas Sabonis. The retired player notes that FIBA asks for 2.3 million euros for the bid and estimates that overall costs will be around 3 million. https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/935546/lithuania-wants-to-host-one-of-four-olympic-qualifier-tournaments/

It's still going on, swimswam has a live recap with a link to the live streaming: https://swimswam.com/live-recap-wada-vs-sun-yang-fina-cas-hearing/

China hosting a tournament even if they probably won't qualify to the OQT Edit: they will host only if they qualify: https://www.fiba.basketball/news/fiba-olympic-qualifying-tournaments-hosts-announced-for-2020

Not sure about that, I think the 2 African teams will be placed in the same group at the OQT to ensure that one of them will qualify.

Pre-qualifying tournaments have started.

Or she kissed someone who had consumed cocaine...her lawyers need to study previous cases and pick the excuse that works best.

No idea. But anyway in many countries you can sue anyone, and if you are wrong you'll have to pay or you can get sued back. Gunmakers having a special law that protect them from being sued tells a lot.

https://time.com/5725068/sandy-hook-remington-supreme-court/

New Zealand is named after a Dutch province after all. They don't care about promoting the sport, if the athlete can't reasonably guarantee to get a top 16 result the quota will be refused.

Only world ranking quotas go to the athlete, reallocated quotas go to the NOC.

Men's foil, Bonn - live results and streaming: http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/17817-2019/tournament/ https://fie.org/live

I think there is a mistake in tissot page that says Belgium is qualified for the final in women's...from the pdf it looks like they were lapped by GBR (which is more realistic)

Melbourne - Stockholm distance: 15604 km Paris - Tahiti: 15709 km NEW OLYMPIC RECORD

Not sure it's only a direct elimination phase from the link above. It looks like playoffs, then 2 pools of 4, then semifinals.

Looks like it's getting worse though: 4 years ago (in the same city, Sydney) 16 regulars in men's trap for example...3 FIJ, 3 PNG, 3 SAM, 1 GUM and it's not like they had chance to win, now there are 8 in total. Non AUS or NZL also competed in pistol (and double trap), now they are disappeared.

This is even worse than I thought...in every olympic events only 6 official entries (3 AUS, 3 NZL) except men's trap where there are also 1 FIJ and 1 PNG.

Why 2 quotas in rifle 3 positions, one free quota was not enough?

South American teams already lost to teams from

That would be a good solution in all sports and for all world and continental qualifiers that are not world or continental championships but you need IFs and the IOC to enforce it, with the threat of a long ban.

Not sure, I would need to have a look at all team sports through the years to see how many extremely low-level countries who have been "gifted" a spot at the Olympics have significantly improved in the following years. Beside, the quota is "reserved" for South Africa because they are dominant in Africa (and it's not sure that they will refuse it), how would you reserve a quota for the other African countries? Another continental quota for Africa? I have big doubts that Ghana/Namibia/whoever would start investing time, resources, money needed to improve if they simply remove the "top 20 in the world ranking" part from the qualification system, since they would still depend on South African performance and their NOC mood.