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Regrets for Giordano are bigger because he threw away everything with the last shot https://www.issf-sports.org/pages/resulttargetdetails.ashx?srid=1018969 Edit: almost certainly the breakdown is wrong

Lamar Odom Reveals He Used a Prosthetic Penis to 'Pass a Drug Test' for the 2004 Olympics

Sinden won an European medal and 3 or 4 Grand Prix medals last year, he is 4th in the weighted olympic ranking, how is he not even considered of enough level to be a medal contender? If WTF wanted to guarantee him a medal, why would they fix the semifinal where a medal is already certain? He won the other matches with a big margin, was he also helped by WTF?

Two people were already banned from last year. One of them remains banned, the other one gets his ban cancelled. If you want to count, this counts as -1 doping case for Italy in 2018, not +1

yes, saying it over and over will make it true. I give you guys the task of reminding me daily that the British are the worst in case I wake up one day forgetting that the British are the worst of the worst because whatever happens it's very important to always keep in the mind that the British are worst.

Nah, the British don't have a blanket ban on all Iranians, the worst are those countries that organize European or World Championships despite already knowing that all athletes of a recognized national federation won't be allowed to enter.

No, he's not thrown out at the moment, he has sidelined himself for a while (officially he said that he must go home to work on his defense with his lawyer). Garzelli is not a new recruit, he's been working at RAI for years. And for sure they'll never hire Riccò, interviews are enough to understand that he's an unique combination of ignorance, stupidity and madness

Women's trap: quota for (Ashley Carroll) and (Melanie Couzy).

The "real" olympic ranking is here (you have to consider that points gained in previous years will be reduced by 25, 50, 75% at the end of 2019): https://clasificacionolimpica2020.blogspot.com/search/label/Taekwondo?m=0

The Giro is a Grand Tour, not a classic. And in general it's not weaker than the Vuelta (maybe on a given year it is, but certainly not always) but always several levels above the Tour of California.

Ackermann is certainly not a bigger favourite than Viviani for sprints. Anyway Gaviria won.

The blue jersey was at stake and Ciccone is a good climber, it makes sense for him to be extremely slow (slower than the Japanese guy who ended up last) and rest in the first part and then give his all on the climb.

https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-relays/news/broadcast-intentions-iaaf-world-relays-yokoha

Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (race walker, Rio 2016 and London 2017 silver medal) - 4 years disqualification starting from 16 November 2018 for using trenbolone...she fabricated restaurants' receipts in order to prove that the presence of the substance was caused by the fact that she had eaten, among others, 5 "tacos al pastor". It's not a joke, here's the document with the full decision https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/disciplinary-process/en/190509-IAAF-v-Gonzalez-Romero-Final-Decision.pdf Tacos are the new tortellini

See the threads of other sports...for most sports in which a ranking system is used there's no need for such pages because you can find the olympic ranking on the international federation's website.

^ This has been repeated 8 or 9 times in the last 3 pages of this thread...what is the point of having threads if people don't bother reading the last posts before asking the same questions over and over?

This Facebook page already started posting the Olympic rankings: https://www.facebook.com/FencingTokyo/

List of qualified athletes in karate: Minsk2019_Qualified-Athletes.pdf

For Croatians? No realistic chance to qualify through ranking in men's foil, too many Europeans are much stronger.

There has been a maximum of one competition per weapon included in the qualification period (see post on previous page), results can be found on the FIE site or here in the other threads...those are the olympic rankings as of today.

But it's not olympic and I don't think 1x1 is internationally recognised as an official event, we might as well say that football or futsal is an individual sport because 1 vs 1 is also played

Team events in individual sports are not team sports.

I had given 12 points to Poland but they were not enough to be in the top 12 of the whole jury. The vote of an Italian user is not worth much now, but at least I'm glad I managed to help New Zealand, Brazil and Netherlands to gain one or more positions.