Dunadan

China's zero covid policy has failed so having 5k or 10k cases a day (sports events with safety measures being this huge catastrophic spreaders from almost nothing to hundreds of daily cases would be news now, beside the fact that those events weren't going to be held right now) doesn’t make a big difference. I think that either the situation is again much worse than what they let filter to international media or the government are just not interested in the sports's soft power anymore for now. Fair but call it quits for a few years after the Olympics then, and let sports bodies organize events elsewhere.

So now they already have to rework some qualification systems for Paris ...and this could have been foreseen last month, instead of denying everything until the last minute.

yes, we for example are already sending legions to retake the province of Numidia and their gas...it's Roman by right after all - no need for Russian gas anymore

Who knows how many excuses are actually true... and how many athletes are disqualified for minor substances that got into them by accident.

Another big absence for China. And Japan declining to send the women's team but not the men's lol, that's even more ridiculous.

this was a decision by the FIL (their own Court of Arbitration), CAS isn't involved nor mentioned in the posted article

Yes, the Olympic ranking starts from 14 August. I don't think that scenario with quotas not assigned is too unrealistic, also considering that 1 NOC can earn only 1 quota at every Championship. Anyway with only 1 place by ranking, the World Cup is now greatly devalued.

it's AIBA, they only removed the first A from their name to fool people

3x3 ranking list now only counts the top 25 players from a country, with a maximum of 9 results per players...Mongolian schoolgirls will spend more time studying in 2023.

now they added more on the IOC website...archery, boxing, rugby 7s and shooting and wrestling

Shooting works https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Shooting.pdf Many others are not there. So in shooting there's going to be only 1 place per event through ranking...the difference is that no quota will be given at World Cups, but only at Continental Championships/Games, WCH and the final OQT. Also, now "1 NOC can obtain only 1 quota place in an event at one designated ISSF Championship"

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-ModernPentathlon.pdf https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Hockey.pdf They are all at https://olympics.com/ioc/documents/olympic-games/paris-2024-olympic-games

Somewhat of an ideological change so far in team sports with bigger pools, round robin system or ranking instead of qualification tournaments where everything is decided in a 1v1, let's see if this trend continues with the remaining sports.

September-October 2022, after the WCh, is when the top 24 teams are selected by ranking. September-October 2023 is for the OQTs, they got it wrong and messed up the timeline in the last page of the document.

Meanwhile a long and detailed article by Russian state media explaining what they mean with denazification of Ukraine - and it is as bad as you can guess: https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html

still not considering that Russia in sports has been in an unique situation for the past 6 years - with every possible intermediate sanction already used.

Don't agree, or better would agree if we were comparing two extremes, a very developed and rich democracy to a North Korea - which I don't think is the case. Anyway what do you suggest: no sanctions at all that could affect athletes? No sanctions that affect athletes only if they come from dictatorships? Their job is to give good exposure to the Army (Navy, Air Force, whatever) - they do it all the time and is well within regulations. They compete for the Army sport club (probably not very noticeable unless for media mentions by only watching competitions for NTs/federations), wear their sports uniform, or military uniform (Italians in equestrian is a case of this), thank their club in interviews + all the times that they are used for soft internal propaganda (media and social media exposure, public ceremonies, etc... what pro athletes do with their sponsors, in this case the sponsor is also a public and military employer, directly tied to the government). If this happens with Italians and Russia is such a brutal dictatorship, I guess it's several times bigger there and in a more nationalistic way.

he tested positive in February-March, he won't be stripped of the Tokyo medal unless a retest on his Tokyo or previous samples turns out to be positive in the next years.

1) can be used as an excuse for doing anything. Even outside of dictatorships- a poor guy gets told what to do or else no job tomorrow, to dope or he'll be out of the team and so on 2) not sure if serious...of course military athletes are not used in the battlefield unless in case of extreme necessity or as morale booster, their job is to represent and publicize the army (or whatever else) on a big stage, the point was not giving them a platform to do so.

I can't see the "next in comments" part but all these statements saying it's unfair seem similar though: no suggestion on how the thing should have been handled (no sanctions at all? what about those athletes at the Z-rallies? and in the military, which is common for Russian olympians? what if "Western" sports organizers decided to not accept Russian army officers participating in their competitions in these months, fair, unfair, acceptable?) and no mention of the previous situation of Russian sport - like if at the IOC they woke up one morning and banned Russians.

Competition formats for Paris 2024 are approved: https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3736 They changed format again in rifle/pistol, it's becoming ridiculous.

Whenever there is a ranking involved (even a simple one, F1-style), the qualification process is immediately described as "quite complicated and difficult to follow"

Bit of a mistake there...if he's able to get back to competitive racing, he will have no problem competing in Italy racing with a non Italian team, just like Eriksen could play in Italy with a foreign team or his NT in UEFA competitions... the question is if he can get another national license (I don't think he has any other passport)

Colbrelli got a defibrillator implanted...that bars him from being deemed fit to compete by the Italian NF and NOC.