Dunadan

The Italian delegation by sport can be found here: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/discipline.html
There are 27 Olympic medallists: Basile and Giuffrida (judo), Galiazzo (archery), J. Rossi and Pellielo (shooting), Paltrinieri (swimming), Longo Borghini (cycling), Pizzo (fencing), Chamizo (wrestling), Battisti and Venier (rowing) and a lot of water polo players, both men and women, who were at Rio 2016.
It looks like a very serious delegation.
 
There's also a detailed calendar (in Italian) by date and sport: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/programma-gare.html
(I have no idea where to find a detailed calendar on the official site of the Games)

GRAZIE RAGAZZI! 

That match was played on 16 June 1982...do Algerians fast outside of Ramadan?

"The race walk events will take place in the Outer Gardens of the Imperial Palace; there will be a 1km loop course for the 20km events and a 2km loop course for the 50km event. "
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/notice/20180531-01.html

"The race walk events will take place in the Outer Gardens of the Imperial Palace; there will be a 1km loop course for the 20km events and a 2km loop course for the 50km event. "
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/notice/20180531-01.html

Skateboarding, canoe slalom and swimming (with qualification times) should also be added to the first post.
They can all be found in previous pages of this thread or here:  https://www.dosb.de/leistungssport/olympische-spiele/dokumente/?Qualifikationskriterien=
 
Skateboarding: Skateboarding Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
Slalom Canoeing: Slalom Canoeing Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
Swimming: Swimming Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf

Table Tennis
Table Tennis Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
 

Table Tennis
Table Tennis Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
 

MLB player Welington Castillo suspended for about half a season for a minor doping offence:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065471/major-league-baseball-player-suspended-for-80-games-after-taking-epo

MLB player Welington Castillo suspended for about half a season for a minor doping offence:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065471/major-league-baseball-player-suspended-for-80-games-after-taking-epo

All the events that give points for the World Ranking, including continental events (see this table: http://99e89a50309ad79ff91d-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.r14.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2017/01/IJF_WRL_Events_2017-2020_Point-1483967512.pdf).
 
 
 

https://www.oasport.it/2018/05/ciclismo-su-pista-allarme-italia-velodromo-di-montichiari-ormai-inagibile-azzurri-costretti-ad-allenarsi-allestero/
 
http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/index.php?page=news&cod=112322&tp=n

The ICF have published that very same document on their website. The March date contained in the URL below suggests it is effectively the final version.
https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/final_2018-03-16_tokyo_2020_qualification_system_canoe_slalom_eng.pdf
 
The canoe sprint QS isn't ready yet, though there is talk of changing the quota from one event berth per NOC to two (whether that applies to all events or some is currently unknown).

Nibali and Quintana are attacking!

Mancini is the best choice among those who were available. 

Skateboarding official document that I found on Turkish NOC site:
kaykay.pdf
 
canoe slalom (reviewed in october 2017 so maybe not the final version):
http://olimpiyat.org.tr/Tokyo2020_Branslar/Kano.pdf
 
 

According to this article (second to last Paragraph) all Qualification Systems but Boxing are now approved by the IOC: https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-executive-board-to-appeal-cas-decisions-on-russian-cases

I noticed I didn't update this thread for a LONG LONG time. almost a year ago, from now I'm going to give weekly updates about important sport news about Iran. in next few months most news about Iran will be about the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta.
 
* Iran national Handball team has a new coach Zoran Kastratovic from Montenegro (also Macedonia) they had to change the coach after the disastrous Asian Championship in South Korea. they had high hopes to even win the gold but finished 5th instead and missed the World Championship once again, as I always say our handball never fails to disappoint ! Kastratovic will coach Iran at the Asian Games. it's not clear if we can have all of our foreign based players or not for that tournament.
 
* Zlatko Kranjcar from Croatia is the new head coach of Iran U23 Football team. he didn't sign anything yet but that's a done deal. he was supposed to take this job 4 years ago for 2016 Olympics qualifier but the sport ministry rejected that idea because they claim he is usually "drunk" !! (Kranjcar was coaching Iranian clubs for a while)
 
* Iran finished 2nd in second division of World Team Table Tennis Championship and promoted to the first division for the first time ever. After humiliating defeat to Kazakhstan in 1st round they just woke up and beat USA, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Ukraine before losing the final to Hungary 3-2. Noshad Alamian was the key player for Iran he also improved his World Ranking and is now #59 in the world.
 
* During the Asian Mountain Bike Cycling Championship in the Philippines, Iran won two medals in Cross-Country events for the first time ever. Faraz Shokri won the men's silver and Faranak Partoazar won bronze in women's elite Cross-Country. if I'm not wrong Partoazar had won a bronze medal in a mixed relay CC team event before but if we don't consider that this bronze medal is the first ever medal for Iranian women in Asian Cycling Championship in senior level.
 
* We will have the Iranian national team trials in Wrestling starting from tomorrow, this is most important wrestling competition in Iran and very important to determine the national team members for the Asian Games and the World Championship. but most of Iranian top wrestlers (2016 Olympic medalists) already withdrew from the competition for different reasons mostly injuries. last year Iran won only and only one medal in freestyle and the situation doesn't look any better this year specially in freestyle.
 
* We are getting close to the Asian Games, the Iran NOC announced the list of sports for Iran to participate. this is a very long list Iran will participate in most of the sports . almost all of them except Badminton, Baseball (softball), Golf, Bridge, Hockey, Jet Ski, Paragliding, Modern Pentathlon, Rugby, Soft Tennis and Synchro Swimming. this is interesting that Iran is going to send athletes in Tennis ! Iran just relegated to the 3rd division of Davis Cup and Iranian players won't last even one round in the draw ! another interesting sport is Equestrian, apparently that lucky bronze at the AIMAG in Turkmenistan gave them a wrong idea about our level in this sport. and surprisingly Iran is going to send riders (male and female) to all 3 events ! I didn't even know we have Dressage and Eventing in Iran !

First crash
 
 

e anche @Gianlu33
 
rigenerato dal bel risultato di Sandron agli Europei, torno un attimo sulla questione per riportare (fonte: sito OA) che sono state ufficialmente avviate le pratiche per la completa naturalizzazione di Conyedo e Kudiiamagomedov...
e pare che non sia così improbabile che si riesca ad averli disponibili già per la seconda parte dell'anno prossimo, quando con i Mondiali del 2019 inizierà il processo di qualificazione a Tokyo 2020...
sarebbe un bel colpo...

Verstappen change direction for 3 times, if you do it you are drunk (on you are Verstappen, it's the same )

Max. 2 women and 3 men per NOC, but for Italy it doesn't matter because Tessari won gold in -54 kg, which is not in the YOG programme.
On the other side Russia must choose 3 men out of their 5 gold medallists.

For Football only England can gain the quota (like Scotland in Curling) and at the moment the other home nations are happy for English players to form a GB team without needing any players from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland to join the squad. This only applies to women's football, there will not be a GB men's team competing.

Equestrian 
 
Jumping Equestrian Jumping Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
 
Dressage Equestrian Dressage Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf
 
Eventing Equestrian Eventing Tokyo 2020 Qualification System.pdf

How every football match should start