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Entry list...
 
South Africa
Laurienne Dittmann (Don Weltino K)
Gretha Ferreira (Lertevangs Lavinia)
Tanya Seymour (Ramoneur)
Nicole Smith (Chi La Rou)
 
So... This will be interesting. As long as they finish the competition, South Africans will be given a quota. There are many more riders actually entered, but nobody else from Group F except two Palestinians (Diana Al-Shaer and Christian Zimmermann), who obviously can't form a team.
 
Nevertheless, provided they finish the competition and obtain requirements, South Africans are on path to become the first ever African Olympic dressage team. And that is really cool, especially given that in 2016 they missed out on a team qualification by a ridiculously small margin of 0.06%!

KOREA
 
 
 
 

First ever gold medal for Brazil, and quite the news here since Maicon wrote on Instagram that he is proud to be black and the racist Bulgarians had to deal with his gold medal. 

Festival of Music begins! 
The member of the Egyptian jury couldn't wait, so let the Festival of Music begin!  For those who are new to TISC, Festival of Music is an opportunity for any TISC participant to present songs and artists from nations who are not represented at this year's TISC Open. All participants of TOISC 2019 can write a post about which nation or nations they would to like present in Festival of Music. Usually a TISC participant can present up to two entries from two different nations. Remember, the same rules apply to entries in Festival of Music as TOISC 2019. Artists must be from or associated with the nation they represent, and entries must have been released on or before December 31st, 2014. 
 
Enjoy the festival!  
 

Senegal 
 
Ismael Lo : Jammu Africa ( Peace in Africa ) 
 
 
 

The "Small Countries Division" European Championship took place the last couple of days in Faroe Islands. It is a bi-annual tournament for countries too small to participate in the Eurovolley, however due to the changes in the format of European Volleyball Championship, only 4 teams participated this year.
 
Results:
 
4. October
 
Iceland 3-1 Scotland ( 19-25 / 25-22 / 25-23 / 25-22 )
Faroe Islands  3-0  Greenland ( 25-16 / 25-14 / 25-18 )
 
 
 
5. October
 
Island 3-0  Greenland ( 26-24 / 25-21 /  25-20 )
 
 
Scotland 3-1 Faroe Islands ( 25-22 / 25-20 / 28-30 / 25-22 )
 
 
 
6. October
 
Scotland 3-0 Greenland ( 25-11 / 25-14 / 25-18 )
 
 
 
Faroe Islands 3-1 Iceland ( 25-22 / 21-25 / 25-22 / 25-22 )
 
 
FINAL STANDINGS:
 
1)   Scotland
2)   Faroe Islands
3)   Iceland
4)   Greenland

So if I understand it correctly, The Arabic language is in basic the same (let say the one used in Quran) it´s the official one, peoples write, read and officially use it, but everyone speak in his own dialect, right (Maghrebin, Egyptian, Middle Orient, etc..) ?

Yes it's the same

We have quite a lot Arabic vocabularies which was spread from Muslim merchants about 700 years ago. Even some country names in Indonesian used Arabic derived ones because those merchants are the ones which made people at that time aware of those countries like Mesir, Aljazair, Yunani, etc.
 
With the exception of Morocco, somehow we used the Western derived "Maroko". In Malaysia they still use Maghribi (and the number of Arabic vocabularies in Malay is even more prevalent than in Indonesian).

No we speak the same language which's Arabic but in different accent or way, In Maghreb countries for instance they mix Arabic words with Amazigh language and French so it's bit harder to understand them,  maybe the Egyptian version of Arabic the most understandable because of Egyptian songs and movies which was widespread in Arabic region and because many Egyptians worked for years in Arabic countries 

I can say I understand the basic Arabic (probably more than just the basics) but that doesn't apply to everybody here. yes everybody has to learn some Arabic (in a very low level) at school but then almost everybody forgets it right after the school. (I was a good student and still remember everything and probably even learned more)
 
if you turn your TV in Iran and switch channels, 100% sure you will find at least 1-2 channels showing something in Arabic but it doesn't mean people understand it most of religious people just listen to Quran without understanding a word.
 
but beside that, we have Arabic speaking Iranians, I think for 2 million people Arabic is their first language and Persian comes second.

For Arabic I think being the language of Quran holly book for Muslims' made much non Arab speakers know basics of Arabic language,  so people from Iran,  Pakistan, many  African countries especially chad has good base in Arabic language,  also Turkish people,  maybe Indonesians and Malaysians especially those who study here in AL Azhar university, Israel so I think Arabic is somehow spread language , ofc like every other language it varies from country to another,  Egyptians don't speak like Maghreb countries or people in Sham areas ( Palestine, Syria and Lebanon) and gulf countries, etc each ethnic groups has different way of expressing language but at the end of the day we understand each other 

Custom Made, 2000 Olympic champion in eventing, passed away at 34.
 

Romania vs Norway should have been played without spectators this night, but UEFA allowed the kids under 14 on the match. We will have a record for Romania: at least 30,000 kids on National Arena tonight

Well all the US athletes are like that. Most of the European ones are too in most sports. In sports like modern pentathlon I don’t mind because most of the top athletes are already in their respective armies.

I don't know the point of having military games for civil athletes who just wear military clothes for days , why not making these games for real soldiers and officers around the world as part of entertainment for those already having hard lives 

Combined eleven Liverpool and Manchester United according to Danny Mills.

This was really outstanding performance by our riders WOW only 4 penalties and BTW this's the 1st time we qualify to Olympics in teams since 60 y

Brazil will be the champions.
 
After winning their first 2 games Egypt lost 7 in a row  even lost to Tunisia.
 
Japan are great but it's not a surprise to me since they are taking the cup very seriously.
 
And in the middle there are 5 teams tied with record 4-5. I think our team will probably finish 5th, which is a lot better than I expected.

Indeed. I planned to, but eventually forgot to point out that Stockholm 1956 saw the only previous Egyptian Olympic jumping team. Congratulations. 

This was really outstanding performance by our riders WOW only 4 penalties and BTW this's the 1st time we qualify to Olympics in teams since 60 y

Egypt qualified.

And also Qatar. Morocco missed an epic chance sadly.

First round results
 
1
10
13
20
21
21
 
Apparently every Group F team will be allowed to start in the second round, even if they are outside of Top 8. Good thing FEI is not as stupid as FIBA and UEFA.
 
Egyptians just need to show up basically.

First round, standings after 2/4 rotations...
 
0 (12)
1 (5)
4 (9)
5 (8)
9 (15)
12 (13)