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My simulation of quotas after Dordrecht. Please, check it, if you can, just to be sure my method of counting is good.

Oh, I missed it. So that might change a little bit. That's how it looks correctly:

That's my simulation of Olympic quotas after Budapest. If you can please check, if I'm correct.

@dcro Why won't they select Kennes?

Usually only final days have been broadcasted in past seasons so it will be probably the same this time.

What is the purpose of permament areas? I understand that they are cheap, but this way Olympics bring nothing new to the host country, as the infrastructure isn't developed with new venues, where young athletes could train. The idea of using existing venues only leads us to giving Olympics to the same cities till the end of the world as many countries has less energy to build new arenas without being sure that they will be used in highest level of competition.

Modern Pentathlon - Asia+Oceania: Men: Hyoseop Shin Zhonghao Zhao Keaan van Venrooij Women: Xin Yuan Yangji Yoon Nikita Mawhirt

The Innsbruck bid is in fact Innsbruck-Tirol, but so far it refers to Austrian citites of Seefeld, Kühtai and St. Anton am Arlberg as well as German Inzell. No word on Italy for now. On 15th of October there will be a referendum in Tirol during Austrian parlamentary election. Adding to the list of @dcro there are also Almaty, Sapporo and Erzurum interested in 2026 Olympics.

I'm afraid so. And there are still questions about two things: what will be order of qualification tournament (continental or intercontinental as last chance?) and what will be qualification to qualification - last continental championships, continental confederation ranking or world ranking?

Sorry, my mistake - I made a compilation of UEFA's Ceferin and Boricic. Both are from the same region. Of course I meant Boricic.

This article is written on basis of article in Polish biggest sport daily newspaper Przegląd Sportowy. The author is a chief of redaction's volleyball team, but I have a lot of doubts to the job he made. First of all he wrote that IOC must approve the proposal of FIVB this year, which means he knows nothing about it - due to my information (I think from a few posts above from this forum) the approval is scheduled for February 2018 (which I pressume means it will be during pre-session IOC EB meeting in Pyeongchang). If one thesis of the article is doubtful, so there can be others. For example the one about continental championships being Olympic Qualification Tournament. In the article the phrase "Champion of Continental Confederation" was used, but in the proposal posted on FIVB website a few months ago the phrase was "Champion of Continental Confederation's qualification". That's easy to misunderstand and may lead to mistake. The second thing - during Eurovolley in Poland my colleague attented the press conference of Ceferović about 2019 qualifications and he asked Ceferović about it - the CEV president said, that there will be a separate qualification tournament. And one linguistical thing - the second tournament is not supposed to be "International" (all will be) but "Intercontinental" - that's the error of the author of an article linked by @EselTheDonkey

On 13th September 2009 Polish Men's National Team became Volleyball European Champions for the first time in history.

On 12th Septmeber 1981 in Drzonków Janusz Pyciak-Peciak won his second Modern Pentathlon World Championships gold medal. This time he also won in a team competition with Jan Olesiński and Zbigniew Szuba.

On 1th September 1932 two greatest Polish aviators Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura died in a plane accident while they were on their way for a plane meeting in Czechoslovakia. Two weeks earlier they won the Challenge 1932 competition.

On 10th September 1972 our national team won the Olympic final of football against Hungary 2:1 after two goals of Kazimierz Deyna. (sixth from left).

On 9th September 1960 Ireneusz Paliński (middle) and Jan Bochenek (right) became first Polish athletes who won two medals in one event (weightlifting - 82,5 kg) at the Summer Olympics.

On 8th September 1960 Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (left) won silver in women's high jump losing to Iolanda Balas - it was first (out of two) medal for Poland in this event in the Olympic history.

I know it's very small picture, but worth mentioning:, On 7th September 1929 Stanisław Petkiewicz (right) has beaten Paavo Nurmi (left) in 3000 m race in Warsaw. Thanks to that success he later won the title of Sportpersonality of the Year in the 4th annual plebiscite.

On 6th September 1960 Józef Szmidt won gold in triple jump with the Olympic record of 16,81 m.

People are not reading an internet, people are watching it. That's why we need colours - like those from flag. I personally like that something is regular, has it's place, order.

That's nice of them

Italian Modern Tetrathlon (Pentathlon without riding, for Youth As U19): - Beatrice Mercuri with YOG quota - Elena Micheli with WCH silver - Maria Lea Lopez with ECH gold - Alice Rinaudo with ECH bronze I'm deeply impressed

Modern pentathlon quotas from Americas (one from NORCECA, one from South America): Girls: Melissa Mireles and Maria Guimaraes Boys: Sergio Flores and Angel Hernandez

If Olympics are a sport event, why then put there something, which is not sport?

Well, that looks as a solid base for organisation of protest demonstration in Lausanne in case IOC would be stupid enough to try to introduce it to the Olympics. I hope we won't have to.