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Definitely, the latter.

and the rest of the world. In the men's team, the difference between and the 2nd ranked best team is 56 points, almost as big (60) than the difference between the 2nd ranked team and the 24th and last qualified one...

Lol, both our team ranked 8th with Korea obvisouly being first seeded. So...bye Edit: Possibly, our mixed team could also rank 8th (there will be a shootout later)

Yeah, there were happy ! The girls will gain a lot of much needed experience during next the VNL next year before the home olympics The french volleyball federation and the coach Emile Rousseaux have done a great job with this team. 5 years ago, they wera ranked 50th in the world. We always had some good female volleyball players, but no one cared, there was no project whatsoever and zero investissment. Everything change with Paris being the host of the 2024 olympics.

Après ces mondiaux, combien de chances médailles voyez-vous pour l'année prochaine ? Hommes Léon Marchand : 400m 4N, 200m 4N, 200m Pap, 200m Brasse (mais les 2 finales de pap et de brasse se suivent...) Maxime Grousset : 50m libre, 100m libre, 100m papillon (la finale du 50 et les demies se déroulent durant la même session, est-ce qu'il s'alignera sur les 3 ?) Florent Manaudou : 50m libre (le niveau il l'a, à voir pourquoi il a foiré sa demie) Yohann N’Doye Brouard : 100m Dos (5e au Japon avec une prépa tronquée) Mewen Tomac : 200m Dos (5e en 20222, 4e en 2023, podium en 2024 ?) Relais 4*200 H 4*100 4N H (plusieurs pistes pour monter sur le podium, voire mieux : retour de Metella ? Manaudou sur 100 ? Emergence d'un jeune crawleur au niveau mondial ? Sacrifice de la brasse en poussant Marchand sur le pap et Grousset pour finir ?) Femmes Marie Wattel : 100m Pap (des Mondiaux ratés, mais une charge d'entrainement nouvelle pour elle qui peut expliquer - ou pas - ses échecs cette année) Anastasiia Kirpichnikova : 1500m (on en a très peu parlé, mais c'est vraiment la bonne surprise coté femmes, 4e aux mondiaux en ayant enchaine 72 courses avant)

Great stuff, thank you. Here is the Tokyo's scoring table for the sake of comparison. https://swimswam.com/ranking-nations-by-the-fina-scoring-system-at-the-tokyo-olympics/

Any chance you could (re)publish the rankings of the other weapons ? Thanks.

Here is the full list of the 54 japanese medals https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/sports/68bc9a23fe294799867c44d13e8bf7d6 By the magic of Google translate :

Paris 2024 qualification wise, it's probaly better for us to lose against Italy in the 4-5th playoff...

I was kinda hoping to see Manaudou there to close the french relay. We desperatly need someone with a better pedigree than Salvan. Maybe next year, we could switch Grousset for Metella if he's ever to come back at his best.

That's not exactly true. These games were set by the francophone organisation at the end of the 80's as first and foremost a cultural thing. never show much interest in them (there are zero media coverage here). We had our own political Commonwealth Games. But there was only one edition in 1960 which was very orignaly called "Jeux de la Communauté" (no translation needed I think )

WP is safe because it's part of FINA. If it had it's own federation (like some WP enthousiasts wish for), it would be the one to go.

We already have a woman skateborading qualification thread.

Indeed. People have forgoten that, but when Wrestling was cut, the second sport following whith the most votes to be excluded was Field Hockey.

Beaucoup de premières historiques durant ces mondiaux - Première médaille dans une épreuve olympique pour le plongeon - Première fois que la France remporte 4 titres en individuel dans le bassin - Première fois que la France remporte 4 titres dans des épreuves olympiques en natation - Meilleur résultat de l'histoire en championnat du monde pour les poloïstes Et aussi 4 unes de l'Equipe pour la natation !

You really have a deep problem with the country south of your coasts. Maybe you should start seeing someone or something.

Apparently, the Games costed 67 M€ to host, not a small amount for a country like RDC.

We are always talking about the exclusion of multiple sports from the Olympics like it's a nothing problem, but the reality for the last 20 years is that IOC seems incapable of cutting sports.

The only solutions that exist are radicals : e.g. splitting the summer OG, going for a more lose organisation like the European Championships, this kind of things.

I'm assuming Indian media rights have allready been sold for 2028 (if anyone can confirm) and in any case, IOC will bank the extra revenues, not LA 2028. From a Los Angeles point, there is little to nothing to gain, and there is a cricket stadium to built somewhere... Make little sense tbh. And the quotas issue makes it literraly impossible.

Is there any test left to be made from 2016 ?

86, j'ai été mauvaise langue...

Ouais, leurs articles sur les forces en présence sont bien foutus : Les concours : https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.news/news.aspx?newsid=19376 Les courses : https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.news/news.aspx?newsid=19377

C'est pas faux, l'athlé resterait une exception dans les sports individuels.