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On today's L'Equipe. It should be the same methodology than used here.

Well, outdoor velodromes are a dying beast anyway. No one is building outdoor tracks anymore.

Fuck, I had complety forgotten it.

I'm not even sure if an outdoor velodrome would be allowed to host any euro/world championship these days

If you're talking about the PR vélodrome. Yeah, it won't happen. There is a indoor velodrome also, but it's probably too small (1500 seats)

Just looking at the FIBA website, France has more than 50 tournaments/exhibitions/stuffs scheduled before the end of the month and 5 between November and December

Cool, we still have to lose our 3 golds from London. ² then.

From 21 to 11 golds in four years !

Thank you for you detailed answer. I don't think it's only about budget, a change in general policy can make wonders also. Here in France and starting with this year, we are moving from a quasi sovietoid system to something new and hopefully much, much more efficient in the middle term. I guess I've been interested lately in the general policy behind one nation performances. We need some japanese people to ask them how they've done it PS: yesterday night, I was listening to a sport scientist working for the french open water swimming team claiming that the Italian team had a a budget 10 times higher than the french one

Hello all, I was looking at the cumulative world championship medals counts where Italy stands with 36 medals. Which might not being seen as good enough but is still much better than four years ago (24 medals) So I was wondering if there was something behind it, something that could explain this uprise in the medals table (extra funding, new policies, new structures...) or in your opinion is it just all coincidental (better athletes with better luck)?

So the Karate people have yet to abandon all hope it seems. They're still lobying, raking some political and sports figures to their cause. Maybe, just maybe, they're up to something (either that or 6 months later they're still desesperate)

I fear the worst, the 5 millions points Mongolia night of 3*3 basketball is coming upon us..

24 hours latter, somehow we scored 120,000 points in one night and Mongolia 350 000 !

What a cluserfuck. Either contengy plans should have been made mandatory for every games by WR/IRB, or the World Bup should not have been awarded to Japan. Here, they flipped a coin, hoping for the best...

No...

Same question asked in the men's thread at the exact same time

So we are 20 days away from the qualification period's end. Can the bullshit federation rankings change much till then ? https://fiba3x3.com/en/rankings/federation.html#men

Cette fille est extraordinaire https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/natation/natation-aurelie-muller-veut-voir-tokyo-sur-le-1500-metres-1783726.html

Nothing has changed here. He was allready saying the exact same thing after Pyeongchang.

Fist time, we will not sent both teams since 1992. Oh well, that was coming, the male team qualified dead last the last two times...

Might interest a few people: historic placing table since 1983 (olympic games or worlds) Only selected countries (so no Slovakia ) https://www.datawrapper.de/_/Fr6BS/

I highly doubt it works that way, Sure, you may very well reach new people during the event, but then what ? How do you transform these casual spectators into fans of the sport all year long ? At the very least you need a plan of action to do so (and i can assure you there is no such a plan in french vb HQs).

Well, historically it's a volleyball city. They have been playing in first league for probably ever. It was a reasonable choice considering the size of the Arena (9-10K) and its history withe sport. It just shows the lack of popularity of volleyball in this country...