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Here it its.

The FIBA 3*3 twitter account trying to defend their decision (in french) "but, but, you still can count yourself the ranking by adding each nations individual points"

It almost sounds like someone just noticed that there were some people somewhere on the Internet that discovered how BS their ranking was and that it was time to hide it.

Hazena (that other handball from a country that doesn't exist anymore) played by women in... France (Pershing Stadium near Paris) in the 20's

Volata a football code invented in 1928 in Mussolini 's Italy. It was a weird mix of handball (field handball then), football association and rugby. Somehow, it looks a bit like current gaelic football to me. The sport never took off.

FFS https://sport.francetvinfo.fr/cyclisme/championnats-deurope-de-cyclisme/direct/championnats-deurope-de-cyclisme-sur-piste-1er

Yes at some point, virtually every large stadium in the country served also a velodrome (Parc des Princes, Parc Lescure, Gerland and well Marseille's velodrome to name a few). There were hundreds of them, nowadays, there must be a dozen left. Too bad, we could have used them to learn how to run a pursuit team...

No, I don't know the specifics. From the wording, I believe they only used world championships results (no world cups or world league results). The overall tally seems a bit low to me also (the US with "only" 104 medals ?), so maybe, sports without a proper world championship have been excluded from the table. PS I'd be interested by that Brazilian guy table

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