De_Gambassi

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...

Apperently, there will be only 3,000 spectators tonight for the first France home game in Montpellier

What about Czech handball (Hazena) ? Is it dead ?

We don't have an official national sport (thankfully), but quite a comprehensive list of traditional sports/games recognised as such http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Thematiques/Patrimoine-culturel-immateriel/L-inventaire-national/Inventaire-national/Fiches-de-l-Inventaire-national-du-PCI/Jeux They all are regional/local games, Some of them will be played in one city only and a good chunk of them should be considered dead and to be museum material. I'd consider most of them to be mere 'games' and not really 'sports' as we think of them. Sportswise, the most interesting ones are the descendants from the ancient paume game (ballon au poing, balle au tambourin, longue paume...) which are very similar to belgian balle pelote or allready mentioned frisian kaatsen. If you had to pick one as 'the national sport' though that would be pétanque, as it's the only one (with pelote basque and boule lyonnaise) with a national reach.

"Gender equaity" for exemple. Bach might have formalised it, but it was in the making for a long time before him. We didn't wait for Bach to introduce both female wrestling and boxing. (percentage of women events during the summer olympics) And honestly as much I don't like that policy at all, I understant why IOC could have chosen to cave in under political pressures. Bach or not Bach il would have make little difference. It's the same for your other points really, it's only IOC trying to survive the current economic and political climate. I'm not taking Bach for responsable here. There is little him or some other guy could do.

All of this were allready put in place (to various degrees) before Bach.

I had a Bart Simpson skateboard when I was nine. So yes, very much.

Annnnd... it's a loss (0-3) Argentina first team qualified to the final.

Rink hockey semi finals are live http://rollergames.tv/live/?liveId=A217BCEBB2594BDF8FE2E65131DBF66302443 At half time, France is drawing Argentina 0-0 which by itself is allready quite amazing

Some interesting stats here. Cumulutaive medals for each nations in olympic team sports during euro and world championships for the last 20 years

Best ever (since 1936) result for the french national rink hockey team We're qualified to the semi finals. A medal seems impossible, but you never know .

Inline figure skating,seriously...

I have a general question : as some of the european territories (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Curaçao ...) have entered the Central American and Caribbean Games last year, is it possible that some day they could also enter the Panam Games ?

Who cares ? You're complety missing the point. IOC deals with the ignorant masses who won't see the difference. That's what matters.

Or droping it for good as it was only in for political reason in the first place

People who will mistake Karate for Taekwondo : a shitload People who will mistake football for handball: absolutely none

Read again please.

Let's not pretending that we don't know why Karate is not an allready established olympics sport. This is beacause of 'dancing around with your feet up and not doing much' which translates in Korean as 'Taekwondo'.