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Freaking unbelievable. We won, leading the game for a grand total of 0.1 second.

0.1 second on a biathlon race

Sounds perfect to my ears

The french NT kit is supplid by the official local Captain Tsubasa's material retailer

No one cares, basically.

Wiggins seems to suffer a rare disease that seems to waken up just before GTs start.

Here, we have a fancy paper signed by some one, so nothing to see there. Nothing "troubling" with so many top athletes living around with rare diseases and competing or training with legal doping products http://www.uci.ch/clean-sport/therapeutic-use-exemptions/ TUE's granted by UCI have declined from 239 in 2009 to 13 in 2015. Which can only means two things. - Up to 2009, we had a population of near-zombie ridding in pro cycling. - TUE's were used do cover up doping cases. I'd favor the second hypothesis. And what UCI has done, others might still doing it. TUEs are a disgrace. At the very least, sport people shouldn' be able to compete using them, and there sloud not be no retroactive case in any circonstance. At best, they should be eradicated. -

I was not either...

That sentance... PS: 3x3 basketball is decade(s) away to be a competitive enough sport on its own. We are talking 1996 rugby seven at this point. PS2: sorry to disrepute...

I'll encourage them to create the Silly Hat International Basketball Federation (SHIBA).

Germany (TischTennis + Gesamnt ): 570 655 France (Tennis de Table + Nbre de Lincences): 197 797 Here, by these two countries alone, there are close to 800K registered players (there are not your average garage players btw, but people that are registered through their clubs, that train and play official competitions week in and week out). This number alone would easely smash the overall particpation level of many olympic sport (have you met any syncro swimmer lately ?), It not like people in other countries don't try, but it's not like they're facing competition from Aruba neither, We are talking about a 1.5 billion people country ffs.

Why do you need Cricket, when Baseball is such an incredible popular sport all over Italy ? @orangeman

National federations don't necessarily mean that much. For instance, in both Italy and France, we have a cricket federation, yet the game basically doesn't exist in these two countries bar a few immigrants circles. Anyway, the IOC allready did most of the job https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document Library/OlympicOrg/IOC/Who-We-Are/Commissions/Olympic-Programme-Commission/EN-RIO-2016-International-Federations-Report.pdf

Nice review, hope to read more PS: You could look like at a 40 person tournament for instance with the ranking round serving also as an elimination round like in shooting. it would mean 32 extra quotas for achery, sounds bearable.

Food for thought, back in 2002, the Olympic Program Commission recommended the exclusion of baseball/softball, canoeing slalom, eventing, pentathlon, race walking events and one of the wrestling discipline (and that was before women wrestling was included). http://www.ffcanoe.asso.fr/actualites/evenements/cio_pekin_an.pdf

Fine, point taken. Doesn't change my argument though.

hem... please stop ? - The only one who stated on theses boards "lol, no, nobody cares about baseball except americans and japanese" was actually an american, not an european. The lack of professional involvement is not simply a concern, for many but a reason enough not to include it (and most of them actually think men soccer should be dropped for the same reason). There is no need to overestimate the popularity of the sport neither, the game barely exists south of Venezuela and north or Korea, and is marginal at best in Australia. - (Really, still moaning about TT ?). First, by itself, the over-domination of one country shouldn't be a reason enough to drop a sport., if it was the case, basketball should be out also and no one should think about baseball then (which would be over dominated by a MLB stars led US team). Secondly - and most importantly -, TT is a competitive sport played by millions, including thousands of professionnals (Pro TT leagues actually exists in Europe for a reason). By any stretch, TT is actually a bigger sport than squash, and probably badminton too (more countries play it, more professionnals play it, bigger crowds for top events, etc.). Domination by one country is not a good reason enough to remplace one sport by a smaller one, or then call for netball to remplace women's basketball.

And thank you LDOG and anyone involved for making this contest

It's never going to happen, forget about it, the unions don't want it, WR doesn't want it, the clubs most certainly don't want it.

Bordel, j'avais loupé ça Mais quel en.... C'est vraiment le pire de la bande.

Bizarrement, hier ça allait encore, mais aujourd'hui, c'est le contre-coup. Heureusement, j'ai plein de jours à rattraper que j'avais choisi de zapper au début des jeux Ah cette ambiance des premiers jours, cette avalanche de succès

Tu penses au plongeon peut-être ? Sinon, le canoe en ligne pourrait aussi avoir un très bon retour sur investissement Bon, suis en manque, je vais me faire l'intégrale de Bon Dia Rio tant qu'elle est en ligne

The double repechage thing they had in Judo up tp Beijing made kind of sense, the one we have nowadays not so much. If they want to keep with the double bronze medals, I hope they revert back to the old system. Maybe, racquet sports (badminton at least) could come up with a similar system. Il will be much better than the shitty group stage thing.

Amen.

Pour. Les deux points noirs de fond c'est la piste et la natation, le reste c'est essentiellement conjoncturel (BMX, Route, VTT, Tennis), et donc nécessairement frustrant. Il y aura toujours plusieurs médaillés potentiels dans ces disciplines dans 4 ans. Don't worry. Pour la piste, je suis plutôt positif pour l'avenir. Les décideurs (fédés et DTN) semblent avoir compris que ça n'allait pas et qu'il allait falloir changer les choses de fond en comble, et ne semble pas vouloir se cacher. Et puis, on a un précédent dans ce sport (0 médailles en 1988, razia en 1996). Par contre, ça risque d'être short pour Tokyo. Reste la natation qui est partie en mode full retard. Entre un président en poste depuis Pompidou qui souhaite s'accrocher jusqu'à la tombe, et un entraîneur national qui ne supporte pas les critiques, on est mal barré. Le déni est roi, la remise en cause nulle part, on parle de la fin d'une génération dorée (ce qui est vrai), mais sans évoquer le manque complet de toute relève. A priori, ça ne pourra pas bouger avant 2020. Seule note d'optimisme, on ne pourra pas tomber de très haut Et puis, même si j'aime bien la diversité des sports, suis pas sur que toute mettre sur l'haltéro, soit le meilleur moyen de monter au classement des médailles