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La période de qualif' pour le Tennis vient de se terminer. Encore un système de qualif' auquel je n'aurais rien compris jusqu'au bout Bref, si je ne me suis pas - de nouveau - planté, et à moins d'une blessure ou d'un désistement voilà l'équipe que l'on devrait avoir à Rio. Simple Homme: - R. Gasquet - J-W Tsonga - G. Monfils - G. Simon Simple Dame: - K. Mladenovic - C. Garcia - A. Cornée Doubles Homme: - Herbert-Mahut - Tsonga-Gasquet Double Dame: - Garcia_Mladenovic Double Mixte: - Mladenovic-Herbert - Garcia-Mahut Les 5 équipes de double, sont autant de chances de médailles A noter, que Parmentier est 9ème non qualifiée et a petite chance de voir Rio si assez de filles devant elle n'y vont pas.

In 2012, it was end of june. There is a great post on the tennisforum.com about the women's race.

Really ?

Yes . It's worth noting that even professionals didn't understand the rule up to the end. French TV commentators were still about this "best asian" thing during the Iran-Poland game and thought Iran was allready qualified. They didn't understand why Iran players were so happy when they actually won and finally validate their ticket to Rio

It's the other way around. Top Asian team + the best remaining 3 teams (ie, here, the top 4 teams will qualify regardless of their continent)

Why ? Even with a loss against Japan, Canda would still have a chance.

Overall sets ratio.

It's very much what happened, only the third shit* was convincing. It is not a clinical team by any means as we allready have seen it during the games against Poland and Australia (and it really well might cost them during the olympics btw) Edit: *Set, not shit

Fi-NA-LLY Rio, here we come !

As you said ealier : That's really the only difference betwwen the two sports. I suppose that FINA would love that top end swimmers had access to the same kind of high tech - undetectable - drugs. Then , they could simply pretend to fight againtst doping by catching some random mid tier swimmers once every blue moon.

The César Cielo case alone should be enough to put FINA on the joke tier alongside FIFA and ATP/WTA

The stadium will fill up latter on (lunch ain't over yet...). But, yeah it's a shame and likely not going to change anytime soon. Last year, the stadium was not even filled up for the beginning of the Tsonga semi final

Nah, everything is sold out month ealier. People do come (and pay for), but they don't watch a lot... For a large part of the RG audience, business and PR are more important than actual tennis... It looks even shittier on TV as the first irer of the stadium is the one which is filled up with VIP/business seats.

Not quite We need Australia not to win the three points against Japan to be officialy qualified today. Anyway, Poland, France and Iran are basically In The last spot will be fought between China, Canada and the winner of the game between Japan and Australia.

My two escudos: Baseball/Softball. Baseball is not less an international sport that water polo or field hockey. One of the biggest cons of the sport was always the cost for a dedicated sport infrastructure, something that is obviously not a issue in Tokyo. Why not, then ? On the other hand, softball is a very, very minor international sport and has no business to be in the olympics. Drop Softball, have a proper - men - baseball 12 team tournament. Reassess it after Tokyo. Karate: Only if we ditch taekwondo in the process. Too much redundancy between the two. Surfing. Despite growing up in an heavy surfing/skateboarding culture (mostly made of wanabee though, my younger myself included), I certainly don't support surfing inclusion. The sport is far from global, being only popular in some smallish regional pockets. Judging controversies are common. A large part of its fanbase considers it as a 'culture' first and foremost, and not a sport in the tradiontional - IOC - way. It can also be a very, very lame spectacle. Skateboarding: To me, it sounds like the church bringing a guitar, a few colorfull shirts and thinking that they will appeal to the youth that way. Hint: It doesen't work and it makes you desesperate and ridiculous. All the surfing cons in worse (+ a split between governing bodies). No, not even close. What were they thinking ? © Sport climbing: Actually the only sport that I fully support the inclusion of. It's fresh, it offers something trully new, the sport is fully supportive of its inclusion. And it's actually a somehow spectator-friendly sport. My concern is the combined event, I'd have much prefered to have a propper speed and bouldering event. Generally speaking, I don't get the IOC and the japanese OC. The process and the sport's choices make very little sense to me. PS: we need a dedicated sport program thread

(scrap that) As long it includes four wins, it might be enough (and it was the case for the women's tournament). I'd say 14 points is a safe enough bet though.

Poland is all but in name qualified to the Olympics. It's impossible not to qualifie with 5 wins and you still have to play against Venezuela... So congrats I guess

It seems there have been a few 54-52 sets in modern history. Not sure about international volleyball though. Back in the days, before the change of rules, there was a 87-85 set in former Czechoslocakia.

Ok, THAT was the worst waken up ever. Please, please, guys learn how to end games. Please, you don't want you coach to have an heart attack right ? And Carroll

WCHs OG Rate 6,5 15 231 % 9,3 18 193 % 4,5 8 178 % 4,0 7 175 % 11,5 17 148 % 6,3 9 142 % 14,8 18 121 % 23,2 25 108 % 24,8 26 105 % 15,7 14 89 % 20,3 18 89 % 42,5 37 87 % 16,3 14 86 % 20,2 17 84 % 32,5 27 83 % 38,7 32 83 %

I'll try to make one later today

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Yes, indeed, sorry about that. Your projections are likely correct.

The rankings have been updated. http://www.uci.ch/bmx/ranking/

Something that just popped into my head: What about an historic section.featuring a thread for each past olympic game ? Hopefully, people could talk about past results, controversies, post video footages, etc.