De_Gambassi

Way to much smiley and excitation here.
 
 

Final Medal Table (Olympic events only)
 
 4 / 1 / 3
 3 / 0 / 0
 1 / 7 / 1
 1 / 1 / 0
 1 / 0 / 2
 1 / 0 / 0
 1 / 0 / 0
 1 / 0 / 0
 1 / 0 / 0
 0 / 2 / 0
 0 / 1 / 4
 0 / 1 / 1
 0 / 1 / 1
 0 / 0 / 1
 0 / 0 / 1

Insane ending at the Talence Decastar heptathlon  
 
Dutch Emma Oosterwegel has 9 points to defend on Austrian Ivona Dadic in the 800m. Dadic attacks in the last lap and gets a gap of 1-2 seconds, which is enough. Oosterwegel pulls absolutely everything out of it though, and closes the gap back to a little under 0,7 seconds.....the result?
 
 
I do not think I have seen that in the recent past  

You can probably scroll down and work your way up here:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/world-championship/2022/result/live/livestats
 
Although not a whole lot happened in terms of the race yet (Pogacar had a bit of an attack with 200k to go and split the peloton in two, but that was undone a while later), and even now the main story is still the Van der Poel saga  

O’Donovan likes to play with the media, you never know what he is going to say or not going to say as it was in this case

Way to much smiley and excitation here.
 
 

Finalists in Olympic class events (14 max)
 
11
10
8
4  
3
2  
1
 
China and Austria have no men's qualifiers. Italy, Czechia, Estonia, Moldova, Norway, Poland and Serbia have no women's qualifiers. Figures includes the women 8 where there were no qualification races
 

Disappointed that GB didn't enter a women's eight and the same goes for NZ. With only six entries on the women's side I do worry about the future of this boat - and by extension the men's boat - in the Olympic programme. For me the eights are one of the blue riband events of the Games but I'm sure the IOC would be more than happy to get rid of an event involving so many athletes.

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Les lanceurs de relève   ne sont pas au hauteur.   4-1.

For all the geography nerds out there, thought it would be fun to see a breakdown of birth countries for each nation.
 
Czech Republic
 Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia: 27
 United States: 1
 
France
 France: 13
 Venezuela: 9
 Dominican Republic: 2
 Canada: 1
 Cuba: 1
 Japan: 1
 United States: 1
 
Germany
 Germany: 13
 United States: 12
 Australia: 1
 Canada: 1
 Cuba: 1
 
Great Britain
 United States: 12
 Great Britain: 7 
 Bahamas: 5
 British Virgin Islands: 2
 Canada: 1
 U.S. Virgin Islands: 1
 
South Africa
 South Africa: 27
 Australia: 1
 
Spain
 Venezuela: 11
 Dominican Republic: 7
 Cuba: 6
 Spain: 2 
 Nicaragua: 1
 United States: 1
 
Really nice to see the Czechs and South Africans with mostly homegrown rosters!

So Nur-Sultan existed 3 years. The capital will be re-named Astana again

This deal is death fortunately.

For all die-hard fans of this telenovela, we have today a new episode
 
The state apparetnly threatens our Ice Hockey federation to stop funding them if they will not change their decision to call our players from the KHL to the NT ...
 
The Ministry of Sports released today this official statement
 
"The section of Sport of the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Research of the Slovak Republic will re-open the contract on the provision of a state contribution to the Ice Hockey Federation (SZĽH), which also includes the purpose of funds for the National Teams of Slovakia, and we will investigate about the legitimacy of the funds for these players (operating in the KHL) in connection with the activities of the national team. Considering that the national Team of the Slovak Republic is a public interest and it is also defined in the Sports Act, we will try to harmonize the public interest of the state with hockey."
 
https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/HxVxCk0/ministerstvo-skolstva-reaguje-na-rozhodnutie-szlh-otvorime-zmluvu-o-poskytovani-statneho-prispevku/
 

Next year's World Series will be interesting. Lots of teams will be in contention for the 4 automatic spots and the outcome will be decisive towards the continental representation. If Argentina can repeat last edition's performance then Uruguay/Chile could have a huge shot at making the Olympics. Should South Africa continue to crumble (though the CG proved they're far from over), Kenya would be in big trouble etc.

https://www.snptv.org/reglementation/#:~:text=Les télévisions publiques sont limitées,depuis le 1er janvier 2009.
 
9 minutes max per hour for private channels and 6 for public ones (plus no breaks after 8 pm).
 
But that's for FTA channels only I think, not sure how it works for other channels, it sure feel likes Eurosport is doing a lot more than that 

As you can see on the picture fro Swewi each party have their own ballots. You pick the ballots for the party you want to vote for (I believe there are blanks as well as Sweden has quite a lot of write-in parties and candidates).
In the past, you could take the ballot on the voting location where people could more or less keep an eye on you and at some locations party member were even giving them to voters. You could always take the ballots from more parties to hide your selection, but it really still wasn't that good. 
But I understand that this part has been improved, not having the ballots in public.
 
The reason for having the individual ballots and not a long list like most other countries is that the election laws are very liberal in Sweden. It's very easy to have your party in the election. The full ballot would be terribly long!
Just look at some of the parties up for election: Donald Duck's party, The least bad party, The poor man's party, Capitalism with a friendly face and Evil chicken party. Not to mention a handful of more or less extreme parties on both wings.

Before this year people had always taken the ballot from a public table before they go behind the curtain and vore in secret. Of course peppar who dont want to show others have taken ballots from several parties and then just left the not-used ballots aside. 

FIBA made same BS here in womens tournaments. Spain is out and teams like Puerto Rico in

The qualification window for Judo opened at the end of June and so far there have been 8 qualifying events staged - 2 Grand Slams, 1 Grand Prix and 5 Continental Opens. Annoyingly, the IJF haven't got their act together for the last couple of months and they haven't been publishing the Olympic Ranking list on their website. 
 
I've gone through the results from 7 of the 8 qualifying events - I haven't included the results of Tahiti Oceania Open - to generate my own tracker of current qualification position.
 

 
Couple of caveats:
1) This only covers the top 17 in the rankings (and France as hosts) - it doesn't take into account the continental quotas
 
2) Russia are included in the list despite the fact that they haven't been competing on the tour. At the moment, the rankings are heavily driven by the results from the Grand Slams and Russia were included in and performed pretty well at the Ulaanbaatar GS. I guess with the World Champs taking place in Uzbekistan, there is a possibility that Russian judokas may be there too. 
 
In terms of the team event, at the moment, by my reckoning the following nations would be qualified:
 
         
 
It's still early days and a lot will change will change before the end of the qualification window

I'll take a stab at this.  For men, the shortest gold medalist I'm sure is Joseph DePietro   WL 1948 gold medal in bantamweight.  He was 1.40 metes tall.  The tallest is Arvydas Sabonis   BB 1988 then bronze 1992 for   listed at 2.21 m.  
For Women, the tallest I'm sure is Uljana Semjonova  (    nationality) BB 1976 and 1980 listed between 2.10 and 2.16.  The shortest is Mariya Filatova  Gymnastics 1976 and 1980, 1.36 meters tall.  Filatova is also likely the lightest listed at 30 kg.  
 
For men, the heaviest gold medalist is probably Leonid Zhabotynsky   1964 and 1968 WL listed at 163 kg.  The heaviest woman is Zhou Lulu    2012 WL at 133 kg.
 
 
Actually, the shortest and lightest men's gold medalist may be the unknow cox of the 1900 pairs event, thought to be around 11 years old. 

Hier, l'Equipe de France de Water Polo s'est qualifiée en quart de finale des Championnats d'Europe pour la première fois depuis 1958, éliminant au passage les doubles champions olympiques serbes.
 
Voilà l'intégralité du traitement du journal à ce sujet ;
 

 
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Hier, l'Equipe de France de Water Polo s'est qualifiée en quart de finale des Championnats d'Europe pour la première fois depuis 1958, éliminant au passage les doubles champions olympiques serbes.
 
Voilà l'intégralité du traitement du journal à ce sujet ;
 

 
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