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Ni les Belges, ni les Croates n'étaient aux Jeux.... Ce championnat était l'objectif de leur saison.
 
Et je dis simplement qu'elles ne sont pas aussi nulles qu'on aurait pu le croire après un match raté contre les Serbes.

Pas si mauvaises ces volleyeuses françaises, quart de finaliste après avoir battu 2 bonnes équipes européennes  &  non ? 
 
Bien sur, le chemin devrait s'arrêter là avec la Serbie qui s'annonce de nouveau. Mais on peut être raisonnablement confiant pour l'avenir de cette très jeune équipe. A Paris, où elles seront tête de série, l'objectif réaliste doit être de sortir des poules.
 

the IOC didn't want anymore a double standard tournament, with the first part played only by the second tier teams (without the NHL players) and a very short second round + playoffs with only 8 teams playing with the NHLers (what happened to the Slovaks in SLC 2002 still hurts the IIHF)...
 
at the same time, the NHL didn't want a 16-day tournament as it was before with 12 teams taking part to the olympics, so they came to an agreement...only 12 teams, NHL players playing the whole tournament, but at the same time a shorter tournament with that stupid format we have right now (in order to have a shorter break of the NHL regular season)...
 
common interests, I guess...

The world famous winter resorts of Beijing and Milano obviously.

Collet's contract as France basketball coach extended for Paris 2024 Olympics
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112284/basketball-france-collet

The world famous winter resorts of Beijing and Milano obviously.

ROAD TO BEIJING 2022
 
Latvia books its trip to Beijing
 

 
Latvia is heading to the Olympics. A 2-1 victory over France in Sunday’s decisive Group E game sends the Baltic nation to Beijing for its fifth appearance in the last six Games.

Goals from Rihards Bukarts and Miks Indrasis did the damage for Latvia tonight, putting the home team into a 2-0 lead and triggering a party atmosphere in Arena Riga. But Stephane da Costa scored late for France – the first goal Latvia allowed in the whole tournament – and set up an anxious finale before the hooter ended Les Bleus’ Olympic dream.

"We were here for one thing only," said head coach Harijs Vitolins. "Our goal was to win this qualification, and we did it."

It was a simple equation in the final game in Riga: victory – any kind of victory – would book a ticket to Beijing; defeat meant staying home next February.

France continued with Henri-Corentin Buysse in goal, a slightly surprising choice ahead of Florian Hardy, as head coach Philippe Bozon went with the team that defeated Italy 2-0 on Friday.

Latvia unveiled a new top line, with Ronalds Kenins and Rodrigo Abols joining Rudolfs Balcers on the strike trio after a prolific display against Hungary. That meant Lauris Darzins dropped to the second line, with captain Teodors Blugers on the third. However, the D-core that went 120 minutes without allowing a goal against Italy or Hungary remained unchanged in front of goalie Ivars Punnenovs.

And Punnenovs, who was just nine minutes away from going through the entire competition without allowing a goal, paid tribute to the hard work that went on in front of him throughout all three games.

"The guys blocked all the shots that might go in," he said. "They did an amazing job. It wasn't just the defensive guys, it was the forwards too.

"We scored a lot of goals in our first two games and tonight we had chances to score more. We played a helluva game and the best team won."

These nations have previous at this stage: in 2013 there was a similar showdown to book a ticket to Sochi. That time, France jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first period before Latvia saved itself by taking the game to overtime. In 2021, the host nation was determined to avoid any similar alarms and the crowd in Arena Riga – large and loud – was treated to an intense, face-paced battle from the first seconds.

The opening goal came midway through the first period, and it all stemmed from defensive misfortune. Sacha Treille, so effective at the other end of the ice, saw his cross-ice pass to Antonin Manavian in the corner take a crazy bounce off the boards. Rihards Bukarts was quick to pounce, seizing possession and charging to the crease to put the puck over Buysse’s shoulder for 1-0.

"I guess the hockey gods weren't with us tonight," reflected French head coach Philippe Bozon. "We expected Latvia to come out strong and fast and we were trying to calm down the tempo of the game at the beginning.

"I thought we did a good job of that, but then we were beaten by a bad bounce that put the puck right on their player's stick."

There was no let-up in the intensity in the second period. France started on the power play, but almost gifted Latvia a short-handed goal when Blugers stole the puck away from Florian Chakiachvili only to be denied by Buysse. After surviving that scare, the French picked up momentum but was unable to breach the Latvian penalty kill. Back at equal strength, though, the home team was unable to reimpose itself on the game. Nerves were beginning to fray in the arena as France patiently probed in front of Punnenovs’ net.

Midway through the frame we saw big chances at both ends, with Charles Bertrand screwing his shot wide of the target when space opened up for him in the middle of the Latvian zone. Immediately play broke to the other end, where Abols was denied by a last-gasp poke check that got just enough to take the puck away as the forward lined up his shot.

That exchange ushered in a stronger finish to the middle session for the host, with Buysse twice grateful to his goalposts as first Andris Dzerins and then Kaspars Daugavins went close to doubling the lead. France withstood the pressure and went into the second intermission with just one goal to make up.

One became two, though, when Romain Bault sat for high-sticking. The Latvian power play came up with a killer goal when Indrasis burst through a gap between Manavian and Antoine Roussel. That put him face-to-face with Buysse and the Latvian forward’s backhand flick did just enough to wobble its way over the goalie’s pad and into the net

Indrasis celebrated like it was a gold-medal goal, knowing that his team’s defensive excellence this weekend made a two-goal lead into a daunting advantage. But the impregnable Punnenovs was beaten at last with 8:45 on the clock when Stephane da Costa wired a shot over the goalie’s pad when space opened for him.

That set up a nerve-jangling finale. The game became stretched, space emerged in both ends and there were half chances for both teams. Then Damien Fleury went agonisingly close to a tying goal and as Latvia scrambled to clear, a penalty on Blugers enabled France to go 6-on-4 for the closing seconds. Les Bleus camped in the offensive zone, carefully trying to fashion the chance that could save the game, but Latvia held on to book that much-prized ticket to Beijing.

For Vitolins, though, qualification is just the beginning. "We want to continue," he said. "We remember how Germany won in qualifiying here last time and went all the way to the final, they only lost to the Russian team. Now we want to keep going and we hope we can get to the next level."
 
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Absolutely, now they added two more teams for the womens hockey which is really silly, considering how non competitive it is, instead they easily can add even 4 more teams to the mens tournament, the second tier of this sport is now so even and competitive that it is simply unfair to have only 12 teams in basically one of the only 2 team sports of the whole games (and hockey is arguably the most popular and phare sport of the winter olympics)
 
Really sad for this french generation esecially Bellemare who will probably never had the chance to represent his country at the games, in other hand the likes of Texier or Roussel can still aim for Cortina.

I believe after 2002 is when the IOC started issuing qualifying standards/quotas for winter sports. I'd guess the drop to 14 was partly to cut quotas and to standardize with all other team sports except soccer.

What's 24 (or 28, 32, 36...) years in one's life ? ...

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 
 
what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...
 
I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

There were hours long daily livestreams from Mongolian school gyms.

Like @Dunadan said, they were actually even shown (and posted here I believe), tons of Facebook live streams. It was obscure and it was playing with the rules, but it was definitely not breaking the rules.

Situation about the Belgian men's team:
https://www.hln.be/sport/grootschalige-fraude-3x3-lions-organiseerden-fictieve-wedstrijden-om-op-olympische-spelen-te-geraken-boic-wacht-af~a808e67d
 
Basically it says there's been a major fraud, in which Belgium entered 27 tournaments in the FIBA systems where their players gained enough points to get into the OQT and eventually qualify for Tokyo. Mongolia-style, basically, but as far as I know the tournaments in Mongolia were at least actually played, whereas here it says the Belgian tournaments were entirely made up and not a ball was actually touched...

Le volley H a explosé, mais avait déjà eu de belles générations avant ça (une médaille mondiale au début des années 2000, la génération des Fabiani, Tillie père dans les années 80), alors que les filles n'en ont jamais eu. C'est un problème qui dépasse notre époque e 
 
Je ne sais pas si ça toujours été le cas, mais aujourd'hui les effectifs sont à peu près de 50/50 entre garçons et filles. L'explication n'est pas là. L'une des raisons comme je le disais plus haut c'est l'absence des françaises dans les clubs de première division. Forcément sans temps de jeu, elles ne progressent pas et finissent par arrêter. Le club fédéral* est là pour palier ce problème, mais bon....
 
Il y a peut-être aussi un problème de formation/détection spécifique aux filles. Mais là, je m'avance sans trop savoir. 
 
 
* Il y en a un également chez les mecs, mais en D2.

JUNIOR MEN
  Gold Silver Bronze Sprint Nikita Kalachnik Willy Weinrich Harry Ledingham-Horn Team sprint GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY RUSSIA Keirin Nikita Kalachnik David Shekelashvili Paul Groß Team pursuit GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE RUSSIA Madison GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC Omnium ️Joshua Tarling Dario Igor Belletta Eddy Le Huitouze  
 
JUNIOR WOMEN
  Gold Silver Bronze Sprint Alina Lysenko ️Rhian Edmunds ️Iona Moir Team sprint RUSSIA GREAT BRITAIN  GERMANY Keirin Alina Lysenko ️Alla Biletska ️Rhian Edmunds Team pursuit GREAT BRITAIN RUSSIA GERMANY Madison GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY NETHERLANDS Omnium ️Millie Couzens ️Inna Abaidullina ️Olga Wankiewicz  
 
 
 

i will put the results in Olympic events in both U23 and juniors
 
 
U23 Men
  Gold Silver Bronze Sprint Mikhail Iakovlev Tom Derache Anton Höhne Team sprint Great Britain Germany Russia Keirin Mikhail Iakovlev Daniel Rochna Tom Derache Team pursuit Russia Great Britain Italy Madison Great Britain Russia Netherlands Omnium Matias Malmberg F. Van den Bossche Daniel Babor  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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U23 Women
  Gold
Silver Bronze Sprint Yana Tyshchenko Ksenia Andreeva Alessa-Cat. Pröpster  Team sprint Russia Great Britain Poland Keirin Ksenia Andreeva Yana Tyshchenko Alessa-Cat.Pröpster  Team pursuit Italy Great Britain Netherlands Madison Italy Netherlands Russia Omnium Chiara Consonni Maria Martins Maike van der Duin

Eurohockey division II results.
 
a)Top 2 got promoted to Div I for 2023.
 
b) top 5 advanced to the final european qualifier for a world cup place, which will grant 1 more WC place for women and 2 for men. They will contest for that with the bottom 3 teams of division I.
 
c) Bottom 2 are relegated to div III 2023.
 
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Great progress made by  who will have both their teams in top division just before the olympics. 
 

Quels sont les noms que vous avez coché comme potentiel nouveau médaillables d'ici Paris 2024 (qui étaient présents ou non à Tokyo)

Quelques noms (à étoffer, hein  )
 
 
Athlétisme : Zhoya, Erius (trop jeune ?), Ammirati, Arneton (qui vient de retrouver son ancien coach), Loga...
 
Natation : Marchand, Sœurs Delmas, Grousset, Wattel ...
 
Taekwondo : Randrianisa, Ravet
 
Tennis de table : Pravade (??)
 
Badminton : Popov C. (??), Gicquel-Delrue
 
Tir à l'arc : Barbelin
 
Canoe-Kayack : Prigent
 

1. Rate the performance on a scale of 1-10
 
3/10 Poor, but not completely awful as one could have feared at some point during the games thanks to the last week-end. The overall number of medals is a major disappointment (worst total tied with Athens since 1992), but the number of golds (and thus our ranking in the medals table) is around what was expected.
 
Obviously, with Paris as the next host, one would have assume that we would have been on the rise before our home games like previously hosts were. But it was never going to happen : overall, we had a poor qualification run and probably had a worst team with less potential medallists than in Rio.
 
2. What were the surprises and  heartbreaks ?
 
The surprises have been few. The biggest one being Romain Cannone ranked world number 47 or something and eventually gold medallist in fencing. Team sports have also been incredible successful with 6 medals and 3 golds with only the 3*3 women basketball team being a let down. The men's volleyball team gold seem to me like the biggest surprise any french NT ever achieved during the olympics (possibly tied with the men's handball bronze in 1992)
 
Heartbreaks ? So many... Just on the top of my head: Vincent Luis (Triathlon), Herbert-Mahut (tennis), the men's épée team, the men and particularly the women MTB team, Vincent Daudet (BMX), Benjamin Thomas (Omnium) Marc Antoine Olivier (OW swimming), Valentin Prades (Pentathlon) ...  Major contenders for gold who all failed to reach their objective and even worst to even secure a podium, which largely explains why we didn't achieve as many medals as we are used to.
 
Cycling have once again been the major disappointment of the french team. They were expecting 6 medals and are leaving Tokyo with 2 bronze... At some point, you can't blame everything on 'bad luck". There is something wrong here, that need to be fixed ASAP.
 
Contrary to Rio with boxing and athletics (6 medals each), we didn't have any sport really overperforming. Judo (8 medals) and fencing (5) have been by far our main medals factories, but that was expected and I don't think such level of success was out of reach prior to the olympics.
 
As I've said on the other thread, what worries me the most is that once again we have failed to match our results from the previous world championships during the olympics. 
 
3.Was your country's goal achieved? 
 
Nothing was set in stone, but the discussion was about 40 medals. So, no.
 
4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future?
 
Not one in particular, but it seems that the money will be less spread accros sports and that we are moving slowly to an athlete-per-athlete approach.

So basically a -- affair. So much originality, we could almost believe this class is called RSX or something 

the Iranian Firouzpour is considered the next best thing here. (he and our 61kg guy), he is a senior level wrestler already, he would probably win a medal in Tokyo. unlucky for him we have our best senior wrestler in this weight.
 
I don't want to get into technical details but the way Firouzpour wrestles. (by controlling hands and using his underhook) he can dominate certain type of wrestlers. it doesn't mean they are weak, this is just a very bad matchup for guys like Magamadov.

BG - Greece live stream for anyone interested (in polish, since BG streams are too complicated )
 
http://uhd.freestreams-live1.com/polsatsportnewspl/

The IOC would never scrap one of the most popular sports no matter how corrupt and doped the governing body is. 

It was about 'this will not be good for Paris 2024 because a historic sport will not be on the program', which led to how it most likely won't matter at all for Paris 2024 as a whole.