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The Romanian women's gymnastic team could be in trouble as well (according to the experts in the gymnastics thread): if they don't qualify that would be a huge thing, considering they won a medal in the last 10 straight Olympics. Any more examples?

Hello I thought it'd be interesting to work on a list of London 2012 medalists who didn't qualify (or likely won't qualify) for Rio 2016. I am specifically talking about athletes/teams who missed out on qualification, not on athletes/teams who simply retired. Some basic rules: 1. Athletes who didn't qualify because they retired at a time they could still technically qualify for Rio won't count 2. Athletes who didn't qualify because they are banned will only count if they are officially still 2012 medalists (example: no Alptekin) 3. Athletes who are still active but were apparently not good enough to be selected for qualifiers will count Archery - Mariana Avitia (MEX): Bronze in 2012 - Oh Jin-hyek (KOR): Gold and bronze in 2012 Basketball - Russia men: Bronze in 2012 Boxing - Marlen Esparza (USA): Bronze in 2012 (women's 51kg) Canoeing - Slalom - Michal Martikan (SVK): Bronze in 2012 (men's C-1) - Émilie Fer (FRA): Gold in 2012 (women's K-1) - Ettienne Stott (GBR): Gold in 2012 (men's C-2) Diving - Laura Sanchez (MEX): Bronze in 2012 (women's springboard) Equestrian - Jumping - Saudi Arabia: Bronze in 2012 (team) Fencing - Bartosz Piasecki (NOR): Silver in 2012 (men's epée) - Choi Byung-chul (KOR): Bronze in 2012 (men's foil) - Japan men: Silver in 2012 (team foil) - Germany men: Bronze in 2012 (team foil) - Britta Heidemann (GER): Silver in 2012 (women's epée) - Valentina Vezzali (ITA): Bronze in 2012 (women's foil) Football - Japan women: Silver in 2012 Gymnastics - Artistic - Krisztian Berki (HUN): Gold in 2012 (men's pommel horse) - Matteo Morandi (ITA): Bronze in 2012 (men's rings) - Romania women: Bronze in 2012 Rowing - Canada men's eight: Silver in 2012 Sailing - Przemysław Miarczyński (POL): Bronze in 2012 (men's RS:X) - Zofia Klepacka (POL): Bronze in 2012 (women's RS:X) Shooting - Vijay Kumar (IND): Silver in 2012 (men's 25m rapid fire pistol) - Andrija Zlatic (SRB): Bronze in 2012 (men's 10m air pistol) - Håkan Dahlby (SWE): Silver in 2012 (men's double trap) - Lionel Cox (BEL): Silver in 2012 (men's 50m rifle prone) Swimming - Cesar Cielo (BRA): Bronze in 2012 (men's 50m freestyle) - Michael Jamieson (GBR): Silver in 2012 (men's 200m breaststroke) - Martina Grimaldi (ITA): Bronze in 2012 (women's 10k open water) Taekwondo - Sebastián Crismanich (ARG): Gold in 2012 (men's -80kg) - Carlo Molfetta (ITA): Gold in 2012 (men's +80kg) - Terrence Jennings (USA): Bronze in 2012 (men's -68kg) Wrestling - Jake Varner (USA): Gold in 2012 (men's freestyle -96kg) - Damian Janikowski (POL): Bronze in 2012 (men's Greco-Roman -84kg)

When talking specifically about the song contests, it's "slow" because it's a general pattern to follow. I mean, the "real" Eurovision Song Contest also doesn't happen every week Apart from that, I agree with you. I remember once asking if I could open a cyclo-cross thread because talking about cyclo-cross in the road cycling thread was just making no sense at all. The answer was something like "After 1 January we will look at the possibilities"....like the world would suddenly be different at 1 January

I don't think it's so bad for a relatively short championships. It saves the time of having the qualifications somewhere in the morning with only a few local athletics-crazy people watching.

Media in Malawi report that they will have 2 taekwondo athletes in Rio. Their only entrant in the African qualifiers didn't make it, so these must be tripartite places or something (if true of course)? http://mwnation.com/taekwondo-to-send-2-to-brazil-olympics/

You mean in Portland?

But the Tour de Sétif is in Algeria right? So that's what I meant, the general standings in the Tour de Sétif (which you can say as "The general standing in Algeria", because it's the only big race in Algeria right now and it was the one we were talking about)

It's a tour inside a tour inside a tour? Tourception?

Bad fall for Merighetti in the last race of her career Luckily she is standing again.

Any reason for that besides weakening the overall fields?

Feuz wins, his first victory in 4 years and all that in front of his home crowd

Come on Janka...if not you, I hope Fill doesn't pass Feuz

Feuz takes the lead

It might even be the first time ever that any athlete from Bangladesh actually qualifies instead of participates with a wildcard..

Someone else (non-Dutch) is likely to get Jansen's quota, unless she gets 305+ points in 2 of her remaining 3 competitions..

World Cup Finals have started with the men's downhill at the moment Last men's downhill of the season

I think AIBA is doing it way too fast. You just can't change something so big months before the Olympics when a big part of the field has already qualified... They should implement this for 2020, so the whole qualification process can start with everyone being eligible from the beginning. Obviously professionals should eventually be allowed, because that's the exact reason why boxing is such a joke as Olympic sport, but with professionals it could finally become a real Olympic sport

General standings in Algeria after the 3rd stage are hilarious "Gewiss-Dubai" as they are jokingly called on a Dutch forum (most cycling fans will know what they mean with Gewiss-Dubai)

Our coach Max Caldas: "We want to give our players enough rest. After the national competition and play-offs and the Euro Hockey League, there is way too little time until the Champions Trophy, so we'll skip this year." Furthermore, they got the invitation during the Hockey World League last year, but the technical director of the Dutch federation already immediatly said they wouldn't accept it. Mostly because the tournament would be exactly within the short time off/vacation for the Dutch team. Caldas then said they should go, but with a selection of players who would likely not make the Olympic team, so the rest issue wouldn't be a problem. However, apparently travelling to Argentina would have been too expensive, so they decided not to send any team. (and then it got changed to England, but the decision either didn't change or it was too late already)

I very strongly disagree that the required points must be lower (ie the standards must be stricter), I very much like it to see athletes we don't normally see in World Cups Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought about the Nations Cup yet.

That really is a shame, it would have been pretty much the first time I would see or hear anything out of Turkmenistan

Zambian boxers had to train in the hotel hallways because the Cameroonian organization had no training venue for them Reading a little it looks like this is a very typical African sports event in terms of organization (you know, the kind of organization that even a 3 year old child would do better).

Because in the past year or so we have gotten more silver than the 17th century Spanish armada

Looking at the past year or so, we (Netherlands) will probably go home with 1 gold, 186 silver medals and maybe 1 or 2 bronzes

Anywhere between 20 and 25 for the Netherlands would be my guess after a quick look (quick as in, taking 60 seconds to make a very quick guess )