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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 )

I'm planning on watching some World Cup replays on uipmtv.com to familiarize myself with the big names, the main rules and the other ways of this sport. However, as I have never ever seen a full competition (only a bit of the epically terrible horse jumping), could someone point me to a few things I should look for? Like in biathlon there are people like Miriam Gössner who are world-class in skiing speed (compared with other biathletes) but who lack a good shooting capability. How is this here? Are there very clear "experts" in certain sports? I mean, people who you'll almost always see in the top-5 of a discipline but who are far behind in the rest?

Fantastic song, but the part at 1:35 (where the music "really" starts) is in my opinion one of the greatest parts of any song ever

It doesn't mean they are not so important, it only means it would be important to keep everything readable. Of course results are important, but without discussion a forum is no forum, so in my opinion the most important is to make space for discussion. And that would absolutely not mean sacrificing results, it would just mean putting results in spoilers so you still have exactly the same data as you had before, with the difference being it takes up 1 line instead of dozens of lines.

But if you have them in a spoiler you still have the extremely detailed results, the only difference is that threads will remain readable because there won't be a million names and flags to scroll, wrestle and fight your way through