Melonade

With the exception of fencing, every combat sports (boxing, wrestling, judo, TKD + weightlifting) only allow one athlete per country and per category during the olympics. You have to go back to 1924, to find a combat sport.(boxing) that allowed multiple entries per nation and per category.
 
Same with the "boat sports" (cannoeing, rowing, sailing), which also allow only one athlete per nation and per boat. Here, you only need to go back to 2004 , to find one of these sport allowing multiple entries per boat (cannoeing slalom).
 
It is also worth noting, that with the exception of women boxing and the longer boats (rowing eights, k4), these sports allready have more entrants that other sports that do allow multiple entries per country such as trampoline or women's BMX (16).
 
Personnaly, I'm against this policy (oh... the surprise). Generally speaking, I think the overall international representation should take the back seat during the olympics and the focus to be put on the better athletes regardless of their nationality or continent.
 
For instance, back in 2012, the future C1 slalom gold medallist (Tony Estanguet) had to beat the then current world champion (Denis Gargaud... future gold medal winner in Rio) during the french nationals just to make to London. Doest it makes sense to had one these two gold contenders stay at home to make room for a kazakh or chinese that very few cared about ? Does it make a better event ? Does it make for a better publicity for the sport ? I'm sure @hckosice could share some similar stories.
 
Not every athletes will have has much patience, and many will drop the sport due to lack of oppurtunities, some will change nationallity, and in case of combat sports, some will go through hell just to make to a different weight category.
 
I believe that you only need to relax this policy just a bit to make this whole qualification process much smoother and utimately to have a better sporting event .By exemple, if you allow only the top three nations in salom to have two entries per boat, that only means 12 athletes. An other exemple, in judo, you could allow two entries as long both athletes are ranked in the top 8 of their respective category, which would mean 15 athletes at the moment, etc.
 
I think there is much to win here for a little cost.
 
Thoughts ?
 
 

Serena gave birth to baby girl during her elder's sister match  

Lol 
 

CNN reporter in Hopkinsville, Kentucky sounded like she was having an orgasm  

another NASA reporter is choking hahaha 
 
we had a partial eclipse last year in UK, I think I was a fetus in 1999 

if you want to follow the ECLIPSE LIVE NOW! 21-08 in usa
will begin at less than 2 hours
 

Yeah, that was just fantastic. 1000m walk vs 1400m run, brilliant. Can't wait for the 130m (human) vs 250m (horse). 

Yesterday was announced that in 2018 for the first time ever will be held new contest called "Eurovision Asia Song Contest". So far Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South Korea confirmed their intentions to participate in the contest.

I doesn't look good in this photo, but I wanted share of whom I saw today 
 

Dear Lord, just when I think people will finally get it, things get worse.
 
Transgender people are not an aberration so that they need their own category. They have to completely "reprogram" their bodies through hormone treatment. I know a transgender woman who said the hormones "ate" her muscles and she feels like her body is much weaker now. It's not like at the Olympics an 100+ kg weightlifter could ever put on a wig and compete among women because he thinks this will be okay. 
 
Besides, hyperandrogenism is a condition that still needs to be studied deeply. Not even scientists know for sure the effects of this condition for the sport, but this still doesn't stop people like Jozwik and Sharp to be stupid and harmful in interviews speaking about what they know nothing of. Take Dutee Chand for example. If high testosterone levels had been enough, she would have been among the best in the world by now.

We will try to work on that on the future and I agree with you something has to be improved under this point of view. But just as a reminder to every user, you can (and should) report posts if you find them racist. Even when we will have a better organized moderation team, moderators are not reading the threads 24 hours, and when you make a report a notifications will arrive to moderators and the post can be checked more quickly. I have received 3-4 reports during the World Championships and all of them have been dealt pretty quickly.
 
Also (I am not talking to you but in general) we should differentiate between racist comments and comments made by users we can not stand. For the latest ones, you should all use the "Ignore" feature this forum allows everyone to use (apart from me, even though I would love to be able to use that function too )

I don't really follow athletics, but as a reminder to myself in case I decide to follow it someday, I should never come close to some people discussing the results here.
 
I've seen some sexist, LGBT-phobic, and apparently racist comments, and I'm surprised some of you just let that slip as if it's nothing. It's one thing when you are not a huge fan of such and such athlete. It's a different thing altogether when you purposely misgender people or when your remarks about someone might come off as racist. 

Love the Salt Bae intro hahaha
 
 

The Complete Athletics Track and Field Morning and Evening Sessions added in the daily posts
 
Go to the Opening post of this thread and just click on the link for the day you are searching for and re-enjoy the event you wanted to re-watch

Poor Bolt, bad way to ended career

Hey Houston, we have a problem  

For tomorrow morning's highlight of the world champs:
 
 

Here the full race replay https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/cycling-road-mens-road-race-rio-2016-replay/

He's not improving his PB by 5 seconds at a time
 
In 2013 in Marrakech he already had a 3:33, in 2014 he ran some races in MAR/FRA/ESP/BEL (including 3:34 and 3:33), in 2015 only one 800m (1:47) and one 1500m (3:33), both in Belgium, and last year he ran these few races:
 

 
 

There's no off-topic in a general chat thread  

you will just get tons of dislike

If any of you are like me, you were very dissapointed that Sochi or Rio didnt get a proper video game, so Pyongchang 2018 is finally different! Ubisoft announced in their E3 press conference that their game Steep is getting a pyongchang expansion!!!
 
the trailer showed the following events :
 
Downhill
Snowboard Cross
Slopestyle
Ski Cross
Halfpipe
PGS
GS
Super G
Slalom
Big Air 
Ski Halfpipe
 
while it's not a huge list, it's better then nothing which we got in 14 and 16
 
i'm super excited!!
 
December 5th, if someone here is a ps4 gamer, come join me!

Nope, Nothing. I've been looking in historical tables and results of the volleyball in our territory in the 70s years. And I did found nothing. Absolutely nothing, Not a single mention of any special result, nor any club that would approach the mentioned name. Moreover, such a city or village does not exist and did not existed in the communist era. So it's a fake report.
 
Sorry Guys