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Noooo… you got me wrong here
 
🤦🏻 meant how could i not understand TT is table tennis
 
i thought - cycling time trial??? Nah
 
maybe you mispelled DT discus throw??? 
 
forgot table tennis exists for a moment heh

Sure, it may happen for you in table tennis.
 
i think this FRA athlete with IND roots will play well in Paris. I like her very much , i will cheer on her unless she plays sb from POL

For  perhaps Toby Roberts in sport climbing. He's currently no.2 in the boulder and lead world rankings and gained a quota at the recent European qualifier by a comfortable margin. He's still only eighteen and improving rapidlly.
 
It's a bit of a cop out given it's only the sport's second appearance at the OG. Anyway it definitely won't be in artistic swimming, basketball, breaking, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, surfing, table tennis or volleyball which are the other sports in which they've never won a medal.

Kimberley Le Court de Billot  won the Women’s Cape Epic along with her teammate Vera Looser . They had a handy 30+ minutes margin over the second place team in the general classification, who had some mechanical and injury issues. 
 
Le Court took a bronze medal on the road earlier this year in the women’s time trial at the African Road Cycling Championships. She came top 10 in the road race as well. She was also one of only five riders to complete the women’s cross country race in mountain biking at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 
 
Definitely a rider with a shot of qualifying in mountain biking, but she’ll need to beat the South Africans or hope one of them qualifies by world ranking. 
 
 cycling is arguably in a good place at the continental level. There is a fair chance they get a women’s road cycling quota, but that would likely go to Aurelie Halbwachs. 

Trying to bring some life back into this thread. 
 
Myles Amine  won silver at the European Wrestling Championships (M -86kg Freestyle) losing to Greece’s Dauren Kurugliev by VPO1 3-1 in the final. 
 
Amine is a Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, a gold medalist at the Budapest 2022 European Championships, a bronze medalist at the Minsk 2019 European Games, a gold medalist at the 2022 Oran Mediterranean Games, and achieved a 5th place finish the Nur-Sultan 2019 Worlds, and an 8th place finish at the Belgrade 2022 Worlds. 
 
Amine will have three opportunities to qualify for Paris 2024. His first will come at the Belgrade World Championships (Sep 16-24, 2023), his second will come at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament (Location TBD, expected to be held from April 4-7, 2024.), and his third and final chance will come at the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament (Location TBD, expected to be held from May 9-12, 2024.)
 
For Amine, if he keeps this up I would think qualification is almost guaranteed, and it’s more-so a question of “When will he qualify for the Olympics and can he get back on that podium” rather than “Will he qualify for the Olympics”. 

Manami Iijima places 9th out of 16 at the Africa Triathlon Cup event at Swakopmund, Namibia.
 
Earlier this year, she participated at the Oceania Triathlon Cup race at Taupo, New Zealand where she took 12th out of 25 finishers.
 
Iijima has a World Ranking of 263 and is currently on the Start List for the next Africa Cup event in Zimbabwe on Saturday.

I choose and

In the hope of breathing some more life into this thread, and reminding users it exists, I’m going to announce  as my choices. I’ll provide some updates on their qualification efforts in the coming weeks.

I’ll provide updates on San Marino here  every once in a while 
 
Before the 2020 Olympics, San Marino had never won an Olympic medal. In Tokyo, things changed, and they managed to win TWO medals at Tokyo in shooting (Silver- Mixed Trap, Bronze- Women’s). Although the mixed trap event will be removed for the Paris 2024 Olympics, they should have two chances at the podium in men’s/women’s trap, along with Myles Amine in men’s 86kg wrestling. 

This is a great idea! I will go with Barbados because the sweatshirt pictured here is one of my favourite pieces of clothing I have ever owned- it was sold here alongside Team Canada gear at the then-official outfitter in 2004. 

Btw  is my mom’s home country. I would love to post for it. 

This thread is all about throwing some good ole’ Totallympics support behind smaller and lesser known NOCs during the qualification period and Games-time competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Below you can find the suggested rules/guidelines for this thread.
 
What determines if a NOC is small and/or lesser known? For the purpose of this thread, we will support countries without an active user, club, or following on Totallympics. The list of NOCs eligible for universality quotas would be a good place to select your new favorite teams from. Of course, users are welcome to propose other nations they think fit the criteria as well.
 
How should a user choose a nation(s) to support? Users can choose two or three NOCs they’d like to support and provide updates on to start this thread. It would be nice if we could have users dedicated to following a certain NOC, so please try to avoid doubling up. Perhaps it would be wise indicate a first preference, second preference, etc. when choosing the nations you wish to support. Of course, users are welcome to support only a single NOC as well. Users could also support NOCs they feel aren’t getting enough attention still. There will be a list kept on the first post of this thread to help keep the thread organized as to which user is supporting which NOC(s). 
 
What should users post as a supporter of a nation? That’s mainly up to the user. Some suggestions would be some background info about your country, perhaps the history of your country at the Olympic Games, articles and other fun/interesting info about the athletes trying to qualify for or participating at the Games, updates/reminders/results for perspective/participating athletes, various multimedia (athlete/delegation social media posts, photos, etc.), and any other information of interest.
 
If any other issues or clarifications about the thread are needed, they’ll be added to this post.

Archery men’s team, long jump and TT may be but very rare . 
no chnce in aquatics  / gymnastics/cycling/fencing. Actually there is no infrastructure for these core olympic sports in ind . 

Sheng Lihao is not human . Probably 80 chn  vs 20 others for gold . 

2023 Grand Prix Puchar Polski - Lublin (POL) 
November 4th - November 5th 2023
 
Meet Results
 
 
No new OQTs were achieved

I can only imagine how happy you (i mean all users from India here) would be if there was a gold for India on the first day in this event. Good luck!!!

IRAN & KOR yet  to be  qualify.  Ind china has 2 team France 1  usa 1 Germany 1 Poland 1 . 

I would prefer Marie-José Perec  

if wrestling was easy to predict by just looking at some ranking or some old results. it would be as boring as swimming.
 
there is no accurate ranking (American websites do good sometimes in making freestyle rankings but they are not free to read). finishing 7-10 in the Worlds doesn't really mean anything. that's based on classification points (which usually means how many weak wrestlers you met)
Continental results are not irrelevant but Asian Games was way too close to the World Champs and some big names had to sit out, also some wrestlers prefer to compete in non-Olympic weights in other years. Olympic Qualifier will be a completely different beast with some guys switching weights and some countries hiring new Russian mercenary wrestlers. 

Men’s Javelin 
🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 😁😁😁
medal after one event 
1. 🇮🇳 1 🥇 🥈 🥉 

Wow!

Day 11 (August 6, 2024)
 
Later on, when the weightlifting medal events happen, I’ll do it under the assumption that China will send athletes in men’s 61kg/89kg/102kg and women’s 49kg/+81kg and 81kg.
 
Athletics- Women’s Hammer Throw
Gold-  Brooke Andersen
Silver-  Deanna Price
Bronze-  Camryn Rogers
 
Athletics- Men’s Long Jump
Gold-  Wayne Pinnock
Silver-  Miltiadis Tentoglou
Bronze-  Simon Ehammer
 
Athletics- Men’s 1500m
Gold-  Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Silver-  Timothy Cheruiyot
Bronze-  Jake Wightman
 
First gold medal for Norway at Paris. 
 
Athletics- Women’s 3000m Steeplechase
Gold-  Beatrice Chepkoech
Silver-  Norah Jeruto
Bronze-  Winfred Yavi
 
First medal for Bahrain at Paris! Intense battle for bronze between  Jackline Chepkoech and Yavi, only 0.30 separating them. 
 
Athletics- Women’s 200m
Gold-  Shericka Jackson
Silver-  Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce
Bronze-  Gabby Thomas
 
Won’t be a historic first ever Olympic medal for Saint Lucia as Julien Alfred finishes in 4th. 
 
Boxing- Women’s 50kg
Bronze-  Giordana Sorrentino
Bronze-  Wu Yu
 
 Laura Fuertes and  Wassila Lkhadiri 5th.  
 
Boxing- Women’s 60kg
Gold-  Beatriz Ferreira
Silver-  Estelle Mosselly
 
Boxing- Women’s 66kg
Bronze-  Morella McCane
Bronze-  Amy Broadhurst
 
 Janjaem Suwannapheng and Charlie Cavanaugh 5th.
 
Boxing- Men’s 71kg
Bronze-  Wanderson De Oliviera
Bronze-  Sarkhan Aliyev
 
Diving- Women’s 10m Platform
Gold-  Chen Yuxi
Silver-  Quan Hongchan
Bronze-  Andrea Spendolini Sirieix
 
Failed dive by Caeli McKay in the final (this also happened with another Canadian Pamela Ware in Tokyo), and she finishes dead last.  
 
Equestrian- Individual Jumping
Gold-  Hendrik Von Eckermann
Silver-  Martin Fuchs
Bronze-  Jerôme Guery
 
Sailing- Men’s ICLA 7
Gold-  Matthew Wearn
Silver-  Pavlos Kontides
Bronze-  Tonči Stipanović
 
First medal for Cyprus at Paris. 
 
Sailing- Women’s ICLA 6
Gold-  Marit Bouwmeester
Silver-  Emma Plasschaert
Bronze-  Maud Jayet
 
Very tight race for the medals with only a few points separating second to fifth. Unfortunately that means no podium for  Anne-Marie Ridom and reigning World Champion  Mária Érdi
 
Track Cycling- Men’s Team Sprint
Gold-  Netherlands (Roy van den Berg/Jeffrey Hoogland/Harrie Lavreysen)
Silver-  Australia (Matthew Glaetzer/Leigh Hoffman/Matthew Richardson)
Bronze-  France (Timmy Gillion/Rayan Halal/Sébastien Vigier)
 
Wrestling- Men’s 60kg Greco Roman
Gold-  Zholaman Sharshenbekov
Silver-  Victor Ciobanu
Bronze-  Mehdi Mosennejad
Bronze-  Kenichiro Fumita
 
First medal, and first gold for Kyrgyzstan at Paris. First medal for Moldova as well.  Edmond Nazaryan and  Kerem Kamal 5th.
 
Wrestling- Men’s 130kg Greco Roman
Gold-  Amir Zare
Silver-  Taha Akgül
Bronze-  Geno Petriashvili
Bronze-  Giorgi Meshvilidishvili
 
First gold for Iran at Paris.  Mason Parris and  Mönkhtöriin Lkhavagerel 5th.
 
Wrestling- Women’s 76kg Freestyle
Gold-  Adeline Gray
Silver-  Yuka Kagami
Bronze-  Epp Maë
Bronze-  Samar Amer
 
First medal for Estonia at Paris.  Milamys Marín and  Aiperi Kyzy 5th. 
 
TEAM SPORTS/UPDATES (turboyev, krjpek judo, women’s doubles tennis, sinkovic rowing changes) (ignore this i’m just trying to remind myself to change predictions.)
 

Medal Table After Day 11
 27-23-32– 82
 25-11-16– 52
 12-13-10– 35
 10-14-13– 37
 10-13-14– 37
 10-10-12– 32
 10-5-6– 21
 9-8-8– 25
 9-7-8– 24
 9-3-5– 17
 5-8-7– 20
 5-4-6– 15
 5-2-2– 9
 4-2-3– 9
 4-2-1– 7
 3-3-1– 7
 3-2-1– 6
 3-2-0– 5
 3-1-2– 6
 2-6-5– 13
 2-3-3– 8
 2-3-3– 8
 2-2-1– 5
 2-2-1– 5
 2-1-5– 8
 2-0-2– 4
 1-4-4– 9
 1-3-5– 9
 1-3-2– 6
 1-3-1– 5
 1-1-2– 4
 1-1-2– 4
 1-1-1– 3
 1-0-3– 4
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 0-2-4– 6
 0-2-3– 5
 0-2-1– 3
 0-2-1– 3
 0-2-1– 3
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-0-3– 3
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1

Back to square one.
 
1. DIVING - W Synchro 3m Springboard
 
1. China Q
2. United States
3. Great Britain Q
4. Italy Q
5. Mexico
6. Canada
7. Australia
8. France Q
 
2. FENCING - W Epee Ind
 
1. Marie-Florence Candassamy FRA
2. Vivian Kong HKG
3. Alberta Santuccio ITA
4. Alexandra Louis Marie FRA
5. Sun Yiwen CHN
Anna Kun HUN
Nathalie Moellhausen BRA
Alexandra Ndolo KEN
 
3. FENCING - M Sabre Ind
 
1. Sandro Bazadze GEO
2. Eli Dershwitz USA
3. Aron Szilagyi HUN
4. Bolade Apithy FRA
5. Ziad El-Sissy EGY
Kento Yoshida JPN
Luca Curatoli ITA
Ali Pakdaman IRI
 
4. JUDO - W -48kg
 
1. Natsumi Tsunoda JPN
2. Assunta Scutto ITA
3. Shirine Boukli FRA
3. Milica Nikolic SRB
5. Catalina Costa POR
5. Abiba Abuzhakynova KAZ
7. Katharina Menz GER
7. Marusa Stangar SLO
 
5. JUDO - M -60kg
 
1. Ryuju Nagayama JPN
2. Francisco Garrigos ESP
3. Dilshodbek Baratov UZB
3. Balabay Aghayev AZE
5. Lee Ha-Rim KOR
5. Enkhtaivan Ariunbold MGL
7. Giorgi Sardalashvili GEO
7. Dilshot Khalmatov UKR
 
6. ROAD CYCLING - M Ind Time Trial
 
1. Remco Evenepoel BEL
2. Filippo Ganna ITA +1
3. Josh Tarling GBR +1
4. Stefan Kung SUI
5. Wout van Aert BEL
6. Stefan Bissegger SUI
7. Nelson Oliveira POR
8. Rohan Dennis AUS
 
Update in my predictions: Tadej Pogacar SLO was 2nd here previously but I think he will not participate in this event, rest a bit after Tour de France and focus on the road race next weekend.
 
7. ROAD CYCLING - W Ind Time Trial
 
1. Chloe Dygert USA
2. Demi Vollering NED
3. Grace Brown AUS
4. Marlen Reusser SUI
5. Christina Schweinberger AUT
6. Ellen van Dijk NED
7. Anna Henderson GBR
8. Juliette Labous FRA
 
8. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament
 
1. Fiji Q
2. New Zealand Q
3. Argentina Q
4. Ireland Q
5. France Q
Australia Q
Samoa Q
South Africa
 
9. SHOOTING - Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle
 
1. China
2. India
3. Iran
4. France
5. Poland
6. China 2
7. Korea Rep.
8. Germany
 
10. SKATEBOARDING - M Street
 
1. Aurelien Giraud FRA
2. Nyjah Huston USA
3. Gustavo Ribeiro POR
4. Sora Shirai JPN
5. Vincent Milou FRA
6. Kelvin Hoefler BRA
7. Jagger Eaton USA
8. Mattias Dell Olio ARG
 
11. SWIMMING - M 400m Free
 
1. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN
2. Samuel Short AUS
3. Lukas Martens GER
4. Elijah Winnington AUS
5. Kim Woo-Min KOR
6. Antonio Djakovic SUI
7. Felix Auboeck AUT
8. Petar Mitsin BUL
 
12. SWIMMING - W 400m Free
 
1. Ariarne Titmus AUS
2. Summer McIntosh CAN
3. Katie Ledecky USA
4. Erika Fairweather NZL
5. Bingjie Li CHN
6. Bella Smith USA
7. Lani Pallister AUS
8. Isabel Gose GER
 
13. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Free Relay
 
1. Australia Q
2. United States Q
3. China Q
4. Canada
5. Netherlands
6. Great Britain
7. Sweden
8. Japan
 
14. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Free Relay
 
1. Australia Q
2. Italy Q
3. Great Britain
4. China
5. Canada
6. Korea Rep.
7. Brazil
8. Japan
 
Unites States Q - DSQ in heats

Yep u are right.. we are lagging in quality coaching & training. For example kor fed hav only 2k registered archer while ind have 10k ..but in future i m  sure about 15-20 medal mark .. shooting rifle /pistol future is  Great here & we can go tow to tow with 🇨🇳 around 5-6 medals ..
Other than shooting  Athletics field events, women’s wrestling, women’s boxing, archery are the sports where ind can become strong medal contender ..