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This is a good point and probably is due to the fact that some sports, and fencing is probably the best example, olympic competition are smaller than a typical world cup round. However I agree with your latest thought

There are too many sports/too few days of competition/ too few venues for the actual Olympics, choose which one fits better with your vision. Fencing is not the main problem in my opinion, just think to baseball/softball recently added: 6 (SIX!!!) teams tournaments! When men's football is given 16 and it is an U23 competition, while other team sports qualify 12 teams with 3 group matches that are generally useless. The whole Olympic Games format needs revision, with possibly another week of competition (in my opinion) and spanning at least team sports in multiple cities, in order to dilute the cost of making a huge olympic village, that usually is then considered as a weight for the host city. In contrast to Agger, I like team events, especially mixed: they're useful for making a competition between "schools" of sport rather than individuals, and I think IOC should invest in them. In addition, that would be a way to exploit more the venues built for the Games. As I already reported in other posts, track cycling requires a velodrome that is generally used for less than a week and results in 14 medals, if I'm not wrong: according to me, this is a waste.

Beh vincere aiuta a vincere

Concordo su tutto, non può andare sempre tutto bene, nè all'Italia nè agli altri: alla fine, in media, i valori veri escono fuori ed allo stato attuale delle cose l'Italia vale questo. Come è un po' da tradizione secondo me: presente un po' ovunque, a medaglia spesso e volentieri in molti sport, vincente a ripetizione raramente

The draft published by FIE confirms what you are saying for all team events

Io non so bene tutti i risultati, ma ad occhio direi che questa reinterpretazione "favorisce" le squadre più forti... Nel senso, se per dire l'Italia vince tutte le partite del suo girone fa in totale 12 punti e se li porta. Capiterà di giocare per esempio contro la Francia che per qualche motivo ne perde una contro l'ultima in classifica e ne avrà 10: in questo senso, chi gioca meglio nel girone viene favorito. Non è sbagliato in sè, è che non capisco il motivo di doversi inventare un sistema di qualificazione così complicato

https://www.oasport.it/2018/02/basket-qualificazioni-mondiali-2019-la-fiba-fa-chiarezza-nella-seconda-fase-conteranno-tutti-i-risultati-ottenuti-nel-primo-girone/ Pare che ci sia stato un cambiamento/reinterpretazione delle regole: tutti i punti conquistati in questo girone di qualificazione ai campionati mondiali di basket 2019 saranno portati al girone di qualificazione successivo. Questo significa che si può arrivare non solo con 8 punti, ma addirittura con 12 al secondo girone. PS: il calcio ha una dirigenza discutibile, però almeno sanno organizzare le cose in maniera semplice...

sì sapevo della divisione dei tornei nelle varie categorie G, anche se non sapevo del massimo di 5 tornei G1 e 3 G2. Quindi in base a questo che hai detto, mi pare di capire che di fatto per i ranking olimpici possono essere considerati tutti i tornei che vengono effettuati nell'anno solare, purchè non si ecceda nel numero massimo di quote per categoria

Here is pools composition: Pool A Canada France Greece South Korea Pool B Argentina Australia Nigeria Turkey Pool C Belgium Japan Puerto Rico Spain Pool D China Senegal USA Latvia

Women's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2018 San Cristobal de La Laguna/Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ESP) - 22 September 2018 - 30 September 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Italy is dominating its pool

Artistic Gymnastics FIG World Championships 2018 Doha (QAT) - 25 October 2018 - 3 November 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Yes but they're drafts, at least for now however, in the specific cases of FEI, FIE and FIG, I don't think they will change that much from what was already published last year

I hope this is going to be an incredible edition of world championships for Italy, as regards shotgun. On the other hand, Niccolò Campriani has retired and this is very bad... I hope he will be convinced to come back, possibly as flagbearer for Italy

Shooting ISSF World Championships 2018 Changwon (KOR) - 2 September 2018 - 14 September 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Italy will compete with 10 athletes, if I remeber well. Unluckily, Tamberi won't take part to the Games

I guess/hope that they were not already published as a sort of "respect" towards athletes that were competing at Pyeongchang

Equestrian FEI World Games 2018 Tryon (USA) - 12 September 2018 - 23 September 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Kiteboard is going to be disputed although it won't be part of the Olympic programme. It was proposed by ISAF but IOC rejected its insertion in the olympic programme. The other 10 classes are the same that were disputed in Rio 2016 Olympics. Accordingly to what can be found on ISAF website, 40% of olympic berths will be assigned there in Aarhus. If that is true, considering the fact that total number of spots for sailing is decreased from Rio 2016, a nation should enter the TOP 9 in each event in order to secure a quota for the Games in each class (excluding multiple boats from same nations and Japanese that are secured host country places).

that is going to be a good idea for next prediction contests

When they're going to be published, I'd like to create a topic containing links to the drafts

Sailing WS World Championships 2018 Aarhus (DEN) - 2 August 2018 - 12 August 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

As I think, in a few our attention will shift towards summer sports, and qualification period for almost every sport is about to begin. (Or, at least, we're going to know soon about qualification criteria). With this topic, I would like to create a list of links to other topic in the forum so that anybody can reach information about qualification criteria, quota distribution, qualifying events and so on. Please excuse me if this topic was already existing, but I didn't find anything similar. Obviously, it is going to be impossible to keep it up to date alone, (plus, I'm not granting I can be really active on the forum), so I'm asking admins/mods to update it when news are available

https://www.triathlon.org/news/article/itu_launches_the_triathlon_mixed_relay_series Until IOC decides to officially publish criteria, you can start saving this date: 11 May is set as the beginning date for triathlon qualification and on next day the World Series in Yokohama will be the first event for the ranking

Toglietemi una curiosità: ma il ranking olimpico coincide con il ranking mondiale (ossia tiene conto delle stesse gare e degli stessi periodi) oppure no, (e si tiene conto, ad esempio, solo delle gare dei 2 anni prima dei Giochi)? Perchè sul sito della federazione del taekwondo ci sono ranking olimpici già da settembre 2016 e la cosa mi lascia sempre molto perplesso.