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But in Italy we don’t have a sliding track and it will be needed for sport development, so it makes sense to me not renouncing to it

sì, una coppia senza chance...
Resca al primo appuntamento dopo 2 anni ha dimostrato di avere un gran feeling con la Stanco...per me loro sono la coppia numero #1...
e poi comunque è una somma di prestazioni individuali, quindi Fabbrizi si accoppierebbe benissimo con la Rossi, senza ricorrere a quella palla al piede di Pellielo, che ormai è un ex tiratore...non smetterò mai di ripeterlo...

Because participating in the Olympics means participating in the Olympics!

Boxing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification System.pdf
 
Boxing

Update. SVK will have 75 athletes, today we received another reallocation. Slavomír Michňák will compete in M Artistic Gymnastics.
 
The Flagbearer during the Opening Ceremony will be Juraj Tužinský 4th from Rio 2016
 
 
and one gossip "news" Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková is pregnant this time she scheduled it better than last time when she had to miss the Rio games and her attempt for 3rd Olympic medal in a row.. now she is already qualified for Tokyo so this year and season is the best one for her 2nd child.  
She said she will compete at the European Games only if her doctor allow her, and apparently everything is fine, so Zuzana will compete in Minsk, obviously this will be her last this year competition in Trap and Mixed Trap with Varga, before next Olympic year
 
Congrats Zuzana
(Pictured during the SVK delegation First lunch At the Athletes village today with our second Trap athlete Jana Špotáková - in the middle, and Pistol shooter Martina Maršálková - in the right side)
 

 

True, but I feel Jamaica has done a better job at going from specialists to more general. Regardless both nations should be among the 10 largest teams.

The universal qualifier was mostly done in 3x3 to avoid continental representation. Sadly, clubs have too much power for there to be a two stage qualifier in football. Though I guess for women they could have had a tournament during the same time as the SheBelieves/Algarve/Cyprus Cups which includes the best performing nations from their respective continental championships (minus nations already qualified).

That would be easily reachable in the old days. Today we're lucky if Brazil goes beyond the first round.
 

Australia vs Italy match great so far, but I'm already thinking how much Brazil is gonna suffer in this group
 

Zoghlami qualified for Tokyo too  

For the frist time ever an italian President attend at the Golden Gala

The usual live update of the new entry standards from Diamond League. This time is the DL Rome 2019 (Final results):
 
Men's 800m
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/clayton-murphy-290834
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/poland/adam-kszczot-228618
 
Men's 5000m
 +2
 +1
 +1
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/mohammed-ahmed-240623
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/justyn-knight-292725
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/andrew-butchart-297634
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/italy/yemaneberhan-crippa-280134
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/ben-true-234389
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/norway/filip-ingebrigtsen-274375
 
Men's 110m Hurdles
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/andrew-pozzi-248323
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/south-africa/antonio-alkana-280682
 
Men's 3000m Steeplechase
 +2
 +1
 +1
 +1
 +1
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/spain/fernando-carro-248965
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/spain/daniel-arce-257411
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/ethiopia/getnet-wale-312685
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/andrew-bayer-251819
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/uganda/albert-chemutai-310902
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/morocco/abdelkarim-ben-zahra-301176
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/italy/osama-zoghlami-274390
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/zak-seddon-252410
 
Men's Triple Jump
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/portugal/pedro-pablo-pichardo-262147
 
Women's 100m
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/dina-asher-smith-267317
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/cote-divoire/marie-josee-ta-lou-271811
 
Women's 1500m
 +2
 +2
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/jenny-simpson-200448
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/elinor-purrier-289566
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/laura-muir-272459
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/eilish-mccolgan-238994
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/gabriela-debues-stafford-279988
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/winny-chebet-208361
 
Women's Pole Vault
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/sweden/angelica-bengtsson-237821
 
Women's Long Jump
 +1
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/germany/malaika-mihambo-252802
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/colombia/caterine-ibarguen-170921
 
Women's Javelin Throw
 +1
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/turkey/eda-tugsuz-282301
 
 
Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 253) Women (Total Quota: 243)

Krakóv, in Poland, will host the 2023 European Games

Originally, it was stated that minimum qualification criteria had to be reached following the Doha WC, so starting from November. Then they changed the starting date from May 1st 2019. In addition to that, IAAF ranking will be used to reach the target number for the events

Nope, the world ranking will only be used to fill out the quotas in every discipline if not enough athletes qualify by achieving the entry standard. 
 
You can see the quotas here:
https://www.atleticalive.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Olympic-Games-Tokyo-2020-qualification-system.pdf

Nope... Sorry, I forgot! 
Thanks for the reminder. 

That's what happens when you only have 10 athletes per event, but still want to guarantee continental representation. Combat sports should have a minimum of 16 athletes per event.

Here is a list published by IWF of nations with reductions to the maximum quota and how many doping violations they have (As of May 31st).
 
1 Male and 1 Female
- 31
- 30
- 28
- 23
 
2 Male and 2 Female
- 19
- 16
- 16
- 16
- 15
- 13
- 13
- 12
- 12
- 11
- 10
- 10
 

for some reasons I don't know I always support Italy when they don't face Iranian teams. I even have a relatively good knowledge about the Italian sport in general (obviously not as good as Italian users but still)
 
beside that I usually support the underdog, I also mostly support other Asian countries except just one

Well, I like orange :D I remember that during Euro2008 I watched Italy vs Netherlands with my shirt of Netherlands as a consequence of a bet with my friends :D apart from this, when Italy is not present I cheer for other countries I’d like to go live in, so tipically Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden or Canada

Well, I like orange :D I remember that during Euro2008 I watched Italy vs Netherlands with my shirt of Netherlands as a consequence of a bet with my friends :D apart from this, when Italy is not present I cheer for other countries I’d like to go live in, so tipically Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden or Canada

Dates and locations for the World Singles and Team Qualification Tournaments confirmed by ITTU.
 
"The World Team Qualification Event will be held in Gondomar, Portugal between 22 – 26 January 2020.
The World Singles Qualification Event will take place in Doha, Qatar between 26 – 29 May 2020."
 
https://www.ittf.com/2019/05/23/portugal-qatar-host-rise2tokyo-world-olympic-qualification-events/

It looks like the ETTU have clarified the position re Singles Qualification for European Continent places for the Singles: only the three medallists (per gender) will go to Tokyo.  Therefore, if two of them are from the winning Team, then the other two places are reallocated to a separate European Qualifying Tournament in April 2020 (being held in Moscow).  They also seem to imply that this is where the remainder of the Singles Qualification places will come from, so between 3-5 places up for grabs.  
 
https://www.ettu.org/en/n/news/2019/may/qualification-system-----games-of-the-xxxii-olympiad-----tokyo-2020/

And here is the list for women's events:
 
50m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x)  
100m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
200m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
400m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
800m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x)  
1500m Freestyle
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
100m Breaststroke
(2x) (2x) (2x)  
200m Breaststroke
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
100m Backstroke
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
200m Backstroke
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
100m Butterfly
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
200m Butterfly
(2x) (2x) (2x)  
200m Individual Medley
(2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x) (2x)  
400m Individual Medley
(2x)