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The best and most active national thread here. If the GB thread was half as active as the Indian thread. Good luck to Indian athletes.

With these draws I wouldn't bet on a medal for GB...

Please reveal them to us so we can add the medalists to our table already then.

Right, skateboarding is mostly big in the US. The only questionable decision, squash would have deserved it more than skateboarding right now. Even snooker.

Oh don't remind me. I'm sour when I think of football. I've always wanted to know if Tahiti/French Polynesia and New Caledonia might end up independent, thus with their own NOCs someday.

Yay, I approve. So which nations will benefit most from these additions? Japan and France, probably.

So apparently when I decided to go away, Brazil scored. After seeing the graphics I'm sticking to London/Sochi graphics. They appealed me more.

Thanks. I liked the diagonal design though.

I'm not watching, so what do the new flag graphics look like now?

Fine, but then I don't want to hear anything against Bolt or Jamaica coming from you.

Graeme Thomas (men's quadruple sculls) is out and replaced by Jack Beaumont.

Almost nobody attending the opening ceremony, no housemates.. I don't like it. Makes the team look stuck up...

Actually I'm not really against this approach. If Olympic glory and winning a medal is less worth to you than prize money you might as well stay home.

Typical and depressing English results, of course. No hopes for this "sport".

Ah, fair enough.

You're always forgetting about women's events.

Overall, GB is looking very weak so far and why doesn't it surprise me.

Ah okay.

Didn't this happen in sailing where Germany rejected the Nacra quota which then went to Puerto Rico and suddenly Germany accepted the quota again?

Uninteresting EC, won't watch further. All my teams out.

I agree, size does not matter.

I don't like the New Zealand/South Africa approach. Why denying them a place at the Olympics when they have met the criteria? Why telling them you're not going because you don't meet OUR criteria? This is going towards the maximum of professionalism, as far away as possible from de Coubertin's ideals.

Ah, you said it. Sorry for the confusion.

It doesn't stop at the Olympics. Out of all the top teams, GB is the only one not to have anybody qualified in a sport that offers 18 sets of medals (wrestling). There are too many embarrassing things to be spotted. I also don't expect a good performance in Rio. It may be emotionally driven but this is 2016 for me, a year in which everything goes wrong in personal life and sport has not been a good alternative this year. Well, except my own competitions that is. I could make them public here but then I will be known as the nerd here. No doubts about that, Iceland were much better. England without any spirit and the goalkeeper issue since centuries is simply ridiculous. LDOG said he won't follow his team anymore so I will do the same until something changes. There are many other teams to support anyway.

True enough.