Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo

Today i have a lot of time, so we can analyze team by team, for a good prediction...(sorry for my english... )
WATERPOLO M Probabily, 7 european team will be qualified. What are there? Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Montenegro, Spain, Greece...no more. 90% confirmed.
WATERPOLO W 10 team for tokyo, 4 for europe. A little bit more diffucult, but not impossible. 5 team for 4 spots, for me. So, 75%
VOLLEY M 2 chance: Italy-Serbia, and an european tournament with France and Bulgaria for one spot. Italian team is poor, without wing speakers. But versus Serbia, in Italy, are on 30% i think, and another 40% with no so strong France. Here my 45%
VOLLEY F c'mon, silver world championship i think can beat Ned... and in case of loss ther will be another torunament with Tur and AZE. 65% is not certainly optimistic...
FOOTBALL M 4 from european champioship, in Italy. We need second in first round, 'cause probabily england will be in semifinal. Terrible draw, i know, but depends witch  players will be called up. With Donnarumma, Chiesa, Cutrone, we have good chanches. Without them, we have no chanches. 30% after draw.
FOOTBALL W first three european team at world cup 2019. We need many gook luck. We will pass at 8/F. Here, all depends from draw.... We have to pass at 4/f with no more of 3 europena teams .... i hope in a wonderful GER/SWE in 8/F, NED/JAP is possible...
BASKET M 7 temas diretly at tokyo via world cup 2019. Only 2 for europe. Impossible. But, 16 next team to the olympic qualification tournaments. With? Italy is now a good team without a center. HAckett, Mannion, Vitali, Belinelli Della Valle, Datome, Gentile, Brooks, Melli, Gallinari, X.  1%? uhm....
BASKET F 6 berth for qualifyng torunament from eurobasket women. 3 spots for every tournament. We have a great team... 
BASKET 3x3. Italy have a great chance. 2020 FIBA Universality-driven Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Any NOC that has had a men's or women's team play in the basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics or basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics tournaments is ineligible for the UOQT, so we will play with Andorra, Mongolia.... 
BASEBALL M Depends, who will play?
Hockey F Japan wins the asiam games, so another spot is free. 7 single match (a/r) will decided. Probabily, match will be with New Zealand or Spain. Difficult? Sure. Impossible? nothing. 

Egypt at Summer Olympics 
 


 
Egypt at Winter Olympics 

 

Oh sure ! "not to offend you" but unlike what you think . basketball is one of my favorite sports. you should know these days internet and other things exist and you don't have to live in Europe or North America to watch basketball from around the world.
 
but you also should know people have different "taste". I prefer to watch a game between Indonesia and Guam over a regular NBA game. (I only watch playoffs seriously) because that's something "new" for me. I prefer national matches in any sport in general. I don't care much about club competitions when you just can buy a whole new team next year. yeah I watch NBA sometimes or European basketball leagues when there isn't any other thing but I prefer national matches. and I like this format because at least we also can have some international matches during the year (and not just in summer) I know this is probably a unpopular opinion and I said that in start of my previous post but that's not because I can't watch so-called "quality" games. this is just what I prefer to watch. I enjoy to see when players try their everything for the countries. instead of watching NBA when nobody even cares to defend sometimes.
 
and Slovenia no way deserved to be in the WC. their top players didn't give a shit about their NT when they had the chance in summer. and when the World Cup starts nobody will talk about Slovenia. yeah I feel sorry for Croatia, they tried with their best team. just had bad days. but this is sport. new teams also deserve to try their chances in the World Cup. and who can say Poland didn't deserve to qualify ? they beat a full squad Croatia which is huge for them. even though outside Europe. I can't see even one single surprise (which is unfortunate IMO) in other continents all bigger teams qualified (or will qualify) for the WC. (I hope Uruguay changes that at least)
 
PS: Denmark Euro Champion in 1992 failed to qualify for World Cup 1994 and the sky didn't fall. and won't fall this time too.

To make it simple.
Offshore is on open water. Land is not visible. 
The rest is inshore or coastal. Land is visible. 
 
 

Nah, they have another objective... It's very hard for me explain it in English, but I will try.
China starts a massive founding in Africa and they have economical agreement with 53 African states (only South Africa is excluded) and it's part of the new silk road.
China gave without any problems money to the African states with a low interest rate (around 0) but they colonize and corrupt the African agricolture system. The biggest problem is that the Chinese population want eat different foods (Mao's time when the population was content with only rice are finished) so they start the agricultural policy of monoculture and buy African products at low price. Basically they destroy all African's chance to develope in agricolture and start a new colonization. 
Welcome in the 2018, an amazing wold with too much geopolitical interests.
 
PS. (This is a simplification, I can't do more with my English :p)

At last 7th place for De Luca, amazing Wch for him!

It's available on Eurosport player.

The schedule I posted was deleted and it looks like no image of it exists  
So I wrote up this, that is referred only to the olympic events. The blue is qualification day only, the golden is the final. 
More info here: http://www.changwon2018.com/eng/sub02/sub02_01.php

 
Just to briefly sum up olympic qualification criteria, the four best placed shooters in each event (max 2 per NOC) will obtain an olympic quota. As regards mixed team events, the best two NOCs will obtain a quota per gender in the relative event, plus the participation to the individual event at the olympics. *
 
*Personal interpretation, but it seems to be logic, don't you think?

Panziera is not an average girl...she was expected to this kind of level for years...but she has been underperforming for quite a while for personal reasons...
p.s. for you is it more surprising a technically perfect swim like Panziera's bringing her to world excellence than the so funny and almost illegal swim by Burian getting so close to the Italian? c'mon!
 
the only "amazing" and surprising clocking by an Italian this week is Codia's 50.6...but still, sometimes it happens that you have a perfect race once in your life and get what you never expected before the race (and however, he had a PB of 51.0 and did make the final at the world and european champs -winning medals at the short course europeans, too- already earlier in his career...so, it's not that he improved more than 20 seconds in a year -any referral to Wellbroeck is not unintentional)...
 
p.p.s. of course 2 or 3 Italians having the meet of their life is a farce...
meanwhile teenagers like Milak, Kolesnikov, Chupkov, Chalmers or Freya Anderson coming out of nowhere -not necessarily this year, of course- and almost breaking world records or people like the Americans or Hosszu -not this time for obvious reasons, of course- winning multiple olympic gold medals in the most different disciplines is absolutely normal...
or watching people swimming a sprint race with 2 secs advantage on the rest of the field is also absolutely beyond any suspicion...
c'mon, man!
calm down and let your frustration out of your door...shouting at the bad Italians is not gonna make you live better...

with Codia swimming this morning's heats in the relay, he would have not won the individual race...that's sure...better like it's gone...
 
p.s. however, we could have used Restivo in the backstroke leg and Burdisso in the fly leg...in that case, we surely would have qualified for the final...and then, who knows?
 
p.p.s. in any case, nobody seems really caring about that fail, after the unexpected rain of gold medals we enjoyed earlier this afternoon...

3x3 ranking... strange ranking, with Andorra and Mongolia very High. Uhmm Andorra and Mongolia.. not so strong. Then...
on what is based 3x3 ranking? Wait. I don' belive. It is based on individual ranking. Why? Ok, not by international tournament. But individual ranking? Incredible. From FIBA site: "The 3x3 Federation Ranking not only rewards the elite performances of the players but also the 3x3 activity in the territory of each National Federation. The position in the 3x3 Federation Ranking is driven by the number of players and their playing frequency. The more events are organised the more likely players will accumulate points and increase the national federation's standing in the 3x3 Federation Ranking".
So, doesn't matter if players are strong, are good player. No. For a good ranking is necessary to organize many national events, so player can accumulate their points. Ok, my italian friends, let's organize some 3x3 torunaments!!!
The worst sport thing i ever seen.

So the only missing qualification systems pdf files are Boxing, Sprint Canoeing and Rugby Sevens ?

I remember Sprint Canoeing was the first official qualification system released for Rio 2016
 

3x3 ranking... strange ranking, with Andorra and Mongolia very High. Uhmm Andorra and Mongolia.. not so strong. Then...
on what is based 3x3 ranking? Wait. I don' belive. It is based on individual ranking. Why? Ok, not by international tournament. But individual ranking? Incredible. From FIBA site: "The 3x3 Federation Ranking not only rewards the elite performances of the players but also the 3x3 activity in the territory of each National Federation. The position in the 3x3 Federation Ranking is driven by the number of players and their playing frequency. The more events are organised the more likely players will accumulate points and increase the national federation's standing in the 3x3 Federation Ranking".
So, doesn't matter if players are strong, are good player. No. For a good ranking is necessary to organize many national events, so player can accumulate their points. Ok, my italian friends, let's organize some 3x3 torunaments!!!
The worst sport thing i ever seen.

3x3 ranking... strange ranking, with Andorra and Mongolia very High. Uhmm Andorra and Mongolia.. not so strong. Then...
on what is based 3x3 ranking? Wait. I don' belive. It is based on individual ranking. Why? Ok, not by international tournament. But individual ranking? Incredible. From FIBA site: "The 3x3 Federation Ranking not only rewards the elite performances of the players but also the 3x3 activity in the territory of each National Federation. The position in the 3x3 Federation Ranking is driven by the number of players and their playing frequency. The more events are organised the more likely players will accumulate points and increase the national federation's standing in the 3x3 Federation Ranking".
So, doesn't matter if players are strong, are good player. No. For a good ranking is necessary to organize many national events, so player can accumulate their points. Ok, my italian friends, let's organize some 3x3 torunaments!!!
The worst sport thing i ever seen.

3x3 ranking... strange ranking, with Andorra and Mongolia very High. Uhmm Andorra and Mongolia.. not so strong. Then...
on what is based 3x3 ranking? Wait. I don' belive. It is based on individual ranking. Why? Ok, not by international tournament. But individual ranking? Incredible. From FIBA site: "The 3x3 Federation Ranking not only rewards the elite performances of the players but also the 3x3 activity in the territory of each National Federation. The position in the 3x3 Federation Ranking is driven by the number of players and their playing frequency. The more events are organised the more likely players will accumulate points and increase the national federation's standing in the 3x3 Federation Ranking".
So, doesn't matter if players are strong, are good player. No. For a good ranking is necessary to organize many national events, so player can accumulate their points. Ok, my italian friends, let's organize some 3x3 torunaments!!!
The worst sport thing i ever seen.

Now, I understand the new 3x3 Superleague the french federation has set up this year...

3x3 might legitimately have the worst qualification system in the history of the Olympics...

Not if you live in LA 

The biggest favourites for me are in team sports or team events in which one team is dominant (Russian team in artistic swimming, USA in women's basketball,...).
An individual athlete (even Ledecky) is more likely to have injuries, doping problems, personal problems,...

I know, but i'm a little pessimistic  You know

For our timezone it's from 2:00 am to about 5:00 pm.
 
During 50km race Walking it already starts at 11:pm (the previous day). During the other race walking events and the Marathons it starts at midnight.

And yet the most of it will be in the morning European time... And at the same time.
 
At this point I'm honestly hoping for morning swimming finals.

This gender equality is a joke... I really hope that Bach will be finish end his career in the IOC

Some notes:
 
- First competition of the Games will be a Softball match on the Wednesday before the Opening Ceremony;
- Football, Archery and Rowing also will start before or at the day of the OC;
- It looks like the first medal will come from Shooting, as usual;
- Taekwondo will be held on the first 4 days of the Games starting on Saturday, rather than on the last days like in the previous Games. Maybe they changed this because Karate will happen on the days that Taekwondo used to be held;
- There will be a Cycling event every single day of the Games, in order: 2 days of Road, 2 of MB, 1 of Road (Time Trial), 2 of BMX, 2 of BMX Freestyle and 7 of Track (which will now have events until the last Sunday);
- I think Basketball, Handball and Volleyball all have switched the day of Men's and Women's final. Men's will be on the last Saturday and Women's on Sunday. Beach Volleyball remain the same but finals will be later than usual (last Friday for Women's and Saturday for Men's);
- Premilinary rounds and Finals of a given Wrestling category will be played in different days.
 

Schedule 
 
https://tokyo2020.org/en/games/sport/olympic-schedule/