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The Italian delegation by sport can be found here: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/discipline.html
There are 27 Olympic medallists: Basile and Giuffrida (judo), Galiazzo (archery), J. Rossi and Pellielo (shooting), Paltrinieri (swimming), Longo Borghini (cycling), Pizzo (fencing), Chamizo (wrestling), Battisti and Venier (rowing) and a lot of water polo players, both men and women, who were at Rio 2016.
It looks like a very serious delegation.
 
There's also a detailed calendar (in Italian) by date and sport: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/programma-gare.html
(I have no idea where to find a detailed calendar on the official site of the Games)

Things left to do for peace in the world:
 
Agreement between Armenia-Azerbaijan
Agreement between Russia-Ukraine
Agreement between Georgia-Russia
Agreement between Israel-Palestine
Defeat ISIS in the Middle East
End of local wars in Africa
Overthrow communism in Cuba and Venezuela
Uncensorship internet in China
 
Did I miss something? What do you think, anything of this is possible?
 

oooh those conflict will never finish , i don't believe on peace

Well, Belgium has a province named Luxembourg, and yet they are not bitching about that to

Greece and Macedonia agreed with something, USA and North Korea agreed for somethings tonight as well, what is going wrong with this world?  We miss only an agreements between Armenia-Azerbaijan and Russia-Ukraine

Not if the vote goes my way

I'm amused with Greenland hosting the event.

Portuguese delegation is going to be announced tomorrow...
But from what I know Silver medalist in London (k2 1000) and triple European Champion Fernando Pimenta (K1000) will be In canoe sprint.
Also 12 times European medalist and Bronze in Rio Telma Monteiro is expected to be in Judo -57. 
5th placed in Rio João Pereira is also in the list for Triatlon... 
 
This are the big names known so far for the Portuguese delegation. Some more will probably be in the list.

It's always fun to see athletes switching over to compete in different sports, especially from smaller nations. Tuvalu had a former footballer competing in the javelin at the Commonwealth Games.

Well. They have just as many players based in Denmark as we have, so I'm on team Iceland as well (after Denmark and Sweden, of course  )

So.... 7-1 never forget?  

You can find different viewpoints of the same scene here:
 
https://twitter.com/fabreinbold/status/1005533097549598726

Trump looks like he has been napping for 30 minutes while all important things were being talked about, and he just woke up because everyone was standing around him. Like, "huh? What? I wasn't sleeping!". 

Picture for the history.

So many people believe in Iceland.

Considering the future is really a very, very long time...I'm not going as far as to say 'never'  
 
Although I think a South American bid might come sooner than another Swiss one.

Oh well I’m only 16th anyways. Thank You for hosting this awesome contest though, it kept me involved in the 2018 French Open

Malta was held by a Muslim kingdom or Ottoman Empire for a time, if my understanding of Maltese history is correct. Haven’t read about it in a while though.

They are in no way prepared to host a panamerican games. Would be a big step back in terms of standards for odepa to give it to them.

i am looking at results and Colombia has boxer John Lennon

You can all dream about winning the World Cup, but you can go home because Iceland’s already won

In 2014 we had great competitors in gymnastics. Manrique Larduet, Jorge Vega, Tommy Ramos, Daniel Corral, Jossimar Calvo on his peak form, Jessica Lopez, Ana Sofia Gomez, Elsa Garcia, Alexa Moreno and Yessenia Ferrera (before she got injured). Rhythmics was only good because Cynthia Valdez competed, but still nothing really special.

Since I only care about gymnastics, I expect nothing from this competition this year, unfortunatly. Most (if not all) of the gymnasts are far from their glory days. I hope they prove me wrong, but this will probably be the worst event of the year in gymnastics, which is quite sad considering how awesome it was in 2014.

I can't see Israel in here.
 
Palestine should be. Same for Jordan and Bulgaria, seeing how Portugal got in.....
I would push for Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Romania too, to be honest. Even Hungary and Austria, close enough for me.
 
Gibraltar isn't an IOC member so I couldn't see this working, but I wouldn't mind the UK.

I got the call from the LOC today. I'm a volunteer. I'll be working with the doping testers.

Well I don’t see any differences between Algeria and Tunisia and Morocco, so I’m glad we’re on the same page. Also, just so you know Asia has 5-7 games, Europe has 5-6 games, Africa has 3 games and commonwealth, so let’s not pretend that America has too many games. Also, North and South America are two Continents connected by a land bridge, like Africa and Asia.