EselTheDonkey

The torch has landed in South korea.

Gold on Balance Beam! I can't believe it.

Germany's Bianca Walter has fulfilled the national qualification standards for Pyeongchang.

Not that I want it, but what about Alpine Skiing Parallel Slalom or Parallel Giant Slalom like at the City Events? They seem to love this.

Also, if they have the chance, IOC will probably give the Games to central Europe for the first time since 2006.

World Rowing Federation has published their most recent draft: http://www.worldrowing.com/mm//Document/General/General/12/92/14/2020OQSCouncilLatestDraft020917F_Neutral.pdf It isn't finalized yet, but they explained their decisions step by step. And they have included a chart how many boats will qualify at which competition, should the draft be used.

It is mentioned in the qualification systems. It's mentioned underReallocation of Team Quote Places: http://inside.fei.org/system/files/JUMPING Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System_7 August 2017.pdf

The speicific details for the Volleyball qualification seem to be known as well. According to Worldofvolley, all qualifications tournaments are already in 2019 and the order has changed: http://www.worldofvolley.com/News/Latest_news/FIVB/89336/fivb-changes-qualification-system-for-the-olympic-games-continental-championships-gain-importance-.html - First tournament is the World Qualification tournament, which is similar to the World Cup. It takes place in early 2019. - Second tournament is the International Qualification tournament, with the twelve best teams in the World Ranking not yet qualified. It's in summer 2019. - The third tournament are the Continental Championships in 2019. So there seems to be no longer an additional continental tournament in the beginning of the Olympic year.

I honestly think the time will come very soon, when the Olympic Games will be awarded to whole countries (or very big regions) instead of citys and smaller regions (like the Rhein-Ruhr area). It would be a pity, that all those different athletes wouldn't be able to live in the same Olympic village anymore, but I don't see many other possibilities. Only speaking about Germany, because I don't know the situation in other countries, but theoretically, we have almost every sporting venue here, just in very different places. Transportation costs wouldn't be too expensive either, if it is spreat over the whole country. And I don't think the costs for security measures will be much higher than for example during a Football Worldcup, which takes place in a whole country as well.

Today it's 150 days until Pyeongchang 2018.

Well done.

What a pity. But great tournament from our team. Congratulations, Russia.

Doll was not that big a surprise, IMO. He was always one of the fastest, and it was clear, that he could win a race if he finally doesn't miss the targets. Wieczerzak was very good as a junior and had a long injury. Schmidt I agree was a big surprise as well. And to be honest, I had to google Bachmann because I never heard of him. I'm just not interested in Taekwondo. So I don't know how surprising this was.

I can't believe it. This is biggest surprise of the year for Germany in sports so far.

No chance so far against Serbia.

Thanks.

Speaking of Olympic Qualification, is anything known, if will start with a united Football-Team this time?

Yay. Didn't expect this after the pretty bad year so far.

This doesn't look good so far.

Go, Germany.

I said I was rooting for Czech reoublic, but I never really expected it. Wow.

Since there's no way we are going to win against France, I guess I'm cheering for Czech Republic tonight. Though there's probably no realistic chance either.

There will be three new coloured dot next week, if I'm not mistaken (22 weeks, 150 days and ticket sales), so it all will seem even closer.

Thanks to both of you.

Thanks for the info. By the way, do you have a source? It's not that I don't believe you, it's especially because the source might be updated with more informations later, like when the qualifications take place and that stuff.