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Just fantastic:
 
http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1037750/russia-reportedly-poised-to-lose-eight-beijing-2008-olympic-medals-after-retests-of-beijing-doping-samples
 
I hope they are banned from from Rio

This proves that was the worst idea in history make the Intercontinental Qualifying Tournament separate of World Qualifying Tournament.

Rio 2016 reveals 'look' of tickets for Olympic and Paralympic Games
 

 
Rio 2016 unveiled the 'look' of the tickets for the Olympic and Paralympic Games on Friday (20 May) morning at the organising committee's headquarters. And the colourful yet practical designs will soon be winging their way out to sports fans around the world who have bought tickets to the Games.
 
"From 1pm (Brasília time) today, the tickets will begin to be sent out from the graphic design company and somewhere in the world someone will receive the first ticket," said Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman. Find out how to buy tickets to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The tickets feature the Rio 2016 sport pictograms, which for the first time in Games history, have one for each Olympic and Paralympic sport.
 

 
The tickets are being produced by the same graphic design company in the USA that produced the tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Staff at the company, which has 30 years of experience in ticket production, "live to produce tickets" said Donovan Ferreti, the Rio 2016 ticketing director.
 
More than four million tickets for the Olympic Games – 67% of the total available – have already been sold. Two million tickets remain on sale and every Thursday a new batchs of tickets, including for some of the most sought-after events, are going on sale to Brazilian residents. "We will want to tell our grandchildren about the Rio 2016 Game and these are also our tickets to history," said Mário Andrada, executive director of communications at Rio 2016.
 

 

This was a robbery.
 

So here's provisional quota, prior to confirmation by NOC's
 
Men's Individual
Continental Qualification Events:      
World Qualification Event:    
Olympic Qualification List:                                                                                      
Points List:   
Reallocations:  - this place will be awarded only if one of the tripartite places is not allocated. First reserve is but there are already 8 NOC's with three qualified athletes, so Canada will only get it if one of those committees does not confirm their 3rd place.
NOC's eligible for tripartite: 
NOC's already securing 3 places (maximum 8 NOC's):              
 
Women's Individual
Continental Qualification Events:       
World Qualification Event:          
Olympic Qualification List:                                                                                  
Points List:        - If Sweden gets one of the reallocations, takes its place.
Reallocations:   
 
NOC's eligible for tripartite: None, they'll be likely reallocated.
NOC's already securing 3 places (maximum 8 NOC's):             and if ITU confirms the reallocated place.

One of the first Olympic "soap operas" that will reveal how is not always simple about being fair regarding National selections.

Apparently this will be the OBS intro for Rio Olympics:
 

I'm so envious of all this, outfit for opening ceremony, outfit for daily life, outfit for going to the bathroom, etc
 
Our athletes only wear the one jacket they're given for all ceremonies and that's it  obviously cuz our NOC directives still live in the cave ages and don't have a clue about PR/image stuff.

Here's a provisional list of the qualification places
 
Men's Singles
World Ranking list:                                                              
Africa Continental quota:   According to its qualification rules, South Africa will reject the continental quota; gets this place if no triparte place is given to a NOC from Africa,       are the countries that satisfy the IF requirements to be awarded that place.
Oceania Continental quota:   Australia can only select two of its continental quotas; if this event is not selected, quota goes to , which does not accept reallocated places. As no other NOC from Oceania fulfills the requirements for participation, this place will be reallocated to World Ranking list.
Host country quota (reallocation):
World Ranking (reallocation):          ; currently there are up to three spots up to be awarded to singles competition, given that each NOC chooses their first and/or second ranked athletes in the other events of the same gender.
NOC's fulfilling conditions for tripartite Invitation (up to 3 places):                  (plus the African countries mentioned above)
 
 
Women's Singles
World Ranking list:                                                              
Africa Continental quota:   ; gets this place if no triparte place is given to a NOC from Africa,        are the countries that satisfy the IF requirements to be awarded that place.
Oceania Continental quota:   Australia can only select two of its continental quotas; if this event is not selected, quota goes to , which does not accept reallocated places. As no other NOC from Oceania fulfills the requirements for participation, this place will be reallocated to World Ranking list.
Host country quota:  
World Ranking (reallocation):         ; as with men there are three spots up to be awarded. 
NOC's fulfilling conditions for tripartite Invitation (up to 3 places):        (plus the African countries mentioned above)
 
Men's Pairs
World Ranking list:                            
Africa Continental quota: There isn't a pair inside top 50 in qualification ranking.
America Continental quota: (35 in ranking); if the spot is rejected, gets the place.
Oceania Continental quota: (46 in ranking); Australia can only select two of its continental quotas; if this event is not selected, there's no other pair that fulfills the requirements.
World Ranking (reallocation): gets the spot if Australia doesn't take the spot in this event.
 
Women's Pairs
World Ranking list:                              
Africa Continental quota: There isn't a pair inside top 50 in qualification ranking.
America Continental quota: No continental place, as the top NOC from this continent already qualified by ranking.
Oceania Continental quota: No pair from this continent in the top 50 of qualification ranking.
 
Mixed Pairs
World Ranking list:                          
Africa Continental quota: There isn't a pair inside top 50 in qualification ranking.
America Continental quota: (25 in ranking); if the spot is rejected, gets the place.
Oceania Continental quota: (33 in ranking); Australia can only select two of its continental quotas; if this event is not selected, there's no other pair that fulfills the requirements.
World Ranking (reallocation): gets the spot if Australia doesn't take the spot in this event.

Yeah, their formula is sometimes weird and they completely ignore non-result things that could be important such as retirements or in some cases whether or not the athlete actually qualifies. I don't blame them too much, it's hard keeping track of over 1000 athletes.

Nice Arena 

AUSTRALIA
 

 

 

 

 

RIP Prince 
 
 

Maria Lenk Trophy (Brazilian trials) - Day 4
 
Men's 100m Freestyle - Marcelo Chierighini (48.20) and Nicolas Oliveira (48.30)
Men's 200m Breaststroke - Tales Cerdeira (2:10.99) and Thiago Simon (2:11.29)
 
No athletes achieved the standard in Women's 200m Butterfly. Our Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay will be completed by João de Lucca and Matheus Santana.
 

If everything goes as planned, Belgium, Brazil, France and Germany should qualify.
 

Yes, how dare a non-European continent dominate a sport!
 
 

About conspiracy theories in draw:
 

Ryan Cochrane won medals in those events at last year's world championship. Even though his times from the trials may not sound like a winning times, he is known to perform at key events. He is certainly a contender for medals in both events and clearly does have a chance. 

What would be your "best team"? Last year Germany U-21 was defeated 5-0 by Portugual in Euro.
 
I truly believe that Germany will be a strong team, but I can not see the superiority that you said.

One more lesson for totallympics euro-users that "europe > everything else" isn't always true.  

What's the point of threads if nobody posts in them? If we should go to SwimSwam then what's the point of this site? If we were bombarding the thread with blow by blow results that's one thing, but I don't see us being disruptive. On the other side I have no issue seeing the results of other nations.

I don't think it's a problem, this is a swimming qualification thread and there's no doubt other qualifiers for large nations will be talked about (we already did it for France). Honestly for a sport like this and athletics there isn't much else to talk about since there isn't any true qualification event since it's all about times.

My point about this is that it's a) easier to believe and b) more logical that countries where "glory to the Motherland" (or some communist stuff) through sports is so incredibly important, are doping with state help.
 
For example here in the Netherlands we don't have this extreme "glory to the Motherland" feeling and I don't think there is state-run doping here. Obviously I think there is doping here, but I think it's more private or arranged by the teams itself instead of coming from the sports federations and authorities.
 
But my main point stays the same: it is a sign of huge weakness when people are saying "Stop it, it's a conspiracy from the big bad wolf against us!" instead of "We're gonna do all we can to clean up this shit". 
 
1. XX athletes from country X get caught
2. People in country X respond by saying "omg, conspiracy against us, we're the victims!!"
 
That doesn't make it any more believable.