dcro 10,179 Posted November 23, 2019 #91 Share Posted November 23, 2019 South Africa kept the women's quota? #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDOG 2,199 Posted November 23, 2019 Author #92 Share Posted November 23, 2019 FIH says "participation was approved by all NOCs", so I suppose yes. Andry84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,205 Posted November 23, 2019 #93 Share Posted November 23, 2019 There's a lot of push back between the sport federations and South Africa's Olympic Committee over accepting/declining the quotas. I imagine the field hockey federation used FIH's top 20 rule as a way to show that their team had sufficient strength to compete. NearPup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,557 Posted November 26, 2019 #94 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Tokyo 2020 Olympic hockey tournaments: pools confirmed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herberth10 40 Posted December 18, 2019 #95 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Schedule complete http://fih.ch/media/13342092/fih_tokyo2020_giftofhockey-1.pdf Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,804 Posted December 18, 2019 #96 Share Posted December 18, 2019 10 hours ago, Herberth10 said: Schedule complete http://fih.ch/media/13342092/fih_tokyo2020_giftofhockey-1.pdf this is -like it already happened in Rio- the most stupid and tv audience unfriendly schedule they could build... I mean, there are a lot of matches at the same time, they use 2 different stadiums...and they always put an accent on the cost saving... why didn't they just build a single venue (possibly indoor, maybe even a temporary structure, as I don't think in Japan they need a big permanent hockey stadium, given the very limited popularity of the sport, so to allow games to be played all day long in safe environmental conditions) ans have the usual 6 games a day schedule as almost every other team sport with 12 participants? and if they say they need to end the tournament on the last friday, without going deep into the final couple of days of the Games, well, they could have easily scheduled the 1st game day for both the men and the women on wednesday and thursday before the opening ceremony, just like soccer (and this time even softball), keeping a perfect 16-gameday tournament ending on the scheduled 3rd last day of the Games... easier done than said... but no, they have to mess it up to the (already very few) hardcore fans they have... to me, these are already the worst Games ever (among all those I had the chance to follow personally, since L.A. 1984) and those I have the lowest hype ever for... and I fear things are only getting worse and worse every edition of the Olympics, as I feel they're just doing as much as they can to destroy my "favourite toy" more and more every single day... Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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