Tokyo Olympics 2021

out of the medals :(

Wtf did Roglic do on that second lap?

Bit Forest Gump at the end - though he was just going to do another lap.

Did he take a short cut somewhere?

Rode the best negative split ever?

still faster than (nose breathing superstar) Remco

The false finish line at 50m is annoying (and confusing the commentators).

JMV podium.

Tom is gutted

And wva in fifth?

delighted for both rog and thomas F. windmills

Delighted for Dennis getting bronze.

He's had a really tough year.

Nowhere near as tough as the years Dumoulin and Roglic have had.

Oh Andy.

All TJV top 3?

that will be some ttt combo in next year's TdF

A 40k ttt would be a good way to stop pog winning again!

Sky riders should lay off the flat whites and start with the ginger lemon teas?

This is what holds squash back too - and as you note, the irony that dressage is in whilst actual sports miss out is nonsense....

Used to own horses back in NZ and my sister still does plus a mini horse. It's actually quite fun pretending to be in control of something that at the end of the day does what it wants and your just a passenger. Does hurt when they decide to throw you into a tree though.

Are there 70+ nations that do dressage? Or do they get around it by lumping together all the horsey things?

Is the route announced yet?

I would not bet on that...

I think this is why the 'how many nations do something' rationale is flawed - sure, there is probably evidence of horse ownership and horses doing pretty moves in lots of places, but if you looked at numbers involved in the various sports surely Netball/Squash would have to come in. Having said that, it would probably open the door to Cricket and Kabadi! I think the real issue here is, predictably, financial. They wanted football/hockey/softball/golf/skateboarding/surfing in because they can attract and accommodate large audiences, large concessions income for host countries, large TV audiences, large corporate 'partnerships' from manufacturers and brands etc. Squash and netball don't offer anything like the financial imperative. Still, I always think when you're putting together such a logistical behemoth would it really take much more to throw in a squash venue and double up the basketball arena for some netball? It just seems perverse, but I guess there are probably loads of niche sports I'm just not aware of that would make the same argument and that does need to be a criteria somewhere...

It's not just the IOC that decides it's the host country too, hence softball as it's huge in Japan.