2024 OLYMPIC's - Official line ups / Scheds / Standings

[lapenti]

Ahh, found it! It's the USA for 4 golds.

Based on what I saw just now, U.S. team will be lucky to get 2nd in group and qualify for knockouts

 

[jjgold]

Watching some replay of rugby, USA and France

 

[Tanko]

Rodman with the goal for USNWT in 17'
It was a bout time. They'd been taking pot shots at the goal for the first 15 minutes. 2 off the bar and at least another 4 on goal.

 

[Tanko]

Zambia down to 10 now with a red card on a player.
I don't see it as a red card penalty..... Wow.

 

[BMR Genie]

Another controversy. All 3 US women saber fencers lost.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1817903559289290919

 

[Tanko]

Another controversy. All 3 US women saber fencers lost.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1817903559289290919

The article is behind a paywall so here it is.....

It has to to with US qualifying for Olympics. Couple of fencers thought two (one man & one woman) who did make the team should not have gone to Paris. Investigatoion was completed and hearing held and no misconduct was found.
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US women’s saber fencers lose Olympic bouts overshadowed by a match-fixing investigation

PARIS (AP) — All three U.S. women’s saber fencers lost their opening bouts at the Paris Olympics on Monday under the cloud of an investigation that examined possible match-fixing in qualifying for the Games.

Tatiana Nazlymov was competing a month after she testified in a 13-hour arbitration hearing in which two other American fencers, including the team’s Olympic alternate Maia Chamberlain, challenged her place on the Paris roster.

Nazlymov, as well as her teammates Magda Skarbonkiewicz and Elizabeth Tartakovsky, all lost their round-of-32 bouts in the individual saber. They compete again in the team event Saturday.
USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews had cited “emotional strain” as a concern before the competition, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the investigation had any impact on the three U.S. fencers’ performances Monday.

Nazlymov, who lost 15-14 to South Korean Choi Sebin, declined to comment to The Associated Press on her bout as she left the venue.
Two complaints were filed in an arbitration procedure known as Section 9 ahead of the Olympics by fencers disputing whether Nazlymov and men’s saber fencer Mitchell Saron should have been included on the U.S. team for Paris.

Documents show the complaints, first reported by USA Today, were both dismissed in lengthy hearings last month. Nazlymov and Saron are on the team in Paris. There is no suggestion that Nazlymov or Saron, who lost in the men’s saber round of 16 on Saturday, committed any misconduct.

“We respect the right of those Fencers who went through the Section 9 process and are mindful of the emotional strain the process puts on all parties,” USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews told the AP in a text message Sunday. “While the investigation continues and we anticipate a report after the conclusion of the Olympic Games; both independent panels rendered their decisions and we are now focused on a healthy environment here in Paris.”

Nazlymov’s qualification for the Olympics came amid an ongoing investigation into saber bouts by USA Fencing. In April, it suspended referees Jacobo Morales and Brandon Romo from tournaments for allegedly conferring during a match which Nazlymov won at a January qualifying event for the Olympics in San Jose, CA.

An open letter signed by unnamed “select members” of the U.S. team and issued via advocacy group Global Athlete branded the suspensions of Romo and Morales “weak and futile” and criticized USA Fencing for not redistributing the Olympic qualification points that had been at stake in the bout.

USA Fencing said at the time it found “no evidence” that its fencers manipulated any bouts and none were facing disciplinary action. The arbitration ruling in Nazlymov’s case in June backed up that statement.

“No evidence was offered to show that Ms. Nazlymov was in any way personally involved in any kind of bout manipulation or attempted to gain an advantage through referee misconduct,” the ruling states.

The investigation has cast a shadow over an otherwise successful Olympics so far for U.S. fencers. Lee Kiefer won gold and Lauren Scruggs silver in women’s foil Sunday. Their event is not part of the investigation into possible match-fixing.

 

[BMR Genie]

The article is behind a paywall so here it is.....

It has to to with US qualifying for Olympics. Couple of fencers thought two (one man & one woman) who did make the team should not have gone to Paris. Investigatoion was completed and hearing held and no misconduct was found.
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US women’s saber fencers lose Olympic bouts overshadowed by a match-fixing investigation

PARIS (AP) — All three U.S. women’s saber fencers lost their opening bouts at the Paris Olympics on Monday under the cloud of an investigation that examined possible match-fixing in qualifying for the Games.

Tatiana Nazlymov was competing a month after she testified in a 13-hour arbitration hearing in which two other American fencers, including the team’s Olympic alternate Maia Chamberlain, challenged her place on the Paris roster.

Nazlymov, as well as her teammates Magda Skarbonkiewicz and Elizabeth Tartakovsky, all lost their round-of-32 bouts in the individual saber. They compete again in the team event Saturday.
USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews had cited “emotional strain” as a concern before the competition, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the investigation had any impact on the three U.S. fencers’ performances Monday.

Nazlymov, who lost 15-14 to South Korean Choi Sebin, declined to comment to The Associated Press on her bout as she left the venue.
Two complaints were filed in an arbitration procedure known as Section 9 ahead of the Olympics by fencers disputing whether Nazlymov and men’s saber fencer Mitchell Saron should have been included on the U.S. team for Paris.

Documents show the complaints, first reported by USA Today, were both dismissed in lengthy hearings last month. Nazlymov and Saron are on the team in Paris. There is no suggestion that Nazlymov or Saron, who lost in the men’s saber round of 16 on Saturday, committed any misconduct.

“We respect the right of those Fencers who went through the Section 9 process and are mindful of the emotional strain the process puts on all parties,” USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews told the AP in a text message Sunday. “While the investigation continues and we anticipate a report after the conclusion of the Olympic Games; both independent panels rendered their decisions and we are now focused on a healthy environment here in Paris.”

Nazlymov’s qualification for the Olympics came amid an ongoing investigation into saber bouts by USA Fencing. In April, it suspended referees Jacobo Morales and Brandon Romo from tournaments for allegedly conferring during a match which Nazlymov won at a January qualifying event for the Olympics in San Jose, CA.

An open letter signed by unnamed “select members” of the U.S. team and issued via advocacy group Global Athlete branded the suspensions of Romo and Morales “weak and futile” and criticized USA Fencing for not redistributing the Olympic qualification points that had been at stake in the bout.

USA Fencing said at the time it found “no evidence” that its fencers manipulated any bouts and none were facing disciplinary action. The arbitration ruling in Nazlymov’s case in June backed up that statement.

“No evidence was offered to show that Ms. Nazlymov was in any way personally involved in any kind of bout manipulation or attempted to gain an advantage through referee misconduct,” the ruling states.

The investigation has cast a shadow over an otherwise successful Olympics so far for U.S. fencers. Lee Kiefer won gold and Lauren Scruggs silver in women’s foil Sunday. Their event is not part of the investigation into possible match-fixing.

I see. Case closed.