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The Timbers midfielder is one of 31 players that have been called into the camp ahead of the Concacaf Men’s Olympic Qualifying Championship.

Philippines will be the country that will replace New Zealand in the Olympic Qualifying tournament of Belgrade, FIBA announced. New Zealand announced its withdrawal from the tournament due to “the spike in the number of high performance events and the costs of sending teams abroad,” choosing to focus on the upcoming Asia Cup and a pursuit of a spot in the future World Cup and Olympic tournaments. Belgrade’s Olympic Qualifiers (29/6 – 4/7) will feature hosts Serbia, Puerto Rico and Phili...

PHOTO: Jerome Ascaño GILAS Pilipinas gets a new lease on life on its Olympic hopes as it was awarded a berth for the upcoming Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Fiba awarded the berth to the Philippines after the sudden pullout of New Zealand from the OQT set in Belgrade, Serbia. Basketball New Zealand announced its pullout on Friday, citing "the spike in the number of high performance events and the costs of sending teams abroad" as it turns its attention to the 2021 Fiba Asia Cup. Its a surpris...

Team Croatia during the Olympic Waterpolo Qualification Tournament 2021 match between Croatia and Romania at Zwemcentrum Rotterdam on February 14, 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands (Photo by Marcel ter Bals/Orange Pictures) ROTTERDAM, 14 February 2021 – The Croatian water polo team opened its performance at the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Rotterdam on Sunday with a big victory against Romania 16: 6 (5: 1, 3: 1, 4: 2, 4: 2). Rino Burić was the top scorer with three goals, while five other C...

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Canada Talk: Feelin’ Familiar Share this story Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports Well, I don’t think any of us saw this coming. Who could have guessed last year that shortly after Canada had announced it’s preliminary Olympic Qualifying roster that a worldwide pandemic would halt all games and cause the CMNT to not hit the field in friendly nor competitive match for well over a year? My money is on probably no one. Casting our minds back to the days before zoom calls and social distancing w...

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Qualification period for badminton extended from April 25 to June 15 Tokyo Olympics 2021: Qualification period for badminton extended from April 25 to June 15 Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Friday extended the qualification period for the Tokyo Olympics by nearly two months to June 15 after the postponement of three important tournaments due to Covid-19 related restrictions. The qualification period was earlier to end on April 25. "The Olympic Qualifying period for th...

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Friday announced that it has extended the Olympic qualification period till June 15. This came after the postponement of the Malaysia Open Super 750 and Singapore Open Super 500 tournaments, both of which ...

BWF extends Olympic qualification period to June 15 PV Sindhu in action.  The Olympic qualification period for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics has been extended to June 15, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced in a statement on Friday. It was earlier scheduled to end on May 16. "The Olympic Qualifying period for the Race to Tokyo will now close on 15 June 2021, with the last tournament counting for qualification being the Singapore Open 2021," the statement read. "BWF is working with the...

Badminton: Tokyo Olympics qualification period extended till June after three tournaments postponed The development came after the BWF decided to postpone two tournaments in Malaysia and Singapore Open from their earlier scheduled dates. Representational image | AFP The Tokyo Olympics qualification period for badminton was on Friday extended by nearly two months to June 15 after the postponement of three important tournaments due to Covid-19 related restrictions. The qualifi...