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[gotosy]

Artistic Gymnastics: O2 test event

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LONDON -- The British men finally have an invite to their own Olympic party, winning the final qualifying meet in a rout Tuesday.

Needing to finish in the top four of the eight teams competing at the O2 Arena, Britain blew away its rivals with a commanding score of 358.227 in front of its fans in southeast London. The British needed to compete at the test event after a meltdown at last fall's world championships.

France finished second -- 7.568 points behind Britain -- with Spain and Italy completing an all-European set of qualifiers.

Britain hasn't sent a full men's team to an Olympics since 1992. With the women having already qualified, both British teams will be at the same Olympics for the first time since the boycotted games in 1984.

http://espn.go.com/o...london-olympics

Final Results:
Team Results:
1. GREAT BRITAIN, 358.227
2. FRANCE 350.659
3. SPAIN, 247.292
4.. ITALY 346.334
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5. CANADA 345.892
6. BRAZIL 345.152
7. PUERTO RICO, 340.092
8. BELARUS 335.824

As a reminder, these 8 countries previously qualified full teams for the 2012 Olympics during the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo: China, Japan, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Korea, Germany, and Romania.

[gotosy]

Italy, Canada, France and Brazil have qualified women's gymnastics teams to the Olympics


WAG final results
1.ITA 224.621
2.CAN 221.913
3.FRA 220.744
4.BRA 217.985
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5.BEL 216.863
6.KOR 214.930
7.ESP 213.054
8.NED 212.06

[FiveRingFever]

So, the CONCACAF Women's qualifying is underway. I watched a bit of the USA's 14-0 drubbing of the Domincan Republic. Canada and Mexico won big as well. It's probably going to be USA vs. Costa Rica and Canada vs. Mexico for the two Olympic spots and a lot of unwatchable games in between.

[gotosy]

Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States are all in the semi-finals of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Olympic football women's qualifiers, with all four winning their first two games of the competition with relative ease at BC Place in Vancouver.

http://www.insidethe...mpic-qualifiers

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Men football:

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Play-off details confirmed

The final qualifying place in the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament at London 2012 will be up for grabs in a play-off match to be held at the City of Coventry Stadium on Monday 23 April 2012. Kick-off is 7.45pm and tickets for the game, which will also serve as an official test event, are on sale now.

Senegal’s participation is already confirmed after they finished in fourth place in the African qualifying competition, with highly rated captain Stephane Badji looking to fire the West Africans towards their first ever Men’s Olympic Football appearance.

Senegal’s opponents will be the fourth-placed team from the Asian qualifying competition which concludes on 29 March 2012. Australia, Bahrain, Iraq, Japan,
Korea Republic, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the UAE and Uzbekistan are the potential opponents.
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FIFA

[intoronto1125]

Both the Canadian and USA women qualify in football/soccer

[gotosy]

women volleyball

BLIDA-The Algerian women volleyball team qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London after their victory over Kenyan team by 3 sets to 1 (25-16, 25-21, 20-25 and 25-12), in a match for the third day of pre-Olympic tournament (Africa region) played on Saturday in Blida. This is the third victory of the Algerian women team after those recorded respectively against of Egypt (3-1) and Seychelles (3-0) Kenya takes the second place thanks to his victories over the Seychelles (3 -0) and Egypt (3-2).

http://www.fivb.org/...526&Language=en