In cricket 10 to 12 teams play regularly where few teams who are perform well. If you think from that point of view, there is no way to say that the participation of 6 teams according to the ranking is unreasonable. But as the matter is still pending nothing can be said till the final decision is taken. If there is cricket, it is likely to be in this format, but the IOC meeting will be held in Mumbai next October. It will be decided whether there will be cricket or not.

The organizers of the 2028 Olympic games are discouraged from keeping cricket, while the ICC has proposed to the organizers to keep cricket in T20 format with six teams each for men and women. There are many criticisms about it. Various media channel have reported that cricket will not feature in the 2028 Olympic Games. But ESPN revealed in a report that no decision has been taken yet. We will finally know or confirm it next October. It appears that the ICC wants to include cricket but many may be skeptical about what the real picture looks like.

Okay, I know that the founders are pretty clever and accomplished, but you could say that of
just about every Layer 1 project. Why is Aptos special ? What does it bring to the space that other
L1 projects can not offer ? We already have too many of these, all of them run by geniuses, all of them
with ground-breaking technologies, and I don't see any of them pumping the way Aptos is ? Or is it because this
project is new or something ? Frankly I don't get why Aptos is so important, but I'm open minded, and
willing to listen.

as we know, many people suggest investing in bitcoin because the risk is not too high.
but if we look at the market there are lots of people buying altcoins, and to be honest I also like to buy altcoins but there aren't many of them, and it's still my biggest investment in bitcoin. and to be honest even though investing in altcoins is risky but I always want to buy and the reason is because of the high pumping..
and I want to ask everyone what is your  for buying altcoins, is the reason the same as mine?

From $65K to $16K is quite a distance. Whether it stays at $16K, $17K, $18Ķ or up to $20K, we think the current price is still a good price to buy before the price goes back to the highest level.

Investors are now still speculating what will happen to Bitcoin next and until Bitcoin continues to increase in price past the $23K price or has not yet arrived at the $30K price, in our opinion it is still the best opportunity to buy. Why? because bullishness is not certain whether it will happen in the near future.

So you believe that including cricket in Olympics will be unfair to the other sports? In that case why we have football, basketball and field hockey in Olympics? In terms of popularity, these sports are played in far more countries when compared to cricket. I want cricket to be included in Olympics because in most of the countries government grants are only provided to Olympic sports. And given the bias from ICC (where associate nations usually receive less than 1% of the funds that the full members receive), these grants from the government can be a game changer for countries such as Namibia and Kenya.
Olympics is a place where the best athletes around the world meet once every 4 years. Despite football being the most popular sport in the planet, many of the star players have participated in the Games. Cristiano Ronaldo represented Portugal in 2004, and Lionel Messi took part in the 2008 edition. If we take the case of basketball, NBA legends such as Shaquille O'Neal and LeBron James have been part of Olympic squads. Cricket is being the odd one, having refused to take part in this competition till now.

Actually it is not even 6 teams. Since the United States will qualify as being the hosts, there will be a total of 5 quality teams. Out of the 5 teams, 3 will win medals. I believe that the ICC has underestimated IOC. They are probably thinking that IOC will agree to whatever unreasonable demand that they make. In order for cricket to be just considered for Olympic participation, it took almost two decades of lobbying. All that hard work is wasted because Greg Barclay and the other businessmen doesn't want cricket to be in Olympics.

If there is a competition where 3 out of the 6 teams are provided with Olympic medals, then it will degrade the importance of Olympics as such. Take the case of football. Close to 200 countries take part in the Olympic qualifiers and the main tournament consists of 16 teams. So 200 countries are participating for a total of 3 medals. Now how can you justify 6 countries competing for 3 medals (given that there is no qualifying tournament)?. The ICC has made a mockery of the IOC application process and we can rule out cricket being part of the Olympic Games at least for the next two decades.

I spent some time comparing with other Olympic team sports. I don't want to compare football, since it is immensely popular, and therefore went with field hockey and handball.

In case of field hockey, the main tournament had participation from 12 countries. Japan qualified as hosts in 2020, and one team each qualified as the winners from Asian Games, Pan American Games, African Olympic Qualifier, EuroHockey Championship and Oceania Cup. The remaining 7 teams came from the FIH Olympic Qualifiers. Teams participating in FIH Olympic Qualifiers were further selected from FIH Pro League and FIH Series Finals. So in total more than 40 teams took part in the qualifying tournament. In case of handball also, it was similar. Apart from regional tournaments, other teams qualified through IHF Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments, and there were 12 participants.

I am not sure how the ICC's proposal will gat accepted, given it has no qualifying tournament.

The match between Fulham and Tottenham has just started after being delayed for some time. The reason was written like "traffic problems" interestingly.    I'm seeing it for the first time.
Anyway, Tottenham are still favoured despite its being a challenging match. Tottenham actually have a great attacking line consisting of players like Kulusevski, Son and Kane. All of these players have such a great potential to score a few goals in this. Only Kane by himself is even enough to increase the scoring probability a lot. But the main problem of this team has been related to their defense. Fulham are one of the effective attacking teams so Tottenham can have difficulties in defending them. Mitrovic is the biggest threat. It will be lovely to watch a Kane - Mitrovic clash in this.

Benzema is such a special striker and a scorer. His goal was really lovely to watch. It was a no-look shot and the ball still found the back of net there. Kroos' goal sealed the deal and I can say that it was a typical Kroos goal. It reminded me of his old times that he was scoring these ones more often. Real Madrid got a deserved win in short. Athletic Bilbao were also good in the first half but they couldn't maintain the same effort in the other half. They were nearly scoring a goal in the second half if the ball didn't hit the player who was offside.
This must be very relieving for Real Madrid players because it was like atoning for the Villarreal loss.

PSG has more goals than Lens, so if for example Lens wins and PSG loses the next match then they have the same points but PSG are still on top. Unless PSG loses big and Lens can win big, then it's possible that Lens will take over at the top of the Ligue 1 standings.
But even so, it will not be easy to maintain a position at the top of the standings because of course there will be greater pressure. But besides that, at this moment the top three teams are very close in points gap, so the slightest mistake will result in their position being taken over.

Manchester United would look for a new striker in the summer anyway. Because Weghorst is a temporary player in the team now as he has been loaned until the end of the season.
Of course Manchester United can change their mind and decide to keep him for longer. But it depends on his performance in the end. I didn't see anything positive about him in the Arsenal game by the way. He was like a ghost in a game that we watched 5 goals in total.    But he is newly adapting to the team of course and hopefully he would start playing better in a couple of games. In fact he could have scored a goal in that game also if Rashford didn't use the ball himself to score that amazing goal.

Djokovic started very well against Minaur and currently leads 6:4 and 5:1.
He looks like a tennis player on a revenge mission after everything that happened to him last year in Australia.
I'm really not sure which of the remaining tennis players in the tournament can stop Djokovic on his way to the title. Tsitsipas? I don't think he's ready yet.
On the other hand, Bautista Agut has big problems in the match with Paul and is on the verge of defeat. I thought this would be a much easier match for him.
Currently, Paul is leading 2:1 in sets, and there is a big and uncertain fight in the fourth set.

What I hope is that other teams can take advantage of the unfavorable situation that Bayen Munich is currently experiencing. With Bayern Munich's declining performance, it opens up greater opportunities for its competitors to displace the position they are currently occupying by beating it. Leipzig have done their best by holding Bayern Munich to a draw, other teams should be able to do the same as what Leipzig did in the first week of matches after this break.

You are right Die_empty, after my post and yours I did more research and Jose Mourinho is an option to Brazilian team.
Pep Guardiola already said it's impossible to leave Manchester City, so there's 4 options in Europe right now: Zidane, Mourinho, Ancelotti and Luis Enrique.
The CBF president said that the ideal is a coach who knows how to deal with younger players, since Brazil will probably be reformulated and will use players from the youth team.
If none of the four coaches accept the offer, then the new coach would be Brazilian anyway, but no name is strong yet.
They want to get the new coach by the end of February.
I said I bet on Luis Enrique and I keep my bet, but Jose Mourinho is a strong candidate, the fact that he speaks portuguese is a factor that helps in the choice.

LOL.. finally Steve Smith has found a way to play T20 cricket. He tried his luck with franchise T20 cricket leagues (including IPL) earlier, but then found out that his playing style doesn't suit T20). His IPL batting average is not that bad (2485 from 103 matches, at an average of 34.51). But the strike rate (128.09) was a big issue. And that was the reason why he was dropped after the 2021 season by the Delhi Capitals (for comparison, David Warner has an IPL average of 42.01 and strike rate of 140.69).  

Now at the BBL he has scored consecutive centuries. Yesterday he scored an unbelievable 125 from just 66 balls against the Sydney Thunder (including 9 siexs), and four days before that he scored a 101 from 56 balls against Adelaide Strikers. In both the matches, Sydney Sixers won by a huge margin. His next match is against Hobart Hurricanes tomorrow.

Missed this match and have to watch the highlights of the innings from Steve Smith.

The correct name is Michael Saylor and at current his company MicroStrategy holds more then 120k bitcoins and he buys at dips but even if he sell the effect would be temporary dump on the prices but in long run it will rise.The whales cannot directly have the manipulation so they also try to create FUD so that there is panic in the market which results in weak hands selling to strong one's at discounted rates.But nobody can control the bitcoin network which is true decentralisation nature of it.

Newbies can't figure out what really happens in the past few years and I understand them but I think it is also important for them to know about it. Perhaps, it was their obligation to search back and understand why old investors are encouraging them to hold. It is important to educate ourselves and don't just remain as newbies, we have to enhance our knowledge as well even though we are new in the crypto market. Otherwise, we never go far and remain ignorant of what happened before.

Sydney Thunders is the not performing team in this season even right now they are at the fourth spot but most chances they will be eliminated from the play-offs due to their worst batting in this season after bowled out for 15 against Adelaide Strikers they have done good job but today again they were bowled out for the 62 runs and lost their seventh match of the season which could be the most troubling thing for them in presence of David Warner and few other star player's performance like this is matter of shame.
Today after winning toss Sixers elected to bat first and done amazing stuff star was former Australian captain Steven Smith who hit around the ground and score 125 runs on just 66 balls with the help of 9 sixes after giving target of 188 their bowlers were also on target and bowled out thunders for just 62 runs Steve O'Keefe with the figure of 4/10 and Sean Abbott with 3/11 were star for the Sixers.

I have feeling things like these expected because early moisture not allowed kiwis to have anything, and they bundled out badly with just 15 for 5 was worse because no one was expecting batting like this, but we already watch and then again we have lower order which helps and give some encouragement which allow them to reach three figures but still Mohammad Shami was the hero for India and Hardik Pandya also done good damage after having target like this India's reply was usual, but again Virat Kohli was in hurry to give his wicket, and he has done this before end these procedures now another whitewash for the Indian team is waiting in third and final match which is going to play at Indore on 24th January.