Increase American qualifiers to London 2012

We offer a tour with the news of last week on LatinAmerican athletes struggling to classify or who are preparing their participation in the 2012 London Olympics, which opens on 27 July.
Mission accomplished in Melbourne

 Targets were met for three South American countries.Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela met the proposed target for the World Cup track cycling ended the weekend in Melbourne and said his presence at the velodrome in London.Although no Latin American country achieved a podium finish in Australia, the delegations of both countries were pleased with the results.Colombia will be represented in the modalities of Omnium (female), team sprint (female), keirin (male and female), team pursuit (men) and speed (female).Venezuela, meanwhile, qualified with five riders, while Argentina will once again feature veteran Walter Perez, 37, gold medalist in Beijing 2008. Perez will participate in the trial of Omnium in which will be his fifth Olympics.
Sailing to Weymouth
 Scheidt has won two gold medals and two silvers in the Olympics.The Brazilians Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada won the gold medal in the Star class for the international sailing regatta Sofia Trophy which was played in the Mediterranean, confirming its favoritism to improve the silver medal won four years ago in Beijing.Another outstanding performance was the fourth place finish by the Argentines Lucas Calabrese and Juan de la Fuente in 470, a category in which the Chilean Benjamin Grez and Diego Gonzalez (25 °) finished first among those who apply for one of the seven seats for Pre-Olympic Games will deliver the World Qualifier in May.The Uruguayan Alejandro Foglia finished 18th in Laser, while in female Mexican Tania Elias Calles Wolf reached a creditable eighth.They also managed to include the partners of Brazil (Fernanda Oliveira and Ana Luiza Barbachan, 11th) and Argentina (Maria Fernanda Sesto and Consuelo Monsegur, 12 º) in 470 women.
"Gladiators" Argentines in LondonSpain closed with a flourish classification in men's handball by beating Poland in the final Olympic qualifying match at Alicante, a tournament which also got its ticket Serbia.Brazil and Chile, however, will not be in London after being eliminated in the tournaments in Sweden and Croatia, leaving Argentina as the only Latin American representative."The Gladiators" finished in third place in a friendly tournament in London that totaled one win (against Britain), a draw (Tunisia) and one defeat (South Korea).
Dreaming of silver bowl
 
 The Davis Cup semifinals will be played in September.Argentina advanced to the semifinals of the Davis Cup by beating Croatia 4-1 and kept alive the dream of winning the first Davis Cup in its history.The team of Juan Martin del Potro, Juan Monaco, David Nalbandian and Eduardo Schwank received in September to the Czech Republic, which took advantage of a depleted team was without Serbian Novak Djokovic.The other semifinal will play Spain and the United States, which was supported by the high level of John Isner to surprise France.
Hope sankArgentina and Brazil failed to qualify in the pre-Olympic water polo played in Edmonton, tournament when Spain won his ticket to London despite losing the final against Montenegro.Brazil topped the group stage in third place, but could not maintain the level in the crucial rounds and after a series of consecutive losses ended the tournament in eighth place. Argentina, meanwhile, had been eliminated in the first round.