Topicmaster1010 3,076 Posted March 17 #491 Share Posted March 17 2024 Serbian Nationals - Belgrade (SRB) March 14th - March 17th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topicmaster1010 3,076 Posted March 17 #492 Share Posted March 17 2024 NSW State Open Championships - Sydney (AUS) March 15th - March 17th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 578 Posted March 18 #493 Share Posted March 18 I didn't think NSW State Open was a qualifying meet but I haven't looked at the calendar since last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 578 Posted March 18 #494 Share Posted March 18 21 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said: Yeah, I VPN'd to Japan and watched through the NHK1 link you posted. Ikee and Mizuki Hirai both looked really good today. Hopefully they can both qualify tomorrow. It doesn't seem to like my VPN Topicmaster1010, Josh and maestro 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 578 Posted March 18 #495 Share Posted March 18 1 hour ago, dullard said: It doesn't seem to like my VPN This works (use in media player that supports streams): https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/subdivisions/jp-13.m3u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topicmaster1010 3,076 Posted March 18 #496 Share Posted March 18 Seto fails to qualify in the 400 IM dullard and maestro 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 578 Posted March 18 #497 Share Posted March 18 And Rikako qualifies by the skin of her teeth. maestro and Topicmaster1010 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topicmaster1010 3,076 Posted March 18 #498 Share Posted March 18 (edited) Japanese Olympic Trials: Day 2 Recap 3 swimmers punched their ticket to Paris today. Men's 400m IM: 1. Tomoyuki Matsushita - 4:10.04 Q 2. Daiya Seto - 4:10.84 3. Kaito Tabuchi - 4:11.15 Big PB by Matsushita to become the first Japanese athlete to qualify for Paris. Other than that, a complete disaster for Japan. Tomoru Honda already shockingly failed to qualify for the final. Then Daiya Seto, arguably the biggest Japanese star, fails to qualify in his signature event despite getting under the OQT. Also getting under the OQT was Kaito Tabuchi. So a country that's known for their producing world class IMers will only nominate one athlete for this event. If this doesn't make the JASF change their selection criteria, I don't know what will. Women's 100m Butterfly: 1. Mizuki Hirai - 56.91 Q 2. Rikako Ikee - 57.30 Q 3. Shiho Matsumoto - 57.31 4. Ai Soma - 57.64 4 women under the OQT and 3 women under the JASF QT. Another big PB by the 17 year old Hirai and Ikee barely qualifies in 2nd. Great race all around. Men's 100m Breaststroke: 1. Taku Taniguchi - 59.43 2. Yu Hanaguruma - 59.47 2. Ippei Watanabe - 59.47 Once again, 3 men under the OQT but all failed to meet the JASF QT of 59.26 (see a pattern here?). Taniguchi should be nominated for the medley relay should the stroke 100 winners meet the required relay time but won't swim it individually. Current Japanese Olympic team Men: Tomoyuki Matsushita - 400m IM Women: Mizuki Hirai - 100m Butterfly Rikako Ikee - 100m Butterfly Edited March 18 by Topicmaster1010 Josh, Biathlonfan, Roamingrover86 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 578 Posted March 18 #499 Share Posted March 18 JASF leadership trying their hardest to strangle the sport to death. maestro, Biathlonfan, Topicmaster1010 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,375 Posted March 18 #500 Share Posted March 18 While I understand (but still dislike) having a specific meet or meets to achieve the OQT, these nations which create even harder times is ridiculous. It's not like FINA made the OQT easy to get either. Imagine if Japan was as strict in other sports as it is in swimming, their team would be like 50-75 athletes rather than the near 300 they would normally get. dullard, Biathlonfan, Topicmaster1010 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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