USVI Qualification Updates

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A place to discuss the U.S. Virgin Island’s efforts to qualify athletes for Paris 2024.

 

 

Edited April 19, 2023 by Olympian1010

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 grouped with  for FOPQT.

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47 minutes ago, owenp_23 said:

 grouped with  for FOPQT.

I’d like to see them advance, but I think Uruguay and Colombia will beat them 

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I'm going to cross-post this to breathe a little life back into the club threads. 

 

Team  Update and Thoughts (April 2024)

 

Current Quotas: 2

 

Archery - 1 (men's individual recurve)

Fencing - 1 (men's foil)

 

Schembri and D'Amour qualifiying has provided some nice relief after a rather quiet qualification season. Both are certainly some of the islands' best athletic prospects. If they stay healthly and avoid any miscellaneous issues, I look forward to seeing what results they can achieve in Paris.

 

Ideal Quota Allocation: 6-8

 

Other users simulated 8 quotas for Team ISV, which feels a bit generous at this moment (not that it wasn't appreicated ). I'm definitely keeping my eye on Michelle Smith (athletics). If she can get a quota in the women's 400m hurdles, I believe that will garantee an additional male quota in athletics as well. Other than Smith, I can't envision any other quotas outside universality allocations. I have no idea which sports/athletes the NOC targeted, but the following allocation would leave me very pleased:

 

Archery - 1 (women's individual recurve)

Golf - 1 (women's individual) [Swayne had that nice 6th place result at Santiago 2023. It would be cool to see her compete in Paris.]

Swimming - 2

 

Sailing - ? [I don't feel like it was a particularly great cycle for the sailing team. Dale might be a candidate for a universality quota in ILCA7 though.]