Team GB at 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series

[Cmon Mary 27]

It is not on the World Skate site, but this has appeared on the OQS website - confirmation that Andy MacDonald is going to the Olympics! 

 

https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/olympic-qualifier-series-2024-budapest/global-standings/skateboarding-mens-park

 

 

[Orangehair43 251]

29 minutes ago, Cmon Mary said:

It is not on the World Skate site, but this has appeared on the OQS website - confirmation that Andy MacDonald is going to the Olympics! 

 

https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/olympic-qualifier-series-2024-budapest/global-standings/skateboarding-mens-park

 

 

Confirmed on Team GB’s social media as well.

[Olympicsnell 300]

So whats next? I know athletics nationals are next week, i cant think of anything else off the top of my dome that leads to direct qualification

 

Another quick question, is there still a chance of the skeet shooter getting in via reallocations or is that all done now?

[mpjmcevoy 362]

1 hour ago, Olympicsnell said:

So whats next? I know athletics nationals are next week, i cant think of anything else off the top of my dome that leads to direct qualification

 

Another quick question, is there still a chance of the skeet shooter getting in via reallocations or is that all done now?

I think today was quite deliberately the last 'international' day to win quotas, although athletics trials will continue, and here will be a fair amount of chopping and changing yet, due to injury, always is. Eg in Tennis both Murray and Evans could be in injury trouble, I'm not sure if its possible, but I think Glasspool and Murray Sr might have a score to get into doubles if Murray and Evans had to swap out, A lot of sports will now be going through the 'reallocation' process too in vaoious events.

 

On men's skeet, we haven't heard of any withdrawals that would open up a final ranking spot.

 

 

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On checking, there are still a few basketball quotas to be decided, but that's pretty much it - Judo qualification quietly ended today with GBR in qualifying places in 5 women's weights; that's 26 sports, and by my broad calculation there are genuine medal shouts in about 23 or 24.

Edited June 23, 2024 by mpjmcevoy

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

I was pretty skeptical of the concept of the OQS when it was first announced - I thought it would be a bit of a gimmick but I think I could be converted to it. The sports they have selected to showcase at the OQS have all worked pretty well. Not breaking obviously because it has no place anywhere near an Olympic games - but the rest were great to watch. 

 

I wonder if they'll look to extend the OQS in 2028 - I'd like to see beach volleyball getting involved next time. 

[mpjmcevoy 362]

56 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I was pretty skeptical of the concept of the OQS when it was first announced - I thought it would be a bit of a gimmick but I think I could be converted to it. The sports they have selected to showcase at the OQS have all worked pretty well. Not breaking obviously because it has no place anywhere near an Olympic games - but the rest were great to watch. 

 

I wonder if they'll look to extend the OQS in 2028 - I'd like to see beach volleyball getting involved next time. 

It was, in my view, a brilliant way to showcase slightly lesser known sports, with some olympic stardust sprinkled on them.

 

One could consider the final chance boxing, archery, table tennis and rugby qualifiers to be a not dissimilar construct

 

I think the IOC has maybe got this partially right - they increase their broadcast toehold and influence without 'creating' another olympics - and did it in a thematic way - what would be good would be if IFs could sit down with IOC, and the continental Games, and work out systems of qualification that made as many events as possible a must see - rankings are fair, and absolutely have a place but they aren't really exciting - qualification competitions generally are (mixed triathlon relay final qualifier, etc)

 

But the IFs and the continental Games will want their own events given some Olympic 'juice', and I think IOC should, where at all possible, accommodate that too.

 

Of course some sports, this won't work with - Football, 5x5 basketball, Gold, possibly tennis. But I think there are win-wins here for IFs, including continental IFs, Continental Games and the IOC itself getting more organised on it - and I think the themed nature of OQS shows the way...

 

For example, what if there were 'final qualifiers/OQS' for all the combat sports, in one place. Not the bulk of the quotas, of course, but just those final few spots in Boxing, Judo, Taekwonso, wrestling, possibly fencing, shooting and archery (or perhaps the last three and modern pentathlon could form a separate, "armed combat" pod?)

 

Beach volleyball might be the core of, dare I suggest, a beach and sea based final qualifier? Beach Volleyball, Triathlon, Sailing, open water swimming, maybe High iving, somewhere delightfully hot and sunny - Bermuda, perhaps...

 

some sports don't need that pizzaz on their own events, but I suspect a lot of sports would welcome the kind of three ring circus attention the four urban sports got this weekend.

[Epic Failure 355]

I think that it definitely works better in some sports than others. The urban nature and ability to have the sports close together worked very well.

 

They missed a bit of a trick not including the rugby in it, in my opinion.

[mpjmcevoy 362]

22 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

I think that it definitely works better in some sports than others. The urban nature and ability to have the sports close together worked very well.

 

They missed a bit of a trick not including the rugby in it, in my opinion.

I think the rugby is a bit stand alone to be honest

 

I definitely think doing something with the combat sports would work, especially if Karate came back; it would have a 'festival of fight sport' feel and would have a wide appeal given the sports tend to have discrete areas of interest and specialism.

 

You could have a lot of silly fun using venues too - I quite like the idea of weightlifting at Muscle Beach in 2028!

[Epic Failure 355]

6 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

I think the rugby is a bit stand alone to be honest

 

I definitely think doing something with the combat sports would work, especially if Karate came back; it would have a 'festival of fight sport' feel and would have a wide appeal given the sports tend to have discrete areas of interest and specialism.

 

You could have a lot of silly fun using venues too - I quite like the idea of weightlifting at Muscle Beach in 2028!

I mention the rugby simply because 1) it was the same weekend as Budapest anyway and 2) the attendance in Monaco was, frankly, pretty pathetic. The players deserved more. There must have been a football stadium somewhere in Budapest they could have stuck a couple of sets of posts up in!

[Cinnamon Bun 896]

3 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

I mention the rugby simply because 1) it was the same weekend as Budapest anyway and 2) the attendance in Monaco was, frankly, pretty pathetic. The players deserved more. There must have been a football stadium somewhere in Budapest they could have stuck a couple of sets of posts up in!

There's probably an agreement with the Prince to hold a major qualifier there each cycle, hence why the last chance qualifier is always in Monaco.