Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Qualification Systems Road to LA 2028

[intoronto 6,420]

54 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I thought the only continental quotas applied in track cycling was for the individual events - the team events were purely based on the rankings list

Maybe I am remembering from Tokyo, but distinctly remember team events having a minimum 3 continent rule

[AmericanHero40 243]

7 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

 

Beach Volleyball: Continental qualifiers have have priority over the World championship and World Rankings quotas and there's now Olympic Qualifier Series quotas.

 

 

Thank god that Continental Cup is gone, it was impossible to find results in early rounds

[clemsonbeav 209]

For Modern Pentathlon, it's interesting that Africa only gets one continental championship spot, considering how well Egypt does in the event.  (But then again, it's max 2 athletes per NOC per gender.)  Presuming that an Egyptian wins the African CCh, I suppose their performance in the other major competitions will allow the second competitor to come through.

[JoshMartini007 2,766]

6 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

For Modern Pentathlon, it's interesting that Africa only gets one continental championship spot, considering how well Egypt does in the event.  (But then again, it's max 2 athletes per NOC per gender.)  Presuming that an Egyptian wins the African CCh, I suppose their performance in the other major competitions will allow the second competitor to come through.

The continental quotas have a max of 1 athlete per NOC. As only Egypt is competitive, it makes sense for them to only get 1 quota.

[JoshMartini007 2,766]

The rugby sevens qualifiers has a logic hole.

 

In the past, in order to prevent a weak North American team from qualifying, they stipulate that should two North American nations qualifying through the World Series (basically Canada and the United States) then there won't be a direct qualifier. Here because they have the host quota at a lower priority the way it is written is if the United States finishes in the top 4 (and not Canada) then Canada would be unable to qualify through the continental qualifier.

 

Of course, I doubt that is true (and this can be easily fixed by putting the host quota as the highest priority) and Canada will be allowed to qualify as normal.

[AmericanHero40 243]

So USA is getting all the quotas, i wasn't sure about Handball and Men's Hockey, but looks like we are getting them, that will be quite embarrassing

[JoshMartini007 2,766]

3 minutes ago, AmericanHero40 said:

So USA is getting all the quotas, i wasn't sure about Handball and Men's Hockey, but looks like we are getting them, that will be quite embarrassing

Handball literally gave Australia a host quota back in 2000 so they'll give it to anyone.

 

Field hockey in comparison has been more restrictive. They require the United States to have a world ranking of at least 25, which the women should easily meet and the men are likely to meet.

[NearPup 3,498]

44 minutes ago, AmericanHero40 said:

So USA is getting all the quotas, i wasn't sure about Handball and Men's Hockey, but looks like we are getting them, that will be quite embarrassing

Those US teams won't be *that* bad. Like, ya they will finish last by a decent margin, but they are still serious national teams that will be well prepared.

[AmericanHero40 243]

2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Those US teams won't be *that* bad. Like, ya they will finish last by a decent margin, but they are still serious national teams that will be well prepared.

It will be Great Britain 2012 levels, A for effort

[NearPup 3,498]

24 minutes ago, AmericanHero40 said:

It will be Great Britain 2012 levels, A for effort

Pretty good comparaison as to what to expect in handball, ya. And just like the UK, the US is finding all sorts of dual nationals who play professionally in Europe, like Pál Merkovszky,  Jonas Strömberg,  Alexander Chan Blanco,  Benjamin Edwards,  Sean Corning,  Paul Skorupa,  Dániel Hunyadi,  Aboubakar Foufana,  Ian Hueter,  Lukas Larlskov Hansen,  Douglas Otterström,  Rodrigo Campos,  Patrick Hueter,  Samuel Hoddersen and  Domagoj Sršen. The US men's national team is sort of like a  situation but without anyone being naturalized (everyone above is a US citizen either by parentage or due to having been born in the US).

 

The women's team seems more homegrown, but it's definitively weaker too.

Edited 4 hours ago by NearPup