hckošice 13,305 Posted April 14, 2016 #151 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Updated as of April 14th, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,189 Posted April 14, 2016 #152 Share Posted April 14, 2016 2 hours ago, dareza said: Women's single: Mikhalova (Russia) Solja (Germany)* Yu (Portugal) Li (Poland) Liu (Austria) Shan (Germany)* Han (Germany)* Hu (Turkey) Long live China Half of the total qualified athletes so far in women's table tennis are Chinese women (or women of Chinese origin)... #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,189 Posted April 14, 2016 #153 Share Posted April 14, 2016 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: Nobody says that Yes, it is about a horribly unfair qualification system whose main victim are deserving athletes. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,609 Posted April 14, 2016 #154 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Just now, dcro said: Yes, it is about a horribly unfair qualification system whose main victim are deserving athletes. Well that's a whole different discussion than the "who will win the medals" discussion If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,189 Posted April 14, 2016 #155 Share Posted April 14, 2016 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: Well that's a whole different discussion than the "who will win the medals" discussion Oh, looks like I missed that part. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,609 Posted April 14, 2016 #156 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Just now, dcro said: Oh, looks like I missed that part. That happens to the best If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,242 Posted April 14, 2016 #157 Share Posted April 14, 2016 If the format was like in 2012 how different would things be? For the men China (2), Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), South Korea (2), Qatar and Singapore have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to Chinese Taipei, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia and Iran and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to India, Iran, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. Overall nothing has changed. For the women China (2), Chinese Taipei (2), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), North Korea, South Korea (2) and Singapore (2) have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to North Korea, Thailand, India, Lebanon and Uzbekistan and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to Thailand, India, Iran, Indonesia (2) and Kazakhstan. Overall the strength of the field remains unchanged. Asia knew the current format put its weaker nations at a disadvantage so it changed its own qualification format to essentially match it with 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted April 14, 2016 #158 Share Posted April 14, 2016 15 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said: If the format was like in 2012 how different would things be? For the men China (2), Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), South Korea (2), Qatar and Singapore have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to Chinese Taipei, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia and Iran and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to India, Iran, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. Overall nothing has changed. For the women China (2), Chinese Taipei (2), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), North Korea, South Korea (2) and Singapore (2) have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to North Korea, Thailand, India, Lebanon and Uzbekistan and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to Thailand, India, Iran, Indonesia (2) and Kazakhstan. Overall the strength of the field remains unchanged. Asia knew the current format put its weaker nations at a disadvantage so it changed its own qualification format to essentially match it with 2012. Thanks, that was very interesting, I was thinking about the same thing. this makes more sense to qualify top athletes from ranking before continental tournaments but there is a bit difference here, back in 2012 even the 3rd athlete (for team event) had to qualify as individual (despite not being eligible to participate in singles event), which means top Asian nations still took 1 spot each for their 3rd player in Asian qualification tournament, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,242 Posted April 14, 2016 #159 Share Posted April 14, 2016 23 minutes ago, MHSN said: Thanks, that was very interesting, I was thinking about the same thing. this makes more sense to qualify top athletes from ranking before continental tournaments but there is a bit difference here, back in 2012 even the 3rd athlete (for team event) had to qualify as individual (despite not being eligible to participate in singles event), which means top Asian nations still took 1 spot each for their 3rd player in Asian qualification tournament, You are correct. I think the ITTF was right in capping the individual quotas to two per nation for this Olympics though. With the way Asia restructured its qualifiers it wouldn't have mattered whether or not the world rankings had higher priority, but the current format no doubt would have benefited European nations and would have increased the overall strength of the field had it gone as intended (though regardless all the top athletes would have made it, nation caps ignored). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted April 15, 2016 #160 Share Posted April 15, 2016 If both Hong Kong players withdraw the quota later as expected (which will happen 99%) the following countries qualified for Rio in men's singles Gerassimenko (KAZ) Kenjaev (UZB) No. Alamian (IRN) Achanta (IND) Tanviriyavechaku (THA) Chen Chien-an (TPE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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