Summer Olympic Games 2020 Team Sports Early Qualification Predictions

[LowerSaxony 205]

1 hour ago, LDOG said:

 

All these teams except women's volley are good enough to qualify in world level qualifiers (some of them qualified that way). 

 

 

Of course they might be good enough to qualify on a world level (however, I doubt it for Argentina's Handball team), but that is not the point. The point is that in most American continental qualifiers there are only very few competitive teams, so the only World class team gets basically a free pass.

For example: Women's football. Of course, USA and CAN are world class and it is absolutely desirable to have them at the Olympics. But the qualifier is ridiculous: Two competitive teams compete for two direct qualification places, wow. In Europe, however, there are six or seven World class teams competing for three places. That sucks and is beyond comparability. And please, don't come around with "Costa Rica improved a lot lately" ... CRC would not even have a chance for qualification to the European Championships.

Nearly the same in Pan American hockey: One very good team (ARG), one good team (CAN) competing for one direct place is not comparable with the depth (4-5 very good teams) in European hockey.

Edited February 8, 2020 by LowerSaxony

[ATHENS 1896 15]

22 hours ago, NearPup said:

Canada has qualified in Football, Volleyball, Hockey, Rugby Sevens, Softball and Water Polo (and will qualify im Basketball, short of a disaster). So no, not only the USA can match that :P

 I was not clear enough that i was referring to Mens team sports & Argentina Mens teams. 

In womens team sports the situation and the competition level is very different 

[Sindo 1,512]

Copying here @Vektor post to check how did you do in your predictions

 

 

 

16 teams

 

 

 

11 teams

 

 

 

9 teams

 

 

8 teams

 

  

 

7 teams

 

 

6 teams

 

         

 

5 teams

 

  

 

4 teams

 

   

 

3 teams

 

       

 

2 teams

 

             

 

1 team

 

                                          

 

	Returning Rio2016 teams	Gained quotas	Lost quotas
M Football (16/16)
W Football (12/12)
M Basketball (8/12)
W Basketball (12/12)
M Volleyball (12/12)
W Volleyball (12/12)
M Handball (12/12)
W Handball (12/12)
M Water polo (12/12)
W Water polo (10/10)
M Field hockey (12/12)
W Field hockey (12/12)
M Rugby (11/12)
W Rugby (10/12)
Baseball (5/6)
Softball (6/6)

[Makedonas 2,170]

So many people picked Greece to qualify in women's water polo, women's basketball, and men's basketball and it looks like we'll get none of them in the end 

 

(Yes we got men's water polo at least)

[Fly_like_a_don 1,110]

Most users didn't give India and Ireland a chance to qualify but we did in women's field hockey.