Sprint Canoeing Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[NearPup 3,488]

So Canada is going to miss out on a likely gold medal because of a BS doping case that didn’t go anywhere? Very cool.

[james89 898]

11 minutes ago, NearPup said:

So Canada is going to miss out on a likely gold medal because of a BS doping case that didn’t go anywhere? Very cool.

I feel like this is the type of thing that happens to Canadian athletes often....

[intoronto 6,394]

In an upset, Laurence VINCENT-LAPOINTE (ie 6x world champion) has NOT been selected for the C-1 event, as she lost out to Katie Vincent in a 3 race series (she won the last two races).  With the C-2 looking highly unlikely to qualify, probably the world's best female canoeist is not going to be in Tokyo.

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

In an upset, Laurence VINCENT-LAPOINTE (ie 6x world champion) has NOT been selected for the C-1 event, as she lost out to Katie Vincent in a 3 race series (she won the last two races).  With the C-2 looking highly unlikely to qualify, probably the world's best female canoeist is not going to be in Tokyo.

Canada does hate winning gold medals at the Summer Olympics so it makes sense.

[Olympian1010 8,229]

5 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Canada does hate winning gold medals at the Summer Olympics basically every multi-sports games, so it makes sense.

Fixed it. 

[intoronto 6,394]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Canada does hate winning gold medals at the Summer Olympics so it makes sense.

"“We are so thrilled to see two of the best paddlers in the world racing together after such a long hiatus and a challenging period of time,” said Casey Wade, CKC Chief Executive Officer. “With respect to the women’s C2 500m event, we continue to work closely with the International Canoe Federation to secure an additional women’s canoe Olympic quota spot due to extenuating circumstances dating back to the 2019 World Championships. This will also allow us to have a second entry in the women’s C1 200m Event.”

 

Is this new? Multiple entries in canoeing!?

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

37 minutes ago, intoronto said:

"“We are so thrilled to see two of the best paddlers in the world racing together after such a long hiatus and a challenging period of time,” said Casey Wade, CKC Chief Executive Officer. “With respect to the women’s C2 500m event, we continue to work closely with the International Canoe Federation to secure an additional women’s canoe Olympic quota spot due to extenuating circumstances dating back to the 2019 World Championships. This will also allow us to have a second entry in the women’s C1 200m Event.”

 

Is this new? Multiple entries in canoeing!?

Not unless the rules changed very recently.

 

Wade is probably citing the rule where athletes qualified in one event can compete in other events, but the one boat per event rule still applies.

[dcro 10,210]

2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Not unless the rules changed very recently.

 

Wade is probably citing the rule where athletes qualified in one event can compete in other events, but the one boat per event rule still applies.

For Tokyo they specifically changed the rules to allow up to two boats per nation.

[intoronto 6,394]

On 06/03/2021 at 13:50, mrv86 said:

According to qualification rules

 

 

So, if I interpret correctly, quotas could be distributed like this:

 

W C1 200m:

W C2 500m: Should go to  but Nevin Harrison already qualified in C1 200, so not sure what they will do.

W K1 200m:

W K1 500m: 

W K2 500m: 

 

 

M C1 1000m:  

M C2 1000m: 

M K1 200m:

M K1 1000m: 

M K2 1000m:  

Just by the looks of it, I don't think Canada will send more than 4 kayak in each discipline (based on how the internal qualifiers have gone). Who would be the backups in the two events Canada stands to gain quotas in?

[mrv86 3,240]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Just by the looks of it, I don't think Canada will send more than 4 kayak in each discipline (based on how the internal qualifiers have gone). Who would be the backups in the two events Canada stands to gain quotas in?

Chile for Women's K1 and Argentina for Men's K2, which could allow them to compete in K4.