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and the IIHF continues to find creative ways to embarrass itself. Someone accidentally called this round 'round 3' and they have kept it and made it possibly official. The group title letters make no sense. According to their main page https://www.iihf.com/en/static/56966/women_s_olympic_winter_game Germany should have qualified for the Olympics already. Whoever is making the pages has no idea what they are doing. crazy that they have this much disdain for their fans.

I believe that yesterday's result in Cerro Catedral confirms Faiz Basha has met the Olympic Criteria. FIS points not finalized yet for some reason, but his result should easily be better than what he needed.

the WCF rankings may come into play for the mixed doubles qualifier. I was trying to gauge countries position coming into the season but I cannot reproduce the ranking totals that they have. For instance Norway has a score of 66.791 but achieved better than 75% of the possible points each year but one, so even logically I can't get my head around what they are doing.

Counted it by myself, was hoping that someone out there is compiling something since the FIS probably won't until next season.

After a rough look I see 16 countries that have secured the minimum standards for at least one athlete. I think there will be a few more today in Perito Moreno. Aruwin Salehhuddin of Malaysia was a surprise to me, but I see that she qualified for Beijing as well.

Is there anyone out there tracking countries that have met the Alpine Olympic standard already? There have been enough SAC races for it to be possible I think.

Fifa just posted 'FT' it is officially over

FIFA is not yet calling it a final score, could there be some official appeal going on?

I wonder who will replace Hurkacz in the draw, with the time frame it would have to be someone already there wouldn't it?

why are you saying that this is according to wikipedia, it is not. Do you mean that it is your own creation based on the rankings from there?

So raonic is in at 33, and Kwon Soon-woo is in at 80. I am trying to figure out who in the middle that wiki lists is not.

So the official timeline is here: https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Tennis.pdf but not on that document is the fact that the ITF has said that they will publish a full list on July 4th here: https://www.itftennis.com/en/events/olympics-paris-2024/entry-list/

Also there is the prospect of Raonic, who said he wanted to go to the Olympics but has not confirmed it, O'Connell that wiki lists as not eligible, Djere who seems to have indicated he is not going, Cilic who could use PR but with the recent surgery that seems really unlikely. Too many moving parts to be certain of the final few qualifiers.

According to the wiki list Nagal would have to wait for the reallocation process (57th is the reallocated host spot) so saying that he is an alternate makes good sense.

And Andreescu has told sportsnet that she was hopeful that her 64PR would get her in. https://www.sportsnet.ca/wta/article/bianca-andreescu-preparing-for-return-to-court-has-sights-on-playing-in-olympics/ The statement from the Japanese Olympic Committee appears to say that Osaka is going to use the legacy quota https://www.joc.or.jp/news/20240613034804.html but that would not make sense now. I guess I am saying that if Osaka and Kerber have to use PR, then probably Andreescu does as well. And what has happened to Halep, I thought she was trying to make a comeback.

The BBC story says that Raducanu turned down the legacy spot which is strange and has two consequences that I can see: 1st, Osaka must be using her PR if Wozniacki is a legacy qualifier, 2nd: who else would take it then? So maybe another reallocated quota for the women's side.

this article makes it look like Raonic is going to play in the Olympics, maybe? Not sure what to conclude from it: https://opencourt.ca/2024/06/11/milos-raonic-return-grass-olympics-pterygium/

No, what I am saying is that the list is incorrect, it should be Kerber based on the qualifying criteria. She has more grand slam wins than Wozniacki.

He is in the last spot, unless players use protected rankings and push him out of it. He has not, as the article says, clinched anything. Because there will be withdrawals is it very likely he is in anyway but this article just looks like someone read the wikipedia page and decided it was final. It is not.

This story came out today: https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-indian-tennis-ranking-quotas-sumit-nagal-rohan-bopanna which for Nagal does not make much sense to me.

Why is it Wozniacki not Kerber for the legacy spot?

The article explains that. He says that it is the surface that is the problem and that he wants to be fit and ready for the grass court season to rebuild his rankings.

Shapovalov was going to use protected ranking but has decided to rest his knee. https://tennistonic.com/tennis-news/720016/injured-denis-shapovalov-will-not-play-the-french-open-doubles-and-the-olympics/

No, there may be players using protected ranking that could bump him down the list.

I have been calculating weekly and I have her in the final spot (57th) right now. I include Korpatsch and Mertens which wiki says are not eligible but I do not know. Protected rankings make it a challenge as well, Andreescu has stated that she will use PR, but not confirmed yet. Sherif using the continental place helps but it will be close.