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Ah my mistake, got confused there! Would make sense as there would be no Egyptian involvement then

It appears that the results system is wrong and beat in one of the Round of 16 matches. Therefore the 4 qualifiers are Nigeria x2, Congo and Senegal. Crisis of the 4th qualifier averted.

For the women the quarterfinalists are: More straightforward for qualification

So the qualifiers for the men’s table tennis quarterfinals from what I can tell are: in that case who would get the 4th quota given Egypt has already qualified a team?

Nordic Combined All earn 4 quota (2 per gender) All earn 1 male quota

Apparently they turned up late and missed the necessary checks

China withdrew from hosting over Covid concerns so Portugal will host in December 2022

Spoke too soon! Shooting quota from the World Cup in France last week: 3 Quota: 2 Quota: 1 Quota:

First qualification for Paris 2024 Paralympics is Turkey in Blind Football! They will play France in the European Championship final today who are already qualified as hosts.

Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand have all withdrawn from the upcoming Universiade. Australia and USA won’t be sending athletes in swimming, unclear about other sports. Main issues from GB appear to be Russia/Belarus (now resolved as they are banned), Covid-19 and travel restrictions (in particular the extensive regulations being required by China/organising committee, as athletes for these games are self funded and receive limited organisational support)

Great Britain team Alpine Skiing (4) Boys - Ted Slade, Aidan Urquhart Girls - Alexa Elliff, Isla Ward Biathlon (1) Girls - Anna Berger Figure Skating (2) Boys - Edward Appleby Girls - Elena Komova Nordic Combined (1) Girls- Mani Cooper Short Track Speed Skating (1) Boys - Adam Hill Snowboarding (1) Boys - Koby Cook Our best chance of a medal will likely come from Edward Appleby in the Figure Skating, has had some very promising results in the past couple of years.

They are classified, however for the past 2 seasons and in races earlier this season Yang Hongqiong was classified as a 10.5, now she’s a 10. Time wise that is only worth 1% (86% of the raw time instead of 87%), but given the gap was only 1.7 seconds today could have made the difference.

If you go into upcoming videos it’s there https://m.youtube.com/c/Channel4Sport/videos?view=2&flow=list&live_view=502

And it’s not even because the Russians aren’t there, they are beating the dominant athletes in their events like Oksana Masters and Marie Bochet. China’s Paralympic programme continues to impress even in sports they have very little pedigree in.

This is the current ranking: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/CUR/OWG2022_CUR_C76D_CURWTEAM4-------------------------.pdf ironically Japan, GB and Canada are the three worst teams, but GB have a 13cm average cushion over Canada with 2 more draws to come