Josh

Perhaps I should make myself more clear. Australia essentially has most of their continental quotas being handed to them due to Oceania being the weakest continent (in terms of most sports) with only New Zealand capable of challenging them (there’s some exceptions, but for the most part that’s the case) I’m okay with Africa’s continental quotas, because at least the events are competitive enough to have multiple countries in contention for them.

I’m not, it’s the Olympic Games, I want to see the strongest athletes/teams competing, rather than the ones that get there on a continental merit. Would rather Oceania merge with Asia for those weaker sports. Thank god Oceania doesn’t have a registered volleyball federation otherwise we’ll be seeing teams that’ll get demolished by everyone (including the African teams probably)

SLS Super Crown Sao Paolo, Brazil Women Gold- Rayssa Leal (31.9) Silver- Nishiya Momiji (30.6) Bronze- Paige Heyn (28.8) Men Gold- Giovanni Vianna (36.4) Silver- Vincent Milou (36.3) Bronze- Gustavo Ribeiro (27.1)

HSBC Rugby Sevens World Series Dubai, United Arab Emirates Men 1. South Africa 2. Argentina 3. New Zealand 4. Fiji Women 1. Australia 2. New Zealand 3. France 4. Canada Full Results

Entry list is here https://sailingacq.com/2023/participant-athletes-list/

Here’s the teams have been confirmed for all three OQTs so far. (UOQT1/UOQT2/OQT) Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament (TBD) Host: FIBA 3x3 World Rankings: Netherlands, Mongolia, Latvia, Austria, Egypt, New Zealand, TBD I’m thinking Latvia will grab the quota. Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 (May 3-5, 2024 in Utsunomiya, Japan) Host: Japan Olympic Host: France Africa Cup 2023: Egypt AmeriCup 2023: Puerto Rico Asia Cup 2023: Mongolia Europe Cup 2023: Lithuania World Cup 2023: Brazil, Latvia Going with Lithuania here. Olympic Qualification Tournament (Debrecen, Hungary) Host: Hungary Federation Ranking Africa: Egypt Federation Ranking Africa: Madagascar Federation Ranking America: Puerto Rico Federation Ranking America: Canada Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania: Japan Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania: Mongolia Olympic Host: France Federation Ranking Europe: Lithuania Federation Ranking: Netherlands, Latvia, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland Going with Netherlands, Belgium, France.

Here’s the teams have been confirmed for all three OQTs so far. (UOQT1/UOQT2/OQT) Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament (TBD) Host: FIBA 3x3 World Rankings: Netherlands, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Mongolia, Chile, TBD Think Hungary will grab the quota, but I wouldn’t count out Netherlands, Azerbaijan or even Mongolia. I believe this event will be held in Israel? But FIBA 3X3 isn’t updating that information on their site for some reason https://www.fiba.basketball/news/israel-to-host-fiba-3x3-universality-olympic-qualifying-tournament-in-2024 https://fiba3x3.com/en/olympics/olympics-how-to-qualify.html#uoqt1 Universality Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 (May 3-5, 2024 in Utsunomiya, Japan) Host: Japan Africa Cup 2023: Kenya AmeriCup 2023: Brazil Asia Cup 2023: Australia Europe Cup 2023: Netherlands World Cup 2023: Canada, Germany, Austria Hard to imagine the quota not going to one of Canada, Australia, or Germany. Canada is the (somewhat heavy) favourite though. Olympic Qualification Tournament (Debrecen, Hungary) Host: Hungary Federation Ranking Africa: Egypt Federation Ranking Africa: Tunisia Federation Ranking America: Canada Federation Ranking America: Chile Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania: Japan Federation Ranking Asia/Oceania: Mongolia Federation Ranking Europe: Germany Federation Ranking Europe: Spain Federation Ranking: Netherlands, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Israel Notable absence here being Australia. I’ll go with Germany, Spain and Japan.

Not the Ivorian athletics star, my fault for getting the spelling wrong.

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion Greg Stewart (men’s F46 shot put) comes out of retirement!

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Marion Thenault records a new PB of 99.05 to win women’s gold at the Aerials WC in Ruka!

Olympic Ranking Quotas PT 2 Men’s +80kg: Cheikh Sallah Cisse Carlos Sansores Ivan Sapina Caden Cunningham Emre Kutalmis Atesli Women’s -67kg: Sarah Chaâri Magda Wiet Henin Julyana Al-Sadeq Alexandra Perisic Mengyu Zhang Women’s +67kg: Althéa Laurin Nafia Kus Svetlana Osipova Dabin Lee Rebecca McGowan

Aerials WC Ruka, Finland Women Gold- Marion Thenault (99.05, also a new PB!) Silver- Danielle Scott (88.83) Bronze- Zhanbota Aldabergenova (85.36) Men Gold- Guangpu Qi Silver- Pirmin Werner Bronze- Dmytro Kotovskyi Full Results

3rd victory for Stefan Kraft already Unstoppable.

I’m using the taekwondo Olympic rankings on this site aha, maybe that was my mistake

Women’s rugby sevens team finished in 4th at the HSBC World Series Dubai, with highlight wins over United States (15-10 pool play), Ireland (14-12 quarterfinal), and a close battle against IMO the #1 team in the world New Zealand (lost 19-21 in the semifinals). Got demolished by France in pool play and the bronze medal final though. Men’s team an absolute disaster, finished dead last with no wins. Solid showing in our matches against New Zealand (21-26 pool play), and Great Britain though (14-21 9th place semifinals)

Snowboard Cross WC Les Deux Alphes, France Men Gold- Eliot Grondin Silver- Alessandro Hammerle Bronze- Lucas Eguibar Women Gold- Chloe Trespeuch Silver- Michaela Moioli Bronze- Belle Brockoff Nice 8th for suprise Beijing 2022 Olympic bronze medalist Meryeta O’Dine, after missing all of last season with a fractured tibia. Full Results

FIS website said it would be streaming on there, but no luck unfortunately They did however, stream yesterday’s mixed team event.

Second podium in two events for Alexandria Loutitt as she wins silver in women’s large hill, also at the Lillehammer WC!

Gold for Eliot Grondin in men’s snowboard cross at the Les Deux Alpes WC! Another close battle between him and Alessandro Hammerle (gold at Beijing 2022 compared to silver for Grondin)

Team Gushue wins gold (including a win over Team Edin in the semifinals), and Team Lawes wins bronze at the Karuizawa International!

Anywhere online that I can watch the snowboard cross WC? (no vpn preferably)

19th sport qualified in, as Skylar Park qualifies herself in women’s -57kg taekwondo through the WT Olympic Rankings! From the Taekwondo Canada Paris 2024 qualification document: ”While the WT Qualification System for the 2024 Olympic Games stipulates that quota spots are earned for the respective country, Taekwondo Canada will nominate those athletes that have earned the quota spots by name”

has qualified their first athletes in taekwondo (men’s -68kg/men’s -80kg) via Zaid Kareem and Saleh Al Sharabaty through the WT Olympic Rankings!

Olympic Ranking Quotas PT 1 (I’m rushing this, so if I’ve made a mistake feel free to let me know) Women’s -49kg: Panipak Wongpattankit Merve Dincel Adriana Iglesias Lena Stojkovic Daniela Souza Women’s -57kg: Zongshi Luo Jade Jones Skylar Park Hatice Ilgun Nahid Kiyanichandeh Men’s -58kg: Jun Jang Mohamed Jendoubi Adrian Vicente Vito Dell’Aquila Omar Salim Men’s -68kg: Ulugbek Rashitov Bradly Siden Hakan Recber Zaid Kareem Javier Perez Men’s -80kg: Simone Alessio CJ Nickolas Seif Eissa Saleh Elsharabaty Geon-woo Seo