Josh

https://www.fih.hockey/events/the-olympic-games-paris-2024/news/fih-hockey-olympic-qualifiers-2024-pools-revealed
 
Pool A (Ranchi, India)
 Germany
 Japan
 Chile
 Czech Republic
 
 
Pool B (Ranchi, India)
 India
 New Zealand
 United States
 Italy

Pool A (Valencia, Spain)
 Belgium
 South Korea
 Ireland
 Ukraine
 
Pool B (Valencia, Spain)
 Great Britain
 Spain
 Canada
Malaysia

Yuri Kisil is back!
 
https://swimswam.com/yuri-kisil-returns-to-racing-for-the-first-time-since-december-at-cascade-speed-meet/

Yeah, but we didn't have Summer McIntosh in Tokyo (well, we did, but not prime Summer).  We haven't had a double gold medal winner at the SOG since Donovan Bailey in 1996, let alone a mutli-gold medal winner.  

Know nothing about artistic gymnastics, so I’m just using results from the most recent Olympics, last couple World Championships, European Championships/Games, Asian Games/Championships to do my predictions. 

Day 9 (August 4, 2024)
 
Archery- Men’s Individual
Gold-  Marcus D’Almeida
Silver-  Kim Woo-Jin
Bronze-  Brady Ellison
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Rings
Gold-  You Hao
Silver-  Adem Asel
Bronze-  Eleftherios Petrounias
 
7th (!) medal so far for Greece, maybe I’m being too optimistic haha. 
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Beam
Gold-  Simone Biles
Silver-  Tang Xijing
Bronze-  Zhou Yaqin
 
  Urara Ashikawa 4th. 
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Vault
Gold-  Arthur Davtyan
Silver-  Jake Jarman
Bronze-  Wataru Tanigawa
 
 Carlos Yulo 4th. 
 
Athletics- Women’s High Jump
Gold-  Nicola Olyslagers
Silver-  Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Bronze-  Vashti Cunningham
 
 Iryna Gerashchenko 4th, and  Eleanor Patterson 5th. 
 
Athletics- Men’s Hammer Throw
Gold-  Ethan Katzberg
Silver-  Wojciech Nowicki
Bronze-  Pawel Fadjek
 
Athletics- Men’s 200m
Gold-  Noah Lyles
Silver-  Andre DeGrasse
Bronze-  Letsile Tebogo
 
 Erriyon Knighton 4th. 
 
Badminton- Mixed Doubles
Gold-  Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong
Silver-  Seo Seung-Jae/Chae You-Jung
Bronze-  Yuta Wantanabe/Arisa Higashino
 
Equestrian- Individual Dressage
Gold-  Isabelle Werth
Silver-  Jessica von Bredow-Werndl
Bronze-  Cathrine Ladrup-Dufour
 
4th/5th for  Charlotte Fry and Charlotte Dujardin. 
 
Fencing- Men’s Team Foil
Gold-  Italy
Silver-  France
Bronze-  United States
 
Golf- Men’s Individual
Gold-  Rory McIlroy
Silver-  Sepp Straka
Bronze-  Scottie Scheffler
 
Road Cycling- Women’s Road Race
Gold-  Demi Vollering
Silver-  Marlen Reusser
Bronze-  Lotte Kopecky
 
Not exactly sure though.  If any of my medalists seem unlikely given the course, then feel free to correct me.
 
Shooting- Women’s Skeet
Gold-  Danka Bartekova
Silver-  Diana Bacossi
Bronze-  Dania Jo Vizzi
 
Swimming- Women’s 50m Freestyle
Gold-  Sarah Sjoestrom
Silver-  Emma McKeon
Bronze-  Shayna Jack
 
Swimming- Men’s 1500m Freestyle
Gold-  Bobby Finke
Silver-  Gregorio Paltrinieri 
Bronze-  Ahmed Hafnaoui
 
Swimming- Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold-  United States
Silver-  China
Bronze-  Australia
 
Swimming- Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold-  United States
Silver-  Australia
Bronze-  Canada
 
Table Tennis- Men’s Singles
Gold-  Fan Zhendong
Silver-  Wang Chuqin
Bronze-  Darko Jorgic
 
Tennis- Men’s Singles
Gold-  Rafael Nadal
Silver-  Novak Djokovic
 
5 set thriller. 
 
Tennis- Women’s Doubles
Gold-  Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula
Silver-  Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova
Bronze-  Storm Sanders/Ellen Perez
 
Boxing- Women’s 54kg
Bronze-  Stanimira Petrova
Bronze-  Huang Hsiao-Wen
 
Boxing- Men’s 51kg
Bronze-  Roscoe Hill
Bronze-  Tomoya Tsuboi
 
Boxing- Men’s 63.5kg
Bronze-  Hovhannes Bachkov
Bronze-  Baatarsükhiin Chinzorig
 
Boxing- Men’s 80kg
Bronze-  Wanderley Pereira
Bronze-  Nurbek Oralbay
 
Boxing- Men’s 92kg
Bronze-  Davlat Boltaev
Bronze-  Lazizbek Mullojonov
 
Medal Table After Day 9
 22-21-27– 70
 22-9-12– 43
 10-11-9– 30
 9-12-14– 35
 9-10-10– 29
 9-7-11– 27
 9-4-4– 17
 8-7-7– 22
 8-2-5– 15
 7-8-8– 23
 5-2-2– 9
 4-8-7– 19
 4-4-4– 12
 4-2-3– 9
 3-3-1– 7
 3-2-1– 6
 3-1-1– 5
 2-5-2– 9
 2-3-3– 8
 2-2-1– 5
 2-2-1– 5
 2-2-1– 5
 2-1-4– 7
 2-0-2– 4
 1-3-3– 7
 1-3-2– 6
 1-2-3– 6
 1-1-2– 4
 1-1-0– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 0-3-1– 4
 0-2-3– 5
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-0-3– 3
 0-0-3– 3
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 
Canadian bias kicking in, no way we win 8 golds and 15 total in the first 9 days. We won 7 (golds) and 24 (total) at Tokyo 2020 haha. 

Full team: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/na7y6gxh8133nmqr8p524/SA23-Canadian-Parapan-Am-Team.xlsx?rlkey=8gbiqasbvhspom281pl3dwr54&dl=0

Know nothing about artistic gymnastics, so I’m just using results from the most recent Olympics, last couple World Championships, European Championships/Games, Asian Games/Championships to do my predictions. 

Day 9 (August 4, 2024)
 
Archery- Men’s Individual
Gold-  Marcus D’Almeida
Silver-  Kim Woo-Jin
Bronze-  Brady Ellison
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Rings
Gold-  You Hao
Silver-  Adem Asel
Bronze-  Eleftherios Petrounias
 
7th (!) medal so far for Greece, maybe I’m being too optimistic haha. 
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Beam
Gold-  Simone Biles
Silver-  Tang Xijing
Bronze-  Zhou Yaqin
 
  Urara Ashikawa 4th. 
 
Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Vault
Gold-  Arthur Davtyan
Silver-  Jake Jarman
Bronze-  Wataru Tanigawa
 
 Carlos Yulo 4th. 
 
Athletics- Women’s High Jump
Gold-  Nicola Olyslagers
Silver-  Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Bronze-  Vashti Cunningham
 
 Iryna Gerashchenko 4th, and  Eleanor Patterson 5th. 
 
Athletics- Men’s Hammer Throw
Gold-  Ethan Katzberg
Silver-  Wojciech Nowicki
Bronze-  Pawel Fadjek
 
Athletics- Men’s 200m
Gold-  Noah Lyles
Silver-  Andre DeGrasse
Bronze-  Letsile Tebogo
 
 Erriyon Knighton 4th. 
 
Badminton- Mixed Doubles
Gold-  Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong
Silver-  Seo Seung-Jae/Chae You-Jung
Bronze-  Yuta Wantanabe/Arisa Higashino
 
Equestrian- Individual Dressage
Gold-  Isabelle Werth
Silver-  Jessica von Bredow-Werndl
Bronze-  Cathrine Ladrup-Dufour
 
4th/5th for  Charlotte Fry and Charlotte Dujardin. 
 
Fencing- Men’s Team Foil
Gold-  Italy
Silver-  France
Bronze-  United States
 
Golf- Men’s Individual
Gold-  Rory McIlroy
Silver-  Sepp Straka
Bronze-  Scottie Scheffler
 
Road Cycling- Women’s Road Race
Gold-  Demi Vollering
Silver-  Marlen Reusser
Bronze-  Lotte Kopecky
 
Not exactly sure though.  If any of my medalists seem unlikely given the course, then feel free to correct me.
 
Shooting- Women’s Skeet
Gold-  Danka Bartekova
Silver-  Diana Bacossi
Bronze-  Dania Jo Vizzi
 
Swimming- Women’s 50m Freestyle
Gold-  Sarah Sjoestrom
Silver-  Emma McKeon
Bronze-  Shayna Jack
 
Swimming- Men’s 1500m Freestyle
Gold-  Bobby Finke
Silver-  Gregorio Paltrinieri 
Bronze-  Ahmed Hafnaoui
 
Swimming- Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold-  United States
Silver-  China
Bronze-  Australia
 
Swimming- Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold-  United States
Silver-  Australia
Bronze-  Canada
 
Table Tennis- Men’s Singles
Gold-  Fan Zhendong
Silver-  Wang Chuqin
Bronze-  Darko Jorgic
 
Tennis- Men’s Singles
Gold-  Rafael Nadal
Silver-  Novak Djokovic
 
5 set thriller. 
 
Tennis- Women’s Doubles
Gold-  Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula
Silver-  Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova
Bronze-  Storm Sanders/Ellen Perez
 
Boxing- Women’s 54kg
Bronze-  Stanimira Petrova
Bronze-  Huang Hsiao-Wen
 
Boxing- Men’s 51kg
Bronze-  Roscoe Hill
Bronze-  Tomoya Tsuboi
 
Boxing- Men’s 63.5kg
Bronze-  Hovhannes Bachkov
Bronze-  Baatarsükhiin Chinzorig
 
Boxing- Men’s 80kg
Bronze-  Wanderley Pereira
Bronze-  Nurbek Oralbay
 
Boxing- Men’s 92kg
Bronze-  Davlat Boltaev
Bronze-  Lazizbek Mullojonov
 
Medal Table After Day 9
 22-21-27– 70
 22-9-12– 43
 10-11-9– 30
 9-12-14– 35
 9-10-10– 29
 9-7-11– 27
 9-4-4– 17
 8-7-7– 22
 8-2-5– 15
 7-8-8– 23
 5-2-2– 9
 4-8-7– 19
 4-4-4– 12
 4-2-3– 9
 3-3-1– 7
 3-2-1– 6
 3-1-1– 5
 2-5-2– 9
 2-3-3– 8
 2-2-1– 5
 2-2-1– 5
 2-2-1– 5
 2-1-4– 7
 2-0-2– 4
 1-3-3– 7
 1-3-2– 6
 1-2-3– 6
 1-1-2– 4
 1-1-0– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-1– 2
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 1-0-0– 1
 0-3-1– 4
 0-2-3– 5
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-3– 4
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-2– 3
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-1– 2
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-1-0– 1
 0-0-3– 3
 0-0-3– 3
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-2– 2
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 0-0-1– 1
 
Canadian bias kicking in, no way we win 8 golds and 15 total in the first 9 days. We won 7 (golds) and 24 (total) at Tokyo 2020 haha. 

the male Flagbearer will be Giovanni Pellielo for sure (I bet nobody will have the "huevos" to leave him out, now that he's personally earned the quota place for the team), I fear
 
the female Flagbearer is more of a mistery (I think it won't be a shooter because of Pellielo, however) 
it can't be Caterina Banti nor a gymnast because of the schedule, too
I'd say it might be up to Irma Testa and Antonella Palmisano (or maybe Simona Quadarella or a Fencer)
 
p.s. personally, I'd really like to see Sinner and Egonu as Flagbearers, just to get half the people in this fuckin' Country completely mad   

Wheelchair Tennis World Ranking Lists updated as of November 6th, 2023

Guess who's back as year end #1? Beat Sabalenka in SF and delivered an all-time beatdown in the Cancun final
 

 

Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournament Pools

 
Top three teams in each pool qualify for Paris. 
 
Pool A (Valencia, Spain)
 Belgium
 Great Britain
 Spain
 South Korea
 Ireland
 Canada
Malaysia
 Ukraine
 
Pool B (Ranchi, India)
 Germany
 India
 New Zealand
 Japan
 Chile
 United States
 Italy
 Czech Republic

Men’s Olympic Qualification Tournament Pools
 
Top three teams in each pool qualify for Paris. 
 
Pool A (Valencia, Spain)
 Belgium
 Spain
 South Korea
 Ireland
 Japan
 Austria
 Egypt
Ukraine
 
Pool B (Muscat, Oman)
 Great Britain
 Germany
 New Zealand
 Malaysia
 Pakistan
 Canada
 Chile
 China

5th place in the +100kg for our Márius Fízeľ People will say meh... but it is a very nice result and we did not have anything close to that for ages in this sport, he is still relatively young so the still long transition period we will have to survive until the talented youth prospect Patrícia Tománková will come to shine on the worlds tatamis can be somehow survivable
 
He is still fighting for the Paris continental quota, would be amazing if he´ll manage to succeed and obtain it. It is already 12 years Slovak Judo had no representatives at the Olympic Games, would be really nice to stop this droughts

I hate those free by default quotas for South Africa and Australia/NZ 

Breaking for Gold Ranking Lists updated as of November 6th, 2023

And hopefully Zimbabwe won the women's just to make sure hosting the event didn't go to waste.

Looks like the former British cyclist Dean Reeves

No women's elite event was held. So the spot will be reallocated.

Results are in from Montelibretti and the South African eventing competitions from the weekend...
 
Overall there are no big implications for the rankings, except in the Group F. Jessica George won the event in South Africa and now tops the Group F rankings, however South Africa will still have only one starter as Noor Slaoui did enough in Montelibretti to overtake Alexandra Munn on tie-break.
 
Tough luck for Usman Khan who was in for the whole year, basically, but ends up as only the second reserve following an elimination in Montelibretti.
 
History for Morocco as never before they had qualified in eventing.

As there are no more events in Europe, these individual quotas are effectively confirmed now:
Group A -
Group B -
Group C - @Vektor
Group F -
Group G -
Overall -

I need rest after the Asian Games and Pan American Games.

1  UNITED STATES 124 +2 286 -7 2  BRAZIL 66 +12 205 +36 3  MEXICO 52 +15 142 +4 4  CANADA 46 +11 164 +12 5  1  CUBA 30 -3 69 -31 6  1  COLOMBIA 29 +2 101 +19 7  2  ARGENTINA 17 -16 75 -25 8  CHILE 12 -1 79 +29 9  1  PERU 10 -1 32 -9 10  2  VENEZUELA 8 -1 44 +1 11  2  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 8 -3 32 -8 12  1  ECUADOR 7 -3 36 +4 13  1  PUERTO RICO 3 -2 20 -4 14  2  GUATEMALA (EAI) 3 +1 19 15  10  URUGUAY 2 +2 10 +2 16  12  PANAMA 2 +2 8 +4 17  2  BOLIVIA 2 +1 5 18  3  COSTA RICA 1 9 +4 19  4  EL SALVADOR 1 -2 4 19  2  TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 1 4 -7 21  3  PARAGUAY 1 7 +2 22  9  JAMAICA 1 -5 6 -13 23  7  ARUBA 0 3 +2 24  5  NICARAGUA 0 2 -1 25  5  BAHAMAS 0 3 +2 25 NEW  GUYANA 0 3 +3 25 NEW  HAITI 0 3 +3 28  2  ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 0 1 -2 28 NEW  SURINAME 0 1 +1 30  7  BARBADOS 0 -1 2 +1 31 NEW  BERMUDA 0 1 +1 31 NEW  DOMINICA 0 1 +1 31  4  HONDURAS 0 1 -1 31 NEW  SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 0 1 +1  
As we can see from the medal table, all 4 top nations made considerable gains in gold medals, accounting for almost 66% of total gold medals (vs. 59% in 2019), which caused other nations to suffer a little, especially . Without most of their Track and Field stars, suffered the biggest drop here in the rankings, as well as in gold and total medals percentage.    all had their best Games ever, and I think some other nations too:   .
 
had a huge increase in the total number of medals, but failed to win more gold medals, which is certainly a bit disappointing for a host nation. They lost a staggering number of direct finals (14 out of 17), which would certainly help them in the ranking (they also were 8th in 2019). Even with a drop in medals,  achieved a better ranking compared to Lima, which I think is a first for a previous host?
 
Record number of nations that medaled in a single edition with 34, thanks in part to six NOCs that managed to win at least one medal after none in Lima:   . Three nations that had at least one medal in 2019 did not win any this time:  .

2 medals in the last day of the games completed the 36 medals won by team Ecuador in Santiago 2023, with a total of 7 Golds, 12 Silvers and 17 Bronzes.
 
At the end Ecuador finished just short of the top 10 in the final tally by 1 gold, a couple of unlucky results especially in the first week like the injury of Tamara Salazar prior to her competition or very close losses in the final meters of the Road Cycling events were the main reason of missing the Top 10. However the team surpassed the goal of 30 medals, so the final outcome may be considered as a success overall.
 
Gabi Vargas won yesterday her second medal here, this time a bronze after her silver from the 1km race a day earlier. And a dozen of minutes later María Arias brought the last medal of the team and concluded the participation of Ecuador at the games by this as well.
 
 
7 - 12 - 17
 
Medals of the Day
 
Maria Loreta Arias,
Inline Speed Skating W 500m Silver
 
Gabriela Vargas,
Inline Speed Skating W 10 000m Elimination Race Bronze
 

That's definitively dissapointing.

Well if they can’t beat Argentina they don’t deserve it lol

The men's water polo team failed to qualify for Doha 2024 it appears. So they will not have a further chance to qualify for Paris