Rafa Maciel

I had considered her as a possibility but when I went back through the domestic results, Cheng is consistently scoring well down on Toulson. That, coupled with the way that the GB selection document is written, gives Cheng her very little chance in my opinion.

I thought host quotas were only available for the synchro events?

As things stand, I think there are 26 individual athletes we can confidently say are going to be in the women's 10m platform events in Paris - this is likely to be an event where it is pretty safe to assume that the synchro athletes will also be selected for the individual event where they have qualified.

Looking at the 3m prelims, it looks like Laugher was scheduled to go for his hardest dive in the 4th round - forward 2.5 somersaults with 3 twists in pike, but he had a problem with his hurdle step which meant he was pitched forward. Although it looked like he got the somersaults in, he had to do them in tuck position and he didn't have enough height to be able to put in the twists hence the 0 score. It's a shame - had it happened in the 3rd round, I think he would have been able to score enough points to get him into the semi finals.

Looks like some national federations have interpreted the qualification document as requiring an absolute top 12 finish to secure the quota whilst others are interpreting the requirement as being in the top 12 of athletes not already qualified. In the end it will all be the same - it just means that some countries are celebrating earlier than others. Hopefully World Aquatics will take it into account when they draft the qualification document for LA.

By his standards I'd agree - Laugher would probably expect to be in the medals in the synchro and in the final in the individual as a minimum - but it's pretty amazing to think that with only 5 counting dives, he was only 8 or 9 points away from a place in the semi-finals. Excluding the Chinese (who could probably make a semi with only 4 counting dives), there's not many divers in the world who could get that close.

In what has been an otherwise fairly decent World Champs so far from an organisation point of view, World Aquatics really need to do something about managing the diving start lists - having 70 athletes competing is beyond ridiculous.

Jack Laugher with a 0 in round 4. Thankfully Ross Haslam looks like he has done enough to get through to the semi-final and a likely Olympic quota.

I don't think that he has been specific about his plans - he wasn't in the individual event at British selection meet in December but that may just have been because he wasn't back up to full speed on his training.

Lois Toulson will get the second quota. Although Eden Cheng won the quota at the European Games, without being disrespectful, she is generally about 20-30 points behind Toulson. From GB perspective, think the women's 10m platform pairing will definitely double up but there is a chance in the other 3 disciplines that they select 3 athletes: Women's 3m: Harper and Mew-Jensen will be the synchro pairing and will be favourites for the individual spots but it is possible that Grace Reid could sneak into the squad as an individual. Men's 3m: Laugher and Harding will go in the synchro and assuming that Laugher is fully recovered from knee injury he'll also be in the individual. There could be a bit of a fight for the second individual spot with Harding, Houldan and Goodfellow all in the mix. Men's 10m platform: Assuming they qualify here, the synchro pairing will be Daley and Williams. If Daley wants to double up, then he would be favourite for a spot in the individual but if not then Kyle Kothari (competing in the individual in Doha) could be on the squad, but there are quite a few platform divers who are all capable of scoring around mid-400s. The GB selection policy gives an individual quota to the British Champion but the second spot is at the discretion of the selection panel taking into account performances at the British Champs and the 3 stages of the Diving World Cup.

I'm not as pessimistic as that - in my opinion France have a decent shot at getting the last quota but it does need everything to work in their favour. First, they need Mexico to win the continental champs ahead of Canada. That would give Canada an additional 607.5 points, giving them an adjusted lead over France of 168.75. Then, at both of the remaining Nations Cups, France would likely need to finish at least 2 places higher than Canada.

Currently yes - but bear in mind that the score for the European and African nations are inflated by the inclusion of their continental championships whilst their nearest competition - Canada and New Zealand still have theirs to come. By the end of this month, Oceania and Asian continental champs will have taken place but we have to wait until early April for the Pan-American champs.

Track Cycling Quota Projection as at end of January:

It's less about the Olympic quota and more about the likely increase in financial support that they would get from UK Sport if they were able to sneak through to the quarter finals.

I think you are right that Marchant will be on the team but with the restrictions on the quotas, I think GB would struggle to bring a 4th sprint rider. So for me, it's looking likely that Lauren Bell/Lowri Thomas will make way as lead-off and will be replaced by Marchant. Capewell and Finucane will then go in the individual sprint and Capewell and Marchant in the Kierin. Comparing the last few results for GB against Germany, Marchant is fairly consistently about 0.1 second slower than Germany whilst Finucane on the final lap is about 0.1 second faster. So if Capewell can make marginal improvement then the final will be very tasty.

Ignore this - hadn't checked the rules for reallocation of quotas.

I'm not sure that Miller can qualify for the individual competition - I may have misunderstood the qualification document, but in order to get a quota under the "additional athlete" phase, they had to finish higher than 21st and Miller was 25th.

Wikipedia have awarded the women's 10m platform quotas to the following: Sarah Jodoin di Maria Melissa Wu Maycey Vieta Kim Mi-rae Else Praasterink Sofiia Lyskun Rin Kaneto Kim Na-hyun Maia Biginelli Anisley Garcia Katrina Young Dzeja Patrika

So ignoring the effect of the host quotas, compared to Tokyo '20, and don't defend their quotas and are replaced by and . The rest of the field will be the same as Tokyo.

With both and have a bit of a mare, it looks like it is advantage and for the quotas with 2 more rounds of dives to come.

I know it is early days, but the commentators at the world champs have been pretty abysmal so far - we had being mistaken for in yesterday's open water and now in the diving we've had being called as

Decent 1st quarter from against - they managed to keep it reasonably close (5-3) but Italy are beginning to show their class and are pulling away in the 2nd quarter.

History tells us that they are probably not

Wow - looks like can kiss their chances of 3m synchro quota with that 3rd round dive.

If she was a possible medalist, she should have been able to at least make the semi-finals here and/or at Fukuoka and she was nowhere near. As it is her scores have only been heading in 1 direction over the last couple of seasons. Hopefully she can encourage the next generation of Malaysian divers but the days when she was a potential medalist are in all likelihood over.