Rafa Maciel

Should just say that although Brazil lost a lot of points against qualification on the balance beam, when you adjust to take into account the athletes who participated in the final, they actually improved their score by 0.1 point and not many of the teams have so far been able to improve their score on any of the apparatus.

In rotation 2: On the uneven bars, USA have picked up 0.234 points compared to qualification whilst GBR have dropped 0.932. On beam, BRA fell back by 1.434 whilst ITA have picked up 2.433 points On the floor, CHN have lost 1.201 against their qualification and JPN picked up 0.167 On vault, FRA dropped 0.732 whilst CAN gained 0.500

After uneven bars, Brazil have gained 0.394 on qualification, ITA have lost 3.4 On beam, CHN have lost 1.833 whilst JPN have dropped 1.767 Finally on floor, FRA are down 1.233 whilst CAN are down 0.699

After vault, USA are down by 0.133 on qualification. GBR have given up 0.433

5 minutes into the competition and already seen a couple of falls from China on the balance beam and an Italian hitting the deck twice on the uneven bars

A bit of an underwhelming qualification score from . 252.793 is less than they achieved in both the Europeans 255.827/254.295 and at the Commonwealths 254.55. On the upside, GBR did finish ahead of both USA and China and hopefully there is room for improvement in the final.

Any reason why Canada only fielded 3 gymnasts on the floor? Means they're carrying Dolci's relatively poor 12.433

Pleasantly surprised by the performance although possibly disappointed by the number of individual finals achieved. Over the summer they have struggled to break out of the 161 range so they've got to be pleased to finish with 164.595 and they've got to believe they have genuine chance of securing Olympic quota at the first opportunity.

41.465 for on the uneven bars - 1 point up on their European score but flat against what they achieved at the Commonwealths. Will soon discover if they can avoid the curse of the balance beam.

Balance Beam misery strikes again, this time for Italy who score 37.333 compared to the 40.166 achieved in Munich.

Really strong performance from the French team with a qualifying score of 161.428 compared to 155.162 at this year's Europeans. The Dutch team also improved since Munich scoring 159.396 compared to 156.464 but I'm not sure that is going to be enough to qualify for the final. For the Commonwealth nations, Canada scored 152.7 in Birmingham and have progressed to 159.661 in Liverpool. Australia however have fallen back since the commonwealths - dropping from 158 at the Commies to 156.095 today and they are unlikely to make the final. It's been a strong start from Brazil who look to be heading towards a score in excess of 160 while Germany are currently running around 2 points ahead of their European performance so should end up on a score around 159/160. With GBR and Italy still to come, it looks like it may come down to Canada and Germany for that final spot in the final.

It's difficult to say too much given the lack of teams to complete so far, but I'm not sure that will be all that pleased with their score. They complete qualification with a score of 167.263 which is significantly down on their score from qualifying in Tokyo (170.562), qualifying at 2019 World Champs (174.205) and the 2019 World Final (172.330) where they took gold. However, it is in line with their score from the Tokyo final (166.096) where they took silver. Whilst I'm not saying that they won't make the team final, 167 is a beatable score - particularly when you factor in the fact that they have a tendency to post a lower score in the final compared to qualifying. If the same pattern persists, USA could post 164/165 in the final which is well within the capability of the teams from China, Italy, Great Britain and France to achieve. Will be interesting to see what the results look like tomorrow after all the subdivisions have completed. From the competitions I have seen so far this year, I get the impression that the scores have been generally lower than in previous years so it could well be that 164-167 range is still enough for an Olympic quota, but it is not impossible that USA could miss out on a top 3 finish in the final.

Absolutely - the British women are undoubtedly performing much better than the men and I think we have realistic prospects to qualify in 5 of the 7 women's weight divisions. On the men's side however, we barely sent any male athletes to the World Champs and where they do compete, they are struggling to make any impact. Unless something dramatically changes, there is a real prospect GB will not qualify any male judokas for Paris.

Unfortunately the Team GB men seem to be really struggling to make much headway in Abu Dhabi with Moorhead and Powell failing to make it through their first match whilst Ham and Fryer losing in the second round. Difficult to see how you can qualify for Paris if all you're picking up is participation points. The guys are going to need to pull out some big performances in 2023.

An athlete wouldn't need to earn a quota in the second discipline as they would have right of participation in the second event providing their NOC doesn't already have 2 qualified athletes, and they have participated in the events during the qualification period. You don't tend to see it in the shotgun events, but in the rifle/pistol discipline, it is pretty common for athletes to double up, particularly in the smaller shooting nations.

Pretty strong qualification from Seonaid McIntosh in the Women's 10m Air Rifle. A score of 630.6 to finish 3rd in the first qualification group should be enough to get her into the top 8. She didn't have great results in the European championships so this would be a welcome return to form from best chance of securing quota in the pistol/rifle events.

Is it just me or is the ISSF scoring website absolutely rubbish? Surely it can't be that difficult to design a page that presents the athletes in descending order of their score?

Pretty good set of results for so far - matching or showing strong progression since Tokyo across all events except the men's Keirin (and to be fair Jason Keny had no business winning that gold medal) Given my obsession with rankings, am confidently predicting that GBR will remain in qualifying position across all 4 of the key events.

Sophie Capewell is ranked 8th in the world and is the top ranked Team GB rider so she absolutely deserves her place in the event. Arguably we should have entered a second athlete - Emma Finucane who took the bronze medal in the Commonwealths - but have to assume that Britain didn't qualify 2 individual spots.

A really strong 3:48 for GB to top the qualifying in Men's Team Pursuit - it feels like it has been a long time since the team have been able to dip below 3:50. Will be interesting to see if they can follow it up with a strong performance against New Zealand in the next round.

Yeah, I noticed the team had changed since the euros but had still expected them to be closer to making the medal matches

So Great Britain will take on France in Round 1 in a repeat of the Bronze medal match up from this year's European Championships. The inclusion of Katie Archibald has certainly given Team GB a bit of extra pace but with only 0.3 between the two teams, this could go either way. Biggest surprise for me was the relatively poor performance of the German team.

According to the qualification documentation, the qualification period runs from 9th July 2022 to 14th April 2024 so technically the ranking has begun although as with all systems based on rankings, the position 2 years out is largely meaningless and is indicative only.

Really disappointing that Team GB are sending a relatively small team to these championships - particularly the fact they are only sending 2 male judokas and unfortunately, they've been handed some pretty poor draws. Men's 60Kg - Samuel Hall should be able to come through his first round but would then be up against world number 1 Yang Yung Wei Men's 81Kg - Lachlan Moorhead hasn't had great consistency this year so I think he will struggle against the world number 17 Eljan Hajiyev. If he does make it through, he would be up against world number 2 Matthias Casse of Belgium. Women's 52Kg - Although seeded, Chelsie Giles will have tough opening bout against Liu Liping of China. Women's 57Kg - Acelya Toprak hasn't made the most of the opportunities she's had in the cycle to the point that she's not the highest placed Team GB athlete in the qualification ranking and now has Nekoda Smythe Davis back and performing well. Toprak has been drawn against Germany's Pauline Starke who is ranked 14th in the world. Come through that and she would be against world number 4 Sarah Leonie Cysique of France. Women's 63Kg - First appearance of world number 1 Lucy Renshall in this qualification cycle. She had shoulder surgery over the summer so it will be interesting to see how she has rehabilitated. Her first match up is against either Cristina Cabana Perez of Spain or Amina Belkadi of Algeria. Women's 70Kg - Kelly Pollard Petersen is seeded 8 and has a first-round bye. She will take on either world number 17 Gulnoza Matniyazova of Uzbekistan or USA's Chantal Wright. Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown could face world number 2 Sanne Van Djike if she can safely navigate the first round. Women's 78Kg - Would like to see both Natalie Powell and Emma Reid make good progress in the draw. Powell has Morocco's Hafsa Yatim in the round of 32 whilst Reid is up against Ma Zhenzhao of China.

The Netherlands are currently ranked 11th and about 2,000 shy of a place in top 8. I expect them to make some progress at World Championships and then continue that progress in 2023.