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Santiago Gonzalez and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela are going to Rio in men's doubles! (source in Spanish) This marks the return of Mexican tennis after a 16 year absence.

If you read the Olympic Reports before the 1960's many delegations had a certain number of chaperones for their female athletes. I believe it was to ensure the ladies will behave properly and no man would take advantage of them.

Well there's plenty of time ahead... I will cheer for her in this event.

Melissa Bishop just broke the Canadian record in 800 meters a meeting in Edmonton - 1:57.43, which puts her fourth in this years list

Indeed a hard blow for him, the spanish delegation and the triathlon competition.

From Mexico there will be one naturalized athlete... Kevin Chavez (little traitor ) will represent Australia in 3m Springboard... not only Australia robbed us one good coach in that discipline (well to be fair, he was not appreciated by the corrupt federation here) now they steal the upcoming talent... The other competitor that had previously competed for Mexico is Jackie Galloway (USA, tae kwon do)... she wasnumber 3 on the national team, behind Rosario Espinosa and Briseida Acosta in +67 Olympic category, so she opted to compete for her country of birth (she holds dual citizenship).

Singing that song? No wonder NBC will not broadcast live... if she performs it (including the coreography) might be too much for American audiences.

Mexican Committee has confirmed that Rodolfo Cazaubon will compete in Rio, as one of the quotas was reallocated (apparently that of the second Philippine golfer. (source)

Welcome to the new forum!!

Angela Castro - Athletics (source)

Here's the press release (in Spanish) from the Mexican Committee in which they argue that they are respecting the initial selection criteria (also in Spanish set by the national swimming federation, in which they stated no OST athletes will be selected for Rio. In said document, it says clearly that the federation will only nominate those athletes with "A" mark, also shortening their qualification period until May 15. To not make this long, this is just another power game between the idiot authorities that is affecting our competitors; it's sad to left behind the 2 or 3 swimmers that could be added to the team, but if they allowed the Mexican Athletics federation to change the selection process (to include 3 more athletes, that initially didn't qualify through) this is a clear case of lack of equity in the process.

Mexican Olympic Committee rejected the "B" standards, so only 3 swimmers (all with OQT) this time

Good draw for the Mexican pair... not unbeatable teams (they have beaten Lucena/Dalhauser in the last 2 matches between them), so a good chance for them to progress to knock out rounds; of course, they always seem to have the thoughest luck in that instance, so I don't know how far they can go.

[hide] Knockout Round June 25th - July 10th, 2016 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final, winning Nation will become Men's Football UEFA Euro 2016 Champion Final Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 July 10th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis Portugal 0 2 France [/hide]

Another change in the list... According to this article (in spanish), Felix de Lara earned a black card in the Pan American Championships last months earning a 2 month suspension; this means Eileen Grench will take her place in Rio.

120 athletes for Mexico now... probably it will be 124 by Monday.

If any diving event is included, I could probably help.

Why on earth does the Mexican team still does not how to play the 3rd quarter Let's see how the game against Italy goes, but I don't give them much hopes.

And its official, Lino Muñoz will be in Rio (source) With this, Mexico has at least one athlete in each individual sport, with the exception of Tennis.

New Zealand

Deserved place for her... congratulations!

Yes I noticed that... well someone inside FINA Diving Committee has just done a favor to Blaha, while I'm sure one place is missing in women's 3m, which should have gone to Croatia.

[hide] Knockout Round June 25th - July 10th, 2016 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final, winning Nation will become Men's Football UEFA Euro 2016 Champion Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 July 6th 2016, h. 21:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Portugal 1 1 Wales July 7th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille Germany 1 2 France [/hide]

I've gone trhough the web compiling the names of athletes already selected/named and those places already obtained and here's the list of how the final entry list might look like. I've already taken out those places already rejected by the Netherlands and Japan; athletes in bold are those who count for the maximum 34 per gender in each discipline (springboard or platform); those in italics have not been oficially confirmed or selected by their NOCS. Regarding South Korean Haram WOO he obtained individual places in both springboard and platform; I deduce that in orden to maintain the same number of divers in each one, FINA will count him in platform, even though it seems he will enter in both events. Women's 3m Springboard Directly qualified (2015 World Championships Finalists, Continental Event winners, 2016 World Cup Semifinalists) - 21 divers AUS Esther QIN AUS Maddison KEENEY BRA Juliana VELOSO CAN Pamela WARE CAN Jennifer ABEL CHN Tingmao SHI CHN Zi HE GBR Rebecca GALLANTREE GBR Grace REID GER Tina PUNZEL ITA Tania CAGNOTTO ITA Maria Elisabetta MARCONI MAS Wendy Ng Yan YEE MAS Cheong Jung Hung MEX Dolores HERNANDEZ MONZON MEX Melany HERNANDEZ TORRES NED Uschi FREITAG RUS Nadezdha BAZHINA UKR Olena FEDOROVA UKR Anastasiia NEDOBIGA USA Kassidy COOK Additional places (2016 World Cup Preliminaries) - 8 divers GER Nora SUBSCHINSKI USA Abigail JOHNSTON COL Diana Isabel PINEDA ZULUETA RUS Kristina ILIHYKH EGY Maha Khaled AMER NZL Elizabeth CUI RSA Julia VINCENT CRO Marcela MARIC EGY Habiba ASHRAF ¨(Only if NZL or CRO reject quota) Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard (5 divers that compete only in this event) AUS Maddison KEENEY / Anabelle SMITH BRA Juliana VELOSO / Tammy GALERA CAN Pamela WARE / Jennifer ABEL CHN Minxia WU / Tingmao SHI GBR Rebecca GALLANTREE / Alicia BLAGG GER Tina PUNZEL / Nora SUBSCHINSKI ITA Tania CAGNOTTO / Francesca DALLAPE MAS Cheong Jung HUNG / Nur Dhabitah SABRI Women's 10m Platform Directly qualified (2015 World Championships Finalists, Continental Event winners, 2016 World Cup Semifinalists) - 23 divers AUS Melissa WU AUS Brittany BROBEN CAN Meaghan BENFEITO CAN Roseline FILION CHN Xi REN CHN Yajie SI EGY Maha ABDEL SALAM FRA Laura MARINO GBR Tonia COUCH GBR Sarah BARROW GER Maria KURJO ITA Noemi BATKI JPN Minami ITAHASHI MAS Pandelela Rinong PAMG MAS Nur Dhabitah SABRI MEX Paola ESPINOSA MEX Alejandra OROZCO LOZA PRK Kuk Hyang KIM PRK Nam Hyang SONG RUS Yulia TIMOSHININA UKR Iuliia PROKOPCHUK USA Jessica PARRATTO USA Katrina YOUNG Additional places (2016 World Cup Preliminaries) - 5 divers UKR Ganna KRASNOSHLYK GER Elena WASSEN HUN Villo KORMOS BRA Ingrid OLIVEIRA RUS Ekaterina PETUKHOVA (Only if PRK doesn't enter a fourth athlete) Women's 10m Synchronized Platform (6 divers that compete only in this event) BRA Ingrid OLIVEIRA / Giovanna PEDROSO CAN Meaghan BENFEITO / Roseline FILION CHN Ruolin CHEN / Huixia LIU GBR Tonia COUCH / Lois TOULSON MAS Pandelela Rinong PAMG / Cheong Jung HUNG MEX Paola ESPINOSA / Alejandra OROZCO LOZA PRK Un Hyang KIM / Nam Hyang SONG USA Jessica PARRATTO / Amy COZAD Men's 3m Springboard Directly qualified (2015 World Championships Finalists, Continental Event winners, 2016 World Cup Semifinalists) - 26 divers AUS Kevin CHAVEZ AUS Grant NEL BRA Cesar CASTRO CAN Philippe GAGNE CHN Chao HE CHN Yuan CAO COL Sebastian MORALES MENDOZA EGY Mohab MOHYMEN FRA Matthieu ROSSET GBR Jack David LAUGHER GBR Freddy WOODWARD GER Patrick HAUSDING IRL Oliver James DINGLEY ITA Michele BENEDETTI ITA Andrea CHIARABINI JAM Yona Roshen KNIGHT-WISDOM JPN Ken TERAUCHI JPN Sho SAKAI KOR Haram WOO* MAS Ahmad Amsyar Bin AZMAN MEX Rommel PACHECO MEX Rodrigo DIEGO LOPEZ RUS Ilya ZAKHAROV RUS Evgenii KUZNETSOV UKR Illya KVASHA USA Kristian IPSEN USA Michael HIXON Additional places (2016 World Cup Preliminaries) - 1 diver GER Stephan FECK Men's 3m Synchronized Springboard (7 divers that compete only in this event) BRA Ian MATOS / Luiz Felipe OUTERELO CHN Yuan CAO / Kai QIN GBR Jack David LAUGHER / Christopher MEARS GER Patrick HAUSDING / Stephan FECK ITA Andrea CHIARABINI / Giovanni TOCCI MEX Rommel PACHECO / Jahir OCAMPO RUS Ilya ZAKHAROV / Evgenii KUZNETSOV USA Michael HIXON / Samuel DORMAN Men's 10m Platform Directly qualified (2015 World Championships Finalists, Continental Event winners, 2016 World Cup Semifinalists) - 25 divers AUS Domonic BEDGGOOD AUS James CONNOR BLR Vadim KAPTUR BRA Hugo PARISI CAN Vincent RIENDEAU CHN Bo QIU CHN Aisen CHEN COL Victor Hugo ORTEGA SERNA COL Sebastian VILLA CASTANEDA EGY Yousef SABET FRA Benjamin AUFFRET GBR Thomas DALEY GER Martin WOLFRAM GER Sascha KLEIN KOR Haram WOO MAS Ooi Tze LIANG MEX Ivan GARCIA MEX German SANCHEZ PUR Rafael Roberto QUINTERO DIAZ RUS Victor MINIBAEV RUS Nikita SHLEIKHER USA David BOUDIA USA Steele JOHNSON VEN Jesus LIRANZO VEN Robert PAEZ Additional places (2016 World Cup Preliminaries) - 4 divers ITA Maicol VERZOTTO CAN Maxim BOUCHARD BLR Yauheni KARALIOU SWE Jesper TOLVERS BRA Isaac SOUZA FILHO (Only if SWE rejects quota) Men's 10m Synchronized Platform (5 divers that compete only in this event) BRA Hugo PARISI / Jackson RONDINELLI CHN Aisen CHEN / Yue LIN GBR Thomas DALEY / Daniel GOODFELLOW GER Sascha KLEIN / Patrick HAUSDING MEX Ivan GARCIA / German SANCHEZ RUS Victor MINIBAEV / Nikita SHLEIKHER UKR Maksym DOLGOV / Oleksandr GORSHKOVOZOV USA David BOUDIA / Steele JOHNSON

Actually they will take it (source)