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China and bending the rules in sport, name a more iconic duo

Karate qualifiers: https://www.wkf.net/pdf/chengdu2025_qualified.pdf

With the election and Sport Canada not finishing its "Future of Sport" study, national federations have had to cut back drastically in case of revving future reduced funding. For ex. All Wrestling Canada athletes are now self funded for tournaments.

The women's soccer World Cup will be held in the (and apparently other CONCACAF countries) and in 2035 the Home nations will host. Apparently Infantino wants to expand the field to 48 teams

The 2029 Canada Summer Games will be held in Moncton/Saint John, @NearPup

beat 8-2

Looks like we might have our first qualification system for LA2028 (Equestrian - Jumping) https://equnews.com/article/showjumping-en/longines-league-of-nations-no-longer-a-qualification-pathway-for-the-los-angeles-olympics

Rip another quota opportunity lost by one spot

Updating on the sailing national team:https://sirc.ca/news/canadian-sailors-road-to-the-los-angeles-2028-olympic-games-starts-next-week-in-spain/ Including a new pair in the 49er

Rowing quotas W1X: + as hosts M1X: W2X: + as hosts M2X: + as hosts W4: + as hosts M4: + as hosts W4X: + as hosts M4X: + as hosts W2-: + as hosts M2-: + as hosts

Lol

Third pair spot missed by one spot

Also believe this is 's first quota for Milan-Cortina 2026

FWIW there is more freestyle skiing events than cross-country skiing on the program

Aroud there. It's probably a budget issue. For example, archery will send 3 ( 2 women and 1 one man) when they qualified exactly that amount. But wrestling has been given only 4 quota spots.

It was probably done to protect those two countries (Canada ,and the US?). If Canada had to decline, surely it would have came from the Aerials, and that could potentially ruin the viability of the mixed team aerials event.

Just confirmed, will be decline a whole lot of individual quotas. Many sports have been given a cap by the COC

Canada tied the Czech Republic in the men's nations ranking in cross-country and because of this we lost a quota. We will definitely get one back in reallocation, 2 might not be possible. We shall see.

Did pass in the men's rankings?

As per the FIS quota release today only 6 countries would be eligible for the Aerials team event at the 2026 Olympics: no other country has enough athletes to qualify a team. Last time out both and withdrew, are we possibly heading to an event with 4 entries only?

Will Belgium use all 8 quotas?

The FIS has released quota simulations for all its disciplines atm. For : Alpine skiing: 8 men 5 women (13 athletes). Same total in Beijing, but the genders are flipped this time around (5 men and 8 women in 2022) Cross-country skiing: 5 men 6 women (11 athletes) +2 from Beijing. 10 quota per gender left, the women are 7th on the allocation list, men 10th. The spots are reserved for countries not qualifying anyone yet, but managed to score under 300 points at a WC next season. This is unlikely, and we may get 2 more quotas. Ski jumping: 3 women, down 1 from Beijing. No men. Freestyle skiing: Currently have 20 men and 19 women with quotas. Only discipline without a full quota is the women's slopestyle with 3. Maximum total is 30, so NINE athletes will need to be cut to get down to this number, which will represent a decline of two from 2022, where the maximum was 32. Its possible an athlete triples up in halfpipe/big air/slopestyle, which could help reduce numbers). Snowboard (total: 18 athletes), down from 23 in Beijing Halfpipe: 2 women PGS: 2 men and 2 women SS/BA: 4 men and 2 women SC: 3 men and 3 women Overall - 6 from Beijing

For starters it would make the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships almost obsolete.

Justina Di stasio has retired.