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weird how an athlete who competed in the 58kg event in qualification is given a wildcard in the 68kg event. Afghanistan was robbed.

12 minutes ago, MantaRaymarc said:

Source?

idk saw it on wikpedia lol

Wildcards:

58kg:

80kg:

67kg:

+67kg:  

10 minutes ago, MantaRaymarc said:

Hello everyone! Any updates on the allocation of tripartite invitations for each sport? I have only noticed that Tripartite Commission has invited athletes in the artistic and rhythmic gymnastics thus far. The confirmation of shooters for Rio 2016 and the distribution of Tripartite Invitational Places in shooting would have already been done last week, but the list of quota places per NOC is still not updated until now. Is this possible that the deadline of shooters might be extended to a later date? 

This is pretty self explanatory...

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Have some patience

 

 

World Junior Champion and Youth Olympic Gold medalist Mary Fay (Canada) has retired 

I want Hungary to pull of an upset

Lets hope they qualify:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/12/afghanistan-skiing-winter-olympics

Aaron Brown with a 20.00 in the men's 200.

Brandon McBride with a 1:44.63 in the men's 800 (world leading time).
Damien Warner hit 8.04 in the long jump

Athletics Canada ‏@AthleticsCanada  8h8 hours ago
Athletics Canada Retweeted Gar Leyshon
RT @Statman_Jon: So far in 2016, @DamianWarner has set PBs of:

46.64; 400m
50.25m in the discus
8.04m in the LJ

if he hits all his personal bests in Rio he will get 9101 points!

World Champs Barber and Drouin won at the Drake relays (though at heights less than what they are used too)

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

Štefečeková is pregnant...this is the 3rd time in arow they predict her a medal since they update it each month

 

also I love all those gold medals, I want live in such perfect world

Infostrada sports is not a good organization lol... 

7 minutes ago, uk12points said:

The reallocation process for individual rankings could allow a few of the nations you mentioned above to qualify

 

It would be good to see a current list of athletes that might qualify through this method

Hope  is a reallocated a spot. They have a young talent who almost become wprld youth champ a couple years ago. On their team is also a multiple time Commonwealth Games medalist and a gold medalist from Melbourne.

Tera Van Beilen has retired 

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Any news on Oldershaw/Van Koeverden/Giriard yet? I mean, anything official? 

Oldershaw/Van Koeverden will try to qualify next month. However the stupid rules in the canoe category means only the C2 or C1 can go... with both boats being roughly the same in strength. 

Girard I believe is officially retired. Even then I would send Nadeau who with selections from other teams could be an outside medal contender. 

 got a wildcard in the women's events

Denny Morrison suffered a stroke 

I will choose  

Fun fact: my parents area from Sri Lanka.

Idg why this is a rule. So dumb.

30 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

You just insulted a Bhutanese archer.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_%28archer%29

Lmao!!

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ouch, karma is a bitch 

What's the story on this one?

3 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Also the host quota gets reallocated meaning Paraguay and Bahamas qualify in the men and women events respectively.

Interesting, considering the qualification document says the host quotas would be reallocated at the finak qualification event 

1 hour ago, MHSN said:

 

https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/1st-og-world-qualifying-tournament

 

on each weight check on "participants" section.

Favs for freestyle?

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Nevermind, USA and France are actually already qualified.

 

We already know that 4th continent will come in men's event, this means that USA qualifies. Furthermore, there is only one tripartite place on offer for men's OR women's event. Tripartite quotas can only be assigned to gymnasts that competed at 2015 World Championships. There we no tripartite nations in women's event so France is assured of quota.

 

In men's event we only had Angola at the World Championships (from tripartite nations). If they applied, they will get it, as simple as that.

But does Angola meet technical standards?

16 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That is such bullshit 

Ikr. I liked the current system. It seems like they are trying to one up the more popuar field hockey...

Brazil has improved vastly!