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Event program and quota distribution for Gangwon 2024 YOG: https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Gangwon-2024/Gangwon-2024-Official-Event-Programme.pdf

and both won their pools and are each one game away from the Olympics.
 
Two very different stories here - is trying to make it's Olympic debut in Curling while is trying to keep it's streak of participating in every Curling event since the sport was re-introduced in 1998 alive. is the only other country with that distinction.
 
and qualified for the semi-finals from pool B - South Korea is in Australia's bracket while Finland is in USA's bracket. In pool A , , and are still fighting for the two remaining semi-final spots. - play later this afternoon in what is a de-facto quarterfinal match.

Spoke with the ISU. The quota simulation is how the current standings are without looking at the rules. So basically what @NearPuphad calculated before this quota file was discovered is the correct way of calculating. 

Baffling they release the ranking in that fashion then…

Spoke with the ISU. The quota simulation is how the current standings are without looking at the rules. So basically what @NearPuphad calculated before this quota file was discovered is the correct way of calculating. 

If a sex shop was going to sponsor an Olympic sport, curling makes sense.
 
HURRY! HURRY HARD! HAAARD!!! woah... woah...

Don’t forget Canada, another country to watch closely.
 
I just can’t see any scenario where Canada doesn’t announce a full boycott by November 2021. Erin O’Toole will surely be prime minister by then.

Let's not get too dramatic... China been taking revenge on Lithuania since 2008 Olympics and Lithuanian's stand to support Tibet. Loud threats and accusations, but no real damage, as this time is Lithuania supporting Taiwain. 
 

Some considerations about the first Junior Pan American Games. After fighting for the top spot for most of the Games (with Colombia ahead of Brazil at some moments), comfortably took the lead in the last two days to finish with 11 more gold medals compared to . In fact, the host nation almost lost the second position by the end.
 
didn't send teams in Athletics and Swimming, but still managed a pretty good result, surpassing in the last day of competition. I'm sure that was not what Mexico expected, but they still had an amazing showing here winning the most medals among all nations (sadly, almost half of those were silver).
 
While Mexico still isn't a Olympic powerhouse compared to , they seem to have cemented their place as the best Central American/Caribbean nation in continental competitions. as the third best South American nation behind Colombia isn't exactly surprising, but I expect a better showing from them at the main Games in 2023.
 
Worth noting is getting their best ever position in 7th, they're certainly on the rise - of course most nations here gained a position at the medal table thanks to the non-interest of . also did great and maybe that's a good sign they will return to win gold medals at the next Pan Am Games.
 
31 medalling nations is similar to what we see at Pan American Games (in fact, equal to Lima 2019 and Toronto 2015). Didn't win a single medal:

Fiu (Santiago 2023 mascot) and Pana (Cali 2021 mascot) took to the mat today.
 

And now silver for in track and field ! 

Silver medal for  in road cycling 

Mr Slovakia will 0 medals in Tokyo but ended up winning a few.

So apparently you must meet a standard to even try to qualify for the Olympics now? Lol

Beijing 2022 End of November Quota Simulation using qualification systems and world rankings. 89 NOC's in total.
 
 Albania- 1
 American Samoa- 1
 Andorra- 6
 Argentina- 6
 Armenia- 6
 Australia- 37
 Austria- 109
 Azerbaijan- 2
 Belarus- 31
 Belgium- 17
 Bolivia- 2
 Bosnia and Herzegovina- 5
 Brazil- 11
 Bulgaria- 16
 Canada- 209
 Chile- 5
 China- 142
 Chinese Taipei- 4
 Colombia- 3
 Croatia- 14
 Cyprus- 1
 Czech Republic- 116
 Denmark- 58
 Ecuador- 1
 Estonia- 22
 Finland- 93
 France- 94
 Georgia- 9
 Germany- 144
 Great Britain- 53
 Greece- 5
 Haiti- 1
 Hong Kong- 3
 Hungary- 15
 Iceland- 5
 India- 1
 Iran- 3
 Ireland- 8
 Israel- 7
 Italy- 118
 Jamaica- 6
 Japan- 131
 Kazakhstan- 33
 Kenya- 1
 Kosovo- 1
 Kyrgyzstan- 1
 Latvia- 64
 Lebanon- 3
 Liechtenstein- 4
 Lithuania- 13
 Luxembourg- 3
 Madagascar- 2
 Malaysia- 2
 Malta- 2
 Mexico- 4
 Moldova- 6
 Monaco- 3
 Mongolia- 2
 Montenegro- 3
 Morocco- 1
 Netherlands- 45
 New Zealand- 18
 Nigeria- 1
 North Macedonia- 3
 Norway- 92
 Pakistan- 2
 Peru- 1
 Philippines- 1
 Poland- 53
 Portugal- 3
 Puerto Rico- 2
 Romania- 20
 Russian Olympic Committee- 210
 San Marino- 1
 Serbia- 5
 Slovakia- 48
 Slovenia- 43
 South Korea- 60
 Spain- 17
 Sweden- 122
 Switzerland- 175
 Thailand- 5
 Timor-Leste- 1
 Trinidad and Tobago- 2
 Turkey- 7
 Ukraine- 43
 United States- 224
 Uzbekistan- 1
 Vietnam- 1

And the USA destroyed Colombia in women's softball, 
 
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/News/2021/November/28/Cagle-shines-at-the-plate-as-Team-USA-claims-29-0-win-over-Colombia

And  wins its first gold, in mixed doubles badminton... perhaps two more to follow today

Where is the qualification thread?
 
Anyways, according to the provisional standings, Vietnam is currently qualified for women's monobob, while Cambodia is only 8 pts outside of the qualification zone. Crazy.

Quotas distribution by my friends and my understanding of the document and past experience of 2018 WOG.(mainly credit to @Function CR Lee).
 
Some notes of it:
1. BEL's Mixed relay berth is replaced by 13th POL because only 1 men and 1 women qualified
2. POL got an extra men's quota and KAZ got an extra women's quota to fulfill the minimum mixed relay requirement, ie 2 men and 2 women.
3. POL got an extra women's quota because after procedure 2 still one more women's quota available so it gave to the only women's relay team not full yet.

Brad Gushue and team will represent Canada. This means two former Olympic champion skips will represent Canada, and hopefully that means 2018 is a just a blip

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Yea no interest basically. Only Badminton and Gymnastics (partial) has its A team here, and in total only 31 athletes.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.