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What makes you think the IOC thought this through?
 
(My guess is that they will do special IOC invitations like they did for Saudi Arabia in 2012)

With the end of swimming trials, we begin with athletics on Friday.
 
Events with Olympic ramifications to look out for Friday:
 
400m hurdles women: Noelle Montcalm, with a SB and win will move into 38th in the WR (top 40 qualify)
Men's decathlon: Taylor Ehrhardt begins his comeback, with a lot of injuries the last few years. Will need a 600+ PB to get the standard to qualify. 
400m men: Osei/Misner Daley need the standard to qualify, both off by just over half a second
100m women: Bingham needs the standard atp to qualify. She is just 0.01 off from her SB
100m men: Whoever wants to make the team needs the standard. Smellie is currently in a WR spot, the other two De Grasse/Boateng not competing.
Long jump men: Jared Kerr is back, 8.14 PB, will need 8.22 to qualify
800w: Butterworth/Bishop/Kelly need good times (2:00) or less and a top 3 finish to clinch a spot
Women's steeplechase: Yee/Butterworth with a top 3 finish and timings around their PB (9:31) should get them a WR spot, but they should honestly go for the standard to guarantee their spots.
 

Wow named 3-4 swimmers not expected to the team. The official team will come shortly

Just realized he is competing for not

With the end of swimming trials, we begin with athletics on Friday.
 
Events with Olympic ramifications to look out for Friday:
 
400m hurdles women: Noelle Montcalm, with a SB and win will move into 38th in the WR (top 40 qualify)
Men's decathlon: Taylor Ehrhardt begins his comeback, with a lot of injuries the last few years. Will need a 600+ PB to get the standard to qualify. 
400m men: Osei/Misner Daley need the standard to qualify, both off by just over half a second
100m women: Bingham needs the standard atp to qualify. She is just 0.01 off from her SB
100m men: Whoever wants to make the team needs the standard. Smellie is currently in a WR spot, the other two De Grasse/Boateng not competing.
Long jump men: Jared Kerr is back, 8.14 PB, will need 8.22 to qualify
800w: Butterworth/Bishop/Kelly need good times (2:00) or less and a top 3 finish to clinch a spot
Women's steeplechase: Yee/Butterworth with a top 3 finish and timings around their PB (9:31) should get them a WR spot, but they should honestly go for the standard to guarantee their spots.
 

YES YES, Go Hungary!! 

Road To Tokyo 2020 
 
Team Announcement 
It’s official! The United States Virgin Islands has announced it’s team for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games! The US Virgin Islands plans to send 4 athletes to Tokyo for the Olympic Games. The athletes will represent the USVI in the sports of Archery, Athletics, and Aquatics. 
 
Archery
Nicholas D’Amour - Currently the 9th ranked archer in the world rankings, D’Amour will make his debut in Tokyo after being awarded a universality quota. He will be the first ever archer to represent the US Virgin Islands at the Olympic Games.
 
Athletics
Eddie Lovett - What’s better than participating in one Olympics, participating in two. Lovett returns to Olympics once more as a representative of the US Virgin Islands. He will compete in the men’s 110m hurdles after receiving a universality quota.
 
Aquatics - Swimming
Natalia Kuipers - She holds the national record in the 400m freestyle, and will make her debut at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. She qualified for the Olympics via a universality quota.
 
Adriel Sanes - Another athlete making his debut at the Olympic Games, he too has shown his prowess in the pool. He has already achieved the OST in the men’s 200m breaststroke and will awarded an invitation or universality quota.
 

Team photo courtesy of the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee.

50 year old  Siphiwe Baleka, who competed at the 1992 US Olympic trials under his birth name Tony Blake, will compete at the Olympics. First swimmer from Burkina Faso.

Gregorio Paltrinieri got mononucleosis...
 
most likely, he's going to miss the Olympics, but even if he pulls out a miracle and recovers in time, he will be chanceless in terms of medals...
 
we're ruined... 

Mixed. The Canadian team has a small chance. They need a NR by 3 seconds and the best athletes won't be there.. 

48.43, which was better than the A standard. Swimming Canada should do the right thing and name him to the team in this event.

The 4x400 m mixed relay has been added to the La Classique d'Athletisme de Montreal, the last possible event for qualification. Im not sure if its possible, especially since the women will not have their best in the relay. They will need to run a 2-3 second NR to qualify atp.

Huge kudos to Iran for holding their own.
 
This dual flag bearer idea really just removes individuality of the athletes and reduces them to their gender... It's patronizing and presumptuous. And all that to appease that tiny minority which obsesses over stuff like the exact gender count.

Quota could have been reallocated to another continent, point is that biological woman is harmed.
 
Not that transwomen should be banned from sports, but from obvious reasons can't compete with biological women
 
If was transmen probably noone would care as men are already superior but with woman is simply not fair.....and it is kind of cheating while entire teams of clean athletes are banned because some of their collegues doped. Just noone care of them as it is not popular for media as superpopular lgbt stuff.

June 21st Athletics team update
 
Men's track
Men's 100: Andre De Grasse, Bismark Boateng, Gavin Smellie (3 athletes). The latter two are in the bottom 6 ranking quotas. Gavin will be at nationals.
Men's 200:  Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney (2 athletes). All three are pretty much locks to qualify.
Men's 400:  N/A Closest: Philip Osei is 63rd in rankings, will need a time 45.50 sub + another one at nationals to qualify. There is a C level meet in Montreal on the day the qualification period closes, so he will need results at both. He will be nationals, so one would assume he will be here too. 
Men's 800: Marco Arop, Brandon McBride (2 athletes). 
Men's 1500: Charles PT needs a win at nationals with a 3:39 sub time to get into a ranking spot. William Paulson is within less than a second from hitting the standard. He wont be at nationals, and not sure about his next race. Kieran Lumb is 3 seconds out too.
Men's 5000: Mohammed Ahmed, Justyn Knight, Lucas Bruchet (3 athletes)
Men's 10000: Mohammed Ahmed
Men's 110m hurdles: N/A, Joseph Daniels, is about 0.4 seconds from hitting the standard. 2016 Olympic finalist Cabral also competing.
Men's 400m hurdles: N/A, Malik Metivier, is .38 away from hitting the standard. 
Men's 3000m steeplechase: Matthew Hughes, John Gay (2 athletes).Ryan Smeeton is within range of qualifying time, won't be at nationals. Jean-Simon Desgagnés is done chasing the time due to quarantine requirements 
Men's 4x100 relay: Not qualified yet officially, but should. Since 3 are qualified in the individual event, +Brown and Rodney.

Total: 12, up to 19 can qualify atm. 
 
Women's track
Women's 100: Crystal Emmanuel (1 athlete). Khamica Bingham was 0.01 from the standard earlier this season. Both will be at nationals. 
Women's 200: Crystal Emmanuel 
Women's 400: Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald (2 athletes)
Women's 800: Melissa Bishop, Lindsey Butterworth, Madeleine Kelly (3 athletes). Kelly is 45 out of 48, but nationals will give her lots of points if she is in top3
Women's 1500: Gabriela Stafford, Natalia Hawthorn, Lucia Stafford (3 athletes) 
Women's 5000: Andrea Seccafien, Julie-Anne Staehli, Kate Van Buskirk (3 athletes). 
Women's 10000: Andrea Seccafien. 
Women's 100m hurdles: N/A. Michelle Harrison and Mariam Abdul Rashid .27 away from the standard
Women's 400m hurdles: Sage Watson (1 athlete). Noelle Montcalm 7 spots out of qualifying through the WR. However, she is the top seed at nationals, and with a win and a good time (in the 56 second range), should get her into a qualifying spot
Women's 3000m steeplechase: Geneviève Lalonde, Regan Yee (2 athletes). Butterworth and Prouse seconds from hitting the standard (so is Yee). I think one of the two will definitely make it.
Women's 4x400 relay: 2 more athletes will be named to join the individual qualifiers + Watson.
Looks like the 4x100 relay is out.
 
Total: 17, up to 22 can qualify atm 
 
Road events:
Men's marathon: Ben Preisner, Cameron Levins, Trevor Hofbauer
Men's 50km race walk: Evan Dunfee, Mathieu Bilodeau
Women's marathon: Malindi Elmore, Dayna Pidhoresky, Natasha Wodak
 
No one qualified in 20km race walk for either gender.

Total: 8 athletes.
 
Men's field/Multis
Men's high jump: Michael Mason (1 athlete). Derek Drouin looks okay, but not near the standard he will need to qualify. Django Lovett is one spot out of qualification. A strong result at nationals will move him back into a qualification spot
Men's long jump: Warner has withdrawn, and won't compete.
Men's shot put: Tim Nedow (1 athlete)
Men's discus throw: Jordan Young just out of a ranking quota, and less than 2 meters from standard. ATP, a win at nationals and a PB won't be enough. He needs the standard..
Men's hammer: Adam Keenan just out of a ranking quota, and less than 3 meters from standard. A win at nationals with a 74 m+ throw will put him into a WR spot.
Men's decathlon: Damian Warner, Pierce Lepage (2 athletes). Taylor Ehrhardt will need a PB in almost all events to qualify, needs the standard.

Total: 4, could be up to 9
 
Women's field/Multis
Women's long jump: Christabel Nettey (1 athlete)
Women's pole vault: Alysha Newman, Anicka Newell (2 athletes)
Women's shot put: Sarah Mitton, Brittney Crew (2 athletes)
Women's javelin: Liz Gleadle (1 athlete)
Women's discus throw: Trinity Tutti, Rachel Andres are outside qualification but a few metres from the standard, cannot qualify through WR
Women's hammer: Camryn Rogers, Jillian Weir (2 athletes)
Women's heptathlon: Georgia Ellenwood, should be in the top 24 when the rankings are released (1 athlete)
 
Total: 9, could be up to 11
 
A mixed relay will be held at nationals, so room to add 2 men in the 400 is also possible.
 
So as of this moment Canada has 50 athletes. Up to 71 athletes can qualify. Will be an intense last week of qualification!

Final allocation of quotas confirmed. 
 
Men’s Kata -  (tripartite)
Women’s Kata -  (tripartite)
 
Men’s Kata -  (reallocation)
Women’s -61kg -  (reallocation)
 
Source: https://www.wkf.net/news-center-new/last-olympians-for-karate-confirmed/1601

Final quotas:
 
Women:  
Men:
 
Damn Jeremy Chartier missed out by a spot. At least we got a second women's quota. First time that Canada will not compete in mens' trampoline
 

Yes https://www.gymnastics.sport/asset.php?id=fidb_10652

Final quotas:
 
Women:  
Men:
 
Damn Jeremy Chartier missed out by a spot. At least we got a second women's quota. First time that Canada will not compete in mens' trampoline
 

Benefito and McKay are officially named in synchro.

Yeah, Czech media said the finish board did not notice him hitting it. Czech team open a dispute and it was accepted. Matěj Kozubek has been placed back to results to 13th place and earned the Tokyo quota. 

Well I spoke too soon re Georgia Ellenwood
 
This will give her a total of 1194 points, putting her into 20th in the world rankings!!
 
 
 

Well I spoke too soon re Georgia Ellenwood
 
This will give her a total of 1194 points, putting her into 20th in the world rankings!!