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Already dreading CBC coverage. This was posted the day after Haya was eliminated from Olympic contention 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQD0DIYN8W5/

As predicted Canada will finish fourth in both events what a joke

That is good news for our Greek friend @Makedonas. Hopefully WKF will confirm it tomorrow.

Dq'd due to doping

Oh wow what an accomplishment!

Athletics simulation for Team Canada as of this moment, ofc trials will likely change some of these.
 
Men's track
Men's 100: Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Gavin Smellie (3 athletes)
Men's 200:  Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney (1 athlete)
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. 
Men's 800: Marco Arop, Brandon McBride (2 athletes)
Men's 1500: Justyn Knight (1 athlete). Not sure if he will compete. Charles PT and William Paulson are within a couple seconds of hitting the standard.
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). Jean-Simon Desgagnés and Ryan Smeeton are within range of qualifying times.
Men's 4x100 relay: Not qualified yet officially, but should. Since 3 are qualified in the individual event, 1 more will be named, not sure of the names. The 4 currently in qualification position in the 100 and 200 made up the relay in Doha. 

Total: 13, up to 20 can qualify atm. 
 
Women's track
Women's 100: Crystal Emmanuel (1 athlete). Khamica Bingham was 0.01 from the standard earlier this season.
Women's 200: Crystal Emmanuel 
Women's 400: Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald (2 athletes)
Women's 800: Melissa Bishop, Gabriel Stafford, Lindsey Butterworth (3 athletes). Not sure if Stafford will compete.
Women's 1500: Gabriela Stafford, Natalia Hawthorn, Lucia Stafford (2 athletes) 
Women's 5000: Andrea Seccafien, Julie-Anne Staehli, Kate Van Buskirk (3 athletes). Stafford likely won't do this event in Tokyo. 
Women's 10000: Andrea Seccafien. 
Women's 100m hurdles: N/A. Michelle Harrison .26 away from the standard
Women's 400m hurdles: Sage Watson (1 athlete). Noelle Montcalm 7 spots out of qualifying through the WR
Women's 3000m steeplechase: Geneviève Lalonde, Regan Yee (2 athletes). Butterworth and Prouse seconds from hitting the standard (so is Yee).
Women's 4x400 relay: 2 more athletes will be named to join the individual qualifiers + Watson 
Not sure if they will aim for the 4x100 relay. 
 
Total: 16, up to 20 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, Django Lovett (2 athletes). Derek Drouin looks okay, but not near the standard he will need to qualify. 
Men's long jump: Damian Warner (1 athlete), unlikely to compete in this event.
Men's pole vault: N/A
Men's triple jump: N/A
Men's shot put: Tim Nedow (1 athlete)
Men's javelin: N/A
Men's discus throw: Jordan Young just out of a ranking quota, and less than 2 meters from standard. 
Men's hammer: Adam Keenan just out of a ranking quota, and less than 3 meters from standard.
Men's decathlon: Damian Warner, Pierce Lepage (1 athlete) 

Total: 5, could be up to 8
 
Women's field/Multis
Women's high jump: N/A
Women's long jump: Christabel Nettey (1 athlete)
Women's pole vault: Alysha Newman, Anicka Newell (2 athletes)
Women's triple jump: N/A
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.
Women's hammer: Camryn Rogers, Jillian Weir (2 athletes)
Women's heptathlon: Georgia Ellenwood needs a first place finish at nationals and a PB to move into a rankings quota (just barely)
 
Total: 8, could be up to 11
 
Also Canada dropped out of the mixed relay today. Not sure if they will try for that. But if they do, they can name up to two more.
 
So as of this moment Canada has 50 athletes. Up to 69 athletes can qualify. Will be an intense last couple of weeks of qualification!

Canada was winning 3-3 (on Senshu) but received a penalty in last 3 seconds for stepping out. which annuls the Senshu. a draw was enough for the Netherlands to qualify. the match ended 3-3 draw and Netherlands qualified. (alongside KSA and Georgia)
 
they awarded the women's medals but then right before the award ceremony they called both of those guys to the Tatami telling them to fight those last 3 seconds again because Canada apparently made a protest and they found out the Canadian Karateka wasn't out of bound. Canada ended up winning 3-3 on Senshu.

That is correct. He hit 74.06... should give him a few more points in the rankings. He will need a bigger throw + nationals win with a throw over 75+ to qualify it looks like.

Am I wrong that I thought there was a Hammer Throw as part of the Harry Jerome Classic but happening in Kamloops yesterday? Does anyone know if Adam Keenan inched closer to the qualification spot? @intoronto

I will never watch Karate again.

History for Liechtenstein.
 
A microstate qualifying in an event like this (with fully home-grown athletes) is rocket science, but apparently possible.

Malik Metivier just ran a 49.26 in the 400m hurdles, which gives him a score of 1202. Only off by .36 to qualify automatically, but if he can't hit that, if he can score 2-3 more races like this, he will be well into a qualification position. What a pleasant surprise!

Strycova from Czech Republic who is third in the doubles rankings retired so that should bump dabrowski back into the top ten.

If both Romania/Colombia are banned + CHina does not compete in 64 kg women and 96 kg men, then  stands a good chance of winning two medals and possibly even 2 golds, which would be incredible for this sport. 

My prediction is 100% correct.
64kg Deng Wei is not selected because of her injury and absence of the public trial ACh. It’s unlucky but unsurprised.

I think that's unlikely. there are 2 guys above him and removing only Colombia won't be enough. I think Albania will take that Asian unused quota.
 
and Poland will go if they really ban Colombia. Canada will be next if someone gets injured or banned. which is always possible in this sport.
 
I don't think Canada can receive the host unused quota. (even if one is available in this weight) that's for countries "not represented yet"
 
this is interesting, when I was reviewing things, there were no chance for ZWARYCZ but now it seems he has a pretty good chance. I'm quite sure he wouldn't even think about going to Tokyo in his wildest dreams  this qualification system does wonders. Poland may have 3 male weightlifters in Tokyo after all.

And she just improved it too 75.52m, just 21 cm from the NR!

Tennis update
 
Looks like we will have 4 men in the singles competition! Raonic, Shapovalov, Auger-Aliassime and Pospisil;
Two in the women's singles: Andreescu and Fernandez

Doubles Men: Shapovalov/Pospisl will likely team up. Not sure if Auger-Aliassime/Raonic will team up, but that is the only way they can play doubles
Doubles Women: Dabrowski/Fernandez I think is a lock. After my post yesterday, I read that singles rankings can be used to determine entrants into doubles. 
Mixed: Dabrowski and Auger-Aliassime? Their ranking has to be combined highest 16 that have entered to play. 

So overall 7 tennis athletes for Canada. Hoping Raonic/Andreescu actually go.

Camryn ROGERS just threw a PB of 74.97 in the hammer. Less than a meter from the NR

4 is the maximum actually
 
but from what I see 76, 64 and 55 are 100% guaranteed.
59 is 2nd in line for the Pan American quota behind USA. but USA has 4 weightlifters in top 8 in other weights. so yes I think Canada is 99.99% guaranteed maximum 4 quotas .

Tennis update
 
Looks like we will have 4 men in the singles competition! Raonic, Shapovalov, Auger-Aliassime and Pospisil;
Two in the women's singles: Andreescu and Fernandez

Doubles Men: Shapovalov/Pospisl will likely team up. Not sure if Auger-Aliassime/Raonic will team up, but that is the only way they can play doubles
Doubles Women: Dabrowski/Fernandez I think is a lock. After my post yesterday, I read that singles rankings can be used to determine entrants into doubles. 
Mixed: Dabrowski and Auger-Aliassime? Their ranking has to be combined highest 16 that have entered to play. 

So overall 7 tennis athletes for Canada. Hoping Raonic/Andreescu actually go.

And she’s very young in a sport where people normally peak older. That throw would have gotten a medal at the last World Championships and Olympics. 

That is an interesting formula

non PDF version of draw (including Kata) is available now
 
https://www.sportdata.org/wkf/set-online/veranstaltung_info_main.php?active_menu=calendar&vernr=386&ver_info_action=catauslist#a_eventheadend

Angela Whyte, yes the same Angela Whyte who competed in multiple Olympics, will be racing the 100m hurdles this Saturday in Windsor.