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congrats

And I think they’re a medal chance too...

Yesss!!!!  W4 are going to the Olympics 

That women's pair will be very interesting in Tokyo when they actually get some more time together (they've been rowing together for less than a month)

China announced the list
Men’s single: Ma Long, Fan Zhendong
Women’s single: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha
Mixed Double: Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen
Men’s group: Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin(P card)
Women’s group: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu(P card)

No, unless nations decline quotas.

First full team announced:

 Women's team: Murakami Mai, Hatakeda Hitomi, Hiraiwa Yuna, Sugihara Aiko.

Ashikawa Urara earned an individual spot.

France won a boat quota at the 2019 World Championships due to reallocation, but because Etienne Hubert also competed in the K2 1000m where France also won a quota they didn't win an athlete quota so the athlete quota was then reallocated to Spain (declined due to too many men's kayak quota) and then Argentina.
 
So basically, France must compete in the men's K1 200m, K1 1000m and K2 1000m, but can only select three athletes.

lost their MK1 1000m quota: https://www.ffck.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/14-05-21-CP-BURGER-ICF-ENGLISH.pdf
 
 gets the quota for their 3rd place. 

Only finals at Monday

First selection is done, 12 of following 18 players will be represent  during Olympic tournament. The Olympic team will be decided after Nations League tournaments.
 
Bartosz Bednorz  Mateusz Bieniek  Fabian Drzyzga  Tomasz Fornal Marcin Janusz  Łukasz Kaczmarek  Karol Kłos  Jakub Kochanowski Michał Kubiak  Bartosz Kurek Wilfredo Leon  Grzegorz Łomacz  Maciej Muzaj  Piotr Nowakowski  Kamil Semeniuk  Aleksander Śliwka  Damian Wojtaszek  Paweł Zatorski   
 
Three current World Champions are already out! Those players are Dawid Konarski, Bartosz Kwolek and Artur Szalpuk.

Priscilla Tommy declined. Maybe retired? Or maybe Vanuatu are wannabe Dutch?
 
https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tokyo_2020_WS_2021_05_14.pdf
 
Sally Yee in.

W1x : 
M1x : 
 
M2x : 
W2x : 
 
M2- : 
W2- : 
 
W4- : 
M4- : 
 
LM2x : 
LW2x : 
 
M4x : 
W4x : 
 
W8+ : 
M8+ : 

I am disappointed there are not all the teams, I would like to see the duel between France and Greece, because the last ticket will be played between these 2 nations. Spain and Italy being well above

LW2x have 3 quotas available because of a reallocation from the Americas.

Switzerland have 1 component with covid, for Romania i dont know

Men K2 1000 m - should be only 1 quota (for Hungary). Unfortunately Poland without olympic quota.

It's official, István Péni is the Hungarian shooter who had the positive doping test. People at the Hungarian Federation suspect that someone put drug into the B vitamin of István Péni, the substance that caused the positive test can be bought anywhere in the world. The investigation is still not finished, but the suspect is clearly Péter Sidi. It's up to ISSF and WADA what they will do with István Péni, first ISSF will have to decide whether they will let him compete in Tokyo and then WADA will have to decide whether they want to veto the decision of the ISSF. As far as the Hungarian federation and the Hungarian Antidoping Agency is concerned, so far they seem to be on the side of Péni. I think they still hope that at least one of the shooters will be declared innocent and can compete in Tokyo, not sure how realistic that is. 

Ok, so this is all for now
 
WC1-200
WK1-500 &
MK1-1000 &
MC1-1000
 
Rendez-vous later today at 18:30 for the last session

Tacchini will not be in Tokyo

and probably in M K1-1000

Team Canada
https://softball.ca/news/womens-softball-team-nominated-to-represent-team-canada-at-tokyo-2020.htm
 

close to 0...
 
looking at this morning's heats, DEN and BEL are a class apart...I'd be surprised if they don't fight for the top 2 places...
 
in the men's C1 1000m, instead, I hope Tacchini would eventually show all of his talent, after wasting the last few seasons because of the idiotic policy of our federation, who forced him to waste time and energy in the age competitions all year long instead of focusing on the truly important senior events...

Finalists
 
WC1 200m                   
 
WK1 500m                   
 
MK1 1000m                   
 
MC1 1000m                   

Not sure what we can expect here, Our biggest hoepe Ivana Kmeťová is pregnant and will skip this season, thus we lost chance for a female representative in this sport, the other girls are still too young and inexperienced.
 
but I am interested in one name Lisa Maria Gamsjäger and how she will do in her debut at international senior level, this girl has a really interesting CV worth a Hollywood script.
 
She was born in Austria to Austrian father and Slovak mother, her father left them after her birth, she moved to Slovakia (Komárno) with her mother when she was 2 years old,
at 9 she watched Canoeing Slalom at the Olympics and decided to become a future star of this sport, but in Komárno they have only canoeing Sprint club and venue, so she accepted and started this sport, but seeing there more chances and financial funds of this sport in Hungary she moved to Gyor at 14 and started attending Hungarian school, at 15 received Hungarian citizenship and started competing for Hungary, won various medals at Juniors ad U23 Eurpean competitions in K2 & K4.
In 2019 after graduation she decided to end her career. the sport did no more entertaining her. she looked for a job and found one quickly, worked as a flight attendant in a large flying company. But in 2020 the coronavirus came and she lost her job...
Our M K4 head coach contacted her in summer and invited her to try to return to canoeing in our country again, so she agreed, restarted her career, trainings etc... and now ? well, last month she won the Slovak internal qualification for K1-200m women. and will try the Olympic qualifiers this week.
 
Obviously there no big chane of success, she does not have the speed and strength against other trained and established athletes, but why not in Paris 2024 ?
 
 
 
All in all, a quota from Szeged may be a bit hard to obtain, if you ask me to bet, I would say Matej Rusnák in M-C1 should be our biggest chance here though
 
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