Benolympique

De beaux résultats aujourd'hui en ski de fond, short track et surtout en bob : Romain Heinrich et Dorian Hauterville 3emes des championnats d'Europe en bob à 2 

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Pools officially confirmed by CEV : https://www.cev.eu/News.aspx?NewsID=28306&ID=5
Poland replaced Cuba.
 
"The FIVB will announce the respective organisers later this month".
It also says that the European Qualification Tournament (January 2020) will consists of 8 teams: host + best 7 teams of the European Ranking released after EuroVolley 2019.

Ski jumper,  Thea Kleven, has died at the young age of 17. 
The ski jumper Thea Kleven died on December 17. She was one of the jumpers on the "Project 2022" initiative towards the Beijing Olympics.
 
The Ski Federation writes this in a press release:
- The whole ski jumping family is in mourning after Thea's demise. Our thoughts are with the family in this difficult time. At the same time, it is important for me that we do everything we can to help jumpers on the team with support over their loss of a good team mate. Additional resources have been put in place to help the team in their grief. This has strongly influenced us all, and it has been toughest for all the female ski jumpers on the Norwegian national team. We will never forget Thea. She participated in our "Project-2022" and had a bright future in ski jumping. Thea had all the prerequisites for becoming a ski jumper of international format, and her participation in the World Cup testifies how great faith we had in her. Now I would like your all to respect that her family and her team mates get some peace in a holiday that has become very different for us than we expected, says ski jumping manager, Clas Brede Braaten.
 
Furthermore, NSF writes:
- There will be no further comments from managers, trainers or athletes in the Norwegian Ski Association, and we ask the medias to respect the family's desire to have peace of mind in this difficult time.

Tickets bought for the final medal round match in Herning and the finals! 

Updates about Continental Qualification Tournaments:
 
Oceanian Qualifiers will be held on 29 February 2020 in Gold Coast,
Asian Qualifiers will take place on April 10-12 2020 in Wuxi, , confirming my idea that no other place in entire Asia is able to host a Taekwondo competition, apart, maybe, from Tokyo venue that will probably be completed the day before the first day of competition.
 
Beside irony, no news about Europe, African and PanAmerican qualifiers.

Americas Continental Qualification Regatta,
2-5 April 2020
Rio de Janeiro
 
 
3-6 October 2019 African Continental Qualification Regatta, Tunis, Tunisia.

November 2019 Asian Continental Qualification Tournament: Asian Archery Championships (Bangkok – THA)
20-26 April 2020 Pan American and Parapan American Championchips (Mexico) - American Continental Qualification Tournament
June 2020 Final Qualification Tournaments (FTQT and FIQT) (Berlin – GER)

Today i have a lot of time, so we can analyze team by team, for a good prediction...(sorry for my english... )
WATERPOLO M Probabily, 7 european team will be qualified. What are there? Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Montenegro, Spain, Greece...no more. 90% confirmed.
WATERPOLO W 10 team for tokyo, 4 for europe. A little bit more diffucult, but not impossible. 5 team for 4 spots, for me. So, 75%
VOLLEY M 2 chance: Italy-Serbia, and an european tournament with France and Bulgaria for one spot. Italian team is poor, without wing speakers. But versus Serbia, in Italy, are on 30% i think, and another 40% with no so strong France. Here my 45%
VOLLEY F c'mon, silver world championship i think can beat Ned... and in case of loss ther will be another torunament with Tur and AZE. 65% is not certainly optimistic...
FOOTBALL M 4 from european champioship, in Italy. We need second in first round, 'cause probabily england will be in semifinal. Terrible draw, i know, but depends witch  players will be called up. With Donnarumma, Chiesa, Cutrone, we have good chanches. Without them, we have no chanches. 30% after draw.
FOOTBALL W first three european team at world cup 2019. We need many gook luck. We will pass at 8/F. Here, all depends from draw.... We have to pass at 4/f with no more of 3 europena teams .... i hope in a wonderful GER/SWE in 8/F, NED/JAP is possible...
BASKET M 7 temas diretly at tokyo via world cup 2019. Only 2 for europe. Impossible. But, 16 next team to the olympic qualification tournaments. With? Italy is now a good team without a center. HAckett, Mannion, Vitali, Belinelli Della Valle, Datome, Gentile, Brooks, Melli, Gallinari, X.  1%? uhm....
BASKET F 6 berth for qualifyng torunament from eurobasket women. 3 spots for every tournament. We have a great team... 
BASKET 3x3. Italy have a great chance. 2020 FIBA Universality-driven Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Any NOC that has had a men's or women's team play in the basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics or basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics tournaments is ineligible for the UOQT, so we will play with Andorra, Mongolia.... 
BASEBALL M Depends, who will play?
Hockey F Japan wins the asiam games, so another spot is free. 7 single match (a/r) will decided. Probabily, match will be with New Zealand or Spain. Difficult? Sure. Impossible? nothing. 

Americas Continental Qualification Regatta,
2-5 April 2020
Rio de Janeiro
 
 
3-6 October 2019 African Continental Qualification Regatta, Tunis, Tunisia.

23-24 February 2019 African Championships - African Qualifying Competition, Cairo (EGY)
27-30 June 2019 2019 World Cup Final (Tokyo, JPN)
6-11 August 2019 European Championships, European Qualifying Competition (Bath, GBR)
26 July – 11 August 2019 Pan-American Games – Pan-American Qualifying Competition (Lima, PER)
2-9 September 2019 2019 UIPM World Championships (Budapest, HUN)
11-21 November 2019 Asian Championships - Asian Qualifying Competition, Kunming (CHN)
May 2020 2020 UIPM World Championships (Xiamen, CHN)

23-24 February 2019 African Championships - African Qualifying Competition, Cairo (EGY)
27-30 June 2019 2019 World Cup Final (Tokyo, JPN)
6-11 August 2019 European Championships, European Qualifying Competition (Bath, GBR)
26 July – 11 August 2019 Pan-American Games – Pan-American Qualifying Competition (Lima, PER)
2-9 September 2019 2019 UIPM World Championships (Budapest, HUN)
11-21 November 2019 Asian Championships - Asian Qualifying Competition, Kunming (CHN)
May 2020 2020 UIPM World Championships (Xiamen, CHN)

Here are the lists of the directly qualifying events for Tokyo 2020:
 
2019 Combined World Championship, August 20-21, Tokyo
2019 World Olympic qualification event, November 28 - December 1, Toulouse
 
Regional qualification events will take place in 2020, specifically:
African qualification event, May 1-3, Johanesburg
Asian qualification event, May 18-24, Morioka,
European qualification event, April 16-18, Moscow,
PanAmerican qualification event, February 27 - March 1, Los Angeles,
Oceanian qualification event, April 18-19, Sidney,
 
http://comiteolimpicoportugal.pt/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IFSC-Sport-Climbing.pdf

http://www.wbsc.org/worlds-top-12-nations-qualify-for-wbsc-premier12-2019-major-international-baseball-event

New team qualification events have been confirmed:
 
Dressage - Group C - Moscow (June 6-9)
Eventing - Groups F/G - Saumur (May 23-26)
Jumping - Group G - Valkenswaard (August 12-13)
 
Groups F/G qualifiers in eventing will be held very soon. I'm 99% sure that both spots will be reallocated however. South Africa may be able to find the third rider, but I really don't see the likes of India or Hong Kong putting together a CCI4*-L team in this short time frame...
 
Budapest apparently withdrew from hosting Group C jumping. Also Group F dressage venue is yet to be decided. I suspect or will host the Group C jumping, while some venue in will be picked for Group F dressage...
 
Also, the venue for Nations Cup Final in jumping is yet to be decided, which is important because hosts will be prequalified.

FIH released new men's world ranking after world cup:
 
1-  2-  3-  4-  5-  6-  7- / 8-  9-  10-  11-  12-  13-  14-  15-  16-  17-  18-  19-  20-   
 
Remember the ranking is important for the seeding of OQ play-offs. There will be 7 play-off matches (14 teams total).
 
Let's make a simulation of what would it look like if Australia, Argentina and Belgium win their continental ch. Japan doesn't participate ofc, and I will also
assume South Africa will reject the african quota but still participate in the play-offs.
 
Olympic play-offs draw simulation
 
Upper seeding (three matches)
 
Possible match-ups.... (seeds 1-3)    vs (seeds 12-14)     
 
Lower seeding (four matches)   
 
Possible match-ups.... (seeds 4-7)      vs (seeds 8-11)     

F Handball is now 100% sure

Detailed List  
Remaining NOCs - (Potential Sports they can qualify in)
 
Marshall Islands - (Athletics, Swimming) Mauritania - (Athletics)  
Total NOCs Remaining: 2

I have changed opinion about some after seeing qualifaction methods and performances...
 
Basketball men
 
Handball men
 
Handball women
 
Field hockey men
 
Field hockey women
 
Volleyball men
 
 

For anyone interested, I've added a Qualification Watch page to my blog.
 
Basically it lists all unqualified nations and which events they may qualify in. These are based on performances over the last two years. Please note that these are chances and not guarantees. Boxing will be added once the qualification process is confirmed. I have also yet to add invitation quotas (outside of athletics/swimming) as it is a bit too early to figure those out.
 
If anyone has any suggestions as to possible events a nation may qualify in, let me know.

France - Russia it is.

On paper Angola is the favourite, but it only takes one bad match to get eliminated. Usually Tunisia has a good chance for the upset, but they haven't looked too great. Senegal has had a great tournament so far.
 
Due to how the scheduling of the qualification system the winner here will be the first African nation to qualify to the Olympics

Group A: Italy, Spain, Poland, Belgium
Group B: Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Austria
Group C: England, France, Romania, Croatia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/46286424
"Snowboarder Charlotte Bankes defects from France to Britain"

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