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Awesome tournament girls !!! 2nd team in Tokyo ! 

So the winner of vs will qualify for Tokyo.

flag bearer will be Olympic champion Martine Grael (Sailing).
 
First time ever a woman will be our flag bearer at the Pan American Games. A nice link to her father (also Olympic champion) Torben Grael, who was our flag bearer in 1995.
 

Czech Republic wins 6:1.

French have become completely disorganized.

Looks like 4 countries will have all of their 6 teams in qualifying positions after the WCh.  I am adding Egypt's (Women's epee) and Morocco's (Men's epee) spots to the next best teams, because they are already 16th and won't be in the Top16 after the WC events.
 
6 teams
Italy, South Korea, Russia, United States
 
4 teams
France
 
3 teams
Canada, China, Ukraine
 
2 teams
Egypt, Poland
 
1 team
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Switzerland, Tunisia

No. More racing tomorrow.

Alex Rose threw a new personal best of 66.31m in Kutztown, PA, USA last Friday and achieved the Olympic standard in Men's Discus. 
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/samoa/alex-rose-257501

Congrats girls, just one more step to the final and you can earn the ticket to Tokyo. Let's do this!

Absolutely tragic performance from our women's sabre team. We will likely only have one team in Tokyo...

women's team Sabre, Round of 16
  
FRA vs TUR  45-24
JPN vs UKR  still running
KOR vs GER  45-39
CAN vs USA  still running
ITA vs HKG  45-28
POL vs HUN  still running
CHN vs ESP  45-42
RUS vs AZE  still running

men's team Foil, Quarterfinals (Tomorrow)
  
United States vs China
South Korea vs Russia
France vs Germany
Hong Kong vs Italy

men's team Foil, Round of 16
  
USA vs HUN  45-27
CHN vs EGY  45-31
KOR vs GBR  45-41
RUS vs UKR  45-18
FRA vs CAN  45-32
GER vs JPN  45-37
HKG vs POL  45-39
ITA vs DEN  45-29

women's team Foil, Semifinals
 
Italy b. France  45-37
Russia b. United States  45-36
 
women's team Foil, 5th-8th Placements
 
5. Japan
6. Canada
7. Poland
8. South Korea

Hm, I didn't realize until now that we still have a chance in Women's foil. I hope Italy will jump into the Top4 (I mean, it would pretty weird if Italy stays out of the Top4 in Women's foil), and Russia, France also stay there. That way Poland, Germany, and maaaybe us will fight for the European spot. But Poland can still gain a lot of points here at the WCh, it would be great for us and Germany if they don't get a better result than the 8th place. 

But it counts for the Olympic Qualificafion Ranking, right?

No, it isn't. The next edition in 2020 will be

women's team Epee, 9th-16th Placements
 
9. France
10. Romania
11. Japan
12. Germany
13. Hungary
14. Switzerland
15. Canada
16. Hong Kong

Looks like we're having one race per day...
 
Standings after Race 3
 
Overall
Josefin Olsson - 6
Line Flem Hoest - 8
Paige Railey - 12
Marie Bolou - 21
Marit Bouwmeester - 24
...
 
Olympic qualification
38 41 47 50 52 57 62 62 66
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80
81
88
91
91
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Well done Mepstead making it this far. Lefort clearly the best today, awesome performance.
 

Lefort

Annabelle Collins finally started her Olympic campaign in Deauville. 68.413%, meaning first 184 points for her.

men's Sabre quarterfinals
 
Eli Dershwitz vs Andras Szatmari
Mojtaba Abedini vs Max Hartung
Shaul Gordon vs Luca Curatoli
Konstantin Lokhanov vs Oh Sanguk

women's Epee quarterfinals
 
Olena Kryvytska vs Kang Young Mi
Lee Hye In vs Lin Sheng
Vivian Kong Man Wai vs Coraline Vitalis
Nathalie Moellhausen vs Lis Rottler-Fautsch

Canada is missing (by my count they have 13 qualifiers)