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They shouldn't have been banned in the first place, all this situation is a total mess. Let's see what happens. They mention specifically "The Individual Neutral Athletes will be invited by the IOC and their respective IFs. Only a very limited number of athletes will qualify through the existing qualification systems of the IFs. " I guess they are good enough to get the quotas through the WC (1 men and 1 women), but they had this "invitations" ready here. I'm sure fencing, for instance, will use it.

If I'm not mistaken, we already had 3 World Cups this year and we should have two more (Baku and Cottbus), but I see we will also have a World Cup in the Netherlands in April. Do you guys know if it will also count for the Olympic ranking? thanks!

I'm sure they will get wild cards (maybe 1 per NOC?) now that the IOC has promised it.

I'm about to do this for the website I write, whenever is ready I send it on the swimming page

As @Larajasaid he would get both quotas. But World Skateboarding does not have any prevision for what would happen with the "missing" quota. USA could not take another skater as they would have 3 on park and 3 on street. But could we have 23 athletes on street so Skateboarding would have 88 athletes in total? it is possible.

Hey @vinipereirahere are my votes. Thank you so much for the extension! Should I also send you by DM? I'm surprised I'm the first person to mention skateboarding? It is curious because I wanted to include some of them on "Breakthrough" but as they had less than 18 years I had to somehow nudge them all on the youth! BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Johannes Thingnes Boe (Biathlon) #2: Noah Lyles (Athletics) #3: Novak Djokovic (Tennis) #4: Hashimoto Daiki (Artistic Gymnastics) #5: Lèon Marchand (Swimming) #6: Mathieu van der Poel (Cycling) Could complete a back-up list equally as powerful as this one. No judoka (Tasoev, Abe, Hashimoto), No Filipe Toledo, no Marco Odermatt, no Fan Zhendong... What Mondo Duplantis needs to do to come back to this list? Or Jakob Ingebrigtsen... BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Molly O'Callaghan (Swimming) #2: Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) #3: Rebeca Andrade (Artistic Gymnastics) #4: Christa Deguchi (judo) #5: Lisa Carrington (Canoeing) #6: Kokona Hiraki (Skateboarding) BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines Sorry, need to get better on this one! BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes with a disability #1: Aline Rocha (Cross-Country Skiing) - biased perhaps or for sure? #2: Tanguy De La Forest (Shooting) #3: Jesper Pedersen (Alpine Skiing) #4: Marcel Hug (Athletics) #5: Simone Barlaam (Swimming) #6: Diede De Groot (Tennis) BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Summer McIntosh (Swimming) #2: Rayssa Leal (Skateboarding) #3: Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics) #4: Chen Yuxi (Diving) #5: Maximilian Maeder (Sailing, Kitesurfing) #6: Yumeka Oda (Skateboarding) Special Mention: Ginwoo Onodera (Skateboarding) BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Basketball NT #2: Waterpolo NT #3: Rugby (Union) NT #4: Baseball NT #5: Team Sprint (Track Cycling) #6: 8+ (rowing) BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Foil (Fencing) #2: Swimming Freestyle Relays #3: Waterpolo NT #4: Football NT #5: Field Hockey #6: 8+ (rowing) BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan (badminton) #2: Ana Patrícia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (women's Beach Volleyball) #3: Equestrian Jumping Team #4: Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (Bobsleigh) #5: Jan Willem van Schip / Yoeri Havik (Track Cycling) #6: Perusic/Schweiner (Beach Volleyball) BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Qin Haiyang (Swimming) #2: Luigi Cini (Skateboarding) #3: Jonatan Hellvig/David Åhman (Beach Volleyball) #4: Akhmed Tazhudinov (Wrestling) #5: Cassiel Rousseau (Diving) #6: Máté Tamás Koch (Fencing) (Thought about including Women's AG from Brazil for finally winning a team medal but in the end Cini got the individual mention) COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) #2: Inal Tasoev (Judo) #3: Cameron McEvoy (Swimming) #4: Mayra Aguiar (Judo) #5: Antonella Palmisano (race walk - athletics) #6: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (biathlon) I tried to avoid 2022 comebacks even if they managed to reach the top of their game only this year SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 #1: "World Champion of What?" (LYLES, Noah, 2023) #2: Italy winning the Davis Cup (Tennis) #3: Australia winning World Championship over India at the Narendra Modi Stadium #4: Femke Bol falling on the finish line and losing the Relay Gold (Athletics) #5: Men's Team celebration of their Olympic Quota in the locker room - is this about sport? not sure anymore (Volleyball) #6: totally biased now: Nathalie Moellhausen, Amanda Netto Simeão and Victoria Vizeu winning the gold medal at the PanAm, only the second for Brazilian history in fencing (Netto Simeão retired just after the match and it was the last match for Moellhausen on the team - she will focus on individual now) (fencing) also very moving: Adriana Diaz and Bruna Takahashi embrace at the end of their match at the Pan American Games final (Table Tennis)

I've heard from the Brazilian Federation that the Brazilians will not compete in Europe anymore this year, so for Brazil the road is over. One of the main sport journalists ran this story today But I would love to know about other countries as well.

Brazil will lose its Team Quota in Dressage. Is there any list to check which athletes and therefore which nations already have the MER filled? And I'm not sure how the reallocation of individual quotas happens, as in: the individual distribution of quotas happen only after the team reallocation?

The new bulletin answered that. Basically many many points. We will have the pro tour in Dubai in march and then OQS in Xangai and Budapest for both park ans street

I would assume they just didn't bother to go there.

So, just to be clear, in a scenarion in which an athlete at the top5 in the rankings also gets to be number 1 in the Grand Slam Rankings. Would he/she get a quota through the Rankings? and the second place at Grand Slam would qualify? Or the athlete would qualify through the GS and the 6th ranked athlete would get the quota? According to Brazilian Taekwondo Federation, Maicon will not go to Wuxi. Only 6 athletes who were already travelling to the Team World Cup competed plus one who did the trip by himself. The logics of the federation is that they went bad at the first Grand Slam they did not have a chance at the Olympic Quota so it did not make any sense to travel there. Instead they will focus on the Pan-American Qualifier I think this was a bad thing to do, specially for Icaro and Maicon who could still win a quota in case they won.

I have a couple of questions regarding Olympic quota here, sorry if they are obvious! 1- Will the point system for Wuxi 2 be the same for the Wuxi Grand Slam in march? 2- World Taekwondo only promotes Grand Slam events in Wuxi? WTF? 3- So, if the rankings will be released only in January what happens when athletes classify via Grand Slam and rankings? where does the reallocation takes place? thank you so much :D

Is someone (or totallympics lol) doing a live rankings during the tournament ? i will try to do it, but don't want to waste so many hours hahaha (May December reference, sorry)

I will try to do live scoring for the rankings. I guess many skateboarders can guarantee a top44 finish after this. We still don't know how many points will be up for grabs in the OQS, right?

Is there any link with the results for this tournament? Can't find them on world taekwondo

Thank you so much. I edited the post. I've looked at the scenario for the pan-am quota at lenght here (in portuguese) and the scenario for other quotas in Americas. For now: 15 10 3 2 1

I miss the days in which Americas had 2 quotas. I guess it would be more fair to each continent have 1 individual quota and the 2 best continents have a 2nd quota?

getting back to this to ask: what the heck is doing throwing away their chances at getting a pan-am quota?

Does anyone know what would happen in a tie?

I don't think Canada is safe. has 122 and will necessarily drop 8 points, going to 114. It could also replace an 8pt. has 149 will drop 20pt, going to 129pt and could only replace 18pt. has 92pt but will not drop or replace anything. So let's say for the sake of argument that Brazil and Canada will do 12th and 13th on the two next world Cups (as they did in Japan), but Chile would be 16th in both. Brazil would gain 22+22 (44), dropping 8pt from Cairo and replacing 8 from Acapulco. It would gain 28pt and go to 150pt. On another scenario, let's say Brazil finishes in 16th in the following World Cups. It would gain 18+18-8-8, going to 142pt. Canada would gain 21+21 (42), dropping 20pt from Cairo and replacing 18 from Istanbul. It would gain 4pt and go to 153pt. Chile would gain 18+18, going to 128pt. So Chile is almost out of the race and they would probaly need 4 top16 finishes (including in Istanbul last month) to be in the competition. But it could be a strong team for Los Angeles. It's hard to imagine Brazil going better than 12th, but if it finished around 12-14 on the next two World Cups, it could gain the American quota IF Canada is knocked out on first round in one of the two events (as they almost did in Japan)

Regarding the new ranking I don't understand how the 5 Team Invitations quota were awarded. If my thought is correct: Austria (M-73kg), Azerbaijan (W+70kg), Canada (W+70kg), Cuba (W-57kg), Georgia (W-70kg), Germany (M-73kg), Kazhakstan (W-70kg), Serbia (M-73kg) had 5 quotas so were elegibe to the team invitation. Those were the best athletes from each of the missing categories ordered by points: Germany: Igor WANDTKE (73kg, 1518pt) - European quota Serbia: Strahinja BUNCIC (66kg, 1384pt) - Returned quota #1 Kazakhstan: Esmigul KUYULOVA (63kg, 976pt) - Asian quota Cuba: Arnaes ODELIN GARCIA (57kg, 876pt) - American quota Austria: Marcus AUER (60kg, 454 pt) - Returned quota #2 Georgia: Eter ASKILASHVILI (63kg, 279pt) Canada: Coralie GODBOUT (78kg, 220pt) Azerbaijan: Narmin AMIRLI (78kg, 112pt) or Nigar SULEYMANOVA (+78kg, 112pt) Apparently through the IJF rankings website, Cuba (Americas), Georgia (Europe) and Kazhakistan (Asia) are getting the two quotas and Germany and Austria are with the returned quotas. So basically I don't understand how Georgia managed to get one of those quotas instead of Serbia. Or am I missing something here? And I wonder if other countries from Oceania will manage to send athletes to enter the rankings and fill the other quotaS? Thank you so much!

it sure does look like they will say "no thanks, let's have more europeans in paris"

but curiously events in Russia and Belarus count for the olympic ranking/quota, but so far no swimming event in Russia was "Green-lighted". Perhaps the russians will start to swim in other countries (Doha?) and finally will get their quotas.

I get it, and I can see why one or another country would boycott it (although I don't like it). The same way as Cuba and Albania boycotted Seoul 1988 in defense of North Korea.

they don't do this anymore. As in BMX cycling, where a guy from RSA was the last at World Championships and guaranteed a quota to Paris.