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

Thank you for the votes @Mateus Nagime, sharing them here is good enough.
 
I'm accepting votes all day today, although I think most people are busy with other things 🎅 Only 17 voters so far which is not great...

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.
 

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

OQT Grand Slam Champions Series Final Qualifiers - Day 1 
 
 
(X) indicates the athlete's current Olympic Ranking List.
 
Women's 49Kg
1  Alisa Angelova
2  Yanying Zhang (318)
3  Xueqin Tan (242)
4  Elif Sude Akgul (131)
5  Xiaoxue Yang (19)
6  Irina Rogozina 
7  Ju Zuo (18)
8  Xiaoting Ye
 
 
Women's 67Kg
1  Hyo rim Hong (18)
2  Lilliia Khuzina
3  Aaliyah Powell
4  Lauren WIlliams (14)
5  Ruth Gbagbi (4)
6  Ozoda Sobirijonova (66)
7  Milena Titoneli (9)
8  Mengyu Zhang (7)
 
 
Men's 68Kg
1  Yushuai Liang (11)
2  Ilia Danilov
3  Lei Yan (461)
4  Martin Rezaei (15)
5  Abolfazl Yaghoubijouybari
6  Maksim Osin
7  Tae young Kim (36)
8  Chenming Xiao (38)
 
 
Men's +80Kg
1  Yaoxi Wang (89)
2  Vladislav Larin
3  Arian Salimi (23)
4  Ivan Sapina (3)
5  Pedro Arthur Alves Jesus (155)
6  Rafail Aiukaev
7  Sanghyun Kang (12)
8  Zhaoxiang Song (8)
 
 
So of the 32 qualifiers on day 1 the national breakdown is:
 
 - 11 qualifiers 
 - 7 qualifiers
  - 3 qualifiers
  - 2 qualifiers
    - 1 qualifier
 
 
 
I don't pretend to understand how the entry list for the Grand Slam Final/OQT worked but there were some pretty high ranked athletes who didn't make it through:
 
Women's 49Kg
 Qing Guo (6)
 Mi-reu Kang (9)
 
Women's 67Kg
 Cecilia Castro Burgos (10)
 Feruza Sadikova (12) 
 
Men's 68Kg
 Ho-jun Jin (5)
 
Men's +80Kg
 Ayoub Bassel (16)
 

This, the 6th athlete in the World Ranking will grab the quota

in case you didn't see it already
 
http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=140815&mcd=K14&sc=re

world and continental champs scores are mandatory, they can't be discarded
 
they look at the discarded result and at the best single placing among the qualifying tournaments, but right now I don't remember in which order 

But they accept what is hapenning in Palestine ....so Russian are allowed to participate 

Russia is still in murky standing with WADA, which might explain why events aren't being "green-lighted" by World Aquatics.

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

This was way back,but i about died laughing hearing an African Olympic committee president tell ours that the baltics are the ones causing all the drama and should be thrown out of the olympics,europeans have this thing where everyone is supposed to have their position on everything and it's funny in cases like this when it gets shut down.Anyway point is your right,Africa,Asia litereally don't give a fuck,honestly,these european countries sense of self importance is just sad

well, that's another story
 
Old Italian IOC Member Franco Carraro said that most likely there won't be any high ranking official to the Opening Ceremony because they (and also the organizers, even if they will never admit that) are afraid of a possible terrorist attack by the Islamic supporters related to the  vs Hamas (& friends) current situation
 
the only people outside  and  still talking of that conflict are those idiots running the EU, nobody else cares about that anymore

Is this supposed to be news ? They can do as they please,but i hope they won't be surprised when no one ends up following them and everyone makes excuses as to why they didn't.I don't really understand all this  ''may'',may not crap,if your that outraged than just say you won't be there and get it over with,far as i seen even in the Ukraine position among athletes isn't unanonious on this,so this just feels like screaming into the wind

All individuals.
 
From my understanding of what is not fully written:

Russian and Belarus athletes can not form pairs (as in tennis doubles, etc).
And they will get invitations to sports in which the qualification is already finished or has sidelined them (gymnastics comes first in my mind, but boxing etc).
 
Would be more intersting if they could still attend olympic qualifiers (as in boxing, or gymnastics world cup) instead of gaining straight quota.

I truly don't understand how they are so enraged by Russian / Belarussian participation and don't condemn other "agressor" countries with "blood on their hands".
 
And I love how people just throw the card "IOC does not know what Olympism is all about", as some say that the Pope is not a "real catholic" and so on. 

One can just point out how Olympism has its flaws as a philiopshy without point out how it just knows all about it.

spoiler,  and  athletes have alredy faced  athletes in Wrestling and Judo this year...and nothing really unfair happened both on and off the mat
 
the only shameful episode was the  Kharlan case at the Fencing Worlds last Summer...and it was just a political farce fixed in a couple of days after the social media shitstorm that hit FIE for being senselessly pro-Russian, nothing remarkable actually happened on the piste

Not showing up to a sports event is strength for the Brits now ? Wow, the British empire has fallen

if I remember correctly last time in 2020 WT never published any specific list for qualified athletes. they just published their ranking in early days of January like any other month. so I expect the same this time but you never know. maybe they do a better job this time
 
and yes quotas are 100% confirmed only when they publish the next ranking but I'm 99% sure what I wrote earlier is correct unless they change some scores from past tournaments. (highly unlikely but not impossible)

On the 66kg Marissa Williamson is also on the final, but not really sure who will take the silver medal lol

wow, priceless!!! amazing <3