LDOG

I give up, this tournament is impossible. I may as well have made random predictions everywhere and I would be earning more points. I don't remember any hockey competition like this, it's normally a very predictable sport.

Archery: 0-1 (women individual) Artistic Swimming: 0 Athletics: 13-16 Badminton: 0 - only core sport Argentina has never qualified. Baseball: 0 Basketball: 0-12 (men, 50/50 chance) Beach Volleyball: 0-4 Boxing: 1-2 Canoeing - Slalom: 0-1 Canoeing - Sprint: 2-10 (for sure K1 200 and 1000 in men, I don't know if there is still continental quota for K4) Cycling - BMX: 1-2 (could be two men -difficult- or one each gender) Cycling - Mountain Bike: 0-1 (men) Cycling - Road: 1-3 (men) Cycling - Track: 0-1 (omnium if he improves, but most likely nothing) Diving: 0 - this sport is currently inexistent Equestrian: 1-4 maybe we can qualify the jumping team again. Fencing: 2-3 (by ranking in women sabre/men epee, maybe continental quota in Women epee) Field Hockey: 32 Football: 0-18 (men) Golf: 1-2 (men only) Gymnastics - Artistic: 2 (men&women individual) Gymnastics - Rhythmic: 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: 0 Handball: 0-14 (maybe the men can qualify, 50/50 against Brazil) Judo: 1-2 (Paula Pareto and... maybe someone else) Karate: 0-1 (it's a long shot) Modern Pentathlon: 1-2 (women for sure, men maybe) Rowing: 2-8 (for sure the singles, maybe the lightweight doubles and maybe men double sculls if they can improve a bit) Rugby Sevens: 12 (men) Sailing: 11-13 (everything except the 470s -men with light chance-) Shooting: 4-5 (10m air rifle m&w, skeet m&w and maybe we can qualify someone in trap or 3 positions) Skateboarding: 0 - no idea, but I don't think we have much chance. Softball: 0 Sport Climbing: 0 - no idea, we have good young climber girl for YOG but don't think she will have level to qualify for Tokyo. Surfing: 0 Swimming: 7-10 (women breastroke 100 and 200, women freestyle all except 100, men freestyle 50, 100, 200, women medley 200, 400, men butterfly 100, 200, open water women) Table Tennis: 0-1 (maybe one men) Taekwondo: 0-1 (maybe Lucas Guzmán can qualify this time) Tennis: 4 (full men team, no women) Triathlon: 1-2 Volleyball: 12-24 (men certainly and women depending on Brazil mostly) Water Polo: 0 Weightlifting: 0 - we're pathetic Wrestling: 1 - Bermúdez again in W freestyle. Total Sports: 21-32 Optimistic Total Athletes: 214 Realistic Total Athletes: Around 150 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 112

Tokyo Qualification Events have already begun and this year we have many of them. Earlier we had a thread about Early Team Sports Qualification Predictions, but now with little less than two years to the beginning of the Games, it's time to open thread for official qualification predictions. Here is a Template you can follow for a detailed prediction by Sport. Copy, paste and edit the text inside the brackets. Archery: add your text/number here Artistic Swimming: add your text/number here Athletics: add your text/number here Badminton: add your text/number here Baseball: add your text/number here Basketball: add your text/number here Beach Volleyball: add your text/number here Boxing: add your text/number here Canoeing - Slalom: add your text/number here Canoeing - Sprint: add your text/number here Cycling - BMX: add your text/number here Cycling - Mountain Bike: add your text/number here Cycling - Road: add your text/number here Cycling - Track: add your text/number here Diving: add your text/number here Equestrian: add your text/number here Fencing: add your text/number here Field Hockey: add your text/number here Football: add your text/number here Golf: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Artistic: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Rhythmic: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Trampoline: add your text/number here Handball: add your text/number here Judo: add your text/number here Karate: add your text/number here Modern Pentathlon: add your text/number here Rowing: add your text/number here Rugby Sevens: add your text/number here Sailing: add your text/number here Shooting: add your text/number here Skateboarding: add your text/number here Softball: add your text/number here Sport Climbing: add your text/number here Surfing: add your text/number here Swimming: add your text/number here Table Tennis: add your text/number here Taekwondo: add your text/number here Tennis: add your text/number here Triathlon: add your text/number here Volleyball: add your text/number here Water Polo: add your text/number here Weightlifting: add your text/number here Wrestling: add your text/number here Total Sports: add your text/number here Optimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here Realistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here Pessimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's Finn Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Jorge Zarif Milan Vujasinović Tapio Nirkko Jonathan Lobert x Giles Scott x Ed Wright Ioannis Mitakis Zsombor Berecz Nicholas Heiner Peter-Jan Postma Josh Junior Andrew Maloney Max Salminen Alican Kaynar Caleb Paine x Any Other Athlete Men's 470 Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Mathew Belcher/William Ryan x David Bargehr/Lukas Mahr Zangjun Xu/Chao Wang Any Athletes from France Any Athletes from Germany Luke Patience/Chris Grube Panagiotis Mantis/Pavlos Kagialis x Giacomo Ferrari/Giulio Calabro Any Athletes from Japan Paul Snow-Hansen/Daniel Willcox Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom x Denis Cinar/Ates Cinar Stuart McNay/David Hughes Any Other Athlete Women's 470 Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Any Athlete from China Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz Any Athlete from Germany Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre x Amy Seabright/Anna Carpenter Gil Cohen/Noa Lasry Ai Kondo Yoshida/Miho Yoshioka Afrodite Zegers/Anneloes van Veen Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek-G. Tina Mrak/Veronika Macarol x Any Athlete from Spain x Linda Fahrni/Maja Siegenthaler Any Other Athlete Men's Laser Day 2 August 11th, 2018 Tim Burton x Mathew Wearn Tonči Stipanović Pavlos Kontides x Jean-Baptiste Bernaz Philipp Buhl x Any Athlete from Great Britain Juan Ignacio Maegli Any Athlete from Italy Sam Meech Thomas Saunders Stefano Peschiera Jesper Stalheim Christopher Barnard Any Other Athlete Women's Laser Radial Day 2 August 11th, 2018 Emma Plasschaert x Tatiana Drozdovskaya Brenda Bowskill Anne-Marie Rindom x Any Athlete from Finland Any Athlete from France Any Athlete from Germany Alison Young Maria Erdi Manami Doi Viktorija Andrulyte Marit Bouwmeester x Josefin Olsson Paige Railey Erika Reineke Dolores Moreira Any Other Athlete Men's 49er Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Yago Lange/Klaus Lange Benjamin Bildstein/David Hussl Šime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela Any Athlete from Denmark Any Athlete from France Any Athlete from Germany Dylan Fletcher-Scott/Stuart Bithell x James Peters/Fynn Sterritt Logan Dunning Beck/Oscar Gunn Josh Porebski/Trent Rippey Any Athlete from Poland x Jorge Lima/Jose Costa Any Athlete from Spain x Any Other Athlete Women's 49er FX Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Victoria Travascio/Maria Branz Martine Grael/Kahena Kunze x Ida M. Baad Nielsen/Marie T. Olsen x Jena Mai Hansen/Katja S.-Iversen x Any Athlete from Germany Charlotte Dobson/Saskia Tidey Odile van Aanholt/Marieke Jongens Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz Alexandra Maloney/Molly Meech Ragna Agerup/Maia Agerup Helene Naess/Marie Rønningen Kimberly Lim/Cecilia Low Tamara Echegoyen/Paula Barcelo Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Men's IKA Formula Kite Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Martin Dolenc Theo de Ramecourt Axel Mazella x Nicolas Parlier Florian Gruber Guy Bridge x Oliver Bridge x Maks Zakowski Denis Taradin Toni Vodišek Any Athlete from the United States Any Other Athlete Women's IKA Formula Kite Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Stine Jensen Leonie Meyer Steph Bridge Anais Mai Desjardin Alexia Fancelli x Megumi Hirata Elena Kalinina x Bibiana Magaji Daniela Moroz x Bilge Ozturk Any Other Athlete Men's RS:X Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Bing Ye Mengfan Gao Louis Giard Thomas Goyard Pierre Le Coq x Kieran Holmes Martin Byron Kokkalanis Shahar Zubari Mattia Camboni Kiran Badloe Dorian van Rijsselberghe x Piotr Myszka Ivan Pastor Mateo Sanz Lanz Any Other Athlete x Women's RS:X Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Peina Chen x Yunxiu Lu Ingrid Puusta Helene Noesmoen Charline Picon Any Athlete from Great Britain Hei Man Chan Noga Geller x Flavia Tartaglini Lilian de Geus x Malgorzata Bialecka Zofia Noceti-Klepacka Stefania Elfutina Marina Alabau Bianca Manchon Any Other Athlete Mixed Nacra 17 Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin x Thomas Zajac/Barbara Matz Lin Cenholt/Christian Lubeck Any Athlete from France Paul Kohlhoff/Alisa Stuhlemmer John Grimson/Anna Burnet Ben Saxton/Nicola Boniface x Vittorio Biassaro/Maelie Farscari Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti x Gemma Jones/Jason Saunders Olivia Mackay/Micah Wilkinson Fernando Echevarri/Tara Pacheco Riley Gibbs/Louisa Chafee Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Really? That's the reason we're waiting?? Can I just open it?

Is a "qualification predictions" thread ever gonna be opened?

Football, Handball, Hockey, Volleyball and lately i'm taking a liking to Fencing.

Solid 5th place of our team smashing USA in their turf. Too bad we had to play Fiji in QF. Fiji and South Africa are the only teams we can never beat.

Lol korea changed goalkeeper in the first quarter but it made no difference. I found out their keepers have only 6 and 5 international caps respectively that's an insane choice from their coach, no wonder these girls can't stop any shot.

Oops now it's 6-0, all this in 7 shots on goal

The dutch girls probably watched the Argentina match and got more motivated to score today... 5-0 to Korea in first quarter.

I see there is no thread for this year WCh in results site, can someone link me to wherever I can see the tableau(s)?

Yes, she has some ancestry. Though I think if she were actually lithuanian her surname would change to a female form.

I wasn't really expecting such result but China and Korea are weaker than years ago so not impossible for Italy. Some upsets so far.

OK, day 1 thoughts: -Germany and Australia winning as expected. -England, from what I read in media (because I can't watch, geoblock) and looking at statistics (shots 15-4, PCs 9-0), deserved more. It's disappointing to start your home WC with a tie, but I don't think it will matter much, I see them winning the two next games handily. -USA losing to Ireland is surprising but not unthinkable. The US team had many retirements after the OG and they are a much weaker team now. I was cautious in my predictions (I gave them +1 victories vs Ireland and India), but I won't be surprised if they go out in 3 games. Tomorrow: The big candidate Netherlands starts (easy group with 3 weak teams) and also the start for Argentina and Argentina B (Italy, 10/18 players argentinian). Also, Belgium-New Zealand will be interesting, Belgium has a bit of dark horse potential.

You forget that also in those games India lost 6-0 the bronze medal match to England...

I would like to watch but the tv that has rights here will only show Argentina games and FIH doesn't livestream anything in youtube anymore.

Wtf is this format? Our team gets Fiji in QF if they pass Canada... goodbye.

14th place for me after a disaster start near the bottom isn't bad (i'm usually bad in football prediction that isn't copa america). Now the event we have been waiting for, Hockey World Cup (?)

He reminded me to our keeper (Armani) against France: not close to saving the penalty, energy-less reaction in the long distance shots... And Lloris reminded me of Caballero haha

She even gave awkward hug to the referee.

Haha umbrella for Putin only.

Lol Karius

France has done barely anything in 60 mins and they already 3-1 up.

Lmao there are like 10000 stewards in the stadium today and there still are pitch invaders.