Asian here https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/FC6CF37B668A4239A5CC09FE362B33BB#today
On the other hand, as usual any info on African QT seem impossible to find.
https://www.coni.it/it/news/errigo-e-tamberi-portabandiera-azzurri-a-parigi-2024,-il-13-giugno-riceveranno-il-tricolore-da-mattarella.html
Arianna Errigo and Gianmarco Tamberi officially selected as flag bearers for
No, there's no chance, rules are clear.
The mistake was not using other walkers to field a 3rd pair like Japan did as backup, Instead of having them compete in the useless individual race.
Amateurish mistake, here medals count way less than qualifying for Paris...probably even mixing pairs (Palmisano-3rd man, Stano-3rd woman) would have been enough.
Stano injured after stepping on a bottle thrown by someone else, so goodbye to the 2nd team for Italy, and maybe 2 big Olympic medal chances, individual and relay, already gone.
Don't think UEFA will do it in the near future, they've been having early games for years in the group stage and the EL and most probably they estimated that the loss of audience they'd face for the 2 games starting in the afternoon would be greater than the number of people watching both games for 2 days in a row.