Faramir

Nah, it's only who did it first.

A very poor start list for the general classification...securing Pogacar's presence might have worked against the organizers since anyone else already knew they couldn't win barring incidents.

In the women's team competition Japan lost early to Austria, Canada to Ukraine, USA to Korea. Korea and Ukraine (0 fencers qualified to Paris between the two of them) in semifinal. In men's competition, #1 Japan knocked out by #16 Singapore, only Italy of the top 4 reaching the semifinal (and by barely surviving to Ukraine and Egypt). Goes to show how small a field of 8 (or 7+1 in the women's) teams is.

I think Batini

No, it's not a metaphor, he was literally diagnosed with a heart condition at the last medical check up. As you know the Italian NOC is strict compared to other countries about this and athletes don't get the authorization to compete at elite levels with such problems. Ironically, Garozzo is also a medical doctor.

Wait...first a few quotas will be given to tripartite nations (ex ,...let's say from 2 to 4 as JoshMartini007 said), then the rest will be reallocated to those fencers in the list in order - I wrote the first 8 but it's pretty much impossible that all 8 get the quota. I guess nobody will refuse barring big injuries.

Yes but Italy is guaranteed to win the quota by ranking in case someone else gets the European quota. So, one way or another, Italy will have 2 men and therefore 2 teams.

Ilieva and Tulen gets the last spots. Now, since France had no need to use any host quota, there are 8 universality places for tripartite nations- too many, considering that a few of them qualified on their own. So some of them will be reallocated. "if the Tripartite Commission is not able to allocate Universality Place(s), such unallocated Place(s) will be attributed by the FIE to the next highest-ranked eligible athlete in the Individual Senior Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) as of 1 April 2024, across all weapon and all FIE Zones, but strictly respecting the following: - The maximum number of athletes in each individual event (37) and - The NOC must not have any athlete already qualified in the corresponding individual event " The first eligible fencers in order should be RANK FENCER NOC POINTS 13 LLAVADOR Carlos ESP 98 m foil 17 XIAO Ruien CAN 76,5 w epee 19 BASHTA Anna AZE 75 w sabre 20 ERBIL Nisanur TUR 71 w sabre 23 BAYARD Alexis SUI 68 m epee 23 TEODOSIU Iulian ROU 66 m sabre 25 DI TELLA Isabel ARG 58 w epee 28 PEREIRA Yulen ESP 55 m epee **** EIFLER Larissa GER 58,5 w sabre

Not trying to answer to everything (it would take a long post of repeating word for word the same things said yesterday or 1 month ago over and over), just want to point out that: 1) Ilieva, even if she fails today, and Llavador are 99% getting in with reallocation; 2) the FIE absolutely and rightly wants to keep 12 olympic events,which they manager to get at Tokyo 2021 for the first time, and thinking that the IOC would keep the same number of quotas for fencing if they get rid of the team events is pure nonsense (and, sorry to say it, but it doesn't surprise me that the suggestion come from someone who barely follows the sports). With only 6 events it's way more likely that there'd be a much smaller field. Anyway the IOC also wrote to the FIE making clear that they consider the fencing qualification system a good one. You can read hundreds of page long transcripts of the FIE meetings on their website, in the last few years most of the time was spent discussing first the olympic qualification and then the Russian status.

Agree in theory but not in practice in this case: when your best was like 30th in the individual olympic ranking across all weapons, and the field is around 34 fencers, with any qualification system with continental limitations qualifying someone would be a coin toss

You have one, competing for Cyprus. It's more the reward for how stupid and ignorant the British sport system is in regards to funding in sports where results are highly variable, i clearly remember they cut fencing funding to zero because Kruse lost the bronze medal bout in 2016 (while they had 1 medal target), until he won a WCh medal in 2018 or something. Zero funding despite having one of the best in the world in his weapon for a few years, no wonder you lost some potential.

Again, if 3 fencers from country X are there for the team event, having only 2 of them compete in the individual event won't increase the spots for individuals unless the total number of quotas is increased - which is clearly not happening.

That would mean increasing the total number of fencers so it's not realistic. Also, more direct quotas in a sport highly open to upsets it's just lazy and not meritocratic - this is one of the few olympic sports with a very well established ranking based on a clear world cup/GP circuit where the best alnost always compete against each other.

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.

And Hecht - Brunner in women's epee

men's foil semifinals: Files - De Greef Winterberg-Poulsen - Tofalides Llavador out and now has to hope that some universality quotas get reallocated.

Oh no, Mikaela Shiffrin-Kilde incoming. Or even worse, Mikaela Kilde.

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.

No

Great, they're going to win and they won't be in Paris (in the relay)

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.

July Ranking. After the zonal championships.

Who and in which tv channel and language?

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.