Faramir

So men's foil has reached the maximum of 37 entries.

Leave it be, for many in NED we are either completely unorganized or run by the "maFFia", we're lucky when they choose the first option.

Laughable. Boyfriend and coach who was an elite fencer for many years (and certainly knows antidoping regulations) who, just after retiring, willingly purchased banned substance because why not, and then contaminated her through sex. Surely to make it more believable Thibus at least will break up with him and sue him for putting her at risk and causing moral and financial damage. . Otherwise someone might think that she convinced him to take the blame.

Arianna Bridi once again (as in 2021-22) not deemed fit to compete after the last medical checkup, due to heart problems...the spot in the 10km will be taken by another Italian.

A javelin thrower. Unlikely to win a medal.

Tested "over ten times" and acting like it's a huge number...given that a few of those are surely in-competition, that probably means she missed at least 30% of the out-of-competition ones, but that sounds much worse.

why? The only requirement I read is having 10 points in an event counting for the Olympic ranking. It doesn't say that the points must be obtained in Sprint/Keirin.

USA Fencing announced the full roster fo the Olympics

https://documents.worldarchery.sport/Events/Olympic_Games/2024_Paris/Qualification_Olympics.pdf

If you check the list of qualifiers on world archery website, France already got the quota at the World Championships (in women's by finishing top 3 so one more quota went to the final qualifiers, in men's as host by competing with 3 archers- this was the only requirement to be given the host quota after the WCh). So it's the same case of Korea.

Not empty at all, it's always at full capacity. The stand behind one of the goals is closed this season because they tore it down and just rebuilt it larger.

any news about this case?

Very good news, well done Wierer.

Camila Giorgi (tennis). No announcement but she declared herself retired to the International Tennis integrity Agency.

Confirmed as a serious injury - ruptured ACL.

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.