Faramir

12 hours ago, phelps said:

well, maybe she was just adapting to her new team...

 

but you can be sure that Italy is always the best arranged team when travelling around the world, we do even have our cooks and we bring our essential kinds of food with us...

 

no team puts their athletes in better condition to perform than ours

 

obviously, we do everything "the Italian style", which means no anticipated/long term programs...we always adapt to the situation and find the best solution that fits that given day's condition

 

living in Italy for so long, now she should know how it works at our latitude... 

 

and surely it's way, way different than in the Netherlands (or any other Central/North European Country) 

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.

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Who is „Jena“ (athletics)?

A javelin thrower. Unlikely to win a medal.

15 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Breezy Johnson  - whereabouts sanction

 

 

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.

On 4/24/2024 at 6:50 PM, Fran-UDA said:

 is forced to decline at a quota (Keirin or Sprint) because the second rider is not elegible

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

2 minutes ago, Illya said:

Can you please attach the link? Thanks

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

12 minutes ago, Illya said:

I don't think so. Because France can get direct quota and their host quota will be reallocated to the Final OQ (just like in shooting, but in shooting it was allocated to the rankings). 

 

Case with Korea is not 100% appropriate here, because Korean guys won their quotas at the WCh and France did not

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.

On 4/5/2024 at 8:08 PM, Vektor said:

And it's officially  Anna Kun. They will have to hurry up with the ban, otherwise we won't get a replacement athlete for the individual quota spot, who would actually be another Hungarian athlete, Muhari. 

 

The Hungarian Antidoping Agency says that the ban is almost guaranteed. They doubt that Kun was hiding, she just made some very stupid administrative errors. Hopefully she won't be banned for two years and she will only miss Paris. 

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.

On 5/3/2024 at 5:32 PM, gucardn said:

 Asia D'amato - Artistic Gymnastics 

 

 

Asia fell badly during her FX performance yesterday at the European qualifiers! She has already had two injuries in the last two years!
 

 

EDIT:  An information appeared on some gymnastics portals about an ACL! Asia, however, said she still doesn't know how serious it is! Let's hope it's not something that serious! She deserves to go to Paris!

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.

48 minutes ago, copravolley said:

I thought Garozzo didn't make Italy's squad for the Olympics because his ranking was too low: 5th place. In your opinion, who will be the 4th person among the girls: Batini or Palumbo?

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. 

23 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

How likely is it that all 8 of these will get spots and how many do you reckon will use universality/tripartite places? 

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.

6 minutes ago, Arnoud Beldman said:

So far Italy has only one man in skeet qualified...

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

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.

Just now, Cinnamon Bun said:

I don't disagree with you there, but the qualification system is still mostly to blame as it limits the amount of individual athletes can qualify and effectively says "if other members of your team aren't good enough then your not good enough". 

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