Faramir

The number of unused Universality Places - it could also be zero if the tripartite commission accepts very low level fencers and assigns all 8 spots.

Kuwait has already one fencer qualified in sabre, will they still be considered in epee/foil? I guess having no women competing lower their chances. Also, will participation in the Zonal QT be taken into account? for example has a decently placed woman in epee but haven't entered her so far for the tournament, while they did enter a couple fencers in other weapons.

First part of the qualification is over, now we'll have: 1) Zonal Qualification tournaments in April - this will bring the total to 34 athletes per individual event; 2) since France won't need to use any host quota place, 8 Universality Places decided by the Tripartite Commission. That's a lot of places, especially considering that the few decent fencers from eligible countries could be qualified on their own by then; 3) reallocation of unused Universality Places: "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 following would be the first fencers in line for such reallocations - of course some of them will likely qualify first through their Zonal QT

I think you are a bit overestimating her...she missed team and individual qualification in 2016 and 2021, this was probably her last chance to be an Olympian and she went from having a decent but not huge chance to qualify for GER to a certain one in the easiest zone.

M sabre: + Bazadze, Szabo, Ferjani, Yoshida, Alshamlan, Di Tella

Definitely qualified.

Should be over for epee. Qualified: W epee + Kong, Kun, Moellhausen, Differt, Ndolo, Yoshimura M epee + Freilich, Wang, Loyola Rodriguez, Kim Jaewon, Elkord

Loyola tied Beran in the Olympic ranking at 76 points but Beran is ahead beacause he has a win. So Loyola has to hope for a team qualification tomorrow in order to grab the 2nd European individual quota.

Summary for this weekend according to my, I hope correct, calculations. Men's sabre: -Qualified: -Battling for the European quota: v . Germany's last chance is to win and hope Italy finish 4th or worse. -Battling for the Asian quota: v . Japan need to win (with Iran finishing 3rd or worse) or to finish 2nd (with iran 7th or worse). Women's epee: -Qualified: -Battling for the European quota***: v . Estonia's only chance is winning with Ukraine finishing 6th or worse. -Battling for the Asian quota: v . China need to finish in top 4, or finish 5th (with HKG 11th or worse). *** but if USA win, this might (also depending on POL and FRA's results) become the American quota and go to Men's epee: -Qualified: -Battling for the Asian quota: v . Korea need to win, or finish 2nd (with KAZ 6th or worse) -Battling for the European quota****: v v v . A big mess, anyway to have a chance GER must finish at least 2nd, ESP at least 3rd, CZE at least 6th. **** but if KAZ win and JPN also kick HUN out of the top4, this would become the Asian quota, so both KAZ and KOR would qualify

I was surprised by this result too. I expected a win with something like 104%.

Yes, he's out, individual quotas in men's foil will go to: Cheung Ka Long, Dosa, Choupenitch, Ha Taegyu, Toldo and Heroui And in women's foil to Sauer, Pasztor, Berthier, Chan, Esteban and Inostroza

It's over, updated. Next up, continental qualifiers.

Yes

First place next week, and with Ukraine finishing 6th or worse

W sabre: Algeria defeats HKG 45-44 and qualify for Paris. Japan also mathematically qualified (Asian quota) Summary: Qualified teams: Qualified individuals: Theodora Gkountoura Lucia Martin-Portugues Yang Hengyu Zaynab Dayibekova Nada Hafez Pamela Brind'Amour

1) Bulgaria winning gold tomorrow and Italy ending 6th or worse OR 2) USA not reaching the final and Algeria falling out of the top16 of the ranking (most realistic option: Hong Kong 14th or better and Mexico 16th or better) and Bulgaria staying ahead of Spain and Azerbaijan.

Just wait for tomorrow's team event: Spain and China still have a (very small) chance to get a team quota, and Algeria missing out on a team (again a small chance) would lead to Boudiaf getting the individual quota. The only sure individual so far are: Gkountoura, Brind'Amour, Dayibekova

Wikipedia is run like in a feudal system, a few users somehow got a piece of land each and act like a little dictator inside it. Most times they are also completely ignorant about the topic so even correcting wrong articles becomes impossible, because the little king says so.

If I light up one of those cannon things and run nearby police or army in the middle of the road yes, i'm pretty sure I will get shot.

I suspect that running towards armed soldiers while holding a firing/explosive device on fire would get you killed pretty much everywhere.

Another case of contamination by boyfriend. Rule #1 for athletes who want to use any banned substsnce: don't be single and make sure your partner is ready to take the blame.

It will be an enormous success for France...with a huge record of medals and third place in medal table.

Pretty normal to get tired of someone winning for 15 years straight. Especially a typical "me always alone in the right fighting against the whole world" type of guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Ngamba How is she still not a British citizen, after 15 years in the UK and being way over 18yo?

Mexico is in the entry list now. https://fie.org/competition/2024/756/entry/pdf?lang=en