Faramir

Given the state of our politics, we probably soon will be underprivileged 

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. 
 
 

I'm sorry but this is going out of hand. If you have two athletes as strong as the greeks, is yours federations blame only for not being able to rise a third athlete with a decent level enough to figth for the team quota.
 
 
Asking for a wildcard is absurd. One is in, the other one is out. They had three years to read the qualification process.

I think you are missing Eifler in sabre with 58.5 points.

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

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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

Récapitulatif Quotas Final (Tournament Qualification Africa)
Épée Men's
Sabre Women's
Foil Men's
Épée Women's
Foil Women's
Sabre Men's

The IOC isn't going to give more quotas to fencing so instead of having a ~34 person tournament you will have ~26 person tournament.

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.
 

Yeah, it was the 3 spots per team in the individual that really shocked me.
 
When you add that to the fact that there's a continental quota for a country in the top 16 for a team sport, there's a few teams who are ranked 14th or 15th as a country who are getting 3 fencers in there, when there's an individual who is much higher in the rankings who isn't there. The men's foil, for example, looks likely to have 3 Canadians in it. But not the Spanish guy who is ranked 13th, a good 20 spots higher than any of them. That just seems weird.
 
Personally, I'd do it similarly to cycling - the top ranked countries get 3 spots in the individual. the other team spots get 2, and you increase the global individual spots (based more on the world rankings than continental qualification). So still a strong reward for a great team, a good reward for a solid team and more chance for a talented individual.

Récapitulatif Quotas Today (Tournament Qualification Europe)
Sabre Men's 
Foil Women's

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/4F0F9A5F788A449AA8DC3F9A69DCAB24#today

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.

I don't think  would reject any quota...
 
it would be stupid by them, they should use that quota to name one more specialist for the endurance races

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  

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  

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  

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  

FIG finally updated the World Cup ranking. 
 
the 2nd Vault quota goes to  Olfati , he scored a zero in his last event (landed on his head !!) and finished last. needed a miracle to qualify and that happened. first ever quota in this sport.