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Au cas ou sa vous intéresse, j'ai lue une entrevue sympa avec la future Olympienne Yuan Jia Nan qui date de l'an passer. Je l'ai trouvé pas mal sympa. http://www.fftt.com/site/actualites/2020-01-25/a-rencontre-de-yuan-jia-nan

The problem is not the number of individuals competing in the individual event. It's a pure total athlete quota issue. What's the point of not allowing an athlete that is already present and counted in the athlete quota from competing? This isn't table tennis where they only allow two singles competitors to try to limit how many medals China wins (a stupid and short-sighted idea, they should really let every team members enter the singles event). Holding an individual event with 34 competitors isn't all that different logistically from holding an individual event with 48 competitors. What fencing really needs is the IOC to give it 36 extra quotas so they can have 8 teams per event and individual events that have 16 dedicated qualifiers rather than 10. . The team events in fencing aren't some add-on. It's a core part of how fencers compete from the lowest level to the very top level. Even when I did fencing recreationally we did team tournaments almost as often as we did individual ones. The format at the Olympics is more than fine given the quotas Fencing has available. The calibre of competition at the Olympics in the team events is usually pretty strong, even though obviously some medal contenders are missing.

Because mixed weapon team events are a joke, and it’s literally impossible to do a mixed gender fencing event in a way that is fair (same problem the mixed judo team event is running into).

Doping?

wins the mixed doubles quota.

Beijing 2008 just felt like the biggest event out of those. Other than Vancouver (on account of living in Canada at the time) I don’t remember any Olympic being such a big topic of conversation among people who don’t follow sports.

It really just feels like the BTF is doing some palliative care on a dying Olympic sport.

TBH it would almost be more fair to have a group of experts award the slots than having a frankly arbitrary ranking do the work.

Like for these Olympics specifically or just in general?

Miami. Would prefer moving to Montreal though, tbh :P Following the steps of my grandmother who did the stereotypical French-Canadian snowbird retiree thing after my grandfather died.

Huh just in time for when I move to the area. It seems as ill-advised as the Sochi race tbh.

I picked surfing. I was really skeptical of it at first, but I started following the WSL after the sport’s introduction in the Olympics and I was really pleasantly surprised at how different it is from anything else on the program. Very excited for skateboarding (a sport which is way overdue for Olympic inclusion), climbing (despite the terrible format) and softball. I’ll watch a bunch of karate due to the novelty, but frankly I can’t say kumite or kata appeals to me at all. At least kata is radically different from anything else in the Olympics.

Claudia Pechstein will be a candidate for the CDU during the next German federal election.

At this point Edin must be in the conversation for best skip of all times, right?

Three teams with positive tests, four further teams “came in contact”. If all the tests for the remaining teams come back negative the hope is to finish the hope is to finish the event tomorrow over three draws.

First quarterfinals: beats 5-3. Worst finish for Canada since the 70s. Also this is ominous: https://twitter.com/Devin_Heroux/status/1380740188192845842

And is the sixth and final team to qualify. After leading late in the round robin with a 7-1 record Norway loses *five* games in a row.

It also appears that is also qualified.

Turns out is also qualified due to not being last among any potential head to head scenario among five loss teams.

Also, and not Russia advanced to the semi-finals. As @mrv86 mentioned qualified to the playoffs and the Olympics. Scenarios for qualification: qualifies with a win over . qualifies with a win over . qualifies with a win over and a win over .

The - match tonight is extremely important. The loser will drop to a fifth loss. The match is especially pivotal for Canada - if Canada loses the match they no longer control their destiny, as has the head to head tie-break over Canada. The winner of the match is guaranteed to qualify if they win their final match tomorrow. and are still mathematically in the race, if my quick calculation is correct they need to win all their remaining games, Switzerland to lose at least one game and the loser of Norway - Canada to lose their final game. And that just gets them to the mess that is the tie-break.

I can't believe it's not Russia™ is the second team to qualify for the playoffs and the Olympics. They've been having a great week.

is the first team to qualify for the playoffs and, as such, the Olympics.

Only for mixed doubles. Men’s and women’s is top 6, but is in the top 6 an extra quota is added to the final qualification event.

At this point all appear to be cruising towards Olympic qualification. They are two (or 2.5 in the case of Norway) games ahead of the 7th place team, with only 4 (or 5 for Norway) games remaining. are battling for the sixth place, but the USA is definitely in the driver’s seat there. They are half a game ahead of Switzerland and a game ahead if Italy and, crucially, they hold the tie-breaker over both teams. The only silver lining for the Swiss is that on paper they have a slightly easier schedule ahead of them. Italy is going to need to hope both teams ahead of them drop a couple games to teams that are towards the bottom of the standings. Edit: I am obviously rooting for Switzerland because their accents when they talk to each other in French are just delightful.