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Our fencing team will have 11 or 12 athletes, which I would say is a really good result.

Gibran Zea wins the men's sabre quota

I swear to God man, every time you do this wins

I don't have a lot of sympathy for fencers who are backing away in the dying seconds and give up a dodgy point (and I doubt many referees do either)

This wasn’t meant to be a jinx lmao,  Zhang was down and out of it and I thought he had no chance. 
 
Guess I have to start doing this during every single Olympic qualification event now 

Gibran Zea wins the men's sabre quota

You're doing the thing again!

You're doing the thing again!

No dopping tests over the past few years :P

Both sprint teams only manage a silver at the Pan Ams. Its possible neither qualify now.

Quota for in the men's 50m riffle 3 positions from Tye Ikeda.
 
had a ~2.5 point lead heading in the last shot, but scored a 6(!) to throw it away.
 
Ivan Roe wins gold.

It is. Ikeda had an 8.0 a few rounds earlier that seemed to have doomed his chances, but Zoccali Albizu only scored a six in the last round. In the end he only needed a 6.7 or higher to qualify for the Olympics.

It is. Ikeda had an 8.0 a few rounds earlier that seemed to have doomed his chances, but Zoccali Albizu only scored a six in the last round. In the end he only needed a 6.7 or higher to qualify for the Olympics.

Ilya Kharun has acquired  citizenship.
 
I’ll let everyone panic for a minute.
 
Okay, now that a few people had heart attacks: he plans to continue swimming for Canada.

Obviously we can’t know for sure long term, but he’s completely locked in for Paris.
 
My understanding is that the change of sporting citizenship rules have gotten tougher for swimming since Condorelli and Sanchez made the switch, so this is likely long term.
 
Him getting US citizenship is also just not something I would read anything into, he’s lives there (well, here since I also live in the US xD ) most of his life and, ironically, acquiring US citizenship actually makes it easier for him to leave the US long term if he wants to train in Canada after college (it’s very easy to lose a Green Card while citizenship is very much permanent). Personally, being able to move back and forth between Canada and the US was one of my big motivations for getting naturalized as an American citizen.

Obviously we can’t know for sure long term, but he’s completely locked in for Paris.
 
My understanding is that the change of sporting citizenship rules have gotten tougher for swimming since Condorelli and Sanchez made the switch, so this is likely long term.
 
Him getting US citizenship is also just not something I would read anything into, he’s lives there (well, here since I also live in the US xD ) most of his life and, ironically, acquiring US citizenship actually makes it easier for him to leave the US long term if he wants to train in Canada after college (it’s very easy to lose a Green Card while citizenship is very much permanent). Personally, being able to move back and forth between Canada and the US was one of my big motivations for getting naturalized as an American citizen.

Tye Ikeda picked up a quota in the 50m riffle 3 positions.

Tye Ikeda picked up a quota in the 50m riffle 3 positions.

Quota for in the men's 50m riffle 3 positions from Tye Ikeda.
 
had a ~2.5 point lead heading in the last shot, but scored a 6(!) to throw it away.
 
Ivan Roe wins gold.

The fun thing about Hochul is that everyone hates her for different and contradictory reasons.

Tye Ikeda picked up a quota in the 50m riffle 3 positions.

You're so bad at this :P

Quota for in the men's 50m riffle 3 positions from Tye Ikeda.
 
had a ~2.5 point lead heading in the last shot, but scored a 6(!) to throw it away.
 
Ivan Roe wins gold.

Tye Ikeda picked up a quota in the 50m riffle 3 positions.

Quota for in the men's 50m riffle 3 positions from Tye Ikeda.
 
had a ~2.5 point lead heading in the last shot, but scored a 6(!) to throw it away.
 
Ivan Roe wins gold.