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If anyone wants to suffer through the press conference:
 

So I guess perspective hosts should get their colonies first. And quickly.

List of core sports, as of 2028, with new additions in bold:
 
Aquatics Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Rugby Sailing Shooting Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Wrestling Climbing Surfing Skateboarding  
As of the 2028 Olympics Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and Weightlifting are no longer "core" sports. Their place have been taken by Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing, who are now permanent parts of the Summer Olympics.
 
There will be a "pathway" for Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and/or Weightlifting to be included as "core" sports for 2028, and of course the OC could propose them.

List of core sports, as of 2028, with new additions in bold:
 
Aquatics Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Rugby Sailing Shooting Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Wrestling Climbing Surfing Skateboarding  
As of the 2028 Olympics Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and Weightlifting are no longer "core" sports. Their place have been taken by Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing, who are now permanent parts of the Summer Olympics.
 
There will be a "pathway" for Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and/or Weightlifting to be included as "core" sports for 2028, and of course the OC could propose them.

List of core sports, as of 2028, with new additions in bold:
 
Aquatics Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Rugby Sailing Shooting Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Wrestling Climbing Surfing Skateboarding  
As of the 2028 Olympics Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and Weightlifting are no longer "core" sports. Their place have been taken by Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing, who are now permanent parts of the Summer Olympics.
 
There will be a "pathway" for Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and/or Weightlifting to be included as "core" sports for 2028, and of course the OC could propose them.

List of core sports, as of 2028, with new additions in bold:
 
Aquatics Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Rugby Sailing Shooting Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Wrestling Climbing Surfing Skateboarding  
As of the 2028 Olympics Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and Weightlifting are no longer "core" sports. Their place have been taken by Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing, who are now permanent parts of the Summer Olympics.
 
There will be a "pathway" for Boxing, Modern Pentathlon and/or Weightlifting to be included as "core" sports for 2028, and of course the OC could propose them.

beat in the first semi-final and beat in the second semi-final.
 
And just in, the result of the first final: has qualified for the Olympics in curling for the first time ever, thanks to a 6-5 win over . Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt went an impressive 7-0 all tournament and will now go to the Olympics. If John Morris doesn't win the Canadian mixed doubles Olympic trials he will go to the Olympics as a coach for Australia.

beat in the first semi-final and beat in the second semi-final.
 
And just in, the result of the first final: has qualified for the Olympics in curling for the first time ever, thanks to a 6-5 win over . Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt went an impressive 7-0 all tournament and will now go to the Olympics. If John Morris doesn't win the Canadian mixed doubles Olympic trials he will go to the Olympics as a coach for Australia.

Our first ever speed skating Olympian.  Also our first skating Olympian since 2006.
 
 
But even in this scenario, we end up being the first reserve in another event (W 1500 m), because of course.

Last two spots are by time, so if they run a good race in Salt Lake City they should get one of those two spots.
 
They won't qualify by points.

Last two spots are by time, so if they run a good race in Salt Lake City they should get one of those two spots.
 
They won't qualify by points.

I dare @Olympian1010to find a multi sport events website with a worse quality than the Indonesian National Para Games site: http://178.128.82.134/home/medali 
 
A few days ago there was something even funnier: results and live score (Hasil Perlombaan & Live Score) page simply says "Calling the Website Developer to Add The Results"

The playoffs for the final two spots are set.
 
The first spot will be contested between and the winner of the / semi-final.
The second spot will be contested between and the winner of the / semi-final.

Surely that consideration has nothing to do with that same athlete having a sub-par season to say the very least...

and both won their pools and are each one game away from the Olympics.
 
Two very different stories here - is trying to make it's Olympic debut in Curling while is trying to keep it's streak of participating in every Curling event since the sport was re-introduced in 1998 alive. is the only other country with that distinction.
 
and qualified for the semi-finals from pool B - South Korea is in Australia's bracket while Finland is in USA's bracket. In pool A , , and are still fighting for the two remaining semi-final spots. - play later this afternoon in what is a de-facto quarterfinal match.

and both won their pools and are each one game away from the Olympics.
 
Two very different stories here - is trying to make it's Olympic debut in Curling while is trying to keep it's streak of participating in every Curling event since the sport was re-introduced in 1998 alive. is the only other country with that distinction.
 
and qualified for the semi-finals from pool B - South Korea is in Australia's bracket while Finland is in USA's bracket. In pool A , , and are still fighting for the two remaining semi-final spots. - play later this afternoon in what is a de-facto quarterfinal match.

Too bad Streslov isn't Belarusian, this would have been a fun mixed relay.

and both won their pools and are each one game away from the Olympics.
 
Two very different stories here - is trying to make it's Olympic debut in Curling while is trying to keep it's streak of participating in every Curling event since the sport was re-introduced in 1998 alive. is the only other country with that distinction.
 
and qualified for the semi-finals from pool B - South Korea is in Australia's bracket while Finland is in USA's bracket. In pool A , , and are still fighting for the two remaining semi-final spots. - play later this afternoon in what is a de-facto quarterfinal match.

Apparently the Italians are not the only team on the women's side with lots of challenges between their top starts.  It appears that Hannah Sola and Dzinara Alimbekava are not on good terms at all.  Sola was married this summer with Alimbekava the only member of the team not invited.  It appears that COVID had a role in this as well.  Alimbekava was seriously dating Russian biathlete Stretslov, but COVID prevented the two from seeing each other.  Alimbekava started training with the Belarus men's team and grew close to Anton Smolski, who was married to a former Junior Biathlete.  He eventually left his former wife to be with Alimbekava.   Sola is a former teammate and friend of the now former wife of Smolski.

I think it would be a fair trade-off to have less teams, maintain four member teams (except maybe in dressage?) and keep the same number of nations overall.

Baffling they release the ranking in that fashion then…

Three-member team formats got approved, once again. But there is a controversy around it.
 
Apparently, out of the NFs who voted for 3-member teams, less than 10% have actually competed at the Olympics, while out of the NFs who voted for 4-member teams, 90% have competed at the Olympics.
 
So you have a situation where an Olympic competition format is being decided by small federations, and they are pretty unanimously voting to have smaller teams (and thus more nations). Smaller nations overruling the big ones sounds fun in theory, but the thing is, most of those federations are not even putting a serious effort to build their teams. I guess they are just kind of hoping some individual from their nation would pop-up and benefit from this decision?

Here is one detailed opinion on it. https://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/News/FEI-General-Assembly-Food-for-thought.html

Spoke with the ISU. The quota simulation is how the current standings are without looking at the rules. So basically what @NearPuphad calculated before this quota file was discovered is the correct way of calculating. 

Women's qualification
21 NOCs qualified, just like on the men's side only achieved the maximum number of skaters. The max skaters currently add up to 110.
 
  500m 1000m 1500m 3000m 5000m MS TP Max skaters 1             1 1 1           2 1   1     1   3 1 2 2 1 1 1 X 8 3 2 2 3 2 2 X 8 2 3 2 2 1 2 X 8   1 1 1 1 1   5   1 1         2 1 1 2     2   5     1 1 1 1   4 3 2 3 2 2 2 X 8 1 1 2 1   1   6 2 2       2   5 3 3 3 3 2 2 X 9 2 2 2 2 1 1 X 8 2 2 2 1   1 X 7 3 3 2 2 1 2 X 8 1             1   1 1     1   3 1 1 1         3 2 2 2 1   2   6