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and now it's official! 
 
the IJF has officially registered Kim Polling's switch from  to  
 
now she can represent  with immediate effect
 
Polling's words on the social media (in Italian...google might be helpful):
 
"Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Kim Polling e posso dirvi che da oggi posso rappresentare l’Italia. Sono super orgogliosa, grata, contenta e non lo so… ancora mille parole in più per darvi questa notizia. Vi parlo un po’ di me, vivo da otto anni in Italia, mi sono sposata un italiano che si chiama Andrea Regis, anche lui è stato un judoka. Abbiamo una figlia, Aurora, che è nata quasi due anni fa e viviamo a San Mauro Torinese. Ho fatto quest’anno la richiesta all’IJF di cambio nazionalità ed oggi è arrivata la notifica che è stato dato l’ok. Sono davvero super orgogliosa, grata e voglio ringraziare l’Italia, ringraziare l’Accademia Torino, la palestra in cui mi alleno da sette anni e non vedo l’ora per il futuro. Vedremo quello che riesco a fare."

Para Judo World Ranking Lists updated as of April 17th, 2024

Optimistic medal predictions for  Denmark.
 
Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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Day 5
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Day 6
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Day 7
Shooting - Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Rikke Ibsen - (Bronze)
 
Day 8
Cycling - Men's Road Race - Mads Pedersen - (Silver)
Equestrian - Team Dressage - (Silver)
Shooting - Men's Skeet - Jesper Hansen - (Silver)
Rowing - Men's Single Sculls - Sverri Nielsen - (Bronze)
 
Day 9
Badminton - Men's Doubles - Astrup/Rasmussen - (Bronze)
 
Day 10
Badminton - Men's Singles - Viktor Axelsen - (Gold)
Badminton - Men's Singles - Anders Antonsen - (Bronze)
 
Day 11
Sailing -  Dinghy ILCA 6 - Anne-Marie Rindom - (Silver)
 
Day 12
Track Cycling - Men's Team Pursuit - (Silver)
 
Day 13
None
 
Day 14 
Boxing - Men's 71kg - Nikolai Terteryan - (Bronze)
Canoeing - Women's K-2 500 - Jorgensen/Matthiesen - (Gold)
Track Cycling - Women's Madison  -  Didriksen/Leth - (Bronze)
Taekwondo - Men's -80 kg - Edi Hrnic - (Bronze)
 
Day 15
Canoeing - Women's K-1 500 - Emma Jorgensen - (Silver)
Track Cycling - Men's Madison - Norman Leth/Morkov - (Bronze)
Handball - Women's Team - (Bronze)
 
Day 16
Handball - Men's Team - (Gold)
 
Optimistic - 18 medal 
Realistic - 11 medals
Pessimistic - 8 medals

Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of April 16th, 2024

BMX Racing Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of April 16th, 2024

have announced 11 players on their 12-man Olympic roster. Stacked. 
 
Stephen Curry - PG
Lebron James - SF
Kevin Durant - SF
Anthony Edwards - SG
Anthony Davis - PF
Tyrese Haliburton - PG
Devin Booker - SG
Joel Embiid - C
Jayson Tatum - SF
Jrue Holiday - PG
Bam Adebayo - C
 
https://x.com/wojespn/status/1780009778934394985
 

Olympic Rankings by Nations updated as of April 15th, 2024 (Final Ranking)

Taekwondo Pan American Qualification Tournament quotas
 
M K44 -58kg:
M K44 -63kg:
M K44 -70kg:
M K44 -80kg:
M K44 +80kg:
 
W K44 -47kg:
W K44 -52kg:
W K44 -57kg:
W K44 -65kg:
W K44 +65kg:
 
This was the last qualifying tournament, with only reallocations and bipartite invitations remaining.
 
44 NPCs have qualified (+ neutral and refugee athletes).      all qualified 5 or more athletes.

just asking myself why in this competition are there people that already achieved the qualification (and therefore can't get any other quota place) and/or why tare there those mixed team events that don't award any quota place?
 
nor those events award points for the OQR/WR, therefore are absolutely useless for those who are not in the hunt for a quota place and actually only make a lot of confusion 

Now the only thing France still needs to decide is the venue 

BMX Racing Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of April 2nd, 2024

BMX Park Ranking by Nations updated as of November 8th, 2023

https://www.marca.com/atletismo/2024/04/12/661956c722601dd8238b45bb.html
 

Probably that's it. They are giving an extra quota to Peru, simply because they don't know how to be clear in their documents. 

Probably that's it. They are giving an extra quota to Peru, simply because they don't know how to be clear in their documents. 

Para Table Tennis Ranking Lists updated as of April 1st, 2024 (Final Ranking)

Probably that's it. They are giving an extra quota to Peru, simply because they don't know how to be clear in their documents. 

Probably that's it. They are giving an extra quota to Peru, simply because they don't know how to be clear in their documents. 

Ideal tournament for

I know this is a very heavily Americanized point of view, but they're probably looking at what's going on with the NCAA and how the athletes are starting to get their share of the money that is being made and figure that needs to start happening with the Olympics.  The days of amateurism are long gone and the prestige of winning an Olympic medal shouldn't be the only reward coming from the IOC (as opposed to payouts from the respective NOCs)

I took a quick look, and just could see Bolivian flag haha

I took a quick look, and just could see Bolivian flag haha

can qualify in following sports
1 - Viren Nettasinghe in Badminton Men's Singles
2 - Gayanthika Argitala Women's 800m
3 - Dilhani Lekamge Women's Javelin (qualified by rankings)
4 - Men's and Women's Singles Table Tennis 
 

Martin Garcia  finished 6th yesterday in Men's 81kg, non Olympic event, best performance ever by a Timor Leste athlete in any sport at top level.

Judo announced ten judokas for the Paris Games:
 
66kg- Willian Lima
73kg- Daniel Cargnin
81kg- Guilherme Schimidt
90kg- Rafael Macedo
100kg- Leonardo Gonçalves
+100kg- Rafael Silva
 
52kg- Larissa Pimenta
57kg- Rafaela Silva
78kg- Mayra Aguiar
+78kg- Beatriz Souza
 
Cargnin, Macedo, Rafael Silva and Aguiar are back after Tokyo. 4th Olympics for Rafael Silva and Aguiar (who won the bronze medal in each of the three previous Games). Somewhat strange that they announced Rafaela Silva already given how close Jessica Lima was to her in the rankings, but I guess that being an Olympic champion played a big part in this choice.