JoshMartini007

Sad they couldn't award a tripartite quota in the two heavyweights. Congrats to

has declined/lost the archery quota and has thus returned back on the list.

Even after Messi refused to play in Vancouver? Fox just Googled "Canada Population" and just took the top result which was our population back in 2022

Interestingly enough Fiji still has their women's quota despite also being nowhere near the MQS. Whether it goes to the FIQT or World Rankings likely depends on when the quota was declined. Iran should ask to see when the email/official rejection was sent.

There's nothing official from World Archery, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was awarded the quota. He's the best tripartite eligible archer whose nation is not yet qualified. In other news, it looks like declined their quota.

Every time two brothers go up against each other it reminds me of this scene.

I think Australia will win it this time. It will also cost the United States the overall top spot in the medal tally (going by most gold medals).

Serbia now has an 11 point lead over Cuba. I thought they had it after going up 2-0. They pretty much need to beat either Poland or Slovenia to qualify now (along with winning against Bulgaria).

Cuba takes the second set 25-21

Cuba wins the first set 25-22 to take a 1-0 lead.

The v match started a little while ago. These two nations are essentially fighting for the last quota spot, winner goes into a nice position. Cuba's final matches will be against while Serbia gets . Overall pretty similar schedules. The loser will definitely need to defeat one of Poland/Slovenia to have a chance, but even then it might not be enough.

How about they ignore the results against the 4th place team in each group to determine quarterfinal seeding?

McIntosh might arguably be the best overall swimmer right now, but she's not so far ahead of the others. I'm hoping she grabs three individual medals.

The ITF needs to convince the ATP and WTA to award some ranking points. In the past, they gave points between a 1000 and 500 level event. That alone would stem the withdrawal of players. Golf does it and it seems to be enough to encourage people to show up in 2020. I think only a handful withdrew

Interesting situation and it looks like neither judoka will participate this week. I imagine the IJF will let Kiribati decide who to take and allocate the other quota after.

They're not currently listed according to IJF, but I imagine things might slightly change between now and when the ranking close.

With the rankings coming to a close next week I wanted to take a look at the tripartite situations. Here's a list of the highest point total from eligible NOCs which are not qualified through the rankings or continental quotas. -804 - 769 - 481 - 294 - 235 - 234 - 206 - 201 - 138 - 133 - 128 - 128 - 118 - 110 - 86 --------Top 15------ - 84 - 64 - 60 - 58 - 54 - 44 - 33 - 31 - 25 - 19 - 17 (not sure if they got a tripartite quota or will be given an IOC quota) - 13 - 10 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 6 Note, the tripartite committee takes multiple things into account and won't necessarily just take the top 15. Of course, having more points will make it more likely to be granted the quotas, but I've also seen athletes with no points being given a quota.

I always thought it was weird New Zealand declined the women's quota without declining the men's quota, especially since the woman was a relatively better archer. I guess they wanted to give him a chance. Obviously Tonga won't make the MQS, but World Archery does have the ability to make exceptions. We'll see what happens

Weightlifting is weirder. You can host it anywhere.

I've also removed as the IOC announced they will compete in athletics, cycling, judo and swimming.

Here are the women's tripartite quotas: Women's 10m air rifle - and (reallocation from 50m rifle) Women's 50m rifle 3 positions - None Women's 10m air pistol - Women's 25m air pistol - reallocated to Women's trap - reallocated to Women's skeet - reallocated to

Not sure if these are tripartite quotas, they almost look to be IOC quotas, similar to refugees

Technically, she can qualify, but then Great Britain will have to decline one of the quotas

Once the World Rankings are finalized I think Great Britain will have five options. Do you know if there's a selection criteria or will they go with the top 2 ranked?

That would be incredibly heart breaking. Though if it happens, we can't complain too much after our men's team essentially qualified by getting so lucky.