JoshMartini007

That depends on your definition. The team with the lowest attempts at qualification so far is Liberia at 2 events, but they at least qualified someone in one of their attempts. Somalia has only ever competed in athletics. Brunei has the lowest average team size among all nations while Bangladesh has the lowest average team size per capita. Mauritania and Tuvalu probably deserve some mention too.

There's still a few nations that could qualify without a wild card/tripartite quota. For sure some of the final 40 will qualify in athletics, badminton, judo and weightlifting. Maybe in taekwondo at the Asian qualifier, it'll depend on the draw and perhaps in swimming depending on how far down the list of OST qualifiers we get.

For slalom at least I'd argue those voices already exists. Too Euro-centric, requires a sport specific stadium...

Were the boats able to get out today or did the bad weather prevent them?

That's the Marshall Islands flag, the flag for Nauru is

It comes down to the number of quotas available. If canoe slalom got 36 athletes per event like in modern pentathlon then I imagine they would allow two or three boats from the same nation. As of now, the C1 events have too few to justify nations doubling up. For K1 you could, maybe include a rule where nations can't qualify a second boat via the continental qualifiers.

Mostly because Asia doesn't want the increased competition. It's not like Australia is some weak sporting nation. Australia (or New Zealand) likely takes a hypothetical combined continental quotas of basketball, field hockey, rugby sevens and water polo without too much issue. Heck I would argue that Australia is a top 12 nation in all of those sports Honestly the issue you have is with continental quotas.

No, they will only be given the host quota if they failed to qualify any men's or women's boats. So what could happen is they could take the two men's or two women's boats and then take the host quota of the other gender.

Not really, if we remove the 2nd qualification tournament and trim the 1st tournament to only qualifying the finalists (basically turning it into the 2020 qualification system) Venezuela would have still qualified all nine of their athletes in 2016.

Correct, though I'm not sure if many nations will choose to go that route...

No they are only given the host quota if they failed to qualify in any men's or women's event. The host quota is reallocated to the next highest ranked nation at this regatta. Unused Host Country Place(s) will be reallocated to the NOC of the next highest placed boat in Single Sculls in the respective gender at the Asia-Oceania Continental Qualification regatta that has not yet qualified a boat for the Olympics at either the World Rowing Championships or the Continental Qualification regatta.

That is incorrect, China would be allowed to compete in the K1 events. In fact, a nation can now enter up to two boats per event. The only requirement is that the nation must compete in the event they originally qualified in. So China can't have athletes compete in the K1 200m and K1 500m and skip the K2 500m in which they originally qualified in.

Depending on the rankings we could have some empty quotas which will have to be reallocated (like the LW2x at the Pan American qualifier)

Good catch

Weird they didn't allocate the 16th quota since if they were waiting for the World Cup event then the world rankings wouldn't be finalized...

North Korea still hasn't declined its quota. There is definitely some kind of behind the scenes work being done to try to get them to come.

They did not, which likely cost them a couple of quotas.

To be fair, if North Korea does compete one of the things they will demand is to let some of their weightlifters to compete.

Probably not, ignoring nations with team quotas (Honduras and Montenegro) the largest tripartite nation will likely be Samoa. They have already qualified seven athletes and will qualify more in judo and weightlifting (plus a chance in rugby sevens, but that's a team sport). That's without getting any invitation places (they will be given one/two in swimming). Due to their success, this means Samoa won't be eligible for tripartite quotas in 2024.

Yup, no proper boxing event for over a year

Not surprising. Sadly, I don't see her court challenge being successful. The qualification document was clear on how the quotas would be redistributed should the continental qualifier not take place. She would have to prove that the organizers deliberately cancelled the event in order to fix the results. Also there hasn't been a proper boxing event in over a year and there isn't exactly much time to schedule a new one so even if she's successful all she would end up doing is prevent any athlete from Pan America to compete at the Olympics.

Yeah, it's unlikely New Zealand will accept the quota, but we should wait for confirmation.

FINA will be forced to break their rules by the courts because of a poorly written qualification document. Unless athletes and NOCs decide not to fight it...

I agree, FINA might try to remove the lower ranked top 18 athletes to try to fit the athlete quota, but any court challenge will likely be in favour of the athletes just from the way the qualification document is written. I imagine for the 2024 Olympics there will be a change in the qualification process to ensure this doesn't happen again.

No only the eight qualified teams get to compete.