JoshMartini007

Montinho/Afonso won both races today. It was weird seeing them in second yesterday, but I guess it was just a bad first race. The women's race had Mozambique finish last in the first two races and now today Angola's crew finished last. Hopefully there's no collusion from the men's boats where they try to give the women the best result relative to Mozambique.

Getting ready for the 2024 Olympics? Most of her competitions were in St. George Prix so she needs to move up if that's her plan.

While the schedule is suppose to get better for us, it's a shame we are still without a medal.

Is it such few quotas? In 470 we have 12 and 14 quotas for nations based on the 2018 and 2019 World Championships, not to mention that not all of the continent/host quotas are "wasted." At this point any nation of note should have qualified. The Olympics tries to achieve a balance between strength and diversity, it's the reason why we don't have a hundred Kenyans/Ethiopians running in the marathon or in sailing's case multiple entrants from the same country. In the end, the 19th/21st ranked nation and Angola have the same chance at winning a medal so I'd rather have the diversity. Free quotas in some events are an unfortunate result and while I'm not entirely opposed to a rule that there must be at least 2-3 eligible nations competing, but in sailing it would be hard to implement. Canada/United States and Australia/New Zealand have enough pull to argue for diversity even though it also benefits them. Obviously Asia and Africa would be against it too and I doubt Europe will push too hard as to avoid being accused of making the Olympics "too Euro-centric"

To be fair Angola was the only African boat to compete in the men's 470 at the last couple of World Championships. This saved them the cost of sending a boat to Italy to claim the quota plus they get to send a female boat too

Technically 1976 had nine team sports though I guess you can argue host quotas don't count. I think we'd have a good chance at matching it. We should qualify in women's basketball and football. After that we just need one of men's baseball/basketball/football/water polo to pull through

Yes, hopefully they post results soon. So far, all I know is we have entries from Edit: Looks like South Africa is only competing in the 420 event

Given it's for the Pan American Games, we could see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

I'm always nervous when Canada plays Cuba in volleyball. I'm glad they were able to pull off the win. Still need to get it done against Puerto Rico tomorrow.

What will essentially be the deciding match is today. I don't know why they wouldn't put the two highest ranked nations against each other on the final day.

Did France send their B team or something? I know Portugal has been on an upswing as of late, but France is the defending Olympic silver medalist and more recently won bronze at the 2019 World Championships. This is only one match, but if France can't make something happen against Norway then Portugal will advance to the main round and potentially compete for one of the two places at the final Olympic qualification tournament.

With gymnastics finally updating most of the continental qualifiers we now have almost all the qualification dates. What I'm missing are... 2020 African Water Polo Olympic Qualification Event 2020 African Trampoline Championships 2020 World Surfing Games I'm 95% sure there will not be an African water polo qualification event and the quota will be reallocated to the final qualification tournament. I also know the World Surfing Games will be held in May, but the specific dates won't be announced until a host is chosen. If anyone finds one of those dates (especially the African Trampoline Championships) let me know.

Big victory for Tunisia over Egypt. The decider is tomorrow between Algeria and Tunisia. All Tunisia needs to do to qualify is to win a single set.

While I doubt Carboxy-THC gives riders (or athletes in general) an advantage, I can accept it being a banned substance in equestrian as it can pose a safety risk for horses if their rider is high.

By qualifying its third team Kenya can possibly have its largest team ever. With two rugby sevens teams and women's volleyball that's 36 athletes. In athletics they currently are simulated to have 35 athletes if you only take athletes which have achieved the standard. Looking at last year's World Championships they will likely end up with around 40 athletes. They should also have athletes competing in boxing and swimming too. Their record was 80 athletes at the 2016 Olympics.

was leading 2-1 against but China recovered to win the match 3-2.

Even if they lose in football (which in itself would be an upset), their next realistic opportunity to qualify will be a month later in boxing. Regardless, it's a bit surprising that Cameroon hasn't qualified in any sport yet. Senegal too.

Thanks, was waiting for everything to be confirmed. We now have 66 nations remaining.

Not sure what's the point. It's not like Mexico or any other nation would have been more likely than Brazil to achieve the MER during this period. If the FEI forces the issue it'll happen, but I feel what will happen is it will showcase that equestrian outside of jumping isn't as popular in the Americas as FEI thinks.

Depends if they compete as independent athletes. If not, the quotas will be reallocated based on the reallocation process from each sport. So far, Russia has appealed to the CAS, no date has been set.

It'll be mostly mixed team events from what I hear. So even taken to it's extreme there will only be 26 shooting events vs. 19 that was present in 2018. 36 events were present in 2010.

Weird that they didn't put the match between the two strongest nations (Cameroon and Kenya) on the final day. In fact, Cameroon doesn't event play on the final day, possibly making it useless should they win all of their matches.

A.k.a. the pay your way to the Olympics method.

Interesting stuff. There's been a lot of back room strategizing so I wonder if Syria knows this and will encourage some athletes not to participate... Any word on Qatar/Ukraine athletes participating between now and the 31st (or do you think they will go the rule 5.1 route?)