JoshMartini007

The mixed team quota gives two athletes, one male and one female. I guess I should have been more clear

Do you think they will keep the World Equestrian Games or will they split them?

Australia defeated Hungary is a shoot-out 6-5 after tying them 10-10. Hungary was winning 5-1 at the half.

Down to the quarterfinals in mixed team recurve at the 2019 European Games. Only France and Turkey can win both quotas while everyone else except Great Britain would win one quota while the other one is reallocated to the individual event. Should Great Britain win gold, the silver medalist will be given the quota.

The ranking system rewards nations for having more players. A nation with 100 players with 1 point each would be ranked higher than a nation with 4 players with 24 points each, despite the latter would crush the former in any match-up.

Yes, but the continental qualifiers have higher priority over the world tour.

Yeah, it doesn't look too good for France, I guess they'll have to just straight up defeat the United States. They'll be underdogs, but are capable of winning.

So looking at the bracket, France will probably be hoping one of Australia/Canada/Japan sneak into the semi-finals to force a European play-off for the last Olympic spot(s). Sadly, things don't look so great for Spain, it's hard to see fewer than 3 European teams advancing to the quarter-finals. England and Germany will be heavy favourites to advance while France will be the favourite against Brazil and even then it would require all of Norway, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden to lose their match as well.

If they took the Africa-South America play-off quota and either give it to Europe or have it like before where the host quota is subtracted from the continent and then have that continent have a play-off with Europe it would be fine without needing an extra tournament.

It was probably an honest mistake Archery, karate and table tennis can be a bit complicated to write due to all of the possible scenarios while shooting was just a typo. The other sports give points for world rankings (or qualification standard for athletics) so they are rather simple.

Poorly written. There will be 12 shooting events, not 11. Table tennis includes the teams and mixed doubles as qualification events.

If we get USA > Sweden and Netherlands > Canada tomorrow then the eight European teams will face non-European opposition, meaning they will likely have to defeat a non-European team to keep their Olympic hopes alive. Of course, the possibility of Netherlands/Sweden or Sweden/Spain in the round of 16 remains

That was when AIBA was in charge, maybe the IOC will force 5th place matches. Personally I think that's more fair...

Maybe it's to compromise the fact that the lower weights went from 5 events to 3. Though that doesn't explain why the women's flyweight has six more than the others. It would make more sense to have the bottom three weights to have 22 athletes each if you look at the numbers at the 2018 World Championships

It's still a good quarter to be in. Depending on how today's matches go we could have Argentina finishing second in their group and Italy essentially avoiding the top teams until the semis. To be honest, I wouldn't be afraid of Canada/Netherlands if I was Italy, they are both winnable matches.

I'm glad they decided to make the women's events more legit by having at least 16 competitors in each event. Overall a very simple qualification system, continental qualifiers then world qualifiers.

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Nope, the qualification tournament will be in September between

Canada then follows up with a 17-7 loss to Japan

Yeah, Egypt could potentially miss out on competing for an Olympic quota though I think South Africa will likely decline its continental quota should it win allowing Egypt to take it (assuming they stay in the top 20)

Huge upset by Canada, this could be important in letting us avoid Croatia/Serbia in the quarterfinals.

True, but I feel Jamaica has done a better job at going from specialists to more general. Regardless both nations should be among the 10 largest teams.

That's a shame, but yeah Russia are going to be the heavy favourites. It's also less likely for a team to be eliminated in dressage than eventing/jumping so I guess other nations didn't want to waste money traveling there.

Here are the ten largest athletic teams so far qualified to the Olympics (I took the top three athletes for nations with more than 3 eligible athletes) 1. United States - 64 2. Kenya - 28 3. China - 24 3. Jamaica - 24 5. Germany - 20 6. Ethiopia - 18 6. Japan - 18 8. Great Britain - 17 9. Poland - 16 10. Canada - 12 10. Russia - 12 10. Spain - 12 Unsurprisingly the United States is dominating the field. Kenya is second thanks to being dominant in long distance events, but could struggle to maintain its position as nations that are generally good in all events start to catch up.

Is Scott Morgan injured? That seems to be a big name missing on Canada's team, besides Rosie MacLennan who is injured.