JoshMartini007

Haha, maybe everyone thought the Moscow would be the easier one and went there...

So I guess the African Games tournament won't be the qualifiers. It's basically a bunch of home and aways, just like last time.

Shooting can be quite random, it also doesn't help that Germany's best chance at qualifying had their quotas revoked.

Removed qualified in modern pentathlon

China will also be eligible to compete with a second team in the mixed team event.

Looks like this will be an Egypt vs. South Africa affair, haven't heard of any other nation competing.

Based on a few news sources it seems that the African qualifier will be the 2019 African Games to be held in Morocco.

Here are the top 5 athletes by individual qualification score (IQS) who are also still eligible at winning a quota for their nation in the seven events. I know IQS isn't the best system as some athletes from nations with depth tend to not have them, but it's still interesting to see who is among the favourites. Men's 10m Air Rifle 1. Deepak Kumar - 630.1 2. Nam Tae-yun - 628.2 3. Mahyar Sedaghat - 628.0 4. Alin Moldoveanu - 627.9 5. Peter Sidi - 627.8 Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Istvan Peni - 1186 2. Bernhard Pickl - 1182 3. Vitali Bubnovich - 1180 4. Yuriy Yurkov - 1179 4. Serhiy Kulish - 1179 Men's 10m Air Pistol 1. Chaudhary Saurabh - 586 2. Abhishek Verma - 583 3. Ruslan Lunev - 582 3. Tran Quoc Cuong - 582 5. Tomoyuki Matsuda - 581 Women's 10m Air Rifle 1. Zhao Ruozhu - 631.9 2. Lin Ying-Shin - 629.0 3. Armina Sadeghian - 627.1 4. Petra Zublasing - 627.0 5. Gankhuyag Nandinzaya - 626.6 5. Laura-Georgeta Coman - 626.6 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Nina Christen - 1178 2. Katrine Lund - 1177 3. Franziska Peer - 1176 4. Gankhuyag Nandinzaya - 1175 5. Rikke Ibsen - 1174 Women's 10m Air Pistol 1. Jiang Ranxin - 583 2. Kim Min-jung - 581 3. Klaudia Bres - 580 4. Manu Bhaker - 579 5. Yukari Konishi - 577 Women's 25m Pistol 1. Manu Bhaker - 593 2. Monika Karsch - 586 3. Kim Min-jung - 585 3. Naphaswan Yangpaiboon - 585 5. Aldana Al-Mubarak - 584 5. Teh Xiu Hong - 584 5. Tanyaporn Prucksakorn - 584

Only the quotas for the men's 25m rapid fire pistol will be reallocated. All other quotas will go on as scheduled Link

To be fair Pakistan only wanted the Rapid Fire Pistol quotas to be reallocated and their athlete does have a decent chance at qualifying, though more likely at a later World Cup event. Still there should be zero tolerance for not allowing a member nation to compete.

So it looks like the decision is not yet final. The final decision will be made in about 5 hours from now. I imagine this was to pressure India to give the Pakistan shooters their visas. With the RFP event held on Tuesday it's still possible to get everything settled and not have the athletes too impacted.

I think it was for the best for karate given what was done to it in 2020. At best, individual kata could have remained and expanded so that more than 10 athletes would compete.

Maybe with the World Championships being almost two months after the Pan American Games more athletes will show up. Canada seems to be letting their best go to Lima (whether or not they want to go is debatable)

I mean, that's almost all the sports on the program once you add in the non-Olympic sports (minus Baseball). It's the same for Canada; just because we don't send our best in athletics or swimming doesn't mean we don't care about the Pan American Games.

Just checked the calendar, so far India is not scheduled to host any other direct qualifiers though they are essentially guaranteed to host a field hockey play-off match (which should have no issues as long as it isn't against Pakistan and even then I imagine the match would still go on) so they are unlikely to feel any large sanctions for this Olympic cycle.

The reallocation of unused quotas goes to the next highest ranked athlete from the Olympic Ranking List, as long as the minimal continental quota is respected. So as long as Egypt still competes African athletes would have to qualify the hard way. The only exception would be if the winner of the African championship also wins the World Cup Final in which case the African quota would go to the second place athlete.

The World Cup in India is about to start, but there are issues with Pakistan getting visas to compete. Now they are trying to get the quotas for the men's rapid fire pistol (the event they were planning to compete in) moved to the next World Cup event. Probably won't happen, but it may make it difficult for India to host future Olympic qualification events.

My issue with surfing is the qualification system. Due to the lack of diversity in the World Surf League we essentially have 12 athletes fighting for 10 quotas in men's shortboard while 9 athletes are fighting for 8 quotas in women's shortboard. Of course, qualification is by name so there will be a lot of intra-national competition, but for me that doesn't mean too much.

Yeah, I have no issue of territories competing, as long as they have proper rules in place like they (or their parents/grandparents) were born there. I don't mind people who compete for France also wanting to represent their territory (like Lara Grangeon for New Caledonia), but we should prevent France (or Great Britain/Netherlands) from trying to sneak people from the mainland into the games.

Yeah, we're in a bit of a quiet season for Olympic qualification, unsurprisingly. The only thing that has happened since I made this was the men's handball world championship and that only lowered the chances for Iceland and North Macedonia. The African Road Cycling Championship getting delayed doesn't help things while the African Modern Pentathlon Championship should be an easy qualification for Egypt. Maybe the Shooting World Cup at the end of the month will give us something more to talk about, at least until mid-March when things start to move.

Thanks, didn't realize they made that change. It's surprising that they still gave Asia 5 quotas.

Here are the dates for all the Olympic qualification events except for the African Finn qualifier Link

Is that because South Africa may decline to send a team should they not finish in the top 4? If not it doesn't really matter who finishes in the top 4 in terms of a competitive field, with the exception of Argentina or two teams from Africa/North America. Just that it would make it harder/easier for other nations to qualify

Who is they?

After 3/6 events, leads the pack while are in comfortable positions to qualify to the Olympics. It's not completely over for the European nations, but it would take a couple of great tournaments for one of them while one of the top four has back to back terrible tournaments. As it stands two out of will miss the Olympics, though even if one of them makes it to the top 4 it would only help the continent if they leap-frog Australia.