JoshMartini007

Does Longines Timing no longer have team results?

I was kind of hoping for a low-mid 90s for Canada. Our outside chance isn't completely gone, but we'll need a near-perfect cross-country and hope things go poorly for other nations.

So who are the favourites in the Group F/G qualifier if Australia and New Zealand qualify here? South Africa? China? India? Hong Kong? What a massive opportunity for those nations (provided that they can reach the minimum scores)

That moment when you realize there's a second page to that test you are taking...

Russia isn't listed in the start list for the group all-around, are they not competing?

Good luck to Portugal at the European (Group A/B) qualifier

I felt that the dressage factor was to lessen the impact from jumping. Maybe they should have added a factor to cross-country instead of removing it from dressage (it was the least important portion between the three, among the top riders).

Is there a place which adds up the team score in dressage or do we have to manually do it?

I'm hoping we can steal one of the team quotas in one of the events. More likely the United States may use its home field advantage to qualify here. Though both teams should qualify regardless at the Pan American Games.

If two US shooters qualify, then one of Argentina/Chile will likely qualify at the 2018 Pan American Championships. After that, things open up at the Pan American Games when two quotas are available.

US didn't do too well at the 2014 World Champs either. They only won two quotas there, one of which is no longer an Olympic event. They'll make up their quotas later at the continental and world cup events

Yeah this reminds me of figure skating where one athlete could qualify up to three quotas for their nation. In shooting, the athlete still needs to reach the MQS in order to be selected so at least the quota isn't entirely free, but I'm hoping that a second athlete qualifies normally so that the extra athlete quota will likely be declined.

It's pretty similar, just with two people From the media guide: Each team in the Trap Mixed Team qualification round shoots 150 total targets: 75 targets per team member, divided in three rounds of 25 targets each. Athletes competing in the qualification phase are divided in squads composed of three teams each. They use all of the five layout stations, and they are allowed to fire two shots at each target. Two shooters compose each team: one male and one female. The score of the team is made by the sum of the two individual scores Targets are thrown randomly: shooters don’t know the angle and the direction of the target. The rotation logic ensures that all teams will shoot the same targets sometimes during the round. The elimination-style final consists of a maximum of 50 targets. During the final round, teammates alternate in shooting series of five targets, in the order designated by their coach. Athletes shoot from and rotate on station number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and they are allowed to fire one shot at each target. After five rounds have been completed — or when every team fired five times from each station — the lowest ranking team is eliminated in 6th position. At the end of each of the three following rounds, eliminations in 5th, 4th and 3rd place are determined. There, the two remaining teams have to fire two more complete rounds to decide the gold and silver medalist.

A women's 50km walk in 2020 would at least be more competitive than what happened in 2017. Using the 2017 Worlds qualification standard 21 women (with a max of 3 per NOC) would qualify to the Olympics based on 2018 results, so we are doing a lot better than in 2017 when only six athletes made the standard. I wouldn't oppose a smaller field relative to the men's in 2020 with it expanding in 2024.

At the half way point Asia and Europe are tied 15-15 in terms of athlete quotas. Oceania (Australia) has the other two.

It's pretty sad the state rugby in Canada is in. Sadly the article is correct, most of the money comes from 15s and the federation needs to do everything to keep that program alive, even if it means sacrificing the 7s in the short term.

They'll be reallocated to the nation with the highest MQS in that event which has not yet qualified any shooting quotas

Haha, that's how I feel about this World Championship too, wanting the United States to do as well as possible so we can at least qualify someone to the Olympics later. At least for Asia you'll have other World events for which Asian nations can qualify. For us our first continental event begins at the end of October, before any World Cup events. Though I guess the ISSF compensated that by giving our continent more quotas than we deserve.

Yeah, Indonesia did well even if you remove extra events. 35 medals across Olympic events and 18 more in non-Olympic events that also appeared in 2014 is an amazing performance for the nation. It would have been their best performance since they last hosted the event in 1962, though fewer gold medals than in 1974.

Sorry about that... Here is the top 10 nations, only taking Olympic events into consideration. Top 10 (G-S-B) 1. 106 - 70 - 54 2. 64 - 50 - 66 3. 33 - 43 - 49 4. 14 - 18 - 16 5. 14 - 18 - 14 6. 13 - 10 - 16 7. 12 - 7 - 7 8. 11 - 10 - 13 9. 10 - 17 - 32 10. 8 - 13 - 12

There's still one more event to go, but here is some initial stats on the performance of nations in non-Olympic events. First I removed all non-Olympic sports, except for roller sports, which I only kept skateboarding. I also removed events from Olympic sports that are not in the Olympics with the following exceptions. In boxing, weightlifting and wrestling all weightclasses were kept and in karate the men's and women’s +84kg and +68kg respectively were kept to simulate the +75kg and +61kg events. Medals won in non-Olympic Events 1. - 63 2. - 59 3. - 52 4. - 34 5. - 32 6. - 25 7. - 24 8. - 23 8. - 23 8. - 23 11. - 22 Everyone else won fewer than 20 medals in non-Olympic events. Not too surprising that Indonesia won the most medals. Bahrain, Iraq and Syria were the only nations to have won medals, but none in non-Olympic events. Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal only won medals in non-Olympic events. Of course putting down total medals is a bit unfair for larger nations. Powerhouses like China are expected to do well in all sports so it's expected that they would also win more medals in non-Olympic sports. Here I calculated the probability that a nation would have earned their number of Olympic event medals (or fewer) over the total medals won. A lower number meant it was unlikely and that the nation likely benefited from non-Olympic events. 1. 0.0000000076% 2. 0.0049% 3. 0.0087% 4. 0.049% 5. 0.12% 6. 0.35% 7. 0.84% 8. 2.46% 9. 3.34% 10. 4.39% Everyone else was at a 10% chance or higher. 8/10 nations that benefited from non-Olympic events were Southeast Asian nations, likely due to Indonesia's influence. The nations that saw significantly little to no benefit from the added events were Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Japan, China, North Korea, Qatar and Kazakhstan.

Yes, it essentially means the 10th ranked team (assuming Argentina wins the Pan American quota), currently Ireland will be a seeded team and whoever among the unseeded team (currently, Canada, Malaysia, Pakistan and South Korea) gets that match-up will fancy their chances.

Too bad it'll be the 1st vs. 14th rank team, the top team would have to lose on purpose for the upset to occur. It would be funny if Austria's men or Czech Republic's women qualified though.

Assuming they deny the quota in time I imagine they would still qualify for the final play-offs (at the very least by being one of the highest ranked non-qualified nations). The FIH has been accommodating to them over the past couple of Olympics.

Yeah the qualification documents can get quite confusing, especially when some of them may have been prepared by a non-native English speaker. I think it boils down to continental quotas can be reallocated to another nation from the same continent should they be in the top 20 (to prevent a weak African or Oceania team from qualifying) while all other reallocations just go to the highest ranked non-qualified teams from the intercontinental tournaments. Does anyone know if South Africa will have the same policy of denying any continental quota won?