JoshMartini007

Sutjiadi would need to reach the top 300 to qualify though. The next player in the WTA ranking will qualify if Zhang or Wang win.

Two unseeded athletes reached the quarterfinals in the women's singles Eudice Chong and Aldila Sutjiadi, With the fourth and fifth seeds gone too one of the Chinese duo is very likely to win the Olympic quota.

Great chance for him to qualify to the Olympics, but he must reach the semi-finals. He has avoided most of the tough people (no KOR,CHN,TPE and JPN until the semifinal) though, based on seeding Kazakhstan will be his quarterfinal opponent if things go well.

3rd seed Luksika Kumkhum lost to unseeded Eudice Chong in women's singles. This gives the Chinese top two seeds a larger chance at winning the Olympic quota.

Hopefully Canada can sneak one in, but we should be relatively safe in qualifying through the Pan Am Games.

Hopefully it stays for the Olympics.

Too bad the men's team is almost non-existent. Only one medal and several races where they didn't make the A Final. Though to be fair Brazil did make it harder for the men vs. the women.

There will also be a quota given from the mixed team competition which will allow athletes to compete in both the mixed and individual events

Yeah, only four events which will have free spots to Pacific nations (though sadly Laser Radial isn't one of them). There's still the 2019 World Champs...

I think the discipline will be safe until the other sports become gender neutral. It at least keeps the difference slightly smaller. So basically until Greco-Roman wrestling adds women events or gets kicked out of the Olympics.

Remember when that vote happened water polo was protected because the vote was by sport (and no way aquatics was going to get kicked out). I'd argue that water polo is the most likely team sport to be kicked out, not only is it played by relatively few nations the ones that do play it come from mostly one continent with a bunch of token nations around the world. At least in field hockey and rugby sevens the top and secondary teams are more geographically diverse. As for softball, they are better off trying to bring in a men's team than to try to get a 24 person baseball tournament that will likely never get MLB to agree to join.

There's a chance, but they definitely won't be the favourites. The core teams are still a step ahead of the other teams and the final qualification tournament will have at least three of them competing, not to mention Ireland whom is a bit of a wildcard now that they are starting to care about rugby sevens. Germany's best bet is to hope Great Britain (England) and France qualify through the world series and then go all in at the European champs and defeat Spain/Russia/Ireland

I'm just upset that so few quotas are available in baseball/softball. It likely won't matter for Canada in softball, but baseball will be quite difficult to qualify in.

Poor Austria, they capsized and lost the gold...

Huge win by Canada against Australia. This also guarantees an American nation will win the quota (even if the US was a huge favourite pre-tournament) and likely means Chinese Taipei won't qualify a team. Of course in a six team tournament there was always going to be snubs.

Probably to guarantee there would be enough entries for the event. In the unlikely scenario that an entirely different set of 29 countries qualified in the two individual events.

They won't have to, as you said they could be double starters. Honestly I doubt a nation would use three athletes over the individual and team events, they'll most likely return an athlete quota.

No because in the qualification document it states that the athlete can still qualify their NOC a quota in the individual event. Also if you were to add up the athlete quotas the mixed team event quotas are separate so in theory you could have a completely different athlete competing in the mixed team event than in the individual events.

It's a winnable match, IMO

Why is it unworthy?

The results page for the women's 470 seems to suggest there will be two medal races? I think it's a glitch, have we ever seen that before?

Most of the quotas are given through the 2018 and 2019 World Championships so for the most part the top nations are qualifying. Besides the only event where both Canada and the United States are in qualifying positions is the Laser Radial, which isn't too bad considering 44 nations will compete. There are a couple of chances for the 2019 Worlds. It's definitely no Australia/New Zealand where both nations will likely qualify in almost all of the events between the two World Championships.

China/Italy will decide the fourth team in Group B. The Netherlands will have a chance in Group A, but require Mexico to defeat Chinese Taipei

Just schedule the events at different times...

Poland isn't too bad, maybe they left out a few people in athletics or decline to replace an injured athlete with another one. The Netherlands and Sweden are pretty bad, while in swimming for France they won't let you in unless you have a legit chance for a medal.