JoshMartini007

Does anyone know how continental championships work? I'm trying to create an athlete database. Do they ignore sailors from other continents or does a sailor from Europe get to be the North American champion?

Looks like Canada recovered. That or France is throwing the game so they could have a better chance at reaching the semi-finals.

Yeah, it's been pretty bad for Canada, I thought we may have had an advantage due to the location, but I imagine a lot of our riders are also based in Europe since that's where most of the high level competition happens.

At this rate Canada will be lucky to just making it to the next round

How about a marathon relay where each member runs 1km in their sport's uniform (plus shoes for swimmers/divers etc), each team must include at least 20 sports.

Yeah, the competition is close enough in the Americas for both Canada and the United States not to be guaranteed a spot, though they'll be the heavy favourites. It may make the Nations Cup more interesting.

Will Longines have a team result page after this is over?

Though that may not be good for them... in pole position.

vs for the final spot... I really thought they were out of it earlier.

Not a good run by the US, looks like it's up to Canada to qualify

Canada has a very outside chance, not only does it have a large deficit, but it needs to leapfrog a handful of nations.

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.