JoshMartini007

I removed all non-Olympic events that I could. For clarification weightlifting was left as is while in karate I only removed the lightest weightclass as I cannot combine the two heavier weightclasses. Medals Lost (at least 10) - 45 - 43 - 36 - 26 - 20 - 19 - 18 - 18 - 16 - 13 - 12 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 10 Unsurprisingly Indonesia was hit the hardest, losing 45 medals, but still sitting in 11th on the medal table. Overall Southeast Asia took the hardest hit. Thailand lost half its medals and also dropped out of the top 10 and is sitting in 15th. Malaysia lost 18/20 medals. Bahrain and Kazakhstan have both moved into the top 10 (8th and 10th respectively). Japan despite being a distant second only lost 13 medals. North Korea is the only nation in the old top 10 to lose fewer than 10 medals (2 lost). The following nations which won medals no longer have any; Afghanistan, Cambodia, Unified Korea, Laos and Myanmar. Top 10 (G-S-B) 1. 77-49-37 2. 36-36-57 3. 21-29-32 4. 11-7-7 5. 11-6-13 6. 9-14-9 7. 8-11-8 8. 8-3-5 9. 6-11-9 10. 6-9-23

Is anyone else a bit disappointed with Kazakhstan's performance? They are usually safely in the top 5, but they have been stuck with bronze medals, but even then their total medal haul is low. They still have boxing (though without their heavier weights they have been relatively struggling) and canoeing to try to move up the table.

Bronze medal for Indonesia in men's archery and almost guarantee an Olympic quota once the 2019 World Championships occurs

Qatar is definitely less blatant about buying athletes now. It's still happening, but a lot of athletes are now either born there or enter the country as children due to their family immigrating for work.

No that's a jujitsu athlete

Big upsets in mixed team recurve archery. By reaching the finals North Korea is guaranteed the Olympic quota since Japan will have the host quota. It'll be very unlikely that North Korea will win a team quota in both the men's and women's events at the 2019 World Championship so Mongolia is out of luck despite defeating South Korea.

Nobody wants to hold serve, 5/7 games had a broken serve...

France is quickly turning into one of those countries where they only care if they have a chance at winning a medal, completely ignoring that athletes typically don't go from unknown to world champs overnight.

Since the 2019 Archery World Championship will have a higher priority the bronze medal match in the men's recurve will likely decide who qualifies. While Indonesia will likely qualify in the women's recurve regardless of the result in the final.

Congrats to Iran in defeating China in Wushu

YouTube seems to be working for me now.

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...