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She just missed the rankings, she was ranked 77th at the cut-off and 72nd was the last normally ranked athlete to qualify. She's currently third in line as replacement (not sure if the two ahead of her have fulfilled the Fed Cup requirements though).

Pospisil and Raonic partnered up and Nestor didn't reach the top 10 so he no way to qualify.

By my count we have 193 athletes competing when the max was suppose to be 172. I guess that's what happens when the IOC forces you to reallocate the ITF Places to the next highest ranked athletes. A more realistic quota distribution would have been 192 athletes.

Some stats about the singles entries. The athletes which received a FP in the men's singles got it through reallocation, essentially being the next highest ranked athletes. On the women's side three of them actually went to intended athletes; Brazil's Teliana Pereira (hosts), Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (continental) and Italy's Francesca Schiavone (former GS champ). Also several athlete qualified through protected rankings; Argentina's Juan Monaco and Juan Martin del Potro, Australia's Jordan Thompson and Thanasi Kokkinakis, Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-Hsun, Poland's Jerzy Janowicz and United States' Brian Baker. On the women's side; China's Peng Shuai, Italy's Karin Knapp and Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva used protected rankings to qualify.

Maybe he doesn't want to go? It looks like he's done his Davis Cup requirements so he's eligible.

Update (Remove) Women's Events (Weightlifting)

Disease is always something to worry about, there are always risks, not just from Zika, but other diseases such as yellow fever. Also while the top nations may not say it, golf is far from worldwide, just look at the top 100. 45 are from the United States and 15 are from Great Britain (England/Wales/Scotland), there's a reason why we have to go to almost world ranking #350 just to fill out the roster. Golf at the Olympics wasn't about the already established nations it was about getting other nations into the sport.

Denmark's Olympic Swimming Team Jeanette Ottesen (Vejle Svømmeklub Triton/NTC) Rikke Møller Pedersen (Holbæk Svømmeklub/NTC) Lotte Friis (Gentofte Svømmeklub/USA) Mie Ø. Nielsen (Aalborg Svømmeklub) Pernille Blume (Gladsaxe Swim/NTC) Sarah Bro (Gentofte Svømmeklub/NTC) Julie Kepp Jensen (JGI/A6) Viktor Bromer (Aalborg Svømmeklub) Anton Ørskov Ipsen (Sigma Swim Birkerød/USA) Mads Glæsner (Sigma Swim Allerød/USA) Pál Joensen (Aalborg Svømmeklub/NTC) Anders Lie Nielsen (Farum Svømmeklub/USA) Daniel Skaaning (STT-VAT/NTC) Søren Dahl (Herlev Swim/USA) Magnus Westermann (Herlev Swim/NTC) Link Don't forget other nations are also naming their teams.

That's why I expected the US to be the first nation to withdraw.

Tennis had the same problem in 1988. The only difference is that golf will only have one more chance to get it right while tennis got to wait until the old generation to move out

I wonder what their excuse would have been if Zika wasn't an issue. It's hard to paint everyone with the same brush, but the fact no women have withdrawn due to the virus paints a telling picture. At least golfers from the US and Great Britain have remained (so far).

At the bottom of the documents they said it is not finalized due to legal process. This is likely from athletes appealing IWF's decision, but could also mean BLR/KAZ/RUS could be removed.

IWF has updated the World Championship Rankings (subject to the appealing process). Quota Differences Men Japan +3 Thailand +1 France +1 Moldova -1 Azerbaijan -4 (technically -3 since they already lost one) Women Ukraine +1 Belarus -1 With Japan qualifying their continental quota goes to Saudi Arabia. Note I have not retroactively removed suspended athletes which competed in the continental championships so the quotas may be different. For Azerbaijan they did not qualify through the European qualifiers (and did not change which nations qualified), but they did qualify through the individual rankings (-94kg, 12th place) which they will then proceed to lose due to IWF's sanction.

Costa Rica is up 2-1 against Mexico in the women's finals (NORCECA is a 5 match series)

Bahrain only got one quota. Bolivia, Malta and Oman got two quotas because they applied for two to the tripartite committee.

Kazakhstan looked good, but they faced no European opposition. In reality this tournament is Russia's to lose

Awesome, Australia will be just as hard if not harder. I wish they didn't let nations which already qualified a team compete here.

Vanuatu has reached the semi-final after defeating Kazakhstan 2-0, their next opponent is China, even without their top pair it is going to be hard for them (likely a 2-1 result if they win). Australia vs. Japan is the other semi-final. For the men the semi-finals are Australia vs. China and Kazakhstan vs. Qatar.

No, all of the unused quotas have been released, all we're missing is the tripartite quotas (and confirmation of the individual quotas). One thing that needs to update is the 2014 and 2015 Rankings since some nations should lose points due to their athletes being caught doping.

Can't wait to see the stock market, apparently the pound has dropped by almost 15 cents against the US dollar over the past 24 hours

Still early, but I have serious doubts that "stay" will pull off the comeback. Looks like the UK is leaving.

Early results for the EU Referendum are in. Things are quite even with England wanting to leave while Northern Ireland and Scotland wanting to stay, no results for Wales yet. Results

He's listed in the 200m free, 200m fly, 100m free, 200m IM and 100m fly. Here's the entry list for the US trials.

It means a lot. The only thing keeping this from being a complete disaster (assuming more withdrawals, it's actually not so bad right now) is that the women's side is intact. First impressions are important and for a sport that barely made the Olympics. They would have to be fully committed in 2020 if they want to stay (or the IOC gets a lot of revenue regardless of the strength of field).

Looks like it was steroids. The Italian Athletics Federation has confirmed the allegation.