JoshMartini007

I’ve been collecting dates for each nation’s Olympic trials. I’ve gotten all of the large ones, but I am missing a few mid-sized nations. Belgium Greece Hungary Sweden It’s possible that they don’t have trials and just used times, but I would like to know for sure. Most of the smaller swimming nations won’t have trials, but if yours does don’t hesitate to post the dates.

In other nations Australia added six athletes to its swimming team after day 1 of their trials Men's 400m Freestyle - Mack Horton, David McKeon Men's 400m IM - Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Travis Mahoney Women's 400m IM - Blair Evans, Keryn McMaster

Mostly yes. The main exception is with injury/illness (I don't think anyone important is sick/injured), 2015 world champ medalists which failed here (only Ryan Cochrane in 400m and 1500m free remains) and technically relay athletes won't be qualified until after they qualified the relay (though I think they will be listed with the initial team).

Good to see the men finally on the qualifying side.

Looks like Canada/France will likely decide 2nd and 3rd in Group A.

Each header is as follows (rough translation) - Individual selection which reached the French Standard - Relay selection which satisfy the selection standard - Top selected athletes which were closest to the French standard - Additional relay athletes which satisfied the French standard - Relay athletes in order to fill relays qualified by France

What's the point of threads if nobody posts in them? If we should go to SwimSwam then what's the point of this site? If we were bombarding the thread with blow by blow results that's one thing, but I don't see us being disruptive. On the other side I have no issue seeing the results of other nations.

I don't think it's a problem, this is a swimming qualification thread and there's no doubt other qualifiers for large nations will be talked about (we already did it for France). Honestly for a sport like this and athletics there isn't much else to talk about since there isn't any true qualification event since it's all about times.

Not a great day for Canada, pretty much the minimum expectation going into the finals. So many athletes were close to the A standard and it will be unlikely that we'll send a 4x200m team if we qualify one. Of the athletes which qualified they will have a good chance at reaching the final and an outside chance at winning a medal if everything holds up.

There will only be two quotas available in women's table tennis since we used one for the Pan Am Games. Technically Bermuda and US Virgin Islands can compete in North America too. That probably won’t happen without objection from both North and Latin America. Neither continent will want to lose their team quota, but the more pressing issue is that we wouldn’t be guaranteed to keep the nine individual quotas given to both continents.

I'm quite nervous for Canada, we could still finish fourth in this group.

The women’s 100m butterfly final is looking to be very interesting. Penny Oleksiak set a new Canadian junior record as she finished first in the heats ahead of Noemie Thomas and Katerine Savard. The three swimmers will likely fight for two spots on the team. In the other events so far it will be unlikely that Canada will have a swimmer in the men’s 400m IM (four seconds off in prelims) though longer distance swimmers usually don’t put up top times until the finals, Brittany MacLean is set to qualify in the women’s 400m free and Richard Funk has a chance at reaching the men’s 100m breast time, he was just 0.09 seconds off the qualification time, a second swimmer is also possible too.

It's amazing how even Group A has been. Slovakia may lose all their games, but they have been competitive so far.

Canada's Swimming Trials begin today. Qualification is simple, swim the Olympic Qualification Time and you're in. Relay qualification is if the sum of the four fastest swimmers minus 1.8 seconds is less than 8th place at the 2015 World Champs.

Hopefully this gives the team the confidence to finish second in the group and then qualify to the Olympics.

If Spain loses to Germany they are pretty much out, they'll finish fourth and have no chance at defeating Hungary. At this rate maybe Kazakhstan will defeated them too.

Update (Remove) Men's 200m (Athletics)

French Trials are now over. Here's who qualified to individual events based on the times. Charlotte Bonnet - W 200m Free Coralie Balmy - W 400m Free Florent Manaudou - M 50m Free Jeremy Stravius - M 100m Free Clement Mignon - M 100m Free Camille Lacourt - M 100m Back Also up to 6 men and 6 women will be selected to the team, plus relays.

Even if he misses out today he still has a good chance at qualifying through the world rankings. Assuming no major upsets in the Asian and European qualifiers he is currently on the inside.

If Brazil doesn't win another men's quota they will use the host quota for the team event while the Latin America event will go to Cuba (or whoever else qualifies two athletes).

I think Asia is quite smart with this format. They give other regions which are far weaker a chance to qualify and in the end it doesn't matter too much for Asia because the top athletes from East Asia will qualify from the world rankings. In fact the nations which will lose out are the ones which will qualify at the tail end of the world rankings which will be most likely European nations (though Thailand may get unlucky).

UCI needs to regulate which events get points a bit better or at least have some events be worth more points than other.

Update (Remove) Men's -74kg Freestyle (Wrestling)

France could give us some trouble, though defeating Russia and then losing to France would be weird, but that's sport.

Big win for Canada, it keeps second place in the group open.