JoshMartini007

Here's hoping Guinea-Bissau qualify their first athlete tomorrow.

So unlucky, I think they are essentially guaranteed a tripartite quota. STP has always had good relations with the ICF and I can't think of a nation more deserving of one of the two spots.

Since yesterday only 1 individual athlete has reached the French standard. Hopefully France rethinks its policy.

I've added her. It'll be quite the upset if she wins though, but crazier things have happened in a single match.

He and other boxers from Turkmenistan will have a good chance, Asia is pretty depleted now as is the other continents. It'll likely come down to what the bracket looks like. Hopefully Pakistan will solve its issues and will send athletes to the final tournament as well, though qualification is unlikely (did Muhammad Waseem go pro?).

They'll still have a chance to qualify at the final qualification event.

Also Afghanistan, Bangledesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Each of the following events qualifies one boat. Men's K1 200m Men's K1 1000m Men's C1 200m Men's C1 1000m Men's C2 1000m Women's K1 200m Women's K1 500m

As a reminder Africa won’t be in contention for any K2 boats since they were the worst continent at the World Championships. Also a nation cannot qualify more than two athlete quotas in the canoe events and cannot qualify multiple boats in the same boat category (eg. Men’s K1 200m and K1 1000m), should this occur the athlete spot will go to the boat with the longer distance while the 200m athlete quota will go to the next highest ranked nation. Like all continental qualifiers South Africa will likely decline any quotas won here so the spot will eventually go to the next eligible nation.

The ICF is the worst at releasing information to the public. I usually have to rely on the host country to release the results. I sometimes wish they would get the "wrestling treatment" and get thrown out of the Olympics until they get their act together. It's more upsetting here because Sao Tome and Principe could qualify their first athletes here.

I see only one non-Northern African athlete in Greco-Roman, Namibia in -66kg. Not too surprised since the region dominates Greco-Roman in the continent, but I thought other nations would at least attempt to compete. Where's Nigeria? They could have challenge for the spots.

At this rate France's team will be non-existent.

Only one athlete from Turkmenistan remains. He'll have to beat a fellow -stan nation in order to qualify.

Does he still compete? I had him before, but I couldn't find any results in 2015 so I thought he retired.

He (or someone else) needs to get 10 UCI points before they are allowed to be selected.

If you're giving Germany a chance I'd give France a chance. Most likely it will go to Russia. The Canada/Russia match on the first day may be very decisive (winner becomes the big favourite to finish second in the group.

How did Papua New Guinea get the 3 seed in the -75kg? He's not event the best boxer in Oceania.

True we would have been underdogs against all three of those teams, but morale is a factor in sport and Canada is going in with low morale against a team with high morale just to make things harder.

Shame, it was going to be hard no matter who our quarterfinal opponent was, but finishing fourth and facing the winner of Russia/Italy is pretty close to worse case scenario.

No New Zealand player in the women's table tennis Oceania qualifier, most likely Fiji will qualify.

Update (Remove) Men's 100m (athletics)

Assuming nations pick the higher ranked boat it looks like all three women's single sculls boats will be reallocated (poor El Salvador). For the men's things get complicated, with this assumption Brazil will pick their lightweight double sculls and the single sculls spot will go to Venezuela while Mexico will take its single sculls spot thus giving the lightweight double sculls spot to Chile. Chile however, finished fourth in both the single and lightweight double sculls boats. Should Paraguay somehow fail to get one of the reallocation spots they will be the very heavy favourite to one of the tripartite spots. Should Paraguay qualify normally the tripartite spot will become more open with Honduras becoming the favourite in this region (Bolivia, Nicaragua and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only other eligible boats which competed here).

The federation wants to qualify as many nations to the Olympics. It's also unfair that Canada and US can't compete here (or Australia and New Zealand in Asia/Oceania).

That's good, it makes sense that Caribbean nations would take an interest in rowing, especially former British colonies.

It's not formally rejected, New Zealand can still give the quota to someone else