JoshMartini007

Poor Vanuatu. Maybe without Australia's and China's top teams they can take the continental quota.

Then what's the point of making the requirements harder if you aren't going to uphold them? The ITF gambled and it looks like they lost.

She can still be the flag bearer ;), Manny Pacquiao carried the flag for the Philippines at the 2008 Olympics. I feel the Davis/Fed cup requirements were a bit too harsh and we're seeing it with many top players missing out at the Olympics which will make the sport look bad.

I disagree, having one or two good athletes doesn't mean you are good at qualifying. El Salvadorians may not be top level, but they are strong enough to qualify, unlike most of Panama's athletes. Honduras is like Pakistan, they can qualify in team events, inflating their numbers, but overall they are very weak in Olympic qualifying. I'm not saying El Salvador is clearly better than Panama, but it isn't surprising to see them on the other side of the tripartite line.

El Salvador is stronger than those two nations in Olympic qualification. Honduras is almost nothing without football while Panama doesn't have much outside of athletics. El Salvador is just on the other side of the cut-off for tripartite consideration. They have qualified six athletes without help and will gain two more spots in athletics and swimming through the wild cards so they aren't hurting for spots.

That was back in 2015, but you're probably right. I've heard Nestor is hard to partner with, but I don't expect Raonic to look good once they face a true doubles team.

It's always weird to see an athlete from a different continent competing. What's Iran doing here?

Well he's not in the top 10 so he has to compete with other combined ranked teams to qualify. Of course Nestor + Pospisil have a combined rank of 33 which means they should easily make it in.

Very happy for Canada. It looks like the only disciplines we won't be participating in will be Greco-Roman wrestling, rhythmic gymnastics and water polo. Plus handball being the only entire sport in which we won't qualify in

Update (Remove) Men's -73kg (Judo) Men's +100kg (Judo) Men's -73kg (Judo) Women's -52kg, Women's -57kg (Judo) Women's -48kg (Judo) Men's -90kg (Judo) Men's -100kg (Judo) Women's -63kg (Judo) While that is a large chunk removed it looks like we will not get lower than 2012's number of nations which failed to qualify without a wild card (27). We are currently at 32 with only Bangladesh in golf having a very good chance at being removed. Something special would have to happen in athletics between now and July for there to be any chance.

Yeah, Canada doesn't have its fate in its own hands, they need Poland to win one more set than China against their respective opponents.

10 Refugee Athletes will compete at the Olympics. So what's happening to taekwondo?

That's for swimming. Though I think FINA made some exceptions in 2012, most notable Qatar's female swimmer.

No, but there are restrictions. NOCs can't enter in the combined, 3000m steeplechase or 10000m events. Also athletes wanting to participate in field or road events must prove to the technical board that they have the ability to perform in those events.

Brazil confirms the addition of the men's 4x200m free and women's 4x100m medley relays. Three more athletes have been added to their roster. Link

The best explanation I can give for Argentina qualifying is that since the US only used 2/3 of its athlete quotas from the Pan American Games the other one had to be reallocated. Since you can't give 1 athlete quota in the C2 it goes to the C1, making it go to Brazil and then the host quota goes to Argentina.

I think I figured it out. Brazil qualified an athlete by having someone in the top 100. The reallocation of host quota goes to the highest ranked nation without a quota which is Colombia.

While I think pro boxers should participate in the Olympics I feel it is a bit late to change the rules.

I cheated Archery – Will one of the top eight seed suffer an upset in the first round? Athletics – Will Usain Bolt win triple gold (men’s 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay)? Badminton – Will Denmark win a gold medal? Basketball – Will the United States win gold in both tournaments? Boxing – Will Cuba win the most gold medals? Canoeing – Will a non-European team win a canoe slalom medal? Cycling – Will there be a crash during the final of the BMX events (men or women)? Equestrian – Will more than three teams finish with more than 1000 points in one event? Fencing – Will a different nation win gold in each of the four team events? Field Hockey – Will there be a penalty shoot-out in one of the gold medal matches? Football – Will an African nation win the gold medal? Golf – Will a nation win multiple medals in the same event? Gymnastics – Will an athlete win medals in all of the individual events (men or women) in artistic gymnastics? Handball – Will a non-European team win a medal? Judo – Will a nation win its first gold medal? Modern Pentathlon – Will a non-European athlete win a medal? Rowing – Will athletes from all 5 continents win a medal? Rugby Sevens – Will the men’s tournament contain medalists from only Oceania? Sailing – Will 10 different nations win gold in the 10 events? Shooting – Will at least one world record be set in the event? Swimming – Will the United States win the most gold medals? Table Tennis – Will China win all four gold medals? Taekwondo – Will a nation win its first medal in this sport? Tennis – Will Serena Williams fail to win a gold medal (in all events)? Triathlon – Will there be a sprint finish in any event? Volleyball – Will Brazil win at least four medals in both beach and indoor volleyball? Weightlifting – Will a non-Asian nation medal in the lightest weight classes (men’s -56kg, women’s -48kg)? Wrestling – Will Russia win the most gold medals?

Well technically they were selected due to having the most athletes with an MQS so there is some measure of competition. Also the nation can choose which athlete to give the quota to, kind of like in weightlifting where nations win athlete quotas and then later choose who to use it on.

Yes you are correct.

No the host quota would go to the 8th ranked nation (Denmark). Also UCI is messing up when you click the individual rankings it gives you December 2015's rankings. Using the May 2016 rankings the three individual quotas go to Belgium, Argentina and Thailand. For the men Ecuador gets the host quota which means Venezuela gets the individual quota and thus Chile gets the World Championship quota.

Edit: nevermind this is a rolling rankings. Also the host quota is reallocated to the next best nation in the Olympic rankings.

2014 Olympic bronze medalist alpine skier Jan Hudec has transferred his nationality to the Czech Republic. I don’t blame him, Alpine Canada didn’t want him and he still wanted to compete. Link

Nations are only allowed to trade/swap one quota. So originally Germany had six men’s rifle athlete quotas and four women’s rifle athlete quotas, but they only chose five and three athletes respectively (Daniel Brodmeier and Barbara Engleder will compete in two events). Since they are allowed to make one trade they used it to gain a spot in women’s 25m pistol. However they are forced to decline the other athlete quota.