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Also New Zealand won't get the reallocation in the doubles because they are not in the top 50. Plus US must decide which doubles it must drop, giving Canada a pair of athletes (most likely it'll be the men).

Somalia is the bigger shocker (you could at least sort of defend the others), it was a very competitive weightclass. Even if it had to be an African athlete did Central African Republic, Benin, Madagascar, Congo DR, Togo, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland or Lesotho not apply? Especially Central African Republic which was one win away from qualifying.

Don't trust Wikipedia. First Cuba hasn't qualified a team quota in the men. Brazil is given the Latin America spot (since it is the highest ranked Latin American nation), the host quota goes to Russia. Also 6 more individual quotas are handed out though the individual rankings due to there being extra spots from from the team quotas.

I agree. My (unlikely) hope would be for the players whose contracts are set to expire between now and the Olympics force the teams to put in a clause to allow them to participate in the Olympics. Stamkos would be a great person to approach about this. His contract is expired after this season and he hasn’t played at the Olympics. He was controversially left out in 2010 (“too young”) and in 2014 he was injured. It will cause quite the media stir, but at the same time teams will still want to sign him because he’s Stamkos.

It won’t be that bad. While all of the top nations will suffer, especially the United States the European leagues still have decent players. If they can convince the AHL to suspend their season during the Olympics things will look a lot better too.

South Korea has announced its initial team after their Olympic Trials. In total 5 women have been selected. I imagine they will add more, but I don't know their internal evaluation.

Yeah, their formula is sometimes weird and they completely ignore non-result things that could be important such as retirements or in some cases whether or not the athlete actually qualifies. I don't blame them too much, it's hard keeping track of over 1000 athletes.

Update (Remove) Men's C1 1000m (Canoeing) Men's Events, Women's Events (Weightlifting)

New Zealand has always been inconsistent about their standards. They sent a male athlete in 2012. I guess their argument was that their athlete could finish in the top 16 (he finished 14th though there were many DNFs)

Pretty much. Australia will likely qualify in both the men and women. New Zealand would be on the edge. PNG, Samoa and Fiji will be the top nations in both genders. Kiribati will be the favourite to take the men's quota. The other nations will end up in a fight for wild cards. Cook Islands and Solomon Islands are more likely to get a women's wild card. Marshall Islands too, but I see their chance being less likely. On the men's side Nauru will be the massive favourite (Kiribati too should they fail to qualify). Micronesia will likely be given a spot. After that things get muddied. Tuvalu and Palau's lifter are essentially their most notable athlete while American Samoa and Tonga have a better team on average. Guam and Vanuatu will end up being a non-factor. This is also ignoring potential wild card athletes from Africa (Libya and Madagascar will be big favourites in the men should they not qualify) and Pan America.

They are probably the most likely Asian nation to get one (provided that they applied), but there is going to be a lot of competition from the Pacific nations. Almost every single one will apply for a quota and with no athlete in an individual ranking position the competition will be even greater.

I decided to see what it would look like if we expand the women's individual qualification to top 15. Currently 9 athletes and 6 new nations would be added to the five already listed. From the total five are from European nations; Azerbaijan (ranked 1), Georgia (13), Latvia (13), Norway (15) and Moldova (15). In Africa Nigeria (7, 14, 15) is pretty much guaranteed to qualify through the team rankings along with Cameroon (10) while Mauritius (15) will have a chance should they send a full team. In Oceania Samoa (10, 13) will be a heavy favourite. In Pan America both Canada (7) and Chile (14) should qualify as well. So even expanding to the top 15 we have a chance at not filling the seven quotas.

I think it's time to allow the top 15 women be eligible for individual quotas. We still have three continental qualifiers to go and we're already at less than seven and there's a good chance that only Azerbaijan's Boyanka Kostova will be eligible at the end.

The final women's spot on the Australian team will be decided in an event occurring from May 20th to May 22nd. Link

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If they don't Syria will have a chance to get a tripartite quota along with Sri Lanka (provided that they applied). Though the sport has a lot of competition due to Oceania nations.

I didn't realize that Saudi Arabia's other lifter didn't do as well as we was listed. This gives both Turkmenistan and Syria a chance to finish above them (along with Japan).

It looks like Russia announced its initial roster. I used a translator so I may not be accurate. In total 34 have been announced. 21 swimmers reached the individual standards, 9 will compete only in relays while 4 did not reach the standard, but were added due to being promising young athletes. In addition 4 athletes will get a second opportunity to reach the Russian standard at the European Championships while Yulia Efimova will be given a spot should she avoid suspension. Individual Swimmers Natalia Lovtsova (50m freestyle) Veronika Popova (200m freestyle) Victoria Andreeva (200 m freestyle, 200 m IM) Daria Ustinova (100 and 200 m backstroke) Anastasia Fesikova (100 and 200 m backstroke) Sofya Andreeva (200m breaststroke) Daria Chikunov (200m breaststroke) Svetlana Chimrova (100m butterfly) Vladimir Morozov (50 and 100m freestyle) Andrew Grechin (100m freestyle) Alexander Red (200 m and 400 m freestyle) Yaroslav Potapov (1500 m freestyle) Eugene Rilov (100 and 200 m backstroke) Gregory Tarasevich (100 m backstroke) Andrew Schabas (200 m m back) Vsevolod Zanko (100m breaststroke) Cyril Prigoda (100m breaststroke) Anton Chupkov (200m breaststroke) Ilya Khomenko (200m breaststroke) Alexander Gardeners (100m butterfly) Eugene Koptelov (100m butterfly) Relays 4x100 m freestyle men - Vladimir Morozov, Andrei Grechin, Alexander Popkov, Alexander Sukhorukov. 4x200 m freestyle men - Alexander Red Nikita Lobintsev, Danila Izotov, Mikhail Dovgaluk, Vyacheslav Andrusenko. 4x100 m freestyle women - Veronika Popova, Victoria Andreeva Natalia Lovtsova, Rosalia Nasretdinova. 4x200 m freestyle women - Veronika Popova, Victoria Andreeva, Arina Openysheva Darya Mullakaeva. 4x100 m IM men - Eugene Rilov, Vsevolod Zanko, Alexander Gardeners, Vladimir Morozov 4x100 m IM women - Darya Ustinova Chikunov Daria, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova Additional Athletes (Young Swimmers) Daniel Pakhomov (200m butterfly) Alex Bryansk (50m freestyle) Semen Makovich (200 m IM) Ilya Druzhinin (1500 m freestyle) Athletes which will be given a second chance at European Championships The medley - Semen Makovich (400 m IM), Andrey Zhilkin Alexander Osipenko 200 m butterfly - Nikolay Skvortsov 100 m breaststroke - Natalia Ivaneeva Should Efimova have her suspension lifted then Natalia Ivaneeva will be removed should she qualify at the European Championship.

Saudi Arabia should be fine if the other lifter did what he was suppose to do. Though they'll have to hope Syria doesn't overperform too much over the last three events.

You sure? The African champs said they were eligible.

Looking at the entry list… For the men India, Iraq and Malaysia are safe though technically India could miss out should their final lifters finish with 0 and Syria over performs by a bit. Japan needs just 2 out of their final 4 lifters to finish. Despite being ranked in the top seven Philippines and Mongolia have no remaining lifters and will drop off the list (unless some crazy stuff happens). The last three spots will be between Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkmenistan. Sri Lanka would need very favourable results to have a chance. According to the entry list Syria is the odd nation out and has the hardest path where all four remaining lifters must finish at their listed rank, but a DNF for Kyrgyzstan in the -94kg or Turkmenistan in the +105kg (or even finishing 2nd out of eligible nations) could let Syria sneak in. For the women India, Philippines, Uzbekistan and Vietnam are safe. Mongolia requires one of their three final lifters to finish where their entry list has them. The final spot will be between Turkmenistan and United Arab Emirates. The entry list has Turkmenistan winning by 1 and the pressure will be on the athlete in -75kg to finish 5th among unqualified nations as UAE can literally have their lifters lift with no weights and they’ll get the same amount of points.

Thank you

Can someone post the entry list? Didn't think there was one.

Really? She's only 23, though I guess the next Olympics she'll be 27 and after university it is hard to put your life on hold for so long.

I don't blame UAE for using that strategy. Any other nation could have sent athletes in those weight categories too. It's a product of the qualification system. At least they have a half decent athlete in the -58kg. We saw something similar at the 2012 Olympics in the women's -63kg. There were so few athletes that a bunch of -58kg women went up a weightclass just so they can say they finished with a higher rank.