JoshMartini007

I’m a bit confused by the wording for the BMX team qualification The YOG BMX Juniors Nations Ranking (to be published by 1 November 2017) is calculated by considering the best rank from the following rankings: E. UCI Men Juniors BMX nations ranking following the 2017 Men Juniors BMX World Championships (published 01 August 2017) F. UCI Women Juniors BMX nations ranking following the 2017 Women Juniors BMX World Championships (published 01 August 2017) Ties are broken by the remaining rank. If ties still exists, the E rank is decisive. The 13 best ranked nations in the YOG BMX Juniors Nations Ranking will qualify their NOC. Are we adding the two rankings or taking the best male and female athlete and making a ranking from that? It sounded like they wanted to combined the rankings, but the tie breaker point confuses me (what is remaining rank?). We could wait until November, but regardless the same 13 nations qualify

Just to confirm the Hockey5s tournament will now be a 12 team tournament with Argentina getting a quota for both genders and each of the five continents getting two spots. The 12th team will go to the third place team from a random draw (see below), should the third place team from that continent decline the spot moves to the next continent. For the boys (Oceania > Asia > Europe > Africa > Pan America) and for girls (Africa > Asia > Europe > Oceania > Pan America) Link

There's also a rule where a team can only have one team sport (beach handball, futsal, hockey5 and rugby sevens) per gender. Brazil may pick futsal should they qualify. Should they decline it looks like Uruguay would be the next nation to be offered a spot.

Each team has 9 athletes Also the 10th team for the men's tournament is currently Brazil, the highest ranked Pan American nation in the men's senior world rankings, since no other Pan American team participated at the U17 World Championship.

By my count here are the FINA points ranking, the top 16 will be allowed to send 4 male and 4 female swimmers to the Youth Olympics. The points were calculated by adding up all of the results of each swimmer at the latest stage of an event (finals > semis > prelims) 1. - 68004 2. - 58998 3. - 51642 4. - 49912 5. - 48253 6. - 40188 7. - 39789 8. - 39496 9. - 39417 10. - 29246 11. - 26804 12. - 22780 13. - 22062 14. - 21747 15. - 21591 16. - 20814 17. - 20288 18. - 20046 19. - 19979 20. - 19658 21. - 19626 22. - 19619 23. - 18864 24. - 17283 25. - 16948 26. - 15919 27. - 15457 28. - 15034 29. - 14687 30. - 13975 Overall there wasn't a lot of movement in the second half among the top nations. South Africa was able to move into the Top 16 meaning it won't take a continental spot meaning Germany will qualify. Spain had a terrible second half and drops out of the top 16. New Zealand on the other hand had a great second half, but just missed breaking into the top 16. Mexico, Belarus and France entered the top 30 while Switzerland, Hong Kong and Slovenia drop out.

I'm a bit split on mixed relays. On one hand it gives some of the smaller nations an opportunity to field a team, but on the other hand it's redundant to have both a mixed and a gendered relay. I guess I'm fine with them at the World Championships, but at the Olympics it should be one or the other. Though if I had my way the 4x200m relay and 800m freestyle events would be dropped and the 50m back, breast, and fly would be added. Here's hoping for another relay medal tomorrow. It's a shame the girls didn't win one at the Olympics and that we can't clone Penny Oleksiak so she can swim the free and fly.

The Commonwealth Games isn't too different than the continental games. It's a bit more entertaining because the diversity of the nations means the medals of certain sports are won by a subset of nations rather than the same group of 3-5 nations. Swimming is dominated by Australia and outside of the top two tier nations there isn't much room for others to win medals. Athletics on the other hand arguably has the top field among any non-World/Olympic event (though not as deep as the European Championship).

They use the results from the senior world champs to decide which nations get 4 men and 4 women quotas, all other nations can get a maximum of 2 men and 2 women (of course all individual swimmers must reach the qualifying times)

The 4x200m was a slow race, mostly due to the fact only 10 teams raced and Italy and Denmark were already significantly behind by the third leg. Nobody was a sub-7:50. Though to be fair while Canada will cut down some time it won't be enough for a medal.

I imagine one of those two extra spots will be used to separate the host nation and the continental qualifier so both China and Japan will likely qualify.

The FINA points thing for Youth Olympic qualification is a bit confusing does anyone know how it is officially done? Currently I have added up the points earned at the latest stage for each athlete (Finals > Semis > Prelims) including giving 0 to athletes which were disqualified (currently this does not change who qualifies). Anyway here is the top 30 at the halfway point. 1. – 28860 2. – 27128 3. – 22251 4. – 21268 5. – 20240 6. – 17480 7. – 16963 8. – 15391 9. – 15230 10. – 11769 11. – 11334 12. – 10298 13. – 10246 14. – 9869 15. – 8979 16. – 8490 17. – 8459 18. – 8326 19. – 8195 20. – 8124 21. – 7962 22. – 7725 23. – 7597 24. – 7377 25. – 6850 26. – 6118 27. – 5868 28. – 5853 29. – 5713 30. – 5709 Unsurprisingly the larger teams have more points. This is apparent with France whom doesn’t even make the top 30 because they only sent 9 swimmers. Remember all continents must be represented which means Egypt or South Africa will replace the 16th place team should they fail to reach that ranking. Also apparently the mixed relays don’t give FINA points.

Interesting choice using a male in the freestyle portion, though given our choice of swimmers it was either that or snub Masse.

More of a B+ team since the men will likely swim later tonight.

Nice WR by Masse

Personally I don't think there should be continental quotas for events with less than 12 entrants. Women's water polo sort of avoids the issue because South Africa declines the quota and Australia and China are good enough so that no one complains, outside of them getting a free spot. Women's team synchronized swimming doesn't hold too well as both Australia and Egypt are significantly weaker and if the host nation is also weak then you essentially have 5 nation competing for 3 medals.

Yeah the women's tournament has potentially 10 teams which could fight for a medal in any given tournament, it's one of the reasons why I wanted 12 (or at least 10) teams at the Olympics. Congrats to Canada, we're finally on the right side of an important narrow match

There are women e-sporters (is that a word?) though clearly not as many as men and many of them play in women only tournaments and make about 10% of what the men make, though you could say the same for a lot of other sports .

Our next qualification tournament has just concluded. The African Continental Table Tennis Qualifiers have decided their quotas. Boys - Girls - Congrats to everyone. Link.

The 50km was always in danger of being removed. Making the 20km event into a 21.1km event seems arbitrary. I hate that the IOC is trying to get rid of endurance events or never brought them in the first place. Is four hours of walking any different than four hours of a single round of golf or the entire time it takes for a weightlifting competition in a single weightclass?

So close for Canada to get three quotas (and max quotas overall). I'm so excited about our figure skating team, one of the best in the world right now.

Yay Canada!

That won't go anywhere, unless there's a big push by the RFA/UFA pool to add an Olympics participation clause which I doubt will happen.

There's not much in terms of qualification. The final biathlon event is this weekend so the nation rankings will be finalized. The men’s, women’s and mixed curling world championships occur between now and the end of April. The other big event is the figure skating world championships which will determine most of the quotas in that sport. After that the next big date is in September. Overall four threads would need to be opened.

Honestly until I hear differently I'm going to assume NHL players will not be at the Olympics. I'm already looking at Europe and lower level NA leagues to fill our roster.

Thanks to the Portuguese Olympic Committee here are the qualification documents for the 28 sports. Now all we need is the three newly added sports (break dancing, karate and sport climbing). The first qualification events will begin in April.