JoshMartini007

No gold medals allowed for Canada. Though honestly out best chances at winning gold will be at the end of the week or in the second week.

South Korea currently holds the top three spots

North Korea is moving up as well

Europe with only 2 Italians in the top 16 so far.

Better than Canada, that was a terrible set

Still very early, but we are on pace for an Olympic record

In fact all three Americans are in the same 16th of the bracket

It's pretty extraordinary when it is the world record.

Also Canada is having a bad second half. He's already gone from 9th to 32nd

Relatively bad set for Kim Woojin. He can only be off by four points to gain a new world record

Men's Team Event Rankings After Half 1 Republic of Korea 1026 2 United States 1011 3 Italy 1007 4 France 1000 5 Australia 999 6 Taipei (Cn Taipei) 998 7 Spain 994 8 China 993 9 Netherlands 991 10 Indonesia 985 11 Malaysia 966 12 Brazil 966

At the half way point South Korea's Kim Woojin is just off of world record pace.

Zimbabwe is having a bad ranking round, he's usually better than this

Zimbabwe qualified over Cameroon due to the away goal rule. Nigeria didn't even reach the final round, losing to Equatorial Guinea after extra time. Equatorial Guinea also has a decent team (better than South Africa, who you said isn't that bad) and it would have been great to see them here. I wonder if FIFA will decrease the spot for Africa next games, giving them 1.5 spots and having them play an intercontinental match against the second place team from Asia (they will only have one spot since Japan will be hosts)

It is, but you can say the same thing about water polo, field hockey or rugby sevens. There are enough strong teams and Europe has teams like Italy and the Netherlands which have had decent results. The downside is that only six teams will compete.

They allow a fair trial. You can't punish a person twice and that is exactly what the IOC told sport federations to do. If she was implicated in the report then there would be an argument for her not to compete. Right now she's no different than Tyson Gay.

CAS is starting to rule for the swimmers which committed previous doping violation, letting them compete at the Olympics. Morozov and Lobintsev have been cleared, Efimova is still waiting. As I said before this was probably the easiest decision CAS has ever made, Osaka rule and everything. Link

Banning ex-dopers now makes a bit of sense if this is true. It would have been the easiest reverse decision the CAS would have ever made, of course they can't make that decision unless someone appeals.

So we are still waiting for golf and weightlifting to give out their ruling. Here are the net quota reductions from each sport, assuming I got everything correct. Aquatics – 7 Athletics – Full Ban Canoeing – 5 Cycling – 6 Modern Pentathlon – 1 Rowing – 22 Wrestling – 1 In modern pentathlon they also banned a reserve athlete (though it doesn’t count), in rowing I counted the coxwains since they can’t compete (though technically they aren’t banned) and in sailing Russia lost an athlete, but they are allowed to replace him. For other sports no action has been taken.

So by my count we are still waiting for cycling, golf, gymnastics, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling

The conspiracy theorist in me likes to think that the IOC made a rule that wouldn’t hold up in court just so they can say they did something, but very little actually happens. I mean we just saw Tae-hwan Park win a CAS battle against the South Korean Olympic Committee which imposed a similar ban on him.

That’s for the CAS to decide, but any proper judge would side with the athletes on this one, you don’t punish people twice for one offense. Now for the people who were implicated in the report they will probably remain banned.

Of course, but only because the IOC tried to implement the Osaka Rule again, any athlete could have appealed that restriction.

It's more likely 22, I have no idea where Senegal would get 3 more athletes

Looks like FINA has announced seven swimmers which will not compete, these are swimmers whom have previously been given a doping ban and ones whom were implicated in the WADA report. The other aquatic sports will not be affected. Athletes withdrawn by the ROC: Mikhail Dovgalyuk Yulia Efimova Natalia Lovtcova Anastasia Krapivina (Marathon Swimming) Athletes appearing in the WADA IP Report: Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov Daria Ustinova For marathon swimming the quota should go to Hungary's Anna Olasz (assuming there's enough time for her to accept)