JoshMartini007

Even if he misses out today he still has a good chance at qualifying through the world rankings. Assuming no major upsets in the Asian and European qualifiers he is currently on the inside.

If Brazil doesn't win another men's quota they will use the host quota for the team event while the Latin America event will go to Cuba (or whoever else qualifies two athletes).

I think Asia is quite smart with this format. They give other regions which are far weaker a chance to qualify and in the end it doesn't matter too much for Asia because the top athletes from East Asia will qualify from the world rankings. In fact the nations which will lose out are the ones which will qualify at the tail end of the world rankings which will be most likely European nations (though Thailand may get unlucky).

UCI needs to regulate which events get points a bit better or at least have some events be worth more points than other.

Update (Remove) Men's -74kg Freestyle (Wrestling)

France could give us some trouble, though defeating Russia and then losing to France would be weird, but that's sport.

Big win for Canada, it keeps second place in the group open.

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.