JoshMartini007

Overall I'm hoping for about 4 medals for Canada. Our performance at the World Champs was an almost best case scenario for Canada and I doubt we'll see it again here (if we do succeed we'll easily meet our target of 19 medals). We have bunch of athletes that will finish in the top 8, hopefully we won't fall into the 4th place curse.

Sadly Ian "Captain Canada" Millar will not take part in his 11th Olympics. His daughter Amy will compete though. Team Megan Lane, Collingwood, Ont. (Dressage) Belinda Trussell, Stouffville, Ont. (Dressage) Rebecca Howard, Marlborough, UK (Eventing) Colleen Loach, Durham, Que. (Eventing) Selena O'Hanlon, Kingston, Ont. (Eventing) Jessica Phoenix, Cannington, Ont. (Eventing) Eric Lamaze, Schomberg, Ont. (with Fine Lady 5, Check Picobello Z) Yann Candele, Caledon, Ont. (with Showgirl, First Choice) Tiffany Foster, North Vancouver, B.C. (with Triple X III, Victor) Amy Millar, Perth, Ont. (with Heros)

Football is in an interesting position. It arguably needs the Olympics the least, the sport is already played everywhere and the World Cup is a billion dollar enterprise. Even sports like golf or tennis would like to be part of the Olympics because it spreads the sport (golf went from 100 affiliated nations to about 150 since it was introduced to the Olympics). On the other side because football is so well known and played the Olympics needs (rather, really wants) the sport so it bends to the will of FIFA.

Universality is important to the Olympics, it's the same reason as why we have continental quotas or even maximum quotas for one nation. Of course there's a reason why tripartite nations don't qualify many athletes. Sometimes their choice can be weird, for example if you are going to give Bangladesh an archery quota give it to the men's since he's much better (even among the men which got the quota).

IAAF has updated the qualified relays They have included Russia saying it is conditional on the CAS ruling. Congrats to Ghana for qualifying in the women's 4x100m relay.

UIPM is being slow with its final athlete list. Who are we waiting for?

Update (Remove) Men's Individual (Golf)

I see it as Felix correcting IAAF's mistake, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Honestly it made sense, even ignoring Felix. There's no reason why "obvious doubles" should be overlapped.

Congrats to France. This Olympics would have been good experience for Canada, hopefully this won't derail our chance for a medal in 2020.

According to SwimSwam Haiti will select its first female swimmer though she didn't swim at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships nor does she have the B standard. She will compete with Frantz Dorsainvil. Other swimmers from Latin America Ben Hockin Karen Riveros Lani Cabrera Alex Sobers Mikel Schreuders Ally Ponson Jordan Augier Also, :TRI Dylan Carter received an invite for his B standard (most likely men's 100m freestyle), a woman will probably not be added unless FINA wants to ignore 2015 World Aquatics Championship as a requirement.

Probably, unless some tripartite nation withdraws. UWW and IOC are in a tough spot, might as well take the easier route and give 1 extra quota to wrestling. Besides, in tennis they already will compete with more than what they were given.

There are a few reasons for this, but a major reason is the current line-up of sports isn’t appealing to that region. Throw in sports like cricket or kabaddi and the number of athletes from that region will increase quite a bit.

Not too surprised about the ruling, the only thing stopping him was getting the decision done on time.

Looking at the qualification document you can’t have 1 A standard and 1 B standard swimmer so only one athlete will compete in the women’s 100m butterfly. The only way for both swimmers to participate is if Vourna participates in the 100m fly and Ntountounaki participates in the 200m fly (assuming she receives an invite).

Too bad some of our top players didn't come. If we somehow defeat France no doubt a lot of them will try to get on the team, which is a shame for the ones that actually did the work.

Looks like Cook Islands got a special approval to let Wesley Robert compete without competing at the 2015 World Aquatics Championship (His B standard definitely wouldn't be enough for him to qualify normally). Link

To get a wild card in field (and road) events you need the approval of the technical committee which also takes into account the number of athletes participating in an event. Both events are already above the target number (long jump already has 40+) and that's without taking into account other potential wild card entries.

Update (Add) Palau* Palau declined its quota won in judo so they are back on. If you include tripartite quotas we are now down to 13 nations which have yet to qualify anyone.

To be fair Palau's Jennifer Anson hasn't competed since 2014 according to IJF

Nations are beginning to announce B standard qualified athletes. Luxembourg's Julie Meynen has qualified in the women's 50m and 100m free. It doesn't help us much since she was first and second respectively on the eligible athlete list. Link (in French)

Raonic took advantage of Djokovic losing and has reached the semi-finals for the second time in his career at Wimbledon

While some nations had tougher standards I think in the end only a handful missed out at most. For example in 2016 in Canada the swimmer must break break the A standard during the trials yet we only went from 31 to 30 athletes. France actually went from 28 in 2012 to 30. My prediction is that we'll see around 5 per event.

Doing some number crunching. If we assume all non-announced teams add two relay-only athletes per relay and all eligible nations take a wild card then we won't have any athletes qualified through the B (OST) standard. In fact we would be just over the limit. Of course that won't happen, but it looks like unless you just missed the A standard you are not going to the Olympics.

Germany won't announce their swimming team until July 8th (after the German Open) so don't expect FINA to reveal anything before then.