JoshMartini007

Ireland isn't a tripartite nation, but it could potentially get a reallocation spot. Based on 2012 reallocations Ireland would have a borderline to okay shot.

Yes there's always weird choices, most likely due to the lack of applicants. One thing I've noticed about taekwondo is that they like to hand out quotas to different continents (3, or 4 if Europe gets one). Asia's quota could be interesting should they not be given the -68kg quota since only Nepal and Pakistan competed and they aren't particularly good and may not have even applied (now that I think about taekwondo is popular in Nepal so maybe they have applied).

Anyone want to give predictions on which nations will win the four tripartite events? They are the men's -68kg, men's -80, women's -67kg and women's +67kg. Here's a list of eligible nations which competed at one of the qualifying events and have not qualified in taekwondo in a different event (note this is not a requirement, but it is likely the spots will go to one of these nations). Men's -68kg - Men's -80kg - Women's -67kg - Women's +67kg - Unsurprisingly the men's -68kg has the most competition including decent athletes from Afghanistan, Andorra and Central African Republic and you can add Suriname for a representative from the Americas too. Macedonia will probably be the favourite for the women's -67kg assuming they applied for a spot. The other events don't have a clear favourite. Using the Olympic rankings the highest ranked nations are Central African Republic (-68kg), Honduras (-80kg), Macedonia (-67kg) and Honduras (+67kg). Obviously Honduras won't get two spots (more likely to get the women's spot). With that said my predictions are Afghanistan/Central African Republic, Chad/Pakistan, Macedonia and Honduras respectively

Update (Remove) Women's +67kg (Taekwondo)

Russian Trials - Day 1 Men's 400m Freestyle - Aleksandr Krasnykh Russia has changed their qualification format. First place automatically qualifies (provided they have beaten the standard) while an athlete which missed the trials can apply for a consideration provided that they were faster than the second place swimmer and have also swam faster than the standard (I call this the Efimova rule).

Great Britain Trials - Day 5 Women's 400m Freestyle - Jazmin Carlin Women's 200m IM - Siobhan-Marie O’Connor

South Africa Trials - Day 7 Men's 1500m Freestyle - Matthew Meyers Miles Brown also swam under the standard during the lead-off of the 200m freestyle relay. In total 11 men and 0 women have qualified (we must wait for the final team to be announced)

If all those bans turn into Olympic bans then France and Czech Republic will automatically qualify to the Olympics while Latvia, Belgium, Georgia, Finland and Germany will qualify to the qualifying tournament. The next two will depend on the hosts, if European then Estonia and the Netherlands will compete. Dominican Republic will take Turkey's place for being the highest ranked non-qualified nation. It probably won't come to this, but it's funny to think about it.

South Africa Trials - Day 6 Men's 50m Freestyle - Brad Tandy, Douglas Erasmus Men's 100m Butterfly - Chad Le Clos All the times were made in the semi-finals. Also Tatjana Schoenmaker was 0.01 second from being South Africa's first female qualifier to the 2016 Olympics

Great Britain Trials - Day 4 Men's 200m Breaststroke - Andrew Willis

If anyone is staying up late enough watch the Brazilian swimming trials. 4 men will be fighting for 2 100m breaststroke spots.

There's a couple of work arounds. First as long as she doesn't compete under the Belgium flag her nationality will remain unchanged (like people with dual nationality). The other way could be what the IOC and IJF did with Kosovo's Majlinda Kelmendi where she was allowed to compete for Albania for the Olympics and switch right back to Kosovo after the Olympics.

No, she was a refugee at one point, she was in the middle of getting her citizenship done though.

I would be surprised if Belgium is given the quota. The IOC made a big deal about the refugee team and she's pretty much going to be the most talented athlete on the team. If worse comes to worst they'll send another refugee athlete in her place.

Australia, Canada, France, Japan and New Zealand so far. Of course the teams could grow should they qualify a 10km swimmer or a relay team. Great Britain and South Africa finish their trials this weekend and should announce their team shortly after.

New Zealand confirms its eight swimmers whom qualified from the New Zealand and Canada Trials. All we need for now is China's team

We only have one person competing, in the women's sabre. Hopefully she qualifies though Panama will be tough to beat.

South Africa Swimming Trials - Day 5 Men's 200m Breaststroke - Jarred Crous Also Cameroon van der Burgh reached the standard again in the final of the 200m breaststroke

Great Britain Swimming Trials - Day 3 Men's 400m IM - Max Litchfield As with the French trials most of the team will qualify despite not meeting the British standards.

You are correct. I think the ITTF was right in capping the individual quotas to two per nation for this Olympics though. With the way Asia restructured its qualifiers it wouldn't have mattered whether or not the world rankings had higher priority, but the current format no doubt would have benefited European nations and would have increased the overall strength of the field had it gone as intended (though regardless all the top athletes would have made it, nation caps ignored).

If the format was like in 2012 how different would things be? For the men China (2), Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), South Korea (2), Qatar and Singapore have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to Chinese Taipei, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia and Iran and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to India, Iran, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. Overall nothing has changed. For the women China (2), Chinese Taipei (2), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), North Korea, South Korea (2) and Singapore (2) have athletes in the top 22. The five region tournament quotas would go to North Korea, Thailand, India, Lebanon and Uzbekistan and the six overall quotas, assuming top seeds win will go to Thailand, India, Iran, Indonesia (2) and Kazakhstan. Overall the strength of the field remains unchanged. Asia knew the current format put its weaker nations at a disadvantage so it changed its own qualification format to essentially match it with 2012.

Quite true, Tonga has had a rich history in the sport, it is also the sport in which they won their only medal.

At best they will tie their record of seven. The only other sport that they can realistically qualify in is rugby sevens. Maybe a tripartite in weightlifting is possible too.

Yes, how dare a non-European continent dominate a sport!

Does anyone have a link to the results?