JoshMartini007

got the women's K1 500m quota

That's what I expect the IOC to offer (if they are going to offer something). No way they are going to let them compete under their own flag. You're just asking for every separatist region or oversea territory to ask to compete.

It would be bizarre that lacrosse made the cut if they aren't going to let them compete. It's not like Lacrosse brings in the dollars like American Football, Baseball or Cricket.

It would be political suicide for Trudeau (or any Canadian leader) to say anything else. Plus it's free positive news. They can say something, do nothing and then blame the IOC if/when nothing happens. As much as I like lacrosse, this was obviously going to be an issue. We had the same thing at the World Games. The IOC should have seen this coming.

I think so, from previous Olympics, the three nation rule is only active at the beginning of the competition. Should less than three nations become eligible (either through qualifying in a bigger boat or declining the quota) the quota goes to the next highest ranked nation, provided some remain.

The surviving eligible nations for each quota are as follows after day 1: Men's K1 1000m - Men's K2 500m - Men's C1 1000m - Men's C2 500m - Women's K1 500m - Women's K2 500m - Women's C1 200m - Women's C2 500m - Reallocated

Makes you think what kind of crazy way the women's volleyball team will qualify. Overall we have six traditional teams at the Olympics, with men's rugby sevens and women's volleyball remaining. For 2020 we had 8, but one was softball.

Any word on the men's quota?

I really want us to qualify, but I would be shocked if we did. We used all of our luck getting the women's basketball team qualified.

Any chance we could have Summer swim two legs of the relay?

Despite missing some of our top swimmers and our diving team having a bad time, this is turning out to be a decent championships medal-wise.

Very good. Our time from 2023 is probably enough. It's hard to see at least 5 nations surpass us, especially with the likes of Hungary and Switzerland not competing.

France almost pulled off the win, but lost in PSO.

A different Olin got the Pan Am quota.

Considering Australia has multiple cricket stadiums I do hope they increase the team size to 12 for this edition. While India is the big prize, the rest of South Asia is quite populous and is relatively weak in the current Olympic program so from a marketing perspective it would be quite beneficial to the IOC for them to be here. Expansion also allow nations with little to no team sport representation to qualify. Right now it is likely would qualify in a 6-team tournament so the "exotic" feel cricket has would be lost. After those four nations the only major decent ones are the Netherlands and Ireland (which is already pushing it).

Yeah, it's more likely that athletes are based in Europe so it is actually cheaper for them to travel to Hungary. I don't really know any other Oceania nations which compete in rhythmic gymnastics. Having the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at the World Championships makes sense because weightlifting is quite popular in the Pacific, but most of those nations are quite poor and are unlikely to afford the cost of traveling to two events.

Even though I don't expect to win, at least the quota will be decided in a direct match.

Congratulations. Hopefully he can improve in his other events. Perhaps he can be a medal threat at the Olympics this year or even in 2028.

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Yes, we are guaranteed at least one Pacific nation will qualify.

Looks like Swimming Canada put a lot of resources into the breaststroke so we can have a great medley relay. Too bad freestyle and to a lesser extent backstroke has regressed a bit. I still feel good about the prospect of a bronze medal, but surpassing Australia and the United States remains tough

I always found it weird that Belarus got punished as badly (or in this case worse) as Russia. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always saw them as a forced accomplice in this.

Did you combine the technical and duet? The combined score for Ukraine was 444.9607 while for Portugal is was 409.2659

That's a new rule. It's up to World Aquatics to decide, but I'm glad the option is in place. In the past, nations were forced to decline a quota because their swim team was too small.

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but Slovenia needs either one more person to get an OQT or qualify another relay or else they are at risk of losing the relay quota. This is because they have only qualified one woman and qualifying one relay only gives you 2 relay-only athletes so they won't have enough athletes to form a relay. Same thing with Serbia on the men's side.