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The event restarted yesterday and will hopefully conclude today. The quarterfinals for the men is as follows Smith vs. Fioravanti O'Brien vs. Ibelli Toledo vs. Chianca Robinson vs. Florence The women's semifinals will be Peterson vs. Wright Moore vs. Johnson

Weird, they don't show up unless I force a refresh. Thanks, I've updated the post

None which contributed to the world rankings.

Week 5 Results Men's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am PGA Tour Justin Rose 34.71 PIF Saudi International ASA Abraham Ancer 24.42 Ras Al Khaimah Championship DPWT Daniel Gavins 17.53 The Panama Championship KFT Pierceson Coody 11.11 Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open AFR Benjamin Follett-Smith 5.67 TPS Murray River ANZ Andrew Martin Shae Wools Cobb 1.14 Egyptian Swing 1 MGT Benjamin Jones 0.66 Women's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won Magical Kenya Ladies Open LET Aditi Ashok 8.00 The Players Series Murray River WPGA Sarah Jane Smith 4.00 BGC Championship THAILPGA Vongtaveelap Natthakritta 2.00

Another weather delay pushes the event to Monday.

Men's Street Medalists Aurelien Giraud Gustavo Ribeiro Ginwoo Onodera Women's Street Medalists Rayssa Leal Chloe Covell Momiji Nishiya

becomes the latest nation to qualify an athlete with Ibrahim Hassan in the men's marathon

Pretty much, besides tennis who never fully banned their players, judo was always on top of the list for athletes to return

Correct, this is his first appearance during this Olympic cycle. He needs to appear again.

1. The top 5 athletes in platinum label marathon qualify regardless of time 2. Just the 20,000m race walks. The 35,000/35km event contribute to the world rankings for the 35km event

Eventing Werribee CCI4*-S Results The following have achieved CCI4*-S MER result (still require CCI4*-L) Sophia Hill (Humble Glory) Will Enzinger (Cairo Xtreme) Penelope Johnson (BB Boom) Third place (David Middleton) did not get the MER due to his cross-country performance. Eventing Werribee CCI4*-L Results The following have achieved CCI4*-L MER result (still require CCI4*-S) Samuel Jeffree (Koyuna Tactician) Tara Rogers (Denison Park Smooth) Murray Lamperd (Secret Mojo) Hamish Cargill (French Evening) Kirilee Hosier (AEA Flynn) Megan Jones (Toulando) Everyone who finish achieved the MER

After doing some research it appears the 150cm events were allowed prior to 2024, but have since been removed during the General Assembly in November 2022. See proposed changes on starting on page 8. The current regulations only have 155 and 160cm courses. I guess no one told them about the change?

Jumping Wellington CSI4* Results The following have achieved 2/3 MER result Ashlee Bond (Garfield) Mimi Gochman (Celina BH) Ashley Vogel (Madiba AG Z) Amanda Derbyshire (Cornwall BH) David Blake (Claude) Eduardo Pereira de Menezes (H5 Elvaro) The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Conor Swail (Count Me In) Laura Kraut (Confu) Daniel Coyle (Oak Grove's Carlyle) Sayre Happy (Vinci De Beaufour) Mclain Ward (Contagious) Petronella Andersson (Castres Van De Begijnakker Z) Mario Deslauriers (Emerson) Nayel Nassar (Igor Van De Wittemoere) Lillie Keenan (Queensland E) Santiago Lambre (Chacco Blue II) Jos Verlooy (Nixon Van't Meulenhof) Brian Moggre (MTM Vivre Le Reve) Chloe Reid (Souper Shuttle) Paul O'Shea (Imerald Van't Voorhof) Ali Wolff (HH N-Joy) Darragh Kenny (Great Tikila J) Andrew Welles (Idol H&H) Another good show from the Wellington crew. A few more picked up their second MER while other riders continue to grab MERs with different horses, some are now up to three different horses. Quite the collection. Update: Didn't realize this was a 160cm course, everyone with 8 penalties or less get the MER.

Speaking of Davis Cup requirements, this week was the first opportunity for athletes to fulfill the requirements. Looking at the current top 100, we have 28 singles and 40 doubles players obtaining at least two Davis Cups appearances with one being in 2023-2024. This seems pretty low, but you have to remember that are not competing this week due to getting a bye to the next round and are of course suspended from Davis Cup play. If we were to filter athletes from those nations out the numbers are 28/70 and 40/83. Here are the 10 highest ranked athletes which have not fulfilled the requirements (and are not from the nations listed above). Singles 1. Novak Djokovic 4. Casper Ruud 8. Taylor Fritz 9. Holger Rune 10. Hubert Hurkacz 15. Frances Tiafoe 21. Marin Cilic 26. Sebastian Korda 28. Diego Schwartzman 29. Grigor Dimitrov Doubles 5. Jean-Julien Rojer 7. Mate Pavic 9. Austin Krajicek 11. Ivan Dodig 12. Lloyd Glasspool 13. Horacio Zeballos 18. John Isner 21. Andreas Mies 25. Santiago Gonzalez 26. Kevin Krawietz There's still plenty of time for the top athletes to fulfill their Davis Cup requirements, but I suspect some will take the exception route.

I see, but it won't count towards the MER correct? FEI should clarify if an event is for Olympic rankings only...

The exceptions are so vague that if a player really wanted to attend the Olympics they can easily get around the requirements. Worst case scenario you'd just need a doctor's note suggesting they should take rest for a mild sprain which coincidentally was on the same weeks as the cups.

The Davis Cup/BJK Cup requirements (two appearance, at least one in 2023/2024) still apply, but all players can apply through the exceptions... 1) Injury/Illness 2) Newcomer clause (their ranking was too low to be realistically selected until recently) 3) Strength of nation (their nation has too many top players) 4) Historic participation at Davis/BJK Cup and/or Olympics The exceptions are pretty vague, but if you are a young player, an old player, from a nation with many players or just injury prone then you are probably safe. Basically if you are in your mid-20s to low-30s and from a nation with few top players and in good health you better get your Davis/BJK Cup appearances in.

The event in Sharjah doesn't have a 1.55m course or am I blind? I've looked here and here

A large part of those 40 nations are those that disagree with their participation, but would still compete if BLR/RUS compete. The amount that would boycott is in the single digits (unless something drastically changes for the worst)

The women's quarterfinals for the first Championship Tour event is set. Hennessy vs. Peterson Weston-Webb vs. Wright Moore vs. Picklum Bryan vs. Johnson The men's knockouts and the rest of the women's event will continue on Saturday and Sunday.

This week's ranking and MER eligible events Eventing Werribee - CCI4*-L Werribee - CCI4*-S Jumping Sharjah - CSIO4* Wellington - CSI4* Dressage takes the week off

With two singles quotas per gender available to previous GS/gold medal winners I wanted to see who would be eligible. The priority goes to the athlete with the most Grand Slam and Olympic wins with the next tie breaker going to the higher ranked athlete. Athletes must be in the top 400 and not already qualified through the rankings. Here's where we stand after the 2023 Australian Open. Men Athlete GS/Olympic Wins World Ranking Rafael Nadal 23 6 Novak Djokovic 22 1 Andy Murray 5 64 Stan Wawrinka 3 135 Daniil Medvedev 1 12 Alexander Zverev 1 14 Marin Cilic 1 21 Dominic Thiem 1 99 Not too many options since Nadal, Djokovic and the now retired Federer won so many Grand Slams and most will probably qualify via rankings anyway. Murray is pretty safe should he drop in ranking and wants to go for a third Olympic gold. If he doesn't retire, I could see Wawrinka taking the quota. Thiem might be eligible, but he's been on the record at not caring about the Olympics. Women Athlete GS/Olympic Wins World Ranking Venus Williams 8 659 Naomi Osaka 4 65 Iga Swiatek 3 1 Angelique Kerber 3 106 Petra Kvitova 2 13 Simona Halep 2 15 Victoria Azarenka 2 16 Garbine Muguruza 2 82 Svetlana Kuznetsova 2 1292 Aryna Sabalenka 1 2 Belinda Bencic 1 9 Elena Rybakina 1 10 Jelena Ostapenko 1 12 Barbora Krejcikova 1 30 Sloane Stephens 1 39 Bianca Andresscu 1 42 Emma Raducanu 1 77 Sofia Kenin 1 207 I sometimes forget that Venus Williams has not yet retired. Regardless even if she breaks into the top 400 she won't compete at the Olympics due to the United States quite likely already qualifying four women. The same can be said for Russia (should they compete), Czechia and Spain. Given Osaka's decision on taking mental breaks she may still compete at the Olympics even if she decides to take an extended break. Kerber is currently taking a pregnancy leave, but is in a good position to take the quota if her comeback is a bit slow. I wouldn't be surprised if Raducanu ended up taking the quota when all is said and done.

Week 4 Results Men's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won Farmers Insurance Open PGA Tour Max Homa 47.06 Hero Dubai Desert Classic DPWT Rory McIlroy 29.49 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic KFT Ben Silverman 10.70 TPS Victoria ANZ James Marchesani 1.65 Boonchu Ruangkit Championship ATGT Amir Nazrin 1.35 El Companario Classic MEX Jose Cristobal Islas 0.97 Women's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won The Players Series Victoria WPGA Min A Yoon 4.00

The first event is set to take part this week, you can watch and see results here. This is an Olympic qualification series where the top 10 eligible men and top 8 eligible women qualify to the Olympics (max two athletes per nation per event and they must finish in the top 34 and 18 respectively). The eligibility requirements likely won't matter too much for the men (outside of the two athletes per nation rule for ), but for the women it might. Only seven eligible athletes are part of the main group, but the first injury reserve is from and thus could sneak into the Olympics should she get enough appearances. She is set to compete in this event, replacing Defay who needs to get better soon lest she gives up what is essentially a free quota.

How about a compromise? Unban Russia/Belarus due to the Ukraine invasion, but ban Russia for their doping scandals?