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6 hours ago, Agger said:

There were women's events last week

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

3 hours ago, prso1000 said:

Ivan Dodig is playing today against Austria. 

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

4 hours ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Got 2 questions regarding the quali format:

 

1. Do winners of A grade races automatically qualify regardless of time?

2. Do 20,000m, 35,000m and 35km races all count towards 20km qualification, I couldn't understand what it said on the document.  

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

36 minutes ago, dcro said:

It says it will count for both Paris 2024 and European Championships 2023 MERs.

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.

46 minutes ago, dcro said:

There is a 150 cm NC listed as counting for the Olympic rankings.

I see, but it won't count towards the MER correct?

FEI should clarify if an event is for Olympic rankings only...

5 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

This all applies to Wozniacki yet they still allowed her to play in 2016 and she was talking about Tokyo but retired in January 2020. Since 2011, she only played Fed Cup once (2015)

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.

9 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

How do the Davis Cup/Fed Cup requirements factor in here? I know they have bent the rules for some 'stars' in the past.

 

Osaka will probably have a protected ranking when she comes back so I guess she won't need this quota.

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

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Polish Sports Minister is hyping up a statement to be made by around 40 NOCs sometime in the near future saying that they don’t support the participation of BLR/RUS. Assuming that actually happens, it would be quite the fracture in the Olympic Movement (again, assuming that actually happens and it’s not just postering on his part.)

 

Link: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230202-poland-expects-40-nations-to-oppose-russian-athletes-at-olympics

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?

Pretty much. will likely mathematically guarantee themselves an Olympic quota next round leaving Ireland to finish things up, possibly in round 6. We are down to long shot scenarios like Ireland missing out in the quarters at the last three stops or Fiji/Great Britain making a run to the final and Ireland failing to make the quarters.

Egypt almost chocked the 7th place match to Hungary