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More so on the women's side. The depth is still pretty low and once you go through the top 12 or so teams the quality declines sharply. At least on the men's side we have depth teams. While I don't expect much from teams like they won't be completely embarrassed.

Yeah, if anything this scenario is more likely than both Canada and USA finishing in the top 4. I imagine they will chance the rules to screw over PNG

From a strength point of view the best split would be 3 Oceania and 1 European team qualifying, but Argentina, South Africa and the United States all have a chance at qualifying where the next highest ranked nations from those continents will be keeping an eye on.

Great result from Ireland. I know upper management really resisted sevens until a few years ago so it's nice to see them catch up to the other top nations so quickly.

Not yet, the IOC will likely publish the list some time next year.

The lack of Belarus and Russia opens things up. For individual Bulgaria and Italy will be the favourites, one may even win two quotas. Maybe Israel, Slovenia or Ukraine For group, probably Bulgaria and Italy and the third could go to Azerbaijan, China or Israel

Top 3 individuals in the all-around finals Top 3 groups in the all-around

Was hoping would sneak a quota.

Agreed, the IOC or sport federations don't need to create events, there are a bunch that are both interesting and competitive.

Correct, this is similar to all other events where it will go to the next highest ranked eligible athlete provided they finish in the top 8. If there are none it will be reallocated to the Olympic rankings with continental quotas staying within the continent if possible. I feel there will be a few quotas from the 2023 World Championships which will have to be reallocated to the Olympic rankings.

The qualification document says the same thing

Maybe there's still hope for our shooting team.

Not sure if this was the change, but the universality quota banning athletes under the age of 30 from attending a third Olympics caught my eye. While I understand not wanting a single low ranking athlete dominate a swimming quota for multiple Olympics, but why lift the rule once the athlete turns 30? At that point the rule only affects a small handful of athletes in their mid to late 20s. Regardless, it's a dumb rule to have.

Is that due to an age restriction thing? The Pan Am Games is in late 2023 so the difference of training time isn't that great.

How high will England win by against Slovakia or even Croatia? Both were division 3 teams...

Hopefully at least one of fails to qualify or else the competition for F/G qualifier will be very low again. Maybe will pull it off this time.

Not too sure about dressage. Assuming remains banned, the team quota opens up. is probably the favourite, but have a chance or maybe , not sure the status of their team. Individual wise there are a bunch of options so Israel has a lot of work if it wants to qualify. For jumping I'd classify Israel as the favourite to pick up the team quota, especially if there's no

Yeah, I was looking at that possibility too. Depending on how the qualifiers go the final quota may only have three eligible teams competing; a Middle Eastern/African, a South American and the Eurasian qualifiers.

and are the odd teams out, but will be the favourite going into the Nations Cup. Huge opportunity for the lesser Group A/B teams to qualify later on, especially if Belgium/Switzerland take the 2022 Nations Cup quota.

Looks to be a European sweep for the quotas. Looking at the upcoming Nations Cup, the two non-qualified European teams in the final here will compete (unless Sweden fails to qualify or Ireland gets an elimination during their final regional stop) so no doubt they will be the favourites to qualify though Brazil/Canada will have a chance. Worst case scenario is if some other team from a different continent qualifies as maybe one of Brazil/Canada/United States may need the 2023 Nations Cup quota to qualify should the Pan American Games go horribly.

At some point they need to implement some kind of drop the highest & lowest scores format. A rogue judge shouldn't have that much power

Yeah, not the greatest situation. Canada is within a fence of third place and the same for Brazil to fourth place, so we need two nations ranked 3rd-7th to have a relatively poor performance (or Brazil/Canada have a perfect performance) to qualify. The only good news is removing five European nations (plus hosts France) makes qualifying via the Nations Cup a lot more reasonable, only a couple of top European teams will remain at that point. The downside is the United States failed to qualify to it'll be up to Brazil and Canada to qualify.

Canada with an outside chance. Would be quite surprising if we qualified here instead of the Pan American Games. Heck, we may sneak the 2022 Nations Cup quota if we can repeat this performance.

Canada Day 11 & Overall Review Day 11 saw Canada win 1 medal (1 silver) to close off the Commonwealth Games. Here's how we did for each sport. Badminton Michelle Li lost the final against P. V. Sindhu to win silver, preventing us from finishing the sport without a medal. Diving The mixed synchronized events were held today with Canada failing to win a medal. Typically, our divers don't practice together for these events so it's tough for us to do well. OVERALL Canada did well at these games despite missing a few key athletes. We won 26 gold medals and 92 overall medals which places us in line with recent previous performances. Here's how we did for each sport relative to 2018 Sport 2018 (Total) 2022 (Total) Athletics 13 7 Badminton 0 1 Basketball 1 4 Beach Volleyball 2 2 Boxing 6 4 Cricket N/A 0 Cycling 3 5 Diving 6 6 Field Hockey 0 0 Gymnastics 13 13 Judo N/A 8 Lawn bowls 1 0 Netball 0 0 Powerlifting 0 0 Rugby Sevens 0 0 Shooting 1 N/A Squash 0 1 Swimming 20 20 Table Tennis 0 0 Triathlon 1 1 Weightlifting 5 8 Wrestling 10 12 In general, we matched or slightly improved from our performance in 2018 with the notable exception being in athletics where we lost six medals. Boxing and lawn bowls saw a slight decrease. Canada also had a net benefit from dropping shooting and replacing it with judo as we went from 1 medal to 8, making it the biggest reason why we finished third and India finished fourth on the table.