JoshMartini007

South Africa with a top 12 finish, that pretty much seals their Olympic participation next year.

While in theory we could have 180 athletes in practice it will be a lot less. From experience at least half of the synchronized divers will compete in the individual events. Also the 12 quotas at the 2024 Worlds are only awarded to the finalists so nations with already the max quotas (e.g. China) or if the individual already qualified at the 2023 Worlds/Continental Qualifier will not gain any more quotas. In fact, we will have to go through the "additional divers" route in order to complete the list.

I don't think it will be a catalyst for them to join Asia. It's not like the Commonwealth Games provide much sporting opportunity for Australia/New Zealand. It's only one event every four years. Australia/New Zealand seem to be content on focusing on World Championships/World Cup events. Money wise it is still expensive for them to travel to Asia for continental events. This isn't Europe where you can drive to multiple European countries (or take a cheap airline).

Qualifying in synchro events does not disqualify you qualifying in individual events. Only the top 12 qualify. In fact, if a nation wants they could have 8 men and 8 women in diving though typically some of the athletes compete in both individual and synchro.

The first question was already answered. For this question, only the first place diver is eligible for quotas, if they already qualify via the 2023 World Championships then no one gets the quota

Thailand was one of the bigger remaining nations not yet qualified (was third if you exclude Russia and Belarus). Here's what the top 10 looks like in terms of qualification chances. 1. - 73 2. - 67 3. - 52 4. - 46 5. - 37 6. - 33 7. - 30 8. - 27 8. - 27 10. - 26

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Maybe if they finish last at the 2024 World Championships, though it might not matter if they beat Argentina here and get a top 12 finish plus they already finished 13th last year. It's probably enough to convince the NOC that they are viable enough to compete. They really lucked out in getting the weakest team in their group.

I've considered women's water polo to have 10 competent teams: China is kind of wavering now, but I still feel they can easily win over any nation not listed above (maybe they lose to due to Olympic host investment influx) and can still defeat Canada. With South Africa presumably taking the African quota again and France taking the host quota that means one of the above nations (minus already banned Russia) will miss the games. Obviously Canada is hoping for the United States to qualify here if not, they are likely to be the odd nation out.

Not without hoping for a mistake.

I agree. There's always been some negativity towards swimming in that it has too many events and the overlap of athletes between two events is high. If open water turns into just another event for long distance swimming event with the same athletes competing I can see a push for having it dropped from the Olympics.

At least Canada and the United States are strong enough to be included in a 12-team tournament. FIFA should have kept it like 2020 where CAF and CONMEBOL play for a second spot while Europe got 3 nations + host.

Congrats to Brazil, Canada couldn't copy their upset against the United States. Argentina and Venezuela have had a relatively decent tournament, perhaps Puerto Rico won't have an easy ride to the Olympic qualifying tournament.

I do believe Russia and Belarus will have some presence at the Olympics, the IOC is pushing hard for their inclusion. The teams will likely be small though. Ukraine is a bit of a unknown. The reality is they will most likely be alone in their boycott and with the Olympics being held in a Western European nation there might be enough pressure to get them to stay.

Only on paper. They haven't played a match in years and once we get closer to their first match they will probably withdraw. The final confirmation will be the Asian Games in a couple of months. If they refuse to participate in China then they are not going to France.

Once they skipped weightlifting, I think it's quite clear they are planning to skip the Olympics again.

While Asian nations are more supportive than Europe for allowing Russia/Belarus back in, I'm surprised they would essentially give up continental quotas to them. Unless the sport vetos, Russia/Belarus will likely take quotas in boxing, breaking and modern pentathlon

I think at the end of the event is fine. Besides most events end on Saturday/Sunday is it would almost be like a once a week thing.

Does anyone know if there's a difference between the first and second boards in chess. From what I can tell they are the exact same events, but instead of having a 32 person round robin they split them into two 16 person round robin tournaments and awarded medals to both events.

I agree, banning nations is rarely the answer. At this point for Kazakhstan it's not a few bad apples there is something bigger going on. If it is at the coach level then the federation needs to start banning them. If it is at the federation level then this is one of the few instances where a ban is justified.

It's tough for a poor nation like Canada to send athletes to Olympic qualifiers. /s

I think it's unfair that won't get relegated because they are a core team.

Quite the handful qualifying today. With Finland, Luxembourg and Slovenia there aren't too many European nations remaining. I think the biggest one left is Latvia (minus Belarus/Russia).

Let me introduce you to Terese Portela and Terese Portela in canoe sprint.

The older sports come from a time when the sporting world wanted to increase diversity in events. It's difficult to create a catch-all standard, but to balance diversity and prevent low-quality entrants I think sport federations can consider a second entrant from the same nation at a field size greater than 20. The reason skateboarding has three entrants per event is because it has horrible depth. It's pretty much Brazil/Japan/United States and a sprinkle of a few nations. Breaking I am surprised has 2 athletes per nation the sport has a surprisingly amount of depth, maybe they underestimated the number of nations sending athletes.