JoshMartini007

I missed the final due to meetings, so now that I had a chance I went to check the results hoping Canada finished somewhere better than 8th. Instead I was greeted with a bronze medal finish AND our first Olympic quota. It took everything to not scream out in joy and alert my coworkers of me not working. While they were the only team to improve their score, it still required everyone else to have an off day. Still, we take those. Like I said, the balance beam is the difference maker in this event and us finishing second in it was a huge contributor to our bronze medal. I'm just glad we won't have to wait until 2023 to qualify our first athletes.

I was curious, so here are the top qualification round scores of Pan American nations from the most recent World Championships and South American Games (since they were held so close together). I removed the athletes which already qualified an Olympic quota. Unsurprisingly, is the favourite in most events where they have the highest score in 9/12 events. Just as a heads up, Canada, Cuba and Guatemala were missing some of their top athletes at the World Championships so things may get shaken up during the actual event. Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - 588 - 586 - 581 Men's 10m Air Rifle - 627.0 - 626.1 - 624.8 Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol - 580 - 579 - 577 Men's 10m Air Pistol - 576 - 572 - 571 Men's Trap - 121 - 118 - 118 Men's Skeet - 124 - 121 - 121 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - 586 - 584 - 583 Women's 10m Air Rifle - 628.0 - 627.8 - 625.2 Women's 25m Pistol - 578 - 578 - 574 Women's 10m Air Pistol - 576 - 574 - 570 Women's Trap - 114 - 112 - 111 Women's Skeet - 122 - 118 - 115

As a reminder, the World Championship quota takes priority over the continental championships so if the winner (or runner-up if France wins) here also wins the World Championship then the runner-up (or third if France is in the top 2) will qualify.

Yeah, I was quite impressed with performance in the team. A slight improvement and they are in the hunt for an Olympic quota.

10th for . Hoping they can repeat that next year to qualify to the Olympics, but with all of the competition you'll probably need to be at around 244 or hope for mistakes again.

Not a good rotation for , thought they could sneak into the final.

Yeah, quite the statement from . We'll see if the other top nations can rebound in the final.

For me, it's the most stress inducing apparatus. I don't even consider a team's performance until after the BB. Just like the PH for the men.

Balance beam has ruined chances, looks like will take the 8th spot.

Great session for as they are currently second, finishing ahead of

Yeah, those are the set of nations I'm watching. Rotation 7 with and will decide Canada's fate.

China with a 162, I think that opens up other nations to potentially push it out of the podium. Canada got a 159, hoping that's enough to make the final. They are currently in third, but there are still a bunch of good nations remaining.

Here, unlikely. The women have a better chance, but will need things to go their way. At the 2023 World Championships, the women should qualify and the men will be in contention for qualification.

World Championships begin tomorrow. This is a direct Olympic qualifier with the top 3 nations in the men's and women's team all-around events qualifying 5 athletes.

is out due to the provincial government not supporting it. Too bad, I thought we could have had a good chance. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2030-olympics-bc-government-will-not-support-1.6631883 We are down to and

Yeah, unless the IOC wants to allow smaller venues it's going to be very difficult for anyone, but the most wealthy nations to host. You can probably add and to the short list. will join once they are no longer a pariah. Still, not even a dozen nations capable of hosting. If you really want to, you could add in the maybe pile since they have some of the venues...

Here's our 2022-23 funding for summer Olympic sports. This is for one year (I think it goes from April 2022 to March 2023) Archery $250,000 Artistic Swimming $225,500 Athletics $4,535,000 Basketball (F) $1,150,000 Basketball (M) $800,000 Boxing $450,000 Canoe/Kayak $2,315,000 Cycling $3,494,000 Diving $2,725,000 Fencing $230,000 Field Hockey (M) $575,000 Golf $250,000 Gymnastics $1,175,000 Judo $1,300,000 Rowing $4,184,900 Rugby 7s (F) $1,050,000 Rugby 7s (M) $575,000 Sailing $550,000 Soccer (F) $2,589,100 Swimming $4,523,500 Taekwondo $57,000 Tennis $300,000 Triathlon $300,000 Volleyball - Beach $850,000 Volleyball (M) $1,000,000 Waterpolo (F) $925,000 Waterpolo (M) $325,000 Weightlifting $200,000 Wrestling $1,050,000 So no funding for badminton, 3x3 basketball, breaking, equestrian, handball, modern pentathlon, shooting, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and table tennis. For traditional team sports, funding is split between genders. There's no funding for men's football and women's field hockey and volleyball. That's a lot of sports without funding. We even have medal chances in some of them. At the very least we should qualify athletes in the majority of the non-funded sports. Perhaps some will see something next year since Olympic qualification will be in full swing. I've always been of the opinion that each sport should get some kind of base level funding. Like if they can give taekwondo $57k they can give the others something like 25k-50k a year. It would at least help pay for travel costs to Olympic qualifiers/World Championships.

I think the FIH overestimated the amount of money even the top nations have to spend on travel.

That's a term used by WDSF which essentially means DNS.

Not too many more opportunities for new nations to qualify prior to the end of this year. We are down to four more direct qualifying events. World Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Very unlikely to qualify a new nation, the best chances IMO would be Turkiye in the men and Canada in the women, but again it's very unlikely. European Women's Handball Championship - Again unlikely with the best chances going to Hungary or Montenegro. Shooting Championship of the Americas - We could see a few nations qualify. The United States will eat a lot of the quotas (assuming they are sending a relatively strong team), but I suspect we will see Cuba and/or Mexico qualify their first athletes. There are a few other individuals (Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico) which could also qualify. Urban Cycling World Championship - This is for BMX Park. This event despite occurring first is of a lower priority, but until the Olympic Qualifier Series is completed the quotas will likely be awarded to an already qualified nation. Perhaps Argentina, Costa Rica or Croatia might surprise.

Cricket and rugby may both have ties to the Commonwealth, but they appeal to a different set of Commonwealth nations. Sure they both have but after that things get different. Asia loves cricket while the Pacific nations love rugby and neither care very much about the other. In the Americas the Caribbean nations would easily defeat Canada while the opposite is true in rugby. Even among non-Commonwealth nations the only nation that's relatively big on both sports is Ireland. Cricket could see the likes of (assuming a 12 team tournament) while rugby would see the likes of

Yeah, the arena requirements for cricket is quite large (it has the largest field dimensions out of all the popular sports) so it only makes sense for nations which already have cricket venues to host it. Especially if the IOC is still big on cutting down costs for host nations.

goes 8/8 for Olympic quotas and are in a good position to do it again at the 2023 Worlds. This will open things up for the other Asian nations at their qualifiers.

Yeah, finding 180 quotas for a bare minimum tournament is a hard ask. Most sports are already at their limit so the IOC would have to kick out a sport with significant quotas for it to work. Also a 6-team tournament would be useless (like it was for baseball/softball). Even from a money point of view, sure is the big prize, but and are the 5th and 8th most populous nations and a 6-team tournament likely leaves two nations with relatively minimal Olympic interest off the table.

Only if the IOC drops the hard athlete quota limit