Vektor

I think we got 6 athletes and 5 NOCs fighting for the 4 quotas in women's 10m air pistol. 2x

Érdi is still leading the women's dinghy which kinda proves that she should be a medal contender for Paris. I still can't believe how much the Hungarian federation fucked her when they just kind forgot to pay the fee for her Paris Test Event appearance. She missed one of the most important events for her Olympic prep, and if that hurt her chances in any way I will be furious. We rarely get any chances in sailing and the federation is so amateur that they even manage to mess up these rare occasions.

Baku

So these start tomorrow. If I see it correctly, all 12 individual Olympic events will award 4 quotas each here. The 12 individual Olympic events 17.08 Men's 10m Air Pistol Women's 10m Air Pistol 18.08 Women's Skeet 19.08 Men's 10m Air Rifle Men's Skeet Women's 10m Air Rifle 20.08 Women's 25m Pistol Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 21.08 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 22.08 Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 24.08 Women's Trap Men's Trap We (Hungary) should win at least one quota here. We are still far from our target of 4 shooting quotas, we only got one male rifle quota so far. We should win one more male rifle quota, and 1 women's rifle and 1 women's pistol quota eventually.

Trying to make sense of where everything stands for the quotas. I am listing the nations that are currently in qualifying positions and the next 5 nations that are closest to them. Men's Windsurfing (11 boat quotas, 8 out of 20 races complete) || Women's Windsurfing (11 boat quotas, 5 out of 20 races complete) || Men's Kite (8 boat quotas, 8 out of 20 races complete) || Women's Kite (8 boat quotas, 8 out of 20 races complete) || Men's Dinghy (16 boat quotas, 4 out of 10 races complete) || Women's Dinghy (16 boat quotas, 4 out of 10 races complete) || Men's Skiff (10 boat quotas, 12 out of 15 races complete) || Women's Skiff (10 boat quotas, 12 out of 15 races complete) || Mixed Dinghy (8 boat quotas, 8 out of 11 races complete) || Mixed Multihull (9 boat quotas, 12 out of 15 races complete) ||

Apparently 300 thousand tickets have been sold so far. 52.3% of ticket holders are Hungarian, the rest are foreigners. Tickets have been bought in 103 countries. That seems like a lot of foreign spectators. Probably the most for a sport event in Hungary, only the EURO2020 matches can rival with that.

Konstanze Klosterhalfen officially out due to injury. On a more cheerful note, Heroes Square is getting ready for the marathon and race walking events.

I think it's too early to say something definitive about the weather for the second half of the Worlds, but it's safe to say at this point that we can expect some intense heat for the first weekend. There might be around 30 Celsius during the men's 100m final.

Why do you mean about "universality"? An African country, Egypt, has a legit chance winning Olympic and WCh medals, which is something you don't see in many Olympic sports. The promotion sucks, but that's true about a lot of Olympic sports, just look at sailing atm. At the very least pentathlon doesn't require any additional venues, and it will be even cheaper to organize once the hosts won't have to provide horses for an event. I have been watching old Olympic footage recently and I think modern pentathlon improved the most in the past 20-30 years compared to all the Olympic sports. The horse lottery is the worst part about it now and that will be gone after Paris. I don't know what else people expect from this sport, it has evolved so much to make it more watchable.

Olympic events 6-2-2 4-2-1 3-0-2 2-3-4 2-1-1 1-3-3 1-1-1 1-1-1 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-4-0 0-2-0 0-1-2 0-1-0 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1

After the 4th places at the Elite Worlds and Olympics this may not look like a huge deal, but that's a gold for Vas and Hungary. U23 world champion!

Are they letting Chabbey to win this? This seems like a big gap on this course.

It looks like U23 is down to Shackley, Vas and van Androoij.

Blanka is working so hard today, I hope she won't use up all her energy too early.

This U23 race inside the Elite race is kinda nonsensical. They don't even have radio to tell them how the U23 race stands. You can't even make a proper strategy for this, just hope that everything falls into the right place inside the Elite race.

Everything is at near completion now, they are building the spectator zone and the medal plaza at the stadium. There will be a second spectator zone at Erzsébet Square.

It looks like the medal ceremonies will take place before the evening sessions, or at least that's what Eurosport's streaming schedule shows us at the moment.

I was wondering how the Cycling Worlds medal table looks like in the Olympic events, so here it is: After 19 out of 22 Olympic events 5-2-2 4-0-1 3-0-1 1-3-3 1-2-3 1-1-1 1-1-1 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-4-0 0-2-0 0-1-2 0-1-0 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1

So what happens if we send Vas in both Road and MB? I think that's very likely now, she's doing the MB + Road combo at the Worlds where the time gap is far less between the MB and the Road race than in the Paris schedule. Does our Road or MB quota get reallocated? I can't find any rules for this. Sending the same athlete in two disciplines essentially reduces the overall cycling field if they don't reallocate one of her quotas. What I am not sure about is this: can a cyclist who takes a Road quota also show up for the MB race? Or the same in reverse. Technically we are winning two female athlete quotas in cycling (1 in Road, 1 in MB), but we are only sending one athlete if this crossing of disciplines is only allowed if the cyclist has to use up both the Road and the MB quotas.

Isn't her withdrawal almost certain at this point as well? Why would they talk about skipping the Worlds a few days before the event if they show up here anyway?

On a less dark note, I see that we finally have a map of the venue and its surroundings. https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/64d3777c41260e1767542b83.pdf This sure will be a test of the public transport as tram 1, 2 and 24 will be overloaded like they never have been before. H7 might be the best option for anyone who wants to travel in the direction of the city centre. I wonder when the medal ceremonies will take place at the "medal plaza". I think they should have it between the sessions, right after the morning session. But I can't find any information about that. There should be a separate broadcast window for that, but I am not seeing it on the program.

Are these "minor injuries" are really just minor injuries, or is there some kind of advancement in the anti-doping program and some training programs are avoiding the Worlds deliberately? It did see some rumors about this online now that these announced injuries and recently announced doping violations are stating to add up, but yeah, they are just rumors.

I think based on the current Olympic ranking the U23 quotas would go to + (men's) and + (women's).

Vas has to race more in MB, you can't just show up to the Worlds with almost no MB preparation and win a medal. Still, 5th place should be enough for a quota, unless Canada somehow fails to win the quota on the ranking.

Yeah, sailing appears to be a mess of a sport. If you can't follow 90% of the action at the World champs on TV, maybe that sport doesn't belong on the Olympic program. This isn't even a case where you only miss unimportant parts of the competition. The medals and even the gold medal can be decided based on races that you are unable to watch. We are in 2023, I don't know how this is acceptable for an Olympic sport. How can sailing can away with this while pentathlon is in danger because someone punched a horse.