Griff88

Eh we don't have many choice - basically our medal chances are only from badminton and weightlifting. Personally I'd be happy if Mohammad Ahsan & Hendra Setiawan can get the gold in badminton. Any medal outside from those two sports will be greatly appreciated.

Colombian athlete body shakes like crazy

On the other hand, Vazquez got many new Indonesian fans

I really wished she did not make it at the trials Our team was solely based on that single tournament. She has been in the squad quite a while but I never see her as that good.

Losing like this is the worst

Very likely to win their first medal on 24 or 25 July from weightlifting...

You're very welcome! Thankfully badminton is the sport with the least drama here

Tai Tzu Ying & Lee Yang/Wang Chi Lin (Badminton) winning gold would be nice, to stop some dumb Indonesians mocking them Vladimir Samsonov - although probably it's super hard Any country winning their first medal

So basically the former national coach Denny Trisjanto (who is also the husband of Lilies Handayani - the Seoul 1988 silver medalist), is the guy who trained Riau Ega and Choirunisa back when they're still junior athletes. The issue started when the federation did a national coach assessment, where only top 3 coaches will train the athletes in the national team. Denny did not make the cut (ironically he was the one who really supported this coach assessment) and the two athletes refused to train with the new coach citing different coaching style. After some negotiations, the two parties kinda agreed to let Denny come back as long as his salary was not paid by the national federation. But the East Java Sport Commission and the East Java Archery did not allow their athletes to train with the national team. This prompted the national archery federation to dismiss the East Java Archery officials. I didn't really know what happened after that, but they later held a national trials in April 2021 and decided that the top 3 athletes from each gender will be sent to this OQT in Paris. Riau Ega and Choirunisa earned their place from this trials. Meanwhile, Denny is still not allowed to train them but his wife is one of the new coach selected, so I guess there will be no more stupid infighting at least until Tokyo 2020.

And it is particularly surprising since Riau Ega and Diananda Choirunisa were removed from the national team due to a dispute with our federation. It was not until this April they were back training with the other team members

Damn so sad for the Ukrainian guy

Apprently he was playing badminton with his friends and collapsed, reports say that it was a heart attack

Beijing 2008 Gold Medalist, Markis Kido, passed away today

The Indonesian head coach confirmed 3 men and 2 women going to Tokyo, looks like our federation has made peace with Deni (let's hope there won't be a last minute drama)

https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx MS.pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_. WS pdf.pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx MD .pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx XD.pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx WD.pdf These are subject to change but the two Ukrainians are pretty much safe

Badminton debutants Also Refugee Team if you wanted to count

Wow, badminton also got one

As far as I know, the Dutch WS isn’t going due to the super strict standard by the NOC..

It should be searching for another Oceanian athlete, but since there is currently no more eligible Oceanian athletes it will be awarded to well but actually with the Jelle Maas retirement situation (as I written above), it will be used to secure quota instead

@MHSN @JoshMartini007 https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_. WS pdf.pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx MD .pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx XD.pdf https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx WD.pdf please not that apart from Tripartite, the others aren’t fully confirmed yet. For example Jelle Maas (Dutch MD) is already retired, and if that is confirmed it means Emre Lale (Turkish singles) might lose his quota

Yes https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/4027/docs/Race to Tokyo - BWF Olympic Qualification _18-05-2021_.xlsx MS.pdf

The remaining tripartite for badminton Niluka Karunaratne Soren Opti The remaining tripartite in women's singles is not awarded, thus reallocated to ranking again

So basically Rio Waida is going to Tokyo and now Murakami is in danger? I just wake up and still can’t process the recent posts

Yeah he's just on the front of the queue waiting for reallocation, I also think this might not be a tripartite invitation