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FWIW have won 15 Olympic medals in men's boxing and all but 4 of them have been 60kg and lower! 48kg - 2 51kg - 2 52kg - 1 54kg - 3 56kg - 1 60kg - 2 67kg - 1 67kg - 1 75kg - 1 81kg - 1 And here's our team for the European qualifiers Men 52kg – Flyweight – Brendan Irvine 57kg – Featherweight – Kurt Walker 63kg – Light-welterweight – George Bates 69kg – Welterweight – Aidan Walsh 75kg – Middleweight – Michael Nevin 81kg – Light-heavyweight – Emmett Brennan 91kg – Heavyweight – Kiril Afanasev 91+kg – Super-heavyweight – Dean Gardiner Women 51kg – Flyweight- Ceire Smith 57kg – Featherweight – Michaela Walsh 60kg – Lightweight – Kellie Harrington 69kg – Welterweight – Christina Desmond 75kg – Middleweight – Aoife O’Rourke

And the man who's done it has won both his fights inside the distance. Today was in the first round against a former world medalist! Pretty incredible at this level

We now know 24 of the 26 quotas in women's boxing 51kg - last two are v and v 57kg 60kg 69kg 75kg

Quotas so far: 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 5 other countries could join them. India still has a chance of 4 more. New Zealand is the only country left who can't add to their current total

Of all sports, boxing is the one that is least suitable for just putting people in for the sake of it. It would do the Olympics no good to see some outstanding Kazakh super heavy literally give brain damage to someone who isn't good enough to qualify

Forgot to update the last few from yesterday! Anyway, after the first session today here's the countries with the most fighters still involved 13 - 11 - 10 - have 7 left but all 5 in the women's section

UCI have changed the rankings for men's madison. Ireland now above Honk Kong and into the last qualifying spot They haven't changed the women's rankings

also have all 13 boxers left Today should see some countries knocked out

Huge shock in the light heavyweight earlier with world silver medalist from Ruzmetov losing a split decision to Aokuso of

That's the point. *Their* sums weren't wrong. They used the points that the UCI told them each team had. So it was the UCI's error, not Ireland's or Ukraine's The South China Morning Post are only reporting on the numbers. There's been nothing official from the UCI

In the men's competition and still have all 8 but they're down to 3 and 4 in the women's events has 6 men and 4 women left In their only meetings so far, baet at mens lightweight while beat at women's feather

BTW at this stage we still have 26 nations in the qualifiers. and still have boxers in all 13 weight categories. are down to one each Of the Oceania countries; 12 - 5 - 4 - 2 -

The Tajikistan boxer at light heavy also fights for a place in the Olympics but he's up against the world champion from Kazakhstan Coincidentally, 2 fighters at heavy and 5 at super heavy only have to win one match to qualify (and quite a few in the women's events too)

Presume they’re waiting on official word from UCI The changes are even more stark in the women’s madison so regardless of the Irish involvement, it will need explaining

The awarding of points was known. They just awarded them more than in previous years, and retrospectively changed the results for previous years too. As I said above, Last week Ukraine were ranked ahead of HK, then finished ahead of them at the World Championships and are now ranked below them The *Only* explanation for this is that the points for previous races were changed.

Have any other rankings changed? Pretty incredible that Hong Kong is the beneficiary in both madison events with Ireland and Ukraine missing out If you look at the women's madison event in Berlin, Ukraine finished 12th, Switzerland finished 13th and HK in 14th Yet in the UCI ranks, HK move up 3 places leaping above Ukraine and Switzerland This is crazy (and I can see it getting messy too)

UCI have updated their rankings and in the men's madison they have Hong Kong finishing 30 points ahead of Ireland meaning they would get the last spot, and Ireland wouldn't Perhaps one you who understand the scoring better can explain that to me because pretty much everybody, including the Irish cycling federation, thought that Ireland had qualified

As of 3 March 2020... 53 quotas earned in 11 different sports Sports with quotas earned in alphabetical order: Athletics - 7 Ciara Mageean (1,500m) Alex Wright (20k walk) Brendan Boyce (50k walk) Fionnuala McCormack (marathon) Paul Pollock (marathon) Stephen Scullion (marathon) Kevin Seaward (marathon) Others that would get place by virtue of their current ranking would be Thomas Barr, Mark English and Phil Healy. Big spring ahead for them and some others Canoeing - Slalom - 1 Liam Jegou (men's C1) Ireland are unlikely to qualify any more boats in canoeing with our best sprint canoeist being Jenny Egan who specializes in longer (non-Olympic) distances. Robert Hendrick qualified the boat but Liam Jegou won the selection. Cycling - Road - 3 Men's Road race (3 quotas) Men's ITT (1 quota) With several riders at world tour level, the fight for Olympic spots will be on next year. Cycling - Track - 4 Men's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium Women's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium With both madison crews qualifying, Ire;and will have it's largest track cycling team since qualification began. Mark Downey and Felix English look set for the mens team. The womens team could be any 2 from Lydia Boylan, Lydia Gurley, Shannon McCurley or Emily Kay Equestrian - 9 Eventing (team with 3 individuals) Dressage(team with 3 individuals) Show jumping (team and 3 individuals) Finally a full Irish quota! Gymnastics (artistic) - 1 Rhys McClenaghan Rhys's bronze medal performance in the pommel final at the world championships was enough to earn him a spot. Megan Smith is first reserve on the womens side Field Hockey - 16 Women's team The women's team have qualified for the first time. Could they repeat their amazing World Cup medal winning performance from 2018? Modern Pentathlon - 1 Natalya Coyle Natalya will be hoping for her third top 10 placing in the Olympics in Tokyo. Arthur Lannigan O'Keefe could medal if everything goes right but he struggled with injuries. He finished 3rd in the opening world cup of the year Rowing - 7 Women's Single sculls - w1x Women's pair - w2- Men's double sculls - m2x Men's lightweightt double sculls - lm2x Whoever is with Paul O'Donovan in the lightweight double sculls will be a medal favourite in Tokyo. Paul has won the last two world championships, one with his Rio medal winning brother Gary and the other with newcomer Fintan McCarthy. Sanita Puspure is double world champion and only injury or horrendous luck will stop her from medaling in Tokyo. The men's double won silver this year and are improving all the time. Ireland will try and qualify a women's 4 next year. Sailing - 1 Laser Radial Aisling Kelleher won the quota but Rio medalist Annalise Murphy has dropped her 49er FX plans to try and get in the Radial boat for Tokyo. The 49er crew and a couple of Laser individuals have one more shot at qualifying this year. Swimming - 2 Darragh Greene (100m, 200m breast) Shane Ryan (100m back) Irish swimming is one of the only sports that have stricter rules than the IOC for qualifying so neither of these may actually go. Greene achieved his time at the worlds so has to get close to it at the Irish nationals in 2020 to validate it. Everyone else, including Ryan, has to earn the OQT at the Irish nationals. Brendan Hyland and Mona McSharry look the two most likely to add to the team in individual events but swimmimg Ireland is aiming to bring a 4x100m medley relay team and is currently OK in the ranks Taekwondo - 1 Jack Woolley After being so close in 2016, Jack qualified through the olympic rankings and is consistently in the top 10 in the world. Likely/possible quotas in these sports Badminton Nhat Nguyen is currently in a rankings spot. The mixed doubles of Sam and Chloe Magee are outside the top 16 but may sneak in. Boxing Traditionally our strongest Olympic sport. Ireland will be hoping to have at least 8 of the 13 quotas available. Our women's team is particularly strong and they'll hope to win medals next year. The European qualifiers start in March Diving Oliver Dingley and Clare Cryan have hopes for this year through the world cup series. Golf Ireland will qualify 4 for golf next year with McIlroy and Lowry being medal contenders on their day in the men's. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will go in the women's event Judo We currently have 2 judoka in ranking positions; Ben Fletcher and Megan Fletcher. Nathan Burns is just outside the cut off in the rankings Triathlon Russell White and Carolyn Hayes are our best hope of qualifying for Tokyo and both are just inside the quota spots at the moment. Hayes was 6th at the European Championships in May and is a relative newcomer to the sport. She'll easily shoot up the rankings list with performances like that. The ranking period ends in May 2020.

Seeds by nations 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with 6 of 8 in the mens. Australia and taiwan with 4 of 5 in the womens

We got a few so we’re legit now with 4 track cyclists qualified. That’s a brilliant return the lads are happy too

So happy for the team qualifying in Madison (and therefore Omnium). now the question will be who is selected

My first race to watch all week. My god the TV coverage is awful. They’ve no idea what’s happening

and have fighters in box offs The following had boxers in Rio but have no qualifiers, and no box-off participants, so far. Last time 8 African boxers qualified through world qualifiers (and one received a tripartite invite)

and return to Olympic boxing after missing Rio. Both had one fighter each in London 2012 The other countries, and in some cases fighters, were involved in Rio

France finishes 0.283 ahead of Belgium. They're 9th and 10th respectively (outside of the 1st round)