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is on 131 for the 49er class too. (Technically still in it, even if they only have a tiny chance)

Preview from an point of view. They don't seem that optimistic about securing a quota https://afloat.ie/sail/olympic-sailing/tokyo-2020/item/44771-irish-49er-skiffs-face-big-test-for-olympic-qualifier-in-new-zealand As it stands Ireland have qualified one sailor for Tokyo. The 49er and Laser categories are our only remaining chances

Just posting to say thanks to @dcro for all the posts in this thread. Really incredible work.

Seems Valencia was quick (all praise Nike!) because Paul Pollock ran 2:10.17 to qualify too

We can now add marathon runner Paul Pollock to the list. He ran 2:10.17 to easily make the quota we now stand at 46 in 10 sports. 5 in athletics

It's 3 years residency for rugby, and it's changing to 5 years next year. Still a ridiculous situation of course

I don't think I realised before now that women's basketball doesn't have continental quotas. Unless they put Mozambque and Nigera in the same group to ensure one African team is represented

have qualified for the Olympics Congrats to them. They'll play in the final here but with Japan already in, they take the Asian quota available

Are you seriously suggesting that pro boxing isn't in even worse shape? Ha ha ha

Oh I know why. I was just wondering about examples when the Pacific islanders managed the upset! (Rugby doesn't count as Australia won the mens qualifier lat time and both Auz and NZ qualified through the world spots for women)

I'd love to see a list of Oceania continental qualifiers from countries that aren't or when those countries didn't already have a qualification spot (i.e. the qualifying teams/competitors finished ahead of Aus and NZ!) There can't be too many. in football last time out was an obvious example (and of course not a straight up win for Fiji either). Presume weightlifting? Maybe Judo/Taekwondo?

TEAM is now at 45 with the addition of 16 women hockey players! First ever women's team to qualify in hockey First ever women's team to qualify in any team sport

No real controversy this time. The Canadians wanted to query one of the 8 second rulings (when Ireland scored) and they said it couldn’t be checked. Irish TV checked it and it was 7 seconds so all good anyway Anyway... So happy to see our women’s team qualify. They’ve been so close in previous qualifiers and finally got over the line! Now we just need to 0-0 (shoot out win) to a medal in Tokyo ? So proud of the effort from these girls

Literally nobody has ever said that.

that’s very helpful. Thank you.

Folks, what type of championship is this? I don’t think it’s a ‘European Championship’ as they’re usually every 2 years? The word extra there is throwing me. Jack Woolley is Ireland’s only really international class fighter here. Nice to see him medal from 4th seed he just missed out on 2016 Olympics (losing in semi of final qualifier) but he’s been consistently in top 10 ranks since so fingers crossed

I assume the discussions are whether the scores are showed "immediately" as the article indicates or at the end of each round.

It sounds like the system in place from 1992 to 2012 Olympics. A far more transparent system, and one which lead to more exciting boxing too The problems happened when the AIBA chairman Wu wanted "amateur" boxing to be more like the pros and part of that was his decision to go with a ten point scoring system that they use When they showed the scores after each round ti left a number of fights decided after 2 rounds so the 3rd round was a non event. With "points per blow" there's always a chance of a comeback

I think Ireland have been robbed. I know I’m biased but still

I wouldn’t say Canada are gone yet. They’ve put a lot of pressure on Ireland. Very nervous game (also I hope the Canadian women don’t qualify either )

Stunning result for Ireland we have every chance now

I would guess that they originally categorized them incorrectly. So seeing (eg) Mongoliarack up points in multiple tournaments a day, they may have decided to investigate it I'd guess the new "unveiled" rankings will be far closer to a "normal" qualification rankings (i.e. only international competitions count etc)

As of 24 October 2019... 29 quotas earned in 9 different sports Sports with quotas earned in alphabetical order: Athletics Ciara Mageean (1,500m) Alex Wright (20k walk) Brendan Boyce (50k walk) Fionnuala McCormack (marathon) Others that would get place by virtue of their current ranking would be Thomas Barr, Mark English and Phil Healy. Of the highly rated juniors; high jumper Sommer Lecky and heptathlete Kate O'Connor have the best chance of making the early step up. Canoeing - Slalom boat (men's C1) Ireland are unlikely to qualify any more boats in canoeing with our best sprint canoeist being Jenny Egan who specialises in longer (non-Olympic) distances. Robert Hendrick qualified the boat but himself and Liam Jegou are set to fight for it Cycling - Road 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 ext year. Equestrian Eventing (team with 3 individuals) Dressage(team with 3 individuals) Show jumping (team and 3 individuals) Finally a full Irish quota! Gymnastics (artistic) 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 Modern Pentathlon 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 needs to have a great start to 2020 to shoot up the rankings. Rowing w1x w2- m2x 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 horrendoes 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 womens 4 next year Sailing 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 have a good chance of qualifying in December and we might sneak in a Laser quota too next year with most European countries already in. Swimming Darragh Greene (100m, 200m breast) Shane Ryan (100m back) Irish swimming is one of the only sports that have stricted 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 Likely/possible quotas in these sports Badminton Nhat Nguyen is currently in a rankings spot. The mixed doubles of Sam and Chloe Magee are also in a spot, but their quota is far less secured. Boxing Traditionally our strongest Olympic sport. Ireland will eb hoping to have at least 8 of the 13 quotas available next year. Our womens team is particularly strong and they'll hope to win 2/3 medals next year. Cycling On the track we may qualify at least 2 women (madison rankings) and maybe one man (omnium). Diving Oliver Dingley and Clare Cryan have hopes for next year through the world cup series. Dingley should be OK Field Hockey Both mens and womens team face Canada over the next 2 weekends time in the play offs. The World Cup runner up women are at home and hopefully qualify for their first ever Olympics! Golf Ireland will qualify 4 for golf next year with McIlroy and Lowry being medal contenders on their day in the mens. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will go in the women's event Judo We currently have 3 judoka in ranking positions; Ben Fletcher, Megan Fletcher and Nathan Burns and tey're listed in order of likely qualification. Ben will be in if he isn't injured. Taekwondo Jack Wooley is top 8 ranked in the minimum weight and should be OK to make his first games with average luck. 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. It's unlikely we'll have qualifiers in other sports but maybe the rugby sevens team can surprise us or someone new comes along next year!

It isn't a grand tour though. The world championships time trial is a closer marker for the Olympics and I stand by my comment he isn't a medla contendor And the point about Latvia, Iran etc is that Luxembourg might get zero ITT spots anyway, and that's not a big deal either way

Jungels has never finished higher than 10th at any world championship time trial. He wasn't a medal contender next year Japan getting the spot ahead of Luxembourg is no big deal Just like it would be no big deal if Latvia pipped Luxembourg to that 30th spot and they get in