dodge

Puspure will win Gold for sure...the only question is if she's gonna win it in Tokyo or a few years later, when Prakhantseva's samples will be re-analyzed...  

Yeah Sanita is no longer the favourite for gold in my opinion. A lot has happened since her world championship victories in 2018 and 2019 and the Russian looks like she is the top favourite based on recent results. I think Sanita will improve on her form by the time Tokyo comes round but if she can win a medal I will be very happy with that. Would be exciting to see her back to her best though. Let’s see what can happen  

One of the few sports were Ireland genuinely had a choice to make was track cycling but the teams have been selected.
 

 
Men's Madison
Mark Downey
Felix English
Fintan Ryan (reserve)
 
Men's Omnium
TBC
 
Women's Madison
Emily Kay
Shannon McCurley
Lydia Gurley  (reserve)
 
Women's Omnium
Emily Kay

Dear Judo Family,

checking of the Olympic qualification list is still in progress. It will be published as soon as it is ready.
 
Lol they changed it

No problem with the limits on countries and think the ranking is fine for bringing in other non-traditional countries
 
Personally, I'd try for 64 person fields with a straight knock out match play tournament (seeded)

Ireland could also exchange the quota for another event

There it is 
 
 

In case you missed it @OlympicIRL Russell White got the final spot. He’s off to Tokyo

They didn't expect any of the events to be filled solely by times but then the new shoes came along and...

HIghest time world athletics start to do something with this

I’ll wait until @MHSN confirms 

MHSN sounds like you may need a lawyer. ?

doesn't change for . Ireland will have a chance if 1) India rejects the quota, 2) no wild card will be awarded in this weight
 
but it will be important for Poland @rybak this way Albania qualifies in 81kg and Poland in 96kg.
 
and again keep in mind I'm not sure about anything I'm writing here

Thank you @MHSN for sharing all of your knowledge about some of these sports, also weightlifting. Makes it a lot easier for us to understand these qualification processes.

I don't know how you do it @MHSN but big props for somehow being able to make sense of this qualifying process and answering everyone's (including mine) billion questions about it  

The weightlifting qualifying criteria are the most complicated thing I’ve ever read BTW so congratulation to anybody who has figured them out!

no I didn't that's Ireland. Ireland is the best ranked NOC in that weight with no quota in another categories.
 
I have to say I'm not sure at all about what I wrote so don't blame me if I was completely wrong the whole qualification process was mind blowing. (for example both of our Olympic Champions failed to qualify)
as I said I still think India will take that quota but some Indian users told me earlier that this is guy is suspended (I can't find anything confirming that) if he is banned, there is nobody else from Asia to take the Asian quota. so the quota will be re-allocated.
 
BUT even if India takes that one, there is another way left for Ireland, according to the rules, since Japan is qualifying maximum 4 weightlifters, there will be 4 unused host quotas. we still don't know in which weights because they have to award 3 wild cards first. in case no wild card will be awarded in this weight. Brown has a good chance to take the unused host quota.
 
 

It would be some coup if  gets a magical quota here @OlympicIRL @Oldira 

A large chunk of that extra time didn’t have any competition (times gained in a period of nearly 8 months weren’t counted) and it’s only at long distances really. The marathon is way over subscribed
 
It’s the shoes

I think he is partially right. the entry standards in athletics are really hard, but the long qualification contributes to the fact so many athletes achieve it. 
The other part no one wants to talk about: you could do a lot of things  unobserved  in 2020 and has nothing to do with new shoes 

She beat a former world silver medalist (ex Brazil, now Portugal) but not the 2 seed. Not sure where I got that from!
 
Has since lost in the QF to Dutch girl (who world number 5) and beaten another world top 10 (Brazil) to leave her with a fight for a medal now

Two wins has Megan Fletcher into the quarter finals of the world championship and she's guaranteed to be in a qualifying spot now.
 
Mark one down for Judo!

Big day in Judo tomorrow. Hopefully Megan Fletcher gets a win. Her second fight is scheduled to be against the number 2 seed
 
 

And the good part is that if Megan is injured, Emma Slevin is next in line!

Rankings are closed at the end of this tournament 
 
they’ll be announced shortly after