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First ever Cup win for  women

Aidan is a far superior talent. Dean had a chance at the European Games and lost his first bout. His local IABA organisation have complained but it seems to be on the basis that he's our national champion. That's fair enough but Aidan missed that and they've been training together and under assessment for a while now.  It definitely seems like parochial stuff from Dean's team upet he's out rather than anything else.
 
Bigger surprise at 66kg but again Broadhurst had her chance and lost at the Euro games.  O'Rourke did beat Grainne Walsh in Poland late last year but on a split decision and O'Rourke hasn't had her shot at the big international tournaments.
 
There are, no doubt, people who are hoping neither qualifies so that some one else (Dean Walsh, Broadhurst etc) gets a chance at the second qualifier. There are several (including those) that are listed as part of the high performance unit for 2024. The only surprise exclusion was Gabriel Dossen but that's a complicated one

Yesssss!  

It’ll be a second Olympics for some of them. Not many but a few of them went to Rio

Yesssss!  

Yesssss!  

Yesssss!  

Yesssss!  

Not your fault Laraja but those rankings (as published by the UCI) are wrong. They’ve made a mistake with the European championships (AFAIK!)

Not your fault Laraja but those rankings (as published by the UCI) are wrong. They’ve made a mistake with the European championships (AFAIK!)

Not your fault Laraja but those rankings (as published by the UCI) are wrong. They’ve made a mistake with the European championships (AFAIK!)

Thanks I just found that myself. Phew

Think that may be an outdated version of the qualification document - the latest version dated January 2023 is different and includes results from Fukuoka. 
 
Paris2024-QS-FINA-Swimming.pdf (olympics.com)

That doesn’t really make sense tbh. Winner of the group likely plays Ireland or Korea. Win that and they’re through
 
Runner up would play Belgium, and could still end up playing Ireland or Korea in the 3rd place play off 
 
Either way Canada would need to win by 4 to overtake Spain as GB will beat Malaysia

Nice start for  drawing 0-0 with  but progress will still likely depend on results v  and  

Hard to see anyone but  and  still 
 

Still no official results for the women’s team pursuit 

So... Ireland is 48 ahead of 8th place at the moment but I think the medal race splits from the "last race" for the others. Meaning the best points total any of the non-top 10 can finish is 11
 
Meaning  and  have qualified with  already in the medal race and through to Paris too

An interesting one for  as the former  ice dance combo of Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus make their Irish debut
 
A very strong pedigree, but obviously falling down the pecking order in Canada made them look at the Irish option. Shane has family ties

So... Ireland is 48 ahead of 8th place at the moment but I think the medal race splits from the "last race" for the others. Meaning the best points total any of the non-top 10 can finish is 11
 
Meaning  and  have qualified with  already in the medal race and through to Paris too

Irish sailing claim Eve McMahon has qualified for Paris “with a race to spare”

announced it was entering two relay teams. The men's 4x100 medley and the womens 4x100 freestyle
 
They're currently ranked 13th in women's 4x100 medley (so believe they're safe enough there).
 
The men's 4x100m medley are also 13th but there's less than half a second between them and the 5 teams behind them
 
The women's 4x100m free relay are currently 15th and would need to improve this time round IMO

is qualified. She cannot drop below 7 other Olympic hopefuls

is qualified. She cannot drop below 7 other Olympic hopefuls

I found it here:
 
https://onb.ilca.roms.ar/ilca6women2024/images/onbdocs/Fleet_Assignment_for_Monday_8th_January_2024.pdf
 
At a quick glance it looks like 8 nations will battle it out in the Gold Fleet for the 7 Olympic slots:
 
 

I think some boats will clinch Olympic spots tomorrow. I’m hoping for young Eve McMahon to be one of them!