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Either way I hope Aoife Gormally gets her chance. She put in a fantastic performance at the Europeans finishing 7th and would be our first female shooter since 1996 and she is high up in the rankings. Derek on the other hand has had his chance at multiple Games and is not currently very high in the rankings. I wish we could take both of course!

Thanks for the info, that's where I was going wrong

Are you sure about Ireland in men's trap? From the rankings I see on ISSF site from end of March, our highest ranked is Derek Burnett and he is behind and . This is where I found the ranking: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/worldranking/complete_ranking_by_event.ashx?evlinkid=TR125 I don't know a lot about shooting so I could be wrong

And over 1 and half years later he did take the quota, congratulations

On an unrelated note, can someone tell me if a swimmer has an OQT in one event, are they allowed to enter any event that they have an OST (providing not above 2 per nation quota)?

We only have 3 male swimmers qualified and one is in 800m freestyle so this could definitely affect a couple of our guys. There is one more chance for them to qualify for Olympics this month. FINA might end up awarding them invitations with the OST times and our federation should accept those invites if that is the case. But given there are 10 lanes in the Olympic pool, they should just allow them in now. It was already a hard blow to lose the spot by 0.01 secs in the final days and then for FINA to send them an invite and take it away would be salt in the wound. I have no idea about Switzerland to be honest.

I think it’s almost certain now that Greece are going to be invited. But will FINA do the right thing now and allow Ireland and Switzerland to keep their places too? It would be exceptionally cruel to inform the teams they qualified and crush those dreams and all of those private moments of celebration the athletes will have shared with friends and family when the invite was received.

Currently, Ireland's Russell White is in the 55th and final Olympic qualification spot and has been defending that position for a while now. Hopefully he can make it over the line in Mexico next weekend to join Carolyn Hayes in Tokyo.

There's another race next week in Mexico which is the last chance for qualification points.

Yes, this was covered on one of the series of QI when Stephen Fry was still the host.

Yes, both Ireland and USA had 8 boxers in Rio 2016 but we never had more boxers than USA.

I think Kurt Walker is already through by ranking even though he is eliminated when tournament took place first time around.

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How many boxers are on the Ukrainian Olympic team thus far?

We now have 6 boxers qualified for the Olympics, more than I thought to be honest! Not betting on medals again this time but not impossible. Emmet Brennan still has a chance to make it too in the box offs.

Aidan Walsh joins his sister in qualifying for Tokyo, securing his ticket just 45 mins after Michaela did it! What a day for the siblings and their family

The fact that so many of these governing bodies don’t release official statements or explanations is creating so much confusion and controversy. What a farce it would be for them to invite Ireland and Switzerland and then to rescind the invitation. And if they haven’t explained to the Greek federation the reasons for their exclusion, that is really poor from their communications department. What is going on? That is what everyone wants to know, not least the athletes involved and only FINA can explain that.

Michaela Walsh has qualified to Tokyo! So glad for her Her brother has a chance to qualify later this afternoon.

Thanks a million for the quiz, it was a lot of fun

And the Japanese quota determines if qualifies?

Eeny meeny miny mo.... let's go for Leopold the Glorious who suffered an inglorious death on the Saleph river

I always thought I would take a gamble because it's not money and just points but at the same time I haven't a single clue about it. It could be any of them as far as I'm concerned . I think I will take my points . If I had any sort of grounding I would pick one but I don't. So final answer, taking the points

Right, the car is now on fire at the side of the track and I can either try to push it over the line in a hope of a win or retire gracefully lol.

Yep, i thought about nectar for A and necro for D as in relating to dead things. I was veering away from C.

Great question!