james89

15 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

What a blow for Canada, but not over yet. Venezuela is 6th after snatch, 5 kilos behind 5th and in front of Mexico because of body mass (Mexican lifter is almost 60kg heavier so it's not exactly tight ). Anyhow, Venezuelan lifter also has a solid opening weight in c&j so it looks like VEN could indeed make it with only 5 lifters!

So what's the tiebreak if Canada and Chile tie?

4 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

Meanwhile, Venezuela is out of contention in the team's classification. So far 3 out of 8 of its competitors did not finish; still they have one athlete in the top 15 individual rankings, so they probably will use that place. Also one men from USA and Canada did not finish today, so their lifters must try to obtain a good result in the next few days.

Sorry, one more annoying question. How many scores count towards the top score.

23 minutes ago, james89 said:

 I don't totally understand how the nation qualifications work. If you qualify in a certain placement do you get a qualifications in all disciplines?

Ok. I think I got it now. 

8 minutes ago, intoronto said:

 

The countries that have qualified do not count for points. So if you finish fourth and are the first country not qualified you get the max 28 points. Second place gets 25, third gets 23, fourth 22 and so on. 

 I don't totally understand how the nation qualifications work. If you qualify in a certain placement do you get a qualifications in all disciplines?

Can someone do a quick recap on how qualification for this works. I've tried to follow along, but I just don't get it.

Canada Qualifies!!!

I've been such a bucket of nerves now lol. But its possible!

7 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, Canada doesn't have its fate in its own hands, they need Poland to win one more set than China against their respective opponents.

 Best case scenario is that Canada scores 3 points against China and Poland scores 3 points against Australia.

39 minutes ago, vinipereira said:

To Canada:

 

Canada's result is also impacted by the Australia vs. Poland game and if Poland even tries. 

If two teams are tied with the same amount of points what determines the ranking?

16 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

I think that would   qualifies for rio

Maybe I'm just optimistic but I think that last spot will be between China and Canada

How many points do you think you will need to qualify? 13 or so?

3 hours ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

Well...Our team is tired. I could see that already looking at Resovia Rzeszow's players at Champions League F4. The league season has been to  long... To think they actually want to make our league even bigger and consisting of 16 teams... Nevertheless, congrats! Today's win was huge also because of it we have now even bigger chances for qualifying

But Canada - i am simultanuesly impressed and dissapointed.I am impresed cause they put a heck of a fight again  versus a really talented and in theory better team. However I am also disappointed, cause they wasted  the 2-0 lead away... Well, I think it just supports what I was thinking since a few years ago: Canada has the possibilty to in a few years be amongst the world's elite. However I THINK those players need a bit psychological help. Every year they make some impressive progress, but when it comes to decisive matches/situations something doesn't seem right there.  Well, the next matches they will play against theoretically weaker opponents (except for France of course) so i still hope they'll be able to take a qualifying place.

This is a common theme among Canadian athletes. 

22 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Worst waking up ever.

 

Anyway, that was not pretty, but  it can't get much worse for us.

 

Fortunatly, we were not playing agaisnt Iran or Canada or we might have losed that one.

  France did win though...

9 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Then I guess the K1 1000 didn't matter for us from the start since we already have the K1 200?

As long as it's the same athlete, right?

What's the rule again only one person can qualify at this tournament per discipline? So if Canada qualified in the C1 200m they would need to choose between the C1 1000? But if Canada qualifies tomorrow in the K2 200 they can compete there?

On 5/15/2016 at 10:45, JoshMartini007 said:

It has been a disappointing two years for Canada, I thought they could have a very outside chance at winning a medal. We essentially switched places with the United States.

 

Fiji just needs to reach the quarter-finals in order to win the title. I hope they can translate this to their first Olympic medal.

My fingers are crossed that they will qualify, but eh look at this results, not very likely.

On 5/8/2016 at 14:52, DaniSRB said:

new Olympic rankings are out

Where do I find them?

2 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

 

No, only top 3 individuals from different NOC's

Now that makes more sense. The teams can qualify at the team event in June, then?

I'm just trying to figure this out. Are there Team spots on the line from this Pan American contest at all?

Is Canada not competing in the men's team qualifications?

13 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

I don’t think this thread needs to be made. While some nations and athletes should be looked down at buying/selling their nationality the vast majority that get targeted are immigrants which came before they even began taking the sport seriously or athletes whose parents or grand-parents were citizens of that nation. Quite often things turn into a witch hunt. Look at what happened in 2012 with “Plastic Brits” issue.

I was coming in this thread to say almost exactly the same thing. I think this thread is rather inappropriate. 

Do the top 8 advance to the finals, regardless if the country has already qualified or not?

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

He didn't participate. From what I heard he can still (and likely will) be added to the team.

The commentators for the Canadian trials on CBC seemed to think he wasn't eligible, but nothing I could find on the internet upholds that. 

2 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

I think Canada could potentially win 5 medals.

Mens 400/1500 free: No chance

 

 

Ryan Cochrane won medals in those events at last year's world championship. Even though his times from the trials may not sound like a winning times, he is known to perform at key events. He is certainly a contender for medals in both events and clearly does have a chance.