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Sad for Gicquel but if this becomes official then it would mean Dosi gets in. Chapelle I believe is injured anyways, and the next athlete to get in would be Dehaynain, so do you know if that quota would also be refused? @De_Gambassi

It is supposed to count to replace her 10km result and move her up from 54 to 51 on the rankings, I'm not sure when World Athletics will correct this or why they haven't, but I guess it doesn't really matter unless 3 other athletes ahead of her withdraw. Just sad for her because she worked so hard in the last years, then was injured and had to miss the Balkan Championships and National Championships this year where she could've gotten easy points to boost her ranking, though she herself said she didn't expect to compete at all in 2024 due to injury so in a way she thought it was impossible to make the Olympics anyways but now she is fully recovered right at the end of the qualification period.

Really uncalled for. As a country we host an international basketball tournament almost every year with the World/European Championships for youth categories, sometimes more than once a year. This arena alone hosts a couple dozen Euroleague games per year, as well as many other events. I don't recall there ever being an issue like this. Mistakes happen in all countries.

Athletics +9 Ariadni Adamopoulou (women's pole vault) Michail Anastasakis (men's hammer throw) Polyniki Emmanouilidou (women's 100m, women's 200m) Kyriaki Filtisakou (women's 20km walk) Christos Frantzeskakis (men's hammer throw) Tatiana Gusin (women's high jump) Eleni Polak (women's pole vault) Stamatia Scarvelis (women's hammer throw) Elina Tzengko (women's javelin throw)

Filtisakou in the women's 20km walk was 46th before the update, then 47th after the update, and now she's 48th so they must've done a second update. Meanwhile in the same event, Papadopoulou is still 54th without her new points from last weekend...

Also men's triple jump? Tsiamis is 3 out. I remember for Tokyo I think he was 1-2 out originally and ended up getting in.

They made a mistake in the women's 20km walk ranking. They have Christina Papadopoulou's top result being 1125 points from a 10km walk, but last weekend she got 1135 results score from a 5km walk, but when you add the placing score I believe that makes it 1165. This is her highest score but was somehow not included in her ranking?

They updated it

Anyone know of injuries/withdrawals in the men's hammer throw, men's 20km walk, women's high jump, women's 20km walk?

Well I think Raba and Klose will pass him, so he would be 35th and then 33rd if the Brits don't take the quotas. I know is also strict sometimes with quotas, so that could get two of our athletes in (Zaltos in the men's hammer and Dosi in the women's high jump).

Is this confirmed? Sorry for the Brits but it would be huge for Zaltos' chances...

We are on track to have our smallest athletics team since Barcelona 1992 I actually feel that overall we are much stronger than we were in for example London or Rio, but a lot of things really didn't go our way this year with quota cuts in race walks, increased competition, injuries/pregnancies, dips in form, youngsters failing to live up to their expectations... We have 4 qualified via entry standard: Tentoglou, Stefanidi, Karalis, Drisbioti Before the National Championships we had another 7 who were basically qualified via ranking: Tzengko, Emmanouilidou, Gusin, Anastasakis, Frantzeskakis, Filtisakou, Polak (11 total) Now we have another 2 who did well at the National Championships and basically qualified as well: Scarvelis, Adamopoulou (13 total) And another 4 who will be very close and hopefully make it in with withdrawals/rejected quotas: Papamichail, Zaltos, Dosi, Papadopoulou (maximum 17 total) Dosi was in the top 32 the entire Road to Paris and the last month or so started dropping like crazy, this week went down to 31st, then Palsyte got the entry standard so now she's 32nd, but Stanciu will pass her in the new ranking so she'll be 33rd if my maths are correct Also sad to see Pesiridou not make it, she honestly did so well this season but the 100 hurdles got really difficult it seems. In my opinion she is better now than the two Olympics she actually qualified for.

Wrestling +1 Maria Prevolaraki (women's freestyle -53 kg)

Judo (2) Elisavet Teltsidou (women's -70 kg) Theodoros Tselidis (men's -90 kg)

announced our final team (we snuck in a few relay-only swimmers ) for Paris, there will be a total of 17 swimmers (14 men and 3 women), which is our largest swimming team since Beijing 2008 where we had 18 Back then also it was easier to qualify and there were more quotas available, so really this is so good for us. We went from 18 in Beijing, to 14 in each of London and Rio, then 12 in Tokyo and now back up to 17. Often we complain about various sport federations so I want to give some credit to our aquatics federation and the swimming coaches for doing such a great job, hopefully we can continue this trend I'm not sure why we have so few women in swimming, it didn't used to be that way but I wonder if a lot of the girls are choosing artistic swimming so we are 'losing' them to that sport...

Swimming +3 Panagiotis Bolanos (men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Odysseas Meladinis (men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Evangelos Ntoumas (mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay) Swimming -1 Arkadios Aspougalis (mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay)

The 'Big 6' European teams or 'Big 5' since Russia aren't competing, are still far ahead of you. At the European Championships, you lost by 19 against the Netherlands and 16 against Hungary. At the World Championships, you lost by 12 against Italy. You also lost by 15 against Canada who you might be competing for a quota with. Lose one of these games by 5 goals or less and then you can start talking about qualification. I don't mean to be rude but I've followed water polo for many, many years and trust me it is not as easy to qualify as you think, even with no Russia or African team accepting quota...

1. What were the top 3 close qualification misses (team/individual) which you regret ? Definitely Maria Prevolaraki in women's wrestling 53kg. She won multiple World Championships medals in her career, but never an Olympic medal despite qualifying 3x. This would've been her 4th and final Olympics. She was 1 win away from the Olympic quota I believe 4 times throughout this qualifying cycle and lost each time. I guess the women's artistic swimming team is another one, they were always going to be 50/50 but they qualified in Tokyo which was our first time in the team event since 2004, and multiple girls tested positive for Covid so they never got the chance to compete. The third one I'll say Despina Georgiadou who is ranked 4 in women's sabre fencing but can't go because Greece already has another qualified individual and didn't qualify in the team, or if that doesn't count then I'll say our archer Evangelia Psarra who qualified 6 times in a row and this was her first time missing and also the first time since 1996 that Greece won't be represented in archery. I'm hoping our men's basketball team won't also fall into this category, as well as a bunch of our athletes in athletics who are very borderline via ranking and it will come down to the wire... Also it's our first time since 1956 not qualifying in weightlifting, but that was unfortunately quite expected due to the quota/event reduction. Lastly, we had 4 good young athletes in Tokyo who I thought would maybe be able to win medals in Paris but for various reasons they are no longer competing or are competing for other countries. They are Vasileia Karachaliou (sailing), Giorgos Pilidis (wrestling), and the Kyridou sisters (rowing). Okay, that was definitely more than just "top 3" I'm not going to answer the other questions because my reply would be too long , but I'm overall quite happy that most of the events I care about will be during the first week or at night during the second week, as I will be on holidays during the second week and plan on being at the beach during the daytime Also I see the other two Greek members voted "Yes, quite satisfied" but I voted "Not exactly, but it's fine"

With all due respect I think this is extremely optimistic. It is extremely unlikely (98% I'd say) that you will qualify for LA in women's water polo...

Hungary still won the medal table but we were second, honestly the future of Greek swimming looks good. The likes of Christou and Gkolomeev won't be around forever, but I think they'll stick around until 2028, and some of our youngsters like Siskos, Makrygiannis, Papastamos, Bilas, Markos, Damasioti, etc. were very impressive here, and now it was announced that our 15 yo breaststroke talent Ntoumas will be going to Paris on one of the relay teams And finally our women's swimming team (which has gone really downhill since London and especially since Rio), seems to be slowly on the rise again, with many other young talents like Pyrili, Angelaki, Vasilaki, Rakopoulou. Hopefully more to come as well.

Incredible for us to have two 1-2 finishes within 5 minutes Overall a great Championships for us, with 17 total medals, we had previously never won more than 6 (and the last two editions for example we only won 3 medals each time). Yes, many of the big names were missing, but I still think we would've probably had our best European Championships regardless, some of our swimmers did great with huge PRs and NRs Also we got 3 new quotas for Paris here in Belgrade. We should have several swimmers make finals in Paris, and hopefully someone can sneak a medal, which would be our first ever Olympic medal in the pool (we've only won in open water).

Big NR for her and quota for the Olympics, so in her 4th Olympics she will compete in an individual event now and not just a relay like she did in Tokyo, incredible for her to be improving at age 32 after being around for so many years and she seemed like she was finished not too long ago Also great for her to win a second medal here after never having a European Championships medal, and this time in an Olympic category, and honestly with that time she would've won a medal in 2022 anyways so it's not like she just got 'lucky' that some big names were missing this year!

2024 European Championships: GOLD: Stergios Bilas - Men's 50m butterfly Apostolos Christou - Men's 50m backstroke Apostolos Christou - Men's 100m backstroke Kristian Gkolomeev - Men's 50m freestyle Apostolos Papastamos - Men's 400m individual medley SILVER: Stergios Bilas - Men's 50m freestyle Georgia Damasioti - Women's 100m butterfly Theodora Drakou - Women's 50m backstroke Theodora Drakou - Women's 50m freestyle Evangelos Makrygiannis - Men's 100m backstroke Dimitrios Markos - Men's 400m freestyle Dimitrios Markos - Men's 800m freestyle Apostolos Siskos - Men's 200m backstroke BRONZE: Greece - Men's 4x100m freestyle relay (Stergios Bilas, Apostolos Christou, Kristian Gkolomeev, Andreas Vazaios, Evangelos Makrygiannis, Odysseas Meladinis) Greece - Men's 4x200m freestyle relay (Konstantinos Englezakis, Dimitrios Markos, Konstantinos Stamou, Andreas Vazaios) Evangelos Makrygiannis - Men's 50m backstroke Anna Ntountounaki - Women's 50m butterfly

Pesiridou 13.07 in Madrid, she won the B Final but was 6th overall, so she'll barely gain points for her ranking. However, Adamopoulou was 1st with 4.50 and will probably move into a qualifying position or very close to it, same with Scarvelis who had 69.52 in the women's hammer and was 6th.

Swimming +1 Georgia Damasioti (women's 100m butterfly)