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Does anyone know if 2019 national championship results will count for the rankings for Tokyo? This weekend we have the Greek national championships (as well as other countries too I think) and we had a few athletes who aren't competing. If their 2019 points are removed then they will no longer be in qualifying positions for Tokyo. Can anyone confirm the procedures for the ranking and when the points drop? Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words. We're not missing out on medals or anything, but there are three athletes involved that may not be going to Tokyo anymore. And I don't even think they know yet either. The 800m swimmer is super young and will have another chance next weekend at the national championships. The female backstroke swimmer has already been to the Olympics twice and might make it to Tokyo anyways via OST so hopefully that's the case for her. The male breaststroke swimmer will almost certainly miss out though. He's not that young either (I think he's 23) and we have some decent teenagers in that event so I don't think he'll be in the picture for 2024 either but you never know of course.

We also had a swimmer qualify in the men's 800 freestyle from that event and it looks like that's no longer the case either. So it wasn't just the relays but the whole meet.

So we're not even in for the mixed relay either, what a mess... https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlwgrNJ1hX/ I wonder when she's going to find out that she's not going

They all celebrated qualifying in both relays and the swimmers gave interviews about it and there were articles and social media posts about them qualifying for Tokyo...what a mess it would be if they miss out due to some error in not reporting the results

This is the first I hear of it. Are we still listed for the 4 x 100 mixed medley relay? We also got our qualifying time at the Acropolis Grand Prix for that event... Edit-Just checked and we aren't listed there either. Does anyone know if we were originally on the list for these relays and them removed? The mixed medley relay seemed more realistic as it put us in 15th and not 16th... And for the men's medley relay we qualified in Rio too so it didn't seem suspicious to me. Gkolomeev, Christou, Vazaios are all top European swimmers. Only Meretsolias (breaststroke) isn't.

The funniest was in 2016 there was an Armenian girl who primarily ran 400m but somehow qualified in 400m hurdles. Her 400m hurdles PB (which she never came close to ever again) is actually better than her 400m PB, lmao https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/armenia/lilit-harutyunyan-14421034

When will we find out who goes to Tokyo?

Eurobasket Women 2021 - Team Greece 1. Artemis Spanou - born and raised in to a father and a mother 2. Elena Tsineke - born and raised in to a father and a mother

Belgium 1-1 Greece (international friendly) So in 2021 so far we had draws at Spain and Belgium. Not bad for a team that hasn't qualified for a tournament since 2014 World Cup.

Both of our players are into the third round without dropping a set. Also for the first time since 2016 we will have a junior player at a Grand Slam, which is a nice story for Greek tennis!

http://sportsfeed.gr/sti-gallia-i-ethniki-gia-to-pro-olympiako/ Looks like Greece's Kyriaki Aslanidi also withdrew (women's 75kg)

We have 3, no? Men's 4x100 freestyle from 2019, and then this past weekend we got men's 4x100 medley and mixed 4x100 medley.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPiOOxXAqlM/ The athlete also posted about it on Instagram

It's in Greek but sure http://sportsfeed.gr/ektos-proolympiakou-o-tsanikidis-mpainei-xeirourgeio/ Basically it says that he was only one win away from qualifying for Tokyo, but he needs to get surgery and then it includes a statement from him (seems like he made it on social media) about how he will come back stronger than ever.

Tsanikidis already fought in London, so I guess we can't replace him? The article that I read about it did not mention anything.

Greece's Alexandros Tsanikidis will be unable to compete due to injury. He had already advanced to the round of 16 in the men's 63kg event

With Markos qualifying in swimming, we're now at 48. Also it looks like we will qualify in the men's and mixed medley relays, which will be confirmed tomorrow and have Meretsolias and Drakou added to the team. So basically we are guaranteed 10 swimmers (8 men and 2 women). Hopefully we can add some more, either with OST or OQT and also in open water. In Beijing we had 18 swimmers (11 men and 7 women), 14 swimmers in London (8 men and 6 women), and 14 in Rio (10 men and 4 women). Papamichail's quota will also become official tomorrow which will put us at 51. Not sure what is happening with weightlifting. The next two weeks will be busy with boxing, artistic swimming, karate, rhythmic gymnastics, tennis, and archery so we will gain more quotas. We just won five medals at the European Karate Championships last week so hopefully we can qualify a few athletes for Tokyo in that sport. And of course in athletics we have the national championships next weekend and hopefully some of our athletes who haven't yet qualified can achieve the standards there and won't have to worry about rankings anymore. A lot of our young/U23 and U20 athletes like Frantzeskakis, Karalis, Tzengko, Karydi, Pantazis have all been close so far.

in mixed 4x100 medley relay today got 3:45.38 in Athens. This puts us in a qualifying position. Also Dimitrios Markos in men's 800m freestyle swam in 7:53.07 to achieve OQT.

Agreed, plus some people didn't have chances to compete much in 2020 and underachieved then (if they even competed at all!)

I'm sorry, but you still should qualify in men's 4x200 freestyle relay at least. Didn't someone say that it would be the first time ever (or in many years) that Ireland sends a relay team? So that's something to be proud of. To be honest we procrastinated in trying to qualify. We didn't field our best team in Budapest because Gkolomeev had the 50m freestyle final the same day as the 4x100 medley so he skipped it. Now including him in the team made the difference. We qualified in this event in Rio as well so for us it would've been disappointing to not make it. Anyways overall this has been a disappointing qualification cycle for Greece so far, so I sympathise with you.

This x100. I honestly have no idea how people can be saying water polo. I guess their countries weren't affected so they don't understand. China, Canada, Australia, South Africa all did nothing to qualify. They made it by simply existing. If they want to give each continent representation, then there should be 12 teams like all other team sports and not 10. Or at least make Asia and Oceania combined. Ridiculous that Australia gets a free pass in so many team sports just because of their location. Women's water polo especially has always been flawed. I'll remind everyone of Greece's 2009-12 Olympic cycle results: 2009 Worlds-4th 2010 Euros-2nd 2011 Worlds-1st 2012 Euros-2nd Also won two World League bronze medals during these years. But we didn't qualify. Make it make sense.

Akropolis meeting in Athens Here is a video: And an article: http://sportsfeed.gr/tromerh-4x100m-meikti-agkalia-me-thn-olympiakh-prokrish/ Sorry the article is only in Greek. It also says that the qualification period ends in two days (for the relays I guess). Is that true? I never heard this before.

4 x 100 medley relay men swam to 3:34.61 which puts them into a qualifying position

Wow Panetsidou must've lost weight to compete in this category! Good for her because it would've been a shame if she didn't get a chance to make it to Tokyo as obviously Chatziliadou would've been preferred over her.