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Good start for Kyridou and she's into the final. Looks like she will be our only boat with a real chance to qualify from this regatta. Anastasiadou/Fitsiou just simply not good enough it seems. They missed their chance at the European Qualification Regatta. They needed to finish first and were second behind Russia, despite finishing above Russia in the heats. Anastasiadou still has a bright future and I'm positive that as long as she sticks with the sport (not always certain with these Greek rowers), she'll be in Paris 2024. She is still just 19. I hope for the rest of this year she can continue to work hard, probably compete in LW1X and defend her gold at the European U23s and hopefully also win a gold at the World U23s. Similar story with Kalandaridis/Papakonstantinou. Doesn't look like they can qualify here but they're both still young and hopefully can make it to Paris. Papakonstantinou I expect to win medals at the upcoming U23 championships as well, which shouldn't be surprising because he has won a bunch in the past and this is his last year in that age group.

Agree with this. Looking up old results was so much easier with the old site. Now everything is out of order and often doesn't even work

Can you please send me a link to these seeding lists? I can't find them. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure all fencing and sailing qualifications are already done.

Diana can definitely qualify. If you read the other part of my post I said Diana still has a good chance. I never wrote her off, but I don't think she's a sure bet to make it to Tokyo. I am not anti-Ukraine. I wish your country all the best for the Olympics

Very surprising how many people are choosing Dymchenko over Kyridou and Foester. Probably because she finished 12th at the 2019 Worlds (where Kyridou and Foester didn't compete) and 6th at the 2021 Europeans (where Kyridou and Foester didn't make Final A because they had an extremely tough draw). Dymchenko finished extremely far behind the rest of the field at the 2021 Europeans and didn't make Final A at the 2020 Europeans. With all due respect, she only made Final A at the 2021 Europeans because she was in the easier semifinal and on top of that, two of the boats there didn't race so there were only four boats in that semifinal. I'm not saying Dymchenko will definitely finish below Kyridou and Foester, but I don't think Dymchenko is a sure bet to qualify like people are making her out to be.

The Alexandri triplets are really Greek, they were former members of the Greek national team and they moved to Austria as teenagers. They got to compete for their new country in Rio 2016, whereas they probably wouldn't have had the chance to make it for Greece as we had better athletes in this sport. Now they improved a lot while most of their Greek peers have already retired from the sport it seems.

Three medals for Greece here is great (really five medals because the Austrian girls are Greek ) Our chances seem good for Tokyo. We will 90% qualify in duet, and I think our team showed that they are the favourites to get the last spot over France.

Greek team W1X: Anneta Kyridou Our best chance to qualify. She won bronze at last year's European Championships in this event, and also won gold in this event at the European U23 Championships in 2019 and 2020. She also won a lot of other medals, including gold in W2X at the 2019 World U23 Championships. LW2X: Evangelia Anastasiadou and Zoi Fitsiou They have an outside chance to qualify but I don't expect it at this point. Anastasiadou is a big talent, she won gold last year in LW1X at the European U23 Championships as an 18 year old. Individually her times are much better than Fitsiou. If Nikolaidou (former world champion in LW1X, 4th place in Rio 2016 in W2X) wasn't injured then her and Anastasiadou would have a really great chance to qualify. Hopefully Anastasiadou can continue to improve and then Anastasiadou/Nikolaidou could even contend for a medal in Paris 2024. M2X: Ioannis Kalandaridis and Antonios Papakonstantinou Not sure what to expect from them. It is their first time together. Kalandaridis until last month was competing in M2- and Papakonstantinou in LM2X. Both were clearly better than their partners so I guess they decided to combine and try to qualify. Both have won a bunch of medals in U23 and junior competitions. Kalandaridis even has two gold medals in World Championships (M2- at the Juniors in 2016 and M2X at the U23 in 2018). So far we only have two boats qualified, M1X and W2-. Very small team for us compared to other years (Rio 2016: W2X, M4-, LM4-, London 2012: LW2X, LM2X, M2-, M4-, Beijing 2008: M1X, LM2X, LW2X). Stefanos Ntouskos (M1X) is our only rower returning from Rio (he competed in LM4- there as a 19 year old). EDIT-Big shame for Greece to not even try to qualify in W2X. In Rio 2016 we had Asoumanaki/Nikolaidou (19 and 23 years old) finish fourth in the event. They won silver at the 2015 World Championships also. Then we had in 2019, Kyridou/Tsamopoulou win gold at the World U23 Championships but then Tsamopoulou got injured and couldn't compete at the senior World Championships. Even last year we had girls finish 4th at the European U23 (Christodoulidis/Theochari, and Theochari was still a junior but competed in U23) and bronze at the European Junior (Fragkou/Natsioula). Between all of these girls, you'd think we would at least try to qualify a boat.

For W1X, I think the three main favourites are . I'd say also has a chance. not even competing in this event. For M1X, I think should qualify. Second spot seems open but I'd be shocked if make it. For W2-, I think will 99% qualify, and then probably one of as well.

It's sad that men's 50km and 20km walks are on the same day

http://sportsfeed.gr/albstadt-2021-entos-prokrishs-h-ethniki/ This article says that the new rankings will be: 19. Greece - 2601 20. Hungary - 2514 21. Slovakia - 2446 -------------------- 22. Romania - 2398 23. Israel - 2392 24. Australia - 2383 25. Japan - 2120 So countries 19-21 stayed the same but other countries closed the gap

Another dangerous situation created by China...

I agree, especially since we combine the Americas. It is ridiculous that Australia gets so many teams in team sports without having to do anything, and then European qualification is so difficult. Greece 2009-12 had an amazing Olympic cycle in women's water polo. 2009 we were 4th at World Championships, 2010 we were 2nd at European Championships, 2011 we won the World Championships and 2012 we were 2nd again at European Championships. But we didn't qualify for London. So unfair.

Pretty impressive that they have two qualified athletes for Tokyo. Not since Beijing 2008 did they qualify any athletes in any sport without an invitation Always amazed me how poorly they did in sports compared to other ex-Yugo countries of similar size

Yes, I was watching the live stream. Thank you so much! Our girl is only 19 years old and she beat the top seed in the QF and then the Rio 2016 bronze medalist in the SF. It is very nice for us that she qualified. Finally we will have a woman in taekwondo again at the Olympics. The last time was 2008 (we had two women in Beijing). Our four athletes that we sent here were working so hard, it's a shame that we only got one quota but I think Greek taekwondo is on the rise again after some dark years

He got 15.400 at the recent European Championships, so hopefully he can repeat that performance in Doha

I wonder if we are going to have two flag bearers. We already selected Anna Korakaki. We have two other former gold medalists on the team but both are women. We have Petrounias who might qualify but he would be competing the next day. Unless we choose one of Mantis/Kagialis (bronze medalists) or a famous person like Tsitsipas or Antetokounmpo. I hope not though because neither one has ever even been to the Olympics and I don't want one of them to take the spotlight away from Anna.

It was the opposite with our media. They got it right and said we are trying to maintain our place in the top 21, but I thought they were making a mistake when I first read the article.

I see it now, thank you so much! So this ranking has not been updated since March 2020. They will start adding results now again? Anything that happened in the last year is not counted?

For me it only shows Cross-country ranking, downhill ranking, 4x ranking and marathon ranking. On google it says I can click to see the Olympic ranking but then I click the link and it takes me back to the same page without the Olympic ranking. Maybe it is blocked in my country? So weird.

I still don't see the Olympic ranking here. Probably I don't know how to use this website but I appreciate your help and I will take your word for it. Thank you. Hope to see us get the quota for Tokyo!

https://www.uci.org/mountain-bike/rankings It says here we are 30th in cross-country ranking men elite nation ranking. Is there a separate Olympic ranking that you can show me? Thank you. Sorry, I do not know much about cycling!

Well we got Pilidis yesterday in wrestling so we are up to 44 now. Telikostoglou not qualifying is a huge disappointment as he had chances for a medal in Tokyo. I hope we can get one qualification tomorrow in taekwondo (Chamalidis or Tzeli). I don't think we have a chance in wrestling unless Kesidis can surprise. We also have a lot of people competing in athletics this weekend, so hopefully we can get a few quotas or at least some good results for ranking points from our athletes.