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I think that this will happen with most players that did not anticipate a nomination. In the end they will have to fill the singles competitions with double players that are already in Tokio.

Schroeder will become free agent this summer and declined a contract of 84 million for 4 years and hopes for more... An injury at the Olympics would be a desaster for him, so the insurance is really expensive and the German baskeball did not want to pay... On the other hand it seems that he wants to play, so in the end he could pay the insurance by himself to have the chance to compete at Olympics.

Still no update on these quotas?

As far as I understand the selection process is happening today and tomorrow. That means all NOC are asked which quotas they want to accept and which quotas are declined (e.g. due to injuries, multiple quotas in different disciplines, internal policies=harder national quotas,...). Afterwards the open quotas are filled with the next athletes and the process repeats. So we will see steady updates in the World Ranking for the whole day.

That`s really unfortunate. And I am not quite sure what will happen if he/she is really banned from the Olympics. As it is a "big" name I assume that he/she is qualified as Top4. Who will get a ticket in this case? Place 4 of the qualification tournament? Will there be a re-run of the continental quota procedure? Tripartite invitation? What a mess...

That means that the European Continental Quota goes to Sabine Kusterer correct?

It seems that this is not what Jasmin Jüttner did...best score in all three rounds and loosing against the French in the first final match

Jüttner is really strong today. Best result in all three rounds.

Second round also finished. Top4 have been: Jasmin Jüttner 26.00 Fatemeh Sadeghi Dastak 25.46 Sanae Agalmam 25.28 Krisda Putri Aprilia 24.68

Kata is obviously more predictable than Kumite. Best results in first round were: Jasmin Jüttner 24.46 Sadeghi Dastak Fatemeh 24.28 Alexandrea Anacan 24.20 Dilara Bozan 24.08 Let`s see what will happen in the semis

They already have one bronze medal for Theresa Stoll and W70 and W78 are strong categories for Germany. And in 2016 they only had one bronze medal and even if you look into history there were only 3xgold, 3xsilver and 14xbronze in total since 1964. That`s 1-2 medal per olympic games on average. I am not even sure that they won more than 4 medals in one olympic game ever.

Is there an allocated european quota in men`s super heavyweight? Highest ranked European athlet is Maksim Babanin but as Ivan Veriasov just qualified he is not eligible for the quota. Next European in the ranking is Nelvie Tiafackso he should get the quota, correct?

Thanks Laraja for the great work and the regular updates. It was the first time I watched surfing and I think it is a great sport and especially I like the tournament mode.

So it`s 12 surfers competing for the 5 tickets. So we won`t have a decision after repechage 8. Perhaps it will be decided in repechage 9.

So basically a lot will be decided by Repechage round 8. 6 further surfer will leave the tournament, so it will be 12 surfers for 5 spots after this run. If the 7 surfers that cannot grab quotas are still in after repechage 8, the remaining 5 surfers will win the quota. 3 Japanese and 2 French are still in main round, so they are Top12 anyway. Who are the other two surfers with a safe quota?