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990 to be accurate

after a crazy night of football , now we know the quarterfinal pairs in west Asia (eight finals in general) for the AFC Champions League crazy because of so many very surprising results, missed chances, missed penalties, even empty goals. 2 on 1 situation in 95th minute etc. the richest club in Asia (Al-Hilal KSA) lost embarrassingly 2-0 to an already eliminated club (while even 1-0 defeat was enough for them) still they qualified because two other teams in another group couldn't manage to beat each other in a crazy match. and all of a sudden 3 Iranian clubs made it to the knockout round while we always claim our league is very weak and our clubs suck. looks like the rest of west Asia suck even more. but the biggest surprise came from our Northern neighbor, for the first time in history Tajikistan was allowed to have a club in the AFC CL and that club made it to the knockout by some miracles. they scored some crazy goals you rarely see anywhere else.

Prekovic made it to the final in style to secure her quota, Coban also is in the bronze medal match, with this they are both mathematically qualified for Tokyo. which concludes the qualification race in 61kg weight with CHN, EGY already qualified now Merva Coban and Jovana Prekovic are joining them

on paper they even even overtake Turkey, 1000+1000pts are available for European athletes, while for non-Europeans it's just 1000pts from this tournament

2nd day preview men's kata: we already know who is qualified Damian Quintero Ali Sofuoglu Antonio Diaz Mattia Busato women's 61kg, Coban is almost safe, Prekovic can make it safer by having a good result here. 4 other girls are still chasing her Yin Xiaoyan - 10545 Q Giana Lotfy - 7710 Q Merva Coban - 6037.5 Jovana Prekovic - 5452.5 Haya Jumaa - 5137.5 Rozita Alipour - 5107.5 Leila Heurtault - 4515 Gwendoline Philippe - 4440 men's 84kg, Kvesic can't surpass Poursheib but he can hope Poursheib doesn't get Aktas ! Ugur Aktas - 9382.5 Q Zabihollah Poursheib - 9225 Ivan Kvesic - 6517.5 women's 68kg, for China and Egypt this is the last chance to collect more points. Gong can qualify by winning the gold, with anything else she has to wait for the other results. Irina Zaretska - 9217.5 Q Gong Li - 6412.5 Feryal Abdelaziz - 6075 Elena Quirici - 5775 Silvia Semeraro - 5160 men's +84kg, Ganjzadeh is guaranteed a top 2 finish but that's not enough for him to qualify he needs to outrank the other Iranian Poursheib at the 84kg. Arkania can still catch Horne, he also can qualify if few things happen at 84kg. Sajjad Ganjzadeh - 8617.5 Jonathan Horne - 7072.5 Gogita Arkania - 6630 women's +68kg, Berultseva is the non-European here, she needs a great result to widen the distance otherwise one of those girls will catch her by wining the gold in Euro Hamideh Abbasali - 6997.5 Q Sofya Berultseva - 5467.5 Meltem Hocaoglu - 5107.5 Clio Ferracuti - 4987.5 Eleni Chatziliadou - 4905

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at the end of the first day in Portugal. the following athletes are mathematically qualified for Tokyo karateka in bold were already qualified before today, only one question remains about the 2nd quota in women's 55kg. Women's Kata Sandra Sanchez Viviana Bottaro Grace Lau Sakura Kokumai Men's 60kg Darkhan Assadilov Angelo Crescenzo Men's 67kg Steven Dacosta Ali El-Sawy Men's 75kg Bahman Askari Luigi Busa Rafael Aghayev Stanislav Horuna Women's 50kg Serap Ozcelik Sara Bahmanyar Women's 55kg Anzhelika Terliuga

Stanislav Horuna will be in the bronze medal match on Sunday and because of that he will rank higher than all 3 guys behind him which means Stanislav Horuna is now 100% qualified alongside Askari, Busa and Aghayev

women's 55kg quota has to wait at least couple of days ! Wen Tzu-Yun was in comfortable position but she lost in the first round. which means only 30 participation points for her. 7080+30=7110 Jana Messerschmidt lost in the semifinal and will fight for bronze later. if she wins the bronze that will be 570 pts for her 5677.5+570=6247.5 that means she will be 862.5 behind the TPE girl and still can qualify by winning the gold in Euro. but if she loses the bronze she will be down 982.5 pts . that's still possible in Euro but only if more than 32 athletes enter in her weight ! with less than that the max she can get is 930.

his first round "bye" will be counted as a win. so he has 60 more points. while for Figueira it won't be counted. you have to win your 2nd round match for that, (for those 60 extra pts) Figueira didn't

I think Kumizaki can't beat Grande of Peru for the 1st Pan-Am female quota, but she has a very good chance for the last quote but that will depend on Africa too. the gender of last Pan-Am quota will be decided by Africa ! if a boy qualifies from Africa, then Pan-Am qualifier will be a girl and that quota will go to Kumizaki. remember they award the continental quotas after the Paris event, so we have to wait a long time for that.

btw technically it's not over yet, El Sawy still can punch the ref to the face and get disqualified (and receive 0 points) but I assume that's not a possibility I think El Sawy was guaranteed a place even if he wouldn't make it here, he was the best ranked African male athlete. but with this, he opened the door for another male Egyptian Karateka to qualify in another weight. but in the continent of America, they have another way to determine their continental places, only Pan American Games gold medal winners has a chance and unfortunately for Figueira he didn't win the gold in Peru back in 2019.

Italy lost by Hantei to Jordan so that's it Ali El-Sawy is 100% qualified for Tokyo, no matter what happens in the rest of the competition. even if he finishes 5th. Figueira has to prepare himself for the last chance qualifier in France, same as our guys in this weight

El Sawy is in the semifinal now. by my calculation if that Italy guy who beat Figueira makes it to the final. Figueira will have a chance in the repechage, but if Italy doesn't Egypt is already qualified.

Vinicius Figueira just lost to Italy ! that can be very very costly for him

guys, you know we have live stream this time ,right ? in case you don't check this channel, BRA is on Tatami 1, EGY on Tatami 2 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbcNH3k6L3wG9VWD5t05M1g

if Egypt wins the gold he is 100% qualified. because Brazil can't win more than the bronze. but silver for Egypt and bronze for Brazil will qualify Brazil. silver for Egypt and 5th place for Brazil will qualify Egypt (most probably, have to do the calculation) but first let's see if they both can reach the semifinal or not.

they will meet in the semifinal if they win the the rest of their matches, Brazil has something like 400pts advantage. so your guy can't afford losing early. he has to go all the way to the final and he just beat one of the Iranians in the table quite easily

sure but it's just started. here is the draw https://www.sportdata.org/wkf/set-online/popup_mitschrift_main.php?popup_action=mitschriftcatxml&catid=44&verid=468

women's 50kg Sara Bahmanyar made it to the bronze medal match while both Hubrich and Plank are out. which means Sara Bahmanyar is now secured a spot in Tokyo this will be the 4th quota in Karate for Iran. we still have a slim chance for the 5th quota but I believe we will finish with 4 through the ranking. that's quite a good result considering how competitive is this sport around the world.

Angelo Crescenzo made it the bronze medal match while Eray Samdan lost to Japan and got eliminated early. I can say that Angelo Crescenzo is now 100% qualified.

if you feel smart, just try to figure out how things work with ICF qualification system, you won't feel smart anymore I'm somehow glad we are not good in this sport and I don't have to go through all these weird things, Weightlifting was enough for me.

taking a look at what's important today: women's Kata: we already know who is qualified Sandra Sanchez - 11452.5 Q Viviana Bottaro - 7275 Q Grace Lau - 6300 Q Sakura Kokumai - 5887.5 Q men's 60kg: it's between Italy and Turkey, if Crescenzo scores big today (and Sunday) and widens the gap to more than 1000pts he can finish the job today but that's a bit unlikely. I assume that quota will go to the European Championship Darkhan Assadilov - 10387.5 Q Angelo Crescenzo - 8100 Eray Samdan - 7342.5 women's 50kg, Bahmanyar has to keep the distance, if AUT or GER manage to cut it to less than 1000pts, they can make it by winning the gold in Euro. Serap Ozcelik - 10792.5 Q Sara Bahmanyar - 5647.5 Bettina Plank - 4507.5 Shara Hubrich - 4267.5 men's 67kg, 2 non-European athletes are fighting for the quota. highly possible to know the name of the qualified athlete by the end of the day Steven Dacosta - 7950 Q Vinicius Figueira - 6832.5 Ali El-Sawy - 6472.5 women's 55kg, TPE has 1400pts lead, (while 1000pts will be enough) very likely to qualify today Anzhelika Terliuga - 9022.5 Q Wen Tzu-Yun - 7080 Jana Messerschmidt - 5677.5 men's 75kg, Horuna's biggest opponent is non-European, Horuna can qualify today if he gets a better result than Scott. Bahman Askari - 9262.5 Q Luigi Busa - 6750 Q Rafael Aghayev - 6255 Q Stanislav Horuna - 5137.5 Thomas Scott - 5047.5 Erman Eltemur - 3712.5 Gabor Harspataki - 3232.5

I wonder if the start list is final and complete https://siwidata.com/canoe123/live?SessionKey=rcat.1939 we were supposed to have an entry in women's K1. but this list only shows 4 athletes from THA and KAZ

apparently 31 May but I'm not sure it will also take few days to ask each NOC to remove the rest of its weightlifters (those like China with more than 4 quotas) I think we will have the final list somewhere in first or 2nd week of June.