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They were ruthless today. Unfairly disqualified 2 from the last heat of the Men's 100m.

In further news, return to the competition next year.

Scotland qualifying for the Euros would massively help this.

I fear for our meet in 3 weeks. At least the orange powder will somewhat blend in with the track.

I agree, or if you couldn't wait that long maybe post the qualifiers from the end of that day.

Gold Coast Marathon July 2, 2023 Men's: Naoki Koyama Women's: No qualifiers

Let the chaos ensue.

Looks like we'll have more fighters entering the 2 global qualifiers than we thought, the lack of competition seems to have affected them. Hopefully we don't lose anymore of the 9.

I guess that's what the embarrassment of being slower than a 30 year old accountant does to you.

The Women have been excellent recently, wouldn't be surprised if they're quota ready by Brisbane or even LA.

Furthermore it's the British grass court season, and they tend to go full on with that (even going as far to get broadcasters from other sports and freelancers who mainly work for other broadcasters).

Only the Men's. It's cuz Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland feel FIFA will make them merge with England to form a Great Britain team due to them not putting in good performances compared to England. Although since Tokyo, Wales have qualified for a Euros and a World Cup and Scotland look set to qualify for Euro 24 so they might be swayed to agreeing to team up.

I agree on Modern Pentathlon, both quotas should be easy to get. Same goes for Women's Seven's, although Spain will put up quite the challenge. I think Ireland pip the men to the quota, however this won't be too bad as we should get it via the world qualifier. Llewellin and Coward-Holley will get their well deserved quotas, with Gowin and Heading also being in with a good shot (no pun intended). Don't know too much about the boxing either but expect us to sweep up most, if not all, of the quotas with a mix of returning athletes from Tokyo and previous qualification cycles and some high quality newcomers. Don't expect much from the divers as it's quite an inexperienced team, probably only get 2 quotas here. Artistic swimming will give it a go, but will ultimately fall short to the likes of Italy and Ukraine. Despite matching your concerns, I do think the women will pull it together and get the quota. The same won't be said for the men and our b-boy in Breaking (can't remember if it's Brummit or Sunny).

Nothing's set in stone, but in a lot of Olympic sports they use rankings to reallocate quotas so I wouldn't be surprised if they did this here. Also, it isn't entirely an U21's tournament as you're allowed to use 3 players over that age - so this would sort of justify using the main rankings.

If we both got to the Semi's then I believe the spot will still provisionally go to us as I don't think it's been 100% confirmed that there won't be an agreement before next year. If we haven't reached an agreement come next year then I assume it'll go to the highest ranked EU nation from the FIFA rankings yet to qualify.

Stupid if true, although a few weeks back I saw we'd accepted a Universality quota for Karate so unsure what to believe.

That'll massively hurt her, she'll have to win a couple events to catch up (hopefully the Europeans around her perform poorly).

Yeah, for some reason Team GB only released the entries for Olympic events. So events like Kickboxing, which we qualified 8 athletes in, weren't included.

And entry list, still don't know the GB team for MuayThai, Padel, Ski Jumping and Tequball (if we have any).

You should be fine against us, all you need to do is have one really good quarter and you've won the game.

It's a real shame cuz I fancied us to get to the Olympics after last cycle's near miss, our Women's team never fails to disappoint. Not a fan of the Women's qualification system though, having no direct continental qualifier is utterly ridiculous.

Damn, that 1 point loss to Germany seems to have really fucked us up. I'm no expert on Women's basketball but I assume we're expected to get thrashed by Serbia?

Grandma's Marathon June 17, 2023 Men's: No qualifiers Women's: Lauren Paquette (Dakota Lindwurm missed out by 6 seconds)

If Turkey beat Slovakia and end up with a better points difference then Hungary, how come they still finish 3rd and Hungary 1st?

Well, that's no OQT for us then. No way are we beating Serbia.