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Continental quotas being decided on points difference during group stage of WC? I can't even.

Group F dressage qualifier will be held in Exloo between October 24-27. South Africa is the only expected participant, but Palestine might try too. http://dressage-news.com/2019/09/03/final-tokyo-olympic-dressage-team-qualifier-for-africa-middle-east-set-for-exloo-netherlands-oct-24-27/

Meh. It's not even a Moebius strip.

It's possible that some privileges are still not fixed for all user categories. @Sindo Uploading stuff used to be for premium users only.

Apparently it very quickly dropped to category 3.

Norwegians will probably reach minimum requirements, but I wonder if they will actually take up their quota? For some reason, they collectively don't care about dressage championships. And it's not like dressage is non-existent up there. In fact, every couple of years a talented combination emerges, but it always ends with the same story - "I don't care about championships, I just want to sell the horse." Maybe a free Olympic quota will change some mindsets...

DRESSAGE Group A (2) - (only remaining nations) Group B (2) -  Group C (2) - Groups D/E (4) - Group F (2) - Group G (2) - Additional (1) - Detailed rankings - HERE.

I doubt it's as bad as Irma on Antigua and Barbuda in 2017. Antigua and Barbuda should really be just Antigua these days, because nobody lives on Barbuda since then.

Looks like Paraguay is a near lock for women's road race. That's really lovely, especially given that they are no longer a tripartite nation.

Another epic event that got removed from the program...

Worst Summer Games for us were Atlanta 1996, or maybe Sydney 2000. Although in Sydney we won a medal in rowing eights, which is like science fiction. Worst Winter Games? Probably Lillehammer 1994.

Best - Salt Lake 2002 and Rio 2016. They will not be repeated for a long time, if ever. Special mention for Vancouver 2010, where we won a medal in fucking biathlon.

Those who fly high, fall deep.

Not exactly, but you can do it using Olympic ranking - All athletes. Select the desired NF, click on the points link listed by the athlete's name, and then you'll get the list of events where the said athlete reached minimum requirements. To be fully eligible, athletes need to have both CCI4*-S and CCI4*-L listed (or just CCI5*-L). And to be eligible for the team event, nations need to have three different fully eligible athletes listed.

Yes, but only if some nations don't meet the MER.

All reallocations are supposed to be decided by adding up ranking positions of 3 best riders from each nation. So, the current reallocation list in eventing would look like this... 227 291 293 561 652 774 939 983 1050 1211 However, Brazil will probably meet the requirements. China and Thailand could miss out. Also, one more European nation will quailfy through Nations Cup.

September rankings are coming out... EVENTING Group A (2) - Group B (2) -  Group C (2) - Group D (2) - Group E (2) - Group F (1*) - N/A Group G (2) - Additional (6) - Reallocation (1*) -  Detailed rankings - HERE.

Ranking of unqualified nations after 5/7 stages... 315 (with discard 270) 300 (with discard 250) 240 (with discard 240) 95 (with discard 95) Belgium is close enough when you take into account that they missed one of the stages (best 6 out of max 7 results will count). Remaining stages will be held in Waregem (19-22 September) and Boekelo (10-13 October).

Very urban logo.

Kind of joke that @heywoodu would appreciate.

it doesn't hurt to wonder though.

Pakistani's track suit looks really cheap.

This ISSF commentator continuously overuses the word "grouping". It's like his buzzword for when he doesn't know what to say anymore.