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Day 1 has Women's 49kg Weightlifting, Women's 10m Air Rifle and Men's 10m Air Pistol. If we end the day without a medal, I would rage quit the Olympics.

Thats what I thought. Nevertheless, 1 qualifier and 1 reserve is much more than expected.

Is he first reserve for group G or overall reserve

I am sure there will be some medallists here who would struggle to be in top 10 in a normal World Championships.

Plus, these are the rankings. There will be withdrawals. No way all these golfers take part in Olympics.

When is the Le Mans tournament. Amazing that so many were able to enter it at the last minute.

Yes. Either Ajay Singh has failed a dope test or is injured. Since, he did not take part in Asian Championships, it was expected.

The changes that are possible: Suspension of athletes and/or nations. If Colombia is banned, their 67kg quota would go to Spain. Reallocation of unused quotas. Priority will be given to NOCs with no representation. I think there are atleast couple of such NOCs in 67kg. So, very low chance.

[hide] Preliminary Round June 13th - June 28th, 2021 10 Nations, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Argentina 2 1 Chile June 14th 2021, h. 21:00 Paraguay 2 0 Bolivia June 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Chile 1 0 Bolivia June 18th 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 1 2 Uruguay June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 Uruguay 2 0 Chile June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 2 0 Paraguay June 24th 2021, h. 18:00 Bolivia 0 2 Uruguay June 24th 2021, h. 21:00 Chile 2 0 Paraguay June 28th 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 1 0 Bolivia June 28th 2021, h. 21:00 Uruguay 1 0 Paraguay Group B Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 3 0 Venezuela June 13th 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 2 0 Ecuador June 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Colombia 2 0 Venezuela June 17th 2021, h. 21:00 Peru 0 3 Brazil June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Venezuela 1 1 Ecuador June 20th 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 2 0 Peru June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Ecuador 2 0 Peru June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 1 2 Brazil June 27th 2021, h. 18:00 Ecuador 0 2 Brazil June 27th 2021, h. 18:00 Venezuela 1 0 Peru Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Brazil Uruguay Colombia [/hide]

Say, an athlete A gets a quota place in 10m Air Rifle Men. Now, if he has achieved MQS in any other event, he can start in those events as well as long as there are max 2 athletes per NOC in an event. This is the Double starters rule. For Mixed Team events, if an NOC has a male shooter and a female shooter with required MQS, they can be entered as a team in the Mixed Team event.

Shotgun team?

No one. There were no eligible lifters from Asia in 81kg to take continental quota. IWF will reallocate that quota.

It does appear that we did make a mistake and Ajay Singh, the weightlifter is not suspended but Ajay Thakur, Kabbadi player is suspended. I am not sure of his fitness though as he has not participated anywhere for quite some time. Also, this list includes Rakhi Halder in 59kg, almost surely in a qualification spot, who is provisionally suspended. Don’t know if there are others like her in the list as well throwing all our calculations awry.

We want baton pass in this as well. Basically an epic 200km race walk.

According to this document, NOCs don't have a say in selecting which lifter they want to chose in a weight. Top athlete is chosen by default. So, this means Indonesia can't chose Triyatno over Deni. They can either chose Deni over skip this weight. Can @MHSN or @Griff88 please confirm Link

[hide] Preliminary Round June 11th - June 23rd, 2021 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 11th 2021, h. 21:00 Turkey 0 1 Italy June 12th 2021, h. 15:00 Wales 0 1 Switzerland June 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Turkey 1 2 Wales June 16th 2021, h. 21:00 Italy 1 1 Switzerland June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Switzerland 1 0 Turkey June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Italy 1 0 Wales Group B Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Denmark 2 0 Finland June 12th 2021, h. 21:00 Belgium 2 0 Russia June 16th 2021, h. 15:00 Finland 0 1 Russia June 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Denmark 1 2 Belgium June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Russia 1 1 Denmark June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Finland 0 3 Belgium Group C Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Austria 1 0 North Macedonia June 13th 2021, h. 21:00 Netherlands 2 0 Ukraine June 17th 2021, h. 15:00 Ukraine 2 0 North Macedonia June 17th 2021, h. 21:00 Netherlands 2 1 Austria June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 North Macedonia 0 3 Netherlands June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 Ukraine 1 1 Austria Group D Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 15:00 England 2 0 Croatia June 14th 2021, h. 15:00 Scotland 1 0 Czech Republic June 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Croatia 2 1 Czech Republic June 18th 2021, h. 21:00 England 3 0 Scotland June 22nd 2021, h. 21:00 Croatia 2 1 Scotland June 22nd 2021, h. 21:00 Czech Republic 0 4 England Group E Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Poland 2 1 Slovakia June 14th 2021, h. 21:00 Spain 2 0 Sweden June 18th 2021, h. 15:00 Sweden 1 1 Slovakia June 19th 2021, h. 21:00 Spain 2 0 Poland June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Slovakia 0 2 Spain June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Sweden 1 2 Poland Group F Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Hungary 0 2 Portugal June 15th 2021, h. 21:00 France 2 1 Germany June 19th 2021, h. 15:00 Hungary 0 2 France June 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Portugal 1 1 Germany June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Portugal 1 2 France June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Germany 2 0 Hungary Finalists Place 1st Place 2nd Place Nation France Netherlands [/hide]

Indian athletics team also goes to Kazakhstan just before every Olympics for same reason. World Athletics is also well aware of this problem. I think the present ranking system was brought in to combat this problem to an extent. Also, this phenomenon is not limited to athletics. Recently, an Indian swimmer raised questions over a Tashkent meet. Link

Her record this year: Semis in All-England, including a win over Yamaguchi, Finals in Swiss Open, and a win over Pornpawee in WTF finals, Quarters in Thailand and R1 exit in Thailand. She has been in worse form going in Olympics/World Championships in past. She is a big tournament player. Tai is an excellent player who has great H2H against almost all top players but what is her record in WC/Olympics? Chochowong is not even going to Olympics. I am not qualified enough to comment which among the top 10 has the best backhand and who has the worst net play and so on. That if Sindhu has such a glaring defect in her play and technique, why is that all the top players find it difficult to defeat her in big tournaments?

We lose the quota.

Are you serious? She has medalled in every WC/Olympics since 2013 (except 2015) and she has no answer? She is the current World Champion for God's sake.

Thank God it is Sumit and not Vinesh/Bajrang or Ravi

Yup, my mistake. Before typing my reply I checked to see if next Spaniard was in line to replace Marin. But somehow missed her while checking reserves.

What was Pakistan doing at Southeast Asian championships?

Nope. There is no need for the next athlete to be from Europe. as R1 would take Marin’s place. Next in line are and