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IIRC, she has a decent chance at a medal.

My wish list: 1) Hockey Men's medal 2) Mirabai somehow winning Gold 3) Elavenil winning medal (She is a fellow Amdavadi ) 4) Neeraj getting our first ever Athletics medal. 5) Sindhu becoming our most decorated Olympian (except Hockey) 6) Vinesh Phogat getting a Olympic medal for the phenomenal Phogat family 7) Overall getting 2 Golds and 10 medals.

Why is Shivpal not participating here? No Dhanalakshmi in 100m.

Yet again Indian archers choke.

They have shot only 24 arrows out of 72 per archer till now.

Tai and Minions in badminton Petar Gorsa in Shooting

Veronika Major?

8 in total: 1 original + 3 (USA, Indonesia, France) + North Korea + reallocation due to European Games and NZL returning quota + Oceanian Qualification reallocation. For Women, it will be 3-6. 1 original + North Korea + Oceanian Qualification reallocation + 0-3 depending on team qualification.

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