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With Apoorvi out, Maneesha’s chances have improved a lot. Moreover, there is decision to be made in 1m Air Rifle as well. Babuta has overtaken Deepak in ranking and Tomar isn’t far behind.

Chaika has two chances in European championships. She is good in both pistol events. I think will only be a couple of points ahead of (may be tied as well), so need to wait and watch for that as well.

Yes. Most likely he will get the ranking quota.

In 10m Air Pistol Women, are eligible for ranking quota and in finals. In 10m Air Pistol Men, are eligible for ranking quota and in finals. I don't think anyone else can get enough ranking points to topple them.

Yes. Even if Turkish guy wins, De Filippis can still be ahead of him with a top 10 finish.

Since you already have a quota in Trap, you are not eligible for ranking quota. In Men's Trap it is basically between Italy and Germany for ranking quota. Mauro has 450 points lead over Andreas and the only way someone else can overtake either of them is if they win a medal here while Mauro and Andreas miss out on points.

I am assuming it will be 2020 ranking points plus ranking points from Delhi World Cup. Regarding the deduction of points each month, more than the Delhi WC points, question is about existing points. Will some of those points expire? Or will they go down in the same ratio?

My mistake. I meant Norway Jenny Stenne instead of Germany. Also, how does Norway have a pass in 10m Rifle? At present Jenny Stenne has 300 points while Polish girls have less than 20 points. If the Polish girls finish below 5th, they won't get enough points to overtake Jenny. Also, there are still two more quotas for European girls remaining. So, it is possible that Poland and Norway both qualify there and Italian Petra Zubasling will get the ranking quota.

By my calculations, Taeyun Nam of will win the ranking quota for 10m Air Rifle Men. For 10m Air Rifle Women, it is between Germany and Poland depending on tomorrow’s final and European qualifiers.

I think Vetter, Hofmann and Kirt are the favourites for medal at present. Neeraj is surely part of the next batch alongside other Germans, Matusevicius, Cheng, Yego, Krukowski, etc. Considering his past performance, I am hopeful that he would be able to throw 90+ in Tokyo and get a medal, but as of today, I would say he is only a dark horse for a medal. Overall, I agree that this is our best chance of Olympic athlete medal since Anju Bobby George. Regarding Finals, apart from the ones you mentioned, I would put Annu Rani as long shot for Final as well.

Though I agree that Murali is not a medal chance, he himself is saying he has only 20% chance for a medal, which also I think is higher compared to reality. I don't think you can compare Murali's performance with Renjith's. Murali has been consistently jumping over 8m. Even yesterday, all 5 of his jumps were over 8m. While, Renjith improved his PB by a large amount. I don't remember the full numbers, but it was something like he was jumping in early 16m range and all of a sudden he had a 17.5 range jump. Such a feat is always suspect. That is not the case with Murali. Based on his recent performances, we can expect him to have a jump of around 8 - 8.10m jump. To be a medal contender, he needs to improve that to 8.40 (his estimate) - 8.50m.

You can check the tournaments data easily on https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/ Go to the player's profile, ranking tab. In that tab click on the rank of the category whose detail you need and you will get the full breakdown (for example click on 27 to get detail of Satwik-Ashwini ranking).

A player's badminton ranking is obtained by adding the 10 best results of the player in the past 12 months. If, you take part in a competition and earn less points than your worst result already being counted, you don't earn any more points. Lets take Lakshya Sen as an example. Lakshya Sen had 39447 ranking points in Week 18 (28 April 2020). His worst record in the ranking was 1670 points from New Zealand Open. He earned 1670 points in Swiss Open. So, no improvement in ranking points. Similarly, Prannoy's worst performance is 2750 in Syed Modi, so 1670 points in Swiss Open didn't improve his ranking as well. But, Srikanth's worst performance was 2660 in French Open, and he earned 4900 points in Swiss Open, hence his ranking points improved by 2240 points.

Historic quota for us. Bhavani Devi is India’s first ever Olympic fencer. Special shout out to @Prashanth for believing in Bhavani Devi and tracking her for past 4 years.

From the qualification PDF: (Note: Athletes who achieve both a Continental Games qualification place and, subsequently, a Direct Acceptance ranking, will qualify using the Continental Qualification quota place) Hence, Chinese girls will take the Continental quota only. I simply don't understand why the Federations (and IOC) write such complex qualification documents. Only way, Ankita Raina can qualify through Asian quota is if both the Chinese girls are not selected for Olympics.

As I said, last year All England did take place and hence, last year's tournament would count in rankings and not this year's.

Yes, Swiss Open counts. There might be some more tournaments (lower level) which would count but am not sure how many tournaments are taking place. I found this list of eligible tournaments, but a number of them are already cancelled or postponed.

Last year All England did take place in March and hence, this year's All England is not part of qualification rankings.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing, Women's Sprint Classical Day 1 February 25th, 2021 Any Finnish Athlete Lucia Scardoni Maiken Caspersen Falla Anne Appelkvist Stenseth Lotta Udnes Weng Tiril Udnes Weng Natalia Nepryaeva Anamarija Lampic Linn Svahn x Jonna Sundling x Any Other Swedish Athlete x Rosie Brennan Sophie Caldwell Hamilton Jessie Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Men's Sprint Classical Day 1 February 25th, 2021 Any Finnish Athlete Lucas Chanavat Federico Pellegrino Emil Iversen Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot x Haavard Solaas Taugboel x Erik Valnes Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh Sergey Ustiugov Oskar Svensson x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Women's Individual, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 1 February 25th, 2021 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Marita Kramer Any French Athlete Katharina Althaus Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi x Eirin Maria Kvandal Maren Lundby Silje Opseth x Irina Avvakumova Ursa Bogataj Ema Klinec Nika Kriznar x Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's 10km Gundersen, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 2 February 26th, 2021 Lukas Greiderer Johannes Lamparter Eero Hirvonen Ilkka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe x Joergen Graabak Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Women's Team, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 2 February 26th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Finland France Germany Italy Japan Norway x Poland Russian Ski Federation Slovenia x Any Other Nation Nordic Combined, Women's 5km Gundersen, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Lisa Hirner Sigrun Kleinrath Jenny Nowak Daniela Dejori Veronica Gianmoena Annika Sieff Anju Nakamura x Mari Leinan Lund Marte Leinan Lund Hanna Midtsundstad Gyda Westvold Hansen x Anastasia Goncharova Tara Geraghty-Moats x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Women's Skiathlon Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Any Other Swedish Athlete Rosie Brennan Jessie Diggins x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Men's Skiathlon Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Iivo Niskanen Any German Athlete Andrew Musgrave Emil Iversen x Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot x Sjur Roethe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Bolshunov x Denis Spitsov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation Jens Burman Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Men's Individual, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Michael Hayboeck Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler x Karl Geiger Ryoyu Kobayashi Halvor Egner Granerud x Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Daniel Andre Tande Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Anze Lanisek Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's Team Event, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's Team Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Finland Germany Italy Norway Russian Ski Federation Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland x United States x Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Men's Team Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Finland France x Germany Great Britain Italy x Norway Russian Ski Federation x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski jumping, Mixed Team Event, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland Russian Ski Federation Slovenia x Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10km Freestyle Day 5 March 2nd, 2021 Krista Parmakoski Any German Athlete Helene Marie Fossesholm Ragnhild Haga Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Frida Karlsson Rosie Brennan x Jessie Diggins x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 15km Freestyle Day 6 March 3rd, 2021 Andrew Musgrave Hans Christer Holund Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot Simen Hegstad Krueger Sjur Roethe x Alexander Bolshunov x Denis Spitsov x Ivan Yakimushkin Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation Any Swedish Athlete Dario Cologna Gus Schumacher Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Women's Individual, Large Hill - HS137 Day 6 March 3rd, 2021 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Marita Kramer x Any French Athlete Katharina Althaus Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi x Eirin Maria Kvandal Maren Lundby Silje Opseth x Irina Avvakumova Ursa Bogataj Ema Klinec Nika Kriznar Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's 10km Gundersen, Large Hill - HS137 Day 7 March 4th, 2021 Lukas Greiderer Johannes Lamparter Any Other Austrian Athlete Ilkka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Any Other German Athlete Akito Watabe x Joergen Graabak Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 4x5km Relay Day 7 March 4th, 2021 Czech Republic Finland Germany Italy Norway x Russian Ski Federation Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States x Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4x10km Relay Day 8 March 5th, 2021 Czech Republic Finland France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Ski Federation x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski jumping, Men's Individual, Large Hill - HS137 Day 8 March 5th, 2021 Michael Hayboeck Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler x Karl Geiger Ryoyu Kobayashi Halvor Egner Granerud x Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Daniel Andre Tande Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Anze Lanisek Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's Team Sprint, Large Hill - HS137 Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30km Classical Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Teresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug Heidi Weng Any Other Norwegian Athlete x Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson x Frida Karlsson Sadie Maubet Bjornsen Jessie Diggins x Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Men's Team Event, Large Hill - HS137 Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Finland Italy Japan Norway x Poland x Russian Ski Federation Slovenia Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km Classical Day 10 March 7th, 2021 Iivo Niskanen Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot Sjur Roethe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Bolshunov x Sergey Ustiugov Ivan Yakimushkin x Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation x Jens Burman Oskar Svensson Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Based on ranking, no. Our only hope is Sania Mirza's protected ranking, which is in top 10. So, there is a chance that she can use it to qualify a doubles team for Olympics.

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[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay 4x7.5km Day 1 February 10th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Men's 10km Sprint Day 2 February 12th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete x Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 3 February 13th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser x Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet x Emilien Jacquelin Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 15km Individual Day 5 February 16th, 2021 Anais Chevalier-Bouchet x Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Denise Herrmann x Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer x Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Hanna Oeberg Linn Persson Any Other Swedish Athlete Yuliia Dzhima Any Other Athlete Men's 20km Individual Day 6 February 17th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet x Antonin Guigonnat Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov x Any Other Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Any Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Mixed Single Relay 6km + 7.5km Day 7 February 18th, 2021 Austria Belarus Canada Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany x Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation x Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Julia Simon x Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Other Norwegian Athlete Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer x Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe x Sturla Holm Laegreid Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Alpine Combined Day 1 February 8th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Ramona Siebenhofer Ricarda Haaser Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Elena Curtoni Ragnhild Mowinckel Petra Vlhova x Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete x Women's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Tamara Tippler x Any Other Austrian Athlete Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka x Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Petra Vlhova Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Priska Nufer Corinne Suter Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr x Matthias Mayer x Any Other Austrian Athlete Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud Beat Feuz Marco Odermatt Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete x Men's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 10th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer Marco Schwarz x Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault x Any Italian Athlete Kjetil Jansrud Luca Aerni Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Ryan Cochran-Siegle Any Other Athlete x Women's Downhill Day 4 February 13th, 2021 Tamara Tippler Any Other Austrian Athlete Ester Ledecka x Kira Weidle Elena Curtoni Laura Pirovano Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Corinne Suter x Breezy Johnson x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 5 February 14th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer x Otmar Striedinger Johan Clarey Romed Baumann Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris x Kjetil Jansrud Martin Cater Beat Feuz x Carlo Janka Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Women's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Elisa Moerzinger Katharina Truppe Any French Athlete Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Kristin Lysdahl Thea Louise Stjernesund Petra Vlhova x Any Slovenian Athlete Sara Hector Lara Gut-Behrami x Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete x Men's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Fabian Gstrein Roland Leitinger Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault x Stefan Luitz Alexander Schmid x Henrik Kristoffersen x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Semyel Bissig Gino Caviezel Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Parallel Event Day 7 February 17th, 2021 Austria x France Germany Italy Norway x Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland x United States Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 18th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley x Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone Alice Robinson Mina Fuerst Holtmann Petra Vlhova Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin x Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 19th, 2021 Roland Leitinger Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic x Alexis Pinturault x Any Other French Athlete Alexander Schmid Luca De Aliprandini Henrik Kristoffersen Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Marco Odermatt x Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 20th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger x Chiara Mair Katharina Truppe Any Canadian Athlete Martina Dubovska Lena Duerr Irene Curtoni Kristin Lysdahl Any Other Norwegian Athlete Petra Vlhova x Michelle Gisin x Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 21st, 2021 Manuel Feller Michael Matt Marco Schwarz x Clement Noel Alexis Pinturault Linus Strasser Dave Ryding Alex Vinatzer Henrik Kristoffersen Sebastian Foss-Solevaag x Loic Meillard Ramon Zenhaeusern x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete [/hide]

I can understand your shock at police agencies investigating Khalistani material. You are used to police and politicians helping them but alas, having lost a large number of people, including our Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to the terrorist movement, we are a bit vigilant about it.