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5 hours ago, Makedonas said:

http://sportsfeed.gr/apokleistiko-kanonika-i-ellada/

 

According to this which was posted 5 minutes ago, FINA acknowledged that it was an error on their end and the Greek relay teams for men's 4x100 medley and mixed 4x100 medley will be going to Tokyo. I'm assuming this also means that Dimitrios Markos goes through in the men's 800m freestyle.

 

What a mess. FINA should just allow 17 teams to compete and let Ireland and Switzerland send their teams since it was their mistake. Might be more difficult because these are relay events, but a similar mistake happened in 2016. Greek swimmer Kristel Vourna was given an invitation to Rio because she reached the OST for 100m butterfly. FINA made a mistake because we already had one Greek swimmer with OQT in that event. So they revoked their invitation and then in the end they made an exception and let Vourna compete.

Whoever wrote that article should be horse whipped. ‘Gossipy Irish’?

6 hours ago, OlympicIRL said:

We now have 6 boxers qualified for the Olympics, more than I thought to be honest! Not betting on medals again this time but not impossible. Emmet Brennan still has a chance to make it too in the box offs. 

All three of the women are definitely medal contenders. 

12 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

It looks like Greece's time they set at the Acropolis Grand Prix at the end of May is no longer showing in the Fina Swim World Rankings. @Makedonas have you heard anything about this?

I was always a tad suspicious of 1/100 of a second on home soil. That may be unfair on my part but it didnt smell right

1 hour ago, OlympicIRL said:

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but my knowledge of shooting and the qualification is extremely limited. Aoife Gormally finished 7th in the women's trap, finishing one place below the Olympic quota. What are the chances, if any, that she could get a quota after reallocations?

She was ranked 20th in the world in Trap and Ireland has no shooting quota so I would think high.

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Pretty much, we'll be around 5 athletes above the max quota once all is over so the impact of FINA not honouring their qualification procedure will only impact a handful of athletes.

That’s zero consolation to the affected divers and will rightly lead to court action.

2 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said:

 

Doing the rough maths, 8 x 2 x 4  = all the synchro quotas = 64, leaving 72 which is 18 per individual event. so there are 18 individual quota places available per individual event, but anyone who earns a place by right in Synchro (e.g Tom Daley, Jack Laugher, Grace Reid and Lois Touslon, for example) doesn't need a 'quota place'. so if you imagine stroking those out (they still get in the event, of course, but they just don't take up a quota) you just keep going until you've handed out 18 places to individual divers only - I assume the same rule may apply if a diver is diving in two individual events by right.

 

Of course, these 'bonus' places can't be technically handed out until the Synchro nations have conformed their picks, but we know who most of them will be, and I think that's where the confusion lay. It certainly wasn't 18 actual spots at the last qualifer.

Even FINA themselves said the top 18 at World Cup qualified for Tokyo.

https://www.fina.org/news/2129485/watson-making-history-for-ireland

47 minutes ago, Robertino said:

Quota for Russia/ROC in Trap Women?

There's still a reallocation available in Women's Trap. Any idea who this will go to?

Does  have a chance?

53 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

The second one

But an NOC can have more than one quota in Trap? The quotas are for the shooter not the NOC? 

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

Great that we will have our first relay team in swimming since 1972 . But also a little sad we missed the men's 4x100 medley by 0.01 secs in the last couple of days.

3 of that Team will be in Tokyo anyway so that’s something. Hopefully Hyland gets a qualifying time this month.

4 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Akropolis meeting in Athens

 

Here is a video: 

 

And an article: http://sportsfeed.gr/tromerh-4x100m-meikti-agkalia-me-thn-olympiakh-prokrish/

 

Sorry the article is only in Greek. It also says that the qualification period ends in two days (for the relays I guess). Is that true? I never heard this before.

That’s heartbreaking for Ireland. That’s sport I guess!

1 hour ago, dodge said:

0.01 ahead of  time

Is that confirmed

2 hours ago, rybak said:

Please stop saying of Games cancellation. Its the only one thing which you can do here? Then your life must be really poor if you spread unsense articles and says about that Games should be cancelled everday. Please find an better thing which you can do with your life. 

 

@Sindo can you ban him already?

The Chef de Mission of Team Ireland was on radio this morning pointing out that the case levels in Japan are half what we have currently in Ireland yet we are opening up. She said the feedback they are getting from places where the Irish Team will have training camps in Japan is that there in are no issues with them hosting athletes etc.

Its election year in Japan so people need to bear that in mind. That said the IOC need to be doing more to reassure the Japanese people that every precaution is being taken. A good start is that the IOC themselves need to ensure that there are no junckets etc and that the bare minimum of officials attend.  

Zero chance the Games will be cancelled at this stage. Japans cases are lower per head than Irelands and we are opening up again. All the test events in Japan have ran without a hitch. Most of this is just 'noise' from internal Japanese politics. There is an election this year after all.

1 hour ago, dodge said:

yes. 31 May is the deadline for relay times

Few if any, swim meets left in Asia that I can see. There are Canadian trials and time trials later this month so the Canadians may be giving it a shot.

2 hours ago, dodge said:

 and  improve their times but not their position.

 

If 2 countries currently outside the top 15 in the world don't beat 7:12:00 then Ireland will send it's first swimming relay team to the Olympics since 1972

Is the cut off date 31st May still? Canada and Korea the dangers but I’d be surprised to see two countries pass us.

48 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

My Pronostics :

 

W1x :

M1x :

 

M2x :

W2x :

 

M2 - :

W2 - :

 

W4 - :

M4 - :

 

LM2x :

LW2x :

 

M4x :

W4 x :

 

W8+ :

M8 + :

LW2x have 3 quotas available because of a reallocation from the Americas.

45 minutes ago, dodge said:

and they're giving North Korea every chance to reverse their decision to pull out

Yeah. Tough on Meg Ryan not knowing what will happen.

On 06/05/2021 at 16:01, dcro said:

Oh well, Switzerland will likely decline this without much thought. I have to check their selection policy to be sure.

 

Tragedy for Bengeri who wasted a chance of a lifetime. Looks like she will be first under the line. So typical for this damned Olympic cycle...

 

Why would Switzerland decline the quota? Cant see it happenning

7 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

RTE News has just announced all Irish athletes at Olympics and Paralympics will be offered the Pfizer vaccine before the games after a deal between Pfizer and the IOC. 

Brillant News. Will come as a big relief to our prospective Olympians.

2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

It looks like Pakistan has been awarded a universality place in women's 200m. It's the only place awarded so far according to World Athletics.

 

Link

If there are 56 places available in the 200m and 10 countries are awarded universality places does that mean only 46 other places are available? In 2016 about 20 universality places were awarded in 100m alone. Surely that would mean lots of good athletes missing out?

I expect 3-4:

Rowing:           1-2

Gymnastics    0-1

Boxing             0-2

Taekwando     0-1

Sailing              0-1

Then again I expected 3-4 in Boxing alone in Rio and we got none.

16 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

do we have any news about north korea quota reallocations?

Is it official that they have withdrawn? I expect the IOC to give them time to change their minds.

1 hour ago, Makedonas said:

A relief that Ntouskos qualified, and I am confident Kyridou will qualify next month as well. Sad for our LW2X though, they really needed this. Will be hard to see them qualify now. Does anyone know what is happening with the reallocated quota from the Americas event in LW2X?

There will be an extra spot available at the final qualifier in LW2X.

49 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

I don't think so, the reigning Olympic champion is Australian, we had recently Olympic medallist from Brazil and Mexico, 1 guatemaltecan guy very strong, also some athletes from Chile quite good, many boys and girls from Egypt very strong, in Europe is well spreaded, GB, France, Germany, Belarus Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Italy,Austria, Turkey, Poland and others have very strong pentathletes. 

So have Ireland.

34 minutes ago, dodge said:

After 15 races

 

 90

 119

 128

 130

 

Belgium gained 14 points on Ireland today. One day to go. 

Ireland need to stay within 10 places of Belgium in the final fleet race tomorrow in order to go into the Medal Race in an unassailable position.