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Oldira reacted to dodge in Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker
Delighted to see Jack Woolley qualify today
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Oldira reacted to mpjmcevoy in Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker
It doesn't count for swim ireland, but it does for IOC. And its Paris 2024 who give out the quotas. If Ireland reject one, that's fine, but that's a case of handing a place back, not having failed to win it.
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Oldira reacted to dodge in Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker
FWIW they have said that they’ll accept any invitations for Paris (unlike Tokyo when they said they wouldn’t but ended up having to to fill the relay team)
Theres space for Ferguson and McCusker as not a huge amount of qualifiers world wide
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Oldira got a reaction from Makedonas in Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2024
In that case I hope Bermuda never win a gold medal again.
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Oldira reacted to dodge in Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2024
There’ll be some crazy scenes when he wins the 1,500m by 3 seconds later in the week
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Oldira reacted to OlympicsFan in Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2024
Agreed that swimming doesn't need more events and also there should be less relay quotas, but i would rather cut the 4 x 200 free relay, since it is pretty much always super uncompetitive.
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Oldira got a reaction from mpjmcevoy in Boxing IOC Olympic Qualifier 1 2024
But the lads already there had to win a number of fights to get there (maybe not the Australians)
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Oldira got a reaction from Adriano in Boxing IOC Olympic Qualifier 1 2024
Then the lads that lose in the QF at QF1 may have another 4 fights at the Second qualifier
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Oldira reacted to mrv86 in Diving at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2024
I'd say is still too early, she is still has some possibility.
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Oldira reacted to mattiekav119 in Ireland Predictions for Paris 2024
Great performances by both teams at the Perth 7s.
Hopefully can develop some consistency over the season and translate it into a good performance in Paris!
Definite medal contenders now in both - the draw will be vital.
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Oldira reacted to OlympicIRL in Men's Field Hockey Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024
Ireland is in the Pro League so will have matches against the top nations which should help with Olympic preparation. What an achievement for this team to make it to the Olympics, they’ve had to completely rebuild in recent years and it all came good at the right time
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Oldira got a reaction from Ogreman in Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker
Have to admit I am flabbergasted at the 66kg decision but the coaches know a hell of a lot more than me.
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Oldira got a reaction from mpjmcevoy in Ireland Predictions for Paris 2024
I think it’s pretty certain we will win a quota in Dressage. The Brazil team failed to make the MER and there was no qualifier from Group so there are two composites (Finland and Portugal) meaning we get the individual quota that Finland had. You can move Dressage to a S.
Excellent article btw.
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Oldira got a reaction from Ogreman in Ireland Predictions for Paris 2024
I think it’s pretty certain we will win a quota in Dressage. The Brazil team failed to make the MER and there was no qualifier from Group so there are two composites (Finland and Portugal) meaning we get the individual quota that Finland had. You can move Dressage to a S.
Excellent article btw.
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Oldira reacted to Rafa Maciel in Track Cycling UEC European Championships 2024
Apologies you are right - each Nations Cup event is worth a maximum of 1600. I was looking at the column for continental champs which are only worth 1200.
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Oldira reacted to dodge in Sailing ILCA 6 World Championships 2024
So... Ireland is 48 ahead of 8th place at the moment but I think the medal race splits from the "last race" for the others. Meaning the best points total any of the non-top 10 can finish is 11
Meaning and have qualified with already in the medal race and through to Paris too
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Oldira got a reaction from Adriano in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Qualification Quota Simulation (Version 2)
I believe you will be very close with the Ireland numbers. We should get 2/3 more in Boxing and probably no divers. Otherwise you are spot on.
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Oldira got a reaction from Topicmaster1010 in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Qualification Quota Simulation (Version 2)
I believe you will be very close with the Ireland numbers. We should get 2/3 more in Boxing and probably no divers. Otherwise you are spot on.
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Oldira got a reaction from rafalgorka in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Qualification Quota Simulation (Version 2)
I believe you will be very close with the Ireland numbers. We should get 2/3 more in Boxing and probably no divers. Otherwise you are spot on.
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Oldira reacted to Ogreman in Boxing Olympic Rankings
So I decided to try and figure out who would be the likely qualifiers at the world qualifying tournaments and well many many hours, lots of procrastinating and a contender for the ugliest excel file ever created later I ended up ranking every boxer who competed at the continental qualifying tournaments and doing well some other stuff too.
Obviously these are just my rankings and well I will fully admit aren't especially accurate even if I did spend a significant amount of time thinking about every position but they should at least be the most accurate boxing rankings out there.
Just quickly in terms of boxing rankings that already exist the IBA have a ranking which is based on points system based on how far you get into their competitions. Even in a normal cycle where everyone was competing in the IBA's competitions they would still be woefully inaccurate because of the way they are calculated. They are also self perpetuating given that these rankings determine seedings which then effect how far into competitions boxers get. Anyway they are completely useless.
Then boxrec has a ranking system which is accurate enough and as I understand based on the quality of your opponents you beat/ lose to. It does fall into weird pitfalls where sometimes it overrates/ underrates one group of boxers and then when they keep beating/ losing to eachother and it gets stuck in a cycle and ends up with some weird rankings as a result. Also if you keep losing to good boxers without fighting bad ones or only beat bad boxers without ever fighting good ones it can end up with weird rankings. Finally while boxrec results database is very good it is still missing a lot of competitions particularly outside of Europe.
And then finally Taylor O'Higgins (worth a follow on twitter) used to do an amateur boxing rankings on the Fight site and he is a boxing coach so obviously knows a lot more about the actual boxing side of things than I would. He has mentioned doing the rankings again a couple of times on twitter but as far as I know hasn't posted them.
So ye hopefully these fill a bit of a hole and help with some of the qualifying/ medal projections on this site where some of the boxing related projections have been a bit hit and miss.
I'll only post the top 50 boxers in each weightclass and the top 60 or so in my country rankings but I have linked an Excel file with the complete rankings of every weight class and ranked every country plus the same stuff but broken down by continental if anyone wants to look at them.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RN05tE5ipfkwHf_7c4vNLpV89zaHfMWw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113545580127855067750&rtpof=true&sd=true
(To be clear this is not the ugly Excel file I referred to earlier)
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Oldira reacted to dodge in National & International Sports Awards
Men’s rugby team ended the year as a disappointment though. The rowers should have won. Criminally underrated
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Oldira reacted to MHSN in Taekwondo WT Grand Slam Champions Series 2023
nothing, it's not about him. wish him best of luck in European Qualifiers
but he just didn't deserve to qualify by virtue of his 6th place in the WR, the 6th place didn't belong to him in a fair world. or any kind of world.
ps: in case you don't know what I'm talking about, check the Taekwondo Olympic Qualification thread.
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Oldira reacted to dodge in Boxing at the Pacific Games 2023
It has never been about the “strongest athletes/teams” competing.
If it was the marathon would be 40 Ethiopians deep. The track 100m would have 15 Jamaicans and 15 from the USA. The swimming 100m freestyle would have 8-10 Australians
There would be no African representation in more than half the sports.
It’s fine if you think that’s a better Olympics, but it sounds awful to me. A global spread is far more enjoyable to watch for me. For some just reaching the Olympics is a goal. That’s good enough
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Oldira got a reaction from Jur in Taekwondo Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024
So Jack Woolley narrowly misses at 58kg and has to qualify at European qualifier?
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Oldira reacted to Joshi in Boxing at the Pacific Games 2023
1. There's no money in boxing and 2. Those that partake in combat sports and with NZ's relative success in the UFC and MMA they'd rather be Israel Adesanya instead (not the greatest role model to follow however).
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