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Maybe suggest moving the transgender talk out to a new thread and leave the qualification talk to this one? 

I think it's the tension surrounding the question of the Irish weightlifting quota that has driven the debate on to a slightly less contentious issue. ?

Same with Ireland. Three now outside rankings and three more right on the edge. Very unfair to athletes to drop this on them with a week to go.
 

has gone with the following sports
Boxing - 2016, 2012, 1996, 1988
sailing - 2008
equestrian  - 2004, 1984
athletics - 2000
swimming - 1992
 
The last rower was 1976 and we’ve never had a cyclist do it so my (impossible) dream team would be Sanita Puspure and Nicolas Roche for their years of service to Irish sport 
 
I’d be fine with medalists from Rio Annalise Murphy and Paul O’Donovan doing it too

Quota could have been reallocated to another continent, point is that biological woman is harmed.
 
Not that transwomen should be banned from sports, but from obvious reasons can't compete with biological women
 
If was transmen probably noone would care as men are already superior but with woman is simply not fair.....and it is kind of cheating while entire teams of clean athletes are banned because some of their collegues doped. Just noone care of them as it is not popular for media as superpopular lgbt stuff.

For those who don’t know the IRFU (Irish rugby federation) abandoned sevens for years. They put zero money into it and would not allow any of the professional players (those who play for the 4 provincial/professional teams) to play for the sevens team. In the top 2 tiers of international rugby, Ireland was the only one not to compete at the world sevens level
 
So for this group of players, many of whom have been on the sevens team for years, to overcome that is huge. 

Brilliant. Have to admit I wasn’t expecting that. 

Holstein, Rawlins and Connor are qualified. They are enough to form a team, but I have no idea why the Irish selector did not mention Connor in a recent interview.
 
Merveldt can perhaps jump back if her horse shows improvement within the next couple of weeks.

One of the few sports were Ireland genuinely had a choice to make was track cycling but the teams have been selected.
 

 
Men's Madison
Mark Downey
Felix English
Fintan Ryan (reserve)
 
Men's Omnium
TBC
 
Women's Madison
Emily Kay
Shannon McCurley
Lydia Gurley  (reserve)
 
Women's Omnium
Emily Kay

The reason GB withdrew was scheduling with two other events taking place in the same session which would have involved women who would have swum in the relay. Given that it was the weakest of the seven GB relay teams it was decided to give priority to the individual events. Similar factors may have played into Poland's decision.

No problem with the limits on countries and think the ranking is fine for bringing in other non-traditional countries
 
Personally, I'd try for 64 person fields with a straight knock out match play tournament (seeded)

Sadly Aiofe's Olympic dreams are over. There are 16 reallocations here, 8 per each gender. If you reject men's trap quota which your federation  won't,  gets the men's trap quota. Quotas cannot be exchanged between genders at all, so it's either 0 or 1 men's trap quota. That would mean imbalance of gender.

:and nation code, for example : IRL  without space
 
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Arthur Lanigan O’Keefe is injured and won’t be going to Tokyo even if he qualifies.

Arthur Lanigan O’Keefe is injured and won’t be going to Tokyo even if he qualifies.

I don't know how you do it @MHSN but big props for somehow being able to make sense of this qualifying process and answering everyone's (including mine) billion questions about it  

It is possible, yes.
 
However, only one total universality place can be now awarded per nation (as opposed to one per gender in 2016).
 
Plus, I seem to remember reading somewhere that the universality spots will be awarded based on rankings. This should prevent nations from stacking up 100 m events (to an extent).

Big day in Judo tomorrow. Hopefully Megan Fletcher gets a win. Her second fight is scheduled to be against the number 2 seed
 
 

Not sure what the rules are now - but it used to be that you could name runners specifically for the relays but could use anybody who had qualified for individual races without it counting for the relay quota

And the good part is that if Megan is injured, Emma Slevin is next in line!

Yes, looks like she is in
 
Going to wait for some official release from either Gymnastics Ireland or the Olympic Federation of Ireland or FIG before adding her.

There were two Koreans ahead of him and only 1 counts.
 

Either way I hope Aoife Gormally gets her chance. She put in a fantastic performance at the Europeans finishing 7th and would be our first female shooter since 1996 and she is high up in the rankings. Derek on the other hand has had his chance at multiple Games and is not currently very high in the rankings. I wish we could take both of course!

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

True. But FINA have already screwed up the Diving..again affecting Ireland..so the IOC may have lost patience