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no, there are not... reallocations? yeah, almost surely... and not only the tripartite places, but also the African spot among the women (and maybe the men's too, even if there's a South African climber in the top 70 of the IFSC combined world ranking...but with RSA's participation policy we should start thinking they won't accept any invitation for such a low level athlete)...

Women's Qualification, Final Ranking (Top 8 advancing to Sunday's Final) 1. Ai Mori, 44 pts 2. Lucka Rakovec, 45 pts (Possible Olympic Quota)* 3. Mia Krampl, 120 pts (Possible Olympic Quota)* 4. Laura Rogora, 256 pts (Olympic Quota) 5. Futaba Ito, 392 pts 6. Julia Chanourdie, 420 pts (Olympic Quota) 7. Iuliia Kaplina, 441 pts (Olympic Quota) 8. Kyra Condie, 528 pts (Olympic Quota) --- 9. Song Yiling, 760 pts (Olympic Quota) 10. Fanny Gibert, 845 pts * Slovenia mathematically won 1 Quota Place: Rakovec and Krampl will have to fight for that on Sunday's Final... only 1 of them will be able to earn a ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as Janja Garnbret has already taken the first available spot for Slovenia at the last World Championships earlier this year)...

OK, it's official (according to IFSC's website)... Women's Qualification, Lead Result 1. Ai Mori 2. Mia Krampl 3. Lucka Rakovec Full Ranking: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8322&cat=42&route=2

quota for those 6... Mia Krampl or Lucka Rakovec (will have to fight for the only Slovenian Olympic spot in Sunday's Final) Laura Rogora Julia Chanourdie Iuliia Kaplina plus, likely, Kyra Condie and Fanny Gibert, but there's a chance that Lead scores (there are 4 girls tied at 36+ and could be ranked differently because of their climbing time) can change and one between Condie or Gibert loses her place in favour of Song Yiling...

that's another very low & dirty trap... but it's worth a smile in any case...

first race of the season...first sweep of the season... Nordic Combined definitely doesn't like mixing it up in terms of top Nations... by the way, very good start of the season for Italy...Costa looks back to the form he had before that butal injury of 2 years ago, Kostner is improving steadily, Pittin...well, he's always the good old usual Pittin...a true disaster from the hill, by far the best skier on the circuit...

of course... my mistake...

definitely yes, I'd be surprised if they don't get 2 spots (even if Gibert is a bit at risk in the Lead discipline, meanwhile the Korean Sa and the Austrian Lettner on paper could still overtake her)... Jaubert has no chances, imho...

Kaplina and Song will definitely drop down a lot of places, the 2 Japanese don't count for the Olympic race, Slovenia can only qualify 1 girl (they already have Garnbret among the girls who made it through the world championships earlier this year)... so, 1 Slovenian between Rakovec and Krampl, Condie, Chanourdie, Rogora, a second French woman between Gibert (heavy favourite) and Jaubert should be safe for the Olympic spot, meanwhile I guess there will be an interesting fight between Sa, Lettner and maybe also Yip for the last place on the plane flying to Tokyo next Summer...

Women's Qualification, Ranking after 2/3 Events (Top 8 advancing to Sunday's Final) 1. Lucka Rakovec, 15 pts 2. Iuliia Kaplina, 21 pts 3. Song Yiling, 40 pts 4. Ai Mori, 44 pts 5. Kyra Condie, 48 pts 6. Futaba Ito, 49 pts 7. Mia Krampl, 60 pts 8. Julia Chanourdie, 60 pts 9. Laura Rogora, 64 pts 10. Fanny Gibert, 65 pts 11. Aries Susanti Rahayu, 66 pts 12. Anouck Jaubert, 72 pts 13. Aleksandra Kalucka, 85 pts 14. Alannah Yip, 108 pts 15. Sandra Lettner, 112 pts 16. Sa Sol, 144 pts =17. Zhang Yuetong, 187 pts =17. Ievgeniia Kazbekova, 187 pts 19. Margo Hayes, 190 pts 20. Kim Ja In, 210 pts 21. Elnaz Rekabi, 234 pts 22. Ashima Shiraishi, 252 pts

finally, very good 4th place for Laura Rogora in the Bouldering section, which keeps her fully in contention for Sunday's Final and, above all, for the Olympic spot... tbh, I thought there would be a lot more 4T4Z at the end of today's Bouldering, but many girls found unexpected troubles here and there and somehow underperformed (if compared to the world cup standars we've seen earlier in the season)... given the current situation, the Lead ranking would eventually decide also the final ranking of the girls, as many of the main contenders are grouped within a very narrow margin after 2 events...

Women's Qualification, Boulder Result 1. Lucka Rakovec 2. Ai Mori 3. Mia Krampl Full Ranking: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8322&cat=42&route=1

small consolation...

I'd be surprised if there are not 5 or more teams (AUS, GBR, DEN, ITA and GER...not counting FRA as they're not going to qualify, but they could also reach that mark next year) below the 3.48 mark by the Tokyo Games are over...

for Kazbekova...she must be feeling a really strong pain in her left ankle...despite that, good 2T4Z for her in the bouldering section...

I'm for the 3 disciplines = 3 different sets of medals... by the way, the Asian Games format looks like the one we're going to have in paris 2024, with 2 competitions per gender (the Boulder + Lead combo and Speed as a standalone event)...

if only I was watching sport to feed... this is quite a different moment of my daily routine, instead...

however, 3T4Z for Laura...hopefully, she can climb a few positions in the provisional ranking, but surely she would eventually need a masterful lead climb to earn her Olympic spot...

I see it differently...as I wrote, I'm a damn old conservative traditionalist... I don't like combined events at all...it's like mixing pears and apples...

no good...no top for Laura in the 3rd problem...she's not gonna earn a good multiplying factor also in boulder... and the fuc*in' live scoring system looks to have stopped updating...

Laura doesn't look to have perfectly read the 3rd problem...

Alannah Yip! very impressive!

and Laura is perfect also on the second Boulder...

great start by Laura Rogora...storming through the first Boulder... at a first look, today's routes don't seem too selective...most likely, we're going to see many 4T4Z scores...

fun fact, if you write Elio Locatelli, speedskating, in Italy almost nobody would recognize him...he's way more famous as the technical director of our Track & Field National team first and of the IAAF developing program then (and maybe also an appreciated Athletics TV color-commentator in the early Nineties -I remember him commentating the Barcelona 1992 Olympics and also the main IAAF meets in the same period on the Italian Monaco-based TV named Telemontecarlo)...