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Updated as of February 24th, 2020...

by the way, tournaments cancelled or not, South Korea are actually already mathematically qualified in any case, not only "virtually"... and if Padua's tournament is not somehow replaced, also Hungary are already mathematically in...

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no, idea... I'd rather wait for an official statement from FIE...hoping that they decide quickly what they want to do... If I were them, I'd simply add the next event to the original OQP...it's only a question of going a couple of weeks outside the original schedule and it wouldn't affect in any form the Olympic preparation of the teams involved, meanwhile cutting the number of useful tournaments could prove unfair for the teams right on the edge of making it through or not... but I'm not FIE...

the decision was taken only yesterday...it's quite normal that nobody is aware of that, yet...

KEN have reasonably good tradition in Boxing...

Thanks God I live in Italy...No need to vote at all... no matter what's the voting result, in any case politicians do whatever they want...and normally it doesn't reflect any hope, will, need of common people...

2020 Grand Slam (Düsseldorf, GER) Day #3 Recap The last day of a Judo world tour event is usually dedicated to the big men and women... this tournament made no exception... Japan's domination continued also today, but only among the women, where Shori Hamada (-78kg) and Sara Asahina (+78kg) were just unbeatable... among the men, instead, all 3 titles from today's action went to Countries of the former Soviet Union, in particular Uzbekistan surprised most of the audience by winning 2 Gold Medals (Davlat Bobonov, -90kg and Mukhammadkarim Khurramov, -100kg), while Georgia took the super-heavyweights (+100kg) title home, thanks to Guram Tushishvili... so, at the end of the tournament, Japan destroyed the field taking 8 Gold Medals, followed at a remarkable distance by Georgia and Uzbekistan with 2 Gold Medals each and further behind by Canada and France with "only" 1 Gold Medal each... Full Results http://www.ippon.org/gs_ger2020.php Day #3 Medal Session Replay

today's qualifiers recap women's -57kg Nada Laaraj Tekiath Ben women's +67kg Aminata Charlene Traorè Faith Ogallo men's -68kg Seydou Fofana Abdelrahman Wael men's -80kg Seif Eissa Achraf Mahboubi

p.s. the next men's Sabre world cup stage (originally to be held in Padua, ITA from March 6th through March 8th) has been officially cancelled (actually, postponed to undefined date...however, surely it won't be held before the end of the OQP anymore) because of Coronavirus, which is spreading very quickly in that area of North-East Italy...

yes, they can be found here: https://tokyo2020.fie.org/qualification

men's Team Sabre OQR after today's event (2 tournaments left, 1 really at risk to be cancelled) 1 South Korea 348 (Virtually Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 2 Hungary 274 (Virtually Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 3 Italy 260 (Virtually Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 4 Germany 236 (Virtually Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 5 Russia 210 (Virtually Qualified, European spot) 6 Iran 206 (Virtually Qualified, Asian spot) 7 France 202 8 United States 186 (Virtually Qualified, Panamerican spot) 9 Egypt 163 (Virtually Qualified, African spot) 10 Romania 162 11 China 160 12 Georgia 152 13 Japan 149 14 Canada 132 15 Ukraine 130 16 Great Britain 113

yes, you're right...the individual summary is only a provisional standing...

no, because JPN can't add a full team quota...they will only add 2 more names to the already qualified Shikine (I don't think they can reject his quota and then add 3 more)... however, they have 8 quota to play with to get as many full teams they can...

no, seed #1 and #2 obviously would go to no.1 and 2 of the WR, but then there will be a draw between 3 and 4 to decide who's going to be seed no.3 and no.4, then 5th and 6th of the WR will be drawn into seed no.5 or 6 and so on...

Men's Foil, Qualification Recap Final Team Standings 1 United States 436/448 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 2 France 344 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 3 Italy 280 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 4 Russia 268/280 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 5 Hong Kong 262 (Qualified, Asian spot) 6 South Korea 250 7 Japan 228 8 Egypt 213 (Qualified, African spot) 9 China 211 10 Germany 203 (Qualified, European spot) ... 14 Canada 152 (Qualified, Panamerican spot) Provisional Individual Qualified Athletes (1 GP event left) Africa: Mohamed Samandi (35) Americas: Guilherme Toldo (24) Asia/Oceania: Lee Kwang Hyun (10) & Takahiro Shikine (23) Europe: Marcus Mepstead (13) & Carlos Llavador (16) Note: in parenthesis, the current position in the World Ranking

the qualification rankings are based on World Champs + Continental Champs + the 4 best World Cup scores (out of 5 events)... the actual Olympic Tournament seeding will be based on the world ranking after the end of 2020 continental championships, basically when no more events are left before the Games (and there will be also a draw 2 places by 2 places to determine the final tableau)...

Women's Foil, Qualification Recap Final Team Standings 1 Russia 436 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 2 Italy 364 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 3 France 308 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 4 United States 304 (Qualified, Top 4 Overall) 5 Japan 258 (Qualified, Asian spot) 6 Canada 219 (Qualified, Panamerican spot) 7 Hungary 204 (Qualified, European spot) 8 South Korea 203 9 Poland 202 10 China 199 ... 15 Egypt 126 (Qualified, African spot) Provisional Individual Qualified Athletes (1 GP event left) Africa: Ines Boubakri (20) Americas: Saskia Loretta Van Erven Garcia (35) Asia/Oceania: Jeon Hee Sook (11) & Shi Yue (13) Europe: Leonie Ebert (14) & Maria Teresa Diaz (34) Note: in parenthesis, the current position in the World Ranking

up... game over! finally, Italy came back to success with a convincing effort...and no mess-ups by any of our girls...

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France just killed the Polish dream in women's Foil, as they won the 3rd place match against the Polish girls by a score of 45-41... Hungary's 6th place at the end of the day therefore was enough to save their asses and qualify to Tokyo 2020...

nevermind...there was Bolshunov already in between the 10 Norwegians...

and so, Russia beat Italy in the quarterfinals of the men's team foil event in Egypt, therefore they're still in contention for a spot in the top 4 overall, which would mean that Germany would qualify to the Olympics at the expense of the Koreans... however, to keep their dream alive, Russia need to win their semifinal match vs France and need to finish the day behind them (provided RUS make the final, as said)...

Men's Team Foil (Cairo, EGY) Final Results Gold: United States / Russia Silver: United States / Russia Bronze: Hong Kong Semifinals: USA b. Hong Kong 45-37 Russia b. France 45-38 Bronze Medal Match: Hong Kong b. France 45-44 Gold Medal Match: USA vs Russia  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/061479716A2349AC86AE0DCEDB14C6BF