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Spain, Hungary and Montenegro will host the OQT.

22 athletes will represent Spain at Lausanne 2020, being our biggest delegation ever (9 in 2012 and 6 in 2016). TEAM SPAIN Curling (4): Oriol Gasto Carmen Pérez Aleix Raubert Ana Vázquez Ice Hockey (7): Eva Aizpurua Valeria Eliana Ansoleaga Luisa María González David Guilabert Pablo Mata Nadia Sancha Júlia Térmens Speed skating (3): Carla Álvarez Luisa María González Nil Llop Ski mountaineering (4): Ares Torra Marc Ràdua María Costa Ot Ferrer Snowboarding (2): Aina Gomariz Álvaro Romero Cross-country skiing (2): Marta Moreno Miquel Auladell Hopefully, we could also win our first medal in ski mountaineering.

Well, if you consider bobsleigh and skeleton as a single sport, then yes. In fact, our single skeleton athlete (Ander Mirambell) is training a team of 2 boys and 2 girls to assure that Spain will still have representation once he is retired. Furthermore, we also have one athlete in para-bobsleigh (I'm not sure if he is still active, but he was last year). Ski jumping is a very curious case in Spain. Back in the 1970/80s the Four Hills Tournament was a success on TV, we had like 3/4 hills and we participated with some athletes at Sarajevo 1984, but suddenly everybody lost interest in the sport and the hills were closed.

In Spain we also have only 2 federations (ice and snow) because individually, winter sports do not have enough licenses to create independent federations. In fact, there are several sports without a single participant right now (bobsleigh, luge, ski jumping and nordic combined).

A few hundreds of fans have received the team in Madrid. Yesterday, the final was followed on TV by 812.000 people (12.4%):

I completely agree with you. I hope Russia and Italy make it to the top4, so Germany qualifies a team and Carlos Llavador could obtain an individual spot if he beats Choupenitch and Siess.

IT'S OVER!!! With an almost perfect second half, Spain beats Norway and reach the final! I couldn't be happier right now!

I don't think so. Spain is competing much better than the expectations according to the real level of our players. Russia destroyed us and we suffered to win against Japan, so the Netherlands should be the clear favorite, as well as Norway was clearly the favorite to win today.

Spain 6 up against Norway, will we flop it again as we already did against Sweden a few days ago and against France in Rio 2016? I hope not, but let's see! ¡Vamos Guerreras!

But don't forget that winning that match means a very easy OQT, so it is also a very important match for Sweden.

Awful game today, but good victory of Spain against Japan 33-31. Top6 (and OQT) is already secured! Now, let's see if we are lucky with the goal average and we could reach the SFs.

Sweden completely destroyed us on the 2nd half and they managed to draw with one player less. It's a pity we didn't win this math considering we were 8 up, but it's still incredible that our team is competing against more talented teams. Good job, Guerreras!

Halftime: 14-8 Come on, girls! A victory today would be very important to advance to SFs!

3 quotas but no medals for Spain... It has not been our best championship, but we accomplished the main goal, so I'm happy with the performance. I hope next year Botín/López could do it a little bit better and Paula Barceló is fully recovered of the injury.

If I am not mistaken, it will be the first time that we send 3 males to the Olympics! Since Sidney 2000 we had always qualified 2 men.

I don't know how you have lost today, but youth Hungarian players are very talented and I'm sure they will be a very successful generation for Hungarian handball. And maybe you are lucky and you still qualify for OQT...

Olympic qualification standings after Day 4: 49er (4 quotas): 74 78 89 89 -------------- 90 98 106 131 49er FX (6 quotas): 63 81 81 89 90 92 -------------- 93 97 128 133 Nacra17 (5 quotas): 55 70 80 88 125 -------------- 146

27-26 5th victory for las Guerreras and the team advances to the Main Round with 4 points, so we are very close to qualify for the OQT. It's incredible that a team with such poor technical level compared to other teams have options to qualify for the semifinals without Carmen Martín, but the strongest point of this team is the competitiveness.

29-20 Very good 2nd half of Las Guerreras to assure the third victory in a row and qualify for the Main Round. The next game should be the easiest, so probably the best players will rest before the important match against Montenegro.

Hungary has not played well today, but the team is very talented and I would say that you are in the big group of 8 teams that could earn a medal. The best moment of Spain has already passed, with only a few players remaining of the team that won the bronze medal 7 years ago and the youngers aren't as good as the veterans, so I think that the difference in terms of quality is so big that despite not being in the best form, you were still favorites.

Thanks! I was expecting to lose against Romania and Hungary and playing against Montenegro for the 3rd place of the group, so these 2 victories are completely unexpected. A few days ago I thought that going to the OQT was impossible, and now at least we have some options to qualify, so let's see how the rest of the tournament goes. After watching both games, Hungary-Romania will be a very interesting match and I'm not sure who is the favorite right now, so good luck!

Another surprising victory for Las Guerreras. Hungary has not had the best day and our team has been pretty consistent. Furthermore, we are very close to advance to the Main Round, which was the main goal of the tournament.

Are you sure about Spain's quota? I was reading the qualification system and it says "The eight (8) highest placed male and the 8 highest placed female athletes based on the results of the Finals", so I think that only those gymnasts qualifed for the final could obtain the quota, and the rest are reallocated to World Cup ranking. Furthermore, our national federation has not said anything about the quota (but they tend to ignore trampoline, so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't notice).

Congrats @bestmen! I am looking forward to see what you will prepare.

Our team is not strong at all... The victory today against Romania has been a surprise, but Hungary and Montenegro should win against Spain.