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Also sounds like the NHL plans to play on the 2026 and 2030 Olympics Well at least until they find an excuse to drop out that is.

Sounds like the NHL has announced an international tournament in 2025... with 4 TEAMS!!!! Can we get rid of Gary Bettman already?

2024 World Aquatics Championships Preview A lot of quotas up for grabs the next two weeks. Here's a little breakdown of each discipline and how Canada can qualify. Artistic Swimming: Duet: Audrey Lamothe, Jacqueline Simoneau Team: Sydney Carroll, Scarlett Finn, Laurianne Imbeau, Jonnie Newman, Raphaelle Plante, Kenzie Priddell, Claire Scheffel, Olena Verbinska Unfortunately, artistic swimming results have not been great over the last two years. We seem to now be the clear #3 team in the Americas. 5 team quotas and 3 duet quotas are up for grabs here based on the combined score of each routine. The team quota at this point seems very unlikely as there are other teams like Spain, Japan, Ukraine, Israel, Italy and the US that all are competing for the same quota. In the duet, there is a bit more optimism as Jacqueline Simoneau is returning to the team. The best hope of qualifying here is that the bigger countries all take the team quotas and Canada can scoop up one of the last 3 available spots. If New Zealand rejects their quota, that leaves 4 quotas available. Unfortunately, a reallocation through the Pan Am Games won't be possible since Canada finished 5th there . Diving: Men: 3m Springboard: Cedric Fofana, Carson Paul 10m Springboard: Rylan Wiens, Nathan Zsombor-Murray 10m Synchro: Rylan Wiens + Nathan Zsombor-Murray Women: 3m Springboard: Mia Vallee, Pamela Ware 10m Platform: Caeli McKay, Kate Miller 3m Synchro: Mia Valle + Pamela Ware 10m Synchro: Caeli McKay + Kate Miller I could've sworn we had an entrant in the men's 3m synchro event when I checked a few days ago but nothing's showing there anymore. Athletes in bold (Zsombor-Murray, Ware and McKay) have already earned a quota for Canada and are ineligible to earn a quota this time around. Anyone who qualifies for the final in the top 12 will automatically earn a spot in the Games. After that, it all depends on reallocation and how many extra quotas in the synchro events are needed. A semifinals spot (top 18) should hopefully be good enough. Rylan Wiens is back and recovered from his shoulder injury so hopefully he can book his place automatically. If Vallee is back in 2022 form, that also shouldn't be a problem for her. The other divers are more unknowns especially in the men's 3m springboard event where Bryden Hattie is out Fofana and Paul are in. In the synchro events, the top 4 unqualified teams will earn quotas for Paris and if the Canadian divers are on form, they should have no problem qualifying 3 synchro pairs. Open Water Swimming: Men's 10km: Hau-Li Fan, Eric Hedlin Women's 10km: Emma Finlin, Laila Oravsky 2 hours of swimming will determine all of the remaining 18 quotas in each event. 13 of them will go to the top 13 finishers that haven't already qualified (14 if France earns a quota). Otherwise, there are also also 5 extra continental quotas for each continent for the best unqualified NOC. So Canada could be in a could position to earn the Americas continental quota here. Hau-Li Fan is back for this edition and he is certainly capable of earning one of the men's quotas. The rapidly improving Emma Finlin should also be in contention on the woman's side. Swimming: Men: Javier Acevedo: 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke Stephen Calkins: 50m Freestyle James Dergousoff: 50m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke Raben Dommann: 200m Backstroke, 200m Butterfly Collyn Gagne: 400m IM Finlay Knox: 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 200m IM Blake Tierney: 100m Backstroke Lorne Wigginton: 400m Freestyle, 200m IM, 400m IM 4x100m Freestyle Relay: 5th qualifying position 4x200m Freestyle Relay: 12th qualifying position 4x100m Medley Relay: T7th qualifying position Women: Sophie Angus: 50m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke Tessa Cieplucha: 400m IM Ella Cosgrove: 800m Freestyle Sarah Fournier: 100m Freestyle Ella Jansen: 400m Freestyle, 200m Butterfly, 400m IM Ashley McMillan: 200m IM Sydney Pickrem: 200m Breaststroke, 200m IM Taylor Ruck: 50m Freestyle Katerine Savard: 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly Rebecca Smith: 200m Freestyle Ingrid Wilm: 50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke 4x100m Freestyle Relay: 7th qualifying position 4x200m Freestyle Relay: 5th qualifying position 4x100m Medley Relay: Already qualified 4x100m Mixed Medley Relay: 6th qualifying position The main priority here will be qualifying all 7 of the relays. Right now, every relay is currently in a qualifying position with 6 of them seemingly secure. The most vulnerable one would be the 4x200m relay. However, looking at the entry list, it doesn't seem likely that 4 teams will pass Canada in the standings. I don't see Canada moving up in time because unfortunately, Ruslan Gaziev (initially on the roster) won't be here because according to some swimswam commenter, he's facing a WADA infraction. Of course, this is also an olympic qualifying competition for individual events. Athletes already with an OQT are in bold. The most likely new OQT earner would be Wigginton in the 400m IM or Acevedo in the 100m Freestyle but I wouldn't expect more than a couple new OQT's at most. Water Polo: Schedule: 02/04: vs. 02/06: vs. 02/08: vs. Thanks to the US failing to qualify through the 2023 World Championships and taking the Pan American games quota instead, Canada finds itself in a last chance qualification scenario where two quotas are up for grabs. The most likely challengers will be Italy and Hungary. Assuming both Canada and Italy win their first two games, the direct group play matchup will be crucial. Whoever finishes first in the group will very likely go through Greece in the quarterfinals, and then Hungary/Netherlands in the semifinals. Whoever finishes second in the group will likely play New Zealand in the first round but then Spain and the USA after that. So ideally, finishing first in the group is the way to go. It's really unfair that this tournament is the qualifier because other qualified teams are able to influence results.

Official entry list

Yes, it's possible. Anyone with an Olympic qualifying time in the 800m or 1500m pool events can also enter as long as they don't exceed the maximum of two athletes per NOC.

Looking at the entry lists, I see that Australia is the only nation from Oceania entered in the men's 10km event so I believe they've already earned a quota. Same thing is true in the women's event but Australia already qualified through the 2023 edition so that quota will get reallocated.

https://swimswam.com/gregorio-paltrinieri-drops-10k-in-doha-in-huge-olympic-gamble/?utm_source=webpushr&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=807859

I must admit, I stopped caring about the all-star game about 8 years ago . Though the skills competition format seems to be more interesting this year so maybe I'll tune in for a bit to watch that.

24th Luxembourg Euro Meet - Luxembourg (LUX) January 26th - January 28th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Women's 100m Breaststroke Shona Branton

21st Meeting del Titano - Serravalle (SMR) January 27th - January 28th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

Swimming at the 2024 Reykjavik International Games - Reykjavik (ISL) January 26th - January 28th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

I see them now https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/2969/world-aquatics-championships-doha-2024/results?discipline=SW&disciplines=

Could whoever moved all these posts move them to the version 2 quota simulation instead?

At the beginning of the year, I predicted Lithuania to qualify 61 athletes. The biggest factors will be whether or not you guys can qualify a men's basketball team, a men's 3x3 basketball team and a men's 4x200m relay in swimming.

2024 Flanders Swimming Cup - Antwerp (BEL) January 19th - January 21st 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

If you go to the World Aquatics social media pages, they've started to post the top 3 seeds in each event. That's the closest thing we have to an entry list so far.

Meanwhile, we have some new qualifications in the women's shorter freestyle distances. The Australians better watch out

You're right, thanks! Forgot to check the heat results

2024 57th Challenge International de Genève - Geneva (SUI) January 19th - January 21st 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 50m Freestyle Martin Kartavi

When did Eileen Gu start representing the US?

Okay, time for another long stats post. Despite the great work that they've done, SwimSwam has often a few controversial rankings every year. Most of that can be attributed to American bias and a bigger emphasis on short course racing (especially in NCAA) than other people. I decided to attempt to build my own rankings model for women that factors in their versatility and how fast they were compared to the rest of their competition. There are a couple of flaws though. The first is that it doesn't factor in 2024 potential and two, it's based on FINA points which themselves are based on world records. As a result, certain events in which someone smashes the world record (50m butterfly) for example, shatters the points system. I'll be sure to make improvements next year if I do this again. Below, you'll find a breakdown of SwimSwams rankings in sections of 10 swimmers each. I've listed my rankings of each swimmer in brackets. #100-99: #90-81 #80-71 #70-61

This happens in every sport whenever some analyst posts their athlete/team rankings. Ultimately, these kinds of rankings are very subjective so there'll always be lot's of disagreement especially in the bottom part of the rankings where there's more variance. Having said that, I've definitely noticed that the swimswam comments section can be very toxic compared to other platforms.

SwimSwam started to release their top 100 male and female swimmers for 2024. Men #100-91 Men #90-81 Women #100-91 Women #90-81 Women #80-71 Women #70-61

Nice silver medal for him

So World Aquatics said they would publish the final qualification calendar by today but looking at the list of events, I don't see anything from France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Brazil, China, South Korea, or all of Africa.