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Perhaps Carlos Yulo in Men's Floor.

1:44.40 and WL for Tonatiu López  in 800m last night at Kansas, also improving NR
 
I’m dreaming of at least a spot in semis for him @Braulio @RiSeGwangFan, but also wouldn't like this to be his season peak

No I checked with my friends at World Athletics.
If you reached the final you're through to Tokyo.
That rule doesn't apply this year.
 
The only exception is if the team don't make a genuine effort in the final

Femke Bol's explanation for going fast until the end: "I saw a shadow in the corner of my eyes and thought someone was going to overtook me. It was my own shadow though."

UKR CAN GER KEN

Yeah, but on this board we’re starting with the day -2 football. We will be zombies by the time the 4x400m comes round.

YESSSSSS!!!! Tokyo here we come!!!  

Denmark qualified again! Beating Ukraine by thousands (according to the commentators), and France by 0.01.
 
 

Our TV commentators just said that if you get DSQ in tomorrow's final, you are not qualified to Tokyo here. But this is Polish TV, we need to verify it. 

I think Ghana so far 

I hope that'll go to Brazil, just because of the pain of having qualified for the Olympics....only to realize minutes later that this is not actually the case anymore.

Top 4 best times in M 4x400 without olympic Q yet 
POL IND BRA MEX

AUS SUI IND DOM

The Olympics are a bigger event than anything else in the world, so it's a much bigger show to put on than something like the Euro, which at least gets spread over multiple cities and countries.  Yes, people want to see the Games, but you can be sure that Japan will point the finger at the IOC if the Games need to be cancelled and I can definitely see more than a few people taking their side on that one.
 
Again, I'm torn between Japan being able to do this, but without it coming at the expense of their citizens.  Because that's the message that's going to resonate with a lot of people, the same way that the Olympics have imposed upon a host city and country in the past and you can be darn sure it's going to fuel the NOlympics movement.

Also men’s 5000 m and women’s 800 m ...

It'll be Women's Volleyball tomorrow. 

Ok it's Men's Volleyball time then

Chinese Trails Day 2 Highlight
 
Men's 400 medley Wang Shun 4:12.03 Women's 400 medley Yu Yiting 4:37.88 Ye Shiwen 04:44.29  
Yu Yiting got standard A after 15 min rest after 100m fly semifinal. I think she still has potential to be faster if she won't compete 100m fly in Tokyo. Ye Shiwen's apparently not in good condition. She seemed to be struggling and exhausted after finishing the match.

Samorin 2021/04/30
 
Jan Šefl - 100m Butterfly - 51,89s 
 
New Czech record and A Standart for Tokyo. 
 
After missing all Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 by very little, this is what he deserves more than anybody. Big congrats!

Radosław Kawęcki qualified to Tokyo on 200m backstroke by reaching time 1:57,07 at Polish National Championships.

First Authorised Neutral Athletes approved for 2021: -
Mariya Lasitskene (High Jump)
Anzhelika Sidorova (Pole Vault)
Ilia Ivaniuk (High Jump)
Aksana Gataullina (Pole Vault)

At this point the World Relays should just not be offering direct spots to the Olympics and all remaining spots should be decided by ranking.

India had trained well for the competition but not allowed to board flight to Amsterdam to reach Poland due to covid cases in India! How bad is that? 

Well, a promise is a promise  @intoronto and everyone else, here's my look at synchro competitions.
 
Just to clarify, I'm taking my predictions looking at results from 2018 and 2019, and lack of international meetings and training due to pool restrictions in many countries will play a factor here.
 
 
Women's 3m Trampoline
 
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Well, let's start by doing an elimination of the weakest links: Brazil, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and Japan are  not likely to make the cut into the final.
 
From there, among the 9 other not qualified finalists, I don't think the South Koreans have really the level to be in top 8; Germany and Ukraine are debuting new combinations, and they could surprise the rest of the field, but I'm not really county finalists.
 
This leaves us with 6 teams. Amongst them, pairs from Russia and Great Britain are the outstanding ones and their passes, though not free of risks, will be mostly assured. Malaysians finished with silver medals at the last Asian Games, and so did the Americans, although Bacon had a different partner that time. However, if the Italian and Dutch duos can make clean entries, they could surpass the former two teams.
 
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Women's 10m Platform
 
Already qualified:       
 
As the last time, let's start by throwing out those who, besides the above nations, haver zero chance: that is Norway, Puerto Rico, South Korea & Venezuela )the team that will not progress from the prelims). Easy right? We have again 6 teams fighting for the available spots.
 
Sure locks are Canadians Benfeito/McKay and Russians Beljaeva/Timoshina. Unless those pairs get injured or very unlucky, they're firmly in Tokyo. Who will join them? Most surely the British and Italian pairs, who are both consolidated solid scoring pairs, This time, Mexico is likely to end just out of contention, as Agundez is probably one of the worst divers I have the tragedy to ever see and will pull her partner out of contention, and Germany always seem to underperform, though this time their odds could change.
 
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Men's 3m Trampoline
 
Already qualified:      
 
Definitely the thoughest event to predict, and not only because it has 22 teams competing at prelims, but because any little error will surely be a heavy mark on the true contenders. Who are them?
 
Let's start with Gagné/Imbeau-Dulac from Canada, who had to retire at Gwangju, but had very nice showings at the Pan Am Games and World Series in 2019. Germany still has veteran Hausding paired with Rudiger and they are quite consistent at their showings as are European champions Shleikher/Kuznetsov from Russia. Finally, Ukraine's Gorshkovozov/Kolodiy and USA's Hixon/Capobianco are also established teams that on a good day can alter the "natural" order and even finish with a podium.
 
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Men's 10m Platform
 
Already qualified:       
 
Another nail bitter to the end, not quite defined yet, except for Ukraine's place with Sereda/Serbin being clear away from the rest.
 
The other contenders, in no particular order are: Canada with a young duo that improved quite a lot in a couple of weeks in 2019 and I'll surely like them to nail all their entries; Kim/Woo from South Korea will be hoping to repeat that 6th place on home soil; the new US pair, LoSchiavo/Dinsmore, who have been working together for some time and could obtain a nice result here; Germans Massenberg and new partner Wesemann who are an enigma, but could pull and upset, and finally, the made up/weird pairing of Garcia/Willars from Mexico, who are a combination of (inconsistent) experience and (promising) youth )I'll save my ranting on this abortion created by our government later)
 
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