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In case does not qualify a team, its individuals may qualify also through apparatus and all-around at 2019 world championships, so it should not be a problem for an athlete like him

Kazakistan and South Korea have earned 1 quota each in men's 20 km walking after 2019 Asian Walking Championships. I don't know if any other did as I only know about the podium.

I cannot find results for Croatian championships, can you give me a link?

Italian Eurosport commentators are jinxes. Whenever they say "athlete x is doing well" she gets eliminated.

@hukbrazil http://www.ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/news/newsdetails.aspx?ID=5594 http://www.ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/news/newsdetails.aspx?ID=6356 The first link (April 2018) states that tournament is to be hold in "December 2018". At the second link, the following paragraph is reported: " Denmark men fifth confirmed team in Tokyo 2020 handball competitions By winning the 26th IHF Men’s World Championship (Germany/Denmark 2019) last month, Denmark’s men joined the French and Angolan women – winners of the 2018 EHF EURO and CAHB Women’s African Championship respectively – in confirming their place at the Games next year, alongside both the Japanese men’s and women’s teams as hosts. " It looks like there was a typing mistake in the official document

I give mine too :D Man UTD - Man City Barcelona - Porto Juventus - Liverpool Ajax - Tottenham

Maybe I do not remember well, but it seems to me that Macau competes at Olympic Games edit: yes, I remember wrong, but still I’m sure I have seen its flag in some events, but I don’t remember which could be

To whom it may concern, (and for the first time in a while I write this sentence not to start a cover letter), here is a very brief recap of swimming qualification after some events took place. Please note that, as @phelpspointed out and as I'm sure almost all of you know, every nation uses its own additional qualification criteria, so this is a purely statistical data made for my own fun. At the moment, 25 athletes have reached at least once the minimum A in one event. In total, considering multiple participation for athletes, I counted 34 times that A standard was reached. At the same time, 121 minimum B were also established (maximum 1 per nation per event, not counting nations where an A standard in the relevant event was reached). With this data, this is the current quota distribution: 13 athletes with 18 minimum A achieved; 2 athletes with 4 minimum A achieved; 2 athletes with 3 minimum A achieved; 1 athlete with 2 minimum A achieved; , , and with 1 athlete each, with 1 minimum A. Other nations having achieved at least one minimum B are , Among the qualifying meetings, the most proficient for qualification purposes has been the TYR Pro Swim Series in Des Moines, , with 27 A standard, followed by City of Milan Trophy, with 5, and Greek and Lithuanian national championships, with 1 each. Hali Flickinger, has achieved a minimum A in 3 different events. PS: Please note that I only have partial data regarding Korean National Championships.

quando ha fatto il minimo?

Now my only question is where can a list of IAAF selected events be found for achieving the minimum standard. Does anybody know?

I honestly think it is the opposite: I would say that once an athlete, especially a relatively top athlete, has secured an A standard, he/she will be able to plan better for the Olympics or any other event, while the ranking will be used for the mid/low athlete, probably with the hope of encouraging them to participate to more meetings (and so allowing IAAF to advertise them as a better tv product).

So, from what I understand, qualification system in practice totally changed: now an athlete can achieve direct qualification through reaching A standard from the very first moment. Or did I get wrong?

I don't know about the exact criteria of our NF for Tokyo 2020, but I know further IF conditions exist and that is why I said they are "in theory" already qualified :D I am just limiting to IOC criteria, because I think it is interesting

In Milan, at "Trofeo Città di Milano", 5 A-standard were reached (2 Pellegrini in 100 & 200 m freestyle, 1 Quadarella in 400 m freestyle and 2 Hosszu in 200 & 400 m medley), making them in theory qualified for Olympics. I have also counted 24 B-standards (considering only one per nation per event). Other 5 B-Standard were achieved in Lithuanian NC, 1 in a meeting in Zurich. Other events are being held in and (respectively: Hipoint meeting, Flemish Championships, NC, NC, NC and Trials). As it is difficult to find some results, especially because they are not in English if there are some, I would kindly ask somebody who can understand the languages to post the results here Update: after checking, I found also 1 A-standard in Greek Championships (Christou in 100 m backstroke)

To those who are interested, here is a list of events (partial, I think/hope) of events recognized by FINA in which it is possible to achieve the minimum qualification standard: http://fina.org/content/swimming-qual-events-olympic-games-xxxii-tokyo-jpn-2020

I didn't know about it... it seems really strange to me, I just hope that FIFA also ordered the second match in a neutral venue.

I honestly don't know what are you talking about, so I cannot tell, sorry

In that case, I think FIFA may sanction Iran for not showing.

Maybe. Honestly, I don't like some of these very much, but still they cannot be ignored, especially because the venues are not expensive and so their addition is relatively cheap. But, in general and not limited to these sports, IOC should work to create pro circuits, spread all over the world, of all sports, if it want athletes to work seriously and sponsors which can help increase interest and hence audience.

https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=2ahUKEwjmxqOGzMPgAhUOLVAKHUqFAqQQFjAJegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpulse-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fworldrugby%2Fdocument%2F2018%2F12%2F08%2Ffb5c19d0-e880-4d84-b9eb-533e35d24813%2FFINAL-2018-10-31-Tokyo-2020-Qualification-System-Rugby-eng.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0_3P6epeFYXmFdbIQNjjdo This is a December 2018 update document showing much more data. Essentially, only the final world qualifier has to be scheduled

Have you got a link for this? Because Wikipedia has info on a Russian tournament from months but no English sources. Thanks!

You don't have to worry. Olympics won't be given to Italy.

I think it is as you said

Sadly there was almost immediately Volpi vs Favaretto

team competition has already started. Go on youtube, look for the FIE Fencing Channel and there you will find all live streams of Barcelona World Cup and Turin Grand Prix. should now be on green course