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Those are recommendations from the IOC to the IFs. As they’ve left participation up to each individual IF for the time being, Russian athletes are probably eligible to qualify in the team events if allowed by the FIE. However, the IOC also still reserves the right to decide if, and perhaps how, Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete at the Olympics.

“We’re not going to fix it.” What a beautiful attitude from an elected official (sarcasm). He should make that his campaign slogan in 2024. I guess you have to appreciate the honestly of his political agenda

Damn.

awarded a universality quota. There’s something you don’t see often

Karate quotas as reported by WKF: https://www.wkf.net/pdf/2023_EuropeanGames_athletes.pdf

Seems like this will be a bit like Rio 2016 and the doping scandal response, each IF will be responsible for deciding on participation in their sport. At least, that’s what I deduce from all of this…

Also, in other news…

Interesting as well…Bach says IOC will not be bound by “previous qualifications,” when deciding on possible participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus.

No concrete decision made today. Some more guidelines for participation in IF events, but those remain largely the same or expanded slightly.

Kimberley Le Court de Billot won the Women’s Cape Epic along with her teammate Vera Looser . They had a handy 30+ minutes margin over the second place team in the general classification, who had some mechanical and injury issues. Le Court took a bronze medal on the road earlier this year in the women’s time trial at the African Road Cycling Championships. She came top 10 in the road race as well. She was also one of only five riders to complete the women’s cross country race in mountain biking at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Definitely a rider with a shot of qualifying in mountain biking, but she’ll need to beat the South Africans or hope one of them qualifies by world ranking. cycling is arguably in a good place at the continental level. There is a fair chance they get a women’s road cycling quota, but that would likely go to Aurelie Halbwachs.

Just your average American scene

Shooting at a private school in Tennessee We’ve accepted this as the supposed price for “freedom,” so it’s honestly hard to feel anything but numb when these events happen. Some states are happy to ban books and loosen child labor laws, so hard to be shocked we’re willing to sacrifice a few to gun violence

IOC Executive Board will meet Tuesday-Thursday this week. They are expected to address the fallout from the invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday. Wednesday will be more about Paris 2024, IFs, 2030 Winter Olympics, etc. Thursday is a little sparse, but dedicated to items around Agenda 2020+5. There will be a press conference each day. I’d imagine those can be followed on the IOC Media YouTube Channel as always.

NOCs qualified for the team events in table tennis: Men - Women -

Claudia Schüler - Field Hockey

It also destroys their chances of qualifying for the Pan American Games, no?

continues to plummet into the depths of an uncertain democratic future…

Well…limit is nine quotas. 3+4+2 = 9.

@intoronto Okay, so under you interpretation of the qualification system…is Canada still eligible to get a quotas in the individual sprint/keirin? I believe there’s a provision that an NOC can not get quotas for the individual events once they’ve won a team quota or something like that… If the Madison counts under that provision, who’s next in line for the omnium quotas?

This is why I don’t understand the push to include Russians and Belarusians as neutrals. I mean, I understand the moral argument behind it, but from a business and public relations stand point, I really don’t get it. There were not NOCs lining up to cancel and boycott events when those athletes were banned, even the nations viewed as more sympathetic to those athletes were not really making it a front page issue. It may not have been an ideal status quo, but it was a tenable business/operations/public relations environment. Now, fencing, and depending on IOC decisions this week, maybe the rest of international sport, have been thrown right back into uncertainty and politically fraught environments. It just seems detrimental to the global image and business opportunities of international sport.

qualified a woman in race walking (last week), but I don’t think we’ve added her to the list yet @Cinnamon Bun @JoshMartini007

Update on sailing quotas: https://panamsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/STATUS-OF-COUNTRY-QUALIFICATION-SANTIAGO-2023-20-MARCH-2023-w-NOC-CONFIRMATIONS.pdf qualified for all Olympic classes, while missed out on a men’s IQFOiL quota.

Fun Fact: Ewart and a certain Totallympian ran on the same high school cross country (running) team