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Sooooo, after day 2 :
 
 
No change. To clarify, Thorup confirmed she was not going to the Games. But she still collected three quota for  that can be used by any other athlete. Still, Lindenskov has not achieved any minimum qualification time so she's not eligible. 
 
Braun just had to finish the race. She could have started and bailed out like a couple of skaters did in the 500m. But she went all the way and got DQed  So only one Polish skater and Smedding is in (she would have received an additional quota anyways).
 
Horikawa was given the huge edge of starting in A division thanks to a couple of Dutch skips. Despite running 3s slower than Yang she still retrieved a comfortable amount of points to secure her spot. Yang benefited from the quartets but things could have gone to the wire if they ran in the same division. 
 
Italy not starting. Failing to qualify while they only had to be top 12 (with 14 teams competing) is a huge blow. 
 
Nope Nope Nope  
It was tense. Before last pair Semirunniy Lorello and Snellink (in that order with the tie breaker rule) were tied with 110 points, ahead of Henriksen. Meaning that Semirunniy was in and Snellink in too but only in the SOQT ranking, thus depriving the Netherlands of their 9th man. But Eitrem, ranking 0.07 ahead of Semirunniy, and a few seconds later Dawson, 0.10 ahead of Lorello, reshuffled the rankings completely, saving both countryman Henriksen and Dutch matrix selectors. 
 
So Semirunniy, as the world leader in the 10k (not the same event indeed) and 4th of one of the three WC qualifying races is not going to race in Milano. I guess the easy answer is to put that on him. But Sasaki, with 6'21, 13'30 and 6'21 is qualified, because he managed to be a tad faster in the first race of the season on the fastest track in the world. Semirunniy mismanaged his efforts in a flawed system that allows time quota in a World Cup circuit with huge track discrepancies, which works with unfair divisions rewarding way too much already established athletes. Like, look at those injured skaters not even going a hundred meters banking more points than 95% of B division, and yet still taking a spot next week. Erin Jackson could pull this till the end of the season and remain top 16.

Is the site running slowly for anyone else?

Unfortunately, I am very busy with my university exams, which end on 18 December. Before that date, I will not be able to vote, I'm afraid it will be a withdrawal for me

final report: injuries to her right wrist, left knee and, above all, the cervical area
 
she's already had an operation to stabilize the cervical area, in the following days wrist and knee will be evaluated more precisely
 
however, she's moving arms and legs, so the worst prognosis is no longer a threat

the more and more ludicrous  news toilet paper "Gazzetta dello Sport" just announced their yearly Sports Awards
 
Female Athlete of the Year: Paola Egonu (Volleyball)
 
Male Athlete of the Year: Lorenzo Musetti (Tennis)     
 
Newcomer / most Surprising Athlete of the Year: Simone Cerasuolo (Swimming)
 
Paralympic Athlete of the Year: Simone Barlaam (para-Swimming)
 
Team of the Year: SC Napoli (Soccer)   
 
Performance of the Year: Tennis National Team winning the Davis Cup without Sinner and Musetti

I did not think it would happen again but...

I created similar post for Paris - 2024 https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/27489-ain-athletes-qualification-for-paris-2024-olympic-games-and-reallocation-of-quotas-post1-updated-1507/#comments 
I was not sure if that reallocations would really happen but the reality was even more serious than the expectations.
According to this research 43% of the neutral statuses issued by the IFs were fake AIN  - https://razom22.com/neutrality-research/ 
And the figures are based on the IOC decisions - not on the evaluations by Ukrainian NOC or sport ministry.

Right now the situation is absolutely unclear. As usually ))

Some notes:
1. Russians will not reject quotas for 2026 as they did for 2024 in judo and wrestling.
2. AINERP may be more loyal to russians due to the new member - Watanabe. His federation issued AIN status to Melnikova who took part in the primaries of the russian ruling party, had phots with Z and e .t.c.
3. I do not expect a lot of reallocations becaues of the total small number of the rus/blr athletes in qualification events right now.
4. BUT, even with these small numbers we see that FIS allowed to compete several incompliant persons. 
 
 
 
Short notes from the IOC statement before Paris - 2024:
 
1. IOC`s decisions to reject quotas are final.
2. IOC`s decisions to approve quotas are not final - new facts may lead to the rejection of invitation.
3. IOC`s decisions cannot be appealed - NOCs were not invited to the Games, so it is a good will to invite individual athletes... or not
 

russians
Sports Athlete(s) Discipline Possible Reallocation NOC IOC Decision + IF reallocation if happened Figure skating Adeliia PETROSIAN Women's singles Stefania Yakovleva Confirmed by IOC Figure skating Petr GUMENNIK Men's singles Davide Lewton Brain Confirmed by IOC Cross country Dariya NEPRYAEVA * Cross country ?   Pending Cross country Savelii KOROSTELEV * Cross country ?   Pending Speed Skating Kseniia KORZHOVA 3000 m Greta Myers Pending Short Track Alena KRYLOVA 500 m, 1000 m 1500(W)

Pending Short Track Ivan POSASHKOV 1000 m, 1500m 1500(W)

Pending Ski mountaineering Nikita FILIPPOV Sprint ? ? Pending * - the only possible options right now.
 

belorussians
 
 
Sports Athlete(s) Discipline Possible Reallocation NOC IOC Decision + IF reallocation if happened Figure skating Viktoriya SAFONOVA Women's singles Stefania Yakovleva Confirmed by IOC Speed Skating Marina ZUEVA 3000 m 
5000m Greta Myers
Violette Braun
Pending  

Some changes that I've noticed:
 
3x3 Basketball: With the expanded 12 team field, one extra team per gender qualifies through world rankings, one extra team qualifies through the universality driven tournament and there's now an Olympic Qualifier series to award the final quotas.
 
Beach Volleyball: Continental qualifiers have have priority over the World championship and World Rankings quotas and there's now Olympic Qualifier Series quotas.
 
Canoe Sprint: World ranking system now in place and will be used instead of awarding world championship quotas.
 
Road Cycling: 2 nations ranking quotas per gender moved to universality.
 
Track Cycling: Sprint and Keirin ranking list is now combined and will award 14 quotas per gender. Previously it was 7+7. Team pursuit down to 8 quotas from 10. 2 of the quotas have been moved to madison (one additional team) and 6 to the omnium.
 
Fencing: Can get a Continental quota of you finished in the top 24 of the rankings. It was previously top 16. 
 
Hockey: 2 pro league quotas replace two qualification tournament quotas.
 
Judo: 5 less universality places and 4 more Continental places. For men, there's two more spots for Asia, one less for Oceania and 1 more for the Americas. For the women, there's one more spot for Europe, one less for Oceania and two more for Asia.
 
Modern Pentathlon: Less quotas awarded through world rankings as a result of quota cuts.
 
Open Water Swimming: Introduction of world ranking qualifier.
 
Sailing: In general, seems to be more quotas awarded at the last chance regatta and less quotas at the World Championships
 
Shooting: One less quota handed out at each World Championship and the return of World Cup qualifiers.
 
Swimming: Olympic qualification and consideration times renamed to A and B standard. B standard is now 1% slower than the A standard compared to 0.5% in 2024. Stroke 50s have their own direct qualification events and have minimum time standards instead of A and B standards. Qualification times have been nuked again. B standard selection process has also changed.
 
Volleyball: New revised format. Continental championships first, then world championships followed by world rankings. In 2024, it was 3 qualification tournaments and then world rankings. Only 3 countries per gender will qualify by world rankings now compared to 5 in 2024

I note that the World Cup shooting stages are returning to award direct Olympic passes.

Well, I doubt, anyone from U20 will be in the Olympics roster 
 
Also, anyway in this age category every year is different one bad class does not reflect the program. I´ve heard the 2007 class will be quite good, definitely better than 2006 .
 
This is a common issue among second tier hockey nations, for obvious reason we do not have the pool of Canada or USA to have every year a top medal contender team, but time to time each of those nations have one good year which can bring great results.

A lot of the systems are now public!
 
https://www.olympics.com/ioc/documents/olympic-games/los-angeles-2028-olympic-games

@Sindo

So this ended up being correct (reduction from the 1500), which is unfortunate, because the smaller countries pay.

https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontainer/CMS/Corporate-Site/Governance/Transparency/ISU-Communications/2755-OWG-2026-Entry-Quotas-Short-Track-1765370602-8812.pdf

Cambodia quits SEA Games in Thailand amid deadly border clashes
 
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3335854/cambodia-pulls-entire-delegation-sea-games-thailand
 

As every year, it’s time for shoot-out

And this is the final Medal Table fo the XX Bolivarian Games in 
 
 

No single post about persecution of Christians in Africa, especially Nigeria.
Looks like this topic doesn't interest fellow forum members. 
 

wins the last Gold Medal, Gold in Cricket Men, 137 agains 126 of  and  with the bronze.
 
And Cricket Women,  with the gold,  with silver, and  with bronze.

very poor championship...we only won the medal table with 20 medals (9 golds) and the points ranking with almost 200 points advantage over the second ranked team () 
 
try again, and you'll be luckier 

Nel disagio generale a Solitude, l'Italia non conquista il secondo pass nello skimo maschile. Due tra Canclini, Boscacci e Baldini guarderanno i giochi dal divano.
Qualcuno in federazione dovrebbe assumersi le responsabilità di non aver mandato la squadra in Azerbaijan nella scorsa stagione

OK, a  National Championships but still a good race!  
Only 7 Norwegians in the Top 10, so their long tradition of being weaker in freestyle than classic continues.  

The last mixed relay of the qualification period just concluded. Here's a summary of the quotas:
 
Host:
2025 World Championships:
Olympic Mixed Ranking List Continental Quotas:
Olympic Mixed Relay Ranking:

With 48 teams the "group of death" dissapears, now we have groups with only one good team of four......
 
Thanks Infantino.

I am happy to announce a significant extension to the voting deadline. Jury members now have until 21:00 GMT, Friday, December 12th to submit their votes. This adds a full week to the existing deadline so will hopefully ensure anyone struggling with time to get some much needed extra space to listen to the songs and submit their votes  
 
Since the Grand Final won't take place until after the New Year, we have some room to move the deadline to make it easier for everyone to get their votes in

ITTF Mixed Team World Cup happening now...
 
Final 8 (these represent half of the teams who entered, and they are now in a Round Robin):







 
 
Of these and after playing two teams in this round, , , , and  haven't lost a match, and the other four haven't won.  We'll see how the next couple of days play out!   has only lost one game in total.
 
More details here: https://xtresults.ittf.com/teamseventInfo?selectedTab=Stages 1-2 (Groups)&eventId=3263

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