Forecasting the possibility of Vietnamese Sports completing the number of spots for the 2024 Olympics

Pressure with targets

Preparing for the Olympic qualifying tournaments, Vietnamese sports set an initial target of 15 to 18 official spots for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The maximum number set to strive for 18 such Olympic spots partly comes from Vietnamese sports once had 18 athletes attending the Tokyo Olympics (Japan) 2020. After that, the target was adjusted to strive to win from 12 to 15 official spots at the 2024 Olympics to match the actual force as well as from forecasting disputes of national sports teams.

Up to this point, through Olympic qualifying tournaments, Vietnamese sports have been officially recognized as having 8 spots for the 2024 Paris Olympics, including 2 shooting spots (Trinh Thu Vinh, Le Thi Mong Tuyen), 1 spot for the 2024 Paris Olympics. cycling (Nguyen Thi That), 1 swimming (Nguyen Huy Hoang), 1 weightlifting (Trinh Van Vinh), 1 boxing (Vo Thi Kim Anh), 1 canoeing (Nguyen Thi Huong), 1 rowing ( Pham Thi Hue). If nothing changes, the badminton department (Department of Sports) predicts that immediately after the end of the Olympic scoring competition program of the BWF World Badminton Federation on April 28, we will definitely have a official performance by Nguyen Thuy Linh and waiting for another performance by Le Duc Phat. Vietnamese sports has firmly secured 9 spots to attend the Paris Olympics.

We will have many remaining Olympic qualifiers including athletics, judo, wrestling, fencing, boxing, archery, table tennis, and gymnastics. But winning 3 more official spots to go to France is still very difficult.

Forecasting expected faces

The wrestling team had two players, Nguyen Thi Xuan and Nguyen Thi My Hanh, participate in the qualifying tournament in Asia but failed and in May they had to compete in the final round of the world qualifying round. If they lose again, the Vietnamese wrestling team will not be able to attend the Olympics in France this year.

The judo team with Chu Duc Dat, Nguyen Ngoc Diem Phuong, Hoang Thi Tinh has competed in consecutive international tournaments since the Lunar New Year until now, but has lost more times than won. At the recent 2024 Asian Judo Championship (closing on April 22), all three boxers soon stopped at their weight class. Vietnamese judo fighters are still waiting to accumulate more points to ensure their ranking in the safe group to receive a spot in Paris.

In athletics, the women’s 4x400m relay is expected to gain an official spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but the World Athletics Federation only takes the 16 teams with the best results on the rankings (based on competition results). international competition).

The Vietnamese women’s 4x400m relay team is currently in 28th place. Meanwhile, the coaching staff of the fencing and archery teams share the opportunity to compete for an Olympic spot in the qualifying tournament, which is quite difficult, so each player must work hard. highest force.