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The quality of my pics will be bad compared to leli's but here are a few from when I was in Ireland last year:

If FIS information is correct, Mexico should have 4 qualified athletes: Sarah Schleper (Women's Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super G & Downhill) Rodolfo Dickson (Men's Slalom & Giant Slalom) German Madrazo (Men's 15km Free Cross Country) Roberto Franco (Men's Ski Slopestyle)

I'll never understand that logic. The Olympics are not just about medals. Sport is not just about the very top, participation is a key factor also. Federations and NOC should care about that too. Besides, it's not like potential medallists are schoolboys that somehow will get deconcentrated by the "bad pupils".

Welcome to our trainwreck. .

I agree. I do at least feel pretty sure that I won't watch matches that Sweden aren't in.

Yeah, but I'm stupid and I can't write it My English is awful

Looks good for . According to this, only one Swiss athlete has reached the internal standards for men's cross.

Stranica Team Serbia ponovo je aktivirana

So Switzerland is in. If they will reject the quota Argentina will complete! @konig

Updated whit Nordic combined quotas. I want say a big thanks to @stamura84 for this updated and for the future update

look at coni's website (the dedicated microsite for Pyeongchang)... just click on the "Azzurri" list and you have the names for all the disciplines...some of them are already official, some others need confirmation in the next few days... but you can see from now that we're going to send at best 21 alpine skiers (to be chosen among those in that list)... in Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined at the moment there are still the full teams, but I don't think they will send all of them to Korea...actually, I hope they won't waste so much money)... imho, they should give the green light only to those athletes that can at least make the top 15 (and have actually made at least twice the top 8 in this season)... the remaining money should be saved for developing the skills and experience of the most successful youngsters, already looking ahead to Beijing 2022, rather than making some gifts of a paid holiday to a bunch of "capre, capre, capre" (cit. Vittorio Sgarbi )...

Albania have withdrawn from holding the 2018 European Championships because the entire board of the weightlifting federation has resigned because of the scandal of the positive drug test by Romola Begaj at the World Championships.

Again an update today. A big thanks to @Bearas @dcro Halfipe -1 +1 Skicross -1 +1 I mistake to ping dcro, from the mobile I can't remove it. So, thanks for something that you will do in the future

According to the Hungarian article: Short track: Bácskai Sára Luca, Heidum Bernadett, Jászapáti Petra, Keszler Andrea, Kónya Zsófia, Burján Csaba, Knoch Viktor, Liu Shaoang, Liu Shaolin Sándor, Oláh Bence (10) Speed skating: Nagy Konrád Figure skating: Tóth Ivett Alpine skiing: Hozmann Szonja + 1 from the men, to be determined by the Ski federation this week (either Samsal Dalibor, Kékesi Márton or Nagy Bence) Cross country: Kónya Ádám, Szőcs Emőke

Dont know if it was posted earlier: Hungarian team: 16, according to Hungary"s M4 Sport. Most of it is in short track speed skating (in which they have a real medal chance for the first time in 30+ years, all WOG sports considered...)

Hope they will do more races in Lillehammer in the future. More variance in the top3 nationalities is more than welcome ::D Hopefully one day Formula 1 will also look like this race. Otherwise it is like a normal luge race: Germany-Germany-Germany-Germany (errr, Mercedes-Mercedes-Mercedes-Mercedes :D)

Some more... Shannon-Ogbani Abeda (alpine skiing) http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2018/01/03/mcmurray-born-skiier-first-to-represent-eritrea-at-winter-olympics Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander (alpine skiing) http://elpaisonline.com/index.php/2013-01-15-14-16-26/campeon/item/279488-bolivia-asistira-a-jugos-olimpicos-de-invierno

Sarah Schleper https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/21/vails-sarah-schleper-gears-up-fifth-olympics/

I really don't understand why reject a quota... What stupid decision. Luckily in Italy all athletes that have a quota are sure to go at Olympics

Roberto Franco is probably the best athlete Mexico has ever sent to the winter games, FWIW. Schleper is probably the second best (and apparently she is quite involved in training young Mexican alpine skiers).

Anna Veith https://derstandard.at/2000072759638/Anna-Veith-Fahnentraegerin-bei-Winterspielen-in-Suedkorea

Later today (16:00 Eastern time)

Dutch decline everything in alpine skiing. Did not see that coming.

Jedva cekam da Maja ne pobede i napravi skandal kako je sve namesteno

Zar Dusan Svilar jos peva? Ja sam mislio da je odavno odustao.

On what basis would you decline any quota? Isn't participating at the OG alone worth something anymore?

So the marathon of confirming the quotas started. Sill a long way to go, but we already have some rejections: Ski Cross: rejected one female spot. It should go to Halfpipe: rejected one male spot. It should go to

I add only 30 quotas and not 37 for Canada and 31 for USA

Victor Santos will represent Brazil in the men's cross-country It was already more or less certain, but after Leandro Lutz' last-ditch attempt in Turkey didn't work out, it was confirmed. They celebrated with a good pizza dinner in Livigno (ITA) yesterday, and rightly so, going from the favelas to the Olympics in 3-4 years is a performance to be incredibly proud of

But isn't this what you've always wanted? Close matches that last for as long as possible?

https://www.blic.rs/zabava/vesti/ekskluzivno-otkrivamo-imena-ucesnika-beovizije-koji-ce-se-boriti-da-predstavljaju/yelf4n5 Beti Djordjevic, Leo Martin? Sta je ovo? 1980.?

Update whit freestyle quotas.

Meni je drago sto nisu na spisku!!! Treba uvesti mlade polako na seniorska takmicenja jer sam ja vec otpisao Sebica, Pletikosica a narocito Ivanu!!

Update whit the official teams (:LTU and :CZE). From now the official teams are in geen

and first player from Korea in GS 1/4

https://twitter.com/jamie_murray/status/955387302775320576 This! I agree with Jamie 100%. Amazing. He really looks like Novak in best days.

No way, your pics are really good!

Ah, he lost 4th set tie-break.... Meanwhile, Chung won first set against Djokovic, 7-6 Great matches this season in Melbourne

Ice hockey, and not Bandy WTF, man ? What the hell with this kid's game? These "games" are a yankee plot anyway, the Nordic Games will prevail. Can't wait for the 2026 Games Real sports for real men. EDIT: lol @ "2026". What century do I think I'm living in I obviously meant the 1926 Nordic Games.

Commentator said like 5 times that the only way for both Czech crews to qualify for 2nd heat is if they tie for 20th place. And guess what happened? They tied.

Team Canada Skip: Rachel Homan Lead: Lisa Weagle Second: Joanne Courtney Third: Emma Miskew Alternate: Cheryl Bernard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team China Skip: Wang Bingyu Lead: Ma Jingyi Second: Liu Jinli Third: Zhou Yan Alternate: Jiang Xindi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Denmark Skip: Madeleine Dupont Lead: Mathilde Halse Second: Julie Hoegh Third: Denise Dupont Alternate: Lina Almind Knudsen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Great Britain Skip: Eve Muirhead Lead: Lauren Gray Second: Vicki Adams Third: Anna Sloan Alternate: Kelly Schafer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Japan Skip: Satsuki Fujisawa Lead: Yurika Yoshida Second: Mari Motohashi Third: Chinami Yoshida Alternate: Yumi Suzuki ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Olympic Athletes from Russia Skip: Victoria Moiseeva* Lead: Julia Guzieva* Second: Galina Arsenkina* Third: Uliana Vasileva* Alternate: Julia Portunova* * subject to International Olympic Committee approval ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team South Korea Skip: Kim Eun-Jung Lead: Kim Yeong-Mi Second: Kim Yeon-Seong Third: Kim Kyeong-Ae Alternate: Kim Cho-Hi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Sweden Skip: Anna Hasselborg Lead: Sofia Mabergs Second: Agnes Knochenhauer Third: Sara McManus Alternate: Jennie Wahlin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Switzerland Skip: Silvana Tirinzoni Lead: Marlene Albrecht Second: Esther Neuenschwander Third: Manuela Siegrist Alternate: Jenny Perret ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team United States Skip: Nina Roth Lead: Becca Hamilton Second: Aileen Geving Third: Tabitha Peterson Alternate: Cory Christensen

Currently it doesn't seem that anyone wants to give up a spot in women's halfpipe which is a tragedy since first country for rellocation is

For fuck's sake, that's where it's becoming so horribly stupid that the qualifying document says "Unapplicable" under the reallocation of unused quota. What will happen with those two quota I wonder..

Charles Davis - Shooting - 1972 Olympics - Died 10 January Jerzy Gros - Athletics - 1976 Olympics - Died 17 January Eric Luoma - XC Skiing - 1964 Olympics - Died 16 January John Pierik - Shooting - 1980/1984 Olympics - Died 14 January Rody Rijnders - Rowing - 1968 Olympics - Died 15 January Olympic silver medallist Aristidis Robianis - Athletics and Basketball - 1952 Olympics - Died 13 January Wojtech Rydz - Rowing - 1952 Olympics - Died 8 January

Carla Marangoni - Gymnastics - 1928 Olympics(!)- Died 18 January Olympic silver medallist. Last survivor of Amsterdam Olympics. Was oldest living Olympic medallist and lived 89 years after her Olympic appearance

Carla Marangoni has died at age 102. She was the oldest living Olympic medallist (silver medal in gymnastics in 1928) http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport-Vari/Ginnastica/19-01-2018/ginnastica-addio-carla-marangoni-102-anni-medaglia-olimpica-piu-antica-2401010803899.shtml