hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 #1 Share Posted November 13, 2016 heywoodu and ahjfcshfghb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 Author #2 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Debuting Nations Nations which have never participated in any Winter Olympic Games and will make their debut in PyeongChang 2018 Ecuador Eritrea Kosovo Malaysia Nigeria Singapore Coming Back Nations Nations which have already participated in a Winter Olympic Games edition but did not participate in Sochi 2014 Bolivia Colombia Ghana Kenya Madagascar North Korea Puerto Rico South Africa Returning Nations Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 and will participate also in PyeongChang 2018 Albania Andorra Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bermuda Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Chinese Taipei Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Timor Leste Togo Tonga Turkey Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Missing Nations Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 but will not participate in PyeongChang 2018 British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Dominica Nepal Paraguay Peru Tajikistan Venezuela Virgin Islands Zimbabwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Any picks for a debuting nation and sport ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted November 13, 2016 #4 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) Bolivia is surely a safe returning country. Their skier is very much focused on competing it seems. Kenya should be there too in alpine skiing. Edited November 13, 2016 by dcro #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 Author #5 Share Posted November 13, 2016 3 minutes ago, dcro said: Bolivia is surely a safe returning country. Their skier is very much focused on competing it seems. Kenya should be there too in alpine skiing. That would be amazing for our Bolivian friend, going to follow all his qualification period, but I think yeah, he will manage to qualify and return his country for the winter games also I wonder if South Africa will remains in their harsh qualifying standards also for the winter games ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 Author #6 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Also hope the cross country skier will qualify this time, If I remember correctly he did qualify for Sochi but Algerian Olympic Comittee refused to send him, If I´m not wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted November 13, 2016 #7 Share Posted November 13, 2016 5 minutes ago, hckosice said: That would be amazing for our Bolivian friend, going to follow all his qualification period, but I think yeah, he will manage to qualify and return his country for the winter games also I wonder if South Africa will remains in their harsh qualifying standards also for the winter games ? I think they will, they actually were allowed to enter a skier for Sochi but they denied the possibility. Btw, Malaysia has a very good chance to make debut, they have one very good figure skater. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,226 Posted November 13, 2016 #8 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) Costa Rica - Andreas Hamm, a freestyle skier has a semi-decent shot at qualifying Afghanistan - Afghanistan has a couple alpine skiers seeking qualification, more of their abilities will be seen at the Asian Winter Games next year Uganda - Uganda has a snowboarder currently chasing qualification in slopestyle. Might be a bit of a longshot at this point Eritrea - Shannon Abeda, a Canadian born alpine skier, who competed in 2012 at the Youth Olympics. He was very close to qualifying in 2014, but just missed the cut. He should qualify this time around Colombia - Their speed skating team should qualify at least one athlete, and their Youth Olympian from 2016 in alpine skiing should qualify Ecuador - They have a CC skier, who is at this point a bit of a long shot, but you never know Ghana - Ghana has a skeleton athlete who is originally Dutch, and is just outside the qualification range, but anything is literally possible South Africa - This time hopefully Slive Spleeman gets to go! He qualified but the Olympic Committee rejected the quota. There is also a Swedish born snowboarder who has a semi decent shot of qualifying. North Korea - This is a mystery. Their athletes usually come out of nowhere to do well in most sports. Speed skating/figure skating remain a possibility for them. Trinidad and Tobago - Another skier (cross country) with Canadian roots, is within striking distance of qualifying. Singapore - long shot in short track speed skating I didn't include Puerto Rico, because they will reject the quota(s). they earn. Of the 2014 list, British Virgin Islands (hasn't competed since 2014), Zimbabwe (hasn't competed in a while), Tajikistan (no athletes currently competing at the qualification level), Dominica (no athletes) and Nepal (retired) are in threat of not qualifying Edited December 12, 2016 by intoronto hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff88 1,735 Posted November 13, 2016 #9 Share Posted November 13, 2016 will send its hockey team! Well, we're debuting in Asian Winter Games in 2017. If everything goes right, we will have represetatives in Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, and Speed skating. hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,240 Posted November 13, 2016 Author #10 Share Posted November 13, 2016 20 minutes ago, intoronto said: Costa Rica - Andreas Hamm, a freestyle skier has a semi-decent shot at qualifying Afghanistan - Afghanistan has a couple alpine skiers seeking qualification, more of their abilities will be seen at the Asian Winter Games next year Uganda - Uganda has a snowboarder currently chasing qualification in slopestyle. Might be a bit of a longshot at this point Eritrea - Shannon Abeda, a Canadian born alpine skier, who competed in 2012 at the Youth Olympics. He was very close to qualifying in 2014, but just missed the cut. He should qualify this time around Colombia - Their speed skating team should qualify at least one athlete, and their Youth Olympian from 2016 in alpine skiing should qualify Ecuador - They have a CC skier, who is at this point a bit of a long shot, but you never know Ghana - Ghana has a skeleton athlete who is originally Dutch, and is just outside the qualification range, but anything is literally possible South Africa - This time hopefully Slive Spleeman gets to go! He qualified but the Olympic Committee rejected the quota. There is also a Swedish born snowboarder who has a semi decent shot of qualifying. North Korea - This is a mystery. Their athletes usually come out of nowhere to do well in most sports. Speed skating/figure skating remain a possibility for them. Trinidad and Tobago - Another skier (cross country) with Canadian roots, is within striking distance of qualifying. Singapore - long shot in short track speed skating I didn't include Puerto Rico, because they will reject the quota(s). they earn. Of the 2014 list, British Virgin Islands (hasn't competed since 2014), Zimbabwe (hasn't competed in a while), Tajikistan (no athletes currently competing at the qualification level), Dominica (not athletes) and Nepal (retired) are in threat of not qualifying THANK YOU !!! PS do you know something more about the skier ? intoronto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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