Winter Olympic Games 2018 Debuting, Coming Back, Returning and Missing Nations

[intoronto 4,202]

 in slopestyle freestyle. Long shot to qualify.

[intoronto 4,202]

 

 

Have all officially qualified for Pyeongchang in alpine skiing (however if they will send these athletes is another question in itself). 

Edited January 22, 2017 by intoronto

[ahjfcshfghb 285]

Just an update on Puerto Rico  

Emailed the ski federation and they said:

Thank you for your e-mail.

At this time, it is unlikely that we will be sending any athletes to the OWG in 2018; however, that situation may change in the coming months.

It has to do with the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee’s staunch refusal to send any athletes to the OWG since 2002, when certain members of our bobsled team were determined to be ineligible to participate for Puerto Rico. We are working to resolve this issue, as the people responsible for that scandal have not been involved with winter sports in Puerto Rico for many years.

So maybe a ray of hope there.

Edited January 23, 2017 by ahjfcshfghb

[ahjfcshfghb 285]

Also emailed a few other federations, South Africa said "there are 4 athletes trying to qualify, it is up to us to decide who to send", Tonga said "they are working tirelessly to get the athletes there", Tajikistan said "yes of course we will send our athletes" (even though none are qualified) and the guy from Nepal asked "Do you have any suggestions?" 

[dcro 10,179]

1 hour ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Also emailed a few other federations, South Africa said "there are 4 athletes trying to qualify, it is up to us to decide who to send", Tonga said "they are working tirelessly to get the athletes there", Tajikistan said "yes of course we will send our athletes" (even though none are qualified) and the guy from Nepal asked "Do you have any suggestions?" 

 

Cool

 

I suppose that Tajikistan will eventually send some skiers to FIS races in Russia or Turkey. Just don't know if they will be good enough.

[ahjfcshfghb 285]

14 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Cool

 

I suppose that Tajikistan will eventually send some skiers to FIS races in Russia or Turkey. Just don't know if they will be good enough.

We'll see at the Asian Winter Games, I guess.

The Afghans are going to compete at the World Championships, by the way. They raced in FIS races though and they're about 300 points behind the target. 

Never say never?

[heywoodu 13,540]

29 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

We'll see at the Asian Winter Games, I guess.

The Afghans are going to compete at the World Championships, by the way. They raced in FIS races though and they're about 300 points behind the target. 

Never say never?

The Afghans will also participate in the upcoming Winter Universiade, as their guy wrote to me when I e-mailed them about the Universiade  (he also sent me 'warm greetings from Afghanistan, dear friend', so, go Afghanistan!) 

[ahjfcshfghb 285]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The Afghans will also participate in the upcoming Winter Universiade, as their guy wrote to me when I e-mailed them about the Universiade  (he also sent me 'warm greetings from Afghanistan, dear friend', so, go Afghanistan!) 

Looks like they will  have women skiiers there 

http://astanatimes.com/2016/03/afghanistan-confirms-participation-in-winter-universiade-2017/

[heywoodu 13,540]

2 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Looks like they will  have women skiiers there 

http://astanatimes.com/2016/03/afghanistan-confirms-participation-in-winter-universiade-2017/

Nice  

 

It's about time someone opens a thread for the Winter Universiade I suppose 

[dcro 10,179]

3 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

We'll see at the Asian Winter Games, I guess.

The Afghans are going to compete at the World Championships, by the way. They raced in FIS races though and they're about 300 points behind the target. 

Never say never?

 

Being 300 points behind the target really suggests that they don't have any chance (at least those two who competed so far). That's unless they qualify in some bogus races like Vanessa Mae.