yes, basically they had 2 separate rankings for those who did race on the red course and those who did race on the blue course...
the top 8 in each of those 2 rankings would qualify for the knockout stage (crossing format: 1st red vs 8th blue and so on, with the faster of the 2 skiers of each pairing entitled to choose the course in the next stage)...
Well the curious thing is, not that 8 qualified from each course. The curious thing is, that the Final will be on a complete different course than the qualifying.
Calm down, calm down. On the FIS website there's now a document saying 'Results qualification race'. For the parallel event in Lech, there was a document 'Results qualification run' and (later!) came another document 'Results elimination run'.
So I think we can assume the qualification run is indeed completed, but the second run is called elimination run and comes later.
There will be definitely no second run ... Inspection for the final is already at 12:30 and they have to switch the slope
The men could not race there second run at 12:00 and be already at the inspection 30 minutes later.
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It seems to be an advantage, to have the blue course in the first run and the red run in the second.
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