Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[evil betty 88]

So official lists came out and monobob was strange.  The first six countries were qualified from combined rankings, and then the next four were from the 2woman rankings, not combined. I can see the logic, but I never would have predicted that was what they meant.  

So GBR is in when they only raced monobob twice all season, and Italy is out (for now).

[Vic Liu 1,701]

Official quota allocation list:

 

2-man:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_2-man_Bobsleigh.pdf

 

4-man:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_4-man_Bobsleigh.pdf

 

2-woman and women's monobob:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_2-woman_and_Womens_Monobob.pdf

[NearPup 4,136]

Team USA

 

Men

Pilots: Hunter Church, Frank Del Duca

Push athletes: Hakeem Abdul Saboor, Kris Horn, Jimmy Reed, Carlo Valdes, Charlie Volker, Josh Williamson

 

Women

Pilots: Kaillie Humphries, Elena Mayers Taylor

Push athletes: Lauren Gibbs, Aja Evans

[dcro 10,210]

Aaaaand that's a wrap for us. Dutch NOC waived their rules and selected Ivo de Bruin anyways.

 

But apparently just for the 4-man? I guess to make sure we became reserves #1 for both events. How wonderful.

[NearPup 4,136]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Aaaaand that's a wrap for us. Dutch NOC waived their rules and selected Ivo de Bruin anyways.

 

But apparently just for the 4-man? I guess to make sure we became reserves #1 for both events. How wonderful.

Croatia had some rotten luck this year

[intoronto 6,850]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Aaaaand that's a wrap for us. Dutch NOC waived their rules and selected Ivo de Bruin anyways.

 

But apparently just for the 4-man? I guess to make sure we became reserves #1 for both events. How wonderful.

jfc.... 

 

they must be reading our posts and said "lets troll the Croatians" lmao

[Dunadan 1,103]

What is the Dutch NOC doing this time, sending 10 people across several sports with no chance of medals? Is that because they've already been forced to book a chartered flight and they need to fill the seats? 

[intoronto 6,850]

6 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

What is the Dutch NOC doing this time, sending 10 people across several sports with no chance of medals? Is that because they've already been forced to book a chartered flight and they need to fill the seats? 

I believe they are being relaxed with the standards due to Covid-19

[NearPup 4,136]

Just realized that it's probably good for Canada that is sending their four man team, given Ivo de Bruin is the husband of driver Christine de Bruin. Only way to get family to come along xD

[Dennis 845]

I'm as shocked as everyone else here, haha 

 

Dutch news reports that both the 4-man and 2-man team are allowed to start though.