Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024

[Olympian1010 7,971]

On 1/8/2024 at 6:18 AM, Dragon said:

Do we know how many people will compete in Gangwon who previously competed at the Beijing Games 2 years ago?

I had some time, and so I looked through the current entries (of course, athletes can still withdraw/DNS from events). There are two athletes who competed in Beijing 2022 before competing at Gangwon 2024.

 

Ski Jumping - Anezka Indrackova  (30th in 2022)

 

Snowboard - Lee Chaeun  (18th in halfpipe 2022)

 

NOTE: I checked the entries against an archived version of the Beijing 2022 results system, so mistakes are possible.

Edited January 18 by Olympian1010

[Olympian1010 7,971]

I was reading the "Competition Rules and Format" report for biathlon, and I noticed an interesting quota limitation. NOCs will be allowed to enter four athletes per gender in the Individual, but only two in the sprint. I have no idea why the IBU and/or IOC made that decision, but the document is very clear about it @heywoodu @RobtheAggie

[hckošice 14,807]

18 girls in Ski Jumping Training 1 and 16 in Training 2 finished with 0 points and Comazzi of ITA ahead of them in 15th place with epochal 0.9 points https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/ski-jumping/results-women-s-normal-hill-training-trno-0100sj-.htm

Edited January 18 by hckošice

[RobtheAggie 340]

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I was reading the "Competition Rules and Format" report for biathlon, and I noticed an interesting quota limitation. NOCs will be allowed to enter four athletes per gender in the Individual, but only two in the sprint. I have no idea why the IBU and/or IOC made that decision, but the document is very clear about it @heywoodu @RobtheAggie

That is a really odd rule.  The start list should be very interesting to look at. 

[heywoodu 15,124]

8 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I was reading the "Competition Rules and Format" report for biathlon, and I noticed an interesting quota limitation. NOCs will be allowed to enter four athletes per gender in the Individual, but only two in the sprint. I have no idea why the IBU and/or IOC made that decision, but the document is very clear about it @heywoodu @RobtheAggie

That is just really odd indeed. Normally the individual is the event where some exotic athletes don't take part, because it's simply quite long, and so the sprints usually have more athletes. But if this goes even for the top nations, only two athletes per gender in the sprint really devalues the entire competition, that would just be....well, nonsense.

[heywoodu 15,124]

Meanwhile on the sliding track, it looks more and more like the women's monobob is indeed going to be the least open competition of all: Maja Voigt  definitely looks like she's going to run away with this, as one would have expected beforehand.

 

And Latvia is still very much on course for at least 3-4 skeleton medals, where 2 golds + 2-3 other medals wouldn't even be surprising at all. Super strong team!

Edited January 18 by heywoodu

[intoronto 5,630]

I predict Canada will probably win just one gold here. But let's see.

[hckošice 14,807]

Opening Ceremony Flag bearers 

 

Tamara Mesíková (Ski Jumping) & Michal Adamov (Biathlon & Cross-Country Skiing)

 

Edited January 18 by hckošice

[Olympian1010 7,971]

I like that the sliding athletes are given a gratuitous amount training runs. The YOG is meant to be a bit of a learning/familiarization experience after all.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

It's kind of assuming that there will be three "dead" events on the alpine skiing program