Team Size Prediction for Winter Olympic Games 2026 Milano Cortina
Let's do this for a country that is not actually that good in winter sports as well as our Olympic Committee Declining lots of places. In Beijing we had 7 quotas and used 2
(also I am a very optimistic person in relation to sport in general and always hope for the best. )
Ski Sports
Alpine Skiing (2) - Emilija Djurović and Aleksa Tomović
Cross Country Skiing (2) - Anja Ilić (the olympic committee cancelled her participation just before Bejing) and Andrija Tošić
Ski Jumping (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Nordic Combined (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Freestyle Skiing (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Snowboarding (1) - Matija Milenković
Biathlon (2) - We had two juniors at the YOG 2024, maybe they can get better, I will be optimistic
(Lamija Salihagić and/or Hanna Jelena Braun)
Ski Mountaineering (0) - I don't think it will be existing
Skating Sports
Speed Skating (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Short Track Speed Skating (1) - Out first EYOF winter medal in a long time came from Luka Jašić
Figure Skating (0) - Maybe we will have a good junior come
Sleigh Sports
Luge (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Skeleton (1) - We had two juniors at the YOG 2024, maybe they can get better, I will be optimistic
Bobsleigh (0) - Not existent anymore
Team Sports
Curling (0) - Basically not existent in Serbia
Ice Hockey (0) - Qualifier for women's team cancelled, and mens team eliminated
Total VERY Optimistic Prediction - (9)
Total Pessimistic Prediction - (3)
Total Realistic Prediction - (3)
I remember Caroline Golubitsky. She competed with Vezzali for a while but not for long. Rita Konig, whom Vezzali defeated in the final of the Olympic Games in 2000, was more famous, as well as Sabine Bau and Anja Mueller. From what I remember, the Germans competed fiercely with us at some point, but they almost always lost.
Shemyakina won a bronze medal in 2014 Worlds and was one of our leader but leave the squad due to pregnancy (she has 2 daughters if I'm not mistaking, so she chose family instead of sport). And speaking of foil we have back in the day Sergiy Golubitskyi, who was Olympic silver medalist and won some medals in other competitions and coached his wife Caroline Golubitskyi - one of the German foil specialists. Even in women's foil we had medal in Women's foil at the European championship - it was Olha Leleiko, our current national coach. So no, we are pretty good fencing country, and depending on generations of our athletes some events are more "profitable" for us and some don't.
Shemyakina that was a very strange story. She unexpectedly won the games but before and after she literally achieved nothing. After that success in 2012 she also completely disappeared. It's only in epee that such strange situations. That's why I've always preferred foil and sabre, because the top was more stable there, although that's changing now. The competition has grown a lot all over the world.
Sinner probably won't play in another edition of the Davis Cup. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Next season, Wimbledon and maybe Paris should be the goal.
No, our epee was good always, we have Shemyakina, who was Olympic Champion in 2012, Reizlin with bronze in 2020, medalists of Worlds like Kryvytska (who is our finisher today), Svichkar (who is our finisher in men's side) and Stankevych, European champion Kharkova, medals in other conpetitions from men's team epee who were one of the main contenders in Tokyo, but unfortunately failed to take a medal.
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