No, in both cases the United States will qualify and the Pan American quota will go to the world qualifiers

2754-OWG-2026-qualified-Teams-for-Team-event-1765354454-3134.pdf   ISU confirmed the countries for the Olympic quotas for the team event. It confirms that Korea and Poland will field entries in 3/4 of the disciplines.   Really stupid imo. Either just have the team event with 8 teams or give them the necessary quotas. Imagine running a 4x100m relay but you have to stop after the 3rd runner finishes.

Three straight steals and it's 4-2  over  at the break, China with hammer.   A few misses by the back end of the Chinese team is all that's differentiated the two teams. 

Halfway through the - men's match.  US has had 3 straight steals and leads 4-2 after 5 ends.  Some bad luck by China, but otherwise they seem to be making more mistakes than the Americans

After reading the qualification system document and assuming Argentina (M or W) takes a pro league quota, then:    Case a: if USA wins pan american tournament and ARG finishes 2nd, then 3rd placed team doesn't take the continental quota. It's reallocated to world qualifiers.   Case b: if ARG wins pan american tournament and USA finishes 2nd, then 3rd placed does take the quota.     Did I understand correctly?  Honestly don't know why FIH wanted a different criteria for these two cases.

Maybe I am remembering from Tokyo, but distinctly remember team events having a minimum 3 continent rule

OK, weird format for the Park City World Cup coming up this weekend.  All First Runs will be held on Friday, but the Singles Second Runs and the Team Relay will be on Saturday.   Friday 12 December 10:00 (18:00) Nations Cup (not televised) 15:10 (23:10) Men’s Singles, 1st run 16:35 (00:25) Women’s Singles, 1st run 18:00 (02:00) Men’s Doubles, 1st run 18:50 (02:50) Women’s Doubles, 1st run 19:45 (03:45) Men’s Doubles, 2nd run 20:25 (04:25) Women’s Doubles, 2nd run   Saturday, 13 December 2025 16:15 (00:15) Men’s Singles, 2nd run 17:20 (01:20) Women’s Singles, 2nd run 19:00 (03:00) Team Relay (12 teams)    

Information about the Alpine Luge (ie the sport formerly known as Natural Track Luge) season right here.  First event will be 19-21 December.      fil-luge.org/en/news/fil-alpine-luge-world-cup-set-to-launch

Too bad for 

Come on ! You've beaten  once, now do it again!  We'll see! Congrats to !