Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 Qualification Systems Road to Milano-Cortina 2026

[intoronto 5,638]

25 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Why did they need to remove anything? I don’t remember any quota reductions for figure skating.

ISU overall had a quota reduction of 4, 2 in FS and 2 in SS

 

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Document Library/OlympicOrg/Games/Winter-Games/Games-Beijing-2022-Winter-Olympic-Games/Sports-programme/Beijing-2022-Event-Programme-ENG.pdf

 

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Milano-Cortina-2026/Milano-Cortina-2026-Event-Programme-and-Athlete-Quota.pdf

Edited July 25, 2023 by intoronto

[mrv86 3,138]

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

ISU overall had a quota reduction of 4, 2 in FS and 2 in SS

 

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Document Library/OlympicOrg/Games/Winter-Games/Games-Beijing-2022-Winter-Olympic-Games/Sports-programme/Beijing-2022-Event-Programme-ENG.pdf

 

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Milano-Cortina-2026/Milano-Cortina-2026-Event-Programme-and-Athlete-Quota.pdf

And the stupidity began… just reduce the hotel stars the IOC members require to hook up with prostitutes, and costs should reduce 30% or more

Edited July 25, 2023 by mrv86

[intoronto 5,638]

Speed skating

 

The three shortest distances lose 2 quotas each.

[heywoodu 15,135]

The slightly updated qualification system for cross-country skiing has been doing the rounds amongst athletes, but I can't find it online anywhere yet (like on FIS' website), any idea where to look?

 

Don't have it at hand right now, but I believe the main thing in terms of eligibility for athletes is being under 300 (men) or under 350 (women) FIS points at the 2025 world championships, which I think is a change specifically for the women.

 

There's been massive discussion about this system for a while now, especially about the eligibility only coming from a single event (like, you qualify at the world championships or not at all).

[intoronto 5,638]

Cross Country skiing, change from 300 to now 350 FIS points as the max. Though the paragraph says 300, the chart shows 350  No change in quota

Freestyle skiing: No change in quotas

Hockey

Luge: Each singles event loses 10! quotas and the men's doubles loses a sled. This creates an additional 22 quotas, which will be used for the women's doubles event. 

Nordic combined max number of athletes per NOC dropped from 5 to 3 (2 really)

Ski jumping: Quota is gender equal (65 men to 50 men from 2022 to 2026, and 45 women in 2022 to 50 women in 2026). For men's a country must have 4 skiers in the top 25 allocation list to qualify the maximum 4 jumpers.

Snowboarding: Quotas remain the same from Beijing, but the number per NOC drops to max 13 per gender (from 14). Also it looks like a country can enter 3 SBX teams, I believe it was 2 in 2022.

 

All the systems (except alpine skiing) are now available on the IOC's website.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Alpine skiing qualification system was approved today: Link

 

There were no changes to the overall quota from 2022, but there was a pretty significant change in the FIS Points needed to qualify in Giant Slalom and Slalom…

 

2022: 160.00 
2026: 120.00
 

It will be interesting to see how this affects overall participation at the Games.
 

NOCs will be allowed a maximum of 4 teams per gender in the combined events.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

It looks two-man bobsleigh will go from 30 to 28 sleds for 2026, unless I’m reading the qualification system wrong: https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Milano-Cortina-2026/qualification-system/Qualification-System-for-Bobsleigh.pdf#_ga=2.224973466.1211644203.1701366838-1218356110.1681323134