Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Team Sizes Road to Milano Cortina 2026

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3 hours ago, Bailer said:

I really hope Nordic Combined doesn't get scrapped. Actually, I believe the Winter Olympics should keep growing with new sports and disciplines (3x3 Hockey, Ice Cross, Speed Skiing, Ice Climbing), otherwise they won't feel like a true celebration of sports like their summer counterpart.

I'm not quite sure why the IOC is so hung up on the athlete quotas for the winter Olympics, they never got as out of hand as the summer games did. But they are. 

 

Not quite sure what the political machinations are, maybe NC is just the black sheep of FIS for some reason, but they've been on the chopping block for a long time now, and haven't seemed to take the warnings and act on them. Money wise, there is no reason to boot it, they make use of other required facilities and don't really crimp their scheduling. 

[Josh 11,680]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

In fact, well, no. Hockey is extremely physically demanding, I even think it is the most physically demanding winter sport of all.

I mean keeping more than a minute on ice is just cardiac. The shifts are there for a reason.

 

25 players rosters are absolutely justified. You must have 4 lines to keep the stamina the whole game.

 

Hard to persuade people who never watched hockey though, I can understand your point, but sadly, the point is wrong

Having played hockey for many years of my childhood, completely agree. 
 

Each shift is absolute torture and playing 20 minutes instead of let’s say 25 makes a real difference to my level of freshness, whether it’s during the ongoing game or later games in a tournament. Same for NHL players. 

Edited 11 hours ago by Josh

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12 hours ago, Federer91 said:

I'll jump on the off-topic with an unpopular opinion - ice hockey isn't so stamina demanding to justify 25 people rosters. And it doesn't have big playing fields like football or rugby for example, where you'd require so many reserves. 15 field players + 3 goalies should be good. Or 18+3 at max. But 25 is too much imo and the constant substitutes are too much as well.

If it was 21 then they would still need 4 people accredited as injury replacement. And I don’t think it’s useful to play those games where you keep the roster size artificially small but you allow replacements in emergencies.

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I'm a bit confused about Germany. The Team Deutschland website says they are sending 12 cross-country skiers to the Olympics but on the FIS website, it shows that they accepted 13 quotas.

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we have 9 athletes 

 

Alpine skiing (2) 

 

(M) Barnabás Szőllős

(W) Noa Szőllős

 

Bobsled (4) (first time we qualified ) 

(M) Aj Edelman

(M) Chen menachem 

(M) Ward fawarsy (from what I know the first ever druze Olympian (not including the paralympics))

(M) Omer Katz 

 

Cross country skiing (1) (first time we have representatives) 

(M) Attila Mihály Kertész

 

Figure skating (1) ( usually our only noteworthy team,but this is our smallest team in the sport since 94 and not even the best event for the team (who is the men) ) 

 

(W) Mariia Seniuk

 

 

Skeleton (1) 

(M) Jared Firestone 

 

 

 

 

This winter Olympics is so weird here, like, half the sports we have representatives we did not have last time, and we have more different sports then all other winter games ever, but unless we will have a huge surprise this will not have any noteworthy results, even top 10 or 15 are a stretch 

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 Australia - 53 athletes

 

Alpine Skiing - 3

Biathlon - 1

Bobsleigh - 4

Cross-Country Skiing - 7

Freestyle Skiing - 15

Luge - 1

Short Track - 1

Skeleton - 1

Ski Mountaineering - 2

Snowboarding - 14

 

Second largest Winter Team ever named | Australian Olympic Committee

 

Spoiler

Alpine Skiing (3)

TBA

 

Biathlon (1)

Darcie Morton

 

Bobsleigh (4)

Pilots: Bree Walker, Sarah Blizzard

Brakewomen: Desi Johnson, Kiara Reddingius

 

Cross-Country Skiing (7)

Men: Hugo Sebastian Hinckfuss, Lars Young Vik, Seve de Campo

Women: Ellen Soehol Lie, Maddie Hooker, Phoebe Cridland, Rosie Fordham

 

Figure Skating (4)

Pairs: Anastasiia Golubeva/Hektor Giopoulos Moore

Ice Dance: Holly Harris/Jason Chan

 

Freestyle Skiing (15)

Men's Moguls: Cooper Woods, George Murphy, Jackson Harvey, Matt Graham

Men's Aerials: Reilly Flanagan

Women's Moguls: Charlotte Wilson, Emma Bosco, Jakara Anthony

Women's Aerials: Abbey Willcox, Airleigh Frigo, Danielle Scott, Laura Peel

Women's Ski Cross: Kyra Wheatley

Women's Halfpipe: Indra Brown

Women's Slopestyle/Big Air: Daisy Thomas

 

Luge (1)

Alex Ferlazzo

 

Short Track (1)

Brendan Corey

 

Skeleton (1)

Nick Timmings

 

Ski Mountaineering (2)

Lara Hamilton, Phil Bellingham

 

Snowboarding (14)

Men's Snowboard Cross: Adam Lambert, Cam Bolton, Jarryd Hughes

Men's Halfpipe: Scotty James, Valentino Guseli

Women's Snowboard Cross: Abbey Wilson, Josie Baff, Mia Clift

Women's Halfpipe: Amelie Haskell, Emily Arthur, Misaki Vaughan

Women's Slopestyle/Big Air: Ally Hickman, Meila Stalker, Tess Coady