Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games 2018 News

[Gianlu33 4,553]

So, Afghanistan is the 1st debutting country at the winter olympics in this edition!  

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

So, Afghanistan is the 1st debutting country at the winter olympics in this edition!  

You mean after Ecuador and Malaysia?  

Edited November 5, 2017 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

Yeah, I have serious doubts about that article...

[heywoodu 15,135]

Peruvian XC skier got 394 FIS points yesterday, might be worth a bit of attention to see if he closes in on 300 in the next weeks

https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=CC&raceid=30755

Edited November 5, 2017 by heywoodu

[Dimast 88]

Yes It seems that Pyeongchang 2018 will be without Russia 

[Gianlu33 4,553]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yeah, I have serious doubts about that article...

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1057521/afghanistan-tipped-to-make-winter-olympic-debut-as-skiers-selected-for-pyeongchang-2018

[Gianlu33 4,553]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

You mean after Ecuador and Malaysia?  

Yep, sure

 

[dcro 10,210]

8 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1057521/afghanistan-tipped-to-make-winter-olympic-debut-as-skiers-selected-for-pyeongchang-2018

 

Small NOCs often have no idea how qualification systems work. That's why we always have such articles, like before Rio when Malawi claimed that they suddenly received 2 wild cards for taekwondo (and yet they got 0 at the end...).

 

Besides, this would be incredibly unfair on so many levels. How can can get 2 (!) male skiers, while most of the qualified nations can enter only 1 per gender. And how can get invited, but no and for example...

Edited November 5, 2017 by dcro

[hckošice 14,822]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Which countries would benefit from the KHL not sending their players? I mean, I thought in general the NHL being assholes was bad for Canada and USA mostly, but surely the KHL being assholes as well is bad for Russia, Slovakia and others, meaning it'd be good for other nations? Without NHL and KHL, would the 2nd-level players in North America suddenly be the best again? Or players from Scandinavian countries or something? 

 

This should made some relatively important problems also for Canada. In fact after the NHL decision, they envisaged to send a team composed mainly from KHL players so the situation will not be so good for them as well if this disastrous scenario has to happen...but you know, the general depth of Canada is still impressively higher than in any other country, so you still must consider Canada as one of the favorites every time with every kind team they attend

 

here the Team Canada roster for the upcoming Euro Hockey Tour Karjala Cup tournament, very likely this will be the base of the Canadian Olympic roster for PC 2018

 

https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/302573/v-nominacii-kanady-na-karjala-cup-aj-obranca-despres-zo-slovana/

 

For USA it looks better since they are not so strongly KHL oriented, the roster for the Deutschland Cup (Also practically the base of the Olympic team 2018)

 

https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/303242/americania-na-nemecky-pohar-aj-s-giontom-ci-malonom/

 

In overall it´s like phelps said, the thing would benefit a lot the Swedes. But especially Switzerland and Germany would be the winners from this situation because of their strong national championships tradition..

 

For us this would be the disaster, we will be forced to send a similar team from the last world championships composed of players from SVK and CZE leagues, and we all know how the tournament ended, we avoided the relegation just by one single goal

 

However, I hope this will not happen and the KHL players will be allowed to represent their countries at the Olympics.

[heywoodu 15,135]

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

This should made some relatively important problems also for Canada. In fact after the NHL decision, they envisaged to send a team composed mainly from KHL players so the situation will not be so good for them as well if this disastrous scenario has to happen...but you know, the general depth of Canada is still impressively higher than in any other country, so you still must consider Canada as one of the favorites every time with every kind team they attend

 

here the Team Canada roster for the upcoming Euro Hockey Tour Karjala Cup tournament, very likely this will be the base of the Canadian Olympic roster for PC 2018

 

https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/302573/v-nominacii-kanady-na-karjala-cup-aj-obranca-despres-zo-slovana/

 

For USA it looks better since they are not so strongly KHL oriented, the roster for the Deutschland Cup (Also practically the base of the Olympic team 2018)

 

https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/303242/americania-na-nemecky-pohar-aj-s-giontom-ci-malonom/

 

In overall it´s like phelps said, the thing would benefit a lot the Swedes. But especially Switzerland and Germany would be the winners from this situation because of their strong national championships tradition..

 

For us this would be the disaster, we will be forced to send a similar team from the last world championships composed of players from SVK and CZE leagues, and we all know how the tournament ended, we avoided the relegation just by one single goal

 

However, I hope this will not happen and the KHL players will be allowed to represent their countries at the Olympics.

Thanks. Very interesting to keep an eye on this, it might be something the bookmakers get wrong which gives 'us' the opportunity for some financial gain