Alpine Skiing Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Swewi 502]

Sara Hector and Anna Swenn Larsson has today secured their olympic tickets for Sweden

[Grassmarket 4,249]

Plenty early-season snow in , so no excuses for being under-prepared next year!

 

Big chill to continue across south-eastern Australia as outback towns plunge to record lows

Edited June 16, 2025 by Grassmarket

[ChandlerMne 1,210]

Marcel Hirscher will compete next season.

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/olympic-champion-marcel-hirscher-expects-to-race-in-the-2025-26-season

[Kerkun 76]

Looks like we got some nationality changes that might result in new Olympic Qualification:

 Winston Tang to  https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/v2/quota/eligibility/owg/al/2026?nation=GBS&gender=M

 Pietro Tranchina to  https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/v2/quota/eligibility/owg/al/2026?nation=MAR&gender=M

 

[NearPup 4,137]

2 hours ago, Kerkun said:

 

 Winston Tang to  

 

For anyone else who recognized the name and spat out their coffee, this isn't the Winston Tang who founded Leetcode.

[Kerkun 76]

The season 2025-26 started in the South America with Chile Winter Series. One of the skiers who took part in is Nicola Pirozzi from Uruguay. He changed his nationality from Chile before the previous season but did not compete at all. His 51.67 FIS pts in the 2nd Giant Slalom give him a very good chance to qualify for the Olympic Games. It would be 's first winter appearance since the only one so far in Nagano in 1998.

[heywoodu 16,434]

12 hours ago, Kerkun said:

The season 2025-26 started in the South America with Chile Winter Series. One of the skiers who took part in is Nicola Pirozzi from Uruguay. He changed his nationality from Chile before the previous season but did not compete at all. His 51.67 FIS pts in the 2nd Giant Slalom give him a very good chance to qualify for the Olympic Games. It would be 's first winter appearance since the only one so far in Nagano in 1998.

Doesn't alpine skiing have some sort of a thing like you also need to be better than X points in the world championships? In other words, can one qualify 100% by just picking the right races (and/or organizing them together with some other small countries)?  

[Kerkun 76]

8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Doesn't alpine skiing have some sort of a thing like you also need to be better than X points in the world championships? In other words, can one qualify 100% by just picking the right races (and/or organizing them together with some other small countries)?  

There is no such a rule in the alpine skiing. You just need good results on average and you can start in the Olympics. FIS updated their provisional quotas today and Uruguay is in. Even with the penalty for not enough counted results.

[heywoodu 16,434]

6 minutes ago, Kerkun said:

There is no such a rule in the alpine skiing. You just need good results on average and you can start in the Olympics. FIS updated their provisional quotas today and Uruguay is in. Even with the penalty for not enough counted results.

I wonder if they'll change that next time, to make it more like cross-country skiing

 

[Kerkun 76]

The rules are stricter this time around than in 2022. Back then, the average for Slalom or Giant Slalom was 160 FIS pts instead of 120 and there was no requirement for 30 classified men or 20 women for anything below Continental Cups/Universiade/Junior Worlds in these 2 events.