Cross-Country Skiing Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[heywoodu 15,319]

Very much looks like something went wrong with Brazil at the start of the U23 relay. I only counted 19 athletes after 1 minute or so instead of 20, they are listed as 'Started' but didn't get through the very first split yet (where the fastest time is 4 minutes, and that was like 5 minutes ago, no way they lost 5 minutes in that time, that's too much even for these standards).

 

That sucks quite badly and is a big blow to Brazil's chances to reach the top-30...come on, all that needed to happen for a nice amount of points was to finish. Dead last, far away, no problem, but...finish.

Edited February 9 by heywoodu

[Grassmarket 3,586]

  On 2/8/2025 at 12:46 PM, heywoodu said:

With the most amazing looks of disbelief I have ever seen at the finish and even now, like half an hour later  

 

I love these kind of surprises, that's what sports is about for me.

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And more - 19th place for  Tabitha Williams, pretty sure that is our best ever female result in any global event.  And we're seeing a revival of  after aboot 15 years of nothing much.

[Bailer 17]

  On 2/9/2025 at 8:25 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

Yes, I do plan on making qualification posts for other sports as we get closer to the qualification deadlines. Mostly for rankings lists that aren't made public by the sports federations.

 

For now, you can find the biathlon rankings here and olympic allocation lists for freestyle skiing and snowboarding here

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Thanks!

[Topicmaster1010 4,421]

Cross-Country Skiing NOC Quota Standings after Junior and U23 World Championships

 

Updated to include the results from the World Juniors and the U23 World Championships along with the overal tour de ski results that I missed last time. Please let me know if anything doesn't look right.

 

4 quotas

3 quotas

2 quotas

1 quota

 

Men

 

Rank	NOC	Points
1	Norway	15541
2	Sweden	10817
3	France	10371
4	Finland	9054
5	United States	8420
6	Italy	8252
7	Germany	7883
8	Switzerland	7270
9 (+1)	Canada	5170
10 (-1)	Czechia	4843
11	Austria	4751
12	Great Britain	3828
13 (+1)	Estonia	3488
14 (-1)	Slovenia	3441
15	Australia	2344
16	Japan	2233
17 (+1)	Poland	2020
18 (-1)	Latvia	1717
19	Kazakhstan	1696
20 (+1)	Spain	1336
20 (-1)	Andorra	1265
22	Ireland	1237
23 (+1)	Ukraine	993
23 (-1)	Hungary	861
25	China	671
26 (+2)	Romania	383
27 (+2)	Slovakia	363
28 (-2)	Thailand	336
29 (-2)	Armenia	276
30	Bulgaria	247
31 (+2)	Argentina	184
32 (+3)	Croatia	143
33 (-2)	Mongolia	137
34 (-2)	Serbia	131
35 (+1)	Chile	130
36 (-2)	Korea	115
37 (+2)	Lithuania	96
38 (new)	Greece	87
39 (+2)	Liechtenstein	83
40 (-3)	Colombia	76
41 (new)	Brazil	70
42 (-2)	Belgium	59
43 (new)	Iceland	51
44 (-6)	North Macedonia	50
45 (new)	Montenegro	11
46 (new)	Moldova	8
47 (new)	Türkiye	5
48 (new)	Chinese Taipei	2
49 (new)	Bolivia	1

 

Women

 

Rank	NOC	Points
1	Norway	14645
2	Sweden	12294
3	Finland	11107
4	Germany	11023
5	United States	10031
6	Switzerland	7345
7	France	6439
8	Italy	6235
9	Canada	5905
10	Czechia	4951
11	Austria	4216
12	Estonia	2310
13	Slovenia	2096
14	Kazakhstan	2005
15	Ukraine	1531
16	Australia	1449
17 (+1)	Japan	998
18 (-1)	Poland	969
19	Latvia	517
20 (+1)	Andorra	386
21 (new)	Great Britain	207
22 (-2)	Chinese Taipei	194
23 (new)	Argentina	136
24 (-2)	Armenia	131
25 (new)	Romania	123
26 (-3)	Korea	122
27 (new)	Greece	115
28 (new)	Lithuania	100
29 (new)	Croatia	89
30 (new)	Brazil	60
31 (new)	Chile	49
32 (new)	Hungary	37
33 (new)	Slovakia	28
34 (new)	Türkiye	18
35 (new)	Moldova	9
36 (new)	Kenya	3
37 (new)	Bulgaria	2
38 (new)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1

Edited February 14 by Topicmaster1010

[heywoodu 15,319]

How come there are 2 quotas for TPE and 1 for GBR?

 

And Jesus Brazil, if only they had been like "oh ok, we are on the U23 relay start list, sure, we will actually start and pick up 35 free points".

 

Deep, deep sigh.

Edited February 14 by heywoodu

[Topicmaster1010 4,421]

  On 2/14/2025 at 7:13 AM, heywoodu said:

How come there are 2 quotas for TPE and 1 for GBR?

 

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That's a mistake. Thanks for catching that.

[heywoodu 15,319]

Finally there's a Wikipedia page for the qualifying, but it's not entirely up-to-date yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country_skiing_at_the_2026_Winter_Olympics_–_Qualification

 

Brazil does have a male quota, due to Manex's 159 or so points in the sprint in Schilpario, but isn't mentioned in the list.

 

It also has this line, which I haven't seen before:

 

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The remaining 10 quota places by gender will be assigned to NOCs that were not able to achieve a quota, granted all athletes have scored less than 300.00 FIS points at one FIS World Cup competition in the first World Cup period 2025/2026.

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Is that like a safety net in case a country didn't get into the top-30 of the ranking and didn't get a basic quota? Hard one, because in that case it will be rather difficult to get under 300 points in a World Cup (assuming FIS would even allow them in with a wildcard), but interesting.

Edited February 18 by heywoodu

[JockCartier 170]

  On 2/9/2025 at 1:45 PM, Grassmarket said:

And more - 19th place for  Tabitha Williams, pretty sure that is our best ever female result in any global event.  And we're seeing a revival of  after aboot 15 years of nothing much.

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Hey now! It's only been aboot 8 years of nothing much

[heywoodu 15,319]

Finish is looking nice here in Trondheim, despite the relatively warm weather

 

 

[heywoodu 15,319]

Lebanese Olympian Samer Tawk was making his Instagram story while I was waiting for Bruna's training, the sharp eye can spot me

 

https://www.instagram.com/stories/samertawk.oly/3573746699199849871?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MW1nZGI0eGp3NWdmdQ==