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

[Topicmaster1010 5,435]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I thought you used this to compare your own rankings as well

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/cross-country/cup-standings.html?sectorcode=CC&seasoncode=2026&cupcode=NC-QUOTOWG&disciplinecode=ALL&gendercode=W&nationcode=

Oh dang. Didn't realize that existed! Never occurred to me to change the season to 2026 . Well that'll be helpful in the future. Now to figure out where the discrepancies are coming from.

[heywoodu 16,022]

9 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Oh dang. Didn't realize that existed! Never occurred to me to change the season to 2026 . Well that'll be helpful in the future. Now to figure out where the discrepancies are coming from.

I'm curious as well, I gave up my own attempt because of the discrepancies. Of course I'm mostly interested in the area around Brazil and there is quite good hope for them to end up in the top-30 still.

[Grassmarket 4,063]

NCAA Championships this weekend.  Always a very high standard - plenty athletes coming straight out of this last year to Top 30 performances in Trondheim this week.

 

https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/article/2025-03-05/2025-ncaa-skiing-championships-schedule-how-watch

[Bearas 582]

Window for nations ranking points closes down on 23rd of March. What are the remaining competitions were nations can gain those points?

[heywoodu 16,022]

9 minutes ago, Bearas said:

Window for nations ranking points closes down on 23rd of March. What are the remaining competitions were nations can gain those points?

The three remaining World Cups: Oslo next week (20k interval classic + 10k interval freestyle), Tallinn a few days later (freestyle sprint) and the weekend after that the finals in Lahti (freestyle individual + team sprint and a 50k classic). At least in the women's standings Lithuania should definitely be safe inside the top-30 and therefore with a second spot at the Olympics. Realistically only Armenia might pass them and that depends entirely on whether or not Katya Galstyan will do those World Cups.

 

Lithuanian men are 30th right now, but in the men's field I'm significantly less informed and don't really dare say if there's any danger from behind.

Edited March 9 by heywoodu

[Topicmaster1010 5,435]

In the women's nations rankings,  China passed  Andorra for 20th place (2 quotas).

[evil betty 71]

9 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

In the women's nations rankings,  China passed  Andorra for 20th place (2 quotas).

looks like access to the men's rankings they are generating is temporarily cut off. But this just showed up: https://www.fis-ski.com/inside-fis/general-fis-documents/olympic-winter-games-2026-copy-for-quota-links 

It appears to be copied from 2022 and the links don't work yet, but maybe soon.

[heywoodu 16,022]

On 3/17/2025 at 7:40 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

In the women's nations rankings,  China passed  Andorra for 20th place (2 quotas).

Which is actually a moot point, since Gina del Rio will probably be Andorra's only athlete anyway. Even if Carola Vila Obiols somehow comes back, which seems unlikely, they'll still easily have two total quotas, that simply can't go wrong anymore  (there is a 0% chance of them dropping out of the top-30)

Edited March 18 by heywoodu

[Topicmaster1010 5,435]

Thanks to a 4th place finish by  Gina del Rio on Wednesday, Andorra takes back the 20th spot in the nations rankings from  China although Andorra will likely reject their extra quotas anyways. 

 

Some things to keep an eye on heading into the final weekend of qualification:

 

Men:

•  USA trails Italy for the 5th spot by 192 points
• Looks like the final spot (30th) in the rankings will be between Lithuania and  Thailand. Right now, Lithuania leads Thailand by only 15 POINTS! Going to be close

 

Women:

• As mentioned above, Andorra and China will fight for the 20th spot in the rankings. On the FIS website it says they're separated by 146 points but in my calculated rankings, they are separated by just 51 points and I just double checked my work so not sure what's going on there
• If  Great Britain sends any athletes, then they can threaten  Greece and  Armenia for 29th/30th spot in the rankings

[BruT06 49]

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/v2/quota/list/owg/cc/2026