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

[heywoodu 16,035]

On 3/20/2025 at 7:49 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

 

 

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

Same thing that happened during Trondheim (and probably before, but I hadn't noticed it yet). Start lists for today are out and are, as per usual, on the page that will later show the result:

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=46840

 

But instead of only counting them when the start list turns into an actual result, they already count the start list, so to say  So, an athlete with bib 1 gets points for the win (temporarily), bib 2 gets points for second place, and so on. That will of course automatically be resolved once we have an actual result later today, but it makes for confusing stuff.

[heywoodu 16,035]

The quota simulation still needs some work, no country is listed as having 8 men for example, not even Norway  

 

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

[Bearas 582]

 finishes 2 positions above  in men's sprint. The fight of losers who will get a 2nd quota continous lol 

[Topicmaster1010 5,437]

 USA passed  Italy for 5th in the men's nations rankings giving them an extra Olympic quota. 

 

and thanks to having enough athletes to be able to compete in the team sprint,  China is back ahead of  Andorra in the women's rankings for 20th place by 7 points and since none no athletes from either country are competing tomorrow, that's how it'll finish.

 

 

[evil betty 71]

On 3/21/2025 at 12:29 PM, heywoodu said:

The quota simulation still needs some work, no country is listed as having 8 men for example, not even Norway  

 

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

I think that once the remaining 10 quotas are added in (I can see one or two getting used but that is even a stretch), Norway, Sweden, France, Finland, and USA would all get their 8th male quota. Kind of bizarre that the simulation only says that Finland and USA have the remaining room for them though.

[copravolley 526]

3 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

 USA passed  Italy for 5th in the men's nations rankings giving them an extra Olympic quota. 

 

and thanks to having enough athletes to be able to compete in the team sprint,  China is back ahead of  Andorra in the women's rankings for 20th place by 7 points and since none no athletes from either country are competing tomorrow, that's how it'll finish.

 

 

Can Italy still overtake the USA tomorrow?

[Topicmaster1010 5,437]

4 hours ago, copravolley said:

Can Italy still overtake the USA tomorrow?

The gap between the two countries is around 46 points. If the Italian skiers have the better day tomorrow overall, then Italy should be able to take back 5th place

[copravolley 526]

18 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

The gap between the two countries is around 46 points. If the Italian skiers have the better day tomorrow overall, then Italy should be able to take back 5th place

Pellegrino skipped the team sprint today to fight tomorrow for 3rd place in the general classification with Valnes. I hope that the Italian team is also monitoring the situation in the Nations Cup and this was also planned in this scenario.

Edited March 23 by copravolley

[heywoodu 16,035]

China will end the women's ranking 7 points ahead of Andorra in 20th, meaning there is one fewer spot 'on the market' for other countries (although to be fair, if Andorra had gotten it, the extra reallocated spot would most likely be accepted by China anyway ).

[Kerkun 58]

 Poland overtook  Ukraine for the 16th place in the women's standings yesterday. Nobody from these countries starts today so it's Poland that is the last country with 4 quota places confirmed.