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

[heywoodu 16,182]

7 minutes ago, Swewi said:

Today as well with Sundling. Frida Karlsson however 10th place is worrying, but first time on snow this season I understood.

 

the polish skiier impressed btw yesterday with 9th place who I understood just game back to skiing after A few years break

Plus 21st place, not even 2,5 minutes behind, by 15 or 16 year old (depends on who you ask) Thelma Falk in her very first weekend of official FIS competitions, wow.

 

DNS for our Totallympian due to leg and ankle issues, unfortunately. 

[Swewi 466]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Plus 21st place, not even 2,5 minutes behind, by 15 or 16 year old (depends on who you ask) Thelma Falk in her very first weekend of official FIS competitions, wow.

 

DNS for our Totallympian due to leg and ankle issues, unfortunately. 

15 years and just as far behind Karlsson as Karlsson was behind Andersson. That is huge! 

Edited November 23, 2025 by Swewi

[Kerkun 71]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

the polish skiier impressed btw yesterday with 9th place who I understood just game back to skiing after A few years break

She came back at the end of the last season. During the break, she gave birth to 2 kids and it looks like she got her fainting under the control.

[heywoodu 16,182]

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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 (28 November – 14 December 2025).

What if those 10 quota aren't all filled up, will they be added to the reallocation pool?

[intoronto 6,643]

Ecuador and Venezuela have qualified one male athlete each. Both with their first quotas

Edited November 28, 2025 by intoronto

[heywoodu 16,182]

24 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Ecuador and Venezuela have qualified one male athlete each. Both with their first quotas

Ecuador's Klaus Jungbluth did so by 5 seconds, nice  

 

The athletes from Peru and Israel came up less than 20 seconds shy of qualifying, for now at least. It should be somewhat promising for the later races.

Edited November 28, 2025 by heywoodu

[evil betty 88]

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Ecuador's Klaus Jungbluth did so by 5 seconds, nice  

 

The athletes from Peru and Israel came up less than 20 seconds shy of qualifying, for now at least. It should be somewhat promising for the later races.

Do you think the FIS will show them as qualified on their lists? Or will they wait until December 14th in case their is more than 10 NOCs who make the standard in this window for qualification?

[evil betty 88]

A very odd thing showed up on the FIS provisional list today; for some reason they have just added 1 quota to  without any of their athletes competing in a world cup event or last year's world championships. Jon Visser appears to be good enough, but I don't understand this addition to the quota list.

[heywoodu 16,182]

On 11/28/2025 at 9:48 PM, evil betty said:

Do you think the FIS will show them as qualified on their lists? Or will they wait until December 14th in case their is more than 10 NOCs who make the standard in this window for qualification?

No idea actually  

 

There's absolutely no way 10 NOC's are making it in the women's events, not sure about the men, but I would assume every NOC with a somewhat realistic shot would have already appeared in Ruka.

[heywoodu 16,182]

On 11/30/2025 at 7:23 PM, evil betty said:

A very odd thing showed up on the FIS provisional list today; for some reason they have just added 1 quota to  without any of their athletes competing in a world cup event or last year's world championships. Jon Visser appears to be good enough, but I don't understand this addition to the quota list.

That is odd indeed. It's already gone, it seems?

 

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

 

There's no way he is making the Olympics, unfortunately. He would need to score top-8's in the World Cup and that seems like somewhat of a stretch I'm afraid