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

[Swewi 460]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Didn't Svahn say she'd boycott it if Russians/Belarussians were allowed to compete? That should make that choice slightly easier.

Yes, she has. But recently she Said that the main purpose was to put pressure on FIS and because FIS did what they could to stop Them and it was CAS decision to let russians come back, she can still think about participating.

[intoronto 6,448]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Any other countries you think might reject something? I know it's just speculation, but still.

Serbia and Liechtenstein would be my guesses, but that's only 2 quotas.

[heywoodu 16,010]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Yes, she has. But recently she Said that the main purpose was to put pressure on FIS and because FIS did what they could to stop Them and it was CAS decision to let russians come back, she can still think about participating.

Right, so that was a smart way of sounding like making a point while not actually doing so, and people fell for it 

[heywoodu 16,010]

47 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Serbia and Liechtenstein would be my guesses, but that's only 2 quotas.

Serbia will absolutely accept their 1 women's spot though, considering the sister of their only athlete basically is the federation (after a massive drama in 2022 where athletes were actually stepping out of a race 100m before the finish to avoid their points counting, that was truly crazy and if I'm not mistaken even religion played a role there).

 

I doubt Liechtenstein will deny Nina Riedener?

[intoronto 6,448]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Serbia will absolutely accept their 1 women's spot though, considering the sister of their only athlete basically is the federation (after a massive drama in 2022 where athletes were actually stepping out of a race 100m before the finish to avoid their points counting, that was truly crazy and if I'm not mistaken even religion played a role there).

 

I doubt Liechtenstein will deny Nina Riedener?

Serbia's Olympic Committee rejected its quota for 2022 and Liechtenstein is a maybe. They have rejected quotas in the past.

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3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Any other countries you think might reject something? I know it's just speculation, but still.

Nepryaeva`s quota is potentially in the game too.

Right now it is really just a speculation.

But today according to our sources 3 of 6 russian lugers lost their AIN statuses. 

Will see what happen later - but all 3 of them have DNS in today`s training results.