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

[Swewi 461]

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 6,604]

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 16,142]

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 16,142]

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 6,604]

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.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,142]

12 hours ago, intoronto said:

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

Yes, but what I mean for Serbia is that everything changed there (unfortunately for us ). 2022 was an unbelievable mess, that's not the case anymore now with just one athlete who has really gone for it and made it, so I'm 99% sure they'll accept it this time.

 

Who knows though. Plus there's always 1-2 bigger countries here or there who reject something, but it's not gonna be 16 places I'm afraid 

 

[LowerSaxony 205]

10 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Plus there's always 1-2 bigger countries here or there who reject something, but it's not gonna be 16 places I'm afraid 

 

I doubt that Germany will use all its eight Women's places. Now that Carl won't be able to compete, I only see six "safe" athletes (Rydzek, Gimmler, Hoffmann, Hennig, Sauerbrey, Fink) and maybe Krehl. 

[Josh 11,798]

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Who knows though. Plus there's always 1-2 bigger countries here or there who reject something, but it's not gonna be 16 places I'm afraid 

 

Why would 16 places need to be rejected? For Bruna? 

[heywoodu 16,142]

9 hours ago, Josh said:

Why would 16 places need to be rejected? For Bruna? 

For a 3rd ticket for Brazil, which would make her/our life a significant amount easier, yes

 

Whether or not she actually needs it will depend a lot on Jaqueline Mourao making or not making the A criterium (under 150.00 FIS distance points on 18/19 January).

 

Last time Brazil was 1 position too low to get a 3rd ticket, but I think this time more countries got the basic quota and so fewer tickets are available for the next steps in the allocation system. Which is an even bigger deal in the men's situation, where I believe it looks like not a single nation will even get to the maximum of 8 spots.