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


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On 1/8/2026 at 10:54 PM, Grassmarket said:

:NOR National Championships in Beitostolen this weekend - believe that these are going to be the final decisive races for Olympic qualification.  Live on Norwegian TV, probably not geoblocked.

 

https://tv.nrk.no/programmer/sport-langrenn/underkategori

Those are the national junior championships, national championships are in Steinkjer, starting tomorrow:

FIS | Steinkjer (NOR) - Event Details - Cross-Country

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On 1/8/2026 at 10:54 PM, Grassmarket said:

:NOR National Championships in Beitostolen this weekend - believe that these are going to be the final decisive races for Olympic qualification.  Live on Norwegian TV, probably not geoblocked.

 

https://tv.nrk.no/programmer/sport-langrenn/underkategori

Too bad, geoblocked.

Langrenn - NRK TV

 

Would have liked to watch the women's qualifying.

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45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Too bad, geoblocked.

Langrenn - NRK TV

 

Would have liked to watch the women's qualifying.

Too bad - thing about the Norwegian Champs is that they are for Norwegian Clubs, not exclusively Norwegian nationals. So foreign athletes do take part - Andy Musgrave was sprint champion one year.  

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4 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Too bad - thing about the Norwegian Champs is that they are for Norwegian Clubs, not exclusively Norwegian nationals. So foreign athletes do take part - Andy Musgrave was sprint champion one year.  

Oh trust me, I know. Heart attack city here today (which we seem to have survived) and tomorrow due to this. Which our fellow Totallympian - in the last week of Olympic qualifying - doesn't yet know and I am very much trying to keep it that way until after tomorrow's race.

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8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh trust me, I know. Heart attack city here today (which we seem to have survived) and tomorrow due to this. Which our fellow Totallympian - in the last week of Olympic qualifying - doesn't yet know and I am very much trying to keep it that way until after tomorrow's race.

7 days free trial on Opera browser with built in VPN?

12 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

7 days free trial on Opera browser with built in VPN?

Might give that a try tomorrow, thanks!

 

I might also just keep with live-timing only, that is nerve-wracking enough.

 

Spoiler

It also just sucks badly, I really wish they could have taken the two quotas instead of fighting for the remaining one, it would have been awesome for Bruna and Jaqueline to both be there and do things like the Olympic team sprint together :( 

 

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On 1/14/2026 at 10:37 AM, Grassmarket said:

Too bad - thing about the Norwegian Champs is that they are for Norwegian Clubs, not exclusively Norwegian nationals. So foreign athletes do take part - Andy Musgrave was sprint champion one year.  

They may take part, but cannot win medals. So Muzzy won the race, but Ola Vigen Hattestad in second got the gold medal.

2 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

:AND :ARM :TPE decline a women’s quota due to a lack of athletes; the quota is reallocated to :SUI :ITA and :FRA

 

They may need to return the quotas. So as other countries in other sports. Not confirmed yet. 

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