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

[heywoodu 16,435]

16 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Always a race to look forward to, there have been some epic  v  v  clashes in the past.

Individually, yes, Iran might well end up on top of that. Sami Beyrami has been really strong this season, would not at all be surprised to see her fight for the win in the qualifying race in Trondheim. As a team though, both Brazil and Greece should easily beat Iran at least in the women's competitions  Their 2nd, 3rd and 4th best athletes are all far ahead of Iran's 2nd best.

 

The interesting fight for a potential second Olympic ticket will also be against the likes of Armenia and Andorra, who have a strong woman, but not at all a strong team. Katya Galstyan and especially Gina del Rio can score quite a few points, the question is if that will be enough to hold off countries like Brazil which have enough eligible women for a team sprint and a relay.

[Swewi 502]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Makes me curious who they picked over him, even though his progress seems to have stopped a bit this season.

He raced a ski Classons race instead of the junior race that the association wanted all candidates to take part in. So he had a choice but I tahini he didnt understand how importsnt it was.

 

About hos progress, I think his problem is that he was too good to Young at the ski classics races so he has focused on the stake techique instead of developing his freestyle and the classical variation as needed in World cups 

[heywoodu 16,435]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

He raced a ski Classons race instead of the junior race that the association wanted all candidates to take part in. So he had a choice but I tahini he didnt understand how importsnt it was.

 

About hos progress, I think his problem is that he was too good to Young at the ski classics races so he has focused on the stake techique instead of developing his freestyle and the classical variation as needed in World cups 

Sounds like the classic example of an athlete not taking the time to read the rules....  

[heywoodu 16,435]

Just to check I didn't miss anything, but there doesn't happen to be any way of dowloading the entire season's calendar in some sort of a CSV format, correct?

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/cross-country/calendar-results.html

 

I'm looking for weekends that have both a classic sprint and a freestyle distance race, but I guess that's going to be manual labour  

[Dragon 2,062]

Just wanted to mention this.

 

This week's edition of the Keep The Flame Alive podcast will feature an interview with Bruna

https://flamealivepod.com/

 

Will be available late on Thursday European time.

[heywoodu 16,435]

Tomorrow the junior/U23 world championships start, which is always a bit of a gamble to see whether it will be shown anywhere....so far, I have found nothing, which isn't a good sign. Anyone?

 

Schilpario, by the way.

[phelps 8,649]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Tomorrow the junior/U23 world championships start, which is always a bit of a gamble to see whether it will be shown anywhere....so far, I have found nothing, which isn't a good sign. Anyone?

 

Schilpario, by the way.

it's all live (and free) on FIS TV

 

here:

 

https://watch.fis-ski.com/section/UPCOMING SCHEDULE

[Grassmarket 4,251]

46 minutes ago, phelps said:

it's all live (and free) on FIS TV

 

here:

 

https://watch.fis-ski.com/section/UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Last couple of times it was on YT as well, conveniently divided up into different channels for each discipline.  Will check tomorrow morning.

[heywoodu 16,435]

9 hours ago, phelps said:

it's all live (and free) on FIS TV

 

here:

 

https://watch.fis-ski.com/section/UPCOMING SCHEDULE

That's good, and looking down on that page it seems like it will be available to watch on-demand as well. Which I think is arguably even more important for a streaming platform and which is why YouTube usually beats out every other way of live streaming  

[Topicmaster1010 6,352]

Cross-Country Skiing NOC Quota Standings as of February 2nd

 

These are the quotas that get allocated to NOCs after the basic quota (1 male + 1 female) is allocated to NOC's who have athletes that have the required amount of points. These standings are NOT the same as the World Cup Nations Cup. The Nations cup only gives points to the top 30 athletes in a race while the Olympic rankings give points to every athlete which partakes in a race and also includes World Championships and World Junior Championships results. I attempted to calculate the standings using this document as I don't believe the list has been made public yet.

 

4 quotas

3 quotas

2 quotas

1 quota

 

Men

 

Rank	NOC	Points
1	Norway	13185
2	Sweden	9254
3	France	8930
4	Finland	7746
5	United States	7291
6	Italy	6442
7	Germany	6336
8	Switzerland	6145
9	Czechia	4144
10	Canada	4037
11	Austria	4035
12	Great Britain	3434
13	Slovenia	3164
14	Estonia	3007
15	Australia	2129
16	Japan	1587
17	Latvia	1568
18	Poland	1441
19	Kazakhstan	1246
20	Andorra	1170
21	Spain	1170
22	Ireland	1161
23	Hungary	812
24	Ukraine	712
25	China	621
26	Thailand	336
27	Armenia	276
28	Romania	266
29	Slovakia	217
30	Bulgaria	193
31	Mongolia	137
32	Serbia	131
33	Argentina	118
34	Korea	115
35	Croatia	97
36	Chile	80
37	Colombia	76
38	North Macedonia	47
39	Lithuania	47
40	Belgium	45
41	Liechtenstein	39

 

Women

 

Rank	NOC	Points
1	Norway	12310
2	Sweden	10634
3	Finland	9539
4	Germany	9529
5	United States	8562
6	Switzerland	6329
7	France	5039
8	Italy	4680
9	Canada	4533
10	Czechia	4298
11	Austria	3636
12	Estonia	2190
13	Slovenia	1885
14	Kazakhstan	1677
15	Ukraine	1304
16	Australia	1203
17	Poland	588
18	Japan	510
19	Latvia	442
20	Chinese Taipei	194
21	Andorra	183
22	Armenia	131
23	Korea	122

Edited February 3, 2025 by Topicmaster1010