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

[Grassmarket 4,313]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Jonna Sundling wins the swedish championship in sprint by 10 seconds ahead of Ribom and Hagström who still could be medal candidates at the WCH

These Swedish Champs are on non-geoblocked FTA if you want to watch them, although mixed up with lots of other sports like old traditional Swedish winter classics dating to the age of Gustavus Vasa like 10-pin bowling and E-Sports.  

 

SM-veckan | SVT Play

[heywoodu 16,468]

Rosie Fordham is genuinely in with a medal chance at the U23 10k freestyle in Schilpario  

[heywoodu 16,468]

DNF for Duda Ribera

 

Which kind of sucks for the thing of Brazil going for a 2nd ticket for the Olympics (well, for now they don't even have 1, but that should be possible in Trondheim...), but is excellent for @brunamoura in her fight against Duda. Although everyone's chance would get bigger if Brazil does end up with the top-30 of course.

[mrv86 3,269]

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Rosie Fordham is genuinely in with a medal chance at the U23 10k freestyle in Schilpario  

And she gets a Silver

[heywoodu 16,468]

Just now, mrv86 said:

And she gets a Silver

With the most amazing looks of disbelief I have ever seen at the finish and even now, like half an hour later  

 

I love these kind of surprises, that's what sports is about for me.

[mrv86 3,269]

New basic quotas:

 

Women:

 

   

[Bailer 162]

@Topicmaster1010 Do you have any quota information for other sports?

[Topicmaster1010 6,612]

10 hours ago, Bailer said:

@Topicmaster1010 Do you have any quota information for other sports?

Yes, I do plan on making qualification posts for other sports as we get closer to the qualification deadlines. Mostly for rankings lists that aren't made public by the sports federations.

 

For now, you can find the biathlon rankings here and olympic allocation lists for freestyle skiing and snowboarding here

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Mostly for rankings lists that aren't made public by the sports federations.

Including biathlon? They have their IBU Qualifying Points list public, but in their own results system, from which you can't download or even copy anything, so taking away all of the nations that qualify via the nations cup is a manual thing and takes forever.... (instead of if they at least had a CSV format or something, so you could filter those out easily).

[heywoodu 16,468]

Anyhow, turns out in the junior relay you're actually not taken out of the race when lapped, well fuck  

 

As entirely expected, Brazil's opening man lost some time on Greece's opening man, but as also expected, Brazil's first girl destroyed the first Greek girl. I had expected them to be long lapped by then, which would be excellent, because then Brazil would get a position ahead of Greece and so a few more points. However, apparently everyone goes all the way, and the second Greek guy is likely to put the second Brazilian guy behind...hopefully not too far, because the last Brazilian girl should be better than the last Greek girl. It's a whole thing  

 

Not helping Brazil that Lithuania is doing quite well, but the good thing is Lithuania isn't in the U23 relay and Brazil is. Strangely  will do so without Manex Silva though, who is by a massive margin their best guy, and could have gotten them a few extra points which Brazil desperately needs in the ranking.

 

Edit: 

 

Yeah, here we go with the second guys. Left is at the 2nd exchange, right is at 1.75km in their 5km race.....goodbye.

 

Edited February 9, 2025 by heywoodu