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Skeleton Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

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5 minutes ago, Josh said:

This is still going on?  :rolleyes::pope:

Uhlander could've competed at the WCs and got the points she needed to overtake Ro but instead went for the easier route and failed, and now she's complaining and calling it dirty because the outcome didn't go her way. She's even comparing "Canada's withdrawal of athletes to" doping:facepalm:

Don't think she could have competed at the WCs as an :USA because they were limited to two athletes and the coaches naturally preferred to go with the younger athletes.  

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JockCartier
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Apparently now Uhlaender is appealing to the IOC to add another spot and give it to her    Good grief, it's a US selection issue ultimately, they qualified two, how they award them is up to

Topicmaster1010
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So here's a summary of the quotas. Puerto Rico becomes the latest nation to officially qualify.   Nation Men Women Team Total

Faramir
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Even worse, the US Olympic Committee is also asking for an additional spot for her. The same one that was responsible to select her or another athlete.

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4 minutes ago, Faramir said:

No, they had several selection races before the season, the top 4 made the World Cup Team.

Which 4 were they?

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2 minutes ago, Josh said:

Which 4 were they?

https://www.usabs.com/skeleton-team

 

Curtis, Ro, Roderick, Wesenberg

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1 minute ago, clemsonbeav said:

https://www.usabs.com/skeleton-team

 

Curtis, Ro, Roderick, Wesenberg

If Uhlaender can't beat any of them to make it onto a WC team, then even more of a reason... :dunno:

 

It's like the internal competition is the level of the German bobsleigh team

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Here's the report, for anyone interested.  (It's not as damning towards the Canadians as the headlines would lead you to believe...not shocked.). In here, it does seem as if Uhlaender was hoping to get picked over Ro...yet I thought I read elsewhere (sorry, can't find the source right now) that she ultimately didn't want to take Ro's place...  (which wouldn't make sense if it wasn't going to increase our quota).  She's probably upset at a number of things...not being picked to WC team first, not having a place for the Olympics, and then this with Canada.

 

It is interesting that the USOPC is backing this, though...one would hope that it wouldn't stoop to the level of personal grievances...

 

 

final-order-uhlaender-1-1.pdf

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23 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

 

The USOPC backing this doesn't make much sense to me because if they do believe Uhlaender got cheated and is the best choice to go to the Olympics they can... just pick her over Ro.

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3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

You are forgetting that at Vancouver your very own :CAN biathlon coaches did not understand the points system and ended up with the bare minimum of one male and one female athlete at their home games.  :facepalm:

As I recall we had a full roster of females, and the men's team bombed out cause their one star was sick at Worlds.

I'd need to go back and confirm the sickness excuses validity, but we definitely had multiple women there

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