Skeleton Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Grassmarket 4,249]

5 minutes ago, Josh said:

This is still going on?  

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

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

[Faramir 515]

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

[Josh 13,429]

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Edited January 29 by Josh

[Josh 13,429]

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?

[clemsonbeav 440]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

Which 4 were they?

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

 

Curtis, Ro, Roderick, Wesenberg

[Faramir 515]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

Which 4 were they?

Ro - selected automatically due to last year WCh. -, Curtis, Roderick, Wesenberg

[Josh 13,429]

On 1/29/2026 at 8:44 AM, 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... 

Edited February 14 by Josh

[clemsonbeav 440]

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

Edited January 29 by clemsonbeav

[NearPup 4,136]

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.

[JockCartier 310]

3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

You are forgetting that at Vancouver your very own  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.  

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