Winter Olympic Games 2018 Debuting, Coming Back, Returning and Missing Nations

[hckošice 15,657]

[hckošice 15,657]

Debuting Nations

Nations which have never participated in any Winter Olympic Games and will make their debut in PyeongChang 2018

 

• Ecuador
• Eritrea
• Kosovo
• Malaysia
• Nigeria
• Singapore

 

 

Coming Back Nations

Nations which have already participated in a Winter Olympic Games edition but did not participate in Sochi 2014

 

• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• North Korea
• Puerto Rico
• South Africa

 

 

Returning Nations

Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 and will participate also in PyeongChang 2018

 

• Albania
• Andorra
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bermuda
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Chile
• China
• Chinese Taipei
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Iran
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Malta
• Mexico
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United States
• Uzbekistan

 

 

Missing Nations

Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 but will not participate in PyeongChang 2018

 

• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Dominica
• Nepal
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Tajikistan
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands
• Zimbabwe

 

[hckošice 15,657]

Any picks for a debuting nation and sport ?

[dcro 10,210]

Bolivia is surely a safe returning country. Their skier is very much focused on competing it seems.

 

Kenya should be there too in alpine skiing.

Edited November 13, 2016 by dcro

[hckošice 15,657]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Bolivia is surely a safe returning country. Their skier is very much focused on competing it seems.

 

Kenya should be there too in alpine skiing.

 

That would be amazing for our Bolivian friend, going to follow all his qualification period, but I think yeah, he will manage to qualify and return his country for the winter games

 

also I wonder if South Africa will remains in their harsh qualifying standards also for the winter games ?

[hckošice 15,657]

Also hope the cross country skier will qualify this time, If I remember correctly he did qualify for Sochi but Algerian Olympic Comittee refused to send him, If I´m not wrong ?

[dcro 10,210]

5 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

That would be amazing for our Bolivian friend, going to follow all his qualification period, but I think yeah, he will manage to qualify and return his country for the winter games

 

also I wonder if South Africa will remains in their harsh qualifying standards also for the winter games ?

 

I think they will, they actually were allowed to enter a skier for Sochi but they denied the possibility.

 

Btw, Malaysia has a very good chance to make debut, they have one very good figure skater.

[intoronto 6,578]

Costa Rica - Andreas Hamm, a freestyle skier has a semi-decent shot at qualifying 

Afghanistan - Afghanistan has a couple alpine skiers seeking qualification, more of their abilities will be seen at the Asian Winter Games next year

Uganda - Uganda has a snowboarder currently chasing qualification in slopestyle. Might be a bit of a longshot at this point 

Eritrea - Shannon Abeda, a Canadian born alpine skier, who competed in 2012 at the Youth Olympics. He was very close to qualifying in 2014, but just missed the cut. He should qualify this time around

Colombia - Their speed skating team should qualify at least one athlete, and their Youth Olympian from 2016 in alpine skiing should qualify 

 Ecuador - They have a CC skier, who is at this point a bit of a long shot, but you never know

Ghana - Ghana has a skeleton athlete who is originally Dutch, and is just outside the qualification range, but anything is literally possible

South Africa - This time hopefully Slive Spleeman gets to go! He qualified but the Olympic Committee rejected the quota. There is also a Swedish born snowboarder who has a semi decent shot of qualifying. 

North Korea - This is a mystery. Their athletes usually come out of nowhere to do well in most sports. Speed skating/figure skating remain a possibility for them.

 Trinidad and Tobago - Another skier (cross country) with Canadian roots, is within striking distance of qualifying. 

Singapore - long shot in short track speed skating 

 

I didn't include Puerto Rico, because they will reject the quota(s). they earn.

 

Of the 2014 list, British Virgin Islands (hasn't competed since 2014), Zimbabwe (hasn't competed in a while), Tajikistan (no athletes currently competing at the qualification level),  Dominica (no athletes) and  Nepal (retired) are in threat of not qualifying  

Edited December 12, 2016 by intoronto

[Griff88 2,014]

will send its hockey team!

 

Well, we're debuting in Asian Winter Games in 2017. If everything goes right, we will have represetatives in Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, and Speed skating.

[hckošice 15,657]

20 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Costa Rica - Andreas Hamm, a freestyle skier has a semi-decent shot at qualifying 

Afghanistan - Afghanistan has a couple alpine skiers seeking qualification, more of their abilities will be seen at the Asian Winter Games next year

Uganda - Uganda has a snowboarder currently chasing qualification in slopestyle. Might be a bit of a longshot at this point 

Eritrea - Shannon Abeda, a Canadian born alpine skier, who competed in 2012 at the Youth Olympics. He was very close to qualifying in 2014, but just missed the cut. He should qualify this time around

Colombia - Their speed skating team should qualify at least one athlete, and their Youth Olympian from 2016 in alpine skiing should qualify 

 Ecuador - They have a CC skier, who is at this point a bit of a long shot, but you never know

Ghana - Ghana has a skeleton athlete who is originally Dutch, and is just outside the qualification range, but anything is literally possible

South Africa - This time hopefully Slive Spleeman gets to go! He qualified but the Olympic Committee rejected the quota. There is also a Swedish born snowboarder who has a semi decent shot of qualifying. 

North Korea - This is a mystery. Their athletes usually come out of nowhere to do well in most sports. Speed skating/figure skating remain a possibility for them.

 Trinidad and Tobago - Another skier (cross country) with Canadian roots, is within striking distance of qualifying. 

Singapore - long shot in short track speed skating 

 

I didn't include Puerto Rico, because they will reject the quota(s). they earn.

 

Of the 2014 list, British Virgin Islands (hasn't competed since 2014), Zimbabwe (hasn't competed in a while), Tajikistan (no athletes currently competing at the qualification level), Dominica (not athletes) and  Nepal (retired) are in threat of not qualifying  

 

 

THANK YOU !!!

 

PS do you know something more about the skier ?