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

[intoronto 6,576]

On 13/01/2018 at 05:28, Griff88 said:

    will be competing

 

Meanwhile the most populous country in that region.....

and

[intoronto 6,576]

skier dislocated her knee cap 

 

Doesn't look likely for her...

[intoronto 6,576]

 has officially ended her run at qualification  

[uk12points 434]

North Korea will compete with 22 athletes at the 2018 Olympics.

There will be 12 women’s ice hockey players joining a unified team.

10 other athletes will compete in figure Skating, short Track speed skating, cross country skiing and Alpine Skiing.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,062]

1 minute ago, uk12points said:

North Korea will compete with 22 athletes at the 2018 Olympics.

There will be 12 women’s ice hockey players joining a unified team.

10 other athletes will compete in figure Skating, short Track speed skating, cross country skiing and Alpine Skiing.

 

 

12 

 

So this means 12 (!) South Korean players will be kicked out of the team 2 weeks before the Olympics? That'd be terribly sad... 

[uk12points 434]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

12 

 

So this means 12 (!) South Korean players will be kicked out of the team 2 weeks before the Olympics? That'd be terribly sad... 

Not quite - there will be 23 South Koreans and 12 North Koreans, so technically only 2 South Koreans will miss out as a usual sized team is 25. 22 athletes are selected for each match and at least 3 North Koreans must feature in each match.

[heywoodu 16,062]

Just now, uk12points said:

Not quite - there will be 23 South Koreans and 12 North Koreans, so technically only 2 South Koreans will miss out as a usual sized team is 25. 22 athletes are selected for each match and at least 3 North Koreans must feature in each match.

Right. Kind of weird, messing up a team last-minute with players they don't even know, right before their home Olympics, but alright. At least it won't cost 12 athletes the experience.. 

[dcro 10,210]

Greedy as hell.  

 

Their athletes in alpine skiing literally haven't competed in any int. event.

[uk12points 434]

Just now, dcro said:

Greedy as hell.  

 

Their athletes in alpine skiing literally haven't competed in any int. event.

They've all had a bit of experience! But not for a few years - they have all competed in Iran and some in junior races in Kazakhstan.

Also their cross country skiers were pretty good at a race in Russia so if they would have bothered they probably could have qualified anyway.

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, uk12points said:

They've all had a bit of experience! But not for a few years - they have all competed in Iran and some in junior races in Kazakhstan.

Also their cross country skiers were pretty good at a race in Russia so if they would have bothered they probably could have qualified anyway.

 

Yeah, I forgot about those Iran super-gs (where they were scoring only 300+ FIS points). All of the other races with PRK were in 2010 or 2012, which is ridiculous.

 

In any case, this is quite unfair to all those athletes from exotic nations that don't posses nuclear weapons...