Cross-Country Skiing at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2021

[hckošice 14,822]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Two things: to qualify for the main race, athletes have to be in the top-10 and get a total of under 180.00 FIS points, the latter being a combination of the strength of the (top of the) field and the time difference with the one(s) in front.

 

Which is a problem for the women, since the by far strongest athlete in the race has bad FIS points, because she barely competes in FIS races and is a World Cup level biathlete.

also the qualification race is only for the Distance events, right ? I mean everybody is allowed to start in the Sprint I believe ?

[heywoodu 15,135]

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

also the qualification race is only for the Distance events, right ? I mean everybody is allowed to start in the Sprint I believe ?

That is correct. The sprint qualifying is the one race where, as an athlete from a 'lower' level, you are sure you'll compete directly against the very best in the world  

[intoronto 5,638]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

Start lists are out.

 

As feared, we will lose many nations for the Olympics. are already out for sure.

 

As for the others,

No chance of qualification - 

Could go either way -

 

Everyone else should be safe to go under 300 pts (at least in one gender)...

Are we sure this is it?

 

"Athletes who have a maximum of 300.00 Distance FIS points (on the list published on 17 January 2022) are eligible for selection by their NOC to participate in the 10 km (ladies) or 15 km (men) events and team events (relay and team sprint)."

[heywoodu 15,135]

6 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Are we sure this is it?

 

"Athletes who have a maximum of 300.00 Distance FIS points (on the list published on 17 January 2022) are eligible for selection by their NOC to participate in the 10 km (ladies) or 15 km (men) events and team events (relay and team sprint)."

They are eligible to fulfill a quota, but a quota for an NOC first needs to be earned, with the basic one being earned by having an athlete get under 300 FIS points at these world championships.

 

A country can have 50 eligible athletes, if they don't have a single quota that won't help much.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

9 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Are we sure this is it?

 

"Athletes who have a maximum of 300.00 Distance FIS points (on the list published on 17 January 2022) are eligible for selection by their NOC to participate in the 10 km (ladies) or 15 km (men) events and team events (relay and team sprint)."

“D.1. Basic Quota
Within the maximum of one (1) athlete per NOC and per gender the basic quotas will be assigned as follows:
D.1.1 Basic quota male
The basic quota for one (1) male athlete will be assigned to all NOCs who have at least one (1) male athlete scoring less than 300 FIS points (including penalty) at one (1) individual competition held at the FIS Nordic World Championships 2021 (including the qualification race) or at the FIS Under-23 World Championships 2021.
D.1.2 Basic quota female
The basic quota for one (1) female athlete will be assigned to all NOCs who have at least one (1) female athlete scoring less than 300 FIS points (including penalty) at one (1) individual competition held at the FIS Nordic World Championships 2021 (including the qualification race) or at the FIS Under-23 World Championships 2021.”

 

What you’ve posted are the additional criteria skiers must meet in order to fulfill the quota they earn in D.1

[prso1000 662]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Probably, although Skender already collected some points in Finland (a notable Top 30 result in the sprint).

 

I guess we are right around the 30th place in both genders so this event could be crucial.

Thanks. 
 

World cups count towards the Nation Ranking too? I don’t get why we did not send anyone this year to the WC races. 
Anyway the new system is clearly in favor of the power houses, something you can observe in all sports. 
 

[heywoodu 15,135]

23 minutes ago, prso1000 said:

Thanks. 
 

World cups count towards the Nation Ranking too? I don’t get why we did not send anyone this year to the WC races. 
Anyway the new system is clearly in favor of the power houses, something you can observe in all sports. 
 

World Cups, World Championships and U23 and Junior World Championships. Yeah now that you mention it, Croatia isn't even in the women's ranking at all...(yet, of course)

[justony 454]

2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Impressive. Three guys in the team, but only two vowels.

Yes, their surnames means "worm" in English. ?

[heywoodu 15,135]

The live timing pages suggests a bit of a weird placing for the split times: two in the first half of the 5km lap, but none on the top of the huge uphill..

[intoronto 5,638]

That is beyond stupid in the middle of a pandemic...