Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Debuting, Coming Back, Returning, and Missing Nations

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Now that we’ve entered 2021, and there’s the prospect of some qualification events being held in the next few months, I felt like now was a good time to open this thread. Here we will keep a list of NOCs debuting, combing back, returning, and missing from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

[Benolympique 2,414]

Skeleton

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24 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

Skeleton

Yep 

 

That’s my biggest hope at least.

 

 

[intoronto 6,408]

I think  is a safe bet to qualify through their 2020 Youth Olympian

 

I believe  skier is retired ? Not 100% on this, so they likely won't compete. 

 

 has a skier and not sure if he will try to qualify. 

Julia Marino will try again for

 

 may compete again depending on their NOC

 

Sadly  and will likely not qualify due to new qualification rules in Bobsleigh/Skeleton

 

 might return through their naturalized skeleton racer.

 

  and have CC skiers looking for qualification. The former two just missed out in 2018.

 

[rybak 3,303]

Is there any chance that  and  will participate again?

[intoronto 6,408]

2 minutes ago, rybak said:

Is there any chance that  and  will participate again?

Unlikely. Dominica actually tried qualifying for 2018 but didn't send anyone. They got very bad publicity in 2014, so unlikely they want to repeat that. Zimbabwe's athlete is more or less retired.

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 has an active skeleton athlete on the men’s side, but it’s very unlikely he’ll qualify without the continental quota. 

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2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Unlikely. Dominica actually tried qualifying for 2018 but didn't send anyone. They got very bad publicity in 2014, so unlikely they want to repeat that. Zimbabwe's athlete is more or less retired.

Maybe Swaney can represent one of them in the halfpipe...

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1 hour ago, intoronto said:

I think  is a safe bet to qualify through their 2020 Youth Olympian

 also had female alpine skiers at the 2020 Youth Olympics. I’d imagine they’ll attempt Olympic qualification too.