Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[Gianlu33 4,570]

5 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

Are you sure that Italy will go with 22 alpine skiers or 4 women in ski jumping, but also 4 male jumpers are not sure (in Sochi we rejected some quotas in ski jumping).

I'm almost sure that we'll send all ski jumper this time. I haven't idea for the alpine skiing, maybe we will cut some quotas but we will use all sports for sure

[phelps 7,677]

57 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

Are you sure that Italy will go with 22 alpine skiers or 4 women in ski jumping, but also 4 male jumpers are not sure (in Sochi we rejected some quotas in ski jumping).

 

look at coni's website (the dedicated microsite for Pyeongchang)...

 

just click on the "Azzurri" list and you have the names for all the disciplines...some of them are already official, some others need confirmation in the next few days...

 

but you can see from now that we're going to send at best 21 alpine skiers (to be chosen among those in that list)...

 

in Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined at the moment there are still the full teams, but I don't think they will send all of them to Korea...actually, I hope they won't waste so much money)...

 

imho, they should give the green light only to those athletes that can at least make the top 15 (and have actually made at least twice the top 8 in this season)...

 

the remaining money should be saved for developing the skills and experience of the most successful youngsters, already looking ahead to Beijing 2022, rather than making some gifts of a paid holiday to a bunch of "capre, capre, capre" (cit. Vittorio Sgarbi )...

[heywoodu 15,141]

Philipp Schörghofer has been named in Austria's team. Interesting, since he hasn't had a single race since his injury. 

[DaniSRB 899]

Liechtenstein refused team event

[intoronto 5,641]

26 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

Liechtenstein refused team event

Means Serbia will qualify (and get an extra quota!, hopefully the Serbian athlete gets a reallocation on the main list as well)

[dcro 10,210]

8 reallocations so far in alpine skiing... .

 

provisionally get them. Still waiting for some big fish to confirm their places though.

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Means Serbia will qualify (and get an extra quota!, hopefully the Serbian athlete gets a reallocation on the main list as well)

 

Team event might run out of the teams... Especially considering what happened at Worlds last year.

 

This time even Croatia didn't accept, so one wonders what would happen if they run out of teams. They can't just hand it to Argentina like that, can they?

[LowerSaxony 205]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb dcro:

8 reallocations so far in alpine skiing... .

 

provisionally get them. Still waiting for some big fish to confirm their places though.

 

Germany will field a team of 12 alpines, which means that 4 quotas for Alpine Skiing are to be reallocated. Btw: For Cross country skiing only 12 of 19 quotas will be used.

[phelps 7,677]

it's official (today there was the final meeting of our NOC to determine how many athletes fly to Korea)...Italy will use "only" 20 Alpine Skiing spots...

 

the already selected skiers are:

 

Men

Luca De Aliprandini, Peter Fill, Stefano Gross, Christof Innerhofer, Manfred Moelgg, Dominik Paris, Riccardo Tonetti

 

Women

Marta Bassino, Federica Brignone, Chiara Costazza, Irene Curtoni, Nadia Fanchini, Sofia Goggia, Manuela Moelgg, Johanna Schnarf

 

the remaining 5 spots will be decided after the last world cup races before the Games start...

[intoronto 5,641]

I really don't understand why countries decline team event quotas. Literally anything can happen!