Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Jan Linha 597]

 refused 1 male and 1 female quota leaving them with 2 male competitors 

[heywoodu 15,997]

2 minutes ago, Jan Linha said:

 refused 1 male and 1 female quota leaving them with 2 male competitors 

To think their best woman actually has the A-criteria (and not from Lebanon fluke races)...

[Jan Linha 597]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

To think their best woman actually has the A-criteria (and not from Lebanon fluke races)...

Sometimes I wonder how stupid must be the internal qualification criteria ..... Sorry to speak about the strict criteria of  NOC  .... But I suppose your country is not the only having some "stupid" rules ....

[NearPup 3,480]

17 minutes ago, Jan Linha said:

Sometimes I wonder how stupid must be the internal qualification criteria ..... Sorry to speak about the strict criteria of  NOC  .... But I suppose your country is not the only having some "stupid" rules ....

is sort of on another level of wanting desperately to avoid tourists.

 

I get wanting to turn down continental quotas or base quotas for uncompetitive athletes, but it really annoys me when there are X spots available in an event, an athlete is in the top X eligible athletes and their NOC just says "nah, not good enough". It just makes the event worse.

[Jan Linha 597]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

is sort of on another level of wanting desperately to avoid tourists.

 

I get wanting to turn down continental quotas or base quotas for uncompetitive athletes, but it really annoys me when there are X spots available in an event, an athlete is in the top X eligible athletes and their NOC just says "nah, not good enough". It just makes the event worse.

It just confirms how NOCs are dropping from the original idea of the Olympics ....... Coubertin does not really have a good sleep these days ..... 

[Jan Linha 597]

For unknown reasons,  refused 2 female quotas even though the name list was announced 4 days ago including 7 female athletes. On FIS, there are only 5 female athletes confirmed .....  Not sure why or what happened. But internal information is that they qualified 7 female athletes and they also listed them as officially nominated: Kateřina Janatová, Tereza Beranová, Petra Hynčicová, Petra Nováková, Zuzana Holíková, Barbora Antošová, Sandra Schützová

[Jur 689]

4 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Sometimes I wonder how stupid must be the internal qualification criteria ..... Sorry to speak about the strict criteria of  NOC  .... But I suppose your country is not the only having some "stupid" rules ....

Spain asked for a TOP100 in the ranking or 2 top30 in WorldCup or 2 top15 in EuropeanCup, that's why they rejected the  female quota

 

More stupid is the reason why we rejected the 3rd male quota... cause they asked for two TOP20 finished in TeamSprint and they only got one... and a 21st place 

[heywoodu 15,997]

With 8 women's quota being rejected, Latvia should be getting another one now (they're 9th, but Austria rejected two and is ahead of them in the reallocation list).

[dcro 10,210]

Serbia declined all quotas.

[Olympian1010 8,228]

Wasn’t stated earlier, but  refused 1 men’s and 1 women’s quota.