Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[heywoodu 15,135]

18 minutes ago, dcro said:

Serbia declined all quotas.

What the hell  

 

I know there was a thing with the athletes needing to get under 70 FIS points, but I am not sure if that was as average (which at least some had) or in a single classic race or something (which neither of the women did). One man had the latter, but not sure if maybe they had different rules or something...

[Monzanator 4,498]

Everyone whose federation declines a quota should think about getting citizenship. We always send anyone who qualifies

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, Monzanator said:

Everyone whose federation declines a quota should think about getting citizenship. We always send anyone who qualifies

And honestly, rightfully so. Go Poland.

[Monzanator 4,498]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And honestly, rightfully so. Go Poland.

We do it because government funding is reliant on having any presence in these events. To get individual scholarship an athlete has to finish Top 8 in continental champs but it's all about money for the federations so these. Hence we send as many athletes as possible - sometimes even when they don't qualify on merit as evident by the swimming fiasco in Tokyo when five athletes only found out in Japan they can't start. We'll explore every loophole for a wild card entry if possible too  

[intoronto 5,637]

Ireland officially declined 2 quotas. Looks like 9 men's quotas will be reallocate.

[dcro 10,210]

Provisional reallocations for the women: .

 

We know is not interested, so can already expect theirs. Meanwhile, I can see being content with 6 skiers each, if so, move in @hckošice. is kind of iffy too, but they have only four skier now. Maybe will bow out too? This would potentially open things for and/or .

 

Looks like will miss out on the third spot by one or two places in the final analysis. @heywoodu

 

[intoronto 5,637]

Just now, dcro said:

Provisional reallocations for the women: .

 

We know is not interested, so can already expect theirs. Meanwhile, I can see being content with 6 skiers each, if so, move in. is kind of iffy too, but they have only four skier now. Maybe will bow out too? This would things for and/or .

 

Looks like will miss out on the third spot by one or two places in the final analysis. @heywoodu

Canada won't bow out. They named two alternates as well and will take them if given a quota

[heywoodu 15,135]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

Provisional reallocations for the women: .

 

We know is not interested, so can already expect theirs. Meanwhile, I can see being content with 6 skiers each, if so, move in. is kind of iffy too, but they have only four skier now. Maybe will bow out too? This would potentially open things for and/or .

 

Looks like will miss out on the third spot by one or two places in the final analysis. @heywoodu

 

I do wonder if this opens the things back up for Bendika's 30km hopes.

[intoronto 5,637]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I do wonder if this opens the things back up for Bendika's 30km hopes.

After all that drama lol..

[dcro 10,210]

39 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I do wonder if this opens the things back up for Bendika's 30km hopes.

 

34 minutes ago, intoronto said:

After all that drama lol..

Let's wait and see... I suspect Latvia may aim for quantity, even at cost of getting their quality athletes angry.