Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games

[hckošice 15,127]

WOMEN'S SINGLES

 

Qualified Nations:

1. Australia - Jackie NARRACOTT 
2. Austria - Janine FLOCK
3. Belgium - Kim MEYLEMANS
4. Canada - Jane CHANNELL
5. Canada - Mirela RAHNEVA
6. Canada - Elisabeth VATHJE
7. Germany - Anna FERNSTAEDT
8. Germany - Tina HERMANN
9. Germany - Jacqueline LOELLING
10. Great Britain - Laura DEAS
11. Great Britain - Lizzy YARNOLD
12. Japan - Takako OGUCHI
13. Latvia - Lelde PRIEDULENA
14. Netherlands - Kimberley BOS
15. Nigeria - Simidele ADEAGBO
16. Romania - Maria Marinela MAZILU
17. South Korea - Sophia JEONG
18. Switzerland - Marina GILARDONI
19. United States - Katie UHLAENDER
20. United States - Kendall WESENBERG

 

Total Athletes Qualified  20

Total Nations Qualified  14

[intoronto 5,903]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1060949/cas-dismiss-virgin-islands-olympic-committee-appeal-over-pyeongchang-2018-skeleton-place

 

I don't understand the criteria!

[Jur 687]

So, there's place for 12 north korean hockey players but IOC can't make room for a usual World Cup competitor from a small and exotic country with no other competitors at this game. Sometimes IOC is dificult to understand for me. If there are cases where the rules "can" be break are cases like this one.

 

 

Also, why is the men's skeleton field so big? Is not like this is a sport werethe women are not competitive.

[intoronto 5,903]

  On 2/3/2018 at 2:14 AM, Jur said:

So, there's place for 12 north korean hockey players but IOC can't make room for a usual World Cup competitor from a small and exotic country with no other competitors at this game. Sometimes IOC is dificult to understand for me. If there are cases where the rules "can" be break are cases like this one.

 

 

Also, why is the men's skeleton field so big? Is not like this is a sport werethe women are not competitive.

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More like the IBSF allowing Nigeria to compete ranked much lower. SO if she can qualify why not ISV?

[Dragon 1,899]

If I could I would increase the women's field to 30 and cut the maximum entries per country in some of the skiing events from 4 to 3

[Jur 687]

  On 2/3/2018 at 2:31 AM, intoronto said:

More like the IBSF allowing Nigeria to compete ranked much lower. SO if she can qualify why not ISV?

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African quotas in Skeleton/Bobs are a joke. It's a risky sport to be giving quotas to athlete with no much international competition just because there's no oke more on this continent....

[Jur 687]

  On 2/3/2018 at 3:05 AM, Dragon said:

If I could I would increase the women's field to 30 and cut the maximum entries per country in some of the skiing events from 4 to 3

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In freestyle/snowboard is the most obvious for me, 3 per country should be the maximum.

[intoronto 5,903]

  On 2/3/2018 at 4:48 AM, Jur said:

African quotas in Skeleton/Bobs are a joke. It's a risky sport to be giving quotas to athlete with no much international competition just because there's no oke more on this continent....

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Even then, the rules were adjusted to remove athletes from countries already qualified. SO how does ISV not get a quota then, if she was ranked higher than Nigeria?

[Dimast 88]

  On 2/2/2018 at 9:38 PM, hckosice said:

WOMEN'S SINGLES

 

Qualified Nations:

1. Australia - Jackie NARRACOTT 
2. Austria - Janine FLOCK
3. Belgium - Kim MEYLEMANS
4. Canada - Jane CHANNELL
5. Canada - Mirela RAHNEVA
6. Canada - Elisabeth VATHJE
7. Germany - Anna FERNSTAEDT
8. Germany - Tina HERMANN
9. Germany - Jacqueline LOELLING
10. Great Britain - Laura DEAS
11. Great Britain - Lizzy YARNOLD
12. Japan - Takako OGUCHI
13. Latvia - Lelde PRIEDULENA
14. Netherlands - Kimberley BOS
15. Nigeria - Simidele ADEAGBO
16. Romania - Maria Marinela MAZILU
17. South Korea - Sophia JEONG
18. Switzerland - Marina GILARDONI
19. United States - Katie UHLAENDER
20. United States - Kendall WESENBERG

 

Total Athletes Qualified  20

Total Nations Qualified  14

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And where is Elena Nikitina? IOC is afraid that she will win a medal? Or because Cathy Uhlander from US doesnt like Nikitina?

[dcro 10,210]

They should have the same reallocation criteria as luge, meaning that ISV would get priority over JPN/ROU as they were still unrepresented in skeleton...

 

And yeah, I'd advise ISV to start making nuclear weapons before 2022.

Edited February 3, 2018 by dcro