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@heywoodu must be extremely happy and proud now. Congratulations, @brunamoura! So happy for you!

Can in M Individual and in W Individual enter 5 athletes in Beijing ? The rule about the extra-quota for the reigning olympic champion is still in place ? In this case in both individuals we can have 93 starters, in the sprints 92 (20x4 + 12x1) Interesting JT Boe & H. Oeberg are the only 2 active Olympic champions from the individual events in PC 2018 (the others already retired Dahlmeier, Fourcade, Peiffer and Kuzmina) So now when all this nerve-wracking qualification is finally over, let have a look thow it all ended M and will travel to Beijing with six men, and another seven countries will go with five. These will be and . , , , , , , , , and can field each four competitors. , and, with an exception, also host , earned two places through the IBU qualification points. Birkentals, Coltea, Guzik, Kiriyev, Lapshin and Wright will also travel to Beijing as sole representatives of their respective countries. Crnkovic remained the first under the line but his hope are not vompletely dead as there chances of refused quotas from previous NOCs (especially ) W Among women, and can count on six competitors, as well as , five will represent , , , , , and . Four athletes will have , , , , , , , , and . , and won two places from IBU qualification points. One for Vishnevskaya, Bendika, Ushkina, Kocergina, Lie, and 20-year-old Ukaleq Slettemark, who represents Greenland, has won a quota as well, but since the IOC does not recognize , so she will compete for . So we should have 20 classic relays for both men and women, and 21 in the Mixed Relay Sadly, Lithuania, Belgium and Poland can not field a Mixed Relay because they qualified 4 + 1 athletes, but , and host will have 4 + 2 competitors, so they can start also in the Mixed relay. Same based on the qualification points for with two women and two men qualified.

Team Canada :CA MEN: Jordan Belchos (Scarborough, ON) – Mass Start, Team Pursuit Ted-Jan Bloemen (Calgary, AB) – 5000m, 10,000m, Team Pursuit Laurent Dubreuil (Lévis, QC) – 500m, 1000m Graeme Fish (Moose Jaw, SK) – 10,000m Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu (Sherbrooke, QC) – 1000m, Mass Start Connor Howe (Canmore, AB) – 1000m, 1500m, Team Pursuit Gilmore Junio (Calgary, AB) – 500m Tyson Langelaar (Winnipeg, MB) – 1500m, Team Pursuit WOMEN: Ivanie Blondin (Ottawa, ON) – 1500m, 3000m, 5000m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit Marsha Hudey (White City, SK) – 500m Valérie Maltais (Saguenay, QC) – 3000m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit Brooklyn McDougall (Calgary, AB) – 500m Heather McLean (Winnipeg, MB) – 500m Maddison Pearman (Ponoka, AB) – 1000m, 1500m Alexa Scott (Clandenoye, MB) – 1000m, Team Pursuit Isabelle Weidemann (Ottawa, ON) – 3000m, 5000m, Team Pursuit

Our first figure skater at the Olympics in decades. She finished 16th at the last World Championships, just enough to meet the Dutch and international selection criteria.

That dude in COB's livestream talked so damn long!!! My parents and I were anxiously waiting for half an hour before we finally got to cross country! I mean, after yesterday we knew....but you never know until you KNOW

Official quota allocation list: 2-man:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_2-man_Bobsleigh.pdf 4-man:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_4-man_Bobsleigh.pdf 2-woman and women's monobob:https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_2-woman_and_Womens_Monobob.pdf

Akito Watabe (Nordic Combined) will be the flag bearer for Japan

Sweden The Winner of ”Jerringpriset” (People’s award) is Team Sweden, Equestrian, jumping. Nils Van Der Poel is #2. That’s it for tonight!

Not to be melodramatic, but Italy declining a quota in any sport, like they did here, is perhaps the biggest upset in Olympic history.

Especially after the bizarre interpretation of the rules that allowed Frimpong in last time; was it the "clean list" or something so that 60 was really 100.

IBSF released the official quota allocation list: Men's Skeleton: https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_Mens_Skeleton.pdf Women's Skeleton: https://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Images/2021-2022_Winter_Season/10_Olympic_Winter_Games_Beijing_2022/Quota_Beijing_2022/OWG_Beijing_2022_Womens_Skeleton.pdf

30 consecutive matches beating Djibouti was spectacular from Algeria but bumping into a powerhouse like and keep on winning was asking too much from them I think.

Busy celebrating the second most successful olympics ever after Beijing 2008.

Italy Daniel Grassl, men's single Matteo Rizzo, men's single Lara Naki Gutmann, women's single (Team Event only, unless she gets a reallocation spot) Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri, ice dance Nicole Della Monica & Matteo Guarise, pairs Rebecca Ghilardi & Filippo Ambrosini, pairs

surprisingly, Italy will use all of their quota also in women's snowboardcross... this is our Olympic squad (pending official announcement, but sure at 100%)... women Michela Moioli (2018 Olympic Champion) Sofia Belinghieri Caterina Carpano (surprising nominèe) Francesca Gallina men Filippo Ferrari Tommaso Leoni Lorenzo Sommariva Omar Visintin (back after fracturing an arm at the beginning of this season)

Team Women Suzanne Schulting: 500m, 1000m, 1500m, relay & mixed relay Xandra Velzeboer: 500m, 1000m, 1500m, relay & mixed relay Selma Poutsma: 500m, 1000m, relay & mixed relay Yara van Kerkhof: relay Rianne de Vries: relay Who out of Poutsma, Van Kerkhof and De Vries will skate the 1.500m will be decided later. Men Itzhak de Laat: 500m, 1000m, relay & mixed relay Sjinkie Knegt: 1000m, 1500m, relay & mixed relay Jens van ’t Wout: 500m, 1000m, relay & mixed relay Sven Roes: 1500m & relay Dylan Hoogerwerf: 500m & relay

I think they were just really surprised with that 16th place, so they decided to have a figure skater for the first time since Innsbruck 1976. Netherlands has a couple of figure skating medals, including a gold from 1964.

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Team Sabre ( Tbilisi) Gold: France Silver: South Korea Bronze: Russia Semifinals South Korea b. Russia 45-39 France b. Spain 45-34 Bronze Medal Match Russia b. Spain 45-43 Gold Medal Match France b. South Korea 45-35 Full Ranking & Results* https://www.engarde-service.com/?Organisme=hunfencing&Event=2022_01_14-17_tbiliszi&Compe=sws-eq&lang=fr&large=E *the score of the Gold Medal match in the official results service is wrong, we have the correct one (thanks to @maestro)

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Men's Team Sabre ( Tbilisi) Gold: South Korea Silver: Germany Bronze: Russia Semifinals South Korea b. Russia 45-44 Germany b. Italy 45-43 Bronze Medal Match Russia b. Italy 45-40 Gold Medal Match South Korea b. Germany 45-38 Full Ranking & Results https://www.engarde-service.com/index.php?Organisme=hunfencing&Event=2022_01_14-17_tbiliszi&Compe=sms-eq&Page=clasfinal.htm

How about Duplantis in 2021 and Van Der Poel in 2022? :P

it didn’t write clearly. Actually China get one IBU ranking quota by itself and then get one original host quota(1). In this scenario the total quotas is 105. Since China is not in top20 so IBU gave China two more additional quotas without affecting other NOCs. That’s the 1+2 and total 107 quotas.

Winter sports do need a more diverse set of tripartite quotas. Not all nations perform alpine/cross-country skiing.

Haha, I think there will be maximum 4 women at the Olympics. Weidle, Duerr, Aicher and a third women for the team event.

Just goes on to show how much IOC have done in winter sports. Now I seriously believe IOC should set aside tripartite quotas and have some unused quotas added to tripartite. I would love to see a cross country sprint event being held like 100m, preliminary heats followed by regular time trial ( with certain proportion of skieers qualifying for second stage) Initially tripartite may sound like joke to most but if a tripartite can win a medal in Tokyo Olympics then why not expect something similar may not be now or next games over a few decades.

https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/2022-olympic-games-qualifying/4Mg7ZORJkfP5zKX82xGBIp IBU stated if China ended in top20, it's 105 total quotas. If China is out of top20, it's 107 total quotas to help China reach 4 quotas per gender and attend the relay. I also just surprisingly know it and searching the IBU document and news. It writes clearly in news but I don't find the lines in qualification document.

Team Women Markéta Davidová Jessica Jislová Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Tereza Voborníková Men Michal Krčmář Jakub Štvrtecký Adam Václavík Milan Žemlička Mikuláš Karlík

Italy gave back 1 women's quota

Good for . Would have been embarrassing to not qualify a team.

to the 2nd Rd with an easy victory over Tomljanovic

Estonia: They have confirmed their quotas first, within a minute

Can we get emoji? :drama: @Sindo

With the first case of Omicron variant reported in Beijing, it's the most appropriate timing to finally announce that Olympic tickets only for invited personnels, mainly government and state-owned enterprise staff, and not for public. It's also reported that some Beijing staff got invitation but with low interest to accept and also committee promised that every match will be with spectators if it's designed so.

When I Googled her name I saw she's a figure skater, but I can't say I've really been following her results and such

her best results at the end of the year were: 5th in 2011/12 6th in 2012/13 4th in 2013/14

Yes. I believe Israel is currently the first reserve in the two-man event but Netherlands will likely reject their quota because they haven't met their own qualification standards.

Ah yes, forgot to mention this earlier, but that is correct

You can still advance if you defeat while loses against (I would say both are more than likely)

If it’s like the last time, the chart will show the initial allocated quota. A green dot means that the allocated quota has been accepted as offered (meaning none were rejected), a yellow dot will show if more quotas have been allocated than there are athletes eligible for (I think it also may show if the number of quotas accepted by a nation was less than originally allocated (ie some were rejected)), a red dot should show of a nation has rejected all quotas.

talking about the new sports arena (going to host men's ice hockey at the 2026 Olympics) and the area where it's going to be built... it's near the site where sky Italia have their offices and studios, named Rogoredo...and it's one of the most degraded and dangerous places in Milan (it's closed to a place named "il boschetto dei tossici" -the drug addicted little woods- the main spot for that kind of illegal activity in town)... this is a presentation of the project (unfortunately it's only in Italian)... https://blog.urbanfile.org/2021/09/07/milano-santa-giulia-presetto-il-progetto-scelto-per-la-nuova-arena/ San Siro instead is one of the most appreciated residential blocks in town (even if the locals hate the stadium because there's always too much traffic and noise also late at night when there are football events and especially rock concerts)...

SLOVAK ROAD TO BEIJING 2022 - SLOVENSKÁ CESTA DO PEKINGU 2022 39th Qualified Athlete VIKTÓRIA ČERŇANSKÁ - BOBSLEIGH (W MONOBOB) Premiéra monobobov bude v Pekingu aj so slovenskou účasťou Strieborná medailistka z mládežnickej Olympiády Čerňanská rozšírila slovenskú výpravu v Pekingu Slovensko bude mať na ZOH prvýkrát v histórii zastúpenie v ženských boboch. Na februárových hrách v Pekingu sa predstaví Viktória Čerňanská, ktorá získala olympijskú miestenku v súťaži monobobov. Čerňanská sa kvalifikovala na ZOH 2022 vďaka svojim umiestneniam vo Svetovej sérii. Vo svetovom rebríčku v monoboboch žien jej momentálne patrí 26. priečka. V redukovanom olympijskom rebríčku k 16. januáru sa však dostala do najlepšej dvadsiatky. Na ZOH sa kvalifikovalo v monoboboch 20 pretekárok, štyri top krajiny vyšlú do Pekingu po dve pretekárky, ostatných 12 krajín po jednej. Pre členku Juniorského olympijského tímu 2021 to bude premiéra pod piatimi kruhmi. "Ďakujem všetkým, ktorí mi pomohli sa dostať takto ďaleko, každému, kto ma podporuje a fandí mi. Bez Vás by to nešlo. Stále neverím, že prepisujem históriu ako prvá ženská bobistka zo Slovenka, ktorá pôjde na olympiádu. Uverím tomu, asi až keď tam budem," uviedla Čerňanská na svojej oficiálnej facebookovej stránke. Pri testovaní monobobov ako novej olympijskej disciplíny na zimných olympijských hrách mládeže 2020 v Lausanne získala Čerňanská striebornú medailu. Na ZOH (2002-2014) už štyrikrát štartovali slovenskí bobisti, vždy však išlo o mužské posádky vedené pilotom Milanom Jagnešákom, súčasným prezidentom Slovenského zväzu bobistov a Čerňanskej trénerom. SOŠV

Not much. No ordinary Chinese fans care about Men's Ice Hockey team's status and almost no medias following them. What I only know is that the captain is Brandon Yip and he said the matches are to inspire next generation and to attract more youngsters involved into this sport.

finished the trials and publish the team list today without surprise person. Men: Jin Boyang Women: Zhu Yi (Beverly Zhu) Pairs: Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang Ice Dance: Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu

She is, as she was part of Canada's junior team and switched.

These should be the Two-Man quotas: 3 sleds: Canada Germany 2 sleds: Austria China Latvia ROC South Korea Switzerland United States 1 sled: Brazil Czechia France Great Britain Italy Jamaica Monaco Netherlands Romania Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago becomes the 91st NOC to qualify. Netherlands should reject the quota which means that Israel would get the last spot. Croatia would be the first reserve.

The women's list is kinda worrying Look at this : Hildebrand (enough said) ; Wiesensarter or Weidel would have been undying journewomen a few years back, now they almost have a WC regular status ; Hettich is probably the most promising of the lot, which speaks for itself ; Schneider and Kebinger are already 24 and their IBU Cup performances are not particularly thrilling. Of course Preuss is still recovering, Voigt not included, but Herrmann and Hinz are reaching the end of the path with downward trajectories.

Australia has approved the Sputnik vaccine - four weeks after refusing a visa to Natalia Vikhlyantseva who was vaccinated with it and obviously had to miss AO. Australian politics is a complete joke and the hits keep on coming. https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/russian-vaccine-recognised-by-australia-c-5338790 https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/russian-tennis-player-to-skip-australian-open-over-sputnik-vaccine-20211221-p59j7j.html

Ons Jabeur pulled out of AO due to injury suffered in Sydney last week. That's actually good news for the Greek tennis fans since she was in Sakkari's section IIRC. Camila Giorgi won her R1 match vs Potapova 64 60 in surprisingly straight-forward fashion for a change.

will decline their women's quota (I believe she suffered a career ending injury in 2020)