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the other consideration is that both genders may use the maximum. Last Olympic cycle they both were at (or below) maximums before additions for relay teams, previous to that the maximum number was higher. So it is possible that they may have to reduce by two male and one female specifically.

I did a deep dive into FIS council meetings and found the following (forgive me if this has been brought up before): https://assets.fis-ski.com/f/252177/x/f4a7f510a1/2025_09_24_fis_council_summaryminutes.pdf Nathan Tchibozo's change to was approved, so he does not have to sit out. However, for some reason his OWG eligibility listing only has his races he competed for his new NOC (where he is basically one race short of qualifying), this is not true of Anastasia Papathomas and Piera Hudson, who were approved at the same time. Weird right? And for I don't know where the legalities are right now but the FIS voted no to any inclusion of Russian or Belorussian athletes in October: https://assets.fis-ski.com/f/252177/x/25cbbd615b/2025_10_21_fis_council_summaryminutes.pdf It is interesting that the member nations who host events could deny AIN participation at their discretion and the motion still failed.

I think the qualifying document says which are the last assigned quotas: D.2.2; the fifth assigned quota for teams who qualified in relay. That comes after the distance quotas. So according to your qualifications the lowest ranked (points) to receive the 5th quotas are: all from the women's side. Not 100% on this, but it follows the order that they give. Depending on whether you think distance allocation is completed in D.2.1. or D.2.3.

The comparison to tennis is a good point.

So you believe that AIN is an NOC, not individuals competing? You could be right, the FIL has published no communication or rules on how they are handling them. We will have to wait until they publish an Olympic qualifying standing to know for sure I suppose.

oh i see. I wondered if there was something wrong with the doubles or something.

what do you see that is wrong?

I don't think we will know until they publish something, so far nothing. We also don't know if all the russian (or AIN) athletes can qualify, or just one per event like in other sports. Hopefully they will tell us soon.

A very odd thing showed up on the FIS provisional list today; for some reason they have just added 1 quota to without any of their athletes competing in a world cup event or last year's world championships. Jon Visser appears to be good enough, but I don't understand this addition to the quota list.

Do you think the FIS will show them as qualified on their lists? Or will they wait until December 14th in case their is more than 10 NOCs who make the standard in this window for qualification?

Do you know anything about Nicolas Claveau-Laviolette? First race representing after being eligible for but no chance of making the Olympic team.

Nicolas Claveaux-Laviolette, who competed for until this season, should make it easily.

Ties are broken by who has the single best result (so 6th 7th right now), If that is equal who has the single best time during qualification (so 4:12.716 to 4:09.233).

that penalty by Sellier will be costly for Very small chance of 3 quotas in women's 1000m now and unless some miraculous happens in the 500m that will drop them from 5 to 4 overall (for their women). Big result for Seregina Likely adds a 1000m quota, but unless she advances to the semi-finals she will not be the olympian for them.

anybody know why Kim Boutin did not skate in the 1000m QF. She qualified and is just absent without explanation as far as I can see.