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Romania did not get a reallocated quota in biathlon. Their own olympic website says that only one female is going: https://www.cosr.ro/news/jo-milano-cortina-2026-biatlon-cinci-romani-in-lupta-olimpica-pentru-autodepasire

It used to be only 65 or 70 when there were the intercontinental cup races, which gave more points.

Okay fair enough. And I am not absolving Cecchini of any blame. It goes to show you that being bad at math can cause all kinds of problems in life. It would be nice if someone told the whole story, like that Cecchini was afraid of how the Swiss might do, the Swiss. And Uhlaender was competing to take a quota from a different american. Not newsworthy I guess.

I think the title of the article should lead you to doubt the facts presented. That is pure click bait. More and more articles trying to pick up a CAN vs USA narrative when her story is about the internal american selection process.

And should be in the men's 500m as previously suspected. Strange though that they don't just say so, something about deciding at the games themselves.

the last time I remember a late appeal being successful was women's bob in 2010. And that was pretty straightforward continental representation that was missed so they got to go as an extra quota. It is hard to imagine any appeal that does not end with the american team required to fix it themselves.

So drops a quota that was given so that they could compete in the team competition. Kind of too bad but at least it went to a country that would have got it through D.5.

I noticed that Wolfgang Kindl has the opportunity to be in both the singles and doubles events for Austria. Does anyone know if they have nominated their team yet?

Kind of weird to see federations announcing their speed skating teams; the ISU has not confirmed team sizes yet. I think today is the deadline for submissions and it is possible for the ISU to reduce some of the numbers.

The other consideration is whether AIN athletes are cleared, I don't know when that happens and that could potentially open up more quotas.

Well according to FIS list is up next again, then

last Olympics the Alpine quotas kept changing, even after the Olympics started. I assume that was due in part to Covid issues and the late allotment of extra quotas while the legitimacy of some competitions were being investigated. Even 2018 the FIS continued to keep the options open, that may have been influenced by many russian qualifiers who were not cleared to compete for OAR. I believe that the FIS will continue to fill vacancies if there are unforeseen withdrawals. They do list January 26 as the deadline for entries so I assume that would be it. Unless some athletes can be registered as alternates, then they would still be possible to fill quotas I suppose.

For now. In previous Olympics changes still happened right up to the last minute. I still think that Kenya does not fill the women's quota and one more becomes available.

Happened today, Ireland changed their mind or something. A little delay to make it more dramatic for you I guess.

Last Olympics Canada only rejected a quota after they got to 8 female. Hard to say but they will probably take them.

His name is issa gachingiri laborde dit pere. Barely eligible, only in slalom.

is surprising, Simander is the only female skiier and she was pretty clear that she was retired.

Since the totals are rolling, meaning they take into account three trimesters, when the calendar year changed some scores could have gone up with older better scores dropping out of the applicable time period. But there is also something odd going on with the points. The wikipedia list does not agree with the most current 'ibu qualifying points' list, however, there is something new in that tab called 'OWG wildcards' that it does agree with. Morton, and a few others, have discrepancies that change who is in and who is out.

Last time there was only 22 of 25 filled, this time will be worse.

Good point, Mercer will finish with 1354 so I guess Rohner still needs 42 points which just requires that he finishes tomorrow.

Breakdown for the men's qualification is ..zzzzzzzzz Rohner finished off the competition for 3 quotas today Mandlbauer holds the last spot for 2 quotas, as long as he gets to the bottom tomorrow it is done. If not then Ferreira would need a top five in the EC race to make it interesting. Edelman and Brown are very close, but both are finished competing and there can be no change for the last quota now.

Broke down some numbers for the final day of woman's qualification. Monobob is done, except... For two quotas have their second best racing in the WC tomorrow. If Blizzard cracks the to 12 (and there are only 17 entries) then it is possible for her to catch Andreutti. Andreutti is racing in the EC and needs a top 11 I believe to improve her score. In the two women race for 3 quotas it is very close between Blatty and Ribi. If Blatty gets a top ten it gets really interesting. If not it is done. For the final quota(s) it looks pretty much done, Van Petegem needs a top two finish in the WC to catch up, likewise Moore needs a similar finish in the EC. No chance. If Moore had raced in the WC it might have got interesting.

qualification looks done, except does anyone know if there will be a decent field for the Asian cup races?

Yeah with Schmied failing to improve her score it really takes the drama out of it. The Uhlaender story gets possibly uglier now though with Ro finishing 20th. I believe it leaves Ro 18 points ahead of Uhlaender so the 30 points difference in Lake Placid really stings.

Exactly, why not? It will be interesting to see if Uhlaender races in Sunday's Asian Cup. Very little opportunity to improve her score but they are not giving her the opportunity to race in WC or EC tomorrow. She has 84 points as her 7th best, so there is still a very small opportunity for her to be the American no. 2. Ro only needs a 23rd place I think to stay ahead. Just noticed she did not race at all in the first four NA cup races, but was registered for two, so more to her story for sure.