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I noticed a new possibility for Olympic Qualification. Darya Dolidovich is competing in Biathlon as a refugee (from Belarus lives in Poland). Pretty sure that the Winter Olympics has never had that before. I really have no idea how realistic it is for her to get one of the wild cards but I thought it was an interesting find.

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.

olympic qualification is based on ranking points regardless of what level they compete at. 1st place at this NA cup race is about equal to 13th in a world cup race I believe.

Pretty irritating live commentary on the mixed team relay today. They keep going on about being in top 12 to make it to the Olympics when that is almost certainly irrelevant. Last Olympic cycle ranking mattered to decide who would be given an extra quota to compete in this event, right now 12 countries are eligible so they are in regardless of ranking.

Take a look at what someone did here for Tennis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_–_Qualification. Seems like it should work for you.

Kristun Gudnadottir had a 265.65 yesterday in Olos in sprint, not sure how much that helps. I think in 2022 the reallocation went 15 spots down so maybe, so maybe just teasing again. Or maybe with this new format there is less likelihood of that many reallocations, not sure.

Oh very cool. Try <!-- (content) -->, they use it for instructions for tables on soccer events, maybe it can work in a table like you have done. The end should be '- - > ' but when I put it together it makes an arrow on here for some reason

That looks really good. I would trim it down though to only show a few outside of the qualification window, seems like a lot of work to detail irrelevant skaters, but what ever you want to do is surely appreciated.

Yes, good catch. Other interesting ones right now are women's is close, there is a women competing for who seems to have a chance, and the skiier from who I incorrectly thought had already made it (but is very close). Also I noticed that Nathan Tchibozo is competing today for . I don't understand his status, he was denied release from Togo (who he had qualified for the Olympics with) and the release from the FIS said he would have to sit out a year. Then he showed up on the provisional Olympic list, for about 3 days. Now he is competing and it appears that his recent FIS point totals are all blanked out.

Those ten quotas go to NOCs who have not earned a quota yet, so they would have to have a WC result of less than 300 fis points. So you would have to guess who still out there is capable. After that the unfilled quotas go into reallocation: so men it is the top of the list down from the qualification standings, women would start at 6th (where they left off filling up to the max). look here https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/v2/quota/list/owg/cc/2026 for detailed list is who is up next.

not yet. I misunderstood how the Olympic FIS point total is achieved when there is less than 5 slalom results. He needs one more result of better than 141.14 now.