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Spring Nationals, Day #5 (final)
 
finally, the last day of the championship's MVP goes to a man, Simone Cerasuolo
 
the best result of the day, in fact, came from the men's 50m breaststroke, where Cerasuolo beat Martinenghi in an excellent 26.59 (26.78 for the 100m Olympic champion)
of course, both earned an official ticket to Singapore
Ludovico Viberti was 3rd with 27.01
 
today's last races (lots of withdrawals, unfortunately):
 
women's 50m breaststroke: 1.Anita Bottazzo, 30.42; 2.Arianna Castiglioni, 30.58; 3.Lisa Angiolini, 30.63...good and exciting race, but nobody matched the required time to book a ticket for the world champs, which means that Benedetta Pilato, who was completely out of shale this week, still has a chance to sneak in into the team at the Settecolli meet later in June
 
women's 400m free: 1.Simona Quadarella, 4.08.50...easy task for Quadarella against a very modest bunch of opponents
 
men's 400m IM: 1.Pier Andrea Matteazzi, 4.16.12...with Razzetti and Mantegazza pulling out at the last minute, the title goes to the veteran Matteazzi in a quite modest race (even if close enough to close an eye on the final clocking)
 
women's 200m back: 1.Francesca Romana Furfaro, 2.11.64
 
men's 1500m free: 1.Matteo Diodato, 14.58.88...life isn't easy after the Paltrinieri era
 
women's 50m fly: 1.Viola Scotto Di Carlo, 26.35
 
last event of the meet, the men's 4*100m relay...Frigo, D'Ambrosio and Zazzeri all around the 48.5 mark in the first leg, Miressi, Conte Bonin and Deplano all around 48.2/48.4 in the internal legs, just to confirm the individual race's values and the worrying perspective for our national relay looking forward to the world champs

Iceland wins their first European championships medal, and it's gold - Eygló Fanndal Sturludóttir is the winner of women's 71 kg

Spring Nationals, Day #2
 
sleepy and somehow disappointing day in Riccione...until the last individual race of the day, when the unthinkable happened: the next big thing in Italian swimming revealed herself well earlier than expected 
 
Alessandra Mao, in fact, despite being only 14 (not even sure she already turned 14, actually), won the National title over the women's 200m freestyle in 1.58.86 
 
given that she basically doesn't have a decent start nor turns and she's not doing any power training in the gym yet, I hope (and think) she has room to become a world star in the next few years
 
Today's other champions:
 
women's 50m back: Sara Curtis, 27.90
 
men's 50m fly: Lorenzo Gargani, 23.32
 
women's 100m fly: Costanza Cocconcelli, 58.04
 
men's 100m breastroke: Nicolò Martinenghi, 59.16 (world champ qualifying time...good to see the Olympic champion back on track, despite not in his best shape both mental and physical); in the same race, Ludovico Blu Art Viberti slept big time in the morning heats and was forced to swim in the B Final, which he won in 59.04 (but since he didn't do it in the A final, the time is not accepted as a world qualifier for now)
 
women's 200m breaststroke: Francesca Fangio, 2.23.67 (only 7/100 of a second outside the world champs qualifying time)
 
men's 100m back: Christian Bacico, 53.61

Spring Nationals, Day #1
 
men's 50m back: in Ceccon's absence, 2 youngsters dominated the field...Christian Bacico (2005) won the title and improved himself up to 24.83
Daniele Del Signore (2007) ended up in second place with 25.21
 
women's 800m free: always only Simona Quadarella...8.24.25 for her, just enough to win the title and earn herself the official ticket to the world champs next Summer
 
men's 200m fly: Alberto Razzetti easily won the race in 1.55.06 (only 7/100 outside the qualifying time), but he said he's not feeling well at all and he's worried about the next days and races
 
women's 100m breaststroke: the race of the championships in day #1. despite Benedetta Pilato gave up the final after a poor heat performance, we already have both world champs qualifiers: Anita Bottazzo won the title with a huge PB in 1.05.82, followed by Lisa Angiolini in 1.06.01. Arianna Castiglioni ended up in 3rd place and therefore she's gonna miss the world champs (at least in this race) despite a good 1.06.22
 
men's 400m free: Marco De Tullio easily won the race in 3.46.90. Summertime sadness (cit.) for a race that was always so successful for our Country and now it's one of the poorest
 
women's 400m IM: Anna Pirovano won in 4.40.77, which is her PB, but also a depressing time considered that she was just a few tenths of a second outside the old NR at the 300m mark and finished almost 7 seconds shy of said record (still held by Alessia Filippi since Beijing 2008)
 
men's 50m free: Leonardo Deplano destroyed the field, took the title home and earned the official ticket to Singapore with 21.62. all the remaining swimmers were above the 22" mark.
 
finally, in the women's club 4*100m relay, Sara Curtis swum her new PB over the distance in the first leg, she improved by half a second up to 53.72 (and she could have gone faster, if didn't "die" in the last 5/10 meters)
if she can repeat herself in the final of the individual race, this would be a qualifying time for the world champs

Final National Selection of  short track was finished
 
 
Women's top 5
1. Minjeong Choi : automatic selection 25' WCh
2. Gilli Kim 
3. Do-Hee Noh
(Relay only)
4. So Yeon Lee
5. Suk Hee Shim
 
(Reseve member 6~8th)
6. Whi-Min Seo 7. Ji-Hyun Choi 8. Ah-Reum Noh
 
Men's top 5
1. Jong-Eon Lim (2025 JWCh 3Gold)
2. Dae Heon Hwang
3. Dong Min Shin (2024 JWCh 3 Gold)
(Relay only)
4. Jun Seo Lee
5. Jeong Min Lee
 
(Reserve member 6~8th)
6. Tae-Sung Kim, 7. Kyung-Hwan Hong, 8. Gun-Woo Kim
 
 
Jang Sung-Woo 9th and Park Ji-Won 11th... both failed to make national team

Biedermann's super-suited world record is gone! 
 
Lukas Märtens Throws Down 3:39.96 WORLD RECORD In 400 Free, Breaking 2009 Super-Suited Mark

Tajmuraz with 5th ECh medal in a row
 
3 bronzes for the host is more than expected. Well done !

Hungary and Croatia have won their first-ever medals at European championships after they reached semifinals

HSBC SVNS Singapore 6/7 | Kallang, Singapore
 
Men`s:
1.  Fiji
2.  Kenya
3.  Argentina
4.  Spain
 
Women`s:
1.  New Zealand
2.  Australia
3.  Canada
4.  France
 
Ful Results
 
Argentina  and New Zealand   are the HSBC SVNS 2024-25 regular season champions in the Men`s and Women`s respectively.
 
Next and Final Stop: Los Angeles  3-4 May. Top 8 of each gender will play for the Grand Final. Teams ranked 9-12 in each gender will play with the Top 4 in each gender of the Challenger Series final standings for the Promotion/Relegation to the 2025-26 SVNS Series.
 
 
Final Standings:
 
Men`s:
1.  Argentina / 104p CHAMPIONS
2.  Fiji / 96p
3.  Spain / 88p 
4.  South Africa / 70p
5.  France / 65p
6.  Australia / 57p
7.  New Zealand / 56p  
8.  Great Britain / 50p
 
This 8 teams will play for the Grand Final in LA.
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This 4 teams will play for the Promotion/Relegation against the Top 4 of the Challenger Series in LA.
 
9.  Kenya / 36p
10.  Uruguay / 27p
11.  Ireland / 23p
12.  United States / 12p
 
 
 
Women`s:
1.  New Zealand / 116p CHAMPIONS
2.  Australia / 106p
3.  France / 80p
4.  Canada / 72p
5.  Japan / 64p
6.  United States / 58p
7.  Fiji / 46p
8.  Great Britain / 43p
 
This 8 teams will play for the Grand Final in LA.
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This 4 teams will play for the Promotion/Relegation against the Top 4 of the Challenger Series in LA.
 
9.  Brazil / 33p
10.  China / 30p
11.  Ireland / 22p
12.  Spain / 14p

This is going a very tricky decision for the ICC.
You can't really use the current world rankings because ranking points will be won or lost against teams that are not eligible for the Olympics.
I think that any country who fails to qualify because will launch an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and probably win.
 
So here's what I suggest for the six.
 
1 Possible host country place - USA - but only possible - what you do is recalculate the ICC rankings and take out all points gained against non-Olympic teams.
Then once you done this and taken out non-Olympic countries like West Indies and either England and Scotland then if the USA are in a high enough ranking position they qualify. This position could be as high as 10th or as low as 20th depending on how important the IOC and ICC see their presence in LA.
(I'm assuming that, like in curling and women's soccer Great Britain would nominate either England or Scotland as their official qualifying representatives)
USA are currently 18th
 
2 2026 World T20 champions
 
3 and 4 Asia-Pacific qualifying tournament winners and runners-up
 
5 and 6 Euro-Africa-Americas qualifying tournament winners and runners-up
 
(7) If the USA don't meet the qualifying standard then a play off between the 3rd place teams in the 2 above categories decides the final qualifiers
 
The qualifying tournament would be held under IOC eligibility rules not the ICC rules

So here are the difference between 2024 and 2028 and my opinions:
 
Aquatics
In swimming the 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly were added while the women's water polo tournament will now have 12 teams. Additionally, 11 men's athlete quotas were transferred to the women's side.
 
In general, I'm okay with the 50m events and despite women's water polo having shallow depth I am happy they are now equal to the men. The IOC still wanting to keep the core sport quotas to 10,500 is a bit ridiculous, but I'll go into that at the end. While the athlete split isn't shown for the disciplines it's quite likely swimming loses 11 men and women quotas each (maybe they might take a couple from diving/marathon swimming).
 
 
Archery
Mixed compound team was added.
 
I've been a big supporter for compound archery being added to the Olympics. Unfortunately the individual events were not added which I dislike. If you are going to have athletes in team event then they can also compete in the individual. I would like to imagine World Archery is slowly bringing the event in. Since no new athlete quotas were added recurve will have fewer archers competing. I imagine recurve will be a 48-52 person tournament. 
 
 
Athletics
Mixed marathon walk relay was removed, mixed 4x100m relay was added.
 
I feel the program has become worse with this change. Not that I felt the walk relay is important, it's not and I wish we would get the 35/50km walk, but at least it preserved some race walk. The mixed 4x100m relay adds nothing extra to the program. This will be repeated a few times, but a mixed event should not be added with the gender component unless if fundamentally changes the event. There's no need to have both a men's/women's and a mixed 4x100m relay.
 
 
Basketball
The 3x3 events will be a 12 team tournament. The athlete quota has increased by 32.
 
Great move. It was ridiculous that the event only had 8 teams so the increase was much needed. Honestly, if we weren't stuck on the 10,500 athlete limit I wouldn't mind seeing 16 teams.
 
 
Boxing
Women saw an increase of one event, equaling that of men (7 each). The weight limits of each category was slightly adjusted.
 
Equaling the event size between genders was expected and I'm glad they decided to increase the women's count rather than reducing the men. The women's athlete quota remains the same despite the event increase, but still remains the same as the men.
 
 
Football
The men's tournament was reduced to 12 teams, the women's tournament increased to 16 teams.
 
I'm glad the women's tournament is up to 16 teams. The qualification system for Europe has been brutal and I imagine Asia will be happy too. I wished they didn't reduce the men's tournament, but the 10,500 athlete quota limit forces them to do so. Ultimately, I agree with the move as the women's tournament is more prestigious.
 
 
Golf
Mixed team was added.
 
I await the chosen format, but ultimately I think it's a good idea to have the event.
 
 
Gymnastics
Mixed artistic team was added.
 
What a weird event. As mentioned before since the men's and women's team remain this is a useless event that doesn't need to included.
 
 
Modern pentathlon
The athlete quotas has been reduced by 8 (4 men and 4 women).
 
This was likely done to reach the 10,500 quota limit. Overall I dislike it, but it's not the end of the world.
 
 
Rowing
Lightweight double sculls have been removed. Coastal single sculls and coastal mixed double sculls have been added.
 
I'm not familiar with coastal sprint canoe, but from what I've seen in videos I think it will be a nice event to have. Losing lightweight double sculls is a bit of a shame and I'm not sure I would make that trade given that coastal rowing isn't well developed yet.
 
 
Shooting
Mixed team skeet was removed, mixed team trap was added.
 
The mixed team shotgun events continue to be cycled. Considering they don't use any additional quotas, I don't see why they don't just have both at the Olympics.
 
 
Sport climbing
The combined event was removed and replaced by separate lead and bouldering events. 8 additional athlete quotas were added.
 
Finally the sport has its proper individual events. I still commend the strategy of going with the combined event in 2020 as a type of Trojan horse with the idea that the IOC will want to keep it.
 
 
Table tennis
The men's and women's team events were removed. Men's and women's doubles and mixed team were added.
 
As a person who likes doubles table tennis I am happy with this change. To keep the athlete quota consistent mixed team is almost necessary.
 
 
Tennis
Mixed doubles was removed. Mixed event was added.
 
While I wasn't a big fan of the mixed doubles event (it's barely played during the ATP/WTA calendar, I don't think we need it replaced by a mixed event. The format hasn't been revealed, but I imagine it would be similar to the Davis/BJK Cup format. My fear is if they're attempting to add the event to the second week as I imagine many players will opt-out.
 
 
LA Only Sports
Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Flag Football, and Lacrosse will be 6-team tournaments and Squash will have 32 athletes (16 men, 16 women).
 
While expected, I am very disappointed that the team sports will only have six teams. You can't showcase the sport really well with such few entrants. Cricket is a great example, there are many smaller nations which play the sport, but we are likely to see only the large nations compete. Squash only having 16 athletes is also a bit small, but it's at least manageable. 
 
 
Final Thoughts
Some good, some bad moves overall. I need to stress that the 10,500 athlete limit among core sports while increasing the number of events is not sustainable. The 2000 Olympics had around 10,600 athletes yet only had 300 events. We now have 341 core events, an increase of 14%. Even if you want to argue that there was bloat in 2000, the 2024 Olympics had 327 core events, meaning we had an increase of 4% yet no new athlete quotas. While some of these new events don't need more athletes, some of them do. Honestly at minimum the athlete quota for core events needs to be increased to 11,000 while more realistically we should be closer to 12,000. If the IOC doesn't want that many athletes then they need to remove events/sports.

Well now's time for a little summary of my experience attending Stop 1.
 
Overall it was a nice experience, my first time visiting that venue in particular. It brought me some memories from my time at 2011 PanAm Games, seeing athletes from many countries. Now the venue is kind of dated, and it really needs some serious maintenance. For me it was unacceptable that the restrooms for the general public were in poor conditions, and also some sections need a fresh layer of paint, not to mention the heavy layer of dust in the ceiling. Thank God no debris fall in to the pool or on the spectators, but you may see a couple of pigeons continually flying around the swimming complex, even disrupting Mark Hrytsenko's last dive in 10m platform, before being sent away by Ruslan Ternovoi.
 
there was a pretty large number of Chinese fans on Saturday that came to support their team with flags & banners; however, their overall conduct was very poor, most of them crossing into the "top section" denying people who paid those tickets their rightful seats, ignoring and even shoving the few security elements at the venue and disrupting the general silence by replaying videos with loud sound or standing to take pictures while the divers were competing. Not that the Mexican fans were better; at times they were very disrespectful, particularly with divers preceding local competitors, since the cheered very loudly, ignoring the results (whether bad or good) of the former.
 
Among my personal highlights was the fact I had the opportunity to meet the Cuevas twins, who won a silver in 3m synchro and with only 14 are considered our next big stars in this sport, and also two time Olympic medalist in 10m synchro Alejandra Orozco, who was very active during the event, often oversawing and helping in any way needed, not to mention very kind and attentive to anyone asking for a photo. Also in attendance was Olympic figure skater Donovan Carrillo, whom I also asked for a photo.
 
I had an opportunity to see Maddison Keeney at the small cafeteria after winning a bronze in 3m synchro; she was very polite and gracious, accepting to take photos even when she needed to take a break and finish her sandwich; that same day I ran into Moritz Wesemann on my way back to my seat after getting a beer, and on the last day I almost bumped into Jack Laugher (he was going "incognito" mode while trying to decide what to grab from the food carts outside the main building).
 
So in general, I had a pleasant experience and would love to attend another event in the future. To top it off, there was a brief take of me during Sunday's men's 3m finals on WA stories, which of course I've already downloaded for keeps. I hope to find some time to upload some of the pictures I took; not the ones with me & above mentioned athletes since I'm not to photogenic, but of the few photos of the competition and the practice time that I find are worthy. 

the Italian Spring Nationals (main selection meet for the World Champs) start on Sunday in the usual location of Riccione
 
a few of our main swimmers won't participate (or won't be tapering because they are already qualified), among them Gregorio Paltrinieri and Thomas Ceccon, who's still training in Australia and he's likely to compete at the Australian Trials (despite he won't be able to swim the A finals, as far as I know)
 
however, a few youngsters are expected to step up and earn themselves some attention by our NT officials (if not a place on the team)
 
the main star of the week should be Carlos D'Ambrosio, who recently beat the old 200m freestyle short course national record held by Filippo Magnini since a very long time (2009, with the old rubber suits)
 
among the women, lots of expectations are on Sara Curtis
 
but, even if it seems a bit too early, take note of this name: Alessandra Mao (class of 2011)
many people expect her as the true "new" Pellegrini

Milano-Cortina 2026 Quota Simulation: 2024-25 Data Edition
 
Hello fellow Totallympians and welcome to another quota simulation. This time, the focus has shifted over to the winter Olympics. There's still a ski mountaineering world cup and some a few world championships to go but I thought I would post this while everyone is still in winter sports mode. I'll post minor updates if any data changes over the next month but I don't there'll be many changes. There's a few things to note before we begin.
 
Total # of NOC's
Overall, we have a total of 88 NOC's that are qualified/projected to qualify for the Olympics. This would represent a decrease of 4 NOC's from the 91 nations in Beijing although Russia and Belarus were competing separately then. On the other hand, with Russia/Belarus being limited to how many sports and how many athletes they can qualify, many of the major winter sports nations are projected to have their largest team ever.
 
Russian/Belarusian athletes
Speaking of Russia and Belarus, they are included in this simulation and just like in 2024, it was very annoying to factor them in considering they didn't compete in competitions in the last year at all (besides ski mountaineering). I've only included these athletes in the skating sports and ski mountaineering. The ISU has already announced a pathway for Russian/Belarusian athletes to qualify and neutral athletes are already competing in the ski mountaineering competitions. Russia was easy to simulate since it was safe to assume that one athlete would qualify in each event. Belarus was a bit harder and involved me looking at individual times/scores for their athletes this year. At the end of the day, I decided to include Belarusians in women's singles and pairs for figure skating and the men's 500m & 1000m along with all of the women's events in speed skating. All of the women's speed skating events may be a bit too generous but that was how it was in 2022.
 
Total # of athletes
In total, 2874 athletes are projected to qualify from this simulation. This is despite the athlete cap being at 2900. There are a few reasons for this discrepancy.
Bobsleigh: Only 162 of the maximum 170 quotas were used. Curling: Only 109 of the maximum 120 quotas were used. This is due to certain players being simulated to play in both the mixed doubles and 4 person events resulting in them taking up two quotas. Figure Skating: The additional 5 quotas allowed for the team event were used here. After simulating the final qualifying event, only Canada, France, Georgia, Italy and the USA had full teams so I gave an additional quotas to Great Britain in men's singles, Japan in ice dance, and South Korea in Pairs. Freestyle Skiing: Only 277 quotas were used here compared to the maximum 284 quotas. The women's halfpipe looks like it will have trouble filling up their 25 quotas as only 23 quotas were used and I believe 5 athletes simulated currently do not have the required amount of FIS points to be eligible. Men's aerials and women's ski cross originally had enough athletes to fill up the allotted quota. However, Canada and the USA were over the maximum limit so after simulating rejected quotas, those events didn't have enough athletes to fill the allotted quotas and women's aerials just made it. Henry Sildaru (EST) is also projected to qualify in both men's halfpipe and slopestyle/big air. Luge: Only 105 of the maximum 106 quotas were used here because Wolfgang Kindl (AUT) is projected to qualify in both men's singles and men's doubles Snowboarding: Only 237 of the maximum 238 quotas were used here. Cody Winters (USA) is projected to qualify in both PGS and snowboard cross.  
In addition, there are also 3 athletes expected to compete in multiple sports: Phillip Bellingham (AUS) in cross-country skiing and ski mountaineering, Ester Ledecka (CZE) in alpine skiing, and snowboarding, and Arianna Fontana (ITA) in short track and speed skating. Please let me know if there's any other possible athletes that could also be in this list.
 
Internal qualification procedures
Internal qualification procedures for countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand WERE NOT taken into account this time for the sole reason because it's fun seeing the Netherlands have an athlete in Nordic Combined 
 
Differences from the FIS quota simulations
If you have a look at the FIS quota simulations on their webpages for alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding, you'll notice there are some differences.
Alpine Skiing: NOC's with a man or woman that hasn't qualified yet were taken into account. If the athlete hasn't had the required amount of races to qualify but is averaging the necessary amount of points to qualify, I simulated them as qualified (e.g. Morocco). Cross-Country Skiing: FIS only simulated 138 quotas in each gender. I reallocated the remaining 10 quotas per gender based on the Olympic nations' ranking. There is a clause that if an unqualified NOC scores 300 points or less in a world cup race next season, they can qualify. However, that is very unlikely to happen (unless Russia and Belarus are invited back) since there are already athletes from qualified NOC's competing in World Cup races that get lapped. Freestyle Skiing: I took into account Canada and the USA rejecting quotas since they were both initially over the 32 athlete quota limit. I had Canada rejecting 2 quotas in women's aerials, 1 each per gender in moguls, 1 in men's halfpipe, and 2 in men's slopestyle/big air. I had the USA rejecting 1 quota in men's aerials, 1 in men's ski cross, and 2 in women's ski cross.  Snowboard: Two athletes in women's snowboard cross were not eligible to qualify and were replaced with athletes on the reserve list that were eligible.  
Speaking of athlete eligibility, there were some athletes that were simulated by FIS that didn't meet eligiblity requirements. I decided that if there was an eligible athlete on the reserve list, then the ineligible athlete would be replaced but if there wasn't an eligible athlete on the reserve list, I would keep the ineligible athlete in the quota list (e.g. Vanuatu in freeski halfpipe).
 
 
Anyways, that's enough talking. Let's begin! The numbers in brackets represent the change from the NOC's athlete total at Beijing 2022.
 
Please comment if you have any questions, thoughts or observations.
 
Africa (7 nations)
 
 Eritrea: 1 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 Kenya: 2 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Madagascar: 2 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Morocco: 1 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 Nigeria: 1 (0)
(Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 South Africa: 3 (+3)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 1)
 Togo: 1 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 
Americas (12 nations)
 
 Argentina: 8 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Luge - 1)
 Bolivia: 1 (-1)
(Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Brazil: 15 (+5)
(Alpine Skiing - 4, Biathlon - 1, Bobsleigh - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 1)
 Canada: 205 (-10)
(Alpine Skiing - 11, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 14, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 11, Figure Skating - 12, Freestyle Skiing - 32, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 6, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 2, Ski Jumping - 3, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 20, Speed Skating - 13)
 Chile: 4 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 1)
 Colombia: 2 (-1)
(Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Skeleton - 1)
 Haiti: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Jamaica: 2 (-5)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 1)
 Mexico: 3 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Puerto Rico: 1 (-1)
(Skeleton - 1)
 Trinidad and Tobago: 2 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 United States: 223 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 19, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 14, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 6, Figure Skating - 18, Freestyle Skiing - 32, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 11, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 4, Skeleton - 4, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 23, Speed Skating - 11)
 
Asia (18 nations)
 
 China: 115 (-67)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 3, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 6, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 24, Luge - 6, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 5, Ski Jumping - 6, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 16, Speed Skating - 14)
 Hong Kong: 2 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Short Track - 1)
 India: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Iran: 3 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Japan: 124 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Curling - 7, Figure Skating - 10, Freestyle Skiing - 20, Ice Hockey - 23, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 9, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 20, Speed Skating - 13)
 Kazakhstan: 43 (+9)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 12, Nordic Combined - 1, Short Track - 8, Ski Jumping - 3, Speed Skating - 4)
 Kyrgyzstan: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Lebanon: 1 (-2)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 Malaysia: 1 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 Mongolia: 2 (0)
(Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Philippines: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Saudi Arabia: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Singapore: 1 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 South Korea: 62 (-2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 2, Bobsleigh - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 8, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Luge - 1, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 11, Speed Skating - 10)
 Taiwan: 6 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Skeleton - 1, Speed Skating - 1)
 Thailand: 4 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 United Arab Emirates: 1 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1)
 Uzbekistan: 3 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Figure Skating - 2)
 
Europe (47 nations)
 
 Albania: 3 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 3)
 Andorra: 6 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Armenia: 3 (-3)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Austria: 109 (+3)
(Alpine Skiing - 22, Biathlon - 9, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 13, Luge - 11, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 4, Ski Jumping - 8, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 17, Speed Skating - 2)
 Azerbaijan: 1 (-1)
(Figure Skating - 1)
 Belgium: 32 (+13)
(Alpine Skiing - 4, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Figure Skating - 2, Short Track - 5, Skeleton - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 1, Snowboarding - 1, Speed Skating - 7)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 5 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Luge - 1)
 Bulgaria: 19 (+3)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Ski Jumping - 1, Snowboarding - 3)
 Croatia: 14 (+3)
(Alpine Skiing - 6, Biathlon - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Short Track - 2)
 Cyprus: 2 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Czech Republic: 123 (+10)
(Alpine Skiing - 6, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 4, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Ice Hockey - 48, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 5, Snowboarding - 9, Speed Skating - 4)
 Denmark: 40 (-22)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 2, Bobsleigh - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Curling - 5, Ice Hockey - 25, Skeleton - 2, Speed Skating - 2)
 Estonia: 31 (+5)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Curling - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 2, Nordic Combined - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 2, Speed Skating - 1)
 Finland: 102 (+7)
(Alpine Skiing - 5, Biathlon - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Figure Skating - 5, Freestyle Skiing - 8, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 2, Ski Jumping - 5, Snowboarding - 2)
 France: 152 (+66)
(Alpine Skiing - 17, Biathlon - 12, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 15, Figure Skating - 10, Freestyle Skiing - 18, Ice Hockey - 48, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 3, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 6, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 10, Speed Skating - 4)
 Georgia: 8 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Figure Skating - 6)
 Germany: 188 (+39)
(Alpine Skiing - 11, Biathlon - 11, Bobsleigh - 18, Cross-Country Skiing - 14, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 6, Freestyle Skiing - 11, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 12, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 6, Ski Jumping - 7, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 19, Speed Skating - 13)
 Great Britain: 55 (+5)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 8, Freestyle Skiing - 7, Short Track - 3, Skeleton - 5, Snowboarding - 5)
 Greece: 5 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 3)
 Hungary: 16 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Figure Skating - 2, Short Track - 5, Snowboarding - 2, Speed Skating - 1)
 Iceland: 4 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Ireland: 6 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Luge - 1, Short Track - 1)
 Israel: 5 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Skeleton - 1)
 Italy: 193 (+75)
(Alpine Skiing - 21, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 11, Freestyle Skiing - 10, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 10, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 3, Ski Jumping - 7, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 16, Speed Skating - 10)
 Kosovo: 2 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Latvia: 70 (+13)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 9, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Figure Skating - 3, Ice Hockey - 25, Luge - 11, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 3)
 Liechtenstein: 4 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Lithuania: 17 (+4)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Figure Skating - 3)
 Luxembourg: 2 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2)
 Malta: 1 (0)
(Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Moldova: 4 (-1)
(Biathlon - 4)
 Monaco: 5 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 4)
 Montenegro: 2 (-1)
(Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Netherlands: 43 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Bobsleigh - 4, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 1, Nordic Combined - 1, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 18)
 North Macedonia*: 3 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Norway: 91 (+7)
(Alpine Skiing - 18, Biathlon - 11, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 11, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Nordic Combined - 3, Ski Jumping - 8, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 12)
 Poland: 59 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Figure Skating - 4, Luge - 6, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 7, Ski Jumping - 5, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 9)
 Portugal: 3 (+7)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1)
 Romania: 31 (+10)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 6, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Luge - 8, Ski Jumping - 2, Snowboarding - 1)
 Serbia: 4 (+2)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2)
 Slovakia: 50 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 6, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Ice Hockey - 25, Luge - 6, Ski Jumping - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 1)
 Slovenia: 41 (-3)
(Alpine Skiing - 10, Biathlon - 9, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Nordic Combined - 2, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 5)
 Spain: 17 (+3)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Bobsleigh - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 3, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 4)
 Sweden: 117 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 12, Biathlon - 12, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 15, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 2, Snowboarding - 1)
 Switzerland: 10 (+13)
(Alpine Skiing - 22, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 16, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 3, Freestyle Skiing - 22, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 2, Skeleton - 3, Ski Jumping - 4, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 19, Speed Skating - 3)
 Türkiye: 7 (0)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Short Track - 1, Ski Jumping - 2)
 Ukraine: 46 (+1)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 6, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 8, Luge - 8, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 4, Snowboarding - 2)
 
Oceania (3 nations)
 
 Australia: 53 (+9)
(Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 1, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Curling - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 13, Luge - 1, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 12)
 New Zealand: 21 (+6)
(Alpine Skiing - 4, Freestyle Skiing - 11, Snowboarding - 5, Speed Skating - 1)
 Vanuatu: 1 (+1)
(Freestyle Skiing - 1)
 
Other (1 nation)
 
 Individual Neutral Athletes: 23
(Figure Skating - 9, Short Track - 2, Ski Mountaineering - 1, Speed Skating - 11)

Ice Dance Quotas:
 
3 quotas:

 
2 quotas:

 
1 quota:

 
 
 
 are able to send another team to the final qualifier
 
 is the team to miss out

So  all earned at least one men's quota.
 
 have the opportunity to earn 3 quotas
 
 have the opportunity to earn two quotas 

Qualified for the Olympics in women's figure skating:
 
1-3 Quotas


 
1-2 Quotas


 
1 Quota














 
Based on my reading of the qualification document will be qualified if any of fail to achieve their maximum quota but could use a second opinion there.

Medalists
Gold-  Canada (Team Homan)
Silver-  Switzerland (Team Tirinzoni)
Bronze-  China (Team Rui)
 
Olympic Quotas:
 
Full Results Here

Amazing achievement for us to cap off a remarkable winter sport season    After 3 Junior World titles and a breakthrough World Cup season, everyone here knew Tervel Zamfirov is a big name for the future, but to actually end the season with a senior World Championship Gold medal is something else.  I am not sure, but this could actually be our first senior WCH title in any snow sport!

Hey Totalympians 
 
Sorry for the long wait and no reply to your questions about prediction contests. 
 
The reason for the silence from my side has to due with the fact that me and my wife got our daughter in the beginning of December, so my time has been limited to other activities in the recent period. 
 
Due to this big change in me and my wife's life, I will not be able to do Prediction contests for a while. So I will step down as prediction contest manager and I hope one or more of you will take my place and continue doing prediction contests on the forum. 
 
Otherwise, I can recommend what @rafalgorka is doing with Prediction polls as a good alternative. 
 
I hope you all will understand my decision for stepping down as I do want to focus most of my time on my family in this new chapter of our life. 
 
Kind regards, 
Wumo

Rare win for  - Hartweg & Aita Gasparin - in the Single Mixed!  

Metalligaen Playoffs
 
Quarterfinals Pairings (Best-of-7 Series)
 
Herning Blue Fox (1) vs Herlev Eagles (8)
 
Odense Bulldogs (2) vs SønderjyskE (7)
 
Rungsted Seier Capital (3) vs Frederikshavn White Hawks (6)
 
Aalborg Pirates (4) vs Esbjerg Energy (5)

Metalliagaen
 
Regular Season Final Standings
 
Rank Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS 1 Herning Blue Fox 48 30 4 5 9 201 105 103 2 Odense Bulldogs 48 24 7 4 13 168 131 90 3 Rungsted Seier Capital 48 24 2 5 17 152 155 81 4 Aalborg Pirates 48 22 4 3 19 163 135 77 5 Esbjerg Energy 48 16 11 5 16 148 135 75 6 Frederikshavn White Hawks 48 19 5 4 20 133 144 71 7 SønderjyskE 48 17 4 10 17 164 159 69 8 Herlev Eagles 48 16 5 4 23 137 144 62 9 Rødovre Mighty Bulls 48 4 2 4 38 93 251 20  
Individual Stats
 
RS Best Scorer:  Mathias Bau Hansen (Herning Blue Fox), 69 Pts
RS Best Goal Scorer:  Morten Poulsen (Herning Blue Fox), 34 Goals

RS Best Goaltender by GAA:  Janis Fecers (Herning Blue Fox), 1.82 GAA (13 games played)
RS Best Goaltender by SVS%:  Niklas Lundstrom (Odense Bulldogs), 92.22% (21 games played)

What an athlete Tove Alexandersson. Finally she can compete for olympic medals after her previous 21 world championship golds in orienteering, 10 WCH golds in ski orienteering, 1 WCH gold in sky running and 1 previous gold in skimo.

7 points for