mrv86

Hi everyone, with most of the sports' qualification documents released I did my own qualification simulation for all events including Tripartite places based on latest rankings followed by respective World Championships.
For the simulation Russian and Belarusian athletes have been considered.
Please note Swimming quotas are based on 2025 results. Even though Athletics qualification hasn't been released I assumed it to be same as 2024. Universality places for Athletics and Swimming are indicative only to ensure 1 athlete per gender qualify in the sport.
Here is the sheet.
 

1st stop in Montreal (Feb 26th - Mar 1st):
https://divingworldcup.ca/en/

I can't state this enough, please stay safe and take care.

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

Stay safe and take care

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

They are already engaged in shootings, and they have threatened to start killing civilians

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

They are already engaged in shootings, and they have threatened to start killing civilians

They are already engaged in shootings, and they have threatened to start killing civilians

stay safe man

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

Guadalajara, the city I live in, as well as other towns in the state of Jalisco, are currently under siege by cartels.
 
Blocked roads, burnt cars, trucks and buses all around the city streets, plus armed cartel squads through the city.
 
Guess there’s not going to be repechage matches or even WC after all

Here's my personal programme, for now:
 
Alpine skiing (11)
- reinstating the individual alpine combined and the separate gender team combined becomes a mixed team combined;
- mixed team combined: 1 man downhill, 1 woman downhill, 1 man slalom, 1 woman slalom
 
Biathlon (12)
- add single mixed relay
- change the pursuit (unfair to base it on a previous sprint result), instead have a super sprint first round (interval) and a super sprint pursuit with the best qualifiers from the first round
 
Bobsleigh (2-4)
- unsure, don't like monobob for just one gender, so maybe a 4-woman instead OR just one event for each gender
- maximum of 2 sleds per NOC
 
Cross-country skiing (12)
- 50km in interval starts
- team sprint modus like in the qualifying round, instead of multiple interval legs
 
Curling (3)
no changes
 
Figure skating (5)
no changes
 
Freestyle skiing (14-16)
- remove mixed team aerials
- maybe add team big air or team halfpipe
 
Ice hockey (2)
no changes
 
Luge (5)
no additions; athletes limited to 2 per NOC in singles and 1 per NOC in doubles
 
Nordic combined (5-6)
- add women's
- one Gundersen event and one mass start (where skiing comes first) per gender
- 4x5km or 2x5km + 2x7,5km mixed team OR a team event for both genders
 
Short-track speed skating (9)
no changes; unsure about adding 3000m
 
Skeleton (3)
no additions; 1 team per NOC in the team event
 
Ski jumping (6)
- proper team event for men instead of "super team"
- maybe have a women's team instead of mixed team
 
Ski mountaineering (5)
- 2x vertical race, 2x individual, 1x mixed team sprint (remove individual sprints)
 
Snowboarding (13-15)
- add freeride
- maybe add big air or halfpipe team
 
Speed skating (14-16)
no changes; maybe add team sprints
 
 
New sports:
 
Bandy (2)
- men's/women's tournament
 
Cross-country running (3)
- men's, women's, team; MUST be contested on snow
 
Cyclo-cross (3)
- men's, women's and team; MUST be contested on snow
 
Ski Orienteering (5)
- 2x sprint, 2x long distance, 1x mixed team
 
 
TOTAL: 124-133

IIHF is just trying a new format how it would work, but so far it is a complete mess. Not sure this will have any continuation

This photo btw, Delia
 
That pain in Bruna's face is real, she said her legs felt as if her bones were about to simply snap in half but she outright refused to stop the race. She has had DNF's in the past two seasons, but that was just not going to happen in this one. No way.
 
 

Nothing sad about it at all, Regina was awesome yesterday and her finish was clearly full of happiness  
 
Like Bruna said yesterday, Regina qualifying for the Olympics was one of the highlights of the entire qualifying period. For so many years she had been ridiculed and laughed at by athletes even from small countries, because 'her technique is bad', 'she is never gonna make it' and so on. Then in Trondheim last year she basically gave a big fuck you to all of them and qualified fair and square with an amazing race  
 
 Bruna,   Sami and Regina often hang out together in the Olympic accomodation, eat together, have fun together and so on, and they had made a deal together that they would wait for each other at the finish, no matter if there was 5 minutes or 50 minutes between their finishing times  
 
I don't know if it was possible to hear, but when Regina finished, Bruna was yelling at her "You are an Olympian! You are an Olympian!!!"  
 
And then coincidence got massive: when we (my dad and sister and Bruna's parents) were on the way back to the car, we ran into some people with Regina Martinez caps and such (there were a few of these groups), got talking to them.....turns out it was Regina's mother  My dad and her spent a bit of time connecting their phones to share some photos he had (or a video of her finish, not sure), she was very happy with it!

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/TTE-LA28-Qualification-System.pdf
 
Today Added TABLE TENNIS
 
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