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Julia Marino has switched her focus to alpine skiing.

2 more golds stripped from Russia in 2014. 4 of the 9 legit golds were won by 'bought' athletes. Pathetic.

She is already qualified along with her brother Mark.

You are just another delusional Russian.

Good luck to her! Looks like South American nations are moving their roller sports athletes to speed skating. Colombia, Chile and now Argentina. I know there are a couple Brazilians as well but not sure if they are from a roller speed skating bg.

@LDOG @konig Victoria Rodriguez broke Argentina's NR in the 500m (39.80), that time would put her as reserve 3 for Olympic qualification, but she needs to get that time at one of the two world cups. The current cut of right now is 39.53.

Also if Russia is banned.... it should move him up. ---- Also is officially now qualified!

Following nations would qualify (29 in total!):

Quota standings: http://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/speed-skating-8/2017-18/world-cups-10/series-files-16/documents/15450-qualification-of-noc-event-quota-places/file

Not yet. He has not officially qualified.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/hockey/russia-bill-khl-olympics-ban-1.4410406

They give all first ranked athletes a quota spot (to the country). When it came down to the 1500m some countries had 3 athletes already ranked higher and therefore cannot receive a quota. Edit: My bad, I just read the document again and it says spots are given to NOCs not athletes... so it appears yours is correct.

What advantage?

USA should host.

They do not need to necessarily be in the top 36. The third Italian + Second Kazakh athlete would be the 4th qualified from each nation (and thus they cannot qualify, as the max is 3 per nation). Therefore the last two trickle down to and

Wikipedia has and qualifying and on a quick glance that looks to be right (in the men's 1500m).

Big air seems reasonable... everything else sounds bad. The parallel slalom was already on the program and then removed in favour of big air.

The FIS has proposed the following for 2022 Winter Olympics inclusion Ski Jumping Mixed Team Competition (3rd application) ·Ladies’ Nordic Combined Individual Competition (gender equity) Freestyle Ski Big Air Men’s and Ladies’ (2nd application) A further six events have been submitted to the 2018 FIS Congress for eventual proposal to the IOC: · Alpine Skiing Individual Parallel Event · Freestyle Ski Aerials Mixed Team Event · Snowboard Cross Team Event · Snowboard Mixed Team Parallel Event · Snowboard Parallel Slalom · Telemark Parallel Sprint and Team Parallel Sprint Source Surprised the FIS does not want to propose Dual Moguls!

@ahjfcshfghb Coincidentally enough the FIS approved Jordan for membership yesterday!

Only 20 nations will likely qualify to compete in Short track speed skating. New for 2018: Out from 2014:

Congrats to Ireland pitty I didn't vote for it Also Americas with 5 top 10 songs!! Not too bad

Is there an update on the Egypt/Jordan situations? @ahjfcshfghb @thepharoah

Any idea why Colombia is not competing at the World Cup in Norway?

Thank you to those who voted for Canada. It was hard for me to pick 12 songs.