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GOD: Brazil, Spain, Iceland, Nigeria GOL: Russia, Peru, Iran, Panama (NO offence to anyone)

Cheyenne Goh did not advance out of the preliminaries in the women's 1500m. Out of the athletes that advanced only 2 can pass her in points. This would put her into 36th position overall. The top 36 do qualify. Canada has 4 athletes ahead of her, so in fact she is ranked 35th. There is also an athlete from Italy who did not advance who might get more points in the standings, which would drop her to 36th. So worst case scenario is she will be ranked 36th??? So that means she has unofficially qualified for PyeongChang 2018, and will be come the first Singaporean to compete in the Winter Olympics PS. I hope I am not wrong...

Andre Hamm in freestyle skiing (and their only shot at qualification) is injured. Its unlikely now the country qualifies

Not surprised. I'd bet quite a lot of money he is doping rght now!

Africa is expanding to 24 for 2019 and Concacaf is expanding to 16 as well ...

Yes, but some quotas have already been assigned.

Winter Olympic qualification tracking is boring versus the Summer Olympics... but the FIS does keep track on their website the quota standings.

is in qualification position in women's bobsleigh as of now. http://www.ibsf.org/en/rankings/rankings?season=2017&ctype=3&session=

Only Hockey and Curling so far. All other sports will be in between next week (short track speed skating) till middle of January (for all skiing disciplines).

Goh is ranked 34th (top 36 qualify) overall in the women's 1500m. One more event to go, so cross your fingers!

Too bad it was only good for 31st, as he needs at least one top 30th spot to qualify for the Olympics.

Not good for Olympic qualification standings.... also in third

Not 100% sure on this but... Cheyenne Goh of is into the semifinals (top 23) of the women's 1500m at the Shanghai World Cup. 17th place got 281 points last round. If that is the same case here and Goh isn't disqualified she would up to 24th overall in the 1500m standings (granted all other athlete's points would need to be added, but she likely would still be in the top 36 needed to qualify).

baseball great Roy Halladay has died at age 40, due to a plane crash Was privileged to view him pitch on multiple occasions. RIP

Equestrian comments from various NF's http://inside.fei.org/system/files/GA17_Annex_14.3_0.pdf Canada is not happy with any of the disciplines...

Yea ofc...my point being everyone has different tastes and this means one person's fave song might be absolute sh*t to others.

Sorry (no offence intended) but your taste in music is bad (in my opinion)... I thought the Lithuanian song for this edition was the worst song entered from all the songs I have listened for all iterations of this contest.

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These should be the field hockey teams: Men Australia India England New Zealand Canada Malaysia Pakistan South Africa Scotland Wales Women England Australia New Zealand India South Africa Scotland Canada Malaysia Wales Ghana Congrats to Ghana for qualifying for the first time ever!

Some of the athletes were in 2 categories (for ex. Nauru in 56 and 62kg) and it will be up to them to decide which category to compete in.

" The Organising Committee, POCOG, has a bigger focus on gender equality and has decided the Women’s Curling and Cross Country events will be decided on the final day of competition. Previously, the Men’s events held sway on the final day of both the Winter and Summer Games." http://pyeongchang2018.olympics.com.au/news/women-in-prime-time-in-pyeongchang-in-2018

All in the name of gender equality.

I think 2-6 is realistic for Italy. Your predictions are really optimistic.

lool

It certainly is.