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Sri Lanka's biathlete for the Asian Winter Games is Sajeev de Silva, who competed in rowing at the 2010 Asian Games, then switched to archery and then finally to rifle shooting. Now he will be competing in biathlon!

I think this is a mistake. Also the list of nations is down from the original amount and I beleive Gambia is a part of this list.

World Short Course championships start tomorrow in Windsor Entry list

Instead of field hockey, this sport should be on the Olympic program

29 nations (a record high) will compete at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Iraq and Cambodia were scheduled to compete in skating disciplines but were not approved by the ISU, and Afghanistan indicated early interest but did not enter a team. Also missing is Uzbekistan, which is interesting. Bahrain China Democratic People's Republic of Korea Hong Kong China India Indonesia Iran Japan Kazakhsta Republic of Korea Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Macau, China Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Qatar Singapore Sri Lanka Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Vietnam Curling teams: Men: 6 teams (:KOR: South Korea, China, Chinese Taipei, Kazakstan, Qatar, Japan) Women: 5 teams (:KOR South Korea, China, Kazakstan, Qatar, Japan )

Their only good figure skating athlete retired very young.

Ski Sports Alpine Skiing (12) - This is a guess, (6 of each gender) Cross Country Skiing (7) - 4 men, 3 women; total guess Ski Jumping (4) - 2 men, 2 women Nordic Combined (0) - Sport is pretty much non-existent here. Freestyle Skiing (30) - Maximum team size Snowboarding (16) - Across all events Biathlon (10) - Should be a full team Skating Sports Speed Skating (14) - 7 per gender, this is arguably the weakest speed skating team I can remember from Canada (minus our Dutch friend) Short Track Speed Skating (10) - full team in each gender Figure Skating (16) - 2 in each singles category, 3 in each couples event Sleigh Sports Luge (7) - 2 in men's singles, 3 in women's, 1 doubles. Skeleton (4) - Canada's skeleton team is not where it used to be, predicting 2 in each gender. Bobsleigh (12) - Two in each event. Team Sports Curling (10) - Well this is self explanatory Ice Hockey (48) - See above Total Optimistic Prediction - (230) Total Pessimistic Prediction - (180) Total Realistic Prediction - (200)

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Vietnam in alpine skiing (they will also compete in snowboarding and figure skating at the 2017 AWG, but unlikely to qualify for 2018)

The Ghanian skeleton rider was a few seconds back of his closest competitor in his first race, so it seems highly unlikely he qualifies (unless there is a drastic improvement).

Nigeria in women's bobsled.

Its too late. The accreditation system is closed They were scheduled to compete in short track and possibly figure skating.

Cambodia was scheduled to debut at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, but cannot as the ISU still has not approved their membership

The former Soviet bloc nations

Putting things like this will make no one support your hosting ambitions.

Its not the IOC that made this decision. It is the ISSF

Could have easily added two women's event and dropped a women's event and then redistributed the quotas...

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1044030/three-mens-shooting-events-set-to-be-axed-as-issf-eye-gender-equality-on-olympic-programme

I am with you on that one. No one from the OC returns emails at all.

Canada will make an official bid Its time for the contest to come to the world's second biggest country

I'd support this

I believe they are the official ones.

Congrats to Ireland, Mexico and the other countries! With Mexico and Ireland hosting before maybe third place should host next time Jk