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Before the tournament, Jorien said she wouldn't skate the 500m if she would qualify for all distances, as she is also skating the 1.500m (and maybe the team pursuit) on the short track. Maybe now that she has not qualified on the 1.500m on the long track, she might consider skating the 500m anyways. However, the 500m is one day after the 1.500m shorttrack, the day before the qualifications of the team pursuit on the long track and two days before the team pursuit on the short track. If not, Lotte van Beek is the next on the list, I guess (13th on the 500m this week). She also skated the 500m in Sochi, as not enough 500m specialists qualified due to the matrix back then either. However, as said, the 500m is the day before the team pursuit. As Jorien seems to be out of shape, she might be considered to join the team pursuit team as well as she was also part of the team in Sochi. Guess we'll have to wait to find out what will happen.

According to the NOS, Achtereekte is sure. Das still has to wait. However, all big favorites have qualified and with the qualified athletes, we can build a good team for the team pursuit. So I doubt that Das won’t make it. If either Antoinette de Jong, Wüst or Achtereekte finishes top 2 tomorrow on the 5.000m, I think Letitia de Jong (Wüst’s girlfriend) will also qualify as #3 on the 500m.

I think he also thrives on fast ice, such as Calgary and SLC, whereas Sven is usually better on the sea-level rinks. The men's 5.000m can be really exciting, if Sven manages to qualify. One off-day at the end of December and he might not be in.

Yeah, wouldn't say that the men's pursuit team is a lock either.

Ted-Jan Bloemen skating a new WR on the 5.000m! Sven Kramer is no longer a WR holder.

This is an overview of how the quota for the women have been allocated based on my calculations. There could of course be errors in this. Country 500 1.000 1.500 3.000 5.000 Mass Start Team Pursuit Total 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 Yes 10 3 3 3 2 2 Yes 8 1 2 2 2 1 1 8 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 Yes 10 2 1 2 5 3 3 3 3 2 2 Yes 10 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 Yes 8 3 3 3 3 2 2 Yes 10 1 2 2 1 6 1 1 3 3 1 Yes 8 3 3 3 2 2 2 Yes 10 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 8 Total 32 32 32 24 12 24 8 120 In case a NOC has been allocated quota in all events, the maximum number of quota is 10. In all other cases, the maximum is 8. 120 quotas have been allocated, but no more than 80 female skaters will be allowed to compete in Pyeongchang. However, if for the men, the respective IOC Quota target number of 100 is not reached according to the qualifying system, the unused number of quota places will be credited and added to the quota of the women. I think there will be only around 80 athletes anyways, for example: I'd expect only to send one athlete who will skate all distances for which they have earned a quota. All 10 quota places have been earned by only 4 different skaters (Dannhauer, Hirschbichler, Dufter and Pechstein); will send no more than 3 skaters normally (Sáblíkova, Erbanova, Zdráhalova); Bergsma and Bowe will skate multiple distances; will be represented by Njåtun and Bøkko only, normally speaking; Both Takagi sisters have earned a quota in 4 different distances.

Women's 3.000m and 5.000m quota, according to my calculations: Maximum quota per NOC = 3 (3.000m) / 2 (5.000m); Maximum quota for this distance = 24 (3.000m) / 12 (5.000m); Maximum number of female speed skaters in Pyeongchang = 80. 3.000m 5.000m World Cup Ranking Natalia Voronina Martina Sáblíková Claudia Pechstein Ivanie Blondin Antoinette de Jong Anna Yurakova Isabelle Weidemann Miho Takagi Marina Zueva Irene Schouten Ireen Wüst Fuyo Matsuoka Carlijn Schoutens Nana Takagi Brianne Tutt Francesca Lollobrigida Natalia Voronina Martina Sáblíková Claudia Pechstein Ivanie Blondin Antoinette de Jong Anna Yurakova Isabelle Weidemann Miho Takagi Time Ranking Jiachen Hao Karolina Bosiek Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus Roxanne Dufter Ida Njåtun Nikola Zdráhalova Mei Han Luiza Zlotkowska Esmee Visser Nana Takagi Marina Zueva Carlijn Schoutens Reserves Dan Li Stephanie Beckert Bo-Reum Kim Olga Graf Jelena Peeters Mia Manganello Jelena Peeters Nikola Zdráhalova Francesca Lollobrigida Stephanie Beckert Magdalena Czyszczon Camilla Lund Miho Takagi managed to earn a quota for Japan on the 5.000m without even skating one international 5.000m race this year. Total quota: 3.000m: x1; x3; x2; x2; x2; x1; x3; x3; x1; x3; x2; x1 5.000m: x1; x2; x1; x1; x2; x2; x2; x1

Men's 1.000m quota, according to my calculations: Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 36; Maximum number of male speed skaters in Pyeongchang = 100. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Kai Verbij Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Vincent de Haitre Denis Yuskov Kjeld Nuis Thomas Krol Pavel Kulizhnikov Mika Poutala Alexey Yesin Joey Mantia Alexandre St-Jean Shani Davis Jonathan Garcia Tae-Yun Kim Tae-Bum Mo Takuro Oda Joel Dufter Nico Ihle Ignat Golovatsiuk Taro Kondo Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Haralds Silovs Daniel Greig Konrad Niedzwiedzki Jae Woong Chung Denny Morrison Sebastian Klosinski Piotr Michalski Stanislav Palkin Marten Liiv Denis Kuzin Konrád Nagy Fedor Mezentsev Pedro Causil Henrik Fagerli Rukke Mirko Giacomo Nenzi Pekka Koskela Reserves (max. 6): David Andersson Hubert Hirschbichler Mathias Vosté Tao Yang Darren Ta-Yuan Huang Bart Swings Total quota: x1; x1; x3; x1; x1; x2; x2; x1; x1; x2; x3; x3; x1; x3; x2; x3; x3; x3

Women's 1.000m quota, according to my calculations: Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 32; Maximum number of female speed skaters in Pyeongchang = 80. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Nao Kodaira Miho Takagi Heather Bergsma Yekaterina Shikhova Vanessa Herzog Marrit Leenstra Olga Fatkulina Karolina Erbanova Hege Bøkko Brittany Bowe Yu-Ting Huang Hong Zhang Jorien ter Mors Natalia Czerwonka Angelina Golikova Arisa Go Lotte van Beek Qishi Li Kaylin Irvine Sang-Hwa Lee Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Seung-Hi Park Gabriele Hirschbichler Heather McLean Ida Njåtun Ruining Tian Yekaterina Aydova Brianne Tutt Hyun-Yung Kim Judith Dannhauer Roxanne Dufter Nikola Zdráhalova Sugar Todd Reserves (max. 6): Yvonne Daldossi Karolina Bosiek Francesca Bettrone Tatsiana Mikhalava Martina Sáblíková Martine Ripsrud Total quota: x1; x3; x3; x2; x3; x3; x1; x3; x3; x2; x1; x3; x1; x3

Kodaira skating a World Record on the 1.000 meter

Women's 500m quota, according to my calculations: Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 32; Maximum quota for women for all distances combined = 80. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Nao Kodaira Sang-Hwa Lee Vanessa Herzog Karolina Erbanova Angelika Golikova Arisa Go Marsha Hudey Olga Fatkulina Brittany Bowe Heather McLean Erina Kamiya Jing Yu Hege Bøkko Min Sun Kim Hong Zhang Heather Bergsma Judith Dannauer Hyun-Yung Kim Kaylin Irvine Sugar Todd Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Marrit Leenstra Yekaterina Aydova Letitia de Jong Ruining Tian Yu-Ting Huang Janine Smit Yvonne Daldossi Elizaveta Kazelina Gabriele Hirschbichler Elina Risku Francesca Bettrone Natalia Czerwonka Reserves (max. 6): Kseniya Sadovskaya Martine Ripsrud Nikola Zdráhalova Ida Njåtun Alexandra Ianculescu Kaja Ziomek Total quota: x1; x3; x3; x1; x1; x2; x2; x3; x1; x3; x3; x1; x1; x3; x1; x3

Men's 500m quota, according to my calculations: Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 36; Maximum quota for men for all distances combined = 100. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Ronald Mulder Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Kai Verbij Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Mika Poutala Hein Otterspeer Daichi Yamanaka Ruslan Murashov Laurent Dubreuil Artur Was Min Kyu Cha Gilmore Junio Nico Ihle Pavel Kulizhnikov Jun-Ho Kim Tingyu Gao Mitchell Whitmore Ryohei Haga Artyom Kuznetsov Tae-Bum Mo Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Joji Kato Piotr Michalski Pekka Koskela Artur Nogal Henrik Fagerli Rukke Ching-Yang Sung Roman Krech Jonathan Garcia Daniel Greig Kimani Griffin Pedro Causil Mirko Giacomo Nenzi Ignat Golovatsiuk Bjørn Magnussen Jiaxuan Xie Fedor Mezentsev Reserves (max. 6): Stanislav Palkin Tao Yang Mathias Vosté Harri Levo David Andersson Joel Dufter Total quota: x1; x1; x3; x2; x1; x2; x1; x1; x3; x2; x3; x3; x3; x3; x3; x1; x3 Mezentsev and Palkin tied in the time ranking with 35,23. As they are from the same NOC, no draw is needed to allocate the final quota.

Summary of quota in Mass Start: Women: x1; x1; x2; x2; x1; x1; x1; x1; x2; x2; x2; x2; x1; x2; x1; x2 Men: x1; x2; x1; x1; x2; x1; x1; x2; x2; x1; x2; x1; x2; x1; x2; x1; x2 So 21 different countries qualified for the mass start.

Mass Start quota: Women Men World Cup Ranking (Top 24) max. 2 per NOC Francesca Lollobrigida Claudia Pechstein Dan Guo Ayano Sato Elena Moeller Rigas Ivanie Blondin Francesca Bettrone Dan Li Mia Manganello Bo-Reum Kim Nana Takagi Keri Morrison Saskia Alusalu Heather Bergsma Elizaveta Kazelina Victoria Filyushkina Vanessa Herzog Irene Schouten Nikola Zdráhalova Janneke Ensing Marina Zueva Ji Woo Park Ramona Härdi Magdalena Czyszczon Seung-Hoon Lee Livio Wenger Andrea Giovannini Bart Swings Reyon Kay Joey Mantia Jaewon Chung Alexis Contin Peter Michael Olivier Jean Haralds Silovs Hongli Wang Danila Semerikov Linus Heidegger Simon Schouten Viktor Hald Thorup Koen Verweij Shota Nakamura Ryosuke Tsuchiya Ruslan Zakharov Stefan Due Schmidt Allan Dahl Johansson Brian Hansen Konrad Niedzwiedzki Reserves (max. 6) max. 2 per NOC (incl. World Cup Ranking) Luiza Zlotkowska Gemma Cooper Natálie Kerschbaummayr Fiola Feichtner Laura Gomez Tatsiana Mikhailava Riccardo Bugari Dmitry Babenko Armin Hager Roland Cieslak Vitaly Mikhailov Daniel Zapata

Quota for the Team Pursuit: Women: World Cup Ranking (Top 6): Time Ranking (Top 2): Reserves (max. 3): made it on their own merit, having set a time 0,05 faster than Men: World Cup Ranking (Top 6): Time Ranking (Top 2): Reserves (max. 3):

The same for the men's 1.500m Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 36; Maximum quota for women for all distances combined = 100. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Denis Yuskov Koen Verweij Joey Mantia Thomas Krol Allan Dahl Johansson Vincent De Haitre Sverre Lunde Pedersen Sindre Henriksen Takura Oda Min Seok Kim Denny Morrison Kjeld Nuis Konrad Niedzwiedzki Haralds Silovs Shani Davis Sergey Gryaztsov Tara Kondo Brian Hansen Jan Szymanski Bart Swings Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Andrea Giovannini David La Rue Zbigniew Bródka Seung-Hoon Lee Sergey Trofimov Shane Williamson Livio Wenger Peter Michael Nicola Tumolero Patrick Beckert Fedor Mezentsev Alexis Contin Konrád Nagy Reyon Kay David Andersson Denis Kuzin Reserves (max. 6): Moritz Geisreiter Hyong-Jun Joo Alemasi Kahanbai Marten Liiv Mathias Vosté Wei-Lin Tai Total quota: x1; x3; x1; x1; x1; x2; x3; x2, x2; x1; x3; x3; x2; x3; x3; x1; x1; x3

Will do the same for the men's ranking.

If I counted correctly, these are the women whose results are good enough to be allocated a quotum for their NOC on the women's 1.500m. Maximum quota per NOC = 3; Maximum quota for this distance = 32; Maximum quota for women for all distances combined = 80. World Cup Ranking (20, max. 3 per country) Miho Takagi Marrit Leenstra Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova Lotte van Beek Ayaka Kikuchi Antoinette de Jong Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus Heather Bergsma Brianne Tutt Roxane Dufter Ida Njåtun Jiachen Hao Kali Christ Nikola Zdráhalova Ivanie Blondin Natalia Voronina Yu-Ting Huang Britanny Bowe Natalia Czerwonka Time Ranking (max. 3 per country, including the World Cup Ranking) Gabriele Hirschbichler Nana Takagi Vanessa Herzog Martina Sáblíková Luiza Zlotkowska Mia Manganello Hege Bøkko Yekaterina Aydova Qishi Li Ruining Tian Marina Zueva Jelena Peeters Reserves (max. 6): Francesca Lollobrigida Seon-Yeong Noh Michelle Uhrig Francesca Bettrone Tatsiana Mihailava Bo-Reum Kim Total quota: x1, x1, x1, x3, x3, x2, x2, x3, x1, x3, x2, x3, x3, x1, x3 No one from the host country here.

The system is quite simple for the mass start: the top 24 athletes in the world cup standings earn a quota, with a maximum of 2 per country. After this World Cup in Calgary, Gemma Cooper will be in 24th place, no matter what the outcome will be in the final tonight, as Gemma has 8 points and all 16 finalists will get at least 10 points, even if they will be disqualified tonight. With one more World Cup to go, next weekend in Salt Lake City, it will be exciting to see if Gemma can make it.

Based on the standings after the World Cup in Calgary, these teams would qualify for the team pursuit, if my calculations and understanding of the qualification criteria are correct. Country Women Men Host Country World Cup Ranking Time Ranking Reserves

The Netherlands won the Hockey World League by winning all 6 matches with a goal difference of +18, without any of their opponents scoring a single goal against them. Group phase: 4 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 0 Final rounds: 4 - 0 (QF) 2 - 0 (SF) 3 - 0 (F) With winning the bronze medal by defeating the Olympic champions from (well won the gold in Rio, but all players were from ), all three medalists of this Hockey World League were in the same group.

Harimoto will take part in the YOG? So Wang and Lin will fight for silver then.

Blaak! 3/3 in elite individual events this WCH so far.

And Ranomi took her world record back. First woman ever to swim sub 23 seconds!

Not really contributing to this topic, but just wanted to highlight these comments, haha