Dennis

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

and the first two semi-finalists

Does http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/ work in Germany? Or this one: http://nos.nl/livestream/2159318-studio-sport-schaatsen-wk-sprint.html ?

12 different countries winning a medal at these World Championships

Kramer is now a 19-times world champion

Well, we sort of made up for it by defeating Germany today in Germany.

Completely agree with everything you said. Polling was indeed very unlucky to draw an opponent who doesn't compete much during the years and therefore was not seeded, but who in the end won the gold medal.

Yes, the women's hockey team was unlucky in the final. They played way better than GBR, but GBR was more effective and managed to score 3 goals. The swimming team was just disappointing, bar the marathon swimmers. The 4th place in the 4x100m relay was sort of expected, but we all hoped for bronze. Individually, only Ranomi Kromowidjojo was close to reaching her potential. So there's already a lot of discussion going on on how to move forward from here.

12th place, with all countries above us having (far) bigger populations.

All of our 4 teams made the semis in their respective tournaments, but 3 teams finished 4th (Women's volleyball, women's handball and men's field hockey) Overall, most surprised by Italy's medals. Denmark, USA, Russia, and GBR also did better than I expected. Most disappointed by Mongolia, I expected way more medals from them than the two medals they won. I also expected more medals from Ukraine, Iran, Poland, and the Czech Republic. For the Netherlands, I expected more medals, but we had a lot of 4th place finished. Furthermore, some of the gold medal favorites, such as Epke Zonderland, Kim Polling, and the whole equestrian team, were disappointing. On the other hand, some nice gold medal surprises, such as Sanne Wevers on balance beam and both gold medals in marathon swimming.

Serbia!

Three Dutch guys in the semis, with some of the favorites already out. This is looking good so far.

Daudet and Strombergs already out!