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Exhibit 154 that the A/B division and how points are awarded is dumb. DNFing the A division shouldn't give more points than actually competing in the B division.

The fundamental problem here is the IOC standing firm by a completly arbitrary 2900 athlete cap. A lot of problems would be instantly fixed if we went up to, say, 3500 (and cut cost elsewhere, maybe we can give some less perks to IOC members) Some of the quota cuts have been good, there was definitively some fat to cut (we did not need 40 men to compete in the men's snowboard half-pipe). But we are getting dangerously close to the muscles and the bones with these cuts, arguably we are already there (figure skating, ski jumpin and nordic combined cuts in particular)

At the pro level (NHL) 20 players dress every game - 12 forwards (4 lines of 3 forwards), 8 defensmen (3 pairs of 2 defensmen) and 2 goalies. You kinda need a third goaltender in a tournament setting (because if the starter goes down you still need a backup, and it's such a specialized position that you can't really get anyone else to fill in), and you also need one spare forward and defensman for when you need to do a healthy scratch. So 23 players is sort of the "default" roster size. It was expanded to 25 sort of as a compronise - previously the roster size was 23 (still is for the women, though that will likely expand to 25 in 2030), but you were allowed to do emergency injury replacements during the tournament. Now, the roster is bigger (25) but you are not allowed, under and circumstances, to add a player after the tournament starts.

Canada accepted two further re-allocation quotas in women’s alpine skiing. Up to 8.

Assuming there is a next time for him.

Italy already had free quotas in freestyle. All the ones they returned were due to a lack of eligible athletes. Ski half pipe has fairly high minimum requirements because of, ya know, that San Francisco mayoral candidate turned Israeli skeleton slider.

The US Freestyle Skiing federation *hates* ski cross xD It is really baffling that ski cross quotas and quotas for moguls / aerials and park and pipe come from the same place. If I can get on my little soap box for a second, Moguls & Aerials should be one discipline (maybe... freestyle skiing), snowboardcross and ski cross combined should be one discipline and park and pipe (half-pipe, big air, slopestyle, the inevitable rail event we're getting soon) should also be a combine discipline and alpine snowboarding should be a discipline. Makes no sense for ski cross to be under the freestyle skiing umbrella.

Nope! We don't know yet, could still theoretically get one or two more Alpine Skiing quotas. But currently we are at an even 200, 100 men and 100 women. No, really. Not kidding. (200 is accounting for the one alpine quota and the one cross country quota that Canada has already accepted through re-allocation)

Canada just officially qualified its 200th athlete.

Canada has accepted a woman's re-allocation quota in both alpine skiing and cross country skiing.

Literally only one quota turned down in all of snowboarding: the host quota in the women’s half-pipe, which does not have any eligible athlete for.

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There seems to be a lot less appetite to turn down quotas this time around.

Looks like there will be very few re-allocations this year. I would not be surprised if the two re-allocated quotas got already is it. I'm not even all that optimistic about men's snowboard halfpipe (where Canada is first on the list).

You should ask their federation, they haven't confirmed or turned down their quotas yet xD They have enough eligible skiers to do so if they want.

Very few so far. Men: Women: must both decline at least one.

With turning down their women's quota in cross country skiing it looks like will get a seventh women's quota in cross country.

In general we are getting a whole lot less rejected quotas than in 2022 (which makes sense given that whole Olympic cycle was all kinds of weird) It also looks that with quotas being harder to earn than they used to be countries are less likely to reject them.

has now accepted all initial quotas in every discipline except Freestyle Skiing (where, because of very stupid qualification rules, need to turn down seven :< )

I believe is first reserve for a woman's spot? If so they should get it since is planning on not using their sixth woman's quota.

All initial alpine skiing quotas accepted.

Skeleton team will be named Wednesday.

Real changing of the guards, four athletes making their Olympic debut.

They should probably be upset at the FIS for the really ridiculous way quotas 2 and 3 are assigned xD

As they should!