JoshMartini007

I assume these athletes have been tested in other labs for over a year now, were they positive? Sure there's the issue of long term effects of doping, but two seasons is a long time and you'd have to draw a line somewhere.

I know most people are focused on the Winter Olympics, but I've been collecting qualification dates and results for the Youth Olympics. Overall I'm up to date on most things except for the continental quotas for athletics and an official word as to the top 16 nations in swimming (though that's less important). I also don't have the quotas for BMX freestyle, but the qualification event was such a flop I think the UCI has to recreate something different. I'm also still looking for the qualification dates for the following continental qualifiers. * Athletics (Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania) * Beach Volleyball (Africa, Asia/Oceania) * Boxing (Africa, Asia) * Futsal (Africa, CONCACAF, South America) * Rhythmic Gymnastics (Asia) Boxing should be little trouble, I'm just waiting for AIBA's calendar to update. I suspect Asia's rhythmic gymnastics qualifiers will be revealed soon. I think Africa's athletics qualifiers will be at the African Youth Games.

It is an open event afterall...

Ignoring the max quota the following nations would be excluded from the following events (men's ski cross) (women's slopestyle) (women's half-pipe) (men's aerials) Hungary is a big one to miss out, while the others just makes the event more diverse.

Yeah, it would be a real choke if Russia didn't win. Of course it's a best of 1 so anything can happen

And in other events the bottom ranked nations would be pushed out to fill more Canadian/Americans, how is that suppose to help the sport?

I can't find the article, but I remember reading that the coach was planning to use the North Korean players as fourth liners. I don't think that's fair, the North Korean women aren't that much worse than South Korea.

The reason for the limit is to increase participation of smaller/weaker nations. Just filling the spots with more Canadians and Americans (the only nations where the limit hurt) doesn't help things. I can see the IOC reducing quotas for the sport.

So what happens to the extra quotas in ski cross and men's half-pipe? Will they go to other events?

Just three more quotas to go. is hoping someone declines.

They declined the quotas which means Peru won't be going to the Olympics

I always found slopestyle and big air/aerials to be redundant. Heck, for snowboarding the same athletes qualify in slopestyle and big air.

I imagine the FIS is closed by now. Maybe there will be an e-mail in the morning.

If South Korea receives a reallocation quota they lose their host quota? Two men's quotas needs to be filled, with Switzerland declining quotas the top nations are with third.

The USA has accepted its reallocated quota, they will be sending a full team of 22 athletes. Next team to watch is Serbia.

Yeah, we are have a good chance at going beyond the 100 places. If we remove the nations which declined some of their quotas (and the nations which are over the limit) we are left with 30 spots. (Sadly Chile is currently 27th with only 26 spots remaining and that's without Kenya and Togo confirming) Here is the list order Slovenia can gain up to 7 more quotas

Honestly I'd cross off any nation which took fewer athletes than they were given and start from there.

Group C makes things a bit easier. Russia/Ukraine will get the team quota, after that there isn't too much competition.

Sweden declined one spot and the team quota.

Oceania rowing qualifier finished Boys' single sculls - Girls' single sculls - Kiribati benefited from the lack of New Zealand.

Thanks. I'm not surprised, our equestrian federation is relatively underfunded to the talent we have (most riders are rich anyway so they feel they can afford it). Croatia is in Group B correct? (why does FEI still refer to them by A-G while the main site has groups I-IX) There's a few good nations in that group, but if 3 or more qualify to the team event things start to open up for the individual quota. I also think it's ridiculous that the team events will have 3 events. Eventing might as well be a lottery. It should be 12 teams of 4 (15 for jumping) plus individual quotas.

Interesting. Qualifying will be relatively harder for her, but being chosen by the nation will be a lot easier. Is she currently Croatia's best dressage rider?

Here. FIS has made a nice table for all of its sports.

I remember when to qualify to the French swimming team you had to break the French record in some events. Canada has some additional standards, but usually it's to prevent "free qualification" due to easy qualification for some sports (sailing was a big one in 2016).

Very big news...