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6 hours ago, Nate River said:

Worth remembering that the world cup ranking is not what is used for Olympic qualification. For Vancouver and Sochi the added points from two of the world cups (I believe the last two of the season, but I don't remember 100%) where used.

 

For Pyeongchang while all four world cups are qualifying events only an athlete's / team's best three events count for each distance.

Ah okay. That makes more sense!

Though in the WC ranking this year, they omit the lowest score anyway. 

37 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Well, looks like there were even some unused athlete places in 2014, as only 116 athletes were entered.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_track_speed_skating_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics_–_Qualification

Our athlete Vojtech Loudin qualified for the 1500m despite being ranked 52nd. (49th if you could extra athletes)

Must have been a lot of reallocations. Or I'm not understanding the system right. 

http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Rankings.aspx?evt=11213100000003&rep=15127

Fun fact: Singapore actually had a quota in 2014 in 1000m. Similar qualification style to Goh. But the athlete wasn't very competitive. She did 500m in 58 seconds, so they probably rejected the quota.

9 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Lol, that's some Steven Bradbury qualification!

Yeah Goh was like 10 seconds behind in the semifinal, so she wouldn’t have been close otherwise. There must have been four people battling and Warakomska brings down two of them.  

Sport is so funny sometimes.

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Cheyenne Goh did not advance out of the preliminaries in the women's 1500m.

 

Out of the athletes that advanced only 2 can pass her in points. This would put her into 36th position overall. The top 36 do qualify. Canada has 4 athletes ahead of her, so in fact she is ranked 35th. There is also an athlete from Italy who did not advance who might get more points in the standings, which would drop her to 36th.

 

So worst case scenario is she will be ranked 36th??? So that means she has unofficially qualified for PyeongChang 2018, and will be come the first Singaporean to compete in the Winter Olympics 

 

PS. I hope I am not wrong...

From what it looked like I think she got lucky and everyone in front of her in Shanghai fell. But that’s part of sport and it’s great for her.

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Cheyenne Goh did not advance out of the preliminaries in the women's 1500m.

 

Out of the athletes that advanced only 2 can pass her in points. This would put her into 36th position overall. The top 36 do qualify. Canada has 4 athletes ahead of her, so in fact she is ranked 35th. There is also an athlete from Italy who did not advance who might get more points in the standings, which would drop her to 36th.

 

So worst case scenario is she will be ranked 36th??? So that means she has unofficially qualified for PyeongChang 2018, and will be come the first Singaporean to compete in the Winter Olympics 

 

PS. I hope I am not wrong...

I think you are right!

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

Andre Hamm in freestyle skiing (and their only shot at qualification) is injured. Its unlikely now the country qualifies

Realistically I doubt he’d have made it anyway  Maybe because of this he might try in 4 years

Indonesia  will take part in the World Cup in Korea for the first time! According to to the athlete. I kind of told him to look into it. So glad for him that the federation signed him up. 2022 Olympics here we come!

Ok I voted

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

You need to send your votes to @amen09, the host.

 

Officially the deadline is in less than one hour, but I'm sure it can be extended until the evening passes overseas.

Oh, what the heck. I’ll try for now- Challenge accepted.

Listening to songs now..

14 minutes ago, Werloc said:

@heywoodu Stop toying with my hopes and dreams

VOTE

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Also, it took me two times to tag you @ahjfcshfghb to get you to represent Czech Republic and now I'm tagging you for the second time, hoping that you vote.

Hi- I’m overseas, busy and don’t have computer access. I will this evening though so I will vote, don’t worry.  When is the deadline and do I just message you my choices?

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

Some interesting info:

The PC2018 organizing committee has an internal list of countries that have confirmed participation (granted not all will qualify).

These ones are on the list (even though they are not in any of the above):

 

Guatemala

American Samoa

Haiti (I forgot this one on my list above)

 

I wonder what the first two will compete in ? This might be just declaring interest in competing... but their names are in the planning this late. Interesting.

 

Also not on the list are:
Puerto Rico

Algeria

 

So I doubt they will compete in 2018, similar to how they refused in 2014.

Also not on the list are:

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Jordan

Vietnam

Indonesia 

(Might be because they started the process late).

 

Could you link the list please?  

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

Some interesting info:

The PC2018 organizing committee has an internal list of countries that have confirmed participation (granted not all will qualify).

These ones are on the list (even though they are not in any of the above):

 

Guatemala

American Samoa

Haiti (I forgot this one on my list above)

 

I wonder what the first two will compete in ? This might be just declaring interest in competing... but their names are in the planning this late. Interesting.

 

Also not on the list are:
Puerto Rico

Algeria

 

So I doubt they will compete in 2018, similar to how they refused in 2014.

Also not on the list are:

Dominican Republic

Egypt

Jordan

Vietnam

Indonesia 

(Might be because they started the process late).

 

I emailed both Guatemala and Am. Samoa recently. Guatemala said they wouldn’t compete, American Samoa was targeting bobsled but in 2022/2026. Interesting.

Shame about Algeria too. Though I think they could make 2022 they have a young alpine skier who could improve.

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

There isn't any. Apparently there are no extra requirements for skaters who are making their Olympic debut.

I guess she’ll be out by a fraction of a point. Unless someone else gets injured. Either way, would be a sad scenario.

6 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Two reallocations will be hard to come by though. The only somewhat likely one is Kazakhstan declining their second quota. Their second best skater is injured apparently and it doesn't seem like anyone else could reach the MERs.

What is the Swedish Olympic Committee’s limit for the female skater?

10 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

 

 

naa, the WC will be in a really bad time here, not many people will wake up specially for soccer, though fox did spend ton of money to buy the rights for the WC

True. I was thinking the evening games would be in the afternoon but in California etc it would be quite early. Not to mention earlier games.

10 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

It could have been a penalty and Panama would have scored from it also , maybe American media would press on this case who knows , but i think it's almost impossible to replay the match 

Yeah but they may not have scored from it. A bit parallel to Suarez' move against Ghana. I know the replaying of matches is very rare, I'm just speculating on what the US FA will try and push. 

6 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

thanks very much  as long as the referee didn't manipulate for a side just as what happened in African qualifiers with Senegal and SA , then we go to the rule of Mistakes are part of football 

Well, you can bet the Americans will try to prove he did. Can't be good for FIFA either. Huge potential audience now gone. 

Congrats on the Egypt, by the way.  @thepharoah

@heywoodu I feel your pain. 

Does the US have grounds to challenge that goal of Panama? It was so obviously invalid. Though England-Germany in the 2010 World Cup comes to mind, so probably not. They shouldn't have had to qualify in such a close manner anyway.

5 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 

in 2006 they've done a great WC , losing only to WC champions in R16 with a suspicious PK in the vary last minute , current Australia could lose to any team and Honduras would be very dangerous at home , they could smash Australia there , unlike Australia at home became a very weak team , tying with Syria 1-1 , defeating Thailand at 86th minute , a very lucky win over KSA , they don't deserve to go for WC this time IMO   

Yeah, true, though that was 2006. This current team, you're absolutely right, doesn't deserve it.  

Damnit. As a half-American, a US-Syria playoff would have been amazingly interesting. Though tensions would probably get high. 

I just feel terrible for the Syrians. And Australia has to be one of the most boring World Cup sides ever. They always show up and are always forgettable. 

US, on the other hand... I'm not really a fan of their team either. But wow... The Russians are probably laughing their asses off Though would have been a good match there too- US vs Russia. 

Go Honduras 

I’ve always liked this song.

Czech entry: done

Poor Zahra.. think she's fallen about 5 times  

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

 

This may look incredibly easy at first, but these are required TES scores in fact (so total segment score minus presentation score).

 

I initially expected that requirements will be the same as here, but now I'm surprised that Olympics apparently have considerably easier TES requirements than the Worlds. Therefore Australian ice dance couple already achieved it here, despite scoring less than 100 pts overall...

I guess we'll be a reserve nation then. 

10 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Or even Hanzlickova. However, looking at the team rankings here, looks like Czechs will have to wait and see what happens with Israel/Australia (they'll need to reach minimum requirements in women's singles and ice dance, respectively). Only 10 teams could participate.

What are these minimum requirements? Are these a certain point score? 

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

That's odd. Apparently Majorov said himself in an interview that he needs 260 points, maybe a lack of communication between them.

 

http://www.absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=interviews&id=2017majorov

Who knows  It would be Martinez who gets the spot left over, shame he'd miss the Games. Philippines will have other athletes though I think.

I'm fairly sure Ukolova won't qualify but with three of our categories qualified, Ukolova could get an additional quota for the team event. Maybe Eliska Brezinova, even. 

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like Finland may fail to qualify in figure skating... Again.

 

should be safe, assuming that Reed is not getting the permission...

Quite sad for them. Thought they'd done enough. Great to see  and ! I watched the Slovak skaters (Mysliveckova is Czech actually!) and I have to say I really like them. I don't know, they always look like they're having lots of fun on the ice.