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Lol. I mean it kind of worked… also love the chant of “Bul-ga-ri-ya” as they’re falling around on the ice. And the heckling during Slovakia’s 2nd penalty shot.

As qualifying starts in a few days, here's my funniest ever women's ice hockey moment from the 2010 edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RypeKwtL4U&ab_channel=Stecak @hckošice "Anna Dzurnakova, number 14, team Slovakie. Ten minutes for misconduct, plus match penalty"

Only 10 nations have enough quotas to be eligible for the team event, so we already know which are qualified regardless of rankings. Debuts for Georgia and Czech Republic (!). No France for the first time.

Wow! That I didn't expect, I thought they'd join World Athletics first.

You can take a test to see if you have antibodies from COVID. Really simple stuff. If you can verify vaccines you can verify natural immunity.

It’s silly how they aren’t giving exemptions for athletes with natural immunity (which is stronger than vaccine immunity).

This list should give you a good idea of Team players. All the ones with a Chinese flag next to their name. To China’s credit all appear to have some form of Chinese heritage. IIHF told me they weren’t relaxing the eligibility rules for China and eg. Jake Chelios has no Chinese flag next to his name so I assume no more naturalizations? Question is if that means no waiver for eg. Ethan Werek which is a 4 year case as he once represented Canada

This is the first time I'm actually glad that China has so much influence lol

We have Nebelhorn Trophy entries! http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent00110963.htm

Yup that relies on SUI or ROC beating Finland and looking at their games this year I'd say that's very unlikely.

Am very proud of them! In 2019 Finland was obviously better, shots were 43-17. This time the Czechs outshot Finland. The only obvious difference was you could tell Finland had experience with these kinds of games and we did not, too many errors and missed opportunities. For the Olympics because of how the groups work, unless Russia or Switzerland surprises, we can only fight for a medal if we beat Canada/USA/Finland in the quarterfinals. Not likely we'll finish 4th unfortunately.

I was too idealistic... This'll be interesting then. Assuming Austria doesn't rise from the dead, now is Olympic-qualified if they win tonight in regulation.

The head-to-head game. Assuming beats both and , if they have the same # of points Slovakia wins. If they all have 6 points because they all beat each other, then it's head-to-head score.

Austria 2:0 Belarus at the end of the first period. If doesn't beat in regulation time and beats today, Slovakia's 100% qualified, right? @hckošice

Huh. I guess Polish TV’s definition of a shot is way different!

John Murray shut-out with 70 shots...

YES!!!! They may not get to the Olympics but this would certainly help Slovakia...

If Slovakia loses out on an Olympic place to a team ranked below Spain and a team that bought a third of its players from North America, this will be a great injustice.

Oh you're right, they did! I honestly must not have found it last time I looked in the archives. Also they always show junior and under-18 world championships too... just not women...

The saddest thing is I don't think Czech TV has ever showed a game of the Czech women. They only show women's hockey when it's at the Olympics, which is crazy. BUT I wrote them and they said they might show the women's Olympic qualification in Příbram. "dle vyjádření Redakce sportu se s českými zápasy z příbramské kvalifikace hokejistek předběžně počítá."

I didn't write it the federations didn't give me good enough responses

That's great! Shame it was too late for Bermuda/the Nepalese marathoner but at least they realized. IMO universality places shouldn't be included in the World Ranking... hopefully they will fix that for later events.

I'm not sure this is a story we would cover unless it's really blatant corruption (vs. just a disputed selection process) but if Joanne/Sameh wants to reach out to the content editor with a pitch for a story, they definitely can. http://aroundtherings.com/site/303/About-Us/Contact-Us If they do I'll let the editors know.

Around The Rings, I am interning there. Thank you everyone for your ideas. Main thing now is to get a quote from one of the athletes. Have reached out to a couple, so will see if any reply, and then a story can be done.

@dcro @Jur @Makedonas @JoshMartini007 @LowerSaxony I'm thinking of writing a story about World Athletics denying non-100m athletes universality spots... people deserve to know about it. If anyone knows of any other cases where athletes were denied spots and replaced by sprinters, please let me know! So far we have Tyrone Smith (long jump) and Gopi Chandra Parki (marathon), but I bet there could be more. In the 100m start lists, eight athletes I found are specialized in other events, according to World Athletics records. Women: (400m/800m), (triple jump), (100m hurdles), (400m hurdles) Men: (5000m/10000m), (1500m), (110m hurdles), (800m/1500m)