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I promise you you will be informed of the results of every Micronesian athlete there is. (Probably like 2 of them lol)

Seriously every time Kazakhstan does well I'm quoting Borat.

GO MICRONESIA I've picked them as my 'small exotic nation' though my heart lies with Nauru I will be the biggest fan of Micronesia this world has ever seen!!!!

I keep saying it. But Kazakhstan is just doing so amazingly. And most of the time it's not even the naturalized Canadians. Kazakhstan Kazakhstan you very nice place from plains of Tarashek to northern fence of Jewtown

I would have taken Nauru But I'll take Micronesia, then. What exactly do I do after I've picked?

Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world. All other countries are run by little girls.

I don't see a problem with all the cases where the athlete has at least some connection to the country. What I'm against is countries systematically buying up athletes from others. It's just corruption, plain and simple.

Hanzlickova Our dream is finish...

There is no sweeter victory than against Russia on their home ice.

Stupid, maybe, but I couldn't stop laughing They actually played that song one time to a Kazakhstani shooter who won a tournament in Dubai instead of the national anthem.

Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world All other countries are run by little girls.

[hide] Preliminary Round May 6th-March 17th, 2016 16 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nation from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals, 8th Nations from each groups will be relegated to IIHF Men´s Division I Group A World Championships 2017. Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 3 Latvia May 6th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 2 Russia May 7h 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 1 Kazakhstan May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 2 Denmark May 7th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 3 Czech Republic May 8th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 4 Russia May 8th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 1 Switzerland May 8th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 2 Denmark May 9th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 3 Russia May 9th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 2 Czech Republic May 10th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 1 Denmark May 10th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 2 Norway May 11th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 1 Latvia May 11th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 3 Kazakhstan May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 2 Norway May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 2 Denmark May 13th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 4 Kazakhstan May 13th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 1 Latvia May 14th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 2 Sweden May 14th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 3 Switzerland May 14th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 3 Latvia May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 2 Czech Republic May 15th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 1 Sweden May 16th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 3 Norway May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 1 Kazakhstan May 17th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 2 Switzerland May 17th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 1 Norway May 17th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 1 Sweden Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 1 Canada May 6th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 2 Belarus May 7th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 3 Hungary May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 1 Germany May 7th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 1 United States May 8th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 4 Canada May 8th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 3 Germany May 8th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 1 Slovakia May 9th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 2 Canada May 9th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 1 United States May 10th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 1 Germany May 10th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 2 France May 11th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 1 Belarus May 11th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 2 Hungary May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 2 France May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 2 Germany May 13th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 3 Hungary May 13th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 1 Belarus May 14th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 2 Finland May 14th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 2 Belarus May 14th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 1 Slovakia May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 3 United States May 15th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 3 Finland May 16th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 1 France May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 2 Hungary May 17th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 1 Slovakia May 17th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 2 France May 17th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 3 Finland [/hide] End Copying Here

Aaand they've won, so they're probably staying in the division... With imported players scoring practically all goals. Call me a cynic but I hope they go down hard at the Olympics. We don't need another Azerbaijan or Qatar on the sports scene. It's insane that the IIHF and other sports federations have such lax rules on this. International sport's virtue above ckub sport is supposed to be the lack of money and trading players involved... I mean if you have a good reason or at least some connections to the country then it's fine but this is just buying up foreign players like a club would do.

South Korea should not be allowed to just import Canadian players who have no connection to the country like that. For that reason I root against them until they stop that practice.

Oh well. We tried. It's not like wrestling is a big sport anyway. I thought Hanzlickova or Vala could make it though

Of course there will be people abusing the system.

Georgia-Amazing! Wonder what happened to Mongolia, Greece and Ireland, though. Anyway North Korea's going down, I'm sure of it.

Oh IBU You're better than this.. Speaking of which. I'd love to sponsor them. Except I don't have money or a company. So I guess pass on to them that they have my support? (Come on Pyongchang! ! !)

Haha. We have to take what we can get.

I don't disagree with you on that at all. In fact I prefer it when each nation can send 4 athletes. But the wildcard system did confuse me in how it's allocated- again the IBU is not transparent in its lists for qualifying points or how it determines these things.

Hahahahahahhaha

It isn't great... But at least we have one quota

I believe it's because Belgium, having been ranked above 30th in the Nations cup last year, were eligible to start 2 and register 4 athletes. The World Champs level for qualifying points must be much lower (we saw Turkey and Greece, for example) so they managed to find 4 athletes who qualified, probably by virtue of last year's results or this year's IBU cups. The wildcard allocation for the championships really confused me though. China did pretty well in the early IBU Cups, yet they get no spots. Turkey, however, gets two.

Anastasiya Kuzmina is coming back! Tomorrow in IBU Cup sprint race!

Good luck