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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.

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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

GB only has one woman at WC level, and they're going to lose their 2 male spots next year. China's kind of strange, their men's team will remain in IBU Cup next year unless they get a WC wildcard (very doubtful). I can't understand why Turkey received 2 wildcards for the World Championships and China didn't.