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According to croski.hr yes

Team is announced Filip Zubcic (all disciplines) Zrncic Dim (DH, SG, AC) Vidovic (SL) Rodes (SL) Elias Kolega (GS, SL) Samuel Kolega (GS) Leona Popovic (all) Ida Stimac SL, GS Andrea Komsic SL, GS Lana Zbasnik SL, GS in Cross Country Edi Dadic, Kresimir Crnkovic, Vedrana Malec and Gabrijela Skender they will start in team sprints as well

7th places for Sutalo and Kumric at the judo Grand Prix in Tunis

5th place for Druzeta at judo Grand Prix in Tunis lost two fights, both against Japanese judoka

Means probably 18 athletes in total 8 ski alpine 4 cross country 5 bob 1 luge really a pity iro Biathlon

Crnkovic is out in biathlon. He was relatively close. But I hope it will work out him in CC

It looks like 8 quotas for us in alpine skiing. 5 are safe, and it looks very good for rodes and kolega . Natko dropped again but will be hopefully in.

Very smart move by Croski. Finally one federation who knows how to do its job all will improve their rankings significantly except Natko

Switzerland niminated only 1 female athlete (Martina Kocher) despite having two quotas. If I am not wrong that means debut for Croatia in Luge at the Olympics (Daria Obratov)

Unfortunately we lost a quota in alpine skiing, at least for now. Natko lost his AC fis points as he is not in top 30 anymore and is now in 215th place. Probably that is still enough.

I am really curious whom they will nominate currently it is 3 spots for 5 candidates probably it will be 4 spots. I think I would leave Natko home, but I think he is for sure in. Currently it looks bad for Rodes.

Judo update at the beginning of 2018. qualification period probably will start in May 2018 and 18 per weight class will qualify plus continental quota. Current ranking of Crotian judokas (in brackets points gap to rank 18) F70: 7. Barbara Matic (+1621 points) M81: 20. Dominik Druzeta (-158points) F+78: 20. Ivana Sutalo (-86points) M100: 24. Zlatko Kumric (-264 points) M60: 26. Bernard Azinovic (- 394 points) F52: 27. Tena Sikic (-342 points) The others are at least right now very low in ranking. I hope Brigita Matic will return, at least she is registered for a torunament in february. She has a potential to qualify. I also hope Tihea Topolovec will show some good performances. I guess Miskovic has or will retiry. Projecting current status we would have two judoka. Barbara Matic directly and one via Continental Quota (Druzeta)

Taekwando update after two season are closed which (probably) will count for olympic qualification. (2016 25% and 2017 50%) Actaully it looks very good for our team at this stage: We have two females in the top 6 Kristina Tomic in 4th place in 49kg, and 11 points in front of place 7th Nikita Glasnovic in 5th place in 57kg, and ca. 20 points in front of 7th In other weight classes: F57: Marija Stetic in 13th place and 30 points behind 6th, Bruna Vuletic with 34 points less than 6th F67: Matea Jelic in 8th place and 12points behind 6th F+67: Iva Rados in 11th place and 13 ponits behind 6th M68: Lovro Brecic in 10th place and 18points behind 6th, Deni Rezic is 34 points behind 6th M80: Toni Kanaet in 7th place and just 0,5 points behind 6th m+87: did not do the calculations yet, Vedran Golec should be among top 15 for sure

I would not agree to this. I did some calculation to see how Tomic is doing, and the difference betwenn Stankovic and Bogdanovic is actually not that big. If you take only 25% points from 2016 and 50% of 2017 the ranking for F49 looks as follows 1. Wongpattnakit THA 176,5 2. Kim KOR 148,1 3. Bogdanovic SRB 116 (Sim KOR) 98,3 (Stankovic SRB) 94 4. Tomic CRO 77,8 5. Troung VIE 75 6. Yildirim TUR 73,7 Therefore i would say still very open among Bogdanovic and Stankovic

It seems that Antholz will count for Olympic qualification, but I am not sure about it crnkovic made today his best point (79), if antholz does not count not enough.

Brave Statement regarding Crnkovic why 2 female quota in cross country?

He needs a result which brings him 55-60 ibu qualifying points or two around 70-75. Today he got 98. Of course assuming others dont improve further. Well i think that is going to be very difficult. On the top Dadic si not really helping him in CC

Update after Oberhof and Brezno 1 Lapshin KOR 32 2. Roesch BEL 35 3. Claude BEL 56 4. Guzik POL 69 5. Tachizaki JPN 77 6. Nedza POL 79 7. Kobonoki JPN 81 8. Langer BEL 82 9. Sczeurek POL 84 10. Crnkovic CRO 88

I really dont know how this with the injured status works, but would be better if he manages to be within top 30 in AC, just to be on the saved side. One more race in Wengen. i am not sure he will keep the good fis points in ac, as he is now out of top 30 in wcsl. The first 30 in WCSL get those fis points artificially There will be few reallocations, best example Germany, they will not send more than 12 athletes but could probably 22 Luckily there are no female AC before the deadline, as Leona would be in danger losing that additional female spot.

For the additional quota the WCSL is crucial, there he is out of top 30 But probably he will be in with the FIS List (D3 criteria)

He is so bad in downhil this season, he should consider retiring Problem for us if he drops out of the top 30 in combined (which is very probable) we lose one quota @edit. i just checked he is out of top 30 already now

Such an approach would mean quota for Croatia, right?

How this reallocation of quotas work? Currently it is clear who gets the 38 male, 28 female and 18 doubles quotas. They add then two quotas in female and doubles to form relays. There are two quotas left which were reserved for relays and actually were reserved for men for the purpose to form a relay. Will this two quotas be allocated to men or equally among genders?

Update regarding men qualification ftaer all races in 2016: 1. Lapshin (KOR) 33 2. Roesch (BEL) 35 3. Claude (BEL) 60 4. Guzik (POL) 69 5. Tachizaki (JPN) 77 6. Langer (BEL) 82 7. Koboniki (JPN) 82 8. Nedza (POL) 84 9. Szeczurek (POL) 84 10. Crnkovic (CRO) 88 As one country can have max 2 quota Langer (BEL) is out and we currently have 1 x KOR, 2X BEL, 1 X POL, 2XJPN But still everything very close. Lapshin and Roesch are safe, Claude probably as well. The rest is still open. In total 6 races left, 2x WC and 4x IBU Cup. I would expect that all candidates will focus on the IBU CUP now to have more chances.

tomorrow nikita glasnovic (former sweden) starts for the first time under croatian flag great news for us, altough i dont know why she is doing that she is currently 4th in the olympic catgeory -57kg