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Popović into the 2nd giant slalom run.
 
That's gonna be the first 2nd giant slalom WC run for our women's team since November 2008... And only the 3rd qualification for the 2nd run since Janica's retirement.

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)

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)

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

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

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.

I tried to do some calculation for the remaining places for men qualification:
Standing after first ibu cup 2017/18
 
1. Roesch Bel
2. Lapshin Kor
3. Guzik Pol
4. Koboniki Jpn
5. Tachizaki jpn
6. Szecurek Pol
7. Langer Bel
8. Crnkovic Cro
 
Claude (bel) will probably come in high in this ranking with his next race, therefore currently it looks like 2xbelgium, 1x Korea, 2x Japan and 1x Poland, but still everything is very close and one very good result could change everything.
 

1st Day Medalists of 1st World U23 championship in Poland 
 
Men's Greco Roman -71  Daniel Cataraga  Robert Attila   Farshad Mirahmad  Murat Dag   
Men's Greco Roman -75 kg   Fatih Cengiz   Gela Bolkvadze  Payam Abdeh Saleh  Esen Asanov   
Men's Greco Roman -85 Kg  Erik Szilvassy   Evan Huklek   Toni Heikki  Islam Abbasov  
Men's Greco Roman -98 Kg  Alexander Golovin   Matti Elias   Fatih Baskoy  Abudourexiti Alimujiang   

taken from croatian federation website
http://www.hhs.hr/aktualnosti/nove-tezinske-kategorije-organizatori-svjetskih-prvenstava-u-2018-godini-kvalifikacijski-sistem-ostvarivanja-olimpijske-norme-za-tokio-2020-g/
 
i wrote about it in more detail in the wrestling thread
 

Olympic qualification for wrestling:
2019 WCH 6 best ringers per weight
plus 8 from coninental qualification
plus 2 from final world qualification
 

Gold for Bloudek in 800m

3 teams
 
 

They are published,
 

here is the link for the ladies
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiatvXi7rjSAhWM7RQKHQMMCRQ4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-W.pdf&usg=AFQjCNH1n9hipXnGm9qPjK0A5UEHYpHsdA&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
here for the guyshttps://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj7gNWn77jSAhWMbxQKHd_4A3Q4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-M.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG1n5Ki3QgLok7lwYZDs_DtNaBdFg&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
 
Ok i did not it is a secret
 
 

here is the link for the ladies
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiatvXi7rjSAhWM7RQKHQMMCRQ4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-W.pdf&usg=AFQjCNH1n9hipXnGm9qPjK0A5UEHYpHsdA&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
here for the guyshttps://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj7gNWn77jSAhWMbxQKHd_4A3Q4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-M.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG1n5Ki3QgLok7lwYZDs_DtNaBdFg&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
 
Ok i did not it is a secret
 
 

here is the link for the ladies
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiatvXi7rjSAhWM7RQKHQMMCRQ4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-W.pdf&usg=AFQjCNH1n9hipXnGm9qPjK0A5UEHYpHsdA&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
here for the guyshttps://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj7gNWn77jSAhWMbxQKHd_4A3Q4ChAWCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiathloncanada.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FIBUQualiPoints_1617-2-M.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG1n5Ki3QgLok7lwYZDs_DtNaBdFg&bvm=bv.148747831,d.d24
 
 
Ok i did not it is a secret
 
 

yes it is really tricky and complicated. the problem is IBU isn´t very friendly when it come to revealing those lists, I don´t know where find them too maybe @heywoodu can help you more about this since he work with the points counting for his beloved Brazilian team.
 
Not sure, but I think unfortunately all those unused quotas will remains unused

Today I had a bit of a chat with luge announcer too, also with Tucker West. He mentioned both of my messages.

Obratov qualifies for the World Cup race in Whistler.

Few other good results
 
Miskovic 2nd at Judo Grand Prix in Uzbekistan, 3rd place for Sikic
at European Cup in Belgrade few medals as well (Sutalo, Prodan, Topolovec, Babic)
 
Very promising is 2nd place for Peter Files in fencing at Junior WC in bangkok

I think Röhler is suspiciuos as well
Oh sorry i forgot he is German, cant be, Germans do not cheat
 
PS nothing against Röhler, but it becomes too much
 

I think Röhler is suspiciuos as well
Oh sorry i forgot he is German, cant be, Germans do not cheat
 
PS nothing against Röhler, but it becomes too much
 

you are wrong. grenot will win

difficult to ignore, but i will try
this guy is really....
 
i guess i have to cheer for grenot in rio now ,