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I call BS on this. Zubčić was clearly aiming to be 30th.

Another no name winning would be a cherry on top, though.

You mean 7+ for today (and most of this week)?

Ryding was going for gold...

I take my words back... Aare 2019 was a masterpiece compared to this.

We share the victory today @hckošice

Wait, is this allowed?

Lisovskaya can breathe again...

Expected. Terrible sign for tomorrow. Officials tried really hard even during the shoot-outs, when our team for some reason was put on wait again and again.

Meanwhile, it is really interesting how officiating changed once our team started their momentum at the beginning of the last quarter...

Apples and oranges. Fixing a single, decisive match is really not the same as working your way through a tournament.

@Werloc Did Lithuanian technicians accidentally put gravel on their skis today? It's the only plausible explanation of why Dombrovski was 2:30 behind with 0+1 (though I have not watched the race)...

Last time France qualified an average team by virtue of losing on purpose + winning the penalty roulette. This time they played well and lost the penalty roulette with an improved team.

In another slo-mo finish. Looked as if she barely tried, or maybe that's just the Pokljuka finish effect.

Korea has 6 (!) penalty loops in 3 shoots before getting lapped.

Top 30 first run times in both GS and S is very encouraging for Leona.

Clean sweep. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=38169

I'm just surprised at how many federations simply postponed their qualifiers together with the Olympics. They had the better half of 2020, for what it was worth, to get something going. And yet, they postponed pretty much everything by 365 days...

Not to brag, but...

What goes around comes around for France? @heywoodu

Damn I guess Rio really was a long time ago, making my memory iffy. So we get screwed by a ridiculous qualification system. Why even create a hierarchy of events if you are not going to use it? And, what, if the Europeans had got postponed (or NZ made up their mind earlier), Croatia would have qualified with the same exact outcome of races? Honestly, these kinds of random influences open the doors of corruption and quallification fixing wide open.

Faivre getting two gold (!) medals after the season he had is utterly bizarre. He will be hard pressed to repeat any of this.

Which does not explain why they say Cyprus qualified via the Europeans when they finished behind both CRO and BLR. Also, they used the same writing in 2016. Back then there were multiple examples of quotas getting retroactivelly transferred between Worlds and continental events, as explained above.

Best case scenario: They used the right note ('Reallocated from European Championships'), but accidentally put it in a wrong row on their spreadsheet (Cyprus is righr under Croatia). Worst case scenario: I will have to clean up this mess myself because nobody from our federation even noticed it.

Which is Greece. 2019 Worlds have priority over continental events. Greek quota then gets transferred to the continental level (Croatia).