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251 for Rai. Oh yeah.

Why are they using these 80s arcade style graphics?

Smart for Pita, no need to waste energy on classic races, particulary the longer classic races. Good result for Tawk today. He'll need one or two mroe good results to become the first Lebanese Olympic XC skier since 1956.

I'd be grateful if any of you voted for Donner for the Equiratings Eventing horse of the year (Grand Final - voting ends in 20 hours). https://www.facebook.com/EquiRatings/ What can I say, he is pretty cool.

No Antoinette in 5000m At least Annouk made it... What's going to happen with 500m? Ter Mors? She only finished 9th though.

Still no eventing... They only uploaded this, which is cool, but not really what I want.

So the average feeling is somewhere between satisfactory and bad.

For 2018 Winter Olympics it looks like we will have 7 (11) - 15 athletes. Alpine skiing - Five quotas are the minimum probably (3 M + 2 W). We are currently 23rd and 41st on the additional quotas wait list, but that's not too bad actually. Almost all big teams won't use all of their ~20 quotas, and most of the wait list quotas are from the big teams anyway. Plus we can pretty much eliminate NED, BEL, CAY, Danish woman and probably few more (maybe NZL / JPN (except Yuasa) etc). My guess that we will have 6 or 7 athletes at the end (4 or 5 men and 2 women). Cross-country skiing - Currently it's 1 M + 1 W, with Dadić being just outside of top 300... He really needs to improve those points somewhere. These Christmas time races in Turkey were probably a missed opportunity, as I'm sure he could have actually won all of them (Turkey for example most likely secured two quotas thanks to those races). He competed in Villach yesterday, which was apparently his last race of the year (meaning that he'll miss another set of Turkish races). I think sprint competition scheduled for Ravna Gora in January may as well be the decider. He can really improve his sprint average, as his 5th best (last counting) sprint points are actually quite a way behind his other counting points. Bobsleigh - Good news is that our team will finish off their qualifications in Lake Placid. I'd say four-man qualification is a near lock, even though we are quite prone to bad luck in winter sports. However we'll have the upper hand no matter which races (WC/EC/NAC) our opponents choose, so basically everything would have to go against us to fail. Actualy I'd say two-men qualification is very much in the cards too. They'll need a couple of strong results in Lake Placid, but it's doable (primarily they'll need to keep Jamaica behind, what would even allow one of GBR / ITA to potentially overtake us). Luge - Obratov did a good job to be the first reserve (excluding Norway). Qualification system is pretty unfair for the small nations (especially since the introduction of team relay...). Maybe she'll get something after Russia's sanction and Ivanova's ban in particular, or with reallocation of unused team relay quotas. Biathlon - Not sure what Crnković has to do for qualification (except improve his shooting...). Probably repeat his points scoring WC performance in Oberhof? Anyhow, he has a chance to compete in cross-country skiing too, depending on Dadić.

Men's matrix already has 10 different names.

Olympic FIS points list is different as the points can not be lost, so I doubt dropping out of top 30 would lose his points.

Oh, it's WCSL. But still, D3 is using Olympic FIS points list so he should make it. Also, I expect that we will get at least one more once that all reallocations are made (so should be at least 6 alpine skiers).

No, he is well inside the top 30 on Olympic FIS points list. Because of the injury status from last season. And he did have some solid results in North America. Like 39th place in Beaver Creek super-g (only 0.38 outside of points).

Natko can't even score points in the combined anymore. Yay?

Paris Fill also looked quite fishy at several gates. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets DSQ too.

Interesting situation in combined. None of the slalom skiers managed to just sneak into top 30, so there won't be the usual combined 30th -> 1st place.

Yes, since the unqualified nations are given the priority.

That's only smart. Lutz's current average is 216, while Santos' is 180. We've seen people improving their FIS points by ~100 at the Christmas races in Turkey...

@ahjfcshfghb any updates on Manikala Rai? I see that Serbia's races were cancelled. Hopefully Rai is now headed for the Turkey?

Document says that they'll be divided equally between the three disciplines. 1 for men and 1 for women looks like the most equal spreading of the 2 remaining quotas, but who knows.

Bergsma

Geez. Hopefully now he'll realize that it would be best for everyone is he represents Senegal...

I guess I'll take Georgia.

For a random event like mass start, Elena Moeller Rigas is pretty consitent!

Oh well, only 4 racers that started after 30 qualified. Talk about level playing conditions.