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Alright, a snow interval start then.

Finished 4th in fact, won 2 intermediate sprints it seems. Apparently she sprinted like a crazy woman for that knowing that 4th place guarantees Olympic qualification.

I'm very impressed by Danish team in the mass starts.

Mass starts also have different 'factors' than intervals starts, just like sprints. In regular interval starts it seems like 140 FIS points is the start for any race. I challenge everyone here to find an interval race which had more than 140.80 points for the winner.

It's a tough choice. But my experience tells me that those who score around 400 in mainland Europe don't have problems at races in exotic countries, so she should still make it in Turkey.

Turkey looks great with all those races around Christmas and New Year. Croatian racers for example go there during Balkan Cup, but they surely won't go there during those dates (and thus it will be even easier). I suppose only Turkish athletes may be on the line-up. If things don't go to plan she can re-route to Armenia I guess (those races are usually held every year, I can't imagine why not in the Olympic season).

Iran. Those races only have Iranian racers and the 1st placed always gets less than 150 pts. Yet when their women compete at global stage they don't go anywhere close to that. In Europe I think races on Balkan are the easiest to get inside 300. Western and Central Europe are probably the hardest places of all.

I remember that so well. He had BiB 60+ and created an amazing surprise.

Pretty sure that's his second ever top 10 (and first after December 2014)!

Yes!

Good idea, that should be possible.

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But if you sprint and waste all of your energy mid-race, there's a good chance you'll get that awesome 4th place!

Well, there's that, but for race itself in terms of final top 3 nothing can be changed by intermediate sprints.

That's just it. Sprints don't have any influence on the final top 3 whatsoever! Here with semifinals they actually do have some meaning. Like Lollobrigida who fell and still progressed because of the sprint (whether that's good or not doesn't matter...). Olympics will have just the final so sprints will be completely, but COMPLETELY, useless.

Geez, how can they have this stupidity in the Olympic program when still even ISU results system doesn't know how to handle it? Seriously, it will take an hour to get those results...

Oh, and the Philippines should get a reallocation in men's figure skating, as Sweden will likely reject their quota.

They managed to fill all of the sports venues, so filling just the one for weightlifting shouldn't be much of a problem.

That's assuming they don't get banned before. And judging by some of their achievements, like their female lifter winning gold at Asian Indoors by improving her PB by some 25 kilos (and in -48kg category, no less), that is going to happen fairly soon.

Home Worlds for Turkmenistan? Whaaaat? These are also very much the product of this year's Asian Indoor and MA Games.

India in men's skeleton? Isn't cross-country/alpine skiing their only chance? Oh, wait. I guess that stands for luge, not skeleton. Moldova is a near lock in men's luge.

Poutala

Lol, Ihle