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Being 300 points behind the target really suggests that they don't have any chance (at least those two who competed so far). That's unless they qualify in some bogus races like Vanessa Mae.

So Mikica is in her first GS quarterfinal since 1999.

Cool I suppose that Tajikistan will eventually send some skiers to FIS races in Russia or Turkey. Just don't know if they will be good enough.

Excellent job I wonder if this is the first ever clean sweep?

Lol, Germany has won all of the individual races so far this season.

Thankfully the course setter made things interesting later on by setting a non-straightforward jump-off. Tactics played a big part. Gregory Wathelet was the winner and, interestingly, it looks like he will qualify for his first WC final. He has been at the top level for a while.

Looks like the terrible season of jumping WC is continuing. Out of the first 10 riders in Leipzig, 5 of them went clear. So this means we'll have another huge and useless jump-off that nobody wants to see... Only like 2 courses this season were appropriately demanding.

And Latvia steals the show.

Controversy in St. Moritz as Beat Hefti got robbed royally... Last to start, he was inside the top 10 on splits but finishing clock didn't work. He had to make a re-run and finished 21st, so no 2nd run! Oh dear, that's painful...

Dave Ryding in the lead.

Great run for Monaco's four men team in St. Moritz.

Looks like Malta might qualify for Olympics in women's halfpipe.

Sounds as if some bet went south.

Somalia??

Wow Mikica.

Lindsey Vonn again wants to make a mixed gender event in alpine skiing. http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1045960/american-star-vonn-to-make-second-attempt-to-compete-against-men

Wow, you are so quick to report. Hopefully there are no casualties.

So today Mirjana Lučić-Baroni won her first match at Australian Open since 1998 (19 years ago).

As usual, I am great at football contest.

The timing of that incident is rather interesting.

So Totallympics will have to choose one for each freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Will there be voting to decide which ones will be used?

The top-300 period. Having two racers per gender at the Olympics is not an easy task. Lithuania for example was allowed to have only 1 per gender in Sochi, and they do have some tradition in both cross-country and biathlon. Spain was allowed to have only one female racer even though they had Laura Orgue at the time, and she was even capable of getting top 30 finishes at WC level.

Their presumption is so wrong, very optimistic in fact. Looking at Mourao's results, she is way above the maximum of 100 FIS points which are required for "A" standard. This basically means that, as of today, Brazil will only be allowed to send one female racer who will be allowed to start in only one race (either 10km free or sprint classic). To get an "A" standard her average of distance FIS points has to be under 100. And having one "A" standard does not guarantee the second quota. "A" standard merely allows the racer to start in all of the individual events. Having two athletes requires both of them having an "A" standard AND one of them being inside the top 300 on the Olympic FIS points list (distance or sprint). If the rules were as generous as Brazilians think, then even the exotic likes of Mongolia and Iran would be able to have two female racers.

Who knows, maybe I'll go and watch if Samorin gets it Although, so far I have never witnessed an equestrian event live.

Lisa Wilcox and Galant delivered the goods and won the first freestyle with 77.2%. http://gdf.coth.com/article/watch-lisa-wilcox-and-galant-earn-victory-in-fei-grand-prix-freestyle In other news, Kentucky withdrew their bid for 2022 WEG, leaving Samorin as the only official candidate. @hckosice