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Any regulation on AIN participation and qualification? I cannot find it at all.

Yes, eralier they did it manually. For example, in 1978 FIFA assigned to pot 1 But beeing vice-champions from 1974 asked: why??? And FIFA said Ok. You will be in pot 1. So we need to move someone to pot 2. And they moved Then asked: ?&(^&*??? And FIFA said: you will be in pot 2 but you will be allowed to chose you group without any draw. And used this bonus to get place in the same group as . There were a lot of stories with these draws - something like that happened before WC 1990 when.

I can`t agree with the first statement )) Denmark played Euro semifinal in 1984. Just one step from the final. No, I would not give free wild card... but if teams are assigned to pots accoring to their rankings FIFA it would be just enough to use rankings of the play-off teams to assign the winner of the respective play-off path to the proper pot (highest, lowest, average ranking for example). It would be better decison.

FIFA did the same mistake in 1986. They placed Denmark to pot - 4. And as a result got the group: West Germany, Scotland, Uruguay, Denmark.

The second stage of the 2025/26 Skeleton World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, has been canceled, according to an announcement on the website of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). The competition was scheduled to take place on Friday, November 28. However, at the beginning of the week, on Monday, the organizers canceled the first training session due to “inadequate preparation of the track over the past weekend.”The IBSF adds that it has brought in an additional team of specialists, but the next training runs could not take place until Wednesday at the earliest. Four training runs were therefore deemed insufficient to familiarize athletes with the partially reconstructed track. The decision was made at a meeting of athletes, who voted by a majority (30 to 21) to cancel the competition on November 28.

Та поки що взагалі ми, нажаль, поза квотою у жіночих стрибках (( Том це ще питання. Ще й російські санкарі тепер будуть за квоти боротися (

According to the russian sources 6 athletes got neutral srtatus and will compete in Italy next week. Right now it makes huge problems for Latvia and the 4th world cup stage. Russians are not allowed to travel there. And of course it makes problems for all the others since we will face the same game as before Paris-2024: Infternational sport federations do not perform proper checks. And later a lot these "neutral statuses" are declined by the IOC. According to the scientific research 43% of these "neutral statuses" were not confirmed by the IOC. And these incorrect checks by the IF`s harmed dozens of the athletes from the other countries.

@Illya Час вносити корективи ) Тож маємо: - Біатлон - 10 - Лижі - 5 - Гірські лижі - 2 - Фігурне катання - 1 ******* Мої передбачення: - Сани - 8 - Скелетон - 1(2) - Фристайл і сноубординг - 8 - Двоборство - 2 - Трамплін - 2 - Шорт-трек - 2 - Лижі +0(1) (не знаю, чи можемо претендувати на перерозподіл?) Що змінилося: - квота у фігурному катанні таки є. - фуросемід у жіночому трампліні - хрест на командному змішаному турнірі і жіночих квотах. - трохи додалося оптимізму у скелетоні щодо другої квоти. - в лижах навпаки - сильно не факт, що нам дістанеться додаткова квота. - у шорт-треку майже зрозуміло, що 2 квоти - максимум. - у фігурному катанні потенційна квота для пари залежить від дуже багатьох факторів - до речі, так і не бачив інформацію щодо того, як Узбекистан вирішив питання партнера. Тобто, 41 - 43 квоти потенційно.

Yes. They will distribute quoats according to this rankings (7 best results): https://www.ibsf.org/en/races-and-results/rankings/2025/men-s-skeleton/ibsf/#rankings Canada did not compete at World Cup but is present here.

I am really happy that has a place in the first pot to avoid of at the play-offs. And now But it does not mean we will win the berth at all ))) Just our record against is really pessimistic

I do not have it right now but I suppose it will be available after the start of the World Cup.

Thank you very much! I really missed these liver results. It is a miracle but we have unannounced video broadcast at our national sport TV channell.

Any link with live shooting results?

Just to let you know: russians filed an appeal to CAS - they want to be allowed to get some of the nondistributed quotas in Ski. So some nations which were expected to get those remaining 10 quotas per gender may miss it if Eliash do all his best to lose at CAS.

According to our media they just will not take the athlete to the Italy but since the distance from Germany is really short the athlete will come if necessary.

Запис гімнастичних фіналів на окремих приладах в Пекіні - 2008, серед яких і медальний виступ Воробйова на кільцях

Meanwhile in DailyMail... RUSSIA launch bid to replace Italy as hosts of Euro 2032 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15230977/RUSSIA-launch-bid-replace-Italy-hosts-Euro-2032-despite-banned-football-amid-fears-Italian-stadiums-not-ready.html

It is really interesting that we got our first men`s medal in history too at the same day and at the same weight ))

What a story for Elia Viviani !!

Officially confirmed by the IPC - no russians and belorussians at the 2026 Paralympics. It is a very good decision for Italy in my oppinion - the host country will not face with the russian anthem and flag which were allowed by the IPC. This IPC decision was reverted by the intenational federations responsible for 6 Paralympic sports. None of them allowed russians to take part in qualification

By the way, Melnikova`s presence here is a really dishonest play by Watanabe. "In April 2025, she won the primaries of the pro-government political party United russia to run in the elections to the Voronezh City Duma. " https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/sport/persons/35876

Personal. 1 man and 1 woman with 1 substitute for each (in case of injury). No other athletes will be allowed. The same approacj for all ISU disciplines. No new neutral athletes may appear. On the contrary the list may be shortened if neutrality rules will be / were violated by someone By the way, FIS`s decison means that no russians in ski and snowboarding at the Paralympics.

I suppose Figure skating is the only real chance. I do not know what we will see in speed skating but they are not looking like a medal contenders in short-track. Of course they can try appeal against FIS decision but todays`s reaction from Stepanova gives some clues that their top sliers prefer places in parliament in future instead of Olympics - 2026.

Some news on AIN athletes and federations. Today FIS decided that no russians will be allowed to compete in ski and snowboarding. That was the last federation to communicate this question. At the same time russians have appealed (partly successfully) in bobsleigh and skeleton. The whole picture: 1. Hockey 2. Curling 3. Luge 4. Cross-country 5. Ski jumping 6. Nordic combined 7. Freestyle 8. Snowboarding 9. Bobsleigh 10. Skeleton 11. Ski Mountaineering (1 quota) 12. Speed Skating (Limited) 13. Figure Skating (2 quotas, qualification finished) 14. Short Track (Limited) 15. Alpine skiing 16. Biathlon

Thank you for the answer. These days it is good enough not to be mentioned. Beacause a lot of old school coaches were accused by their athletes later and a lot of dirty stories revealed. Nice to here that Ostapenko was not among them.