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Is Secret Garden the Olympic track in the cross, by the way? Commentator says so and I would assume so, but Wikipedia mentions the Taiwu Ski Resort? Or is that the same thing?

Yeah Elvira was frighteningly strong in Idre already, she had a great summer

Olympic host bonus in the extreme, as shown in speed skating (men's sprinting, mostly) and some sliding events Not surprising though Too bad Yu Qing isn't really making that step with the Chinese team, I still have a present she gave us laying around here so I'm cheering for her as well

Oh well, 26th or 33rd...I wonder if it matters that much for athletes who aim for podium positions

And a great race for Lotte Lie as well And excellent for Baiba

Weidel!

Damn, scary pictures of that hard fall with Chapuis and Bohnacker. Especially the creepy way Bohnacker was moving a few seconds later (like a seizure) while Chapuis was desperately trying to keep him calm and in a 'safe' position. Took quite a while for any of the Chinese officials to arrive there at all, Chapuis was visibly worried about Bohnacker's situation. Hopefully they'll be alright.

Duda had 4:11 in the junior race, slightly behind Mika's time. If I am not mistaken, Duda ends up with 316.81 points and Mika with 345.57 due to being in the senior race (despite being a tad faster). Bruna should get a decent 279.14 and Jaque should end up with an excellent 186.67 points. Again, if I'm not mistaken. Which would make me say Jaque is the winner of the day in the internal Brazilian battle, but Bruna takes an excellent second spot for now.

Here it's Canada

For those interested, the start lists for the sprint qualifying in Santa Caterina can be found under the big blue button here: https://sciclubaltavaltellina.it/download/ordine-di-partenza-sprint/ A whole lot of participants, as expected led by the strong B-teams from France, Italy and Austria. @brunamoura starts at 10:02, with Jaque Mourão and Mika Picin in the minutes right behind her and Duda Ribera being in the junior race. As for the Brazilian men: it's Manex Silva in the juniors and Steve Hiestand in the seniors. That's of course a free advantage for Manex, but to be fair, he is quite likely the strongest of all Brazilian men anyway. Interesting that there's six Brazilians competing, and only one of them can really be seen as 100% Brazilian by now in terms of background/residence and such Jaque Mika Manex Steve Bruna

It did not

Out of curiousity due to remarks, of which I have absolutely no clue where they could be coming from: how many points has the Netherlands given Brazil?

I once saw an episode of The Mole where participants had to learn some basics in a day and 'fight' in a lucha libre event in Mexico City, does that make me an expert?

I know, but I had to go with some starting point, so I only counted athletes from countries not currently in the top-20 It's not meant as a definitive list, but mostly to at least have a bit of a sense of what is and is not realistic. Like if you've got 150 points on the current list, you'll need a huge, huge season to stand a chance, whereas with sub-50 points you're in an excellent position.

Which trimester does it take into account that it shouldn't (for today's ranking I mean, so not for the final ranking in January yet)? Shouldn't it simply be the previous three completed trimesters or something like that? Genuine question, I have no idea which results exactly are counted in this case

Ugh, the organizers in Santa Caterina have suddenly changed Sunday's race from distance classic (as it was all the time and at least until yesterday) to distance freestyle, now it won't count in the internal ranking for the Brazilians and so only Saturday's sprint will count for them https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/event-details.html?sectorcode=CC&eventid=49897&seasoncode=2022 Oh well, all-out in tomorrow's freestyle sprint

I don't think there is a way to export this list to something like a CSV or even a text file or whatever, right? Can't select it, so can't copy it. That's alright, the main thing is the list finally being there, but it'd have made it a bit easier to work with it. Anyhow, as of now, the women's standing is as follows (don't mind the awkward format). Top-12 goes to the Olympics, if I'm not mistaken, taking into consideration a maximum of two per NOC and two automatically for China. Meaning those in bold would be qualified with the current ranking (or would have qualified a spot for their NOC, I should say). I can't see very big changes happening in the coming months, especially the likes of Bendika, Repinc etc should not have much of a problem if they have a somewhat normal season. Baiba Bendika LAT 30.58 Alina Stremous MDA 53.07 Natalja Kocergina LTU 55.39 Lena Repinc SLO 57.38 Ekaterina Avvakumova KOR 58.84 Alla Ghilenko MDA 63.23 Lotte Lie BEL 64.86 Anna Frolina KOR 66.58 Polona Klemencic SLO 69.47 Natalia Ushkina ROU 77.85 Lea Einfalt SLO 79.63 Gabriele Lescinskaite LTU 84.92 Ukaleq Slettemark GRL/DEN 87.18 Amanda Lightfoot GBR 87.51 Sanita Bulina LAT 88.00 Ziva Klemencic SLO 88.44 Tang Jialin CHN 90.36 Meng Fanqi CHN 91.35 Eniko Marton ROU 92.31 Anastasia Tolmacheva ROU 96.78 Klara Vindisar SLO 97.36 Kaja Zorc SLO 99.37 Nika Vindisar SLO 100.48 Qu Ying CHN 103.39 Elena Chirkova ROU 104.86 Kim Seonsu KOR 112.54 Chu Yuanmeng CHN 112.98 Aliona Ivanova MDA 114.58 Ana Larisa Cotrus ROU 116.79 Mun Jihee KOR 117.97 Kaja Maric SLO 119.69 Anika Kozica CRO 122.58 Nina Zadravec SLO 123.77 Zhang Zhaohan CHN 124.02 Darcie Morton AUS 125.47 Jillian Wei-Lin Colebourn AUS 130.10 Zhang Yan CHN 130.17 Wen Ying CHN 131.46 Rieke de Maeyer BEL 133.59 Ding Yuhuan CHN 134.35 Ko Eunjung KOR 137.16 Andreea Mezdrea ROU 138.90 Nika Blazenic SLO 139.61 Tais Vozelj SLO 140.71 Inesa Golubeva LAT 144.57 Annija Sabule LAT 144.57 Chen Hongru CHN 148.32

Absolutely, that's what I meant with the men at least being somewhat competitive (and their times being in touch with those in front of them)

IBU has added the qualifying points list on their website I had been 'asking' for that for years (already the previous Olympics), because this is such an incredibly important qualifying tool for athletes outside the big nations, but it had always purposefully been kept hidden. Finally some transparency

Not exactly front of the line, but at least the Chinese male snowboard cross athletes are somewhat competitive, unlike their skiing counterparts Not as much good news for the women though.

Is anyone able to find the apparent change that has been made, due to COVID-19, about the FIS points system? Apparently it's no longer about the best five results in the past 12 months, but the past 24 months, which has quite significant impacts in certain situations.

The tests won't be a problem, for example Bruna had more tests than races in the past year The accomodation though, that's going to be an interesting thing...generally they rent appartments and don't stay in hotels, let's see if that'll work out. I'll tag @brunamoura here just so she can read things directly here and try and stay updated. The federation will probably go with the "Ah it won't be a problem, so we don't need to check" mentality, so better make sure someone keeps an eye on it

The cross-country FIS races should fall under the 'International competitions organized by the International Sports Federation', I would assume? Although that's in four weeks from now, so who knows what happens until then.

Only two months or so after the election. We, the Dutch, see that as rushing!

Qualifiers are done for the first ski cross World Cup of the season in a secret garden in China, the local wildcards didn't really make much of a dent as of yet...