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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...

The season is about to start and China has annexed parts of Russia.

Horrible indeed Also yet another reason why I've got so much respect for first responders of any kind, imagine being a firefighter, police officer, medic or whatever and walking into a horror scene like this...how they are able to put it aside for a second and actually help, I don't know.

The whole Russian team seems unlikely to make it to the US due to their vaccination status (Sputnik V). That would be outright stupid by whichever Russian authorities decided to give international athletes a vaccine which is not as widely recognized as others... Once again, it seems that Russian athletes are screwed by their own authorities

I don't always agree with him, but in this case he is absolutely right. Call them for what they are instead of pretending they're worth some nicer term.

This is going to be such a shitshow

Hamilton is probably the favourite in both races indeed, but it's definitely not a done deal yet. Maybe for basically the first time this year, a tiny bit of luck will fall the way of Verstappen instead of Hamilton Jeddah does seem like a track where a small mistake can be the end of your race (or qualifying), and so far, Hamilton has definitely been the more inconsistent driver this year. Besides, he does still need to catch up. We'll see, at least it's already historical to simply have the fact that a Dutchman could take the freaking world title (!) in the next race

I love it when these athletes pick names which really identify themselves. You know, something truly unique to who they are. Something that defines them, that makes you see the name and think "Ah, Lee!".

At least it was kind of interesting at times behind the top-2 Alonso! We've also now reached the situation where the championship can be decided in the very next race. If Verstappen wins it and Hamilton does not get a top-6 finish, or if Verstappen finishes second and Hamilton does not score, the championship is over. Neither are likely, but on a street circuit...weirder things have happened.

And consequently, if a bronze is not enough to be tagged, yet roughly twenty nations are tagged and so must have given at least 11 points, how come Denmark didn't win?! RECOUNT THE VOTES!

You must be joking, right? Feeling a strong bestmen parody vibe here

@hckošice Martina Dubovska lives in Slovakia?

Has it always been Serbia 12, Romania 11? I used to swear it was always Romania 12