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The Winter Olympics on British TV in the seventies

Not sure Romania understood that message, or am I wrong and did they not just announce 7 (!) flag bearers?!
 
 

Not sure Romania understood that message, or am I wrong and did they not just announce 7 (!) flag bearers?!
 
 

Somewhat annoyingly there's some comments on some social media about how the Brazilian ranking favored those who are good in sprints (i.e. Bruna), over those who are good at distance races, and so the ranking 'was unfair'. Sigh. To be clear: the internal ranking consisted of three (3) classic sprints and also three (3) freestyle distance races within the qualifying period. Average of those 6 results decided. Not a weighted average or anything, simply an outright average.
 
In case more than one athlete reached the A criteria, there would be a ranking that does in fact favor a discipline - distance. That ranking would consist of 2 classic sprints, 2 freestyle distance races and 2 'wildcards' which would be any discipline. Considering the number of points in distance races is nearly always lower, that would favor whoever is better in distance races. And that makes sense, because with A criteria, one would actually do 3 distance races and 2 sprints. However, with no A criteria, one will do 2 sprints and 1 distance race at the Olympics. So even though the ranking that decided things now did not in fact favor sprints, it would not even be bad if it did, since there will be more sprints than distance races.
 
I guess it's disappointed talking for people who had hoped to see someone else qualify and don't really know how the qualifying system works in reality. That's fine, although I'd generally try to be more respectful.

As someone who is always very strongly against officials taking away these honors from athletes (like small nations often do), no thanks  

It's annoying IBU isn't like FIS in this sense. FIS' page is perfect to keep track of things, IBU has....nothing. As far as I know we have to simply wait for them to say the final list or something.

OMG, what will we ever do without knowing what the OBS bumper will be. What is the world coming to?! 

What about some official ? a certain Cross-Country team captain 

All here cheering for @brunamourato be the flagbearer at the OC 

Not sure what the place is to make sure most interested people see it, so I'll do it here: at 14:00 CET the Brazilian Snow Sports Federation will announce their athletes for the Winter Olympics and it's basically safe to say that our own Totallympian @brunamoura will be part of said announcement after how the weekend went
 
It will presumably be a live thing on their Instagram, @brasilnaneve.

She has been having a shitty season, especially due to illness, so Ruhpolding absolutely wasn't her normal level. Last season she was way better (and healthier) and due to that she still has a chance on reallocation. But for that I'd refer to the biathlon thread so we can keep it about Nordic combined here  

And @brunamoura officially announced 
 
 

Yeah, I am still going to hold on to the hope that IOC is not going completely nuts and cutting off one of the most classic Olympic winter sports (after all, as a serious competitive event it basically precedes both cross-country skiing and ski jumping).

Yeah, I am still going to hold on to the hope that IOC is not going completely nuts and cutting off one of the most classic Olympic winter sports (after all, as a serious competitive event it basically precedes both cross-country skiing and ski jumping).

And @brunamoura officially announced 
 
 

And @brunamoura officially announced 
 
 

And @brunamoura officially announced 
 
 

Not sure what the place is to make sure most interested people see it, so I'll do it here: at 14:00 CET the Brazilian Snow Sports Federation will announce their athletes for the Winter Olympics and it's basically safe to say that our own Totallympian @brunamoura will be part of said announcement after how the weekend went
 
It will presumably be a live thing on their Instagram, @brasilnaneve.

Looks like Switzerland, Italy, France, Canada, Czech Republic, Austria and Estonia will get one more women's quota and France, Finland and USA one more men's quota, if the last few countries don't do anything weird.

Japan has dropped 3 out of 4 women's quota   (and accepted al 3 men's quota)
 
Makes you wonder what their criteria were exactly, since they've got 10 women under 100 FIS points, and plenty more of course with A criteria.

Tried to find anything, but I couldn't. I am just beyond shocked rejected their women's quota, considering Nina Riedener has the A criterium and so is allowed to start in every single individual race, and even if she is injured (unlikely, she competed last weekend in the World Cup), 16-year old Annina Ühli is under 2 points away from A criterium and has already beating Riedener. What the hell.

You might be right about that. Well, let's see. The lists of athletes will start coming in every country's local news soon so I suppose we will soon be sharing team sizes with the name lists....

Maybe it is administrative mistake by numeric keyboard. It Is easy to write 1 instead of 4 😂

And @brunamoura officially announced