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The gap between the two countries is around 46 points. If the Italian skiers have the better day tomorrow overall, then Italy should be able to take back 5th place

USA passed Italy for 5th in the men's nations rankings giving them an extra Olympic quota. and thanks to having enough athletes to be able to compete in the team sprint, China is back ahead of Andorra in the women's rankings for 20th place by 7 points and since none no athletes from either country are competing tomorrow, that's how it'll finish.

Here's how the rankings for the last 12 spots look like right now. To simplify things, I only took the top 2 athletes of each NOC that isn't qualified for that gender. Men Rank NOC Athlete Points 1 Maksim MAKAROV 51.31 2 Sondre SLETTEMARK 59.02 3 Mihail USOV 63.62 4 Kresimir CRNKOVIC 65.73 5 Tomas SKLENARIK 72.79 6 Timofei LAPSHIN 74.13 7 Vladislav KIREYEV 74.42 8 Matija LEGOVIC 77.9 9 Nikita AKIMOV 82.57 10 YAN Xingyuan 84.77 11 Jakub BORGULA 84.86 12 Mikito TACHIZAKI 99.74 13 Masaharu YAMAMOTO 109.04 14 GU Cang 110.04 15 Rasmus SCHIELLERUP 126.15 16 ENKHBAT Enkhsaikhan 126.26 17 CHOI Dujin 127.87 18 Joachim Weel ROSBO 131.74 19 Phoenix SPARKE 133.04 20 Marcus WEBB 133.42 21 Apostolos ANGELIS 140.44 22 Matthew CHRONICLE 150.4 23 Guzman SANZ 164.3 24 Nikolaos TSOUREKAS 172.33 25 Roberto PIQUERAS 172.77 26 Javier GIMENEZ 179.43 27 Noah BRADFORD 202.29 28 Strahinja ERIC 213.39 29 BOLDBAATAR Ankhbold 218.63 30 Axel CIUFFO 262.49 31 Claudio OLIVEIRA 288.14 32 Victor SANTOS 311.35 33 Eldar KADYROV 331.02 34 Rolan RAIMKULOV 343.34 35 Uros LALOVIC 360.37 36 Yonathan FERNANDEZ 381.67 37 Matias MANSILLA 423.74 38 Raul ANTONIO 592.95 Women Rank NOC Athlete Points 1 Alina STREMOUS 54.24 2 Ukaleq SLETTEMARK 70.97 3 Anastasia TOLMACHEVA 73.31 4 Anika KOZICA 78.46 5 Ekaterina AVVAKUMOVA 88.03 6 Darcie MORTON 99.22 7 Andreea MEZDREA 99.97 8 MENG Fanqi 100.13 9 Olga POLTORANINA 102.09 10 TANG Jialin 103.13 11 Gaia BRUNELLO 110.99 12 Aliona MAKAROVA 113.68 13 Aisha RAKISHEVA 121.46 14 Shawna PENDRY 133.29 15 Chloe DUPONT 140.53 16 KO Eunjung 157.9 17 PONYA Sara 160.31 18 Konstantina CHARALAMPIDOU 162.44 19 Aoi SATO 172.75 20 Mikoto TAKEUCHI 177.99 21 Damika MORTON 189.24 22 MUNKHBAT Doljinsuren 204.99 23 Hanna BRAUN 221.17 24 Ema SOBOL 239.44 25 Sofia KYDASIOUK 252.82 26 Lamija SALIHAGIC 257.14 27 Eduarda RIBERA 257.69 28 Maria DOMINGUEZ 260.22 29 Leonora ROENHEDE 264.24 30 Nefeli TITA 289.72 31 Maike STECK 299.99 32 ERDENEBILEG Khongorzul 300.67 33 Claudia SALCEDO 428.52 34 Sara PLAKALOVIC 491.88 35 Anastasija VOJINOVIC 513.83

Emma Lunder is retiring at the end of the season https://www.nordicmag.info/en/biathlon-canadas-emma-lunder-to-end-her-career-after-the-oslo-holmenkollen-world-cup-0316/

There were 3 male jumpers at the junior world championships. None qualified for the 2nd round. Hopefully we can see them in the world cup or even the Continental cup soon

At this time last week, we had one world championship medal this year in winter Olympic events. Now we're at 20.

Now it's official. She improved to 20.48 on the final round

Tormod Frostad's pants came off during his run

FIS has posted their quota simulation lists. FIS | Olympic Winter Games 2026

Whoops, I forgot there are 6 rounds instead of 3

Final weekend of the world cup and there's some close battles for the 10th spot in the nations ranking for both men and women. For the men's side, Finland leads Austria by 11 points. On the women's side, Finland leads Poland by 25 points.

Lol, that was the worst ski cross final I've ever seen

Hoffos is in the big final. That was the small final.

4th different Canadian to win a slopestyle/big air World Cup/World Championship event this year

Thanks to a 4th place finish by Gina del Rio on Wednesday, Andorra takes back the 20th spot in the nations rankings from China although Andorra will likely reject their extra quotas anyways. Some things to keep an eye on heading into the final weekend of qualification: Men: USA trails Italy for the 5th spot by 192 points Looks like the final spot (30th) in the rankings will be between Lithuania and Thailand. Right now, Lithuania leads Thailand by only 15 POINTS! Going to be close Women: As mentioned above, Andorra and China will fight for the 20th spot in the rankings. On the FIS website it says they're separated by 146 points but in my calculated rankings, they are separated by just 51 points and I just double checked my work so not sure what's going on there If Great Britain sends any athletes, then they can threaten Greece and Armenia for 29th/30th spot in the rankings

They won against the previously undefeated Switzerland

del Rio just finished off the podium in 4th in the women's sprint

The men's Olympic teams will reveal their first 6 players in June and announce the rest of the roster at the end of December

In the women's nations rankings, China passed Andorra for 20th place (2 quotas).

110m hurdler, Shunsuke Izumiya, is entered in the long jump

Meanwhile, if my math is correct, China and Korea combined for only 5 medals and only 1 gold Also really impressed with Turkiye's development in short track. Their men's relay was competitive in every race. Maybe they'll qualify for the Olympics last year

Medal for Maliszewska in the 500m. What a championships for Poland. And the podium streak continues for us with a surprise medal for Doak

2nd individual gold of the championships for Dubois

Going to have only 1 skater in the B final for the men's 1000m and 7 skaters in the A final

Unfortunate collision involving the other 4 skaters. Desmet was taken out.