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Gold in the women's team pursuit!

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To give an idea of how competitive it is on the men's side, Norway (yes, NORWAY) doesn't even have the max quota.

Cross-Country Skiing Olympic Trials begin tomorrow. The skiers will battle for 6 women's and 4 men's places at the Olympics (although re-allocations could still be possible). Katherine Stewart-Jones is already selected for the team which is why she's the only Canadian competing at the World Cup right now. Here's some useful links: Results Selection Criteria (skip to section 5)

First career win for Naomi Urness! 3rd medal of the season already.

Gold for Kevin Drury in today's ski cross race!

Silver medal for Courtney Hoffos to open the ski cross season

The Canadian women lost 10-4 to the US in the rivalry series

2754-OWG-2026-qualified-Teams-for-Team-event-1765354454-3134.pdf ISU confirmed the countries for the Olympic quotas for the team event. It confirms that Korea and Poland will field entries in 3/4 of the disciplines. Really stupid imo. Either just have the team event with 8 teams or give them the necessary quotas. Imagine running a 4x100m relay but you have to stop after the 3rd runner finishes.

Some changes that I've noticed: 3x3 Basketball: With the expanded 12 team field, one extra team per gender qualifies through world rankings, one extra team qualifies through the universality driven tournament and there's now an Olympic Qualifier series to award the final quotas. Beach Volleyball: Continental qualifiers have have priority over the World championship and World Rankings quotas and there's now Olympic Qualifier Series quotas. Canoe Sprint: World ranking system now in place and will be used instead of awarding world championship quotas. Road Cycling: 2 nations ranking quotas per gender moved to universality. Track Cycling: Sprint and Keirin ranking list is now combined and will award 14 quotas per gender. Previously it was 7+7. Team pursuit down to 8 quotas from 10. 2 of the quotas have been moved to madison (one additional team) and 6 to the omnium. Fencing: Can get a Continental quota of you finished in the top 24 of the rankings. It was previously top 16. Hockey: 2 pro league quotas replace two qualification tournament quotas. Judo: 5 less universality places and 4 more Continental places. For men, there's two more spots for Asia, one less for Oceania and 1 more for the Americas. For the women, there's one more spot for Europe, one less for Oceania and two more for Asia. Modern Pentathlon: Less quotas awarded through world rankings as a result of quota cuts. Open Water Swimming: Introduction of world ranking qualifier. Sailing: In general, seems to be more quotas awarded at the last chance regatta and less quotas at the World Championships Shooting: One less quota handed out at each World Championship and the return of World Cup qualifiers. Swimming: Olympic qualification and consideration times renamed to A and B standard. B standard is now 1% slower than the A standard compared to 0.5% in 2024. Stroke 50s have their own direct qualification events and have minimum time standards instead of A and B standards. Qualification times have been nuked again. B standard selection process has also changed. Volleyball: New revised format. Continental championships first, then world championships followed by world rankings. In 2024, it was 3 qualification tournaments and then world rankings. Only 3 countries per gender will qualify by world rankings now compared to 5 in 2024

The 10 quotas quotas have been confirmed by the ISU. Unfortunately the 5th men's quota comes at the expense of Hong Kong and Croatia losing quotas.

That's too bad. Athletes who finish in the top 32 (or 36 for the 1590m) should be the priority over the 5th athlete from a relay country. So Croatia loses their 2nd women's quota, Hong Kong loses their only women's quota and Poland loses their 3rd women's quota. This means that Great Britain, Slovakia and Ukraine should fill up the rest of the 1500m field since they are the highest placed reserves that doesn't require an additional quota.

At least you guys have Skenes who is by far the best American pitcher to have committed in the tournament's history.

A lot of news from today World Baseball Classic rosters grow at MLB Winter Meetings

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the winner of this years Northern Star Award as the best Canadian athlete of 2025. This is his 2nd time winning the award.

Bronze medal for Julien Viel in moguls

How many of the quotas the NOC's will accept. Did a quick calculation based on which athletes are qualified by ranking or time or included in the team pursuit. So for example, even though the Czech Republic has 4 total male quotas, only one athlete will be selected because Jilek will skate all the events.

You guys have a quota in short track as well. Has it been announced by your federation?

Olympic Quotas after World Cup 3/4 Men Nation 500m 1000m 1500m 5000m 10000m MS TP Max. Quota Proj. Quota Austria 1 2 1 1 5 2 Belgium 1 1 1 1 2 6 3 Canada 3 2 2 1 1 2 7 7 China 3 2 3 1 2 x 8 8 Czechia 1 1 1 1 4 1 Denmark 1 1 1 Estonia 1 1 2 1 France 1 1 1 2 x 6 4 Germany 3 3 3 2 x 7 7 Hungary 1 1 2 1 Italy 1 1 1 3 2 2 x 8 6 Japan 3 3 3 1 1 x 7 7 Kazakhstan 1 1 1 Netherlands 3 3 3 3 2 2 x 9 9 Norway 3 1 3 3 2 1 x 8 7 Poland 3 3 1 1 6 4 South Korea 3 2 2 4 4 Spain 1 1 2 1 Switzerland 1 1 1 United States 3 3 3 1 1 2 x 8 7 20 Nations 28 28 28 20 12 24 8 102 82 Women Nation 500m 1000m 1500m 3000m 5000m MS TP Max. Quota Proj. Quota Austria 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 Belgium 1 1 1 1 2 x 7 3 Canada 3 3 3 3 2 2 x 8 8 China 3 3 3 1 1 2 x 8 8 Czechia 1 2 1 1 4 2 Denmark 1 1 1 3 1 France 1 1 1 Germany 1 1 1 1 1 2 x 8 6 Great Britain 1 1 2 1 Italy 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 3 Japan 3 3 3 1 2 x 7 7 Kazakhstan 2 2 2 2 1 1 x 8 4 Netherlands 3 3 3 3 2 2 x 9 9 Neutral Athletes 2 1 1 3 3 Norway 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 Poland 3 2 1 5 5 Portugal 1 1 1 South Korea 3 2 1 2 5 5 Switzerland 1 1 1 2 5 2 Taiwan 1 1 1 United States 2 2 2 2 x 6 5 21 Nations 28 28 28 20 12 24 8 107 80

Good news! Maddison Pearman is now the last time qualifier. This means that Canada is in position to qualify the maximum number of athletes in all the women's speed skating events.

So Jordan Stolz had himself a weekend with 3 track records: 33.905 500m 1:06.380 1000m 1:42.552 1500m Those times would've put him in contention to medal in Salt Lake City and Calgary

They'll be fine. This world cup stop doesn't count for Olympic Rankings and there's a surplus of Olympic quotas meaning every country that completes on the world cup should qualify at least one sled.

2:02.62 200 fly for Summer McIntosh!

Switzerland will be in the mix as well.