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4 medals at the Junior short track World Championships over the weekend. Ayisha Miao Qi was the standout on the women's side winning gold in the 500m and bronze in the 1500m. On the men's side, Mathieu Pelletier won gold in the 500m and Victor Chartrand won bronze in the 1000m.

Scores from March 4th: 2-12 0-10 Both games ended after 7 innings due to mercy rule. Colombia officially qualified. They dominated the qualification outscoring their opponents 23-1 China was clearly outclassed in this qualifier being outscored 5-32 and being mercy ruled twice. Brazil and Germany will play a match on Thursday to determine the final qualifier to the 2026 WBC.

Interesting, her Bulgarian opponent in the final just won a silver medal in the senior World Cup this past weekend.

They got lucky that the 2023 tournament expanded to 20 teams and they auto qualified. They were already at least a tier below every other team in 2017. It's about time some other team took their place.

Oh dang. Didn't realize that existed! Never occurred to me to change the season to 2026 . Well that'll be helpful in the future. Now to figure out where the discrepancies are coming from.

Scores from March 3rd: 9-7 8-1 Standings: 1. Colombia: 2-0 2. Brazil: 1-1 3. Germany: 1-1 4. China: 0-2

Where are you finding those rankings?

Canada was the only non Asian country to medal and even one of our medallists is of Asian descent

Scores from March 2nd: 2-12 0-5 Standings: 1. Germany: 1-0 (+12) 2. Colombia: 1-0 (+5) 3. Brazil: 0-1 (-5) 4. China: 0-1 (-12)

They were in the B final because they finished in last during the previous world cup it was contested. They won the B final but the time was slower than all the teams in the A final.

2nd qualification pool set to get underway tomorrow. Brazil, China, Colombia, and Germany will be competing for the final two spots in the main tournament.

Updated Team Event Standings after the World Junior Championships: Rank Nation Points Championship Men Championship Women Championship Pairs Championship Ice Dance Grand Prix Men Grand Prix Women Grand Prix Pairs Grand Prix Ice Dance 1 Italy 2903 756 551 756 840 2 United States 2804 680 756 612 756 3 Georgia 2450 612 756 680 402 4 Japan 2405 612 551 840 402 5 Canada 2246 325 325 756 840 6 France 2123 680 325 362 756 7 South Korea 2092 756 840 496 8 (+1) Switzerland 1846 840 612 237 157 9 (-1) Great Britain 1706 113 362 551 680 10 Kazakhstan 1523 840 446 237 11 (+3) Germany 1399 266 840 293 12 (-1) Estonia 1286 446 840 13 (-1) Australia 1184 140 102 496 446 14 (-1) Poland 1173 325 402 446 15 (+2) China 1127 237 237 328 325 16 (-1) Finland 1092 74 192 214 612 17 (-1) Hungary 989 102 61 612 214 18 Belgium 854 680 174 19 Spain 780 126 103 551 20 (+10) Slovakia 631 264 113 127 127 21 (-1) Sweden 605 293 156 156 22 (-1) Latvia 598 496 102 23 (-1) Ukraine 579 173 293 113 24 (-1) Lithuania 570 74 496 25 (-1) Czechia 534 83 126 325 25 (-1) Mexico 507 293 214 27 (-1) Israel 474 237 237 28 (-1) Philippines 451 126 325 29 (-1) Romania 446 446 30 (-1) Uzbekistan 402 402 31 Netherlands 400 75 325 32 (+1) Austria 349 83 173 93 33 (+3) Azerbaijan 319 192 127 34 (-2) Norway 264 264 35 (+3) Armenia 224 156 68 36 (-2) Bulgaria 214 214 37 (-3) Chinese Taipei 214 214 38 (NEW) New Zealand 194 194 39 (-2) India 173 173 40 (-1) Ireland 140 140 40 (-1) South Africa 140 140 42 (-1) Hong Kong 102 102 43 (-1) Slovenia 92 92 43 (-1) Malaysia 92 92 45 (NEW) Türkiye 83 83 46 (NEW) Cyprus 55 55

Martina Ariano Kent and Charly Laliberte-Laurent won bronze in the pairs event at the junior world championships

Results say he got silver

I remember there was a Vietnamese woman who was close to qualifying in monobob last Olympics. Anyone know if they're still competing?

Summer McIntosh did an interciew with our network, CBC. She says she'll swim 5 events at the upcoming world championships. She also said that this will be the last year she trains at her current base with the Sarasota sharks. She's eying training with Bob Bowman who is currently Leon Marchands current coach.

Loutitt is better at the large hill so this bodes well for her

and we have 5 new basic quotas from the men's sprint qualification: now up to 57 NOC's with a men's basic quota

If my calculations are correct, we have 4 new basic Olympic quotas from the women's sprint qualification: That means that we would have 42 qualified NOC's for women.

You can only qualify through FIS points earned at U23 championships or world championships so this race is the first time an Irish skiier has met the requirements. Maloney Westgaard should help Ireland secure more quotas through the nations ranking because of his World cup results though. Andorra also doesn't have the men's basic quotas yet but they should get it on Saturday.

Unfortunately, I had a very busy day at work so I wasn't able to follow along on here. In total, we had 22 new basic quotas from the men's qualification race

I believe we got 10 new basic quotas from the women's race:

It doesn't matter what place they finish in as long as they finish with 300 or less FIS points in the race. This document describes the calculation process. In summary, the FIS points earned are dependent upon the winner's time, your own time, and a factor level for that race determined by FIS.

Anyone know if the qualification races on Wednesday count towards the Olympic nations ranking?

Excellent! The two teams I wanted to qualify qualified. Both Taiwan and Nicaragua live and breathe baseball and it would've been disappointing to see either of them miss out. I have nothing against Spain itself but having their team qualifying would've been a joke. Only ONE player on the team was born in Spain. The rest are players from the DR, Venezuela and Cuba who had some great grand parent who came from Spain.