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Blondin wins bronze in the mass start. Maltais 5th.
 
Dubreuil DNF in the men's 500

It should be fine now, can you please confirm?

Gold in the women's team pursuit!

Yes 

Is the site running slowly for anyone else?

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

And now a 6th place finish for them at the Park City WC! Wow

Juliette Pelchat finishes fourth in women's big air!!! That score would have won her the bronze medal at last years worlds.

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

Sooooo, after day 2 :
 
 
No change. To clarify, Thorup confirmed she was not going to the Games. But she still collected three quota for  that can be used by any other athlete. Still, Lindenskov has not achieved any minimum qualification time so she's not eligible. 
 
Braun just had to finish the race. She could have started and bailed out like a couple of skaters did in the 500m. But she went all the way and got DQed  So only one Polish skater and Smedding is in (she would have received an additional quota anyways).
 
Horikawa was given the huge edge of starting in A division thanks to a couple of Dutch skips. Despite running 3s slower than Yang she still retrieved a comfortable amount of points to secure her spot. Yang benefited from the quartets but things could have gone to the wire if they ran in the same division. 
 
Italy not starting. Failing to qualify while they only had to be top 12 (with 14 teams competing) is a huge blow. 
 
Nope Nope Nope  
It was tense. Before last pair Semirunniy Lorello and Snellink (in that order with the tie breaker rule) were tied with 110 points, ahead of Henriksen. Meaning that Semirunniy was in and Snellink in too but only in the SOQT ranking, thus depriving the Netherlands of their 9th man. But Eitrem, ranking 0.07 ahead of Semirunniy, and a few seconds later Dawson, 0.10 ahead of Lorello, reshuffled the rankings completely, saving both countryman Henriksen and Dutch matrix selectors. 
 
So Semirunniy, as the world leader in the 10k (not the same event indeed) and 4th of one of the three WC qualifying races is not going to race in Milano. I guess the easy answer is to put that on him. But Sasaki, with 6'21, 13'30 and 6'21 is qualified, because he managed to be a tad faster in the first race of the season on the fastest track in the world. Semirunniy mismanaged his efforts in a flawed system that allows time quota in a World Cup circuit with huge track discrepancies, which works with unfair divisions rewarding way too much already established athletes. Like, look at those injured skaters not even going a hundred meters banking more points than 95% of B division, and yet still taking a spot next week. Erin Jackson could pull this till the end of the season and remain top 16.

YESSSSSSSSS, I’m so happy for her meteoric rise!
 
Silver, bronze, and now a gold im her first three WCs 

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

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

What an incredible result wow. Thought it would be Moisan to do this first . Great to know we have two on the women’s side now :D

Buck wins silver, after falling in the final, nonetheless a great breakthrough result!

Ted-Jan Bloeman finishes fifth in the men's 5000m less than a second from bronze!

Just incredible as well haha

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)

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

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

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

It sucks the men's division in alpine and cross-country is more competitive, leading to less quotas for the top 10 nations. I hope we can get at least 5 men onto the team. Graham Ritchie is not competing in the distance races, meaning if they select him and Cyr, only two spots would be left to fill out the men's team (ie no relay, unless they use a biathlete)

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.

Kaylie Buck into the final in the PGS! Guaranteed a medal.