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Women's skeleton is a bit optimistic. Surely Naracott has finished the season in great fashion but she hasn't been nowhere near this level ever before. 14th (+2''64) in the test event (though it was an in October and even Bos was way off the pace then). Women's monobob is another story ... Walker will probably be selected and she's been really consistent this year.

She has not met those requirements. But those are FFSG standards, not NOC ones. Winter sports in France are split between two federations : the FFS (snow sports) and the FFSG (ice sports) - also the FFHG (hockey) but they are not really Olympics-related (yet) . FFSG is a mess and (kind of) a disgrace, since Albertville 1992 they've brought home 6 of the 83 WOG French medals. Despite being one of the few countries with a functional ice track, they're not able to field more than 1 skeleton athlete per sex, and this is recent. Also Bessard is the child of the track's technical manager, Defayet the child of a track's worker In a word I don't see them rejecting this quota. She worked hard to get it and that's some free advertising for the sport/federation, "look we qualify an athlete in skeleton". SPOIL : they did not nothing for it.

And now a bit of extra rest

You both look like an hopeless version of @hckošice

@dcro @prso1000 Crnković is in the start-list for tomorrow's race ! According to my calculations he needs 69.1 points, which is fairly manageable. Last week this was achieved by finishing 1'30 and 1'41 behind the winner.

It is. He's the first bearing this name I'm aware of though.

Same applies for France I reckon I don't see us sending Perrot just to sit there and undergo daily PCR tests, even more while the Junior World Champs are taking place Nor any other IBU Cp athlete in fact.

The second Romanian was not even in the top 10 anyway ...

At least you're not Japanese

Sad for Strolia ... so close

And now she's not in Saint-Moritz Don't know why but that's obviously playing with fire ... only 6 results when other have 7. Only Vannieuwenhuyse and Kim can overtake her. They're both in Europa Cup, where there's pretty much no competition. The Belgian needs a top 6 to get ahead, consider it done, the Korean a victory With a 2nd place they would be even, with an even best performance, and an even last performance Anyway, supporting Germany for once

Despite a pedestrian start (0.3 slower than Galea, 1 full second slower than Nikitina), Torres Quevedo manages to beat the Maltese by two seconds The real race is on Friday though, the last shall be first

Biathlon will be the key sport. First of all because both France and Sweden can win a huge amount of medals in it, then because it's probably the most unpredictable and open to surprises sport of the Games. France could get 10 medals in biathlon, but could also get 3, same applies for Sweden. France have higher chances though, since our team is stronger overall. Pretty much every French biathlete can win a medal individually, not the case for the Swedes. Ice Dance is not a maybe, that's a probably. Probably gold by the way. 3 in Cross-country would be a maximisation of the chances, manageable but still hard to attain. Snowboard-cross is also a great supplier (between 1 and 3).

Keep an eye on Ana Torres Quevedo

Finally, only 7 races taken into account so the current IBSF rankings are pretty much set in stone. Men : Doyle needs 87 points to overcome Mirambell, i.e top 17 in Saint-Moritz. Women : Stratton needs 99 points to overcome Bessard, i.e top 15 in Saint-Moritz. Paradoxically, Terauda only gets the 10th/11 individual quota, but Latvia (Zunte) is only 4 points away from stealing the second quota to Deas. If the later finishes next race on her sled, GB will obtain two starters easily though.

210 points today for China. I think the job's done (almost). They will probably get 4 women and the relay in a month.

I think our Slovak friend will stop ranting after this

Oh thanks Changes a lot then.

There are 8 WC races so 8 results counted

Don't know why but the French girls decided to skip both Winterberg and Sigulda, or in fact any race at any competition during these weeks. So in the end they will only score 7 races, as opposed to 8 for the others. Qualification is manageable in both disciplines but with only one extra race it would have been a no-brainer ...

Would have put China in the top 10 for the SMR with Chu/Cheng but Yan and Meng is a very strange strategic choice. The second Chinese man could bury their chances in the MR.

But Japan is still behind so if only one of the two overtake Slovakia then you're still in. And Slovakia has got more leeway to score in the mixed relays : both have a 80 points best in the XR but Estonia has a best of 110 points in the XSR when Slovakia has 70 points. Considering Fialkova's form a good single mixed could do it.

But fellow IBU Junior Cup athlete Zawół has done better and will make the pursuit

German mafia. Hopefully no win for them here.

That seems a bit optimistic. Qualifying for the pursuit is a respectable goal at first.