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Repinc has been/is still injured. She has not appeared on the international circuit this year and only raced in Slovenia in December. In the sprint she was beaten by K.Vindišar on equal shooting and beat Ž.Klemenčič by 26'' with two less mistakes.

Annnnnnd she's out Skeleton in France is kind of dead, but the federation, who does nothing to bring it back to life, seemingly assess that preventing any TV coverage is better than putting the sport in the spotlight, even if the athlete doesn't deliver.

The French bobsleighs are officially qualified according to the Federation, nothing on Bessard yet

Slovenia without Klemen Bauer who's not vaccinated

Ok so they've got 2 extra-quota and can therefore field a relay.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/cz0vl36hcq0x/77wgSttsh6Bt8LffBRm6Mi/650abda9b96dc35e32281ce59b2ec98b/Annex4a_Quota_Allocation_List_MEN_150122.pdf Look, only 11 quota via the IBUQP, and China does get further allocations via host-country (why and most of all how much ?)

Also I don't understand the "host nation places". Is 1+2 : * 1 via IBUQP (Cheng) + 2 wild-cards = 3 athletes. In this case there's a mistake in the tally since Cheng would be counted twice. * 1 + 2 = 3 wild-cards + Cheng = 4 athletes = a relay. In this case why do they write 1+2 when it's actually simply 3 ? It was said that they could get 2 wild-cards if not in the top 10 of the IBUQP, so why 1+2

They removed the quota for Latvia since it was earned by Rastorgujevs. They added . They removed the 2nd quota for China since it was not in the top 12, to give it via "host country places" (+1 another one). So that's only 11 quota via the IBUQP, why is not included ?

The women's list is kinda worrying Look at this : Hildebrand (enough said) ; Wiesensarter or Weidel would have been undying journewomen a few years back, now they almost have a WC regular status ; Hettich is probably the most promising of the lot, which speaks for itself ; Schneider and Kebinger are already 24 and their IBU Cup performances are not particularly thrilling. Of course Preuss is still recovering, Voigt not included, but Herrmann and Hinz are reaching the end of the path with downward trajectories.

I know Guzik has been confirmed and Wright and Lapshin are obvious choices. But the quotas are not nominative. So for it could also be Patrijuks, for I guess Shamaev, Buta or Puchianu are possible choices, and Mukhin for . Same applies for the women, will probably send Lescinskaite.

Real bread.

One lap too much.

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).