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At World Cup level? Yes. However, the Thailand Ski Association has been working to establish a grassroots roller ski program similar to that of Brazil. They did send a youth skier to the Winter Youth Olympics last year, and have a couple other youth skiers registered as “active” in the FIS system. However, it doesn’t seem like any roller ski races were held last year (probably do to Covid, and/or them being only interested in the Winter YOG). I don’t know if that program will continue, but the possibility is there. There’s nothing stopping them from trying to get one of those skiers eligible to fill a second quota should they earn one, but it doesn’t seem likely at the moment.

Right, I was just trying to figure out what the allocation of quotas will look like after normal allocation. Reallocation is a whole other thing for now. One of my favorite parts of Olympic qualification is when the FIS publishes the list of quotas, and we get to watch “live” as countries accept/reject quotas and accept/reject reallocations

Well, Jaque and Bruna will be in direct competition against those they are competing against for a second quota.

Just to provide my interpretation to some questions I saw about qualification... @heywoodu Yes, I believe that if Brazil is 30th (or better) in the Nations Ranking, they will get an additional quota place on top of the basic quota earned by Jaque. I’ve also done some quota math, and if my calculations are correct, and the number of countries earning basic quotas doesn’t increase, this is the situation we’re looking at: Women - Quotas allocated through D.2 + Rounds 1-3 of D.3 + 10/11 quotas remains for allocation in Round 4 of D.3 (So in theory, 20 countries will have at least 4 skiers in Beijing, meaning 20 countries eligible for relay, and perhaps 30 or more eligible for team sprint) Men - Quotas allocated through D.2 + Rounds 1-2 of D.3 + a few more through Round 3 of D.3 (So in theory, 10 or a couple more countries will have at least 4 skiers in Beijing, meaning 10 or so countries eligible for relay, and perhaps 30 eligible for team sprint) In terms of the relay, the clause that lets teams use a biathlete might be rather important on the men’s side.

ORF had a nice interview with him after the qualification race. He seems like a really nice guy. It was a fun interview.

Just realized that hadn’t been posted to the thread, so here they are: Para Triathlon Hockey Badminton Beach Volleyball Para Powerlifting Cricket

If I’m not mistaken, weightlifting has seen a reduction of quota for these Games as well.

I’ve seen a few. Badminton, Beach Volleyball, Cricket, Hockey, Para Powerlifting, and Para Triathlon have all released early versions of theirs. From my understanding, under the most recent CGF Strategic Agenda, all sports should be shifting towards qualification systems.

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You say this like Trump didn’t order bombings though, and he did.

The video for Germany is fun. I didn’t like the song at first, but it’s growing a little on me. The on-stage performance could be fun based off what they did for the music video.

This is nauseating.

As someone living in California, I can verify that corruption and incompetence isn’t limited to one party or the other. It’s very present in both. That’s why I endorse neither.

I guess it wasn’t clear that I was referring to 2032, apologies. Well, I’ve read what’s been reported about the possible bids. I’m near certain that all those countries had the opportunity to engage in dialogue with the IOC. I’m not saying that the possibility of a better bid taking shaped isn’t possible; I’m just saying that from what I’ve seen, Brisbane’s bid is best one at the moment.

Should they? Perhaps not. Are they the only country of those mentioned that has shown in interest in bidding, and provided a legitimate/realistic (relative) bid? Yes.

Well, Lithuania could actually get one quota through the Nation’s Ranking, even though they’ll miss the opportunity to get a basic quota.

Only the U23 races count, not the junior races.

Interestingly, Greece and Lithuania remain without a basic quota, but might get one based off their ranking.

Countries who earned the basic quota in the sprint. Women: None of the nations who failed to go under 300 points in the 5km managed to go under 300 points in the sprint. The closest country was Serbia who had an athlete score 405.50 points. Men: None of the nations who failed to go under 300 points in the 10km managed to go under 300 points in the sprint.

From the same poll.

Technically, the Mixed Team Event in Cross Country replaces the Mixed Nordic Team Event. I liked Cross Country Cross though, so I’m a little bummed to see it gone.

I missed this, but last month the WFFD announced the countries qualified for the ultimate event in Flying Disc. Here is their explanation for how the quotas were allocated: “The WFDF Ultimate Committee led by WFDF Vice President Brian Gisel has considered whether a standalone qualifying tournament for TWG2022 would be feasible and it considered an early 2022 event proposal, but ultimately decided that it would not make sense. For that reason, and in light of the cancellation of WUGC 2020/21, the qualification of countries for The World Games 2022 will be based on Section 2 of the Qualification System for WFDF Ultimate World Games Events, Version 2008 – 1.1 (approved May 18th, 2008, and updated in 2019) which states: “The qualifying event for the World Games will be the most recent Ultimate World Championship event, which was held at least 8 months prior to the World Games.” In this case, the most recent Ultimate World Championship event is WUGC 2016.” So the countries qualified in Flying Disc are: Poland is the only country that participated in Wroclaw that failed to qualify for Birmingham 2022.

6th in size by area, 13th in GDP, 55th in population. Brisbane also hosted the World Expo in 1988. I think calling them irrelevant is quite harsh. I do agree that other countries should be given a fair chance to mount a bid for 2032, but there hasn’t really been a better bid floated.

Yeah, it has do with how FIS Points work. Bendika was seeded much lower than she should be, since she normally competes in Biathlon. Because a “weaker” skier won the race, the points were factored higher than if a lower seeded skier had won. Becuase Bendika skied so fast, and was ranked so low, the FIS Points were factored in a difficult manner for slower athletes. Hopefully that makes sense, maybe someone like @heywoodu could explain it more eloquently than me.