Road to Beijing 2022 Poll #6 | Which of these nations will NOT win a medal in Beijing 2022?

[dcro 10,179]

Australia has a definite chance in monobob.

 

4 podiums in 6 WCs this year.

[phelps 6,787]

2 minutes ago, Joshi said:

Sorry I had to pick my country . We have great chances in womens snowboard slopestyle, big air and mens freeski half pipe. But our winter olympics history is littered with 4ths and 5ths and these are mainly sports down to judges. A lot of the time it can be out of your hands. The great irony in this however is that on the other hand we have more gold medal favs going on current form than Australia.

I think only biased judges can stop Nico Porteous from winning 1 (if not 2) medals...

 

and you also have some more chances in the other freestyle (snowboard) HP/SS/BA events (and maybe even Alice Robinson in Alpine Skking -GS- could upset a few people)...

 

imho, Liechtenstein is the only Nation of the list not going anywhere this time...

 

Belgium, Ukraine and Spain are really at risk because they have just 1 or 2 true chances...

 

all the remaining Nations will surely get at least a medal...

[hckošice 13,217]

5 minutes ago, Joshi said:

Sorry I had to pick my country . We have great chances in womens snowboard slopestyle, big air and mens freeski half pipe. But our winter olympics history is littered with 4ths and 5ths and these are mainly sports down to judges. A lot of the time it can be out of your hands. The great irony in this however is that on the other hand we have more gold medal favs going on current form than Australia.

+ Alice Robinson in GS may very well surprie (and it would not be a so big surprise though)

[phelps 6,787]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Australia has a definite chance in monobob.

they have at least 10 chances, imho...

 

women's skeleton, snowboardcross, HP/SS/BA in both freestyle and snowboard, moguls, women's aerials...

 

I doubt they will miss out in all of them...

[Dennis 600]

8 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

The only event Ukraine have a chance to medal is Aerials. Novosad won a Women's Aerials  WC this season where fellow Ukrainian finished 3rd. Defending Olympic champion Abramenko has been there and there about in top 6.

The ski speed has gone in biathlon so maybe a 0+0 in relay with other teams struggling, again not very likely. 

 

7 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Ukraine had 5 podium this season in 3 different sports, and 1 victory. If we exclude monobob where they won some B-events, Ukraine had some medal chances in the aerials

 

5 minutes ago, phelps said:

freestyle, aerials events (men's above all)...

Ah yeah, I don't watch aerials. Makes sense. Thank you!

 

Okay, for now I'll stick with my vote for as it's a jury sport in China with Chinese medal favorites.

[Joshi 91]

Perhaps but she's not in the greatest form at the moment.

[Fly_like_a_don 925]

 have had podiums in Moguls and Aerials but none of them have been dominant ones. Zhanbota tried the difficult jumps only in Almaty last year the only time she got a 100 pointer otherwise it's in 80s..  So that is going to be very difficult for all of those. 

[hckošice 13,217]

15 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

 have had podiums in Moguls and Aerials but none of them have been dominant ones. Zhanbota tried the difficult jumps only in Almaty last year the only time she got a 100 pointer otherwise it's in 80s..  So that is going to be very difficult for all of those. 

Kolmakov is their biggest hope I do believe, sure, not the most safe medal contender but for me in a good "crazy" day may surprise no one, already in PC 2018 he was so close and so unlucky. would be a great story to medal here

[SalamAkhi 277]

59 minutes ago, phelps said:

they have at least 10 chances, imho...

 

women's skeleton, snowboardcross, HP/SS/BA in both freestyle and snowboard, moguls, women's aerials...

 

I doubt they will miss out in all of them...

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.

[rafalgorka 1,369]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

and old proverb saying always count on Poland in Ski Jumping

 

Not this year, I'm afraid. They jump backwards this season.

 

But I hope I am wrong here, ofc.