Olympic qualification. Italy'' s struggle to deploy the relay to the 2014 Sochi

Sunday, December 1 will start the World Cup Nordic Combined and with it the race for qualification to the Olympic Games Sochi 2014 will end on January 19. Then analyze the situation in detail.

Monday 18 November 2013 4 minutes reading time

SYSTEM QUALIFICAZIONEPer determine how many athletes may be entered by each country there is based on Olympic Quota Allocation List (hereinafter QAL), which is a ranking that takes into account first of points obtained by Combiners in every World Cup competition held by the November 24, 2012 to January 19, 2014, and then by the points marked in the Continental Cup in the same period of time. To better understand the situation just think of the points of the World Cup as to the gold medal in a while Continental Cup points have the value of silver. Therefore, those in the QAL has a gold (point of World Cup) is ranked ahead of those who have zero regardless of the number of silver (Continental Cup points) obtained. The IOC has given the Nordic combined 55 seats, with the possibility for each country to enter the Olympic Games up to 5 athletes. Consequently, in the event that a country has more than five men in the top-50 of the QAL, in addition to any additional Combiners best five will be ignored at the end of the Olympic qualifying individual. It has been said top-50 because the system is designed with the structure of "50 +5". In fact, the relay of Sochi is reserved for only 10 nations, set taking into account the top 50 athletes of the QAL. Countries with at least 4 men in the top-50 are automatically entitled to take the start in the team events. In the event that there are less than ten national federations with four athletes in the top 50 of the QAL, then the share of the nations with 3 men will be automatically elevated to 4 using the last five places available until the starters in the field relay has not reached the 10 units. Obviously there must be also Russia, as hostess. Once you have determined the 10 participants of the relay, any free spaces will be filled by QAL up to a maximum of 55 athletes. SITUATION UPDATE ON THE EVE OF'' Wintersday following is the situation of each country in the'' optical Olympic qualification. For each athlete, the first number indicates the number of points scored, while the number in brackets after the name is the current position in the QAL. NORWAY - 5 ATHLETES IN THE TOP-50592 - MOAN Magnus (5)

Francesco Paone

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