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'' The update of the Nordic Combined Olympic qualification after the stage of Chaux Neuve, the games seem almost made one week after the deadline.
Monday 13 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
SYSTEM QUALIFICAZIONEPer determine how many athletes will be recognized by every 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 marked points in the Continental Cup in the same time period.
In order to better understand the situation just think of the points of the World Cup as 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 any nation to enter the Olympic Games up to 5 athletes. Therefore in the event that a country has more than five people in the top-50 of the QAL, any additional Combiners addition to the five best 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 to 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 raised to 4 using the last five seats 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.
NOTE: The qualification is not rated, the number of athletes in the top-50 results in the Olympic contingent, but the names will be selected by the technicians on January 19.
TEMPORARY POSITION AFTER Chaux NEUVEDi following is the situation of each country in'' optical Olympic qualifying.
The countries are listed according to the classification of their fourth athlete or person to refer to the classification of the relay.
GERMANY - ATHLETES recordable 5 - RELAY B5 posts via top-50 QALNORVEGIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY B5 posts via top-50 QALAUSTRIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY B5 posts via top-50 QAL
JAPAN - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY B5 posts via top-50 QAL
FRANCE - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY B5 posts via top-50 QALITALIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY B4 posts via top-50 positions through QAL1 place between 51/55 QALREP.CECA - 4 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY B4 posts via top-50 QAL
FINLAND - 4 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY B4 posts via top-50 QAL
UNITED STATES - 4 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY B4 posts via top-50 QAL
RUSSIA - ATHLETES recordable 4 - RELAY SI1 place by top-50 QAL (host country) with 3 seats between positions 51/55 QAL (host country)
SLOVENIA - 3 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO3 posts via top-50 QALESTONIA - 3 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO3 posts via top-50 QALPOLONIA - 2 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO2 by top-50 places QAL
UKRAINE - 1 ATHLETE registrable - TEAM EVENT NO1 place through positions between 51/55 QAL
If any country decides not to take full advantage of its quota, 55 seats would then be filled using the list of repechage shown below.
LIST ALTERNATES1) SWITZERLAND * 2) UNITED UNITI3) POLONIA4) ESTONIA5) REP.CECA6) POLONIA7) FINLANDIA8) POLONIA9) RUSSIA10) SLOVENIA11) CANADA12) POLONIA13) UCRAINA14) SLOVENIA15) UCRAINA16) BIELORUSSIA17) UCRAINA18) SWITZERLAND * 19) KAZAKHSTAN 20) BELARUS
* The repechage reserved to Switzerland are only theoretical because no other than Tim Hug Swiss athlete has met the minimum requirements imposed by the federation to be called the Olympic Games. De facto list of repechage will start from position number 2.
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