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'' The update of the Nordic Combined Olympic qualification after the first half of the season. The location of the'' Italy has strengthened considerably since the beginning of year.
Tuesday 24 December 2013 13 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.
TEMPORARY POSITION ON THE EVE OF'' Wintersday following is the situation of each country in'' optical Olympic qualifying.
For every athlete - the first number indicates the points scored in the World Cup-l'' any number in italics in brackets indicates the points scored in the Continental Cup-the number in parenthesis () AFTER the name indicates the current position in the QAL.
The countries are listed according to the classification of their fourth athlete or person to refer to the classification of the staffetta.NOTA GOOD: The qualification is not rated, the number of athletes in the top-50 results in the Olympic contingent, but names will be selected by the technicians on January 19.
01) NORWAY - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI762 - MOAN Magnus (4) 712 - KOKSLIEN Mikko (6) 520 - KLEMETSEN Håvard (9) 499 - KROG Magnus (10) 439 - GRAABAK Jørgen (14)
02) GERMANY - ATHLETES recordable 5 - RELAY SI1437 - FRENZEL Eric (1) 645 - RYDZEK Johannes (7) 555 - EDELMANN Tino (8) 429 - Björn Kircheisen (15) 233 - Riessle Fabian (26)
03) JAPAN - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI1062 - Akito Watabe (3) 381 - Yoshito Watabe (17) 359 - KATO Taihei (19) 316 - Hideaki NAGAI (21) 71 - MINED Yusuke (34)
04) AUSTRIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI716 - GRUBER Bernhard (5) 481 - Denifl Wilhelm (11) 459 - BIELER Christoph (12) 256 - SEIDL Mario (24) 240 - STECHER Mario (25)
05) FRANCE - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI1130 - Jason Lamy CHAPPUIS (2) 456 - Sebastien Lacroix (13) 303 - BRAUD François (23) 159 - Laheurte Maxim (27) 21 - LAFARGE Geoffrey (42)
06) UNITED STATES - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI375 - FLETCHER Bryan (18) 312 - FLETCHER Taylor (22) 99 - Bill DEMONG (30) 35 - LODWICK Todd (38) 9 - Johnny SPILLANE (48)
07) REP. CZECH - 5 recordable ATHLETES - RELAY SI412 - Miroslav Dvorak (16) 121 - Tomas Slavik (28) 79 - CHURAVY Pavel (32) 30 - PORTYKH Tomas (41) 08) ITALY - ATHLETES recordable 4 - RELAY SI92 - Pittin Alexander (31 ) 40 - RUNGGALDIER Lukas (36) 30 - Armin BAUER (40) 16 - COSTA Samuel (43) 09) FINLAND - 4 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY SI102 - HEROLA Ilkka (29) 44 - Janne RYYNÄNEN (35) 14 - VÄ , HÄSÖYRINKI Eetu (45) 0 (47) - MÄKIAHO Arttu (Team Quota) 10) RUSSIA- 4 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY SI46 - Ivan Panin (46) 3 - NABEEV Niyaz (Team Quota) 1 - Klimov Evgeny (Team Quota) 0 (37) - DJATSCHUK Sergey (Team Quota) 11) SLOVENIA - 3 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO333 - Jelenko Marjan (20) 32 - oranic Mitja (39) 5 - Berlot Gaspar (50)
12) SWITZERLAND - 2 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO73 - HUG Tim (33) 15 - Hurschler Seppi (44)
13) ESTONIA - 1 +1 ATHLETES recordable - RELAY NO36 - Piho Kail (37) 3 - Piho Han-Hendrik (55) [Fished]
14) POLAND - 1 ATHLETE registrable - RELAY NO9 - Cieslar Adam (47) 15) UKRAINE - 1 ATHLETE registrable - RELAY NO6 - PASICHNYK Viktor (49)
The situation of the blues in the optical relay has become much more solid than early in the season and participation in the test team is extremely likely. '' Now the goal may be to get the maximum quota (5 men).
At the moment would then be 15 nations with the right to participate in Sochi 2014. Obviously this is a temporary ranking, subject to changes in each race of the World Cup.
It should be noted that, in the light of the criteria set by the federation elvetcia, it is almost certain that Switzerland will use only one of two places earned. This is because the only Tim Hug has met the minimum requirements by its own Federal agency and his compatriot no one seems able to be able to do the same (two placings in three of the 25 World Cup or Continental Cup podium).
Translated opens the door to an additional alternates between the repechage, or "reservations", which appears below the list. Keep in mind that when the last'' qualified,'' the Estonian Han-Hendrik Piho, is at an altitude of 3 points of the World Cup.
LIST ALTERNATES1) 0 (193) - Kutal Petr (CZE) -) 0 (149) - Rypl Lukas (CZE) - Out of QAL (sixth Czech) 2) 0 (132) - Maierhofer Manuel (ITA) 3) 0 (103) - SLOWIOK Pavel (POL) 4) 0 (84) - GASIENCA Andrzej (POL) -) 0 (82) - Michielli Giuseppe (ITA) - Out of QAL (sixth Italian) 5) 0 (44) - KUPCZAK Szczepan (POL) - ) 0 (38) - RUNGGALDIER Mattia (ITA) - Out of QAL (seventh eng.) 6) 0 (33) - ILVES Kristjan (EST) 7) 0 (31) - KamenÃk Joze (SLO) 8) 0 (29 ) - HÄRTULL Jim (FIN) -) 0 (29) - Aalander Arttu (FIN) - Out of QAL (sixth Finnish) -) 0 (28) - VODSEDALEK Ales (CZE) - Out of QAL (sixth Czech) 9) 0 (24) - SAVILL Wesley (CAN) -) 0 (23) - SALO Jussi (FIN) - Out of QAL (seventh Finnish) 10) 0 (23) - WANTULOK Mateusz (POL) -) 0 (21) - BACK Marcus ( FIN) - Out of QAL (eighth Finnish) -) 0 (20) - LEINONEN Mikke (FIN) - Out of QAL (ninth Finnish) 11) 0 (18) - Barkov Viacheslav (RUS) -) 0 (17) - Ville Heikkinen ( FIN) - Out of QAL (tenth Finnish) 12) 0 (17) - Vitaly Kalinichenko (UKR) -) 0 (17) - Yahin Ernst (RUS) - Out of QAL (sixth Russian) -) 0 (16) - Isaykin Denis ( RUS) - Out of QAL (seventh Russian) -) 0 (15) - Joni Karjalainen (FIN) - Out of QAL (FINL eleventh.) 13) 0 (15) - PLAZNIK Matic (SLO) 14) 0 (12) - Ruslan Balanda (UKR) -) 0 (12) - POCHWALA Tomasz (POL) - Out of QAL (sixth Polish) -) 0 (12) - Dmitry Zharkov (RUS) - Out of QAL (eighth Russian) -) 0 (9) - Samir MASTIEV (RUS) - Out of QAL (ninth Russian) -) 0 (7) - BORISOV Timofey (RUS) - Out of QAL (tenth Russian) 15) 0 (6) - TIIRMA Karl-August (EST) 16) 0 (5) - Kudrevich Ulazimir (BLR) -) 0 (5) - OKS Nikita (RUS) - Out of QAL (eleventh Russian) 17) 0 (4) - MOROZOV Valerii (UKR) 18) 0 (3) - Fawer Stefan (SUI) 19) 0 (3) - SHARABAYEV Sergey (KAZ) 20) 0 (1) - MURAVITSKI Aliaksei (BLR)
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