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The World Cup will live female blowing consecutive weekends in Japan where he will quit the race to qualify for the Olympic Games. Indeed races Sapporo (Saturday 11, Sunday 12) and those of Zao (Saturday 18, Sunday 19) will be the last four of the 35 qualifying for Sochi.
Thursday 9 January 2014 8 minutes reading time
QUALIFICATION SYSTEM To determine how many athletes may be entered by each country we are based on Olympic Quota Allocation List (hereinafter QAL), which is a ranking that takes into account the points obtained by leaping in every competition of the World Cup and Summer Grand Prix held between July 1st 2012 and January 19, 2014.
In the Olympic race every nation is entitled to a number of pectoral equal to the number of their athletes entered in the first 30 positions of the QAL. The maximum quota for each country is 4 places, so in the event that a nation has more than four girls in the top-30 of the QAL, any further addition to the four best jumpers will be ignored for the purposes of Olympic qualification.
 PROJECTIONS The seats are not nominal, every athlete wearing a bib to their nation, but they will decide who to field technicians in Sochi. However, knowing the number of qualifying races and the points so far made by each jumper you can make a projection on the steps needed to occupy one of the top 30 positions of the QAL and thus determine which girls have in fact already won a place for their federation and chest which are instead still in the balance.
SITUATION - 27 ASSIGNED NUMBERS DE FACTOAlla light of the results of the 31 qualifying races run so far we can say that the athletes are able to collect at least 250 points to have the place secured. Therefore, the pectoral be considered de facto assigned are 27, distributed as follows:
4 SLOVENIA4 Germany3 STATES UNITI3 canada3 France2 Austria2 Japan2 Norway2 ITALIA1 Russia1 FINLAND
RACE TO 3 PETTORALIGli last three bibs are hunting ground. At the moment the situation is as follows
234 - Maren Lundby (NOR) [28 ^ QAL] 225 - Yurina YAMADA (JPN) [29 ^ QAL] 193 - Abby Hughes (USA) [30 ^ QAL] -------------- ----------------------------- 179 - VUIK Wendy (NED) [31 ^ QAL] 174 - Ayumi Watase (JPN) [32 ^ QAL] 161 - Melanie Faisst (GER) [Outside QAL, fifth German] 148 - Dolezelova Michela (CZE) [33 ^ QAL] 146 - Windmüller Bigna (SUI) [34 ^ QAL] 145 - Helena Olsson Smeby (NOR) [35 ^ QAL] 137 - ERNST Yanina (GER) [Outside QAL, sixth German] 134 - Ramona Straub (GER) [Outside QAL, seventh German] 128 - Shigeno Misaki (JPN) [Outside QAL, fifth Japanese] 120 - Alissa JOHNSON (USA) [Outside QAL, fifth American] 111 - Kaori Iwabuchi (JPN) [Outside QAL, sixth Japanese] 110 - HÖLZL Chiara (AUT) [36 ^ QAL] 106 - Gladysheva Anastasiya (RUS) [ 37th QAL] 79 - Yurika Hirayama (JPN) [Outside QAL, seventh Japanese] 68 - ENGER Gyda (NOR) [Outside QAL, fifth Norwegian] 62 - Hafele Anna (GER) [Outside QAL, eighth German] 60 - LIU Qi (CHN) [38 ^ QAL] 59 - Koasa Seiko (JPN) [Outside QAL, eighth Japanese] 57 - D'' AGOSTINA Roberta (ITA) [39 ^ QAL] 49 - Malsiner Manuela (ITA) [40 ^ QAL ] 48 - KASAI Yoshiko (JPN) [Outside QAL, ninth Japanese] 43 - Windmüller Sabrina (SUI) [41 ^ QAL] 41 - Lisa Demetz (ITA) [Outside QAL, fifth Italian] 38 - Haralambie Dana (ROU) [42 ^ QAL] 33 - Tikhonova Sofya (RUS) [43 ^ QAL] 33 - Juliane Seyfarth (GER) [Outside QAL, ninth German] 16 - TAKEDA Ayuka (JPN) [Outside QAL, tenth Japan] 11 - Klinec Barbara ( SLO) [Outside QAL, seventh Slovenian] 7 - PUSTKOVA Vladena (CZE) [44 ^ QAL] 6 - SCHOITSCH Sonja (AUT) [45 ^ QAL] 2 - ZOBEL Verokina (GER) [46 ^ QAL] 1 - Aki Matsuhashi ( JPN) [Outside QAL, eleventh Japanese] 1 - Miková Lucie (CZE) [47 ^ QAL}
If we desire to tip the balance, it could be argued that even the 28 ° and 29 ° pectoral be virtually allocated to Norway and Japan, nations destined to rise to contingent 3. Maren Lundby is expected to reach an altitude of 250 short-term, while Yamada, albeit with difficulty, it may remain in thirty especially if you were to pick up some points.
The fight should therefore relate only to the last'' bib and, as seen so far in the season, the race would be restricted to four female athletes. Abby Hughes has hitherto appeared in crisis and needs to hope to guard against the return of Michaela Dolezelova, Bigna Windmüller and Helena Olsson Smeby.
True that Vuik and Watase are much closer to the U.S., but the first is in crisis as much as the American'', while the second has a ranking of "doped" by 95 points achieved in a context of low-skilled (races of Grand Almaty Prix 2012).
So, unless sudden resurrections on the part of Dutchman'' and exploits of a second line of Japan, the "Women to Watch" in Japan will be precisely Hughes, Dolezelova, Windmüller and Olsson Smeby.
For the United States and Norway, already at an altitude of 3, would reach the full quota, while the Czech Republic and Switzerland in the presence dance in Sochi.
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