The point on the Olympic qualifying leap of male

The update of the'' jump in the men's Olympic qualification after Vierschanzentournee, the games seem almost made ten days after the deadline.

Friday 10 January 2014 10 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 jumping in every competition of the World Cup and Summer Grand Prix held from 24 November 2012 to 19 January 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 / Grand Prix 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 / GP) is ranked ahead of those who have zero regardless of the number of silver (Continental Cup points) obtained. The IOC has granted the jump male 70 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-60 of the QAL, any further addition to the five best ski jumpers will be ignored at the end of the Olympic qualifying individual. It has been said top-60 because the system is designed with the structure of the "60 +10". In fact, the team event in Sochi is reserved to only 12 countries, set taking into account the first 60 athletes of the QAL. Countries with at least 4 men in the top 60 are automatically entitled to take the start in the team event. In the event that there are less than twelve national federations with four athletes in the top 60 of the QAL, then the share of the nations with 3 men will be automatically raised to 4 using the last ten seats available until the starters in the field test team has reached the 12 units. Once you have determined the 12 teams participating in the event, any free spaces will be filled by QAL up to a maximum of 70 athletes. NOTE The qualification is not rated, the number of athletes in the top-60 results in the Olympic contingent, but the names will be selected at the discretion of the technical staff. NOTE IIAlla light of the criteria set by the Swiss federation, it is almost certain that Switzerland will use only two of the five seats gained. This is because the only Simon Ammann and Gregor Deschanden have met the minimum requirements by their own federal agency (a top-10 in the World Cup, or two top-20 in the World Cup, or a top-25 World Cup And a podium in the Continental Cup). Translated opens the door to 3 additional alternates between the repechage, or of the "reserves", as well as a place for the team event. Other nations, all of France, could decide to only partially exploit the altitude gained thus giving the opportunity to fish out'' other athletes and other countries to participate in the team trials. The various Olympic Committees must confirm the use of'' shares earned by January 22, after which the FIS will carry out any repechage to fill the seats left empty. SITUATION AFTER THE PROVISIONAL VIERSCHANZENTOURNEEDi following is the situation of each country in'' optical Olympic qualifying. The countries are listed according to the classification of their fourth athlete, or one to whom refer to the qualification of the team event. GERMANY - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QALAUSTRIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QALSLOVENIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QAL NORWAY - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QAL JAPAN - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QALPOLONIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QALREP.CECA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QAL RUSSIA - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QAL FINLAND - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT B5 posts via top-60 QAL SWITZERLAND - ATHLETES recordable 5 - TEAM EVENT B4 posts via top-60 positions through QAL1 place between 61/70 QAL FRANCE - 5 recordable ATHLETES - TEAM EVENT SI3 posts via top-60 places QAL2 through positions between 61/70 QAL ITALY - ATHLETES recordable 4 - TEAM EVENT SI2 posts via top-60 places QAL2 through positions between 61/70 QAL UNITED STATES - 4 ATHLETES recordable - TEAM EVENT NO2 places through the top-60 places QAL2 through positions between 61/70 QAL CANADA - ATHLETES recordable 2 - TEAM EVENT NO1 place through the top-60 positions through QAL1 place between 61/70 QAL SOUTH KOREA - 2 ATHLETES recordable - TEAM EVENT NO1 place through the top-60 positions through QAL1 place between 61/70 QAL BULGARIA - 1 ATHLETE registrable - TEAM EVENT NO1 place by top-60 QAL ESTONIA - 1 ATHLETE registrable - TEAM EVENT NO1 place by top-60 QAL KAZAKHSTAN - 1 ATHLETE registrable - TEAM EVENT NO1 place through positions between 61/70 QAL As mentioned quotas of France and Switzerland appear theorists and their lack of exploitation could lead to the release of a maximum of 6 places that would be filled by using the list of repechage, shown below. LIST ALTERNATES1) SOUTH COREA2) SOUTH COREA3) CANADA4) KAZAKISTAN5) UNITED UNITI6) SVEZIA7) ROMANIA8) KAZAKISTAN9) ESTONIA10) Romania11) KAZAKISTAN12) ESTONIA13) SVEZIA14) UCRAINA15) Italy16) OLANDA17) OLANDA18) OLANDA19) GREECE In light of the foregoing, if Switzerland and France were to use only two seats, the quota for South Korea salirebe to 4, to Kazakhstan and Canada 2, the United States 5. Also, the Sweden could deploy an athlete. In'' Optical Test Team, the place of Switzerland and France would then be taken by the United States and South Korea. The whole gross of any additional shares not taken advantage of, then that would give the'' opportunity to participate in the 2014 Sochi also to Romania.

Francesco Paone

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