Confirmed the maximum limit of 6 skiers per nation in each competition

The Cancun FIS Congress has formalized a first regulatory amendment regarding cross-country skiing: the season 2016-17, in fact, each nation potr & agrave; deploy up to 6 athletes in individual competition.

Wednesday 8 June 2016 3 minutes reading time

The change was in & rsquo; air: the dominance shown in recent seasons Norway has convinced even the FIS leaders to try to balance the cross-country skiing hierarchies. However this does not limit & egrave; l & rsquo; only change on the quotas. Holders Crystal Balls & ndash; general and specialty & agrave; & Ndash; They will place the nominal only until Christmas. With the Tour de Ski, however, this privilege will be & agrave; reserved for the interim leader of the current season. Drastic cut also regarding Continental Cup: the nominal spot will & agrave; only reserved for the winner (and not to the first three) of last season and, since Christmas, the leader (and not to the first three) of the current season. Translated, the Norway to the Tour de Ski, potr & agrave; deploy a maximum of 8 athletes, 6 due to the maximum quota, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Therese Johaug, holders of the World Cup, Martin L Ã¸ WSTR Ã¸ m Nyenget and Barbro Kv & aring; le, the Scandinavian Cup holders. Novelties & agrave; also with regard to the limit reserved for national contingents: the teams of the organizing country will be able to field a maximum of 15 skiers to race against 20 in force until a few months ago; this limit is narrowed to 10 for the Tour de Ski. Finally, & egrave; It has been established that in the relay and team sprint will take to the track a maximum of two teams per country; rejected the & rsquo; hypothesis of being able to deploy only one, however, in & rsquo; immediate future the triplet of Norway in Lillehammer relay team last December will remain & agrave; a record impossible to repeat. In a few hours it will be discussed other rules, the most & ugrave; important of which & egrave; that relating to the possible areas in which, in the classic technique races, sar & agrave; Mandatory proceed with alternating step. & Nbsp;

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