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The Canadian ski federation has learned that its allotment of skier slots for the 2010 Olympics at Whistler has been cut from a hoped-for 22 to only 14. Alpine Canada's chief of athletics, Max Gartner, thinks this will give Canada a big disadvantage against top ski nations like Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy, who have been allocated 22 skiers each.
Skier numbers have been decided using a new formula developed by the International Ski Federation.
...Here are the allocations:
22 Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland
20 U.S.
14 Canada, Sweden
13 Germany
12 Slovenia
8 Czech Republic
6 Finland, Liechtenstein
5 Spain, Great Britain
4 Australia
3 Moldova, Monaco, Lebanon
2 Jamaica, Turkey
1 Senegal, India, Cayman Islands
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ronjuddsolympicsinsider/2009322831_o_canada_host_nation_loses_alp.html
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Must say it doesn't seem very many - say you put your top skier into each discipline ignoring combined - that's 8 slots straightaway - leaving a total of 6 for the allrounders and second ranked to share. Do NZ, Chile & Argentina have no slots despite being "alpine" nations?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Do NZ, Chile & Argentina have no slots despite being "alpine" nations?
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i was wondering the same thing 4 for oz and none for NZ i think it mainly has to do with which nations host WC events
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I think there might be some omissions from the list. There is no mention of Norway, I think Svindal would be a little disappointed not to go as the current World Cup crystal globe winner. There is also no Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia either. Kwame would also be disappointed as Ghana are not there too!!!!!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Another news article says thats a list of some of the quota spots allowed to various countries ...
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I don't know where this info has come from. There doesn't appear to be anything about a new formula for quotas on the FIS site. Nothing has been announced. The only thing I can see is the qualification standard with quotas in the link that Okanagan put on.
The date for NOC quotas is set as 19 Jan 2010 - hoping that TJ will have made the GB qualification standard by then! Just 1 top 20 place in a Europa cup race required. All other criteria met.
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