Gangwon Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 Sochi 2014: 88 participating countries, 2880 athletes, 98 events Vancouver 2010: 82 participating countries, 2566 athletes, 86 events Lake Placid 1980: 37 participating countries, 1072 athletes, 38 events If you thought Vancouver was big, it just keeps on growing. Soon we'll be at 100 countries, 3000 athletes, 100 events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 Both Venezuela and South Africa are close to qualifying (we will know for sure tomorrow) and if both qualify then we will have 90 countries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangwon Posted January 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 Oh cool, I thought qualifying was done. Stockholm's withdrawal got me thinking. I was looking into whether Ostersund could ever host instead, but it really does look like that ship has sailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 South Africa missed qualification by 0.07 seconds. Ouch. Hopefully he gets a wildcard slot. Only one country left to qualify now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 So the FIS it seems has included South Africa and Venezuela as qualifying (even though their athletes didn't meet the standard). So we have 90 nations going to Sochi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTHarner Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 90 nations at a Winter Games. I never would have believed that as I thought we had maxed out in the low 80s after having 80 and 82 at the last two games. I think the event program has reached the perfect size and will not grow much more, besides what more could be added? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangwon Posted January 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 The thing is there are already so many obscure nations that provide 1 or 2 athletes. I suppose it's possible another 10 non-winter nations can provide 1 or 2 athletes of their own in addition to the 90. 1980 and 1984 had roughly the same number of events, but by 1984 there were 200 more athletes and 8 more countries. I do hope that the number of events stop growing. Even most of the new events for Sochi were unnecessary. The exception being women's ski jumping, which is a great natural addition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikarus360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Wohoo! I'm so happy my country made it. It was sad to not see them taking part in Vancouver. Hopefully the media will pay more attention to the WOG this time now ¬.¬ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 There are more events that could be added for sure. These are actual events that happen on the world cup circuit or Youth Olympics: -Alpine team event -Freestyle skiing dual moguls M/W -Synchronized skating (totally against this btw) -Snowboard big air for M -Short track 3000m for M and W -Speed skating team sprint event for M and W -Hockey skills challenge M/W (like the youth event) -Ski jumping women's large and team events -Monobob M/W (which will be tried out at the 2016 Youth Olympics; though the sliding track is at its maximum I believe for events) -Curling mixed doubles That is 16 or so events A lot of nations piggybacked of athletes born elsewhere. Malta, Togo, Paraguay, Timor Leste, Dominica, five of the seven nations had all their athletes born outside the country, while Zimbabwe had their athlete leave at the age of 2. So as we progress we might see skiers from other countries debuting. Eritrea will likely be there in 2018 and benefit like the other 6 have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 This is in addition to mass start speed skating, bandy and winter triathlon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 This is in addition to mass start speed skating, bandy and winter triathlon. Ski Orienteering is also making a bid for 2022 with a 90 athlete proposal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ski Orienteering is also making a bid for 2022 with a 90 athlete proposal. That would not be tv friendly at all and wouldn't get selected IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 That would not be tv friendly at all and wouldn't get selected IMO. http://rufso.ru/files/2013-03-13-01-14-33prezentaciya.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 http://rufso.ru/files/2013-03-13-01-14-33prezentaciya.pdf Great, a sport Russia is good at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breathesgelatin Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I'd love to see sychronized skating, personally. It's a ton of fun. The ISU would love to have it, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4gamesandcounting Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 After the success of triathlon I can see winter triathlon making a go for it. But I think as a whole new sport it's ice climbing that has the best chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 90 nations at a Winter Games. I never would have believed that as I thought we had maxed out in the low 80s after having 80 and 82 at the last two games. I think the event program has reached the perfect size and will not grow much more, besides what more could be added? 90 nations -- why, that's TEN MORE than there were in Moscow. So I think the Russians will be thinking they have more friends this time than 34 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 The only additions I'd like to see after Sochi is an individual pursuit in speed skating, women's team ski jumping and women's Nordic Combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTHarner Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Yep Baron, just like the Americans felt more loved when 50 more countries showed up in Atlanta than had in LA. BTW, I wish the quote button would actually work. It seems to for some, but I know others are having issues too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Down to 89 as South Africa refuses to enter their athlete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 Down to 88 because Algeria refuses to send. Only 3 african countries and one athlete born in the continent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 According to some reports Russia will be the largest team with 225 to the USA's 224 and Canada's alleged 222 (I only count 217). Weirdly Russia's wikipedia page says Russia qualified 26 in freestyle, but on the freestyle page it says Russia qualified 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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