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Welcome to the 46th Edition of E News, the last edition for 2005.
As you may be aware from recent reports, our winter sport athletes
are enjoying one of the most successful competition seasons on
record, with multiple personal best results and firsts for
Australian skiing and snowboarding.
Last weekend alone produced several “firsts” for our athletes
including AJ Bear’s top 20 downhill result, Dale Begg-Smiths World
Cup Mogul victory and Michael Robertson’s world cup bronze medal in
the same event. Emmanuel Oppliger produced a top 6 World Cup result
in Snowboard PGS and it appears as though SSA will nominate its
biggest ever team to represent Australia at the Winter Olympics in
Torino 2006.
SSA would like to congratulate all athletes who have met the
Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) selection standard and are now
eligible for nomination to the 2006 Winter Olympic Team.
Selection for Torino will be made on an event by event basis. There
are three performance standards under the AOC Selection Criteria,
A, B and C. These correspond to achieving results respectively
within the top 20%, 60% and 80% of the starting field in World Cup
events.
For example, if there are 80 starters in an event, if an athlete
finishes in place 48 or better then they are within 60%. For
criteria B (60%) and C (80%), the athlete must achieve the standard
in 50% of the races prior to the selection deadline on January 24.
This is rounded up, so if three events are held then the athlete
needs two results under the standard. Criteria C (80%) only applies
if no athletes have qualified under A or B, and a maximum of one
athlete per event may be selected
As of today, the following 18 athletes have satisfied the AOC
selection criteria, and are now eligible for nomination by Ski &
Snowboard Australia to the AOC. This is done in accordance with the
published Nomination Criteria.
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Name |
Event |
Criteria
Met |
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Alpine |
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AJ Bear
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Super G |
B |
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Freestyle |
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Dale Begg-Smith |
Moguls |
A |
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Alisa Camplin |
Aerials |
A |
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Lainie Cole |
Aerials |
B |
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Jacqui Cooper |
Aerials |
A |
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Lydia
Ierodiaconou |
Aerials |
A |
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Michael
Robertson |
Moguls |
A |
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Snowboard |
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Mitch Allen |
Halfpipe |
B* |
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Torah Bright |
Halfpipe |
A |
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Andrew Burton |
Halfpipe |
A |
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Holly Crawford |
Halfpipe |
A |
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Damon Hayler |
Snowboard Cross |
A |
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Ben Mates |
Halfpipe |
B* |
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Emanuel Oppliger |
Parallel GS |
A |
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Johanna Shaw |
Parallel GS |
B |
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Emily Thomas |
Snowboard Cross |
C |
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Cross
Country |
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Claire-Louise
Brumley |
Pursuit |
C |
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Paul Murray |
Sprint |
C |
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*Subject to
achieving FIS participation criteria |
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Many athletes on the
Shadow Team have made solid progress throughout the season and
remain on track to meet the qualification standards by the
nomination deadline of 24th January, 2006. We will update the list
of qualified athletes in the New Year once the World Cup
competitions resume.
For more information on participation nomination and selection
criteria together with a detailed explanation of the selection
process, please click
here
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