According to the criteria, athletes / teams can be selected for the Olympics if the competitive sports section of the committee has a realistic chance of being ranked in the top 16 of individual athletes or in the top 8 of teams based on international performance.
The evaluation and consideration will take into account the results of the World Cup, the World Cup and the Beijing Olympic Qualifiers at the beginning of the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons, as well as the official world ranking of the sport.
For Finland, Ice Hokey is definitely one of the areas worth following and hoping for medals. The Lions, the Finnish national hockey team, has earned the country plenty of bronze and silver in previous Olympics, even though it placed 6th.th in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
Although the full lineup of Lions Team A will not be revealed until January, names have already been added to the team.
Last month, the coaching of the A-national team named the first three Finnish players for the February Olympic tournament. The designated players were Sebastian Aho Carolina Hurricanes, Alexander Barkov Florida Panthers and Mikko Rantanen Colorado Avalanchesta.
Sebastian Aho ranks 20th in the Carolina Hurricanes. MAGAZINE IMAGE / Getty Images / AFP |
Alexander Barkov ranks 16th in the Florida Panthers. MAGAZINE IMAGE / Getty Images / AFP |
Mikko Rantanen in Colorado Avalanche ranked 96. MAGAZINE / AFP |
“We have a long list of potential teams on our A-team, as there is still time for the Olympics and athletes can retire or miss out, for example due to corona infections,” says Jere Lehtinen, team general manager.
The format of the 2022 Menโs Hockey Olympics is the same as the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Olympics. The tournament starts in three starting blocks, Finland is in the C-block.
First block division:
Block A: Canada, China, Germany, United States
Block B: ROC, Switzerland, Denmark, Czech Republic
Block C: Latvia, Sweden, Slovakia, Finland
After the initial block stage, the teams will be ranked (1-12) according to the following characteristics:
โข Position in the output block
โข Points achieved
โข Higher difference in earnings
โข Higher score
โข IIHF World List
The teams in places 1-4 (the three winners in the block and the best second) will advance directly to the semi-finals. In the playoffs, teams of 5-12 teams will play.
The selection process for Finnish athletes is still ongoing, and not all names have been revealed.
The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing from 4 to 20 February 2022.
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Source: The Nordic Page