Alex Heney wrote in
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:56:14 -0500, "pe.rhodes"
wrote:

Err, sorry, I should have been clearer, I meant "Gold at the World
Championships" vice World Cup. Bode was just named to race at the
World Championship Slalom at Are, Sweden., this weekend.
http://www.fis-ski.com/

"Alex Heney" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:05:29 -0500, "Phil Rhodes"
wrote:

Bode Miller has been entered in the slalom, trying to become the
first to win gold at the Worlds in all disciplines. But has anyone
else even qualified to attempt to do this?

Of course.

there are two people (Bode is NOT one of them) who have scored world
cup points in all five disciplines this season - Axel Lund Svindal
and Benni Raich. Svindal is in the top 30 (even the top 20) in all
five, while Raich is in the top 30 in 4, but 35th in DH.

Miller has no points in SL or Combined.
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But isn't qualification for those based on FIS points?

Not entirely. The team has some discretion to name competitors (not
sure about the fine print on that). Also, I'm pretty sure that
whoeveritis is talking about World Cup points, not FIS points. Bode
does have FIS points in slalom.

I would think anybody who has scored points in all disciplines is
"qualified" to enter all of them at the world championships.

The fine print is at www.fis-ski.com.

Although most countries entering will have enough skiers that they
don't *need* to enter any one in all events :-)

None of them *need* to. Some (US, Sweden for example) have some who can
perform in all five events; others (Austria for example) don't.