Congrats to the US winning the team gold! If these results are official.
Team results are not final until the final rounds are completed. However, based on who is and is not in the final rounds of the top 15 pilots, the USA, the Ukraine and China have 3 finalists in the final 15 and the placings of the remainder essentially will pit the USA, the Ukraine, and China for the team championship depending on the individual placings of those 9 pilots. Even if the two from Slovakia still remain in 1st and 2nd, the placing of their third member, which is 40th and will not change, thus essentially eliminating any chance they have for the team championship. Japan and Russia have their three team members in the top 25 with Japan currently having a slight edge of those two. If the relative placings after the finals do not change, the US team is in a good position, Ukraine would be 2nd, China would be 3rd, Japan 4th, and Russia 5th.
Looking at the scores during the second rounds of flights, much credit should be given to Paul, Orestes and David for their perseverance to make this a great showing so far. And we will probably never know how much Bill Lee and Don McClave have contributed to our team so far.
And the World Champion is yet to be determined with a brand new contest starting tomorrow.
Keith
(Initial post was in error based on the unofficlal score board posted in an earlier thread. This post corrected to reflect official FAI posting of the 4 qualification rounds.)