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Lot’s of comebacks from injury lately! Watson and now Metivier! Hopefully we’ll be seeing McBride and Knight in action soon.

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I’m bored, so I decided to take a crack at roster predictions for Canada in the team sports we’ve already qualified in. Let’s see how wrong I am in a month (This’ll be edited, as I dont want the content to get erased) Women’s Rugby 7s Olivia Apps Krissy Scurfield Olivia De Couvreur Charity Williams Alysha Corrigan Fancy Bermudez Chloe Daniels Asia-Hogan Rochester Carissa Norsten Piper Logan Sophie de Goede Florence Symonds (leaning towards) or Breanna Nicholas Women’s Basketball Kia Nurse Bridget Carleton Nirra Fields Natalie Achonwa Syla Swords Laeticia Amihere Kayla Alexander Shay Colley Aaliyah Edwards Cassandre Prosper Sami Hill Yvonne Ejim Women’s Waterpolo Jessica Gaudreault Axelle Crevier Emma Wright Verica Bakoc Serena Browne Shae La Roche Hayley McKelvey Kindred Paul Elyse Lamay-Lavoie Floranne Carroll Maria Mimides Clara Vulpisi (not sure if Claire Wright has retired…) Women’s Football Kailen Sheirdan Sabrina D’Angelo Adriana Leon Janine Beckie Cloe Lacasse Vanessa Gilles Nichelle Prince Quinn Jordyn Huitema Kadeisha Buchanan Ashley Lawrence Jessie Fleming Julia Grosso Desirae Scott Deanne Rose Jayde Riviere Gabrielle Carle Jade Rose Maybe Simi Awujo/Shelina Zadorsky as dark hors picks. Men’s Basketball Jamal Murray Zach Edey Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Men’s Volleyball Stephen Maar Arthur Szwarc Eric Loeppky Fynn McCarthy Xander Ketrzynski Jordan Schnitzer Danny Demyanenko Justin Lui Landon Currie Luke Herr Nicholas Hoag Lucas Van Berkel

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7jg-AcRQBJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Malik Metivier is back tomorrow!

Argentina logro un nueva plaza en equitación por el fallecimiento de la yegua del jinete chileno.

Danilovic has a very good draw to make the quarterfinals, if she does it she will be the first Serbian woman to make a slam QF since Ana Ivanovic at RG 2015!

Yeah I'm pretty sure we won't qualify as usual, on paper we should have qualified for London, Rio, and Tokyo but always something goes wrong whether it is multiple injured players or another country playing their best game ever against us (Nigeria in 2012 and Czechs in 2021) or the NBA season running into mid July or a combination of these

For us qualifying is harder than finals apparently

Canada's team announced for the upcoming season: https://sirc.ca/news/speed-skating-canada-confirms-national-and-nextgen-long-track-teams-for-2024-25-season/

National teams announced: https://sirc.ca/news/speed-skating-canada-confirms-national-and-nextgen-long-track-teams-for-2024-25-season/

I’ll do that after week 2 probably. Still a lot of matches to be played.

We already do that split though - the first week is 'tentpoled' by Swimming and the second by athletics; what is being suggested is simply having a third 'tentpole' - the only change I'd make is that I'd add cycling to gymnastics to keep the second week tight. I've always liked the three week idea as it gives time for variety, ebb and flow. I would also have a mid games 'ceremony' to celebrate for the first tranch of leavers and the second tranch of arrivals. I'd make a 'free sport in the city' a centre piece of each of the four week ends - Weekend 1: Cycling Road Races. Weekend 2: Individual Triathlons and cycllng TT. Weekend 3: Race walks and Triathlon relay. Weekend 4 Marathons. I would not leave the main stadium empty for a week. Sevens should be there through most of week 2. I would introduce a form of field archery at the mountain bike circuit when the bikers are done. I'd bring back karate, and make a point of having the three oriental combat sports back to back to back using the same venue - a real life fight club. I'd do something in the urban core not dissimilar to free sport in the city, some kind of pop up ampithetre for BMX freestyle flatland, parkour etc What other sports could share venues in a longer games to reduce costs? i'd also suggest rotating some big team sports; Baseball and Cricket, most obviously - once every eight years would really make each event mean something, and the larger family of bat-and-ball sports would always be represented.

Have you done an analysis on what gap (in points) is needed to guarantee a quota?

Eh. Germany played really well today but I thought they were unlikely to cause the upset with how Canada have been playing, and the fact that they don’t have Orthmann (still recovering from injury?) and Drewniok (who retired from the national team again after week) on the team.

Good win by Canada, Germany felt like a trap opponent that could have costed a lot of points. face tomorrow. A win for the Netherlands will grant them big points, this is something probably needed if they want to catch Canada.

Canada sweep Germany during match 6 of Women’s VNL, improving their record to 4-2! With that we increase our lead to 13.7 points over Netherlands for the final spot at Paris! (Although Netherlands do take on a depleted Dominican Republic squad early tomorrow, which should close down the gap momentarily) Canada played really well today. 54 attack points, 8 blocks, 7 aces, 6 opponent errors, and 11 unforced errors. 6 of the unforced errors were from Kiera Van Ryk Wish we played like this against the United States. Gray was probably the player of the match for us, but Mitrovic has a great game as well, very efficient with her attacking.

sweep 6.52 points towards our World Ranking, increasing our lead over Netherlands for the final Olympic quota to 13.7 points!! KVR put up a few errors near the end (hasn’t been having the best of weeks), but redeemed herself with 4 control blocks on set point, and the game winning swing into the corner.

63 Teilnehmer für 3 Quotenplätze...und das in einem Kampf-Wettbewerb.

I agree with having it 3 weeks, but I’m not sure that I would like having each week split apart to dedicated sports. I quite like having the ability to flip between different sports as it makes it feel more like a singular event compared to back to back championships.

Alsmeier is so fine

AND WE’VE DONE IT AGAIN!! All four Canadians are through to the 3rd round!! Special shoutout to Andresscu, who recovered from an error prone opening set to upset Kalinskaya in 3.

seemingly the basketball stans back home have no confidence that qualification is possible.

Trump has been found guilty on all counts in the NY trial.

So many WTF points from Andresscu

Wouldnt mind seeing telemark skiing too. Not a big fan of a mind and skill Olympics though.