The women have a spying scandal... the men have a game that seemingly ended with projectiles and a pitch storming after a last second tying goal, THEN have the teams callled back hours later for VAR to nullify the goal to an empty stadium
Soccer is a complete fiasco already and it barely started 
ExpandLike in Tokyo?
I don’t know, I feel like Charron shouldn’t have been chosen. She’s already been a flagbearer at a major (ish) sporting event, let someone else experience it.
Won't hear me defend the picks for Tokyo. Their hands were tied to a point, but I don't feel much need to rationalize them either
De Grasse was always my first pick for the guys (assuming he was in Paris already).
Can't argue with Charon. With the swimmers not attending I was thinking Black, but makes sense to go with a gold medalist
Watching Rugby 7's... almost forgot how nice it was to watch Olympics with a crowd
A couple weeks ago I posted I figured we had potential for 28-29 with our lineup... since then the only real changes effecting that have been LePage pulling out, and McIntosh withdrawing from the 200free... so I'll amend it to 27
Edited by JockCartierLooks like FIFA will investigate. Will be interesting how thorough it is. I'd wager this is something we've been doing regularly since Herdman's days with the women. The men's team were accussed of it during his tenure there too. Probably been standard operating procedure for a decade.
Whether we get a full house cleaning, or if FIFA is content with a notable sacrificial lamb or two
Ellie Black and Evan Dunfee sounds good to me
Evidently, our women's footballers have been engaging in a bit of espionage! 
ExpandAnyone going to watch in 10 hours? Or just following Canada content?
Might tune in a bit tomorrow during the day, but I'm not staying up all night unless a Canadian is involved!
ExpandFor the other Fire TV users, they don't have it on the Gem app yet, but the ICI TOU.TV app has their Olympic section up and it looks pretty good. Navigation has a couple more options than last time. I can't imagine the English one wouldn't be the same structure. Things seem to be well organized. Uses the Paris 2024 pictograms heavily, which are a bit esoteric for broad consumption, but they always include the event name with them.
Here's hoping it works as well as it looks
The Gem app now has their Paris 2024 section live as well!
For the other Fire TV users, they don't have it on the Gem app yet, but the ICI TOU.TV app has their Olympic section up and it looks pretty good. Navigation has a couple more options than last time. I can't imagine the English one wouldn't be the same structure. Things seem to be well organized. Uses the Paris 2024 pictograms heavily, which are a bit esoteric for broad consumption, but they always include the event name with them.
Here's hoping it works as well as it looks
ExpandI can't at this point
https://x.com/CanBball/status/1814370832375767253?t=oHibepQ1-398YZBlcnDGeA&s=19
At this point, I agree with Eric Koreen, I'll believe he'll play in the Olympics only when I see him on the Olympics court
ExpandThey have a good variety of streams up, but wish they showed all tennis courts/table tennis matches/badminton courts/judo mats etc instead of only one. Unless I’m mistaken?
I don't believe they typically have recently, unfortunately
They usually have the field feeds for athletics, and I think I've seen them pick up the odd secondary court in tennis if a Canadian was playing, but that's about it. I don't think they do it typically for badminton, judo, table tennis etc
That sucks
ExpandI think Steve Armitage called swimming prior to Rio but wasn't able to do play by play that year for some reason
He was diagnosed with heart failure just before the games. Friedman stepped in on very late notice, and aside from the disastrous 15 minutes, I think actually equated himself pretty well doing a couple tough sports on short notice.
It was only announced a week before the Olympics. Not sure how much warning they had before that, but given they had went forward with all the announcements like this with Armitage included, I don't imagine it was more than a week or two tops
Not a fan of that pairing of Despatie and Abel. Hopefully Fillion is on the international feed, she's taken to the broadcast booth quickly and well
Glad to see they have Harnett back on cycling.
Like the Snoek and MacDonald pairing for swimming
Could have lived without Soonias on volleyball
ExpandWait huh?
Eliotte Friedman is an NHL commentator, surprised to see that he’ll be doing canoe sprint during the Olympics?
Also, “Calling the highly anticipated debut of the sport of breaking” or not…
Friedman called the swimming, and even diving IIRC) in 2016. He was actually pretty good.
But he did have an all-time terrible 15 minute stretch where he emphatically called gold medal swims by Phelps and Oleksiak by the wrong names 
If you stick to their Gem interface you could probably do it with their replays of everything
Edited by JockCartierThat reminds me, I need to bust out the second tv
ExpandBut why does it matter ?
Sounds llike Athletics gets a total of 1,810 athletes, and has been having issues planning around it.
Read one article, and it sounds like there are work arounds. Rather than "alternatives" they'll be considered "replacement athletes" and can still stay in the village but may not have full accreditation.
Always wondered about how exactly WA applied the rules for relays and alternates. The rule book reads like you can only have six (five plus an alternate, or four and two alternates for the mixed 4x400)... but we named seven, and don't seem to be the only ones
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Nickeil Alexander-Walker
RJ Barrett
Khem Birch
Dillon Brooks
Luguentz Dort
Melvin Ejim
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Trey Lyles
Jamal Murray
Andrew Nembhard
Kelly Olynyk
Dwight Powell
Solid line up.
Anyone know if they announced any other upcoming tune-up games (for the men or women) aside from tonights?
Yeah, I've read that too, but just because you're limited to that many, doesn't mean you get that many
This initial allocations only give us one boat... but it only gives everyone one boat. So maybe more can still be awarded, I don't know, but as I've said, I've never seen anyone actually list two C1 boats for Canada.
https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/paris_2024_csp_quota_allocation_as_of_06062024.pdf
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