I’m well aware of her record this season. And last for that matter.
I’m also well aware of our country’s curling myopia over the last 20 years
We have a bad habit of downplaying how good some of these other countries are. The Swiss and Koreans are terrific teams… and they take Worlds seriously, unlike us.
Those teams build their seasons around Worlds… we pour whatever is left of our champs on a plane two weeks after running the STOH/Brier gauntlet
You just gonna swoop in and snake the good news from me like that?! Tsk tsk
Not impossible to make up 196 points in one race... but extremely unlikely. I think the biggest spread between the two in a singles race this year was 105. As long as Canada shows up and isn't horrifically sick or something, we're pretty safe now
ExpandI wonder what exactly happened during the World Cups. They were at the bottom in every race.
Weidemann seems to be starting to find her form again 
Typo
The races are going forward, and they got in the short individual races today.
The women had an ok day
Moser - 45th
Lunder - 51st
Pfeifer - 63rd
Paradis - 78th
For the men Runnalls had a great day and saved their bacon
Runnalls - 27th
Pletz - 74th
Connelly - 78th
Thanks to that they picked up an extra 11 points over Kazahkstan, and now are up 119 points with three races to go... two of which would go Sunday with the mixed and single mixed relays, weather dependent
This weekends World Cup in Pokljuka is in question because of warm weather and tons of rain. They've already tweaked the schedule, and are now talking about potential cancellations.
If they do race it sounds like it's gonna be sloppy
Shoe was on the other foot today in the men's relay. Canada had a nightmare start and ended up 18th, while Kazakhstan showed well at 13th. Chopped 50 points off Canada's cushion, dropping from 158 to 108 with four events left.
Three are next week in Pokljuka. We're not out of the woods just yet
On the upside, the women fared much better with a respectable 13th in their relay
Bit of a rough day in the women's sprint
Moser - 57th
Pfeiffer - 62nd
Lunder - 75th
Paradis - 86th
World Cup resumed today, and it was a men's sprint so there were Nations Cup implications
Wasn't a great day, but did ok
Runnals - 52nd
Connelly - 59th
Pletz - 80th
At this point the big thing is the Nations Cup, and they did fortunately out perform the Kazakh's. They now have a 158 point cushion in 20th, up from 113 before today, and five events remain. Big one goes Sunday with the relay
ExpandNot sure how much of an impact it’ll have on the standings, but Canada finished 10th in the mixed relay compared to 12th for the US. Should close the gap I think?
I think Canada was down 11 points before the race, and they flashed the standings before signing off and it looked like Canada was now down 6 points
Edited by JockCartierInteresting the women didn’t race the team pursuit. I presume it was cause Blondin couldn’t do triple duty and TP was odd one out
ExpandYea skaters switching countries isn't really an unusual thing. A lot of this happens when they're trying better to go for international competitions.
Either way I do feel Skate Canada needs some sort of change in leadership because whatever Mike Slipchuk or whoever is running this org is doing is not working. It's just been the same thing behind the scenes for the past few years.
Definitely. Development has been a disaster on the singles side.
Skipchuk really rode a wave that wasn’t his making, getting the job just as Chan and Virtue/Moir were about to break out and as the Feds were pouring in money.
Skaters country hopping isn’t unusual when they need a partner, especially when they’re younger and/or low ranked.
LFB formerly skated for Denmark. Our top current teams are both half American (Gilles and Stellato)… our team of Lauriault/La Gac used to skate for France… Lilah Fear of Fear/Gibson is Canadian… Allison Reed is American but seems to skate for a new country every other year… and its impossible to even keep up with all the former Russians floating around
Edit: Only 2 of the top 9 ID teams last year were both from the same country … and at least half or more of the pairs teams are the same. It’s just the reality of the disciplines
Edited by JockCartierExpandAbigail strate and Alexandria Loutit tie for fifth at the world championships in women’s normal hill. Great result !
Great to see Strate figure things out this last week! She seemed to be really struggling to get into the top ten much of the year
Edit: Maurer also nearly cracked the top 20 with a big second jump to finish 21st. Good day for the Canadians all around
Edited by JockCartierExpandI hope they find a way to schedule the gold medal hockey game later. If the final is Canada/USA, then it will start at the unfriendly hours of 4am PST/7am EST
Historically they seem to like to schedule the hockey final for 1pm local on the last day (2010, and 2018 had it at 1pm, and 2022 was noon) as the last event... but for 2014 it looks like they played it at 4pm local
Closing Ceremony always goes at 8pm. So 4pm is probably as late as they'd consider
I wish we had trials a year early and let the teams properly plan their seasons and prepare for the Olympics
Making them play the tournament of their lives, then pour whats left on a plane headed halfway around the world to play for medals hasn’t been working well lately
I guess at least they’re doing it that way for doubles now
CBC posted the SkiMo test event on their Youtube
Interesting getting a preview of the venue, probably a pretty good idea of how the mixed relay race will go next year too
Seems like Canada's qualification hopes will rest on beating the US for the continental spot. We're not far behind in the standings. Would have actually been really close if we didn't get a penalty in the final, actually beat them to the line just barely for 11th, but then Poland and Canada got 10s penalties, so US ended up 10th and we ended up 12th
Edited by JockCartier
I noticed she didn't compete in Ljubno either. Maybe she took a break after Lake Placid, and is heading straight to Norway?
ExpandI think Canada is in a good enough position to take the last quota as long as we show up to the final events
Not sure I'd go that far just yet, but certainly looks a lot better than it did two weeks ago. After Nove Mesto maybe, if we can finish ahead of Kazakhstan in the last full relay I'll be feeling very good
ExpandWell, the women's relay got lapped. That was disappointing.
Men's relay somehow didn't get lapped and finished in 17th while Kazakhstan finished in last and got lapped so that's good news
For the women, Paradis had a decent opening leg. Rousseau got ate up a bit on the second. Moser had a bit of a nightmare standing shoot and that was the end of their day. Interesting they back loaded the women's team like that. Maybe looking to give Lunder a little extra rest in case she gets into the mass start? France utterly crushed everyone
For the men, Kazakhstan started the race with 3 penalty laps on the first shoot. Tough to come back from that, finished 23rd. Pletz has a decent opening leg, though it helped the field took it easy the first two laps. Runnalls struggled a bit, and Connelly really really struggled skiing, and Borglum just barely managed to not get lapped (could see him in the foreground of one shot of JT Boe hamming it up on his victory lap).
Adds another 60 points to Canada's Nations Cup lead on Kazakhstan, which now stands at 113. Points still at play in 6 races.
Single Mixed Relay went today, Lunder and Runnals doing the honours.
Finished 18th. So, not great. Shooting was ok, but ski speed struggled a bit, Lunder seemed to struggle as the race progressed. Waxes have been a challenge for a lot of teams.
Good news is they beat KAZ, and netted another 30 points in that battle to qualify a men's team for 2026. As it stands now, Canada sits 20th, with a 53 point cushion
Good news, bad news in the men's individual.
The Canadians didn't do great:
Pletz - 65th
Runnals - 66th
Borglum - 73rd
But they did better than KAZ, made 37 more Nations Cup points to put them in 20th (and with a 23 point lead). There are 8 races remaining that will impact that Nations Cup, tomorrows Single Mixed Relay, Saturday's men's relay, and then six more races when the World Cup resumes
World Championships - Women's Individual
Lunder 54th
Paradis - 69th
Moser - 73rd
All three had a tough time on the shooting range. Looks like Lunder is 3rd alternate for the Mass Start.
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Well, it was not pretty... but I think we have men's and women's teams in the Olympics!
Final races with Nations Cups implications went today.
Men: Only two raced, Pletz (75th) and Connelly (95th), but fortunately Kazahkstan didn't have much of a day and only made up 40 points... so Canada finished 20th with a 156 point cushion
Women: Paradis had a very good day, finishing 36th! Hopefully she can keep building on that. Lunder was 58th, Moser 76th, and Peiffer 99th. The women finished 16th overall in the Nations Cup
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