Day 14 (February 18th, 2022)

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

 

Day 14 (February 18) Canadian Schedule

 

February 17

20:30: Freestyle Skiing- Women’s Halfpipe- Final- Run 1 (Amy Fraser [2nd], Cassie Sharpe [7th], Rachael Karker [11th])

20:58: Freestyle Skiing- Women’s Halfpipe- Final- Run 2

21:25: Freestyle Skiing- Women’s Halfpipe- Final- Run 3

22:45: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Ski Cross- Seeding (Reece Howden [1st], Kevin Drury [8th], Brady Leman [14th], Jared Schmidt [25th])

February 18

1:05: Curling- Men’s Bronze Medal Game:  United States vs. Canada

1:00: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Ski Cross- 1/8 Finals (see below)

1/8 Final 3:  Reece Howden,  Terence Tchiknavorian,  Joos Berry,  Elliott Baralo

1/8 Final 4:  Brady Leman,  David Mobaerg,  Kirill Sysoev,  Sergey Ridzik

1/8 Final 6:  Jared Schmidt,  Francois Place,  Furuno Satoshi,  Romain Detraz

1/8 Final 8:  Igor Omelin,  Kevin Drury,  Florian Wilmsmann,  Oliver Davies

1:35: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Ski Cross- Quarterfinals (see below)

Quarterfinal 2:  Brady Leman,  Reece Howden,  Joos Berry,  Sergey Ridzik

Quarterfinal 3:  Jared Schmidt,  Francois Place,  Erik Mobaerg,  Tristan Takats

Quarterfinal 4:  Igor Omelin,  Ryan Regez,  Johannes Rohrweck,  Kevin Drury

1:54: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Ski Cross- Semifinals

2:10: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Ski Cross- Finals

3:30: Speed Skating- Men’s 1000m (see below)

Pair 8:  Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu,  Joel Dufter

Pair 11:  Marten Liiv,  Connor Howe

Pair 15:  Laurent Dubreuil,  Kai Verbij

4:00: Biathlon- Men’s 15km Mass Start (Scott Gow, Christian Gow, Jules Burnotte, Adam Runnalls)

5:30: Figure Skating- Pairs- Short Program (Vanessa James/Eric Radford [3rd], Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro [12th])

7:00: Bobsleigh- Two-Woman- Heat 1 (Christine de Bruin [6th], Melissa Lotholz [12th], Cynthia Appiah [13th])

8:30: Bobsleigh- Two-Woman- Heat 2

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

While the schedule is relatively light overall, there's still a lot going on for Canada. Our best medal opportunities will be in freestyle skiing with decent chances in both the women's half pipe and men's ski cross. We also have the bronze medal match in men's curling and I'd keep an eye on men's 1000m speed skating where we have an outside chance. The first two runs of the 2-woman bobsled also begins.

[NearPup 3,045]

I honestly hope the wins bronze in men's curling, because the headline of "Canada fails to win any curling medal" would really, really force a reckoning in how the CCA handles the high performance side of the sport and it might lead to some real change.

[seb851 31]

6 hours ago, NearPup said:

I honestly hope the wins bronze in men's curling, because the headline of "Canada fails to win any curling medal" would really, really force a reckoning in how the CCA handles the high performance side of the sport and it might lead to some real change.

Come on, the problem is not the program but the way we select our teams. The level of other countries in curling has greatly improved over the past 15 years

 

We just have change the Canadian championships with eliminate teams by province basis for Top 12 best Canada Team basis like Olympic Trial.

[NearPup 3,045]

Some very unhappy Skeleton sliders in this thread. It appears that a lot of the Skeleton OTP money has gone into unspecified “legal fees” 🤔
 

Starting to think  Humphries might have had the right idea.

 

 

[NearPup 3,045]

2 hours ago, seb851 said:

Come on, the problem is not the program but the way we select our teams. The level of other countries in curling has greatly improved over the past 15 years

 

We just have change the Canadian championships with eliminate teams by province basis for Top 12 best Canada Team basis like Olympic Trial.

Canada is basically the third or fourth best curling country at the moment (behind  and debatably ) when you look at the results from PC 2018 until now at worlds and the Olympics. I’d argue at the very least that the selection process for the Olympics and for Worlds has to change.

[seb851 31]

44 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Some very unhappy Skeleton sliders in this thread. It appears that a lot of the Skeleton OTP money has gone into unspecified “legal fees” 🤔
 

Starting to think  Humphries might have had the right idea.

 

 

Humphries has big ego problems, one of the directors of B2Ten. He said Humphries is not unblemished. 

[NearPup 3,045]

8 minutes ago, seb851 said:

Humphries has big ego problems, one of the directors of B2Ten. He said Humphries is not unblemished. 

I get that impression of Humphries too, but ridiculous stories about BCS keep coming out too. I don't think we can just dismiss all the criticisms Humphries had because she's has personality issues, because clearly she was not the only problem in that setup.

[orangeman 1,989]

Sharpe and Karker are doing great in halfpipe, but it'll be really hard to beat Gu.  

[seb851 31]

Sildaru is very overnoted ...