Chance for Fleury to be the oldest player to join the triple gold club and for Crosby to be just the fourth player to win all the awards from the triple gold club twice.

I was joking. It would be a terrible idea

Looks like Fleury isn't quite retired yet because he's joining the Canadian team

Final Standing   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Netherlands 5 5(0) 0(0) 25 4 +21 15 Serbia 5 4(0) 1(0) 12 5 +7 12 United Arab Emir. 5 2(0) 3(0) 14 13 +1 6 Belgium 5 2(0) 3(0) 5 17 -12 6 Australia 5 1(0) 4(0) 7 17 -10 3 Israel 5 1(0) 5(0) 9 16 -7 3   The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group B World Championship 2026 Netherlands   The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey Division II Group A World Championship 2026 Australia Belgium Serbia United Arab Emirates   The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey Division II Group B World Championship 2026 Israel

Monday May 5th, 2025 - Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +2)   12:30  United Arab Emirates  8 - 0  Belgium 16:00  Israel  3 - 4  Australia 19:30  Netherlands  3 - 1  Serbia

The exception that confirms it by being exactly that: an exception     Honestly, it'd even be fine if they called it sort of an 'allround sprint' or whatever, instead of calling the combination 'short hurdles', suggesting the combination consists of, well, short hurdle races.

Gail Devers respectably disgagrees  

It's also just utter nonsense. A sprint competition with athletes running a 100 and 200, fine, or a middle-distance with them running 800 and 1500. But a 100 and a 110/100m hurdles is just....weird. And then actually calling it 'short hurdles', when literally half of the combination does not involve hurdles.

Once again I find watching hurdlers running flat races quite boring. 

It’s going to be a rapid start of the season in 2028 as presumably all the champs and trials will be done by Mid June at the latest.