intoronto 4,468 Posted April 12 #131 Share Posted April 12 6 minutes ago, Josh said: One of the worst days of the Olympic qualification period from my perspective… Not even a full team in men’s and women’s sprint would make up for this disaster. I’m done. BTW, although Xu/Xu and Chiu/Gai were ahead of the Canadian pairs in the Olympic Ranking heading into this event that’s pretty much due to the fact that they were competing at most of the BWF events on the calendar unlike the Canadians (Their athletes probably have more funding than ours I’m assuming). They’d lose early most of the time, but occasionally they’d make it past a couple of rounds. Also can I just mention that we won all four gold medals last year. That tells you all you need to know… I believe Choi was nursing an injury I rather save the quotas, lets be realistic, the pairs teams would probably go 0-3 each. The only chance of anything is Yang/Li Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,712 Posted April 12 #132 Share Posted April 12 10 minutes ago, intoronto said: I believe Choi was nursing an injury I rather save the quotas, lets be realistic, the pairs teams would probably go 0-3 each. The only chance of anything is Yang/Li Wdym save the quotas lol. Not getting quotas here doesn’t mean we’ll get extra unexpected quotas elsewhere. And even if they probably aren’t going to get a result at the Olympics, I’d still want them to qualify and add to the Team Canada total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,468 Posted April 12 #133 Share Posted April 12 5 minutes ago, Josh said: Wdym save the quotas lol. Not getting quotas here doesn’t mean we’ll get extra unexpected quotas elsewhere. And even if they probably aren’t going to get a result at the Olympics, I’d still want them to qualify and add to the Team Canada total. Canadian sport is in a financial crisis. Right now sending those who can do well is what should be the primary focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,310 Posted April 12 #134 Share Posted April 12 will have a full track cycling team! orangeman, Surlympics and Josh 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,712 Posted April 12 #135 Share Posted April 12 FYI, after the Olympic qualification period is over (so sometime in late June/early July) I’ll be doing a sport by sport overview for Team Canada, listing surprises, expectations, and disappointments in each. (some sports don’t have surprises/expectations, but the majority do) orangeman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,419 Posted April 13 #136 Share Posted April 13 1 hour ago, Josh said: FYI, after the Olympic qualification period is over (so sometime in late June/early July) I’ll be doing a sport by sport overview for Team Canada, listing surprises, expectations, and disappointments in each. (some sports don’t have surprises/expectations, but the majority do) Always look forward to your analysis, Josh. I try to keep up with as much as I can, but there's a lot out there. Tokyo was a bit of a crapshoot coming out of (or maybe still going through) Covid, but I feel good about Canada's medal chances in Paris. At least Canadians should be in the mix in a range of sports. Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,712 Posted April 13 #137 Share Posted April 13 Canadian men’s volleyball Olympic wide roster of 18 has been announced. Liberos Landon Currie Justin Lui Outside Hitters Ryley Barnes Samuel Cooper Nicholas Hoag (hopefully Sammelvuo doesn’t select him lol, nothing against him but there’s much more deserving names that deserve a Paris spot over him, he isn’t as good as he was a couple of years ago) Brodie Hofer Eric Loeppky Stephen Maar Setters Luke Herr Brett Walsh Middle Blockers Danny Demyanenko Pearson Eshenko Jackson Howe Fynn McCarthy Jordan Schnitzer Lucas Van Berkel Opposites Xander Ketrzynski Arthur Szwarc Was hoping Gord Perrin would unretire from the NT, and Ryan Sclater would sort his disputes with Sammelvuo but nope. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5qipwAOzcD/?igsh=bHdhazd4dWkzMmg5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,468 Posted April 13 #138 Share Posted April 13 13 minutes ago, Josh said: Ryan Sclater would sort his disputes with Sammelvuo but nope. Curious about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surlympics 281 Posted April 13 #139 Share Posted April 13 2 hours ago, NearPup said: will have a full track cycling team! Incredible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,712 Posted April 13 #140 Share Posted April 13 (edited) 2 hours ago, intoronto said: Curious about this? Not exactly sure if it’s correct actually, my information is according to a user on VolleyTalk (a Volleyball forum) but it does seem a bit strange why he hasn’t been on any Canadian rosters lately. Can’t seem to find the link to the post again, as I found this information out months ago, but basically Sammelvuo scheduled a training block out of nowhere, and at the same time Sclater had a trip booked with his family and they got into a whole argument about it. He decided to go on the trip, and that was the end for him. He was left off the roster for Olympic Qualifiers/Olympics, while clearly being one of the best players on the Canadian team, and he hasn’t been suffering injuries lately (playing with Jastrzębski Węgiel in the Polish league during the club season) so I can’t seem to think of any other reasons why he’s been left off the team. Edited April 13 by Josh intoronto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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