Canada's 2024 Olympics Qualification Discussion

[Surlympics 901]

For the men’s eights 

[Josh 11,129]

  On 5/21/2024 at 4:23 PM, Surlympics said:

Did we actually lose the spot by one one hundredth of a second as well?

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I watched the race and yup. We were about 2 seconds ahead 3/4th of the way through the race, but Italy charged and we couldn’t hold on. 

[james89 875]

  On 5/21/2024 at 4:15 PM, intoronto said:

The whole organization needs to be gutted at this point. What an embarrassment. 

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This has been an ongoing issue for several quads now. Hopefully this is the final wakeup call.

[Josh 11,129]

I still can’t believe we fired Michelle Darvill a couple of days after she coached our women’s eight to Olympic gold in Tokyo…

[Surlympics 901]

Yeah that makes no sense at all why they would fire her after Olympic gold 

[Surlympics 901]

  On 5/21/2024 at 4:55 PM, Josh said:

I watched the race and yup. We were about 2 seconds ahead 3/4th of the way through the race, but Italy charged and we couldn’t hold on. 

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Crushing but hey at least we weren’t going to medal in this event . So it doesn’t effect our medal total but still would be nice to have a men’s event to watch in Paris represented by Canada 

[Surlympics 901]

And why do they only have seven spots available for the eights crews. It’s such an odd number . Why not 8 ?

[Josh 11,129]

  On 5/21/2024 at 5:03 PM, Surlympics said:

Crushing but hey at least we weren’t going to medal in this event . So it doesn’t effect our medal total but still would be nice to have a men’s event to watch in Paris represented by Canada 

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In my mind, it doesn’t matter if they have a chance to medal, I want to see us qualify in as many events/sports as possible. If a medal contender fails to qualify though, just makes it that extra bit more disappointing. 

[james89 875]

 

 

  On 5/21/2024 at 4:55 PM, Josh said:

I watched the race and yup. We were about 2 seconds ahead 3/4th of the way through the race, but Italy charged and we couldn’t hold on. 

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To be fair this was the strategy that led the women's eights to the gold medal.

[Surlympics 901]

  On 5/21/2024 at 5:09 PM, Josh said:

In my mind, it doesn’t matter if they have a chance to medal, I want to see us qualify in as many events/sports as possible. If a medal contender fails to qualify though, just makes it that extra bit more disappointing. 

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I do too but it takes a lot of the sting away if they didn’t have a chance for a medal