2026 Winter Olympics - Day 2 (February 8)

[JockCartier 302]

1 hour ago, Ashes said:

In terms of medals for Day 2, I don’t see Canada adding any to our tally. I think that our best bets are:

⛸️Speed skating - Men’s 5,000m (Ted Jan Bloemen)

🏂Snowboarding - Men’s parallel giant slalom (Arnaud Gaudet)

💃🏼Figure Skating - Team Event 

 

These all feel like long shots. Ted has not been up to form this season, and hasn’t been on the podium (please correct me if I’m wrong on that). But, he’s in the last pairing, and was on the CBC prediction list for a bronze medal.

 

Arnaud could build on the WC silver he just won. The figure skating team is probably our best hope for a podium fishing, but would require perfect programs from the team and possibly slip-ups from Italy and Georgia. 
 

And I am WAY too nervous to watch curling after today… 🫣 

Ted-Jan has looked the best he has in years. Not that that's a high bar, but he's had a couple flashes of brilliance. I'd say he's a solid darkhorse. He'll either contend of blow up trying

[Safe Dragonfly 40]

1. Yes

2. Antoine Cyr

3. 2 (gotta be as optimistic as you can get here)

[intoronto 6,661]

24 minutes ago, Safe Dragonfly said:

1. Yes

2. Antoine Cyr

3. 2 (gotta be as optimistic as you can get here)

This is my guess too.

 

Gonna be optimistic

[SGAxJamal 6]

1. Yes

2. Cyr

3. 2 wins

[NearPup 3,675]

1 hour ago, JockCartier said:

 

That there is a chance of a team event medal at all, is better than I thought we'd do.

But we're down two points, and likely gonna drop another 1-3 in the pairs... so we'd be down 3-5, and Italy would have the tiebreaker... and with Malinin skating for the US, that basically sews up 1st and 2nd in both mens and womens for US and Japan... so our only hope is to be within 3, and to finish 3rd in both mens and womens (which might get us even in the tiebreaker, so maybe within 4) and hope Italy finished 5th in both, which seems particularly unlikely on the women's side

 

So yeah, thinking that thru, we're kinda hooped. We really needed Gilles and Poirier to have done the Free Dance and beat the Italians. That two point swing would have really opened up possibilities. As is, I think we'd need Italy to bomb in the pairs... and, well, the other two too

It was a really baffling decision to not have Gilles and Poirier do both programs :<

[JockCartier 302]

11 minutes ago, NearPup said:

It was a really baffling decision to not have Gilles and Poirier do both programs :<

I think it was a lack of imagination. They didn’t think Gogolev could finish 3rd like that and upset the apple cart

 

When he did, it was too late for G/P to prepare. 

 

As soon as I saw G/P were in the team box and L/L weren’t, it was obvious they were already tapped if we snuck thru. They should have been warming up both just incase… yet another genius move by Michael Slipchuk

Edited yesterday at 03:11 AM by JockCartier

[CanadaWolvesFC 10]

1.Yes

2.Cyr (But I hope Hollmann surprises because he's from Thunder Bay)

3.2

 

[Topicmaster1010 5,853]

1. Yes

2. Cyr

3. 1

[orangeman 2,416]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

It was a really baffling decision to not have Gilles and Poirier do both programs :<

I think after Stellato-Dudek went down, Canada gave up trying to go for the bronze. Ice Dance also begins on Monday, so they probably wanted a rest for their individual medal chance. 

 

Honestly, even with Gilles and Poirier it would have been a battle for that bronze. 

[BenAfleckIsAnOkActor 20]

1. Yes 

2. McKeever 

3. I’m choosing hopium and I’m going to say 2 wins