2026 Winter Olympics - Day 6 (February 12)

[Safe Dragonfly 56]

54 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Actually at this point I'm wondering if  will win a gold medal before I leave for Italy (on Tuesday night).

maybe ur the missing piece to the puzzle at this point idk

[Safe Dragonfly 56]

Well just came out of a midterm and caught up with the results... Jesus Christ am I anti-curse this year?

 

Doesn't help that Kingsbury and Grondin were competing when I was asleep, and I had a midterm while all these short track Finals were going on. I guess I do need to start watching or something, because there's a giant dark cloud against Canada when it comes to getting gold right now.

[NearPup 3,804]

Quote from Dandjinou on the 1000m:

 

Ça allait si bien. Ça allait vraiment bien. J'ai fait une belle course. Parfois, on peut s'en vouloir de ne pas avoir fait une belle course, mais je pense que je me suis mis dans la meilleure position pour pouvoir gagner. J'ai glissé avec un tour et demi à faire. Ç'a été coûteux dans une finale aussi forte qu'on avait. J'ai perdu ma vitesse. Ç'a été dur après ça de me rattraper. J'ai essayé de sauver les meubles un peu, de conserver ma 2e position, mais ça arrivait vite par l'extérieur.

 

"It was going so well. It was going really well. I had a great race. Sometimes, we can be mad at ourselves because we didn't have a good race, but I think I put myself in the best position to win. I slipped with a lap and a half to go. It was very costly in such a high calibre final. I lost all my speed. It was very difficult to catch up. I tried to salvage a result, to keep my second place, but they were coming so fast on the outside."

 

So it sounds like he had a slip (glissé pretty unambiguously meaning a slip in the literal and not figurative sense of the word).

 

He also said he feels he feels he showed his opponents that he won't lose the upcoming races unless he makes a mistake (so nice to see the swagger is still there, at least rhetorically)

Edited 10 hours ago by NearPup

[JockCartier 309]

Do we know if the Mixed Team SBX is male first against, or if they're switching it up this year?

 

If Grondin goes second, I think we could have a chance... the timing system really favours having your strongest person last