Josh

I aspire to have the optimism that you have, because having watched some of their games since then, not only have they been losing to not only teams they usually win against, but there's also been some embarrassing losses (mainly for Homan) that weren't happening earlier in the season and can't be excused. If they were all competitive games then, sure maybe. Could be that they peaked too early. In curling it's hard to peak at the right moments, well unless you're Edin, I doubt it.

GSOC Canadian Open Men 1. Team Schwaller 2. Team Whyte 3. Team Mouat 3. Team Shuster Women 1. Team Tirinzoni 2. Team Fujisawa 3. Team Yoshimura 3. Team Tabata Forgot to update earlier. First time in history no Canadian teams in the semifinals. Full Results

Aerials WC Lac Beauport Women Gold- Laura Peel (113.76) Silver- Winter Vinecki (109.90) Bronze- Xu Mengtao (97.02) Men Gold- Sun Jiaxu (131.58) Silver- Li Tianma (124.95) Bronze- Noe Roth (122.91) Full Results

Rachel Homan also struggling, 1-2 in her first 3 Taking into consideration her performance at the last slam, not a great sign with the Olympics in a few weeks…

A couple team announcements/shakeups for the 2026 season Joana Mader is back on tour and will be partnering up with Leona Kernen Waller/Dressler are done, Waller is teaming up Pristauz now Cheng/Kraft will be a new partnership

Yeah you're probably right, but either way that's who I would select if I was choosing. Which I'm not, but besides the point Irving has more potential to finish higher than Nadeau IMO, and Moffatt/Nadeau is a tossup.

Tess Ledeux (freestyle skiing) https://www.instagram.com/p/DTPwfUniL_I/?img_index=1&igsh=MzV3eDVhY3Fkc3h1

I’m predicting 211 athletes in 14 sports, for 104 men and 107 women, a decrease of 4 athletes from Beijing 2022. Alpine Skiing (12 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 12 (6 men + 6 women) # of athletes in 2022: 13 (5 men + 8 women) Decrease of 1 athlete from 2022. For the men, Cameron Alexander and Jack Crawford will for sure qualify barring injury. Jeffery Read, Brodie Seger, Broderick Thompson as well. Riley Seger probably will get the sixth quota. For the women, Valerie Grenier, Alli Nullmeyer, Laurence St Germain, Britt Richardson, Cassidy Gray, and Raphael Lessard. Biathlon (8 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 8 (4 men + 4 women) # of athletes in 2022: 8 (4 men + 4 women) We qualified 4 in each gender through the Nations Cup Rankings. Men just barely made it. Women’s team will probably be Peiffer, Rousseau, Paradis, Moser. Men’s team is less certain, but I’m guessing Connelly, Runnals, Pletz, Borglum (we only have three competing at the first WC…) Bobsleigh (13 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 13 (8 men + 5 women) # of athletes in 2022: 18 (12 men + 6 women) Our men’s team is on a major fall with the retirement of Kripps, so only Pat Norton and Taylor Austin in four-men On the women’s side, I have Appiah/Lotholz representing us in monobob, very tough to tell though. Completely unsure as who the two-women teams but if we’re basing it off the evaluation selection races (because I don’t know nearly enough about bobsleigh) I think it’ll be Ribi/Richardson Wilson, Appiah/Mitchell, this’ll be very disappointing if we only qualify 5 women. Cross-Country Skiing (10 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 10 (5 men + 5 women) # of athletes in 2022: 9 (4 men + 5 women) Antoine Cyr, Tom Stephen, Maximillian Hollmann, Remi Drolet, Xavier McKeever made the team for the men. Katherine Stewart-Jones, Sonjaa Schmidt, Amelia Wells, Alison Mackie, Liliane Gagnon made the team for the women. There’s a good chance at a seventh women’s quota which would have Olivia Bouffard-Nesbit qualifying as well. Curling (12 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 11 (5 men + 6 women) # of athletes in 2022: 12 (6 men + 6 women) Peterman/Gallant, Team Homan, and Team Jacobs have already qualified. Figure Skating (12 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 12 (6 men + 6 women) # of athletes in 2022: 13 (7 men + 6 women) Already secured one men’s quota, one women’s quota, two pairs quotas, and three ice dance quotas, which is our final team through the results of World Championships. Probablt Madeline Schizas for the women’s spot. For the men’s spot, Stephen Gogolev is the front-runner with Roman Sadovsky right behind him. Pairs is locked in with Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps and Pereira/Michaud and so is ice dance with Gilles/Poirier, Lajoie/Lagha and Fabbri/Ayer. Freestyle Skiing (32 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 32 (16 men + 16 women) # of athletes in 2022: 32 (16 men + 16 women) Almost surely going to qualify 32, but almost impossible to predict who will qualify in terms of athletes on the bubble because we would be qualifying much much more if there wasn’t a cap. Men: Aerials (3): Alexandre Duchaine, Lewis Irving, Miha Fontaine Moguls (3): Mikael Kingsbury, Julien Viel, Elliot Vaillancourt Ski Cross (4): Reece Howden, Kevin Drury, Jared Schmidt, Kristofer Mahler Halfpipe (3): Brendan MacKay, Andrew Longino, Dylan Marineau Slopestyle/Big Air (3): Evan McEachran, Dylan Deschamps, Max Moffatt Women: Aerials (2): Marion Thenault, Charlie Fontaine Moguls (2): Maia Schwinghammer, Laurianne Desmarais-Gilbert, Ashley Koehler, Jessica Linton Ski Cross (4): Abby McEwen, Marielle Thompson, Hannah Schmidt, Brittany Phelan Halfpipe (4): Cassie Sharpe, Rachael Karker, Amy Fraser, Dillan Glennie Slopestyle/Big Air (4): Megan Oldham, Olivia Asselin, Elena Gaskell, Naomi Urness Rowell, Katrusiak, Beatty, Porter MacLennan, Therriault, Primeau, David-Chalifoux, other Marineau, Koehler, Linton all miss out. Ice Hockey (48 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 48 (25 men + 23 women) # of athletes in 2022: 48 (25 men + 23 women) Yeah I’m sticking with no roster predictions for either of them with the women, men are already named. Luge (7 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 7 (3 men + 4 women) # of athletes in 2022: 6 (3 men + 3 women) Caitlin Nash and Embyr-Lee Susko in women’s singles (Trinity Ellis misses out), Theo Downey in men’s singles, Wardrope/Zajanski in men’s doubles, and Podulsky/Allan in women’s doubles. Nordic Combined (0 athletes) We are a complete joke at this sport and won’t be qualifying anyone in the next 10000000 years or so Short Track (10 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 10 (5 men + 5 women) # of athletes in 2022: 10 (5 men + 5 women) Projected # of events in 2026: 9 # of events in 2022: 9 Already named. Florence Brunelle, Kim Boutin, Courtney Sarault, Danae Blais and Rikki Doak for the women. For the men, William Dandjinou, Felix Roussel, JPG, Steven Dubois, Maxime Laoun. Skeleton (4 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 4 (2 men + 2 women) # of athletes in 2022: 3 (1 men + 2 women) A few weeks ago I would’ve said only Halle Clarke and Jane Chanell, but Ryan Kuehn, Josip Brusic, and Zander Greco have been doing good on the NOR-AM circuit and could possibly get us two quotas? Ski Jumping (4 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 4 (1 men + 3 women) # of athletes in 2022: 3 (1 men + 2 women) With Loutitt being injured, think Abigail Strate, Nicole Maurer, Natalie Eilers, and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes will qualify. Ski Mountaineering (0 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 0 (0 men + 0 women) # of athletes in 2022: 0 What an embarrassment at the final qualifier Snowboarding (22 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 21 (10 men + 12 women) # of athletes in 2022: 23 (11 men + 12 women) Men: Parallel Giant Slalom (2): Arnaud Gaudet, Ben Heldman Snowboard Cross (3): Eliot Grondin, Evan Bichon, Liam Moffatt Slopestyle/Big Air (4): Cameron Spalding, Francis Jobin, Mark McMorris, Eli Bouchard Halfpipe (1): Liam Gill Women: Parallel Giant Slalom (3): Aurelie Moisan, Kaylie Buck, Megan Farrell Snowboard Cross (3): Meryeta Odine, Audrey McManiman, Tess Critchlow Halfpipe (3): Elizbeth Hosking, Felicity Geremia, Brooke Dhondt Slopestyle/Big Air (3): Laurie Blouin, Jasmine Baird, Juliette Pelchat No either of the Savard-Fergusson’s, Emeraude Maheux, Nicolas Laframboise or Ryan Vo. Speed Skating (15 athletes) Projected Athletes in 2026: 14 (7 men + 8 women) # of athletes in 2022: 16 (8 men + 8 women) Men: 500m (3): Laurent Dubreuil, Anders Johnson, Cedric Brunet 1000m (2): Laurent Dubreuil, Anders Johnson 1500m (2): David la Rue, Daniel Hall 5000m (1): Ted-Jan Bloemen 10000m (1): Ted-Jan Bloemen Mass Start (2): Daniel Hall, Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu (no Jake Weidemann) Women: 500m (3): Carolina Hiller, Beatrice Lamarche, Brooklyn McDougall 1000m (2): Beatrice Lamarche, Rose Laliberte-Roy 1500m (2): Ivanie Blondin, Beatrice Lamarche, Valerie Maltais 3000m (3): Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais 5000m (2): Isabelle Weidemann, Laura Hall (No idea why Blondin missed this) Mass Start (2): Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais

Dylan Deschamps also fails to make the final in the men’s field On the positive side, Meghan Oldham, Olivia Asselin, Elena Gaskell(!) qualify for the women’s slopestyle final, while Evan McEachran and Max Moffatt barely qualify for the men’s slopestyle final

Naomi Urness finished 13th in women’s slopestyle Q’s in Aspen

Olympics start in less than a month! My enthusiasm has gone slightly down with all the injuries lately, but I'm still really excited. Fingers crossed we can match our total from Beijing in medals and win 7-10 golds

Aerials WC Lac Beauport Women Gold- Winter Vinecki (93.58) Silver- Marion Thenault (81.78) Bronze- Emma Weiss (79.33) Men Gold- Dmytro Kotovskyi (131.56) Silver- Sun Jiaxu (125.97) Bronze- Quinn Delinger (123.53) Full Results

Jake Weidemann Really sad that there was no mass start for him to prove himself in

Halfpipe WC Calgary Women Gold- Indra Brown (85.20) @dullard Silver- Zhang Keixin (84.20) Bronze- Svea Irving (83.20) First career WC win for Brown, at 15 Men Gold- Nick Goepper (94.80) Silver- Finley Melville Ives (92.20) Bronze- Birk Irving (89.90) Full Results

Halfpipe WC Calgary None of the medal contenting athletes, notably. Women Gold- Elizabeth Hosking (82.50) Silver- Wu Shaotong (77.25) Bronze- Isabelle Loetscher (76.00) First WC win for Hosking, only with a score in the low 80s though... not the strongest field. Loetscher with her first career WC podium. Men Gold- Valentino Guseli (87.25) Silver- David Habluetzel (80.00) Bronze- Patrick Burgener (79.25) And that's the first snowboarding WC podium in history for Brazil! First career WC podium for Habluetzel as well. Full Results

Not right now, don’t think of them he would make the team IMO, he's still a step behind the main five.

There's 7 quotas, and the 3rd spot in the men's 500m is 8th priority. Jan-Bloemen will be in the men's 5000m/10000m so I think he's qualified.

9th for Val Grenier in women's giant slalom at the Kranjska Gora WC!

Melissa Lotholz also in 6th This is at the Winterberg stop by the way

Rachael Karker DNS in Calgary

Oh no

That's what Canada is doing For us anyone who finishes top 8 in the World Cup standings doesn't have to go through Olympic Trials, obviously the standards would have to be a lot higher, the Dutch team is much more stacked.

True, true A chance definitely, but not someone you'd want to place your bets on

Not the first name I’d think people think of when naming their favourite Canadian athletes I’m surprised

Safe to say that’s the end of his Olympic campaign