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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

Short-track is unpredictable and ridden by bullshit refs who give out weird penalties and home-advantage calls to favour the home athletes. Women’s hockey, we aren’t beating the US this time around, the rivalry series went horribly and I’d be happy if we can hang on to silver. It was that bad. Freestyle skiing team, a lot of them have been getting injured our ski cross contenders (Hoffos, who was in the best form of her career, Sherret), Kingsbury, Oldham... Then you have Blouin, and reigning World Champion Liam Brearley in snowboarding, 2024 world champion in skeleton Hallie Clarke, and 2023 world champion in ski jumping Alexandria Loutitt who are all out injured for the season. I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Italy will have a nice home boost and win 5-6 golds, but yeah that would’ve been pretty bad for us even before our entire team getting injured. I still view it as a disappointment either way.

team is seriously in shambles and I wouldn’t be surprised if we only win a few bronzes or slightly better at Milano-Cortina… Our men are nonexistent, Dubreuil still is awful coming back from injury and nowhere near his 2021-22 form, he’d be lucky to get a top 16 finish. Jan-Bloemen is old and his 5,000m WC podium was a fluke, at best it’ll be a top 8 finish in each event. For the women, Weidemann won’t beat Groenewoud/Wiklund in the 5km/10km and Blondin with Groenewoud (probably, she beats her all the time) or Mangianello in the mass start, and Maltais can only aim for a minor medal at best. We don’t even have our team pursuit anymore, used to be by far the best and now we’re getting beaten by Netherlands/Japan…

Not this year unfortunately, I’m sick with the flu

Actually she's out for the remainder of the season, unfortunately

Here’s my guess at the team size in each event. Women Ski Cross (4), depending on Marielle Thompson and Courtney Hoffos, if one of them will be missing out on the Olympics then maybe -1 Halfpipe (4), Amy Fraser, Dillian Glennie, Cassie Sharpe, and Rachael Karker (depending on injury) Big Air/Slopestyle (3), Naomi Urness, Olivia Asselin, Megan Oldham/Elena Gaskell (we’ll see if Oldham is healthy and ready in time) Moguls (3), Maia Schwinghammer, Berkley Brown, and one of Jessica Linton/Ashley Koehler Aerials (2), Marion Thenault (injury depending), and Charlie Fontaine/Alexandra Montminy Men Slopestyle/Big Air (3), Dylan Deschamps, Alexander Henderson, Max Moffatt Ski Cross (4), Reece Howden, Jared Schmidt, Kris Mahler, Kevin Drury Halfpipe (3), Brendan MacKay, Andrew Longino, Dylan Marineau Aerials (3), Lewis Irving, Alexandre Duchaine, Miha Fontaine Moguls (3), Mikael Kingsbury, Julien Viel, Eliot Vailancourt

Ski Cross WC Innichen Women Gold- Sandra Naeslund Silver- Daniela Maier Bronze- Fanny Smith Same women’s big final as yesterday. Men Gold- Reece Howden Silver- Florian Wilmsmann Bronze- Evan Klufts Full Results

Evan Klufts with his first career WC podium at 28 after not having cracked the top 20 previously, pretty cool stuff

Back to back golds for Reece Howden at the Innichen WC!