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Ruby Stevens wins Canada’s gold medal of the games, and she does in in style setting a new PR (1:30.41) in women’s 100m backstroke S6!

Men’s Session 1 Results 3 - 6 5 - 3 6 - 7 10 - 1 5 - 7 Men’s Standings (1-4 go through to semifinals, #1 plays #4 and #2 plays #3) 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L

Bronze for Stephanie Chan in women’s class 6-7 para table tennis!

Men’s 4 Man Bobsleigh World Cup- Yanqing, China Gold- Team Lochner (Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer/Florian Bauer/Erec Brucker) (1:57.04) Silver- Team Friedrich (Francesco Friedrich/Alexander Schüller/Candy Bauer/Thorsten Margis) (1:57.31) Bronze- Team Sun (Sun Kaizhi/Zhen Heng/Ding Song/Ye Jielong) (1:57.44) Full Results

Women’s Session 1 Results 10 - 4 8 - 11 12 - 1 8 - 4 8 - 4 Women’s Standings (1-4 go through to semifinals, #1 plays #4 and #2 plays #3) 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 1 W / 0 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L 0 W / 1 L

Double podium for Canada, as Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais win silver and bronze behind Groenewoud in women’s mass start!

Speed Skating World Cup Beijing, China Day 2 Women’s 1000m Gold- Miho Takagi (1:14.44) Silver- Kimi Goetz (1:14.45) Bronze- Jutta Leerdam (1:14.88) Men’s 500m Gold- Wataru Morishige (34.69) Silver- Laurent Dubreuil (34.81) Bronze- Yuma Murakami (34.82) Men’s 5000m Gold- Patrick Roest (6:11.40) Silver- Davide Ghiotto (6:14.25) Bronze- Sander Eitrem (6:15.42) Ted Jan Bloemen 4th Men’s Team Sprint Gold- Conor McDermott/Cooper McLeod/Zach Stoppelmoor (1:20.27) Silver- Ning Zhongyan/Haonan Du/Bin Liu (1:20.72) Bronze- Hein Otterspeer/Wesly Dijs/Janno Botman (1:20.73) Women’s Mass Start Gold- Marijke Groenewoud (63 SP/8:24.71) Silver- Ivanie Blondin (40 SP, 8:37.58) Bronze- Valerie Maltais (20 SP, 8:37.74) Full Results

First race of the season (women’s mass start) for Irene Schouten coming up soon!

Laurent Dubreuil wins his first medal of the season at the WC in Beijing, racing to silver in the men’s 500m!

First WC of the season was last week in Obihiro. Disappointing showing for Canada, with only two medals (one gold by Ivanie Blondin in women’s mass start, and one silver in women’s team pursuit)

Day 1 (November 19, 2023) Canadian Schedule Sorry I didn’t do days -1/0 completely forgot CP Football 14:30 PST/17:30 PST: Men’s Preliminary- Canada v. Venezuela Goalball 5:45 PST/8:45 EST: Men’s Preliminary Group B- Canada v. United States 11:30 PST/14:30 EST: Women’s Preliminary Group D- Canada v. United States Para Swimming 4:00 PST/7:00 EST: Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB9 Heat 1- Jagdev Gill, Fernando Lu 4:28 PST/7:28 EST: Women’s 200m Freestyle S14 Heat 2- Emma Van Dyk 4:35 PST/7:35 EST: Men’s 200m Freestyle S14 Heat 1- Tyson MacDonald 4:39 PST/7:39 EST: Men’s 200m Freestyle S14 Heat 2- Jesse Canney, Connor Bissett 4:44 PST/7:44 EST: Women’s 200m Individual Medley SM7 Final- Myriam Soliman 5:12 PST/8:12 EST: Men’s 100m Backstroke S12 Final- Hunter Helberg 12:12 PST/15:12 EST: Men’s 100m Breastroke SB9 Final- TBD 12:30 PST/15:30 EST: Women’s 100m Backstroke S6 Final- Ruby Stevens 12:43 PST/15:43 EST: Women’s 200m Freestyle S14 Final- TBD 13:14 PST/16:14 EST: Men’s 200m Freestyle S14 Final- TBD 14:18 PST/17:18 EST: Men’s 50m Freestyle S10 Final- Jagdev Gil, Fernando Lu Para Table Tennis 5:30 PST/8:30 EST: Women’s Singles Class 6/7 Semifinals- Stephanie Chan v. Giselle Muñoz 8:00 PST/11:00 EST: Women’s Singles Class 6/7 Final- TBD 9:00 PST/12:00 EST: Men’s Singles Class 2 Group A- Peter Isherwood v. Guilherme Marciao Wheelchair Basketball 7:30 PST/10:30 EST: Women’s Group A- Canada v. Brazil 15:30 PST/18:30 EST: Men’s Group A- Canada v. Chile Wheelchair Rugby 8:00 PST/11:00 EST: Mixed Preliminary- Canada v. Argentina

Sarah Pavan/Molly McBain through to the semifinals at the BPT Challenge in Chiang Mai, Thailand! First time into the medal rounds for this partnership!

Did some research, hadn’t realized that Canada still hasn’t won an Olympic gold in judo. Christa Deguchi and Jessica Klimkait are very easily the top two judoka in the women’s 57kg weightclass. Klimkait won bronze at Tokyo 2020, but a super disappointing one at that. She was ranked #2 in the world at the time (Deguchi was #1, but of course due to the stupid one athlete per NOC rule she wasn’t competing) and being the reigning World Champion she was coming in as the favourite.

For the most likely sports would have to be breaking and 3x3 basketball. Philip Kim (I refuse to call him Phil Wizard) has won three consecutive World Championships medals (silver in 2021, gold in 2022, silver in 2023) and is the current Pan American Games and Pan American Championships gold medalist. Our 3x3 basketball team of Michelle Plouffe, Katherine Plouffe, Kacie Bosch, and Paige Crozon has been on a tear the past few seasons. Winning stop after stop on the Women’s Series. Disappointing quarterfinal exit for them at this years FIBA 3X3 World Cup, but we had a tough draw facing France, it could’ve gone either way. 30/34 wins this season for the foursome, 30/33 wins last season (excluding the meaningless 3x3 canada quest tournament and the big 12 tournaments) If Erin Brooks can get her Canadian citizenship in time to qualify for the Olympics, she could be a medal threat in women’s surfing as well. Silver medalist at the 2023 ISA Worlds, U16 gold medalists at the 2022 ISA Junior Worlds, and widely regarded as the next big surfing star.

Can’t find a thread that suits what I have to say, so I’ll just post it here. From now on I’ll be updating all winter sport results (if I have time) in the following sports: curling (slams and any major events ex. European Championships), bobsleigh/skeleton/luge, speed skating, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding. I know that @hckošice does alpine skiing, ski jumping, and hockey, @phelps does ski mountaineering,@maestro does figure skating, and @Dennis does short track speed skating. Can anyone do biathlon, cross country skiing, and nordic combined?

qualifies for Paris in women’s sitting volleyball through the WPV Sitting Volleyball World Cup! Never in doubt, clearly one of the best teams in the world at the moment, and one of the favourites for a medal at next years Paralympics.

Speed Skating World Cup Beijing, China Day 1 Women’s 1500m Gold- Miho Takagi (1:55.52) Silver- Mei Han (1:55.92) Bronze- Qishi Li (1:57.01) Men’s 500m Gold- Wataru Morishige (34.72) Silver- Yuma Murakami (34.82) Bronze- Junho Kim (35.00) Women’s 500m Gold- Erin Jackson (37.91) Silver- Kimi Goetz (37.92) Bronze- Minsun Kim (38.00) Men’s 1500m Gold- Kjeld Nuis (1:44.80) Silver- Patrick Roest (1:45.36) Bronze- Zhongyan Ning (1:45.51) Full Results Terrible start to the WC season for Canada, only two podiums (1 gold, 1 silver) so far, and a very disappointing silver last week in Obihiro in the women’s team pursuit (hadn’t lost a race since before the pandemic)

Men’s 2 Man Bobsleigh World Cup- Yanqing, China Gold- Team Lochner (Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischauer) (1:58.64) Silver- Team Friedrich (Francesco Friedrich/Alexander Schüller) (1:59.26) Bronze- Team Vogt (Michael Vogt/Sandro Michel) (1:59.54) Full Results

Women’s Skeleton World Cup- Yanqing, China Gold- Tina Hermann (2:03.81) Silver- Zhao Dan (2:03.83) Bronze- Mirela Rahneva (2:03.99) Full Results

Men’s Skeleton World Cup- Yanqing, China Gold- Christopher Grotheer (2:01.20) Silver- Wenhao Chen (2:01.63) Bronze- Wenhao Yan (2:01.68) Full Results

Women’s sitting volleyball team qualifies for Paris through the WPV Sitting Volleyball World Cup!

Bronze in the women’s skeleton WC opener for Mirela Rahneva

Not a great start for our para table-tennis athletes. 0-9 so far throughout one day of group play

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November 17, which means it’s my 17th birthday today! Starting to feel old already