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No podiums, but solid results for Alexandria Loutitt in women’s normal hill at the Zao WC, 8th during the first day and 4th during the second day.

Gold for Mikael Kingsbury in men’s dual moguls at the Waterville WC! Viel and Cordell in a very respectable 9th and 11th. Maia Schwinghammer finished 4th in women’s moguls, really consistent at the top.

Karker?

Moguls WC Waterville | Waterville, United States Women Gold- Perrine Lafont (77.43) Silver- Jaelin Kauf (77.39) Bronze- Olivia Giacco (75.52) Some new names near the top, with Wilson in 5th and Koehler in 7th (both are career best WC finishes) Men Gold- Mikael Kingsbury (84.95) Silver- Nick Page (83.55) Bronze- Benjamin Cavet (74.55) Full Results

Parallel Giant Slalom WC Rogla | Rogla, Slovenia Men Gold- Maurizio Bormolini Silver- Elias Huber Bronze- Aaron March Can’t imagine how tough of a decision the Italian federation (and to a lesser extent the Austrian federation) will have to make regarding the Olympic team. Women Gold- Miki Tsubaki Silver- Sabine Payer Bronze- Elisa Caffont Full Results

Career best WC finish

Gold and bronze for Jack Crawford and Cameron Alexander in men’s downhill at the Kitzbuehl WC!

I thought they were taking on Qatar, seems as if I can’t read properly. Although to be fair, it’s 4am from for me so maybe that explains it Still always a sucker for an underdog, especially North Macedonia, Faroe Islands, and Iceland in men’s handball. Well besides Sweden… I have a soft spot for Palicka

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wow, gold and bronze I wasn’t expecting this Well done Crawford and Alexander

Wow this forum is dead

So, given that we’re around halfway through the 2024-25 WC season for most sports, and some have started with Olympic qualification, I thought I’d do a rundown of where Canada’s at in regards to quotas (in those sports, like cross-country skiing and biathlon) Biathlon (2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings) 1-3: 6 quotas 4-10: 5 quotas 11-20: 4 quotas Women are ranked 14th, about 1000 points higher than Kazakstan in 21st, and about 700 points behind Czechia in 10th. Safe bet that we’ll probably end up with 4 quotas, barring a miracle/disaster. Men are ranked 21st, 15 behind Kazakstan in 20th, but almost 400 behind Lithuania in 19th. Tough task ahead for the boys. Cross Country Skiing (2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings/Required Points at 2025 WCHs) 300.00 FIS points for Men/330.000 FIS Points for Women at 2025 Worlds: 1 quota 1-5 in 2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings: 4 quotas 6-10 in 2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings: 3 quotas 11-20 in 2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings: 2 quotas 21-30 in 2024-25 Nations Cup Rankings: 1 quotas There’s ranking complications that are almost impossible to calculate for my brain at least, so it could be more than this. Women are currently 11th, and will probably battle with Austria and Czech Republic for 3 quotas (400 points separating them), 4 because we’re quite likely to get the basic quota. Men are currently 9th, although it’s tight between them Austria and Great Britain for 3 quotas (350 points separating them), 4 because we’re quite likely to get the basic quota. But there’s so many complications and some can’t be calculated yet.

and we have our first blockbuster trade of the season…

More top 10 finishes, at the Kitzbuehl WC! Cameron Alexander finished 5th, and Jack Crawford finished 8th in men’s super-G!

If I’m going to be nitpicky, it seems as if our men’s moguls team took a massive step backwards from last year in terms of placemenets, besides Mikael of course.

Pretty decent showing at the Lac-Beauport Moguls WC. Mikael Kingsbury gets his 93rd career WC win in men’s moguls, while Julien Viel finishes 10th. Maia Schwinghammer finishes 4th in the women’s event, Youth Olympian Ashley Koehler with a career best WC finish in 7th, and Lauriane Desmarais-Gilbert just missing the final in 17th.

There’s Youth Olympic Champion Bodlaj

Are there any for North America?

defeats 8-4 in the men’s curling final, for the final gold medal of these FISU Games.

At the 4th end break, tied 3-3 between and

Brilliant last shot by Nordbye leads to a BIG 3 in the 3rd end. lead 3-2 over

I would say it’s Badosa over Gauff, personally.

win gold in women’s curling! And the emotion on their faces afterwards, you can see how much it means to them.

Sabalenka takes out her bestie Badosa pretty convincingly, 6-4, 6-2, and will go for her 3rd consecutive Australian Open title in the final.

More drama Jo-Soo under pressure threads it through a very thin port for the single, 5-5, which means we’re going to an extra end with the hammer.