Josh

Really exciting men’s competition

Another WC podium for Flora Tabanelli

I’ll start first; Obviously, @brunamoura in cross country skiing if she qualifies (no pressure) and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Curling: Team Hasselborg and Team Edin, Kaldvee/Lill, and to a lesser extent Team Fujisawa and Team Schwaller Ice Hockey: Elias Pettersson/Elias Lindholm, Pius Suter, Arturs Silovs/Teddy Blueger, whichever Canucks are on United States’ men’s team, Filip Hronek and Finland’s men’s team if Lankinen can keep up his good play (Even though he’s probably going to get traded from the Canucks after this season, he prefers being on a team where he can get more starts than more money. Still I have a soft spot for him) Alpine Skiing: Marco Odermatt, Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde, AJ Ginnis, Joan Verdu and to a slightly lesser extent Johannes Strolz Freestyle Skiing: Jakara Anthony, Birk Ruud, Sina Sigenthaler, Ryan Regez, Kelly Sildaru (for more reasons than one), Eileen Gu Snowboarding: Leon Ulbricht, Marcus Kleveland, Anna Gasser, Benjamin Karl/Andreas Prommegger, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Ski Mountaineering: Oriol Cardona Coll and that’s it for now… Bobsleigh: Kaysha Love Short Track: Robert Kruzbergs Speed Skating: Jutta Leerdam, Jordan Stolz, Marten Liiv, Bart Swings Luge: Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl, Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt From a Canadian perspective, I’m rooting for our men’s hockey team above all. Then, our curling teams, especially Team Homan if she wins Olympic Trials. Then Max Parrot, Mikael Kingsbury, Eliot Grondin, William Dandjinou, our women’s hockey team, and our ski cross squad. But really I’ll be rooting for all of our athletes. I like Hammerle, but I’ll be rooting against him at the Olympics

Decided to start a thread on this early, and get some discussion When I mean athletes, I mean athletes from other countries mainly… but ones that represent your country work too

Luge WC Eberspächer Lillehammer | Lillehammer, Norway Women’s Singles Gold- Julia Taubitz (1:33.898) Silver- Emily Sweeney (1:33.990) Bronze- Lisa Schulte (1:34.050) Women’s Doubles Gold- Chevonne Chelsea Forgan/Sophia Kirkby (1:34.929) Silver- Jessica Degenhardt/Cheyenne Rosenthal (1:34.946) Bronze- Marta Robezniece/Kitija Bogdanova (1:35.419) Men’s Singles Gold- Max Langenhan (1:37.338) Silver- Wolfgang Kindl (1:37.365) Bronze- Felix Loch (1:37.522) Men’s Doubles Gold- Toni Eggert/Florian Mueller (1:33.846) Silver- Martins Bots/Roberts Plume (1:33.978) Bronze- Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl (1:34.070) Full Results

Moguls WC Ruka | Ruka, Finland Women Gold- Perrine Laffont (81.13) Silver- Jakara Anthony (80.00) Bronze- Olivia Giacco (76.95) Laffont victorious in her return to competition, after taking a break last season! Maia Schwinghammer with a career best moguls finish in 4th Men Gold- Mikael Kingsbury (83.90) Silver- Walter Wallberg (81.14) Bronze- Ikuma Horishima (80.51) Kingsbury now with his 100th career victory! (thanks @Gianlu33 for the stat) Full Results

GSOC Kioti National Semifinals Men Mouat v. McEwen Jacobs v. Whyte Women Einarson v. Hasselborg Homan v. Kim

I disagree, the Christiansen hit on Kuzmenko was as clean as can be, why would you try to start a fight after that? Honestly, I find it a little pathetic and soft from Pospisil, but maybe that’s just me…

Oh, gotcha

Mikael Kingsbury with WC victory #91, really starting to close in on 100, with gold in moguls at the Ruka WC! Edit: Also, a 4th for Maia Schwinghammer. Best ever WC result in moguls for her.

I think you’re confusing him with Shiffrin, who’s one win away from 100 career WC wins. Kingsbury has 91 now

Parallel Giant Slalom WC Mylin | Mylin, China Men Gold- Edwin Coratti Silver- Kim Sangkyum Bronze- Lee Sangho Women Gold- Ester Ledecka Silver- Aleksandra Krol-Walas Bronze- Miki Tsubaki Full Results

I think she’ll get top 6, but no podium. With the amount of medal contenders that we have, there’s gonna be some disappointments (In Beijing we had Kingsbury in moguls even with the silver, Dubreuil in the 500m, men’s ski cross, curling, and our men’s hockey team as the main ones)

Day 1 A lot of these predictions are what I’m hoping for, honestly Speed Skating - Women’s 3000m Gold- Ragne Wiklund Silver- Ivanie Blondin Bronze- Joy Beune Snowboard - Men’s Big Air Gold- Taiga Hasegawa Silver- Marcus Kleveland Bronze- Red Gerard Alpine Skiing - Men’s Downhill Gold- Marco Odermatt Silver- Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde Bronze- Andreas Sander Ski Jumping - Women’s Normal Hill Individual Gold- Eva Pinkelnig Silver- Sara Takanashi Bronze- Nika Prevc Cross Country Skiing - Women’s 10km and 10km Skiathlon (Confused on the format and favourites… might not be the best of guesses) @heywoodu does this look fine? Gold- Jessie Diggins Silver- Frida Karlsson Bronze- Krista Parmakoski 1-2-0 1-1-0 1-0-1 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1

You don’t think and have high chances at a medal? Especially the German, who is ahead of the Slovak athlete in the rankings from last season.

ISU Speed Skating World Cup | Nagano, Japan Day 1 Women’s 500m 1. Yukino Yoshida (37.74) 2. Andżelika Wójcik (37.92) 3. Min-Sun Kim (37.93) Men’s 500m 1. Jordan Stolz (34.43) 2. Laurent Dubreuil (34.58) 3. Tatsuya Shinhama (34.58) Women’s 1500m 1. Miho Takagi (1:55.02) 2. Mei Han (1:55.18) 3. Joy Beune (1:55.58) Men’s 1500m 1. Jordan Stolz (1:43.65) 2. Sander Eitrem (1:44.59) 3. Zhongyang Ning (1:44.69) Day 2 Women’s 3000m 1. Ivanie Blondin (4:03.76) 2. Ragne Wiklund (4:04.60) 3. Joy Beune (4:04.60) Men’s 5000m 1. Davide Ghiotto (6:12.71) 2. Beau Snellink (6:13.99) 3. Sander Eitrem (6:15.71) Women’s 1000m 1. Miho Takagi (1:14.60) 2. Jutta Leerdam (1:14.96) 3. Brittany Bowe (1:15.17) Men’s 1000m 1. Jordan Stolz (1:07.18) 2. Jenning de Boo (1:08.29) 3. Cooper McLeod (1:08.43) Day 3 Women’s Team Pursuit 1. Netherlands (2:56.80) 2. Japan (2:58.12) 3. United States (3:01.01) Men’s Team Pursuit 1. Italy (3:39.82) 2. United States (3:41.83) 3. Norway (3:42.31) Women’s 500m 1. Erin Jackson (37.78) 2. Dione Voskamp (37.84) 3. Kimi Goetz (37.98) Men’s 500m 1. Jordan Stolz (34.41) 2. Tatsuya Shinhama (34.49) 3. Merijn Scheperkamp (34.73) Women’s Mass Start 1. Marijke Groenewoud (60 SP/8:36.64) 2. Ivanie Blondin (40 SP/8:36.71) 3. Elisa Dul (21 SP/8:37.36) Men’s Mass Start 1. Timothy Loubineaud (63 SP/7:52.12) 2. Daniele Di Stefano (40 SP/7:54.35) 3. Bart Hoolwerf (20 SP/7:54.37) Full Results

I think Switzerland for bronze over Finland, and I hope you’re wrong on gold and silver

I’ve been extremely busy lately, will try my best to update all the various sporting events over the last week

GSOC Kioti National (I usually determine if I’m watching right before), NHL/NBA/NFL (same teams as usual), club season volleyball, BPT Challenge Nuvali, UCI Track Cycling Nations League, and winter sports galore (Women’s Giant Slalom WC Killington/Cross Country Skiing WC/Ski Jumping WC not included) Wednesday (November 27) 4:30 PM: NHL - Canucks v. Penguins 7:00 PM: NBA - Warriors v. Thunder Thursday (November 28) 8:30 AM: Club Volleyball - Vakif v. Vero Volley Milano Friday (November 29) 12:00 or 1:00 AM: ISU Speed Skating WC Beijing - Day 1 10:00 AM: UCI Track Cycling Nations League Round 2 Apeldoorn 12:00 PM: NHL - Canucks v. Sabres 10:30 PM: FIS PGS WC Mylin Saturday (November 30) 1:00 AM: ISU Speed Skating WC Beijing - Day 2 5:45 AM: FIS Moguls WC Ruka 3:30 PM: GSOC Kioti National - Semifinals 6:00 PM: NBA - Warriors v. Suns (maybe not…) 9:00 PM: FIS Freestyle Skiing Big Air WC Beijing 10:30 PM: FIS PS WC Mylin Probably will watch luge in between. Sunday (December 1) 10:30 PM: FIS PGS WC Mylin 1:00 AM: ISU Speed Skating WC Beijing - Day 3 (two screens, lesser priority) 12:30 AM: FIL Luge WC Lillehammer - Men’s Singles 2:00 AM: FIS Snowboarding Big Air WC Beijing 8:00 AM: GSOC Kioti National - Women’s Final 9:30 AM: NHL - Canucks v. Red Wings (… seriously, I don’t have the energy to be watching NHL games at 9am) 12:30 PM: GSOC Kioti National - Men’s Final 5:20 PM: NFL - Bills v. 49ers Monday (December 2) … absolutely nothing Tuesday (December 3) 5:00 PM: NHL - Canucks v. Wild 7:00 PM: NBA - Warriors v. Nuggets (split screen, but hoping it gets delayed due to another game going to OT or ending late) Wednesday (December 4) 2:00 AM: BPT Finals Doha - Day 1

I’m no expert on British athletes/sport, but as an avid watcher of a ton of sporting events (not saying you don’t), particularly curling and hockey so I have a few conflicting viewpoints here. In freestyle skiing, I think your predictions are good but I’d say 3 on the men’s side. Davies in ski cross, and Fenely and Jeannesson in moguls will probably qualify. In snowboarding, more specifically snowboard cross, I think Nightingale will qualify. FYI there’s no specific qualification pathway for mixed team, you just need to qualify one person per gender. In curling, I’d have to assume your opinion has changed since the European Championships? British women’s curling didn’t have the greatest of seasons in 2023-24. I personally think it’ll be close; Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, South Korea, United States, Japan (and Italy) for sure. Then a couple of Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, and maybe China or Turkey. As for hockey…. had to chuckle when I read that because sorry, but your men’s team had no chance at all, especially in the most stacked group of the tournament with both Denmark and Norway…

Tardi? I don’t know

Homan/Bottcher win the 2nd Olympic Mixed Doubles Trials Qualifier. A sigh of relief. Edit: Because they’re a new partnership they likely won’t qualify through CTRS points, so to have one of the best pairings in the world qualify here is huge.

I mean it depends on the person, but yeah you’re right most of the time it doesn’t correlate to success during the actual World Cup circuit.