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And  wins its first gold, in mixed doubles badminton... perhaps two more to follow today

Where is the qualification thread?
 
Anyways, according to the provisional standings, Vietnam is currently qualified for women's monobob, while Cambodia is only 8 pts outside of the qualification zone. Crazy.

Quotas distribution by my friends and my understanding of the document and past experience of 2018 WOG.(mainly credit to @Function CR Lee).
 
Some notes of it:
1. BEL's Mixed relay berth is replaced by 13th POL because only 1 men and 1 women qualified
2. POL got an extra men's quota and KAZ got an extra women's quota to fulfill the minimum mixed relay requirement, ie 2 men and 2 women.
3. POL got an extra women's quota because after procedure 2 still one more women's quota available so it gave to the only women's relay team not full yet.

Brad Gushue and team will represent Canada. This means two former Olympic champion skips will represent Canada, and hopefully that means 2018 is a just a blip

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Yea no interest basically. Only Badminton and Gymnastics (partial) has its A team here, and in total only 31 athletes.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Jennifer Jones' team will represent Canada at the Olympics.

Just came here to post about that as well. His win should also bag them a quota for Santiago 2023 

Men’s Olympic Trials  
 
The men’s finals will be contested between Brad Gushue and Brad Jacobs.
 
This means the Kevin-Brad rotation will continue. Since 2002 the men’s Olympic team has been skipped by a Kevin, then a Brad:
 
2002: Kevin Martin 2006: Brad Gushue 2010: Kevin Martin 2014: Brad Jacobs 2018: Kevin Koe 2022: Brad Gushue or Brad Jacobs

@Makedonasmust be devastated

We literally just lost the quota in a photo finish...

Yay....

Until the IOC can get its act together and bring back the missing 1000-1500 athletes (or start removing sports) it might be best for fencing to drop the team events. Honestly, events with less than 10 entrants should not be happening

Canadian Olympic Trials (Women's event)
We have an almighty mess!
 
First, Team Fleury has beaten Jennifer Jones and is only the second women's team and third team overall to go undefeated during the round robin. The only men's team to go undefeated was Brad Jacobs in 2013, he went on to win the trials and the Olympics. The only women's team to go undefeated? Well that was a team skipped by Chelsea Carey, in 2017. If you only follow curling in the Olympics you probably don't know who Chelsea Carey is. That's because she actually lost the finals to Rachel Homan's team.
 
Well, some fun trivia here: there are two people on Team Fleury's bench who are sure to be extremely nervous during the finals. That's because the team's coach, Sherry Middaugh, was the skip of the team that lost the 2013 finals and the team's alternate, Chelsea Carey, was as mentioned above the skip that went a perfect 8-0 during round robin only to lose the finals in 2017. Both have an opportunity for some measure of redemption. It would actually be a great story is Carey managed to make it to the Olympics after losing the 2017 trials final and then having a horror quad in terms of results and team stability (why is she an alternate at trials? Her team disbanded completely last year).
 
Now, here is what the playing order looks like:
Team Kerri Einarson takes on Casey Scheidegger in tie-breaker #1 The winner of tie-breaker #1 takes on team Krista McCarville in tie-breaker #2 The winner of tie-breaker # 2 takes on team Jennifer Jones in the semi-finals The winner of the semi-finals takes on team Tracy Fleury  
On current form Fleury is the favourite, but curling is a funny game and this final match will be by far the most pressure packed game in the career of any of the four starting players. If they can get through that test they will be a scary team at the Olympics.

FFS making my script take into account that a third skater can’t qualify by time (but can get on the reserve list) was a massive pain in the butt and they just change it on me? Come on…
 
Seems like they did their simulation with the rules from 2018.

This results system ...
 Holy shit.
 
It literally is giving the wrong results and updating the brackets with these wrong results.... only to fix them much later on. Wtf?

I'm still scarred by the 8 1 loss to Honduras in Honduras... and Canada still had 4 road matches (keeping in mind the travel as well) at El Salvador Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. It will be tough.

It's funny see you and @intoronto worried about Canada chances, I am quite confident that Canada will end the competition on first place
 

No. That would be a little awkward since we shared a country (and a lot of history in general) with one of these.

Slovensko means Slovenian.

Just wish it was Kanadao, so we would be in the top 10  

We do not have C as K in slav language C is Ts. K is K, simple. If it would be Canada we would read it Tsanada

and Womens
 
1. NÓRSKO 4573 0 2. ŠVÉDSKO 4468 -105 3. FRANCÚZSKO 4289 -284 4. NEMECKO 4268 -305 5. RUSKO 4019 -554 6. BIELORUSKO 4003 -570 7. UKRAJINA 3881 -692 8. TALIANSKO 3776 -797 9. RAKÚSKO 3729 -844 10. ŠVAJČIARSKO 3441 -1132 11. ČESKO 3360 -1213 12. SPOJENÉ ŠTÁTY 3120 -1453 13. POĽSKO 2905 -1668 14. KANADA 2818 -1755 15. FÍNSKO 2596 -1977 16. ESTÓNSKO 2590 -1983 17. JAPONSKO 2238 -2335 18. SLOVENSKO 2147 -2426 19. BULHARSKO 2137 -2436 20. KAZACHSTAN 2014 -2559 21. JUŽNÁ KÓREA 1829 -2744 22. SLOVINSKO 1782 -2791 23. LOTYŠSKO 1448 -3125 24. LITVA 1096 -3477 25.   MOLDAVSKO 1062 -3511 26. BELGICKO 945 -3628 27. RUMUNSKO 862 -3711 28. VEĽKÁ BRITÁNIA 427 -4146 29. CHORVÁTSKO 337 -4236 30. / GRÓNSKO 291 -4282 31. AUSTRÁLIA 154 -4419