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Not a surprise. This will likely spur him to work even harder for 2 golds. He's gotten screwed out of gold at the Olympics before. 

Mikaël Kingsbury confirmed this is likely his last Olympics. 

3:55.37 for Summer McIntosh in the 400 free at the US Open. First competition back from illness and goes the 2nd fastest time in history.

Abigail Strate wins silver in women’s large hill in Poland!

5th for Abigail Strate in women’s large hill at the Lillehammer WC!

Stage 4 in Wisla (POL)
 
Women´s Individual Large Hill:
 
1.  Anna Odine Stroem    246.0
2. Abigail Strate    240.9
3. Nozomi Maruyama    236.9
 
Full Final Result HERE

And Dylan Deschamps sits second in the men's.

Sarah Douglas retires.

Naomi Urness sits first overall in big air qualifying. Who is she!!!

Just a reminder, on December 7 at 9:45am PST is the mixed relay at the Skimo WC in Solitude, we need to finish ahead of US to make our Olympic debut in the sport. 

Connor Howe doesn't appear on the list of competitors for this weekend's world cup. Very concerning.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canadas-deboer-olympic-ice-expected-to-be-smaller-than-nhl-standard/
 

Chinese media reported they earned 9 quotas, so this appears to be right.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canadas-deboer-olympic-ice-expected-to-be-smaller-than-nhl-standard/
 

Limiting to 8 teams....is certainly a choice. Bizarre.

Limiting to 8 teams....is certainly a choice. Bizarre.

I now realize that there's a chance we may only get 4 men's quotas. Altogether, the sum of all short track quotas is 115 which is 3 athletes over the quota limit and some quotes will need to be cut. If the IOC decides to have an equal split per gender, then we would lose a quota since Canada is the lowest ranked men's relay that has 5 athletes qualified.

2026 OLYMPIC QUOTAS
 
 
  Men Women Mixed Quotas Nation 500m 1000m 1500m Relay 500m 1000m 1500m Relay Relay M Quotas W Quotas Total Australia 1 1 1     1       1 1 2 Austria 1   1             1 0 1 Belgium 1 1 1 x 1 1 2   x 4 2 6 Canada 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 4 5 9  China 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 4 9 Croatia         1 1 2     0 2 2 Czechia             1     0 1 1 France   2 2   1 2 2 x x 2 4 6 Great Britain 1 1 2   1         2 1 3 Hong Kong   1 1       1     1 1 2 Hungary 1 2 2 x 1 2 2   x 4 2 6 Italy 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 4 5 9 Japan 2 2 3 x 2 3 3 x x 4 5 9 Kazakhstan 2 1     2 1 2   x 2 2 4 Korea 2 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 Latvia 1 2 1             2 0 2 Netherlands 3 2 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 Neutrals   1 1   1 1       1 1 2 Poland 2 2 2   2 2 2   x 2 3 5 Slovakia         1         0 1 1 Turkiye 2                 2 0 2 Ukraine 1   1   1         1 1 2 United States 2 2 3   3 3 3 x x 3 5 8 Uzbekistan 1                 1 0 1 Total 32 32 36 8 32 32 33 8 12 56 56 112  
Before I continue, I just want to say that this may not actually be complete accurate. You might notice that there's only 33 quotas assigned in the women's 1500m. That's because after the initial assignment of quotas, there were 115 quotas which is 3 over the limit. According to the qualification system, the 1500m distances are the last events to assign quotas since they have a max quota of 36 instead of 32. For the men's event, France, Hungary, and Ukraine have the last spots and removing them wouldn't affect the quota totals. Therefore unfortunately, I had to remove one quota from Croatia, Hong Kong and Poland to get the total to 112. We'll see what the NOC does about all this. If anyone actually knows the correct procedures, please comment below.
 
Changes in Quotas from the last update:
 
Men's 500m: 
No changes
 
Men's 1000m:
In: Hong Kong 1
Out: Ukraine 1
 
Men's 1500m:
In: Poland 2
Out: Great Britain 3
 
Men's 5000m Relay:
In: Hungary
Out: United States
 
Women's 500m:
In: Korea 3
Out: France 2
 
Women's 1000m:
In: Neutral Athletes 1, China 3
Out: Poland 3, Great Britain 1
 
Women's 1500m:
In: Kazakhstan 2, Belgium 2
Out: Great Britain 1, Latvia 1, Slovakia 1, Ukraine 1, Hong Kong 1
 
Full SOQC's Below:
 
Men's 500m
 
 
Men's 1000m
 
 
Men's 1500m
 
 
Men's 5000m Relay
 
 
Women's 500m
 
 
Women's 1000m
 
 
Women's 1500m
 
 
Women's 3000m Relay
 
 
Mixed 2000m Relay
*Only for teams with at least 2 men + 2 women
 
 

Women win silver at the Americas 3x3 Championships. The Men finish fourth

I seem to remember w never qualify a full team in every event, so this is good news.

Not a good start to the season, the women finish 6th in Dubai 

10 quotas have officially been secured in short track with 3 quotas per individual event and all the relays.

Should mention that both William Dandjinou and Courtney Sarault won the crystal globes as the overall cup winners.
 
Canada won the crystal globe for the best overall team.

Gold for Sarault in the women's 500! Bronze for Brunelle

Gold for Sarault in the women's 500! Bronze for Brunelle