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Breaking news: Hubertus defeated the Czech in Race 2 !

They weren’t even supposed to “inform NOCs/NFs of their allocated quota places” until Jan. 11 (tomorrow). 
 
Also, if  got a second men’s quota, can it be assumed that  either accepted or passed on a quota?

Removing the best event in the winter Olympics (the men’s and women’s relays in short track) should not even be discussed :P
 
Ski jumping and nordic combined can probably be cut to four by country, but that’s a bit of a cut on paper only since big countries will still bring an alternate anyway.
 
Edit: we can fix all the gender equality issues (including doing things like adding four women in bobsleigh and having 12 women hockey teams w/ 25 players) while slightly increasing the athlete quota in sports like speed skating and figure skating while keeping the athlete quota under 3200. The IOC's insistence on keeping it to 2900 is sort of an issue at this point.

FIS will have to start cutting max quota per event. Still having 4 per nation is extremely generous compared to, well, any other Olympic federation at this point.

No, nobody seems to understand. The lists we posted here and what was posted on Wikipedia was all in line with each other. Yet, the ISU interpreted the rules in such a way that nobody but the ISU understands how the list was compiled.

Djokovic is an IDIOT!! Shame on you!! 
 
He is the only to blame. 
 

Kind of wild that the three Americans who have a real chance at winning an individual gold medal in Beijing (Jackson, Bowe and Mantia) all come from Ocala, Florida, population 60k.

Rip Canada lost its third 4 man sled, due to Covid essentially... 

though moving forward, I think the 4 man event should be limited to 2 sleds per NOC, which would essentially allow two more countries to compete.

Team Canada  
 
Men's Singles: Keegan Messing, Roman Sadovsky
Women's Singles: Madeline Schizas
Pairs: Vanessa James / Eric Radford, Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Ice Dance: Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen, Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

Team Canada  
 
Men's Singles: Keegan Messing, Roman Sadovsky
Women's Singles: Madeline Schizas
Pairs: Vanessa James / Eric Radford, Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Ice Dance: Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen, Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

Team Canada  
 
Men's Singles: Keegan Messing, Roman Sadovsky
Women's Singles: Madeline Schizas
Pairs: Vanessa James / Eric Radford, Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Ice Dance: Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen, Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

I’m not really impressed by any of the IBSF’s qualification systems. The change I’d suggest would be to switch to to ranking based allocations for multiple sleds. For example, if you have 3 sleds in the top 15 of the world ranking, then you can have three sleds. If you have two sleds in the top 25, then you can have two sleds. Otherwise, you get one sled.

Team Canada  
 
Men's Singles: Keegan Messing, Roman Sadovsky
Women's Singles: Madeline Schizas
Pairs: Vanessa James / Eric Radford, Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
Ice Dance: Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen, Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

Well, Spring has a big chance to improve his 7th best result (45 points from Innsbruck 2). Stulnev is within reach.
 
And seeing how Spring is currently ranked 12th at WC, I hope he'll do really well in St. Moritz.
 
 

Huge upset at the US trials.. Erin Jackson had a slip on the backstretch and finishes outside of the top 2 for the 500m.  She will miss the Olympics barring some crazy circumstance

well I mostly write comments about sports I'm more informed about. but it doesn't mean I don't follow other sports. I just read others comments and learn from them. I love watching sports in general. major competitions though, not all the World Cups.
 
if I'm not wrong since 2006 (the first time I watched the WOG) I didn't miss a single final. I think I'm more interested in Alpine, Biathlon, Figure skating, even Curling and Short Track
 
the only winter sport I have hard time to enjoy is Ice Hockey (and maybe Nordic Combined, I don't know why that even exists) I tried to watch and like Ice hockey but it's just not my taste I still watch the gold medal match.

If Almaty was given the WOG none of the current prostests would have happened IMO. Hell, Nazarbiev would still be the President and would delay all the backlash until after the Games.
 
Anyway, it's another PR win for China as suddenly they can point to other countries having major internal issues. And obviously the liberal democracy lobbyists won't do anything about people shot dead in Kazakhstan. This country isn't important enough to fight a political battle over it after all

Almaty is the one who put in a good bid. Probably the last good bid for the Winter Olympics.
 
Oslo did nothing.

Kazakhstan should have been selected.
 
And I highly doubt there would have been any riots now if they had got selected. The IOC takes some of the blame here.

I got my booster today, I can take his spot in the draw 
 

 

Crucial race weekend is coming up in Igls for Trang Tran Thi Doan.
 
There are only 12 names on the start list, but Trang still needs to beat as many names as possible, and especially Andreutti in the head-to head battle. It will be hard, but not impossible.

They literally hire most writers from India (cheap labour) that probably don't know anything about the sport lmao

Owen Power is first name confirmed for Canada according to the Athletic