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I wouldn’t write her off yet. It’s just one prelim games But I did think it was foolish to think she was some unbeatable machine like a lot of people were making her out to be.

But, but, but, we were assured by everyone Homan was an unbeatable curling machine?! 😂

Do we know if the Mixed Team SBX is male first again, or if they're switching it up this year? If Grondin goes second, I think we could have a chance... the timing system really favours having your strongest person last

It's funny, cause it's true!

Got about three chances... M 1500 and W 1000 short track and dual moguls... not that it's wise to bank on short track

Gogolev's chances are like 0.1% I'd give Bloeman at least 0.5%

Curling has plenty of their own money. Their problems are they are way to up their own a**es

Caught napping in the mixed relay final... now that. van 'T Wout wisely tried to take him off his game, and Dandjinou took the bait

This should be out first big day… if we’re still at four tomorrow at this time, we can hit the panic button

I don't have a dog in the fight... but do enjoy the colossal irony of C/B being outraged by a team having obvious errors, yet still being given gold anyway. C/B got that treatment, not once, but TWICE, at Worlds... and I think was even given a world record score at least one of them

I give zero f***’s about hockey and curling before the medal rounds If they get that far, the prelims are irrelevant… and if they don’t, you would’ve been wasting your time anyway

Seemed like gold was officially out of reach when Dandjinou got caught napping his first leg. William giveth, and William taketh away. Oh well, a medal is a medal... and at least we weren't flopping around the ice all day like Stoddard

Yeah, I don’t think it’s so bad. That first round and even the individual heats are basically layups… and compared to World Cup weekends, this is a walk in the park

That’s short track baby!

They aren’t f’n around with the mixed relay this time around!

Perhsps. But Gallant curled 97% after being a shitshow for three days

Yeah, amazing how the terrible ice was suddenly not a problem when the pressure was off *sips tea*

It’s all politics. But it’s EVERYWHERE in ice dance… TBH, I think L\L have been our best team for a couple years… but G/P are the elder statesmen and get the push. If the sports was objectively judged, of the three that will end up on the podium the only ones that really deserve it are the French. So, yeah, its a mess, but its not just against Piper and Paul It’s a problem in all of figure skating, but it’s overwhelming in ice dance cause they don’t have the obvious jumps and throws to at least keep it a little honest

I think Canadians will watch anything if we win medals. We love a good bandwagon in the country! I’ve long thought we should really invest in the nordic sports. It’s like 1/4-1/3 of the medals involve cross country skiing, and we barely rate. It wouldn’t be easy, but the ROI on 10-20 world class skiers is a lot higher than anywhere else. Each of those often compete in 4-5 events each, and potential for multiple medals in everything but relays. And they are highly transferrable, maybe someone is never gonna be a top ten in cross country… but they could make a helluva biathlete, or nordic combiner. And if nothing else this country has space and snow, and doesn’t require the infrastructure of most other sports. Get a snowmobile and pull groomer, and you can do it in a farmers field. If we ever want to start cracking 30, I think we need to consistently be getting 5 or so from the nordic sports. As is, we kind of manufacture them the hard way.

Yeah, 2008 was brutal. I felt bad for the staff and athletes, the media were all over them... but it was really just a quirk of scheduling. Our swimming was in rough shape, and there just wasn't much else we had going for us that first week. Then Huynh won, and the rowing finals went, and we were off to the races But even 2010. I have a clip of Brian Williams doing this long winded monologue halfway thru about how the results were a disaster, and there needed to be a major overhaul, and federal inquest... and a week later we're covered in gold and everyone is over the moon.

Yeah, I have 10 expected medals in the first 8 days, and 16 in the back half. For whatever reason we seem like we're often a week two team in the Olympics

Looking at my projections I had us winning 26... and we're still on pace for 25. Like you mentioned, it's just been a lot of dark horses, not so much favourites. They'll be good days, they'll be bad days. Nothing unusual about our conversion rate at this point. Looking across the board, Italy is killing it, they're at 9, I had them at 6... and on the other hand US is at 2, and I had them at 4. Aside from those two, everyone else is +/- 1 medal

That's about it. But folks on here tend to over-react a lot... many of the ones overreacting now were also convinced Paris was a lost cause half-way thru too. Touch grass people, or failing that, throw a snowball

I feel bad for Japan... they got absolutely hosed The Canadians had a pretty good effort. Gogolev did great, he might even be a medal contender one day

I think it was a lack of imagination. They didn’t think Gogolev could finish 3rd like that and upset the apple cart When he did, it was too late for G/P to prepare. As soon as I saw G/P were in the team box and L/L weren’t, it was obvious they were already tapped if we snuck thru. They should have been warming up both just incase… yet another genius move by Michael Slipchuk