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I kinda doubt this is something only started recently. Stuff like this has Herdman's fingerprints all over it (hell, the men's team was accused of it in 2021 after he took over that program). I'd bet they were doing it before Priestman even got there. Not that that absolves Priestman. She would have known and continued it.

Won't hear me defend the picks for Tokyo. Their hands were tied to a point, but I don't feel much need to rationalize them either

De Grasse was always my first pick for the guys (assuming he was in Paris already). Can't argue with Charon. With the swimmers not attending I was thinking Black, but makes sense to go with a gold medalist

Watching Rugby 7's... almost forgot how nice it was to watch Olympics with a crowd

A couple weeks ago I posted I figured we had potential for 28-29 with our lineup... since then the only real changes effecting that have been LePage pulling out, and McIntosh withdrawing from the 200free... so I'll amend it to 27

Looks like FIFA will investigate. Will be interesting how thorough it is. I'd wager this is something we've been doing regularly since Herdman's days with the women. The men's team were accussed of it during his tenure there too. Probably been standard operating procedure for a decade. Whether we get a full house cleaning, or if FIFA is content with a notable sacrificial lamb or two

Ellie Black and Evan Dunfee sounds good to me

Those dirty, stinkin', cheatin' Canadians are at it again

Evidently, our women's footballers have been engaging in a bit of espionage!

Might tune in a bit tomorrow during the day, but I'm not staying up all night unless a Canadian is involved!

The Gem app now has their Paris 2024 section live as well!

I think it has more to do with how many rooms the NOC's have booked and how many people they can accommodate within them. More of a cost thing than an IOC thing

For the other Fire TV users, they don't have it on the Gem app yet, but the ICI TOU.TV app has their Olympic section up and it looks pretty good. Navigation has a couple more options than last time. I can't imagine the English one wouldn't be the same structure. Things seem to be well organized. Uses the Paris 2024 pictograms heavily, which are a bit esoteric for broad consumption, but they always include the event name with them. Here's hoping it works as well as it looks

Canada is so close... yet so far

At this point, I agree with Eric Koreen, I'll believe he'll play in the Olympics only when I see him on the Olympics court

I don't believe they typically have recently, unfortunately They usually have the field feeds for athletics, and I think I've seen them pick up the odd secondary court in tennis if a Canadian was playing, but that's about it. I don't think they do it typically for badminton, judo, table tennis etc

Topicmaster1010 clearly stated his criteria. You don't have to like it.

That sucks

Looks like Ruck got a spot in the 50 free

He was diagnosed with heart failure just before the games. Friedman stepped in on very late notice, and aside from the disastrous 15 minutes, I think actually equated himself pretty well doing a couple tough sports on short notice. It was only announced a week before the Olympics. Not sure how much warning they had before that, but given they had went forward with all the announcements like this with Armitage included, I don't imagine it was more than a week or two tops

Not a fan of that pairing of Despatie and Abel. Hopefully Fillion is on the international feed, she's taken to the broadcast booth quickly and well Glad to see they have Harnett back on cycling. Like the Snoek and MacDonald pairing for swimming Could have lived without Soonias on volleyball

Friedman called the swimming, and even diving IIRC) in 2016. He was actually pretty good. But he did have an all-time terrible 15 minute stretch where he emphatically called gold medal swims by Phelps and Oleksiak by the wrong names

If you stick to their Gem interface you could probably do it with their replays of everything

That reminds me, I need to bust out the second tv

I think we're still missing 3 or 4 players that haven't joined up from the WNBA yet... but yeah, back-to-back thumpings don't instill confidence