JockCartier

Yeah, did not cover ourselves in glory in that one. Looked like we were about three seconds behind the field at the first exchange, it was already over

Pretty much what one would expect.

Playing with house money now. Great experience for all those there, all of a sudden we will have some depth heading into 2028!

Archive.org I've found has a lot of stuff. Seem to have a lot that was torrented from 2012 on backed up there, so it's a good resource for more recent stuff. Also have some neat older video from old tapes https://archive.org/details/1992-winter-olympics-day-07-pt.-2

What are we looking for? I have a large of Olympics coverage that I've scoured over the years from online and old VHS tapes. A couple of my holy grails I've never been able to find was the 1992 women's individual biathlon and 2002 women's aerials (the collection kinda started with going for Canadian medals, and grew from there). Probably more Winter stuff than Summer, but lots of each. Ceremonies, events, full day tv coverage, docs, hell, I even have most of Roy and HG’s The Dream episodes.

I've joked someone needed to beg him to comeback! Might bring a team event medal back into play potentially... and after the nightmare he had getting to Beijing and missing the team event, it would be nice for him to get the chance to take part in it. I remember in 2018 I think he was in the team box for every single skater, just soaking in the atmosphere and cheering on the others

Ruck put up some great splits this week.

Would have been interesting to see what Asemota would have ran if he hadn't turned sideways and started jawing at the others

Been an interesting year for the women. New coach, and he’s definitely giving different players some reps. And with Grey evidently taking the summer off, O’Reilly injured and Van Ryk sitting out week two, it was certainly a radically different look You could really see the younger players progressing in Turkey, but going into the last week of VNL we have to keep an eye on relegation and be careful Sounds like Van Ryk will be back, so hopefully we can comfortably avoid relegation.

IIRC they had a hard time prying guys away from their NCAA teams last year, and had a bunch of restrictions on the ones they did. Perhaps that was part of it, or maybe injuries, or maybe they just didn’t feel they could qualify. I guess at least they wised up this year and made the mixed a priority. Hopefully the men will keep progressing

It's too bad OTP never realligned their focus when it was continued after 2010. They have such a backward facing funding formula. It was one thing when when it started, cause it was only like 5 years out from Vancouver, at when looking to maximize medals over such a short term funding like that makes sense (to a point anyway, some of the decisions still seem to be highly political, but I digress)... but when it was continued after they should have became more forward facing and investing in sports with better potential ROI

I agree, any clarifications from ISMF would be awful nice as to what next season might look like Per their standings we’re up by one whole point at this point! https://dataskimo.org/pdf/OMRRL.pdf

Sadovsky had another really good skate (huge progress for him) but a top ten in not in reach

So close… but so far. Popping that opening lutz sunk her, lost probably 5-6 points right there Great skate overall though. Honestly, coming in this was a big longshot.

Looking at the last few years, for a top ten in the women’s you usually need around 190+… for that Maddie would need 120+ in the long. So, certainly possible, but would require a really good skate Would be a wonderful accomplishment… and give someone a chance at a second Olympic spot too boot

That family is practically the United Nations with all their passports

Lithuanians saved their lutfisk. Rough round for the Baltic nations

We’re to the last group, we’ll see what the judges do here 😬 I fear Chock/Bates could fall and flop around and they’d still give them a record score… the US certainly is getting some home cooking this week

Saved by a very unfortunate fall by the Finns

There is still another team to go

Yikes… well, at least in the long we don’t need to wonder why the scores are low L/E seem like nice enough kids and it would be nice for them to go, but if we don’t get a 3rd spot I don’t think it will effect their ceiling

Is it wrong that I still hope they can talk Messing out of retirement for next year?!

Great skate by Sadovsky! Never doubted him! 🤞🤦‍♂️🙏

Gonna be tough to qualify three pairs teams the way this is going…

Brenda Irving has also said if you don’t qualify a man, you can’t get a team Sometimes they’re just wrong Let’s just put it this way, if she’s not top ten we only get one