NearPup

British Columbia in general and Vancouver in particular are awesome and it’s great more people got to discover it thanks to Vancouver 2010.

Nobody hates Britain more than the British media so… I recall it being quite a pessimistic tone before the London games started.

Germany didn't have that much of an equipment advantage in 2014, and the Russians had a big home track advantage in 2014 (just like Canada had back in 2010, Korea in 2018, China in 2022...) Italy will, obviously, not get such an advantage given how late the track was built.

The problem with bobsleigh is the equipment being so uneven, not the number of quotas a country can get.

It’s honestly baffling how bad she was in 2018. Just absolutely lost her head. Real shame too because she is so gifted. I do hope Li Jianrou sends her a Christmas card every year tho, she was absolutely gifted a gold medal by Christie in 2014.

That's what we call a learning experience...

So that will be three short track speed skaters (two for and one for ). Very exciting. No athlete born and residing in New Brunswick has ever won an Olympic gold medal (Russ Howard is the only New Brunswicker to have won an Olympic gold, he lived in Moncton back in 2006, but he spent most of his life elsewhere). Very good chance this changes in Milan.

has now lost three games that would have clinched their Olympic qualification. Will be gutting if they lost a fourth.

Baffling decision tbh

On top of everything else it feels needlessly complicated.

I def agree, but I don't have a problem with having a sport that doesn't *need* to be held on snow get held on snow (which can be down for cross country running and cyclocross). In a way it's not that different from ski jumping, which can be done almost identically without any snow or ice.

As long as there is a 2900 athlete quota cap it is rational for every winter IF to be against any expansion of the program (except for their own sport).

They got very, very close to not getting a third quota by points in the 5000m. Like two positions away in the last world cup close. IIRC it was like a tenth of a second or something? Too lazy to go check exactly what it was, but point it, it was very close.

Yes. And by the skin of their teeth on the men’s side, they are very lucky to not have lost that ninth quota.

To get nine quotas you need to have a TP quota and a full quota in every individual event through the points ranking. Canada has a full quota in every individual event, but one of the quota in the women’s 1000m comes from the time ranking rather than the points ranking.