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Canada does get a third two-woman sled (but not a third monobob sled) Ribi did yell “going to the Olympics!” after her run, so she sure thinks she’s going.

Nice to see with a "real" (needing more than a minimum standard) qualifications in two different sports (moguls and skeleton). Had you told me before the season that would get four quotas I would have been overjoyed, was worried the men might get zero 😅

Maybe, but the tickets sure aren't priced like the IOC doesn't see value in that sport xD

Good thing Canada and the US are limited to 32 athletes!

Higher turn score is the tie-breaker.

And remember to root against Fournier-Beaudry and Cizeron (along with Sørensen if he's there), the big villains of the ice dancing world xD

But I was told on good authority that these games would be a disaster for the team

Or the American team can arrange their internal ranking to be as if Canada entered all their athletes.

The IBSF has concluded their investigation on the late withdrawal of Canadian athletes from the Lake Placid race and will not be taking any actions.

The IOC is very TV ratings and ticket sale focused when it comes to sports to add / drop, seemingly. Which is probably not the best metric to use, but it does explain why alpine snowboarding is in more trouble than something like aerials or ski half-pipe (which should probably be closer to the chopping block if we go by competitive depth).

Nobody in the US watches it is the problem the IOC has. That and it's kinda dead as a grassroots sport - I ski and I've only seen one Alpine board in my entire life. It was displayed in a store as a curiosity and it was *old*. Much easier to participate in snowboardcross at a recrational level. I don't think it should be removed, but Alpine snowboarding has a perception problem as a dead sport, at least outside of Europe (I don't have a good sense of how often Alpine snowboarding is shown on TV in Europe and how popular those broadcasts are).

Have your VPN ready! (I use ProtonVPN personally, but I’m kind of fully in that ecosystem as I use Proton Mail as well)

It’s geo locked so be careful :P

Doesn't really help that two of the strongest countries in that particular sport are banned from the team event for well known reasons.

Just another reason why it's super dumb that the NOC max in freestyle skiing isn't 40.