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NearPup

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NearPup last won the day on March 27 2022

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    Canada
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    Male
  • Date of Birth
    01/01/1990
  • Favourite Olympic Games
    Both
  • Favourite Sports
    Freestyle Skiing
  • Living City
    Seattle, WA, USA

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  1. This made some sense back when the OQTs were easy, but... they really aren't anymore.
  2. There is also a bronze medal in the men's 1500m from Brendan Corey, who is from my hometown of Fredericton :D
  3. Would be very funny if a bunch of American runners, swimmers and gymnasts fled to Canada and requested asylum after failing to make the US Olympic team.
  4. Woo three ( and ) athletes in the quarterfinals with Corey, Doak and Sarault :D
  5. Still baffled that in the women's 60kg they didn't make three brackets rather than four brackets with a playoff.
  6. Now that artistic swimming has reformed it's scoring system I think it's fair to say that boxing has the worst judging of any Olympic sport. I wouldn't be upset to see the sport dropped entirely for that reason (my preference would be for them to get the judging into shape, but... that doesn't seem to be happening)
  7. Gotta love all this transparency
  8. And for tennis I think it makes some sense, the players are very loosely tied to their national federation and the Russian and Bielorissuan players on tour all seem to live in the US, the Caribbeans or in Western Europe anyway.
  9. And Freestyle Skiing needs to remove it's 32 athlete per country limit It's at least possible now for a country to qualify in every taekwondo event, which imo was one of the big improvement over the old (pre-Rio) qualification system.
  10. She'll entice her students to watch :P Breaking is going to be such a big anomaly in the history of the Olympics, if nothing else it will be really interesting to see how it unfolds and how the public reacts to it.
  11. You better not watch them in Paris :P
  12. I'm increasingly tempted to change the gender markers on my passports to an X purely to annoy certain people xD
  13. "The North American and European political left" describes both people and positions I agree with 100% and people and positions that I think are batshit crazy so... xD
  14. Then by the definition you gave me I guess every Argentinian is woke? At least everyone who is aware and conscious of whatever "social problems" exist. Which is why I objected to the definition, it's just meaningless, people basically came up with a buzzword and then tried to reverse engineer a definition onto it, and it's just too broad to be useful in a debate. It just describes a feeling, and everyone feels it at a different threshold. In practice "woke" is getting used to mean "anyone who's further to the left on social issues than I am", and since everyone has different views on social issues everyone has a different personal definition of what woke is.
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