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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.

For worse imo. The only context where I have enjoyed either of them was when Weir was the US commentator for Eurovision a couple years. That was fun. He has the right kind of energy for that, and I’m sure both of them would be great on reality TV (I don’t watch the Traitors but they are on the current US season). I don’t think either of them really has the right personality to commentate figure skating. They are a bit too… catty. I’m def gonna either watch the World Feed or I’ll VPN to the CBC coverage for figure skating.

Can’t think of a more likable trio of figure skater sent by one country to the games dating back to when I started watching xD The US is lucky to have these three.

Do we know if Min-sol has Canadian citizenship?

I mean he did great! He super earned a spot at the Olympics! But let’s not get our hopes up for an individual medal. His chance at a medal is in the team event.

I mean let’s be honest, there was some home cooking in that score.

Good, he absolutely deserves it.

Too hung over to ski today xD

Ya this is who I had in mind. I know quite a few recreational skiers who could have done better.

The FIS should probably establish some sort of technical minimum in half pipe (and other freestyle discipline). Like if you go to the Olympics in moguls / slopestyle / half-pipe you should be able to land a fucking 360°

Definitively an encouraging result given the injury layoff.

English is a language rich in crude idioms :D

Kingsbury got an 81 in qualifying. Seems like he’s in good shape.