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Canada very well might have qualified for Tokyo had the women been allowed to participate rather than the men.

An immense talent that is definitively a little wayward. In his case I have no problem believing that he was careless rather than malicious.

Liz Truss is the answer to “how could it get worse than BoJo”, apparently.

I think you will see a pretty rapid rise in quality as more of the traditional European powers take it seriously, sort of like we’ve seem in Football.

The competition between the “B” teams in women’s hockey is now genuinely super interesting and tight.

is underrated.

Ice hockey at the Olympics, on the men’s side since 2010 and the women’s side since 2014.

This is def the most annoying crowd in F1 at the moment.

That OT goal line save by McTavish is the biggest stroke of luck in Canadian hockey since the goal post in Sochi.

It is being reported that this will be the last year Lake Louise will be on the World Cup circuit.

This will be decided at some EB meeting around four years out.

I keep mentally lumping them with North America because they are a CONCACAF member / sort of culturally part the Caribbean but you are of course correct.

India alone has more than twice as many people as the entire EU, it’s really not that weirs to include by far their most popular sport in the Olympics. Certainly no weirder than including much less popular sports like handball or hockey. And ofc the West Indies would be split up for the Olympics, they don’t have an NOC. Cricket is a sport where you have medal contenders from five continents (basically everywhere except South America) and is a sport that is particularly popular in the Indian Subcontinent, a region currently vastly underserved by the Olympics.

This joke displays an ignorance of both the venue plan for the 2026 World Cup and of the etymology of the word “soccer”.

Baseball/Softball def seems like the favourite given the games are in LA. Squash is overdue for a chance, so I would be pretty happy if they got in. Otherwise in terms of personal preference I would love to see Lacrosse in the Olympics but I am so I have an extreme bias there, and objectively the case for Lacrosse is pretty weak. Cricket has a pretty strong case for inclusion if the ICC finally takes it seriously. Karate is sort of the reverse of Lacrosse here for me - it’s a sport I have zero interest in but that probably deserves to be in the Olympics. Motorsports being here is baffling.

It would be your second participation, not your first. I remember it well because is the very first country played against at the Olympics.

Unfortunately it is impossible for to qualify for their first Olympics in 2028.

We obv need 1500m events for all strokes, along with a 1600m medley. (if any swimming events ought to get the ax it’s the 800m and the mixed medley relay)

Ya now that you mention it Orbán does look a little too… tanned to be a white supremacist.

Hey y’all, turns out Orbán is sort of racist. https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungarian-pm-european-countries-race-mixing-longer-nations.amp I think it’s only fair for the IOC to take back all of Hungary’s short track medals given that the Hungarian short track team is not *really* Hungarian, but more a post Hungarian team where whites and “the others” co-exist.

These are highly confidential!

Has any transgendered woman (or man for that matter) ever competed at worlds? Can’t even name a single relevant trans track and field athlete tbh. DSD and trans issues get conflated quite a bit but women with DSD are very much cisgendered.

de Grasse really cementing his place in Canadian sporting history.

As is tradition on soil

Tragedy in the decathlon. At least it does not look like a bad injury.