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I mean, to be fair, last time they gave it to a Canadian in a very controversial judging decision (that the head judge later, upon seeing replays, said was wrong) 😅

Football kits are unfortunetly not allowed to look this good because 80% of the front has to be reserved for a sponsor's logo.

The fact he discovered he wasn't an American citizen when he tried to compete internationally was extremely funny Always a bit baffled at people just not realizing what their citizenship(s) are.

Snoop Dogg doesn't belong to team USA, he belongs to the world.

Lamontagne seems to make a lot of sense, she's young and has made two GS second runs in the World Cup this season. Amusingly Alexander's bio states she is "by far" the most active Canadian alpine skier on TikTok xD

Not good news to wake up to

A home Olympic is kind of the ideal place to retire, with all due respects to Holmenkollen.

I genuinely like every winter Olympic sports, but, one easy answer: short track speed skating. The short track relays are already my favourite Winter Olympic events, but on top of that I’m going to be seeing two short track sessions (including my very first Olympic final, the women’s 3000m relay), and there is a very real chance that Courtney Sarault will become the second ever athlete from my home province of to win an Olympic gold (and she has a chance to win the first ever individual gold), and if Canada wins the women’s relay (and she skates) Rikki Doak would be the first ever athlete from my hometown of Fredericton to win an Olympic gold medal (Marianne Limpert should have won a gold in 1996 but sadly a cheater "won" instead).

That appeal was actually completely founded in the qualification document both based on the text and based on the spirit of the document (and I’m really shocked the IBSF got it wrong in the first place) The US appeal doesn’t even make any sense. The US was not anywhere near getting a third sled, if they are unhappy with how American athletes are ranked relative to each other they can send Uhlander to the games ahead of Ro.

Not broadcasting related, but media related. The Washington Post (the third largest newspaper in the US) will not send anyone to cover the Winter Olympics. The decision appears to be sudden and surprising to the staff of the paper. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/business/media/washington-post-winter-olympics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.mVkL.egI17ysFUHpa

If it was 21 then they would still need 4 people accredited as injury replacement. And I don’t think it’s useful to play those games where you keep the roster size artificially small but you allow replacements in emergencies.

Bobsleigh team named: https://olympic.ca/2026/01/23/team-canada-bobsleigh-team-ready-to-ride-at-milano-cortina-2026/ Male pilots: Taylor Austin Jay Dearborn Male crews: Keaton Bruggeling Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson Mike Evelyn O’Higgins Shaq Murray-Lawrence Luka Stoikos Mark Zanette Female pilots: Cynthia Appiah Melissa Lotholz Bianca Ribi Female crews: Kelsey Mitchell Dawn Richardson Wilson Skylar Sieben Kelsey Mitchell is notably a Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion in track cycling (women's sprint)

Bobsleigh team was named: https://olympic.ca/2026/01/23/team-canada-bobsleigh-team-ready-to-ride-at-milano-cortina-2026/ Male pilots: Taylor Austin Jay Dearborn Male crews: Keaton Bruggeling Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson Mike Evelyn O’Higgins Shaq Murray-Lawrence Luka Stoikos Mark Zanette Female pilots: Cynthia Appiah Melissa Lotholz Bianca Ribi Female crews: Kelsey Mitchell Dawn Richardson Wilson Skylar Sieben

Exhibit 154 that the A/B division and how points are awarded is dumb. DNFing the A division shouldn't give more points than actually competing in the B division.

The fundamental problem here is the IOC standing firm by a completly arbitrary 2900 athlete cap. A lot of problems would be instantly fixed if we went up to, say, 3500 (and cut cost elsewhere, maybe we can give some less perks to IOC members) Some of the quota cuts have been good, there was definitively some fat to cut (we did not need 40 men to compete in the men's snowboard half-pipe). But we are getting dangerously close to the muscles and the bones with these cuts, arguably we are already there (figure skating, ski jumpin and nordic combined cuts in particular)

At the pro level (NHL) 20 players dress every game - 12 forwards (4 lines of 3 forwards), 8 defensmen (3 pairs of 2 defensmen) and 2 goalies. You kinda need a third goaltender in a tournament setting (because if the starter goes down you still need a backup, and it's such a specialized position that you can't really get anyone else to fill in), and you also need one spare forward and defensman for when you need to do a healthy scratch. So 23 players is sort of the "default" roster size. It was expanded to 25 sort of as a compronise - previously the roster size was 23 (still is for the women, though that will likely expand to 25 in 2030), but you were allowed to do emergency injury replacements during the tournament. Now, the roster is bigger (25) but you are not allowed, under and circumstances, to add a player after the tournament starts.

Canada accepted two further re-allocation quotas in women’s alpine skiing. Up to 8.

Assuming there is a next time for him.

Italy already had free quotas in freestyle. All the ones they returned were due to a lack of eligible athletes. Ski half pipe has fairly high minimum requirements because of, ya know, that San Francisco mayoral candidate turned Israeli skeleton slider.

The US Freestyle Skiing federation *hates* ski cross xD It is really baffling that ski cross quotas and quotas for moguls / aerials and park and pipe come from the same place. If I can get on my little soap box for a second, Moguls & Aerials should be one discipline (maybe... freestyle skiing), snowboardcross and ski cross combined should be one discipline and park and pipe (half-pipe, big air, slopestyle, the inevitable rail event we're getting soon) should also be a combine discipline and alpine snowboarding should be a discipline. Makes no sense for ski cross to be under the freestyle skiing umbrella.

Nope! We don't know yet, could still theoretically get one or two more Alpine Skiing quotas. But currently we are at an even 200, 100 men and 100 women. No, really. Not kidding. (200 is accounting for the one alpine quota and the one cross country quota that Canada has already accepted through re-allocation)

Canada just officially qualified its 200th athlete.

Canada has accepted a woman's re-allocation quota in both alpine skiing and cross country skiing.

Literally only one quota turned down in all of snowboarding: the host quota in the women’s half-pipe, which does not have any eligible athlete for.

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