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https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/alpineskiing/world-cup-canada-1.6236825 Urs Kryenbuhl and Ralph Weber will miss the Lake Louise world cup races due to not vaccinated. Seems like there is a decent chance they will both miss the Olympics, too.

Seems kind of damning that a world class modern pentathlete is completely incompetent in one fifth of the sports that comprise modern pentathlon, and it isn't even an outlier.

I think this was always just a threat to China that they had to get their ducks in a row when it came to naturalizing players. I think everyone (except the Norwegians) wanted to see a Chinese team, even if it’s a team of ringers.

The men's hockey team saga is over, they will compete in Beijing.

Hopefully this means Paris 2024 is the last time this sport is in the Olympics. Tradition is the only reason this sport even exists, you remove riding and you lose that.

He's actually in a decent position to end the season ranked number one in the 1000m. Seems like he's the de facto leader of the men's team now.

So Canada has finally won an event at the Short Track world cup, the men's relay at the second competition of the season. The team did get some help from a fall by , but this is still a very nice result, since it still required beating and defending Olympic champion to the line.

Canadian Road to the Roar (Olympic pre-trials) news: On the men's side, 2010 men's Russian national champion and 2013 Roar of the Rings runner-up (as an alternate) Jason Gunnlaugson qualified for his second Olympic trials as a skip and fourth Olympic trials overall. The ninth and final berth on the men's side will come down between the teams of Glenn Howard and Tanner Horgan. On the women's side, Krista McCarville's team won the pre-Trials to claim the eight berth at the Olympic trials, while Jacqueline Harrison won the ninth and final spot.

Wait Teletext still exists? O.o

I hope for everybody's sake this ends up getting the award for ugliest uniform.

Oh there's absolutely nothing wrong with her representing the Czech Republic, frankly it's also good for the sport. The point is just that the Czech Republic didn't suddenly develop a strong skeleton program.

The athlete is a product of the German system.

The Olympic qualification ranking is by name.

The level of competition was really high today. On the men's side a very good double bio 1800 was only good enough for third(!).

What a ridiculous omission from the Olympic team.

Summary of day 2 of qualifications: Nations qualified for the QF in the men's 1000m (top 20) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the QF in the women's 1000m (top 20) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the SF in the men's 5000m relay Nations qualified for the SF in the women's 3000m relay The race of the day was definitively the first quarterfinal in the men's 5000m relay where just barely held off by 0.002s

You only get advanced if the incident happened when you were in a automatic qualification position. Basically to prevent people fighting for minor places to have an incentive to bump into each other and force a call.

Lol Ireland thinks Czechoslovakia still exists.

The decade long US stronghold on the women’s individual all around at the Worlds and Olympics is finally over courtesy of Angelina Melnikova, though the US got surprisingly close to retaining the title.

Today was a horror show for the South Korean men, by the way. A few falls and penalties.

Some summary of results from day 1: Nations qualified for the QF in the men's 500m (top 20) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the SF in the men's 1500m (top 21) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the QF in the women's 500m (top 20) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the SF in the women's 1500m (top 21) 3 athletes: 2 athletes: 1 athlete: Nations qualified for the SF of the mixed 2000m relay: The world record was broken three times (unsurprisingly, given how new the event is), by in heat 1, in heat 2 and finally in heat 4.

The mixed relay actually has no effect. Quota places only get allocated to the mixed relay if all individual spots are filled and there are quotas left over (and the number of individual spots has in fact gone up vs. previous iterations of the qualification system since teams that qualify a relay are now guaranteed only 4 quotas, as opposed to 5 previously). The relay is also the best event in short track, so *shrugs*

World cup points (page 11 of the document). Best three out of four results count. Basically in order the 112 quotas are given like this: * 4 quotas for the eight NOCs with a m/w relay. * a 5th quota for an NOC with a relay and at least eight entries in individual events. * a number of quotas equal to the highest number of entries in individual events (i.e. if you qualify one entry in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m you get one quota, but if you qualify two entries in the 500m you get two quotas). * any remaining quota gets redistributed first to the mixed relay, then to give countries with a m/w relay a fifth athlete. For individual entries, quotas for NOCs that don’t have a relay are given one by one, first in the 500m, then the 1000m and then in the 1500m. I.e. the NOC of the first placed athlete in the 500m gets a quota, then the first place in the 1000m, then the first place in the 1500m, then the second place in the 500m and so on.

I am super excited for Courtney Sarault, there hasn't been any athlete from my home province ( New Brunswick) at the Winter Olympics since 2010 ( Travis Jayner, also in short track) and no athletes on the Canadian Olympic team for a Winter Olympics since Serge Despres in 2006. Sarault actually is also an American citizen so she could have followed in Jayner's footsteps and chosen to compete for the US, which would have been a real boost for that program.

That would also limit them to only eight athletes, since you now need either eight or nine individual quotas per gender to be allowed to send a full team of five.