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I'm honestly not sure if there were bribes involved or if it was legitimate concerns that wouldn't be able to deliver the games, but it is absolutely clear that the IOC executives put a lot of pressure on the membership to select Beijing over Almaty. TBH given the current unrest in Kazakhstan I think they might have had a point.

Kind of annoyed at that tbh. Sildaru owes the Estonian setup nothing, she's basically a one woman show. She under-performed at these Olympics, not sure if it's nerves, equipment or an injury. But really not representative of her career so far. Also, she unfortunately finished where she deserved to finish yesterday based on the performances.

No, OAR, a completely different and unrelated NOC, is the defending champion. ROC is making it's debut in this sport :P (The whole Sochi systematic doping situation is depressing but I'm going to continue having fun w/ these WADA sanctions and all the ways in which they mess up Olympic trivia)

Based on the posted point totals I'm pretty sure the outcome of the gold medal match also determined whether or won the prediction contest :P

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Always thought that was a terrible way to determine the bracket in this event. That's a huge shame. legitimately was very much a medal contender in this event in 2018.

Not the first time we thought that in the last year

Congrats to the for winning their first ever Olympic medal in hockey! What a huge achievement for this long suffering hockey program! (Sorry for our friends from and , but almost every neutral is going to be rooting for and )

Pretty big upsets in both semis. and are going to be pretty annoyed to be meeting each other in the bronze medal game.

I'd say Dubreuil owes Verbij a beer, or ten.

I mean, she's the best female ski slopestyle skier ever by a decent margin. It happened to her twice these Olympics, so I'm guessing she had some equipment issues. She didn't seem quite at her best in general tbh.

NBC keeps trying to make the Gu - Sildaru Olympic rivalry happen, and like gold - gold - silver vs. did not qualify - 4th - bronze just doesn't make it look like much of a contest.

Given how dominant Gu is I guess going 2-3 is about as good as can be expected.

I get that impression of Humphries too, but ridiculous stories about BCS keep coming out too. I don't think we can just dismiss all the criticisms Humphries had because she's has personality issues, because clearly she was not the only problem in that setup.

Canada is basically the third or fourth best curling country at the moment (behind and debatably ) when you look at the results from PC 2018 until now at worlds and the Olympics. I’d argue at the very least that the selection process for the Olympics and for Worlds has to change.

Some very unhappy Skeleton sliders in this thread. It appears that a lot of the Skeleton OTP money has gone into unspecified “legal fees” 🤔 Starting to think Humphries might have had the right idea.

But apparently it's the people who want Eteri to be held accountable for how she treats literal children who think "Russians are robots".

Easier to blame than to look inward. Everyone looked the other way for years as USA Gymnastics was abusing children. It took one of the most prolific (for lack of a better word) child sexual abuser of all times being unearthed for people to finally take a critical look at Béla and Mártha Károlyi. I see more or less the same patterns around Eteri Tutberidze and Sambo 70. People don't want to consider that she might be fostering an abusive environment because she produces winner after winner.

If she wasn't under the age of 16 she wouldn't have been allowed to compete. Ask any other athlete that have been provisionally suspended then cleared how fair it was for Valieva to be allowed to compete here. Valieva is getting preferential treatment on account of her age, and that's kind of problematic given it's happening at the Olympics. Though what really angers me is that I feel I'm seeing the next abuse scandal involving children's well being being sacrificed at the altar of sports, and the reaction in some corners is simply to dismiss it entirely. There were already a lot of red flags around Sambo 70 before this whole doping situation.

It's weird to blame the media and not the adults in her entourage who decide to give her banned drugs.

The hate should be directed firmly at Eteri.

This was already known, the IOC had said ahead of time that Valieva wouldn't be invited to the gala no matter the result.

Alright, Miho Takagi can retire for real now :P Really deserved champion, really cool to see both Takagi sisters are now both individual and team gold medallists. Unfortunate Bowe still hasn't really had the Olympics she's capable of having.

I honestly hope the wins bronze in men's curling, because the headline of "Canada fails to win any curling medal" would really, really force a reckoning in how the CCA handles the high performance side of the sport and it might lead to some real change.