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The Germans are unbeatable in sliding events where they can bring their own sleds, but haven't won a medal in the only event where everyone's equipment is equal. Curious.

What a shitshow. I really hope we won't see Eteri ever again after this (wishful thinking, I know).

already out of medal contention in two-man.

What a deserved gold for Xu Mengtao and the Chinese team in general. So many Olympic heartbreaks for women's Chinese aerials.

Marion Thénault is the first athlete eliminated before the aerials final 2, less than a point from qualifying in the top 6.

If Valieva finishes in the top 3 in the women’s single there will be no flower or medal ceremony held for the event, and medals won’t be handed out until the conclusion of her doping case. The free skate will also include 25 skaters if Valieva qualifies for the free skate.

Great precedent to set that you can dope a literal child and keep the medals.

Wherever Beckie Scott is she is having an aneurism right about now.

Kind of inevitable given the tickets are distributed by invitation. The crowds have certainly not been a highlight at these Olympics, even accounting for the reduced capacity.

Humphries is basically just spending her whole career denying Myers Taylor an Olympic gold medal.

Again, I totally agree that they are the deserving winners, and it isn't a close call at all. But if this was a competition of who had the best program I'd want them ranked pretty low.

I'm impressed by their skating, I just don't like it :P Still, this is absolutely a clear win, anyone else winning would have been a scandal.

I'm glad P/C are going to win this, they deserve it, but I sort of hope they retire because their programs are so boring xD

P/C are lucky their closest competitors don't have a crowd pleasing free dance (and that there is no real crowd) this time. I'm still quite convinced that the massive crowd reaction really helped V/M win in 2018, and a big part of that is that the program was just much more crowd pleasing.

Mystery one point deductions in ice dance are usually due to a lift being too long.

Her husband took a job abroad because that somehow made her eligible for citizenship faster than the three year rule (which is what I naturalized under). I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of time in VisaJourney and I had never even heard of that.

Look who’s back playing for the women’s hockey team.

Everyone who skates to Daft Punk should automatically win a medal.

Marin Hamill had an extremely scary fall off the final jump. Really hoping she’s okay. She is getting medical attention. She went down holding her leg, her teammates have gone to console her and her coach is crying.

My reaction to Canadian figure skaters these Olympics (except Messing, Schizas, Lajoie and Lagha) is basically this:

I’m more optimistic about Humphries winning a second gold medal than I am about Canada winning a second gold tbh. And I’ve always done the medal table g-s-b, betraying both my countries in the process :P And ya, a bunch of countries tried to recruit Humphries. She also came very close to competing for before she made the Canadian team. To her credit she picked a country she has an actual connection to. She also had good lawyers because, as someone who has become a US citizen through the same type of immigration process she did, her timeline was *fast*. Like faster than most people think is possible fast.

Depressing results in ice dance btw, except for Lajoie and Lagha.

So heads rolled over the whole Humphries situation, right? I get she’s not the most popular figure in Calgary but she’s far from the first athlete to complain that the Canadian bobsleigh setup is toxic.

Third North American sweep out of six women’s bobsleigh events held at the Olympics.

I acthaly am pretty sure Humphries will finish ahead of on the medal table these Olympics.