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Well hopefully this will create further excitement for the curling events on Cortina! Fully deserved win, the best team all event won.

In the other semifinal, beat , meaning that had qualified for the Olympics. qualifies for the Olympics with any medal, otherwise qualifies. Edit: there appears to be a fifth place game, in which case if wins it and loses the semi-finals I believe qualifies for the Olympics. But I'm not trusting my math this morning because I'm tired xD

...what even is the point of Division 1 tournaments? Sounds like its just a series of friendlies and that only one tournament a year will matter for D1 teams.

qualifies to the playoffs at the mixed doubles worlds. I believe this essentially guarantees Peterman and Gallant an Olympic quota.

Oh I get why Poilievre wants to stay on. I just think if you're in that caucus you have all the incentives in the world to defenestrate him.

They gotta remove him. This was a tap-in goal of an election and he fumbled it.

Final result of the Canadian election (pending any recount): Liberals: 169 seats Conservatives: 144 seats Bloc Québecois: 22 seats New Democrats: 7 seats Greens: 1 seat A majority is 172 seats. The Bloc Québecois has pledged to offer their support to the Liberal government for at least a year baring "something egregious".

It's really hard to overstate how done the Liberals were as late as early January. Mark Carney's win, even though it is a minority government, is one of the all time great political turnabout. With seemingly only mail-in ballots left to count the Liberals are elected or leading in 168 ridings, four short of a majority. This is going to be a very unpredictable period in Canadian politics, I could easily see this government last less than a year just as easily as I could see it surviving three to four years. Balance of power wise we are in the exact same position as before the election (the Liberals can pass legislation and secure confidence and supply with support of any of the Conservatives, the Bloc or the NDP), despite a ton of seats changing hands and this being a big realignment election.

Hey time management is part of the game (especially in doubles)!

Yup. Biggest question is whether the Liberals can be propped up by the NDP alone, or whether or not they will depend on the Bloc Quebecois., Assuming the Liberals can depend entirely on the NDP this could be a fairly long lived minority parliament. Will be interesting! Either way, it looks like the polls were pretty okay but that the seat projection models were way off.

is having its general election today. In a big turnaround, the Liberals lead by Mark Carney are now ahead in the polls, after having been over 20 points behind as recently as December. This is mostly credited to the resignation of Justin Trudeau and America's on and off trade war, along with comments Donald Trump made about Canada becoming the 51st state. While the Liberals are favoured to win a fourth consecutive election, there is a lot of uncertainty around whether it will be a majority or a minority government. There is also an outside chance of the Conservatives, lead by Piere Poilievre, will form a minority government.

Also, these championships are taking place in my old hometown. Can’t remember the last time an Olympic qualification event was held there!

They shouldn't have removed show jumping for the welfare of the horses, they should have removed fencing for the welfare of the viewers.

Yes. The event has been cancelled due to the accident.

Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event. https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748

This feels really insulting. To dogs.

Ya, a 16 team bracket of foursome (personally not a big fan of four ball :P ) would have been ideal. I generally do find matchplay a lot more watcheable than strokeplay. I'm assuming there are schedueling issues with that, however.

Would rather best ball be on day 1 and alternate shots be on day 2, but overall I think this is a good format.

Nice to see the huge growth of women’s hockey in !

Elizabeth Swaney, Hungary’s most famous freestyle skier, ran for mayor of Oakland, California during a recent special election. Inexplicably she received only less than half of one percent of the votes, finishing eighth in a field of ten. You would think such a famous person would cruise to election! Former US House member Barbara Lee, who had a failed US senate bid in 2024 (finishing fourth in the top-2 primary) is expected to narrowly win.

Good dress rehershal for a 2040 Olympic bid.

What do you mean world champion? They swim in between Olympics?

So Cricket on the East coast was just noise then.

Mhm, I remember it hosting the men’s curling worlds a few years ago.

Such a cute venue. Really glad they found a use for it at these games.