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[hide] Main Round February 3rd - February 8th, 2022 10 Nations, Every Nation from Group A and the the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-Placed Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 Switzerland 1 5 Canada February 3rd 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 1 3 United States February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 ROC 2 3 Switzerland February 5th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 2 0 Finland February 5th 2022, h. 21:10 United States 6 0 ROC February 6th 2022, h. 21:10 Switzerland 0 5 United States February 7th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 4 0 ROC February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 2 1 Switzerland February 8th 2022, h. 12:10 United States 1 2 Canada February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 ROC 3 4 Finland Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 China 3 2 Czech Republic February 3rd 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 2 1 Sweden February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 Denmark 2 1 China February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Denmark 1 2 Japan February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 3 0 Sweden February 6th 2022, h. 16:40 China 0 3 Japan February 7th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 1 2 Denmark February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 2 1 China February 8th 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 2 1 Czech Republic February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 0 2 Denmark Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Canada United States Finland [/hide]

It’s Brendan Corey, made a mental typo. Corey is from the same small town as I am.

Team New Brunswick New Brunswick is sending a total of two athletes to the Beijing Olympics, both in short track: Brendan Corey and Courtney Sarault. Both used to train together in my hometown. They will try to win ‘s first winter Olympic medal since 2010 when Travis Jayner won a bronze medal in the men’s 5000m (representing ).

I thought seeing Zach Parise, son of hockey great Jean-Paul Parisé, play for the (and almost making Canada lose the 2010 finals) was weird. But seeing Jake Chelois, son of hockey great Chris Chelios, play for is even weirder xD

On the plus side, China having enough depth to leave a world cup winner at home is pretty extraordinary. That program was completely nonexistent a few years ago.

https://twitter.com/katietannenbaum/status/1485673108942077955?s=21

Team Canada Moguls Chloé Dufour-Lapointe Justine Dufour-Lapointe Sofiane Gagnon Laurent Dumais Mikaël Kingsbury Aerials Flavie Aumond Naomy Boudreau-Guertin Marion Thenault Miha Fontaine Lewis Irving Émile Nadeau Half-pipe Noah Bowman Simon d'Artois Brendan Mackay Amy Fraser Rachael Karker Cassie Sharpe Slopestyle and Big air Teal Harle Evan McEachran Max Moffatt Édouard Therriault Olivia Asselin Elena Gaskell Megan Oldham Ski-cross team was previously named.

I was told only NBC did nonsense like that.

I really think she should just shut it down for the season and think about her long term health (both in the sport and otherwise). She already has an Olympic gold, and she'll still be in the prime age range for a downhiller at her home Olympics in four years. But as you say, if someone is going to do it...

I'm not super familiar with these two athletes but it's worth remembering that in park and pipe there is a lot that goes on that isn't captured by FIS rankings.

The only surprise is Zverev losing a three set match :P

The Olympic big air format is quite high variance, but if she lands the jump package she is capable of she will win.

Very glad for Ryding and the British Alpine program. Always great to see a non-traditional Alpine nation win a race. Ryding got close a couple times, too. Really it's great to see anyone who started on a dry slope win a world cup race.

Team Canada Men Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes Matthew Soukup Women Abigail Strate Alexandria Loutitt Boyd-Clowes is named to his fourth Olympics, which matches the great Host Bulau's record for most Olympic appearances by a Canadian at the Olympics in Ski Jumping.

Please don't speak those awful ideas out loud, Bach might hear them.

I think it’s really kept around at the world cup level because the IBU doesn’t want to give up a set of Olympic medals :P

Which would be really stupid because it's actually way more exciting to watch than the sprint. The thing that makes me optimistic about the Individual's long term future is that it requires no additional venues or athletes and biathlon is a high performing sport in terms of TV ratings.

is sending an athlete with the first name "Winter" and an athlete with the last name "Winters" to the Winter Olympics. Truly a historic achievement.

Team USA Men Bryce Bennett Ryan Cochran-Siegle Tommy Ford Travis Ganong River Radamus Luke Winters Women Keely Cashman Breezy Johnson A.J. Hurt Katie Hensie Mo Lebel Tricia Mangan Paula Moltzan Nina O'Brien Mikaela Shiffrin Jackie Wiles Bella Wright

Canada's best medal chance outside of the team event is in ice dance. It's an extremely close fight for the bronze medal in ice dance between Giles / Poirier and the top two American pairs. If Canada doesn't get a medal in the team event (I'd say Japan is the slight favourite for bronze, but Canada can win a medal if everyone performs well) I think Giles and Poirier will be the clear sentimental favourite to win bronze in ice dance, and in ice dance things like that matter when two or more teams are essentially evenly matches (see also: Virtue and Moir in Pyeongchang, who were undoubtedly helped by the crowd and by being drawn last in the free dance).

Obviously the IOC forcing the FIS to cut the Alpine skiing quota from 320 to 306 was really painful.

Team Canada Men James Crawford Trevor Philip Erik Read Brodie Seger Broderick Thompson Women Marie-Michèle Gagnon Cassidy Gray Valérie Grenier Erin Mielzynski Ali Nullmeyer Roni Remme Amelia Smart Laurence St-Germain

I'm going to gather a guess and say almost every Canadian on the forum, if not literally all of us, is going to say Vancouver 2010 xD

That would be the shortest opening ceremony in, what, decades? I’m actually very on board for a shorter ceremony, especially with the lack of crowd.