NearPup

Who do you think has a stronger team in the men's team pursuit? They have not lost all year. They set the world record this season. Nobody has gotten within a second of them all year. Edit: oh, for the USA xD Ya, but that's part of why the Dutch aren't going to be too bothered by the men's team pursuit I think. Even if they threw everything at the TP at this point it's probably too late to develop a team that can compete against the , so the gold is pretty much gone anyway.

I don’t think we have to be too too worried about the men. The is a huge favourite in the men’s TP. The women are probably favourites tho.

Kjeld Nuis 4th

Remind me, why is it that Jake Paul wasn’t moving his mouth much? Did something happen?

Great, Jake Paul‘s fiancée is the only thing American media will talk about in Milan

I mean, Canada also has its own trials and they are about as competitive as the US trials. The Dutch trials are absolutely the most competitive ones in the world by far fwiw. But both the US and Canada have more centralized and relaxed training environments than the Netherlands. That’s something Carlijn Schoutens talked about too.

Bloemen is an interesting case because he was genuinely not going to get anywhere in the Netherlands. It seems like he needed to be a big fish in a small(et) pound. He’s been pretty open about how moving to Canada basically saved his career.

What does Wüst know about speed skating anyway?

Why are you just making up fake Italian names? :P But once again, I feel like people always underestimate how weird Olympic speed skating results can be. There are always people who find the form of their lives, people who overtrain, people who are randomly in bad form and people who have been hiding their form all season.

Genuinely tragic he never got to go to the Olympics :<

British Columbia in general and Vancouver in particular are awesome and it’s great more people got to discover it thanks to Vancouver 2010.

Nobody hates Britain more than the British media so… I recall it being quite a pessimistic tone before the London games started.

Germany didn't have that much of an equipment advantage in 2014, and the Russians had a big home track advantage in 2014 (just like Canada had back in 2010, Korea in 2018, China in 2022...) Italy will, obviously, not get such an advantage given how late the track was built.

The problem with bobsleigh is the equipment being so uneven, not the number of quotas a country can get.

It’s honestly baffling how bad she was in 2018. Just absolutely lost her head. Real shame too because she is so gifted. I do hope Li Jianrou sends her a Christmas card every year tho, she was absolutely gifted a gold medal by Christie in 2014.

That's what we call a learning experience...

So that will be three short track speed skaters (two for and one for ). Very exciting. No athlete born and residing in New Brunswick has ever won an Olympic gold medal (Russ Howard is the only New Brunswicker to have won an Olympic gold, he lived in Moncton back in 2006, but he spent most of his life elsewhere). Very good chance this changes in Milan.

has now lost three games that would have clinched their Olympic qualification. Will be gutting if they lost a fourth.

Baffling decision tbh

On top of everything else it feels needlessly complicated.

I def agree, but I don't have a problem with having a sport that doesn't *need* to be held on snow get held on snow (which can be down for cross country running and cyclocross). In a way it's not that different from ski jumping, which can be done almost identically without any snow or ice.

As long as there is a 2900 athlete quota cap it is rational for every winter IF to be against any expansion of the program (except for their own sport).

They got very, very close to not getting a third quota by points in the 5000m. Like two positions away in the last world cup close. IIRC it was like a tenth of a second or something? Too lazy to go check exactly what it was, but point it, it was very close.

Yes. And by the skin of their teeth on the men’s side, they are very lucky to not have lost that ninth quota.

To get nine quotas you need to have a TP quota and a full quota in every individual event through the points ranking. Canada has a full quota in every individual event, but one of the quota in the women’s 1000m comes from the time ranking rather than the points ranking.