NearPup

Obviously we need a 48 team Olympic tournament, since FIFA has discovered this is the optimal number.

The thing is, counting football players in the athlete quota doesn't even really make any sense. They don't stay in the village, and they bring in more revenue than they cost. Like I get why people dislike the men's football tournament, but it would be an absolutely braindead move to remove it.

IIRC this is how early Korea always does Olympic selections for short track. It's actually a small part of why Ahn Hyun-soo / Viktor An went from to , he didn't have a chance to qualify for the 2010 Olympics because of an injury he suffered in 2008.

It's a real shame they've had so many issues with the electronic handles, having an objective measure for hog line violations was much better.

Time for the IOC to consider raising the athlete cap above 2900...

The drought continues, it’s been almost two weeks since last won a curling world championship

Big congrats to for finally qualifying for the Olympics in men’s curling after *so* many close calls. The OQT is gonna be brutal on both the men’s and women’s side :O

At the conclusion of the round robin, six Olympic spots have been decided: (plus host ) will get the last ranking quota if they make the finals. Otherwise the final spot goes to .

Doesn’t look like Jacob’s is letting off the gas despite having nothing to play for.

Based on my quick and dirty tie-break hell calculation will qualify for the Olympics if they beat and fails to finish in the top 2.

The Olympic program commitee is reporting to the Executive Board on April 9th, so hopefully that's confirmation it means we'll know the event program then. https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-executive-board-meeting-9-april-2025-information-for-the-media

Good change. Should probably be even higher (15 or 16) tbh.

I had a similar skiing injury, but much less severe (no displacement, so didn’t have surgery) and it took me months to walk normal again so :/

2031 and 2035 are both good picks to host. Expanding the women's (or men's for that matter) world cup to 48 teams is... bleh. The 32 team format is / was so good

A displaced tibial plateau fracture is *nasty*

And I can say whatever I want about what you write. Works both ways

There's really nothing normal about getting offended over the French being French. It's a sign you need mental health help.

Maybe snowflakes will remember it that way 🙄

And ofc even if qualifies in every event they can’t enter the team event anyway.

That’s the aerials lottery for you. I really hate the format they use, big air has a much better format.

Pre-homolgation testing was completed successfully. Homolgation testing is scheduled for November.

Looking at the team event situation a bit: are the only countries that have qualified skaters in all four events. Importantly, is not needing any of it's host nation quotas. Six countries are missing an entry for the team event: (Pairs), (Women's), (Ice dance), (Men's), (Ice dance), (Pairs). So currently we only have nine countries that are even eligible for the team event. Presumably will eventually also be eligible. There are only five additional athlete quotas available for the team event and the host nation (down from ten previously), so it is very likely that we will have some incomplete teams in the team event. All ten countries mentioned above have a skater or pair that could compete in every event, except which currently has no elite pairs at all. Best case realistic scenario for us to have a fully competitive team event, IMO, is for to qualify either a man or a woman, to qualify a woman, to qualify in pairs, to qualify in ice dance and then either qualify in men's or qualifies in both men's and women's. That way there would be enough additional quotas for us to have ten full teams (assuming can pull a competent pair out of somewhere) Edit: I presume is also in with an outside shot at making the team event if they manage to qualify a pair.

Malinin is crazy

Honestly, all in all, not a bad worlds for Canada.

Not to get overly involved in other country's internal affairs, but Lithuania seems to be a very unfriendly country to immigrate to.