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First thing I did was check to see if Bode Miller was on there. He isn't, which is excellent (his commentary in 2018 was... not good). Ya, would be great if he was there. John Morgan is just a treasure, though. "The articulation of the sled!" I actually miss when Singer and Morgan used to do bobsleigh commentary together.

Derek Livingston is replaced by Liam Gill in the snowboard men's half-pipe due to an injury.

Might be a false positive? Happened to one of the Australian curling player.

The problem is that federations chose the judges they send when they win a spot on the panel, and obviously for federations that have skaters in contention the first criteria is who is going to advantage their skaters the most, not who is the best judge. As long as national federations pick judges this will be a problem.

It’s not as innovative as the Pyeongchang course (not sure we’ll ever see another slopestyle course as innovative and influential as the Pyeongchang one) but it looks like a really great, modern slopestyle course. The Great Wall motif is a nice flourish.

Given their stated goal (per their own MoU) is essentially to overthrow the government and abolish the Canadian constitution, not that crazy. The people running this either have no idea what the implications of their MoU are, or they are just crazy. All MPs were advised to stay away from Parliament Hill.

The Ski Jumping venue is the first one I've seen so far that uses a colour other than blue for the look of the games. https://twitter.com/ChKlaue/status/1487084009805197314?s=20&t=S5sNI_yuy_-8SEelPB5mNA

Pictures from day one of moguls training: https://english.news.cn/20220131/c65cbd3722c947e4b1cd257e4ce193a9/c.html Also a first look at the slopestyle course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYaXDdINOY&t=1s

Huge 2-0 win for against at home, without Davies. Canada still undefeated in qualifying, every other team in CONCACAF has at least two losses.

Freestyle skiing :3

Very important for her to test negative soon, too, since her best event starts on day 1

I think your choices made more sense than the actual selection xD

Throw in ski jumping, luge and biathlon if you have the insane amount of hopium I always have pre-Olympics. But even I am not crazy enough to think we have even a 1% chance at a medal in cross country skiing.

Previous reports that the Beijing 2022 COVID app contains security risks, or that it is a spying tool, are being questioned by security experts.

Canada beating the US a decade ago would have been unthinkable. This program has improved a lot.

Just euthanize this sport already...

Also both very good choices (especially since Canada has never picked a curler as a flag bearer). I'm not sure if they will have flown in early enough, though. The alternates are flying early (with the mixed doubles team), but the four starters for both the men's and women's team are planning on flying out pretty late. I don't remember if they mentioned specific dates, though. It appears that almost all the other Canadian teams took the approach of getting in the bubble ASAP (all the bobsleigh athletes are there, for example, and training doesn't start until the 10th for the women and 11th for the men). (Also, as the resident Acadian/Quebecois hybrid on this forum, I gotta say - Canada is way overdue a French-Canadian flag bearer at this point, it's been 84 years there hasn't been one since Turin, Summer of Winter)

My proposal is Marie-Philip Poulin. She undoubtedly deserves it. She does have a game the next morning (against ) so that might be a problem. Toss in Marc Kennedy if we need a second flagbearer because he'll be in Beijing not doing anything at the time (he flies in early to be a possible replacement for Jon Morris in mixed doubles if he tests positive). ) Hamelin would be a great choice if not for the 1000m prelims and, more importantly, the 2000m mixed relay finals the next day. Mikaël Kingsbury is a complete non-starter for the same reason.

[hide] Main Round February 9th - February 13th, 2022 12 Nations, Every 1st-placed Nation from all the Groups + The best 2nd-placed Nation from all the Groups will qualify for the Quarterfinals. All remaining Nations will qualify for the Knockout Round Playoff-Matches Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 10th 2022, h. 21:10 United States 5 0 China February 10th 2022, h. 21:10 Canada 3 1 Germany February 12th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 4 2 United States February 12th 2022, h. 16:40 Germany 3 1 China February 13th 2022, h. 21:10 China 0 5 Canada February 13th 2022, h. 21:10 United States 3 2 Germany Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 9th 2022, h. 16:40 ROC 6 0 Switzerland February 9th 2022, h. 21:10 Czech Republic 5 1 Denmark February 11th 2022, h. 12:10 Denmark 1 6 ROC February 11th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 2 1 Switzerland February 12th 2022, h. 21:10 ROC 3 1 Czech Republic February 12th 2022, h. 21:10 Switzerland 4 1 Denmark Group C Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 10th 2022, h. 12:10 Sweden 7 0 Latvia February 10th 2022, h. 16:40 Finland 5 2 Slovakia February 11th 2022, h. 16:40 Sweden 4 2 Slovakia February 11th 2022, h. 21:10 Latvia 1 7 Finland February 13th 2022, h. 12:10 Slovakia 2 0 Latvia February 13th 2022, h. 16:40 Finland 3 2 Sweden Top 3 Place Gold Silver Bronze Nation [/hide]

One of the few times Canada won a hockey tournament as a legit underdog. That was fun.

I think has to be considered the favourite. Would love to see finally win an Olympic gold in hockey. (Though winning this tournament, of all tournaments, would be super funny)

A decent chunk of the Chinese players are Westerners :P

Tried it with Nord VPN and it seems to work. Never tried to access it w/ a VPN while outside the US, though, so YMMV. There is a free tier (that doesn't include live sports), you can always test it with that.

Peacock (NBC's streaming service in the US) has finally added a page for the Olympics. All the world feeds, plus the network and cable broadcasts, will be available online in the US for the first time without a cable subscription (behind a five dollar paywall, but that's still significantly cheaper than a month of cable). Not to sound like a shill but all my fellow US-based Totallympians really owe it to themselves to get Peacock (they carry all FIS, ISU and IBU world cup and world championship events, among other sportsball related stuff).

I'm unhappy about J/R being on the team because of their... personalities, shall we say. But in terms of the sporting merits J/R when they have a bad skate are about as good as W/M when they are clean, so it's not like there was much of a case that isn't reliant on emotions for picking W/M. W/M are also not really improving all that much, they are clearly not a team of the future either (and frankly they should probably split and attempt to find new partners).