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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/kaillie-humphries-us-citizen-olympics-235630912.html I had no idea there was a workaround for the three year rule for citizenship application for spouses of US citizens. I’d love to have a better grasp of her immigration history because this is just really interesting.

Kaillie Humphries was just sworn in as a US citizen, paving the way for her to compete in Beijing. (I am legitimately impressed she managed to do it in time for the Olympics, however much she paid her lawyers was worth it)

Where did he get the idea that Sander would get a podium? :P Edit: very annoyed that Peacock (US broadcaster) cut the stream after the first 30 starters...

Broderick Thompson just won his first ever world cup medal, starting 35th, by finishing third in the first Beaver Creek Super G. This is his first top-20 finish in a non-Alpine Combined event.

Stealing a joke from Twitter: the fenestration of Prague.

China didn’t send him because they wanted to give experience to younger players.

I mean the Netherlands didn’t even enter a women’s team in the C European championship so…

I know there is going to be an alternate, it just looks like it likely won’t be the alternate Team Gushue had at trials (like how Team Homan used a different alternate at trials and at the Olympics)

Speaking of which, Lisa Weagle (team Jones alternate) is in this COC tweet and article announcing the Olympic team but Jeff Thomas isn’t. https://twitter.com/teamcanada/status/1465334832184049674?s=21

Men's Olympic Trials Gushue won the battle of the Brads. After a very well curled game the ninth and tenth ends were filled with errors, and Gushue was able to take advantage to win 4-3. 2006 Olympic champions Brad Gushue (skip) and Mark Nichols (third) will go to their second Olympics, sixteen years after their first. Brett Gallant (second) and Geoff Walker (lead) will both go to their first Olympics. The foursome are the defending bronze medallists at the Olympic trials (Gushue also finished third at Olympic trials as an alternate in 2013), two time Canadian champions (2017 and 2018) and one time World champions (2017). It's currently unclear if Jeff Thomas, who was Team Gushue's alternate at trials, will be the team's alternate at the Olympics. Jeff Thomas is a long time coach for Team Gushue and isn't an elite curler anymore, though he competes in senior tournaments.

After a complete emotional roller coaster of a final, on par with the 2010 women's Olympic finals for drama, Team Jones has defeated Team Fleury in an extra end game. Jones decided to give up a point in the ninth to keep hammer, then missed a relatively easy shot for two in the 10th and then had to watch as Fleury missed a makeable shot for the win in the 11th. So team Canada is: Skip: Jennifer Jones (Sochi 2014, gold medal) Third: Kaitlyn Lawes (Sochi 2014, gold medal and Pyeongchang 2018, gold medal in mixed doubles) Second: Jocelyn Peterman (first Olympics, Olympic trials runner-up in 2017) Lead: Dawn McEwen (Sochi 2014, gold medal) Alternate: Lisa Weagle (Pyeongchang 2018) Kaitlyn Lawes will be the first curler with a chance to win a third Olympic gold medal, and is the first Canadian curler to qualify for three Olympics.

Women’s Olympic Trials Jennifer Jones has won the semi-finals and will have a chance at a second Olympics. She will face world number 1 Team Fleury.

I really don't think Canada needs to be doing this... xD My understanding is that it's actually not super rare for NHL players to get Canadian or American citizenship, since some of them eventually get permanent citizenship and then it's just a matter of waiting 3 (in Canada, or if you are married to an American) or five years to apply.

Gotta root for my fellow Maritimer, Brett Gallant, so I hope Gushue wins. I think either would be formidable in Beijing, though.

and won their only Olympic gold medals in 2016 and 2020 respectively in a fencing team event. There is a lot of depth in fencing events, the reason we see so many American and South Korean medals is that it’s much easier to qualify out of those continents. Qualifying in fencing team events is already half the battle because it isn’t rare for the sixth best team in the world to miss out. The qualification system is really only “broken” for European fencers, who have to face a truly brutal path to the Olympics.

Men’s Olympic Trials The men’s finals will be contested between Brad Gushue and Brad Jacobs. This means the Kevin-Brad rotation will continue. Since 2002 the men’s Olympic team has been skipped by a Kevin, then a Brad: 2002: Kevin Martin 2006: Brad Gushue 2010: Kevin Martin 2014: Brad Jacobs 2018: Kevin Koe 2022: Brad Gushue or Brad Jacobs

Temporary quotas in short track (assumes nobody loses quotas because of the overall limit): Men's 500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Men's 1500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 1500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Teams that are currently eligible for the mixed relay:

https://twitter.com/chelscarey/status/1464312704059908096?s=20 Chelsea Carey tweeted acknowledging the very hilarious stat that teams she is part of have now won 16 Canadian Olympic trials round robin games in a row (of course she is an alternate this year since her regular team failed to qualify, but still, it counts!)

We have two Brads left (Gushue and Jacobs). So the pattern will hold as long as Koe doesn’t repeat.

I don't think having the top four decided before the Olympics starts is a good idea. The two wave approach makes a lot of sense, but presumably the point of that would be to be able to increase the athlete quotas across the board.

Canadian Olympic Trials (Men's event) No drama on the men's side! Brad Gushue's team gets a direct bye to the finals where they will face the winner of the semi-finals between Brad Jacobs and Kevin Koe. All three active skips who have previously won a Canadian men's Olympic trials have made the playoffs, and the last four winning teams are represented. Eight of Canada's fifteen gold medallists in men's curling (twelve if you exclude alternates, which you should because the alternates on the three Canadian gold medal winning teams were truly random people who had unimpressive careers before or since) made the playoffs. They are: Team Gushue: Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols (2006) Team Jacobs: Brad Jacobs, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden (2014), Marc Kennedy (2010) Team Koe: John Morris (2010, 2018 (Mixed Doubles)), Ben Hebert (2010) The only people left who haven't been to the Olympics previously are Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker from Team Gushue and B.J. Neufeld of team Koe. These three were however also in the playoffs of the 2017 trials.

"We believe that it could be possible to limit the number of teams to only four per competition." This proposal is some serious nonsense. The team competition is already basically as lean as it possibly can get, and eliminating the team competitions would be extremely bad for the sport (you're talking losing half the medals). And it's not like team competition medals only go to the big countries - Romania and Estonia won their only gold of the games in 2016 and 2020 respectively from fencing team events. (and no, there are no possible fair formats for a mixed weapons or mixed gendered team event) The only realistic way to fix this problem is with more quotas but, well, we know that ain't happening.

Canadian Olympic Trials (Women's event) We have an almighty mess! First, Team Fleury has beaten Jennifer Jones and is only the second women's team and third team overall to go undefeated during the round robin. The only men's team to go undefeated was Brad Jacobs in 2013, he went on to win the trials and the Olympics. The only women's team to go undefeated? Well that was a team skipped by Chelsea Carey, in 2017. If you only follow curling in the Olympics you probably don't know who Chelsea Carey is. That's because she actually lost the finals to Rachel Homan's team. Well, some fun trivia here: there are two people on Team Fleury's bench who are sure to be extremely nervous during the finals. That's because the team's coach, Sherry Middaugh, was the skip of the team that lost the 2013 finals and the team's alternate, Chelsea Carey, was as mentioned above the skip that went a perfect 8-0 during round robin only to lose the finals in 2017. Both have an opportunity for some measure of redemption. It would actually be a great story is Carey managed to make it to the Olympics after losing the 2017 trials final and then having a horror quad in terms of results and team stability (why is she an alternate at trials? Her team disbanded completely last year). Now, here is what the playing order looks like: Team Kerri Einarson takes on Casey Scheidegger in tie-breaker #1 The winner of tie-breaker #1 takes on team Krista McCarville in tie-breaker #2 The winner of tie-breaker # 2 takes on team Jennifer Jones in the semi-finals The winner of the semi-finals takes on team Tracy Fleury On current form Fleury is the favourite, but curling is a funny game and this final match will be by far the most pressure packed game in the career of any of the four starting players. If they can get through that test they will be a scary team at the Olympics.

D2.1: “A maximum event quota of three (3) athletes will only be provisionally allocated in the case that the NOC has three (3) athletes placed in the top 20 (500m, 1000m, 1500m) or top 14 (Women's 3000m & Men's 5000m) in the respective event’s SOQC.” D2.5: “For NOCs having a third (3rd) ranked athlete placed between the positions of 21 and 30 in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m distances or between the positions of 15 and 20 for Women 3000m and Men 5000m, these athletes will be placed in the reserve list of quota places in accordance with the SOQC rank of the athlete.” Either the ISU changed the qualification rules, the quota simulation they published is wrong or they are taking into account countries needing to decline quotas due to entry times not being reached (no idea if that would explain the discrepancy).

FFS making my script take into account that a third skater can’t qualify by time (but can get on the reserve list) was a massive pain in the butt and they just change it on me? Come on… Seems like they did their simulation with the rules from 2018.