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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.

A kendama enthusiast? Neat. Also if you’re gonna live in North Dakota you better love driving.

He doesn’t want to switch if he can avoid it.

He was born an American citizen, that’s not quite the same. A better analogy is a large part of the US long distance running teams, which has a lot if athletes who used their running ability as a means to immigrate to the US. Or Bobsleigh for Canada (fun fact: 2 of Canada’s 3 male pilots at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Olympics are Australians, one of whom actually competed for Australia in 2010). That one is kind of funny - since Calgary was arguably the best training environment in the world when it still had an operational track, a lot of athletes from warm climates moved there to train, and a few of them ended up becoming Canadian citizens and switching to representing Canada internationally since that provides better opportunities in terms of funding and available teammates.

They bought the boxer from but they couldn't buy the judges (still bitter Sotomayor lost the final in Rio 2016 totally unfairly, I never thought I'd get so upset to see an Azeri import lose at the Olympics - that was the Olympics where suddenly became the best boxing country in the world for reasons obviously unrelated to corruption)

As part of the new norm Curling is moving to a "mixed sheet" format.

Close to 50:50 on that one. Going to be optimistic and go with Canada, but I expect it will be a close battle either way.

Team Canada Men's event: Blake Enzie Women's event: Jane Channell, Mirela Rahneva