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I expect 4 or 5 golds. I really don't think there is any event where the Dutch have a higher chance to win than the field other than the men's 1000m, but also the Dutch have a pretty good chance in every event other than the men's 500m, 5000m, 10000m (assuming van der Poel doesn't fall) and mass start. Also there is no such thing as being a lock to win the mass start xD

Those are some insane selection criteria y'all have...

Jaclyn Narracott wins O.o St Moritz is always wild.

I really think any of the top seven or eight teams could win gold and it wouldn't even really be an upset. Kind of a deep field this year.

Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled and he is in deportation proceedings. Again.

Posting the video because reports are that he is alert and able to move his extremities. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1992673859858

Ya the men’s team in particular is promising. It’s just very much not the kind of team we had over the last two decades.

That’s definitively a… development squad.

Extremely scary fall by George McQuinn, the scariest accident I’ve ever seen in a moguls competition.

Obligatory "Andrew didn't kill himself"

There was no way to make this uncontroversial once trials got cancelled.

will be represented by defending champion John Morris and 2018 Olympian Rachel Homan.

I think it's a big problem that Alpine and cross country skiing have to bear all the weight of universality places. My approach would be to offer all otherwise unqualified NOCs up to two universality places (one per gender) across all individual sports, as long as the athlete meets the basic requirements, and make those places available outside the sport's quota (set aside like 100 quota places for it overall, which can be taken from Alpine and cross country).

What the IOC should be doing is having floating tripartite invitations for countries who's best athletes aren't Alpine or cross country skiers. I'd rather see someone like Frimpong compete than some random skier who went to some dodgy FIS race.

There is a decent chance Jasey-Jay Anderson will qualify for his seventh Olympics :P Anyway, Alpine snowboarding is sort of it’s own niche and has been for a long time, it really doesn’t have anything in common with cross or park & pipe anymore (there used to be crossover between those disciplines but that’s very much a thing of the past).

In their defence Novak Djokovic is undeniably an asshole.

Team Canada Goaltenders Ann-Renée Desbiens Emerance Maschmeyer Kristen Campbell Defence Jocelyne Larocque Renata Fast Ella Shelton Ashton Bell Erin Ambrose Micah Zandee-Hart Claire Thompson Forward Rebecca Johnston Laura Stacey Sarah Fillier Jill Saulnier Mélodie Daoust Brianne Jenner Sarah Nurse Natalie Spooner Emily Clark Emma Maltais Marie-Philip Poulin Blayre Turnbull Jamie Lee Rattray

I don’t think it makes any sense for anyone going to the Olympics to compete at Europeans (or four continents). It’s too late to risk a positive test.

...is she literally going to be the unvaxed athlete going? I guess we should find out pretty quickly who they all are given the isolation period.

Snowboard cross mixed team before re-allocation: Two teams: One team: First reserve is (for a second team). If you read the original qualification document you may be confused by this. FIS changed it so that if less than 16 teams qualified countries with two male and two female athletes can enter a second team, though those entries are always lower priority than a country’s first entry.

Removing the best event in the winter Olympics (the men’s and women’s relays in short track) should not even be discussed :P Ski jumping and nordic combined can probably be cut to four by country, but that’s a bit of a cut on paper only since big countries will still bring an alternate anyway. Edit: we can fix all the gender equality issues (including doing things like adding four women in bobsleigh and having 12 women hockey teams w/ 25 players) while slightly increasing the athlete quota in sports like speed skating and figure skating while keeping the athlete quota under 3200. The IOC's insistence on keeping it to 2900 is sort of an issue at this point.

At some point I want to sit down and figure out how many athletes I think are needed for the winger Olympics, but it’a absolutely higher than 2900. They are likely adding a women’s team event in ski jumping for 2026, too, which will likely require more quotas in that sport too.

I should mention for full disclosure that the list on Wikipedia is of my doing :P

The ISU just does not have enough quota spots for speed skating or figure skating (short track could use a little more room but it’s not egregious). That being said, the problem was entirely foreseeable and they could and should have written the document clearly.