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I don’t think it’s actually timed… hence this mess.

Oh ya, she is legitimately a good skier from what I can see. Likely not good enough to ever make team USA but def good enough to have a solid middle of the pack showing at the Olympics.

Lol Jeanee Crane-Mauzy‘s explanation of what her ties to the country are is genuinely hilarious. She says she wants to compete for Vanuatu to raise awareness for climate change.

As someone from I deeply resent this Eastern Canada erasure!

Based on the results of these Olympics, I think it's realistic for to aim for a top 10 in LA. In Tokyo it felt like we had better than expected Olympics. This time we did even better and it feels like we under-performed a little bit.

About time Italy wins gold in Volleyball xD Seriously, congrats on a really amazing tournament.

It depends. Esports isn’t one thing, it’s a lot of different, completely different scenes. Among the big esports scenes: and are traditionally the biggest countries in fighting games. Is the dominant country in League of Legends, with being the clear number 2. Every world champion (both in terms of the nationality of the players and of the pro teams they represent) have been from one of those two countries since 2013. StarCraft (both Brood Wars and II) is dominated by to the point where every non-Korean players are referred to as “foreigners” even by their own compatriots. Only one major Brood Wars tournament has ever been won by a non-Korean, all the way back in 2000. Foreigners were slightly more successful in StarCraft II. Interestingly the person who is usually considered the best female esports performer of all times is a StarCraft II player, Scarlett. She’s openly trans, which isn’t an issue since most StarCraft tournaments are open. Dota 2 is one of the most diverse esport in terms of nationality. is usually considered the best performing country, with also consistently producing great teams. Players from the following countries have also been world champion: Dota 2 teams often contain players from many different countries, in events where every player must be from the same country you would likely see the strongest teams out of Back when Overwatch esport was a big thing it was dominated by I’m not super familiar with Counter Strike, but my understanding is that are the strongest countries. For Rocket League I would say are the strongest countries, with notable standouts from And that’s sort of it as far as esports scenes I have some familiarity with. Not that any of this matters since there won’t be any esports in the esports Olympic games.

Eventually I'll figure out how to spell Ilya xD

That's honestly pretty awesome.

I will not miss seeing the worst show jumping known to man in the Olympics, some of those horses deserve medals just for keeping the rider's butt in the saddle.

Her interview after her first marathon lives rent free in my head.

Eventually, but not for a while. I need a bit of an Olympic detox.

1. Rate the performance on a scale of 1-10 9. This was Canada's best ever performance in a non-boycotted Olympics. Only a few disappointments keep it from being a ten. Subjectively I would say this is Canada's second best Olympic performance of my lifetime, only Vancouver 2010 was better. 2. What were the suprises and heartbreaks ? Winning gold in the men's 4x100m relay is the biggest good surprise. Katie Vicent winning two medals wasn't a surprise, but her gold medal was a slight surprise. Two of our silver medals where big positive surprise: women's rugby 7s and the women's eight in rowing. The biggest heartbreak was basketball. Like, all of basketball. The women's team was terrible, the men's team had an off day against France and the 3x3 women's team was too busy committing fouls to win gold. Sarah Mitton failing to make the final eight in the shot put. Oh and of course the drone spying scandal definitively sucked, but the team's response to it was impressive. 3.Was your country's goal achieved? Yes. 4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future? Current / Upcoming sports Canada most needs to work a lot on improving in rowing. 5. Who could be some the potential star for your country in LA? Summer McIntosh, Illyah Kahrun and Ethan Katzberg are my three picks for our biggest potential stars in LA. Not an individual, but the men's and women's Lacrosse teams could be among Canada's best gold medal chances in LA.

That's kind of stupid.

Black definitively deserves recognition, she's done so much for artistic gymnastics in Canada.

And now is appealing the decision, claiming they have video evidence that the inquiry was filed with 13 seconds to spare, not four seconds late. Once again, reminder that no matter what the athlete that should be in third won’t get a bronze medal regardless of the outcome.

The fact that each esport depends on a commercial product with a privately owned IP is indeed one of the big issue the IOC has to contend with (though definitively not the only one). But I do think that if the IOC looks at it as a commercial event it would be a mistake, esports event run that way don't tend to have a lot of longevity, wheras the more community minded esports events have done better.

Ironically I don’t think anyone is more skeptical of the esports Olympic games than the members of the various esports communities. Making the event viable is going to be a huge challenge for the IOC. I feel like most people don’t really understand that the esports Olympics are shaping up to be one of the biggest failure in the history of the IOC. But either way, the existence of the esports Olympics kills any chance of esports being added to the summer games. If the esports Olympic games thrive as a standalone event then there won’t be a reason to add esports to the summer games. If the esports Olympics fail then the IOC will be extremely hesitant to add esports to the summer games.

Ya I think people can relax about esports, they likely won’t ever be in the Summer Olympics. The esports Olympic games are going to be a standalone event that will succeed or (most likely given how the IOC is approaching esports) fail on it’s own terms.

I think there needs to be a balance between having stability in the program and also evolving. I think adding sports like climbing, skateboarding and cricket were all overdue changes, I’m just not super keen in how it was done.

I'm probably going to take a bit of a break (I'm traveling for the Paralympics so I'll probably watch very little of it). For me the real excitement of the Olympics is more following how the Olympic program evolves and qualification moreso than the games proper, so I'll def be around a lot over the next few years!

Awesome. Those are all among the events I hope to see (I'm def one of the rare fan of the "urban" sports on this forum xD )

Ya, so snowboarding, freestyle skiing, surfing, skateboarding, freestyle BMX, heck even climbing all had these concerns too. It’s a very common concern among those “action” sports.

Ya, if I had my way the quotas / events freed up from eliminating lightweight rowing would have gone to canoeing.

I am! I live in Seattle so going to LA is sort of a must for me.