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Maybe snowflakes will remember it that way 🙄

And ofc even if qualifies in every event they can’t enter the team event anyway.

That’s the aerials lottery for you. I really hate the format they use, big air has a much better format.

Pre-homolgation testing was completed successfully. Homolgation testing is scheduled for November.

Looking at the team event situation a bit: are the only countries that have qualified skaters in all four events. Importantly, is not needing any of it's host nation quotas. Six countries are missing an entry for the team event: (Pairs), (Women's), (Ice dance), (Men's), (Ice dance), (Pairs). So currently we only have nine countries that are even eligible for the team event. Presumably will eventually also be eligible. There are only five additional athlete quotas available for the team event and the host nation (down from ten previously), so it is very likely that we will have some incomplete teams in the team event. All ten countries mentioned above have a skater or pair that could compete in every event, except which currently has no elite pairs at all. Best case realistic scenario for us to have a fully competitive team event, IMO, is for to qualify either a man or a woman, to qualify a woman, to qualify in pairs, to qualify in ice dance and then either qualify in men's or qualifies in both men's and women's. That way there would be enough additional quotas for us to have ten full teams (assuming can pull a competent pair out of somewhere) Edit: I presume is also in with an outside shot at making the team event if they manage to qualify a pair.

Malinin is crazy

Honestly, all in all, not a bad worlds for Canada.

Not to get overly involved in other country's internal affairs, but Lithuania seems to be a very unfriendly country to immigrate to.

Eh, less karma and more ice being slippery.

They failed to qualify for the free dance by *0.01* points.

Not to jinx anything, but it does look like will fairly comfortably get three quotas in ice dance.

Time to revoke Reed's citizenship xD

Our gain but very sad for , this basically dooms their chances of getting a second team

Most of what he’s done so far is cancel the only thing that was keeping George W Bush out of hell.

Please don’t make me defend the California state government. I have very few nice things to say about how that state is run xD I live in Washington State and not in California for a reason…

Musk isn’t finding fraud and waste in the government, and certainly nobody who is protesting him believes that DOGE is in any way effective at their stated mission, so nobody is mad at him for doing that.

It might be a hot take but I actually think having stricter voter ID laws would be good for Democrats under the current political alignment. Dems benefit from lower turnout, so the more hoops there are to vote the better it is for them. Kind of a fascinating reversal from how it was pre-Trump, where lower turnout benefited Republicans.

Oh I know it’s happened. But we’re in a big country, a lot of shit happens. There is a lot of disdain for Musk on the left (for many reasons) but the people who actually committed vandalism or arson are a vanishingly small minority. The whole "firebombing a WalMart" thing is a running joke for a reason.

You do realize that the American center left is gonna win an election again at some point right? You’re giving me the same vibe as those weirdos who thought Democrats would never lose again after 2008 because “demographics is destiny" or whatever, and we all know how well that worked out for them. Anyway, nobody likes a sore loser but a sore winner is just insufferable on a whole different level xD

Who is they? I don’t know anyone who’s burned an electric car, as far as I know I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who’s burned an electric car. Like if you want me to do some nutpicking on the right it’s real easy, y’all have your fair share of loons.

Maybe it would be youthful, urban and gender neutral to wait until 2028.

Pereira and (especially) Michaud not having a good outing, really looking dire for a third spot in pairs. Edit: they will finish no lower than 11th, which means a third spot is still possible but it requires other teams to implode and/or for Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps to climb way, way up.

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Ya and I used to make fun of y'all for it, how the turntables for this American xD At least back when had it's Trump-like figure (Rob Ford) he mostly kept the madness to his personal life.

To be fair it was updated by me so that's not a second source :P