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The tweet says he was cleared of murder, as in he was found not guilty.

The defending Canadian champions, Team Bottcher, have started the Olympic trials 0-3 and are likely to miss the playoffs. 2006 gold medalist Brad Gushue and 2014 gold medalist Brad Jacobs are both 3-0 while former Canadian number 1 and 2017 trials finalist Mike McEwen is also undefeated at 2-0.

Prime minister Erin O'Toole, who will surely win the 2021 general election, will make sure the COC boycotts.

Kersten is almost guaranteed to qualify at this point.

I think he may be a slight favorite to win two golds in Beijing. Also I would be very surprised if the 5000m world record doesn’t fall in SLC or Calgary.

Qualification summary after day 2: Men's 500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 500m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Men's 10000m 2 skaters: 1 skater: , , and are guaranteed at least one quota in the men's 10000m. It looks like will just miss out on having a host quota in the men's 10000m, as it stands they are about 0.5s from being on the reserve list (which would have granted them a host quota). The time ranking is obviously final, but the point ranking might still change how deep the reserve list goes.

IBSF only takes points from the 2021-22 season into account. They take into account the same number of races as there have been world cup races (so if there have been five world cup races at the time of the Olympic cut-off they take each athlete's five best results).

Actually makes a lot of sense. There isn't a mass start (the event is most likely to qualify in) and their best path to qualifying for another individual event is through the time ranking. So it's probably better to get to North America a week early and acclimate.

Qualification summary after day 1 of the second world cup stop (these are my calculations so they may be wrong): Men's 1000m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 1000m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 3000m 3 skaters: 2 skaters: 1 skater: Women's 5000m 2 skaters: 1 skater: The qualifiers in the women's 5000m are unlikely to change.

Qualification update: are guaranteed at least one quota in the women’s 5000m. First four nations to qualify. Edit: is also now guaranteed at least a host spot in the women's 5000m (they are currently in a qualifying position in the time ranking, assuming the current points ranking holds)

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/iihf-hopeful-introduce-3-3-olympic-hockey/ Tardif contradicted himself and now says the decision on China's participation in the men's tournament hasn't been made yet. There is a pun to be made here ("tardif" means late). Also the IIHF is in discussion with the IOC about adding 3-3 hockey to the Olympics in some form.

Just give this entire C-tier KHL team Chinese citizenship and end this miserable saga already.

Canada top of CONCACAF like we all expected.

And to make things even worse time qualification in the 3000, 5000 and 10000 aren’t fair either because the B group has four skaters per race while the A group has two skaters per race.

Well done .

I have two main problems with the qualification system - the max number of skaters per NOC should have stayed at 10 (this has a very small effect overall but the new rule really hurts ) and the reallocations should be given in order, there shouldn’t be a priority for unqualified countries. I don’t really mind making third skaters per NOC ineligible from qualifying by time, even though that’s really going to hurt Canada. That’s not where the really insane qualification results are coming from. Most of the other issues currently are related to the inherent unfairness of the A and B races in the World Cup.

I agree, I think is favored to win group B (though that’s going to be very competitive). Winning group B would presumably mean playing in the QF. Very difficult match but not impossible.

Ya, it causes my script to calculate who is in a qualifying position to get way too complicated D:

By my calculations some of the reserve lists are really funky. Like the first reserve in the men's 500m (since athletes go to the front of the reserve list if they are from an NOC without a qualified skater) is Christian Oberbichler, who ranks 48th(!) on the time ranking. Meanwhile Liu An is the fifth reserve despite being 20th on the time ranking (countries can't qualify a third skater from the time list, but they can get a spot on the reserve list, assuming they would have obtained a third spot if not for this rule - they can't go on the reserve list if they would otherwise only be a reserve. Some of those qualification rules are really weird). On the other extreme we currently have two of the three reserves getting a re-allocation spot in the women's 1500m (there are supposed to be eight reserves in individual events but literally only three skaters are eligible).

The NZ team was already pretty old by PC.

Only 13 NOCs qualified in total, same as 2018 (if you count South Korea and the united Korean team as one NOC). qualify in both men's and women's. Very nice to see make it's debut in both men's and women's ice hockey at the same time. First time this has happened outside of hosts and ROC/OAR, which doesn't really count.

So there will be direct qualification matches between and and between and tomorrow. Despite losing both their games has looked quite good.

The mass start could be a lot less bad if they just removed the stupid point system.

with a big 1-0 win over and now group D is truly a mess. Scenarios for tomorrow (I think this is accurate): qualifies if they win or go to overtime against qualifies if they win in regulation and fails to beat in regulation qualifies if they beat by at least 5 goals qualifies if none of the above happens

I'm sure that was a massive relief :P