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has now lost three games that would have clinched their Olympic qualification. Will be gutting if they lost a fourth.

Baffling decision tbh

On top of everything else it feels needlessly complicated.

I def agree, but I don't have a problem with having a sport that doesn't *need* to be held on snow get held on snow (which can be down for cross country running and cyclocross). In a way it's not that different from ski jumping, which can be done almost identically without any snow or ice.

As long as there is a 2900 athlete quota cap it is rational for every winter IF to be against any expansion of the program (except for their own sport).

They got very, very close to not getting a third quota by points in the 5000m. Like two positions away in the last world cup close. IIRC it was like a tenth of a second or something? Too lazy to go check exactly what it was, but point it, it was very close.

Yes. And by the skin of their teeth on the men’s side, they are very lucky to not have lost that ninth quota.

To get nine quotas you need to have a TP quota and a full quota in every individual event through the points ranking. Canada has a full quota in every individual event, but one of the quota in the women’s 1000m comes from the time ranking rather than the points ranking.

Wait until you see why the women have 8 quotas instead of 9 xD

That being said he will still be a medal favourite in the 10000m.

The Olympics are happening in a lot of places 😅 Livigno and Cortina are nowhere near each other, trust me, I have tickets for events in both and transportation between them is a nightmare xD

is more or less secured full entries in every women's events and fifteen quotas overall (seven men and eight women). Because of a quirk in the qualification rules we do not have a ninth women's quota because Canada's third women's quota in the 1000m is from the time ranking, not the points ranking.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won his second Northern Star award as Canadian athlete of the year after a pretty okay 2025 (NBA All Star, NBA Champion, NBA Finals MVP and NBA regular season MVP). This is the third time a basketball player wins the Northern Star (Steve Nash had previously won it). Reportedly other serious contenders were Summer McIntosh, Rachel Homan, Sophie de Goede and Camryn Rogers.

Maybe they should but they clearly don't based on how the document is written, D.2.2 makes it clear that the fifth relay quota (for teams w/ 8 or more starting position) has pririty over individual quotas. The fact that there is a gender imbalance in how the quotas are allocated is weird, but it does sort of make sense because of how D2.3 is written. Quotas are handed out in rotation, and it just so happens that if you go through the process the three missing quotas are all in the women's 1500m. It's a badly written document (like every single ISU Olympic qualification document always is >.> ) but I don't think there is another interpretation of it that could be valid. You award quotas in this order, going from 1st to 32nd (or 36th) in the ranking until you hid 112: Men's 500m Women's 500m Women's 1000m Men's 1000m Men's 1500m Women's 1500m They would not have included both genders on the same rotation if the intent wasn't to allow an inbalance in gender quotas after completing D2.3.

Just means Brigone will win gold at Utah 2034.

Gutting way for to fail to qualify, they played quite badly against too. Congrats on the for getting a full quota in curling. They definitively made it hard on themselves tho xD

Wait what? xD

They really need to just hire one autistic rando who loves the Olympics to proffread those documents.

Pretty good comparaison as to what to expect in handball, ya. And just like the UK, the US is finding all sorts of dual nationals who play professionally in Europe, like Pál Merkovszky, Jonas Strömberg, Alexander Chan Blanco, Benjamin Edwards, Sean Corning, Paul Skorupa, Dániel Hunyadi, Aboubakar Foufana, Ian Hueter, Lukas Larlskov Hansen, Douglas Otterström, Rodrigo Campos, Patrick Hueter, Samuel Hoddersen and Domagoj Sršen. The US men's national team is sort of like a situation but without anyone being naturalized (everyone above is a US citizen either by parentage or due to having been born in the US). The women's team seems more homegrown, but it's definitively weaker too.

Those US teams won't be *that* bad. Like, ya they will finish last by a decent margin, but they are still serious national teams that will be well prepared.

Rich Ruohonen qualifying for the Olympics as an alternate is kind of a cool story. Old school curling guy who's been in the American scene for decades, with a ton of runner up finishes at US nationals, making his Olympic debut at 54. Also very happy for my fellow Washingtonians Luc Violette and Ben Richardson.

keeps its perfect qualification record in women's curling definitively gave them a lot of gifts today. For their sake hopefully they can draw better against the tomorow.

Hopefully this team continues on.

The Short Track Olympic team will be announced on Wednesday the 17th.

Obviously impossible to know in advance but in 2022 all ten skaters Canada qualfiied skated individually, and 9/10 competed in a relay as well.