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Glad to see Shiffrin end the season on a real high note.

Always interesting how Trump suporters never want to make life better for people, they just want to see people they dislike suffer. A movement of psychopaths.

Nope, Keegan not having an Olympic medal is criminal

It's really ridiculous isn't it?

Yes, I'm sure we all had complete faith in Sadovsky /s Credit to him though, that was a really good state with only one major error.

Roman Sandovsky has a great short program and guarantees Canada a quota in men’s figure skating.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2xed9mxveo From this article it appears we will know the LA 2028 event program on... April 9th...

The ISU is allergic to writing a good qualification document.

It basically doesn’t :<

No, but it would give Canada the chance to earn a second quota at the final qualifying competition. To get two or three quotas from Worlds you need two or three skaters / pairs to qualify for the free skate.

Nope! If she finishes in the top 10 will be eligible to earn a second quota at the last chance qualification competition. You cannot earn 2 or 3 quotas from worlds without having 2 or 3 athletes qualified in the free skate.

Qualified for the Olympics in women's figure skating: 1-3 Quotas 1-2 Quotas 1 Quota Based on my reading of the qualification document will be qualified if any of fail to achieve their maximum quota but could use a second opinion there.

Ah! Not seeing a reference to that in the qualifying document, but the ISU does have a knack to write hard to read qualification documents so I might be missing something.

So... about that whole finishing 25th thing..

is actually not in a terrible spot to qualify, will have a bit of a hard time securing it's second spot.

As much as I like lacrosse I don’t think it should be an Olympic sport either :P

Ya, Bandy just has no depth sadly :<

She just qualified for the Olympics

All 24 Olympic spots for the women at worlds are getting allocated today. Edit: they actually aren't all getting allocated today, but most are xD

I could really use some boredom when it comes to US politics.

The Cortina track has officially opened today, with the first athletes taking pre-homolgation runs!

Not sure if it was discussed here, but Canada is now *narrowly* in a qualifying position in the ski mounteineering mixed relay with two qualifying races left to go.

will have a general election on April 28th. Polls currently show a close race between current caretaker PM Mark Carney (Liberal) and opposition leader Pierre Poilievre (Conservative).

That's more a reflection of how bloated freestyle skiing is as far as a discipline is concerned. It should really be three distinct disciplines (freestyle skiing for moguls and aerials, park and pipe for half-pipe, big air and slopestyle and skicross). I'm of the opinion that there should be a reorganization here, with freestyle skiing and snowboarding being eliminated as disciplines and alpine snowboarding, "classical freestyle", park & pipe and cross being the new disciplines (which is how the FIS really seems to think about and organize them anyway)

And I would also say that the biggest culprit for giving a bunch of medals for the "same thing" are biathlon and short track, not cross country skiing. The six cross country events are actually fairly distinct from each other in terms of both competition format and in terms of distance.