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Canada came back from two sets down to win against Cuba.

...that's absolute nonsense.

Turkey fights off five match points (some of them quite long and close points) to force a final set.

I am just waiting to see which Italian will win gold in 2026.

Is there a stream for this event anywhere?

Ya, it’s a good track. They went a couple years before Sochi but they had to stop for a while because the Sochi track hired the La Plagne icemaster for the 2014 Olympics.

Or, hear me out here: not scheduling a single distance championship over three days.

Deciding what is and isn’t a political statement is itself a political statement.

Sure seems like people were writing France’s eulogy prematurely.

Kim Boutin has withdrawn due to injury, she is replaced by Danaé Blais.

That was meant to go to the hockey hall of fame :O xD

Yes, and yes.

There sure is, first time too! As long as Canada, the US, Japan, China and South Korea send their A team it will still be more competitive than the European championships.

I mean yes, but the point of having a PR team is to hide that fact.

The IOC really needs to hire PR people who don’t make them sound like a bunch of out of touch donkeys.

Same thing when an Austrian wins?

Did anybody actually prefer the mass start format to the pursuit format for the final climb?

Canada sure got bailed out by that camera and the weird wording of the delay of game rule. Should have been a penalty by the spirit of the rule.

Marchant finished fifth. Amazing result for him.

Posting because we already have our first doping scandal of 2020! Laurine Lecavelier (Figure Skating) has tested positive for cocaine. https://www.lequipe.fr/Patinage-artistique/Actualites/Patinage-artistique-laurine-lecavelier-controlee-positive-a-la-cocaine/1094887

Those two are honestly so cute together. This video from when Vonn retired always makes me giggle: https://twitter.com/PKSubban1/status/1095383459483340800?s=20

I would really like to see the IOC have a pool of tripartite spots that can be awarded in any individual events at the Winter Olympics, since often times countries without much of a winter sports tradition have their strongest athletes in sports where it is very difficult to qualify.

I agree that there should be two parallels alpine snowboard events (doesn’t require any additional venues or athletes), but it should be worth noting that big air and slopestyle already share all their athletes. At this point there isn’t much crossover between slopestyle/big air and half-pipe, only a handful of athletes do all three. Aerials is actually extremely different from anything else on the freestyle program and is extremely specialized (it sort of looks like big air but the technique is entirely different). There is essentially zero overlap between athletes in aerials and any other sport.

Huh, it’s now actually quite difficult to have five short track speed skaters qualified (you need 8/9 individual quotas plus a relay quota to guarantee a fifth skater).