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  1. NearPup
    Technically Ted-Jan Bloemen isn't naturalized, he was entitled to citizenship by ancestry... because his dad happened to be born in Canada... because his grandparents happened to work in Canada while his dad was born. But, ya know, he's not naturalized, just a Canadian citizen by luck
  2. NearPup
    Huh, reminds me of a certain home track gold medalist. Maybe Yun is going to host Amazing Race Korea?
  3. NearPup
    Meaningless? Gotta extend the winning streak to 23 games
  4. NearPup
    Home track advantage is always huge in sliding sports. Not really a shock to see Yun do so well, considering that at this point he's arguably the best in the world on a neutral track anyway.
  5. NearPup
    I would actually really like the IOC to organize some sort of mind sport Olympics specifically for things like chess, go and e sports. Would need to work on the branding, but you could also include a bunch of "skill" sports like cue sports, darts and bowling that wouldn't feel at home in the Summer Olympics. But as to the original topic: the IOC can't ignore e sports, but I don't think they really belong in the Summer Olympics either.
  6. NearPup
    I am still really in Sion's corner, I think Switzerland is super overdue to host another winter games (...and I really want to see Olympic sliding sports at St. Moritz in my lifetime), but at this point any Western European or Scandinavian country hosting would do the IOC a world of good. ...though if Calgary wins, eh, won't be mad.
  7. NearPup
    ...Anice Das is going to win just to **** with our heads.
  8. NearPup
    I don’t think Red cares that much about Big Air now that he won in Slopestyle tbh xD
  9. NearPup
    I love the indignation from Sjinke, he’a a great skater but he seems to have a rather... agressive personality xD
  10. NearPup
    Can’t really blame them for taking a “training run” here considering there is no guarantee there will be another one before the downhill.
  11. NearPup
    I unironically love watching downhill specialists do slalom. So many crashes
  12. NearPup
    He’s in the mix.
  13. NearPup
    Yes. Which is why as the week goes on they will be more and more willing to hold the races in bad weather.
  14. NearPup
    Yes. The accomplishments he has on the world cup circuit is just on another level.
  15. NearPup
    I am so relieved for Mikael Kingsbury, I wasn’t sure what the ridiculous amount of presure would do to him. Now that he has Olympic gold there is really no argument he is the best mogul skier ever.
  16. NearPup
    Slopestyle has been an awesome adition, but there are still some big growing pains.
  17. NearPup
    So, hey. Canada won the team event by a huge margin, so Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond, Gabrielle Daleman, Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir all receive a gold medal. Laurie Blouin backs up her world title with a somewhat surprise silver medal. Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris are guaranteed at least a silver medal.
  18. NearPup
    Eh, she's the best athlete. The format was bad, but ultimately it's hard to argue with her win. Every athlete was affected the same way.
  19. NearPup
    The jumps matter. It’s only 20% of the score but a dificult and well executed air package can win you the event. Andi Naude can’t out turn Lafonte, she has to roughly match her in turns *and* out score her in the air. She’s capable of it if everything goes well. Also most people aren’t Kingsbury, the ability to tune the level of dificulty and speed of your run to the score you need to win isn’t something most athletes have (at least not in the way it looks almost automatic for Mike).
  20. NearPup
    The Dutch isn’t who Bergsma and Bowe have to be worried about IMO. Miho Takagi hasn’t been beaten this year.
  21. NearPup
    Hard to tell, especially with the 26 women final. Not zero, but not nearly as good as on the men’s side. It wouldn’t be a shock if Canada got gold but it would be an upset.
  22. NearPup
    It was because of the doping scandal. The German, American and Canadian (among other) feds put a lot of presure to not have any events organized in Russia.
  23. NearPup
    Because she didn’t want a medal, she wanted gold. I think it’s better to go for it and lose than it is to play it safe and lose.
  24. NearPup
    This is really not right. They should have delayed the finals :/
  25. NearPup
    I’m actually really disapointed they didn’t sub in Weaver and Poje. But ya, at this point it’s very likely going to be Canada’s first gold of the games.
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