NearPup

I think Baseball would be deserving of 12 spots if the MLB sent it’s best players. Until then, it’s a hard no for me. Also, keep in mind baseball teams are the biggest teams in the Summer Olympics, and the second biggest teams in the Olympics period (only men’s hockey has bigger teams, and by one athlete) at 24.

Exactly. Not many people skip out on the post Olympic worlds unless they have an injury or plan to retire.

Figure skaters don’t compete a lot as is. Might as well give everyone another shot at a meaningful competition before the season ends.

Kostner was lucky to have fourth tbh. Her PCS was Patrick Chan in the early 2010s levels of generous. I really wish she would have finished her career at home on a high note, but she just didn’t deserve a medal with that skate. I’m having a hard time processing Osmond is a world champion. Incredibly happy for her. Canada hasn’t had a women’s workd champion in ages. Hard to process that men’s is out weakest discipline right now (and the one with the longest “drought” at both the worlds and the Olympics). Daleman is now the only member of Canada’s gold medal team event to not have an individual Olympic medal *and* a world championship gold. No presure on her or anything.

I actually think Kata is a more interesting addition than Kumite because it’s much more unique at the Olympics. Kumite just looks very samey. I would be quite happy to give up Kumite for a team Kata event.

Glad he finally got the last major title that was missing from his resume. He's definitively one of the greats. I'd say this is a great way to end his career, but he decided to postpone retirement.

I don’t mean this farce of a world cup finale specifically, I mean in general.

Would I be right to say that sprinters (especially in the 500m) seem to take the world cup a lot more seriously than especially the long distance skaters?

In hindsight I don’t mind that he didn’t get any honetown glory, that’s for sure.

Way to throw away a promising career.

Gotta stay on your skate to win Still, what a performance by Pedersen, one has to think he'll get his revenge. No idea what is up with Kramer's 10k form, this was kind of am embarrassing performance from him.

You say that, but man is it beautiful in the rain. I get it's probably miserable for the athletes and this isn't the ideal competitive environment but it just looks so epic.

I have to say, on TV this championship looks spectacular. I actually kind of wish the IOC / ISU allowed that kind of setup for the Olympics (would certainly save a lot of money over building an oval, too).

Quite cool to have these championships in a big stadium.

I mean they did propose a mixed duet for 2020. Long term they probably need to move in that direction for the sport to remain in the Olympics.

Yes. Especially now that cross country skiing isn’t the discipline with the most events. TBH I think both Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing should he three disciplines each: snowboardcross, alpine snowboarding, freestyle snowboarding, ski cross, moguls & aerials (need to work on the branding :P) and park skiing (slopestyle, halfpipe and big air).

Would the Telemark events be added as part of alpine skiing or as a new discipline?

2 of the 3 where born in the US -_-

For the first point, it's really obvious: to have it in prime time in Canada and the US. Which was a good decision IMO, since it was obviously going to be the two countries in the finals. As to the second point, the slopestyle course in Pyeongchang was way better than in Sochi. I can live with the course having a little less personality (the last jib feature was a nice touch, though). It was arguably one of the best course ever built anywhere, unfortunately it was somewhat ruined by the wind in some of the competitions. Fully agreed the snowboardcross / ski cross course was too dangerous.

They should copy what the speed skating team pursuit format (the one from the Olympics).

66- There will be a clean sweep (to win Gold, Silver and Bronze) by the dutch in at least one event. [NO - 10] ^ I was really, really confident about this one too xD

New Zealand was due, but I feel the best is yet to come. Both medalists are 16 (!) and there seems to be a lot of freestyle skiing and snowboarding talent coming out of New Zealand. I would be surprised if there wasn't at least one Kiwi medal in 2022.

Croatia needs to find another Kostelić.

Well, Olympics are more or less over. It's been fun y'all. I need to finish my beer and catch up on some sleep now.

She's an okay skier.