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Yes. The accomplishments he has on the world cup circuit is just on another level.

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.

Slopestyle has been an awesome adition, but there are still some big growing pains.

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.

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.

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).

The Dutch isn’t who Bergsma and Bowe have to be worried about IMO. Miho Takagi hasn’t been beaten this year.

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.

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.

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.

This is really not right. They should have delayed the finals :/

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.

Pairs long already happened. Canada was first, Russia third.

I will admit that his second jib (over the hitching pole) was really awesome, while all four Canadians had a boring line on that feature.

Ya, that’s the thing with Bloemen. He may have been born and breed in the Netherlands, but for whatever reason the training environment in Calgary suited him a lot more than what he had in the Netherlands. Honestly he might very well not have made the team at all had he stayed in the Netherlands.

China, not Chile

Don’t remind me about the judging in 2014, I’ve watched Sage’s run more than a dozen time and I still don’t understand what the judges saw in it. At least this time I think you can make a solid argument they got it right (I need to rewatch the runs, but I doubt I’ll come to the conclusion that Red’s win was unreasonable).

Very unhappy about both the judging and the runs. This is an event a Canadian should have won. Very disapointing.

Ya, Red isn’t some unknown. He’s done very well over the last year.

I don’t see Australia failing to medal. New Zealand’s best chances haven’t come yet.

I think it’s a pretty disappointing result for Canada. Parot in particular underperformed, and neither Toutant nor Nicholson could get a run together. Honestly any of the four Canadians could have done a better run than Gerard on this course, but they failed to do so. I don’t think having silver and bronze is disappointing, but losing gold to anyone but Kleveland is a big disapointment.

At least this won’t be as controvertial as Kostenburg’s win, but still seems a bit generous. That being said Red is a good rider, he won’t be another one hit wonder.

Man the alpine skiing events are going to be stupidly compressed.

High wind. Tomorow’s downhill training run for the combined is also canceled. Likely won’t be run until Tuesday.

Patrick is probably going to do both, my guess is that they will seitch pairs and women’s. That being said even if Chan has a disaster skate the worst he can score is 6. The gold medal is probably going to be more or less decided by the time he’s on the ice.