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It’s very much a case of two world class players who aren’t really a good team. That being said they are both so good individually that they are probably the favourites.

This is more how I expected them to play. John Moriss in particular is incredible when he’s on. Their big problem is that they started playing mixed doubles together like two weeks ago xD

It’s fine to edit before the deadline?

Wow, China accidentally blanks the eight end! This is huge since it means Korea is going to have hammer in ninth.

Official in the Canada - US game placed the wrong stone in the house before the 7th end xD Only got caught after Becca played her first rock (luckily they caught it before either rocks got hit)

Okay Korean fans, that was an appropriate shot to cheer for xD

Huh, official site says the same thing. Assuming they all enter: Kamil Stoch Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger Daniel-Andre Tande Johann Andre Forfang Robert Johansson Stefan Kraft Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Dawid Kubacki

None. They mercifully got rid of that rule.

I think he invented a whole new level of casualness.

Looks like this course is suiting Manuel Osborne-Paradis pretty well, which I'm not shocked about (since it's kind of a downhill - Super-G hybrid). He's still a long shot but eh, who knows. The venue looks nice but the course itself is completely toothless.

I guess it’s a rule?

Man John Morris was terrible this game.

That’s quite the understatement.

Number of stones per end (5 vs 8), the pre positioned stones, number of ends (8 vs 10). Pace of play is also much brisker in doubles.

It’s certainly quite different from traditional Curling. I quite like it as an apetizer.

Close game between Canada and Norway so far. Morris made some pretty bad mistakes but hey, tie game. Nice venue and good crowd.

Speaking of long drives, I wouldn’t mind seeing some ice rinks in Edmonton heing used as a secondary ice hockey venue or as the curling venue in the Calgary 2026 bid.

To be honnest if any Swiss city hosts, no matter how impractical they really should use St Moritz for the sliding sports. It’s the most iconic bobsleigh venue in the world and second place ain’t close.

I mostly remember because there was TV broadcast quality video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death, and I remember hearing that Georgian TV carried his fatal training run live.

I saw Justin Kripps comment on social media that the ice conditions where top notch, looks like the forst training time confirm this.

Not quite true, downhill training runs 2 and 3 are streamed live by NBC and there has been some live broadcast of luge trainig in the past.

I think Ice Climbing is very ready for the Winter Olympics (though that’s a less appealing choice now that climbing is in the summer games). It still amazes me that the IOC appears to be so against cross countey running in the Winter Olympics, it would be a very natural fit IMO.

I am also willing to bet quite a bit that Beckie Scott’s crusade against Russian athletes has literally nothing to do with Putin and is rather entirely due to Olga Danilova and Larisa Lazutina...

[hide] Sporting Rivalries and Medals (15) 1- On Day 1, the first 5 Gold Medals will be awarded to athletes from 5 different countries. [NO - 1] 2- At least 27 countries will win a Medal, surpassing the Sochi 2014 Games' total. [YES - 1] 3- At least 2 events will not result in the common 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Medal Podium finish. [NO - 1] 4- South Korea will finish in the top five on the medal table. [NO - 1] 5- Canada will finish ahead of the USA in the medal table. [NO - 1] 6- By total medals won, Norway & Germany will win more than Canada & the United States, who in turn will win more than Japan & South Korea. [NO - 1] 7- At least one nation will win their first ever Gold Medal at a Winter Olympics. [YES - 1] 8- Excluding DNFs, at least one irish athlete will finish ahead of a briton. [YES - 1] 9- A nation will win six or more medals without winning gold. [YES - 1] 10- Austria will finish ahead of Switzerland in the medal table. [YES - 1] 11- We will have at least 5 Gold Medal winners being less than 18 years young on that given day. [YES - 1] 12- At least 3 Torino 2006 medalists will win a Medal in PyeongChang. [YES - 10] 13- At least one medal event will be postponed to another day. [NO - 1] 14- More women than men will win medals for the nation that will rank 1st on the medal table. [YES - 1] 15- At least 3 nations will win 10 or more gold medals. [YES - 10] Alpine Skiing (5) 16- Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) will win at least 3 Gold Medals. [NO - 10] 17- Norway will win the most medals on the Men's side. [NO - 1] 18- At least 33% of the starters in Men's Slalom will not reach the finish on the first run. [NO - 1] 19- Naoki Yuasa (JPN) will finish both legs in the Men's Slalom. [YES - 1] 20- The podium of at least one event will feature only countries associated with the Alpine Region (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and/or Switzerland).[YES - 10] Biathlon (5) 21- Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) will win more medals than Martin Fourcade (FRA) during the whole 2018 Winter Olympics. [NO - 10] 22- Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) will win her third olympic Sprint title in a row. [NO - 10] 23- An athlete who finished 21st or worst in the Sprint will win a Pursuit medal. [NO - 10] 24- There will be a Gold Medalist in the individual races with 1 or more misses on the shooting range. [NO - 1] 25- The Ukrainian team will win more total medals than Italy. [NO - 1] Bobsleigh (2) 26- Germany will win at least 6 medals between all events. [NO - 5] 27- Humphries (CAN) will win her third gold medal in two-women's bobsleigh. [YES - 1] Cross-country Skiing (5) 28- On the Women's side, all 6 Gold Medals will go to Norway. [NO - 5] 29- Overall, medals will not go to more than 6 nations. [NO - 2] 30- Swiss athletes will win more total medals than Olympic Athletes from Russia. [NO - 1] 31- The Men's Sprint will see a medalist who finished 21st-30th in the Qualification. [NO - 1] 32- The athlete leading the Men's Skiathlon at half-point will eventually win it. [NO - 10] Curling (3) 33- Canada will defend its Gold Medals in both the Men's and Women's events. [YES - 1] 34- A team from Asia will medal in any Curling event. [YES - 1] 35- The italian men's team will win at least 2 games. [YES - 1] Figure Skating (3) 36- The north korean pair will finish ahead of their south korean counterpart. [YES - 10] 37- Spain will win its first ever medal in Figure Skating. [YES - 1] 38- No nation will win medals in both Men's and Women's Singles. [YES - 1] Freestyle Skiing (5) 39- Devin Logan (USA) will win both the Women's Slopestyle and the Women's Halfpipe. [NO - 10] 40- Dominique Ohaco (CHI) will achieve Chile's best ever Winter Olympic result - bettering 11th place in Men's Alpine Combined from 1998. [YES - 1] 41- Sweden will be represented in the Women's Ski Cross Final by at least 2 athletes. [NO - 10] 42- No athlete who was victorious at the 2018 Winter X Games will win a Gold Medal in Pyeongchang. [NO - 10] 43- South Korea will win at least 1 medal, while Australia will win at least 3. [NO - 1] Ice Hockey (5) 44- A team from Group B will defeat a team from Group A in the Quarterfinals of the Women's Tournament. [YES - 1] 45- At least one match in the Men's Tournament will finish scoreless in regular time (60 Minutes). [NO - 1] 46- The Women's Unified Korean Team will win a match. [YES - 1] 47- Russia will win the Gold Medal in the Men's Tournament. [YES - 1] 48- Sweden will finish ahead of Finland in the Men's Tournament. [YES - 1] Luge (2) 49- Germany will win all 4 Gold Medals. [NO - 1] 50- In at least one event the eventual winner won't be in first place after the first run. [NO - 1] Nordic Combined (2) 51- In both Individual events, the first-placed Athlete(s) after Ski Jumping will not win a Medal. [NO - 1] 52- Germany will sweep (win Gold, Silver and Bronze) at least one of the individual events. [NO - 1] Skeleton (2) 53- The margin of the Men's and Women's winners to the Silver Medalists combined will add up to at least 1 second. [NO - 1] 54- South Korea will win its first ever Gold Medal in Skeleton. [YES - 10] Ski Jumping (3) 55- Poland will win at least one gold medal. [YES - 1] 56- At least two athletes will win medals in both men's individual events. [YES - 1] 57- The podium in the Women's Normal Hill will feature at least 2 of the following athletes: Katharina Althaus (GER), Sara Takanashi (JPN), Maren Lundby (NOR). [YES - 1] Short Track Speed Skating (3) 58- In all individual events, at least 3 participants will be relegated or disqualified in the A-Finals. [YES - 1] 59- South Korea will win all 8 Gold Medals. [NO - 10] 60- Two different athletes will win a medal for Hungary. [NO - 1] Snowboarding (5) 61- Czech Republic will win at least one Gold Medal. [YES - 1] 62- There will be an athlete who will win at least 2 Gold Medals. [NO - 1] 63- The winner in the Men's Halfpipe will receive a higher score than the winner of the same event at the 2014 Winter Olympics (higher than 94,75). [YES - 1] 64- Both Snowboard Cross events (Men + Women) will be won by european athletes. [YES - 1] 65- In his sixth consecutive Winter Olympics, Jasey-Jay Anderson (CAN) will win a Medal. [NO - 10] Speed Skating (5) 66- There will be a clean sweep (to win Gold, Silver and Bronze) by the dutch in at least one event. [NO - 10] 67- At least 5 men will clock under 13 minutes in the Men's 10,000m. [NO - 1] 68- The Bronze Medal winning team in any Team Pursuit will clock a faster time than either of the Finalists. [YES - 1] 69- Four continents will win a medal. [YES - 1] 70- At least 2 athletes will win 2 or more individual Gold Medals. [YES - 10] [/hide]

Anyone knows if there is a stream of the training jumps anywhere?