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They will probably not race at least one or two of them. The US traditionally uses the downhill training runs as an internal qualifying race, which is pretty sensible IMO.

Slopestyle and big air, sure, but aerials is completly distinct from slopestyle and big air. The techniques involved are completly different.

I am personally a big proponent of snowboarding / freestyle skiing equality Slopestyle is pretty great, at least on the men’s side. Not so good on the women’s side with the exception of a few athletes (Kelly Sildaru justify the existence of women’s ski slopestyle on her own, sadly she is injured) but it’s just a sport where the gap is more apparent than others. When you look at something like half pipe it’s a case of the women being about a decade behind the men in terms of the tricks they perform. Big Air I don’t care for, but it has the advantage of being “urban” (in the literal sense of the word, it’s one of the few snow sport you can hold in a big city) so I can see why it’s appealing to the IOC. I don’t think it’s a great TV package but, whatever, at least the men’s contests are really competitive.

There are so few viable and popular winter sports, I think it’s kind of ridiculous to leave the “extreme” (is slopestyle really more extreme than alpine skiing?) sports out of the winter games.

(very small) Olympic team: Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes Taylor Henrich

I think the way FIS quotas work is part of the problem. Why invest in developing athletes in parallel if all that means is that it would need to reduce the number of athletes in events where the US is already strong?

That couple was an embarrassment last time. Good riddance.

Snowboard Olympic Team Halfpipe Kelly Clark Arielle Gold Chloe Kim Maddie Mastro Ben Ferguson Chase Josey Jake Pates Shaun White Big Air and Slopestyle Jamie Anderson Jessika Jenson Hailey Langland Julia Marino Chris Corning Redmond Gerard Kyle Mack Ryan Stassel Snowboard Cross Faye Gulini Lindsey Jacobellis Rosie Mancari Meghan Tierney Nick Baumgartner Jonathan Cheever Mick Dierdorff Hagen Kearney Parallel Giant Slalom A.J. Muss Mike Trapp

No joke, my initial reaction (before noticing the flag) was "damn, those OAR uniforms are *ugly*" xD Is this supposed to be like an armor?

I want off this Russian state doping ride ASAP... Victoria Demchenko is a curious addotion to the list, makes you wonder if it has anything to do with who her father is...

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Freestyle Skiing Team Aerials Ashley Caldwell Kiley McKinnon Madison Olsen Mac Bohonnon Jonathon Lillis Eric Loughran Half Pipe Maddie Bowman Annalisa Drew Devin Logan Brita Sigourney Aaron Blunck Alex Ferreira David Wise Torin Yater-Wallace Moguls Tess Johnson Jaelin Kauf Keaton McCargo Morgan Schild Casey Andringa Emerson Smith Troy Murphy Brad Wilson Slopestyle Caroline Claire Devin Logan Darian Stevens Maggie Voisin Nick Goepper Alex Hall Gus Kenworthy McRae Williams The US has declined to send any athlete in Ski Cross. As Devin Logan is competing in both Half Pipe and Slopestyle the US is only sending 29 athletes.

As I like to remind people, the 2009 Bruins had more Canadians than the Canucks and the 2009 Canucks had more Americans than the Bruins. The only NHL team I care about are the Senators (with a side interest in the Stars, since it's my local team - surprise, I live in Texas ), if nothing else it would annoy me to see another Canadian based NHL team win (especially the Canadiens or, much much worse, the Leafs).

My reaction when the NHL announced they wouldn't go to the Olympics was "Christmas is canceled". I stand by the sentiment.

Pretty surprised to see her. Apparently her rehab has gone well but still.

Ski cross team Marielle Thompson Kelsey Serwa Brittany Phelan India Sherret Chris del Bosco Brady Leman Dave Duncan Kevin Drury

...because it’s just so terrible to send a relay >.>

Huh, we all assumed Israel got the Netherland’s spot because Norway declined, apparently we where wrong. This is the only Scandinavian sled across all sliding sports.

Roberto Franco is probably the best athlete Mexico has ever sent to the winter games, FWIW. Schleper is probably the second best (and apparently she is quite involved in training young Mexican alpine skiers).

Freestyle Skiing Team (minus ski cross, but it isn’t really freestyle anyway ) Moguls Marc-Antoine Gagnon Mikaël Kingsbury Philippe Marquis Chloé Dufour-Lapointe Justine Dufour-Lapointe Andi Naude Audrey Robichaud Aerials Lewis Irving Olivier Rochon Catrine Lavallée Half Pipe Simon d’Artois Noah Bowman Mike Riddler Rosalind Groenewoud Cassie Sharpe Slopestyle Alex Beaulieu-Marchand Alex Bellmare Teal Harle Evan McEachran Dara Howell Kim Lamarre Yuki Tsubota

Later today (16:00 Eastern time)

He’s actually probably not naturalized, a *lot* of Brits also hold Irish citizenship, or are at least eligible to claim it. Applies doubly for Brits with an Irish surname. Ireland has incredibly generous citizenship by ancestry rules.

Based on that it appears Alpine Canada will nominate eight ski cross racers (since Canada is 8 short of 30).

Even if he makes the team is he likely to get a start (considering the French get six quotas)?