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Realistically Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding are basically the last two sports to get cut, even behind a bunch of the traditional sports. They are cheap to hold, they are popular and they both share the unique distinction in winter sports of having multiple nations from four continents win medals (America, Europe, Asia and Oceania all have at least two medal winning NOC in both Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding). Freestyle Skiing is also the only winter discipline with gold medalists from four continents. With the possible exception of figure skating there are no more universal sports in the Winter Olympics.

With the current state of Swedish politics it ain’t happening. At this point it’s Milan or Salt Lake City.

Results have just been anounced. Calgary 2026 is dead. Yes: 43.6% No: 56.4%

Plesbicid on Calgary’s 2026 bid today. Early results look very bad for the bid, Robert Levingston is reporting that through the first 65,000 votes the no side is up 65-35.

Spain doesn’t recognize Puerto Rico as a country either and they have no problems letting them compete under their own flag.

Olympic qualification in short track is actually quite harsh. Hungary, who won gold in the relay, qualified eighth out of eight teams for the Olympics.

Sure will be. And you know what, I’m all for more short track at the Olympics even if the mixed relay format is a bit ridiculous. Short track relays are some the best team events in amy individual sports IMO.

Nah, Billes is just that good under the current code.

And it’s just the clean FIS world feed too. NBC isn’t even doingn anything other than retransmitting it.

It appears like a last minute funding deal is in place for Calgary's bid https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/olympic-funding-agreement-reached-1.4885230

http://www.cbc.ca/1.4882828 CBC is also independently reporting that the Calgary bid is almost certainly dead.

Calgary Herald is reporting that the Calgary bid is likely to be formally terminated Wednesday. At this rate Milan will be the only bid left by the end of the year...

I mean they reschedueled the race for a Thursday in December. Before the Xmas vacation. Not a much better time surely. Also I guess I don’t really care about the time of the week because most races are way outside of when I’m awake anyway. The Sölden races started at 3am local time for me.

Too bad they don’t reacheduel for, say, Monday. It’s not like the athletes have to be anywhere anytime soon...

I really don't understand why the winter sport federations almost universally have better world cup tours than their summer counterparts. Even curling has a solid pro tour (on top of the Canadian championships, which are arguably the biggest annual events in the sport in terms of media attention) considering how niche the sport is.

Bleh. So many of those mixed events are just ridiculous...

Once again the world ranking is given way too much importance...

joins Canada in qualifying from CONCACAF, beating Jamaica 6-0 in the semifinals. and will play Wednesday for the third spot, and a first berth at the women's world cup for either nation. The loser will play for a spot.

You spelled "popular" wrong.

The amount of disqualifications makes this really hard to watch. It's kind of ridiculous.

See, the Dutch are very good at cycling because during the summer they can't use the canals to get around, so they are forced to use their bikes.

TBH it mostly looked like Canada got it’s act together more so than France throwing. Canada had a laughable free throw and field goal percentage in the first two and a half quarters before getting it together.

Japan way over-performed at Nagano 1998 so I'm not too worried for them.

Seems like they are having a real hard time finding bidders. Bromont also withdrew as the 2018 host. They should probably look at cutting the events at the WEG to Olympic and Paralympic events (plus whatever the host is interested in holding).

Yup, though it should be noted that she is not naturalized (she has Canadian citizenship through her father).