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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)?

Women’s ski cross world number 4 and Rio bronze medalist in track cycling Georgia Simmerling is out of the Olympics after breaking her left leg in the last world cup before Pyeongchang.

Kingsbury took some beating. Horishima's run was just incredible. Kingsbury actually had a very good run, with just one visible error.

This Kevin Koe team is stupidly stacked, on paper it's debatable whether it's the best or second best team Canada has ever sent to the Olympics (the other in contention being Kevin Martin's 2010 team that went 11-0). Obviously they aren't the only strong team (Edin and Ulsrud especially have very strong teams) but if they play to their potential they should win.

I think you could definitively package field events a lot better in particular. Having some made for TV events in more intimate settings than a giant athletic stadium without other stuff going around at the same time would certainly help with the TV packaging of things like the long jump, the high jump or the shot put. I'm also not particularly opposed to getting rid of the track 10000m and replacing it with a 10km road race and to also include the half marathon in all major games (without getting rid of the marathon, obviously). If you want a gimmicky event that actually makes sense why not have a 4x10.549km (quarter Marathon) road race relay? You can work at making athletics more TV friendly (which I do believe is needed) without turning it into a farce.

The Canadian mixed doubles trials where kind of insane, Morris / Lawes isn't really the team anybody expected to make it out. Still, they are both going for their second Olympic gold medal and I think considering how well they played by the end of trials they have to be the favorite. To highlight just how good Kevin Martin's 2010 team was, the three players that are still active (Morris, Kennedy and Hebert) are qualified for Pyeongchang. They are three of the only four male players to ever qualify twice for Canada's Olympic curling team, the first being... Kevin Martin.

This reminds me of a Survivor challenge, but worse.

What a joke. How can you possibly integrate unknown players lesd than a month before the Olympics?

So the US got the top 12 (!) places at the final pre Olympic men’s ski half pipe world cup. Granted outside of the Americans it was a very weak field, while every American of any note showed up as it was their last internal Olympic qualification event, but still xD

That's bizarre. Was any explanation given?

You think they deserved gold?

Ya, I really like James and Ciprès. Wanted them to win but they where clearly outclassed today. Would have been nice if they at least got a silver.