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So has a real chance of overtaking in the all time medal table for Curling by the end of these Olympics. is now one gold behind, equal on silvers and one bronze ahead of

I’m not sure what I hate the most, grammatical gender - like seriously why the fuck is a medal female - or the fact it makes perfect sense to me (and is like nails on a chalkboard when someone uses the wrong gender) because I’m a native French speaker xD Many people learning French as a second language have asked how I memorized various noun’s genders and it’s like… duno, for every noun one gender sounds correct and the other one sounds like you’re drowning puppies.

The more I sit on it the more I’m happy Moltzan and Wiles won a medal. Both steady names on the World Cup for ever that haven’t broken through with a win yet. Having an Olympic bronze medal feels right for both of them (and will definitively mean a lot more to them than it would have for Johnson and Shiffrin)

Something that is much better in freestyle skiing and snowboarding park and pipe events - the judges aren’t picked by their national federation so they don’t have to play favourite. Now don’t get me wrong, the judging in those events is far from perfect, the judges absolutely have their biases and they make mistakes, but despite being almost entirely "vibes based" judging in those sports still manages to feel more impartial than the segment scores in figure skating. Edit: another good thing about the judging of those events is that the judges are in constant communication with the athletes, coaches (and even the more plugged-in TV commentators) so everyone can understand the criteria they are being judged on.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek has been medically cleared to compete in the pairs event!

Deanna Stellato-Dudek will compete!

Yes to the rest but her falling three times today is probably an issue with her blades or skates. It’s uncharacteristic for her to fall that much. As for the lack of advancement, got extremely unlucky and (by my understanding of the rules) the officials got it correct. Kind of hard to write that rule in balanced way sadly.

I'm very okay with letting go of that part of our national identity :P

Would be kinda fun if they would let people do that xD

Huber now has two Olympic gold medals in two different team events without a single world cup podium and Rädler now has her first Olympic gold before a first world cup win. What an unlikely duo.

I kinda rolled my eyes when I heard people say this event would be exciting. Mea culpa xD

Of all the ways for to win their first alpine gold of the games

And of course, the wait for a gold medal is getting painful (since we almost certainly won’t win one tomorrow)

Well, do have to admit I found it disappointing (less not winning gold and more how far behind the team was).

For some context w/ 2023 results and would get the two quotas.

Any one of those five, toss them in a bag and pick at random. Presumably and have some chances too, but very slim.

Oh boy Canada's only chance to qualify is through the WBC. Ouch. It's so over already xD (Either way, this is an awful qualification system, especially for the Americas, not in terms of number of quotas but in terms of how they are decided)

Did not expect it. I hope they hold it. But still, bleh at that whole event. Ice dance is really not in a great place atm.

Oh no LFB naturalizing and switching nationality is not why I dislike her. It's figure skating, I accept that in ice dance and pairs people will transfer for better opportunity (Canada wins some of those transfers and loses some of them, just like France does - heck Piper Gilles is originally from and before her Weaver was a fellow Canadian-Texan - I have a real sweet spot for Canadian-Texans :D ). I dislike all those people (especially LFB and Cizeron but I'm also suspicious of all the I.AM teams at this point) because of their relationships with Nikolaj Sørensen.

Chock and Bates. I'm kinda sour on all the I.AM (Ice dance academy of Montreal) teams atm.

Kind of a depressing event given who LFB and Cizeron are as people (and the fact that C/B are a *little* too chummy with them). No great outcome here but I'll be very sad if LFB and Cizeron win gold.

I hope they do, the quarters should be relatively straightforward and it potentially means two extra medalists.

Mixed relay pool for Canada: Kim Boutin Florence Brunelle Courtney Sarault William Dandjinou Steven Dubois Félix Roussel

Three snow medals is still pretty realistic for .

Gosh I love the individual normal hill. It always seems to produce a crazy competition at worlds and Olympic level.