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Don't give Bach any ideas, only top 10 athletes in every events! Just imagine how great the Marathon, the road race and mass start cross countr races will be.

I can understand having stricter standards where the universal quotas are very easy to achieve relatively speaking, but the Dutch NOC really takes it to a whole other level. The Olympics would be pretty terrible if every country had those policies.

Happy Canmore is getting at least one World Cup stop, though having only one swing outside of Europe over the course of five years seems a *little* low.

The fact that the New Zealand Olympic committee was waffling on sending him to Beijing is such a joke too. Lots of people there should be extremely ashamed of themselves.

Real shame Wright isn’t competing for anymore, would be historic for Oceania to win a biathlon medal.

Ya, fat chance the Canadian fans weren’t going to boo team Trump given the recent rhetoric coming out of our supposed ally.

Oh ya, that must have been a completely devastating result for them. The Olympic medal / Asian games gold medal exemption is just about the only socially acceptable way to skip military service in South Korea, and by all accounts South Korean military service *sucks*.

Cha Jun-hwan has won the men’s single in figure skating which means, importantly, military service exemption!

Those are basically my thoughts as well. Ideally I’d like us to have the old combined back. But given the combined is probably dead and buried for good I prefer having the team combined rather than no combined at all.

Ya. The team parallel event is… fun. I actually really enjoy watching it. Other than slalom it’s actually the alpine skiing event I enjoy watching the most. But it is *very* hard to take seriously.

Oh ya, the team parallel event could really use a qualifying run. Unfortunately it’s an even lower prestige event than the combined was so I doubt the FIS wants to make it more demanding on skiers than it absolutely needs to be - they struggled to get big names to compete *at the Olympics*

Unfortunately the combined was dying for years at this point. It’s basically not on the World Cup anymore, and since there are so few true overall skiers anymore (esp on the men’s side). This is actually a case where I think it would have stayed the same if it was just the women, but the last few top level men’s combined were just really bad. This is basically just a way for the FIS to save the event, because they were seemingly at a loss to maie the event work after trying a bunch of different formats.

Wouldn’t be seeded lower than due to being the replacement team (as in the men’s tournament)?

Ya, and to think in 2018 it was a 30 person team…

The FIS will start hosting a mixed team dual mogul event soon.

On the one hand, it’s kinda bs because duals is just moguls in a slightly different format. On the other hand IDGAF because I love moguls and I want more than one mogul event at the Olympics!

Yes (with the caveat that you'd need to change how you time the start of a run), but when looking at a 0.001s difference in a ski race you're just doing a coin flip anyway. In general I think less significant figure in timing is better, because it ensures you're only measuring the actual performance and not stastical noise - if I had my way timing would not go above 10th of a second for endurance sports (heck I'm fine with just looking at seconds), 100th of a second for shorter time trials (like alpine skiing or speed skating) and 1000th of a second for head to head racing. I took a physics class in university about error analysis (basically accounting for the limits of the accuracy of your instruments in scientific experiments) and it really radicalized me in my view that some sports are timed to a degree of "precision" that doesn't make sense.

I'm actually sort of okay with it? If there's one major championship that should have the mile surely it's the CWG. And the mile remains a really popular distance at the pro level, so it's not like they are plucking it from obscurity.

What’s wrong with that?

Fiasco?

Ya no I’m super aware of the stupid week-end trade war Trump waged for no reason, and I’m not happy about him trying to tank the economy of the two countries I’m a citizen of. But I really don’t trust you to tell me anything I don’t know about North American politics :P

Wait, who? O.o

The IIHF has extented the suspension of and through the end of the 2025-2026 season. Unless the IOC intervenes this means will not be competing at the next Winter Olympics.

beats by 0.01s on the combined time tie-breaker to advance to the final, where they will meet

For folks who didn't watch the Ro16, worth mentioning that actually got relatively close (final skier needed to be 0.2s faster) to beating