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is Ingebrigtsen's krypronite.

Fun fact: Marilou Duvernay-Tardif is the younger sister of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a Super Bowl winner with the Kansas City Chiefs and co-winner of Canada’s athlete if the year in 2020.

And some AC.

Gardiner is down and out O.o

These 800m heats have been a bloodbath.

Unless the sweeps every event it's a disaster. So unfortunetly it's already been a bad championships.

Strictly speaking I win either way :P

Qualifying through the repechage is unlikely, but I think it’s possible. This US team is better than their world ranking indicates imo. Either way, this is clearly a rebuilding phase, but I’m optimistic this team will be better in the LA quad than in the Paris quad.

The qualifies after winning 24-14. will go to the repechage.

Kevon Williams is making the difference so far in this match with two mostly solo tries. leads 19-7 with four minutes to go.

leads 12-7 at the half.

beats to grab the final repechage spot. And now the big finale, vs with an Olympic spot on the line.

Teams where Canada should be able to qualify: men’s and women’s basketball, women’s football. Teams where Canada can qualify but aren’t favoured (some of these are real long shots): men’s and women’s field hockey, men’s rugby 7s, men’s and women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s water polo.

qualifies for the Olympics, beating 51-0. First qualification for any Canadian team for Paris.

Surfing *can* be held in a wave pool (and one of the world series stop uses such a venue). Different format and the purists hate it, but it can be done. Alternatively I doubt the IOC would object if surfing was held outside of Hungary.

Maeder is only 16 O.o (He also has a father, hence the name)

Mixed gendered relays aren't really even as far as the importance of male and female athletes (or worse, in the swimming mixed medley relay, men who are good in specific strokes are more important than women who are good in specific strokes, and vice versa). It is especially blatant in the mixed snowboardcross relay, where the female athlete is just way more important than the male athlete, or in the short track mixed relay where the male athletes are way more important than the female athletes. This kind of strategy doesn't really bother me in the same way in a same gendered relay because there is actual strategy around the order, as opposed to mixed relays where the order is set, and one gender is just inherently more important than the other (or the order isn't set but there is definitively a specifi strategy that is better, like in the mixed medley relay in swimming). And anyway, relays are meant to demonstrate some amount of depth countries have, and mixed relays just don't do that as well. As for why most people here dislike the mixed 4x400m relay: it's redundent with the same gender relays that already exist, and the primary country in 400m running ( ) just doesn't think it matters enough, even at the Olympics, to take it seriously.

Or, crazy idea, we could get rid of the mixed 4x400m.

I’m honestly delighted by that result. It will give him a lot of confidence for Paris (especially after his specialty got discontinued from the Olympics) without creating pressure. I also really didn’t expect him to do this well tbh.

It’s because Dutch people only commute by bike or by ice skates, so they don’t really learn how to walk on tarmac as kids.

Ya. isn’t even trying to win this event and they are still consistently contenders.

commentators with the reversed curse, they spent the entire third leg and the first 300m of the 4th leg talking about how Bol would eat the US anchor alive.

Usually is an important word here *whistles innocently remembering how won the Olympics*

As a fan of bobsleigh having the Olympics in St Moritz would not be the worst outcome, I’ve always wanted to see Olympic bobsleigh there. Obviously it would be somewhat less than ideal for Italy to not be able to have a sliding venue built in time.

It’s really just a point race with extra steps (when the judges don’t f it up).