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  1. NearPup
    Was very surprised to see gold medals for and until I remembered there are a few para sport events included this year. So I guess technically this counts as the first ever gold medal for South America in a winter sport world championship?
  2. NearPup
    I could have gone with one or two less Oscars for Anora, but in a season without a clear front runner I'm more than okay with it winning best picture.
  3. NearPup
    Pretty good night for Anora
  4. NearPup
    I am so, so relieved that I'm Still Here, one of the best film of the year, has beaten Emilia Pérez, a movie that has already won two Oscars more than it desereved.
  5. NearPup
    Jacques Audiard winning an Oscar for Emilia Pérez (even though it's "just" in best song) is very hard to stomach. He did not deserve to be rewarded for a movie that was offensive and, even worse than that, boring.
  6. NearPup
    I was already expecting Anora to win best picture going in, but at this point giving the editing win it's hard to see how anyone else wins.
  7. NearPup
    Worth mentioning that Flow is the first ever Oscar win for a Latvian film!
  8. NearPup
    My ranking of best picture nominees: I’m Still Here Dune Part 2 Anora Wicked The Substance The Brutalist Conclave A Complete Unknown Nickel Boys Emilia Pérez Of those I loved 1 through 5, I liked 6 through 8, I respected (but didn't like) 9 and I have nothing good to say about 10.
  9. NearPup
    Well ya. It’s just very common that some countries have their best athlete in a sport other than alpine skiing or cross country skiing, but they aren’t ranked very high while still being at the level to compete at the World Cup or World Championship level.
  10. NearPup
    The IOC should relly should implement a pool of tripartite places to hand out to otherwise unqualified countries (in sports other than alpine and cross country skiing)
  11. NearPup
    The IOC is provisionally recognizing World Boxing: https://apnews.com/article/ioc-world-boxing-iba-2028-olympics-2c492c3388b77cabaf8d38dcefc1a6b0
  12. NearPup
    Definitively the best possible outcome from a sporting standpoint. No disrespect to Spain or South Africa but neither are baseball nations, unlike Taiwan and especially Nicaragua.
  13. NearPup
    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.
  14. NearPup
    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.
  15. NearPup
    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.
  16. NearPup
    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.
  17. NearPup
    Real shame Wright isn’t competing for anymore, would be historic for Oceania to win a biathlon medal.
  18. NearPup
    Ya, fat chance the Canadian fans weren’t going to boo team Trump given the recent rhetoric coming out of our supposed ally.
  19. NearPup
    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*.
  20. NearPup
    Cha Jun-hwan has won the men’s single in figure skating which means, importantly, military service exemption!
  21. NearPup
    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.
  22. NearPup
    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.
  23. NearPup
    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*
  24. NearPup
    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.
  25. NearPup
    Wouldn’t be seeded lower than due to being the replacement team (as in the men’s tournament)?
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