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Since this is in my fantasy world where I run the IOC and can change the 2900 athlete cap, I won't take quota reduction into account. Alpine skiing The team event needs a seeding round. If I had my way the combined would stay and there wouldn't be individual parallel races, but ya. Biathlon I would still like a qualification sprint for the pursuit that is separate from the sprint event. I would also equalize distances between men's and women's events. Bobsleigh I would add men's monobob and women's four-man, with reduced quotas in both two and four man. Monobob would take the brunt of ensuring diversity. Cross-country skiing I would remove the men's 28.5km event and replace it with the 50km event. Increase all women's distances. Curling I would increase the mixed doubles field to 16 teams. Figure skating Changes to the team event: increase the number of teams that make the free skate to eight, change the number of points given in the free skate to increase it's importance. Also singles judging needs a complete overhaul but that is outside the scope of this thread. Freestyle skiing Make the per NOC quota equal to 4 x the number of individual events (also applies in snowboarding). Increase team size in mixed aerials to two men and two women (and allow two teams per NOC). Add a mixed team dual moguls event. Add a men's, women's and mixed ski cross team event. Add a rail jam event, with the same athletes that compete in big air and slopestyle. Hockey 3 on 3 is totally happening in 2030 so I won't mention it here :P Luge Add women's doubles. Nordic Combined Adding women's individual normal and large hill events. Short track speed skating No change. I would def like to see the ISU explore some new race formats, however. I would also change the false start rule - each skater gets one false start over an entire distance (across all rounds) before being penalized. Skeleton I would add a mixed team event. Ski Jumping I would add a women's large hill competition and a women's team competition. Snowboarding I would add the parallel slalom, a men's and women's team snowboardcross event and a rail jam event. Speed Skating I would remove the women's 3000m and replace it with the 10000m. I would add the team sprint and make both the 500m and the 1000m a two run, best time counts event. I would also outlaw breaking ties beyond the hundredth of a second and change the false start rule so each skater has one false start.

The deal was between Ukraine, the US, the UK and... Russia.

For : overall a disappointment, mostly because of the freakishly low gold medal count (lowest since Lillehammer, where there were significantly less events in sports Canada is good at). Though, of course, given how big the Canadian delegation is we really have to look at it sport by sport. Alpine skiing: meet expectations. James Crawford had A+ Olympics across the board and won a medal, though of course the combined is the least prestigious podium on offer. The rest of the team had fairly average results. Biathlon: exceeded expectations. The women's team had bad results, but the men's team had their best ever individual and relay finish and qualified four starters for the pursuit and three starters for the mass start. No medal, but that doesn't deter from how well Canada did in biathlon at these Olympics. Bobsleigh: bellow expectations. The medal count itself isn't bad, and winning a gold was always going to be difficult. The main thing that made these Olympics disappointing is some of the non-medal performances (Kripps in the two-man, Austin in both his events, Appiah having some horror runs, Lotholz). Cross country skiing: above expectations. Cyr and Ritchie finishing fifth in the men's team sprint was a very promising result. Curling: disaster. Figure skating: bellow expectations. Schizas and Lajoie/Lagha are promising, and seeing Messing skate is always a delight. But in terms of results it was very meh, and expectations were not high. We are likely getting a team medal that is, frankly, unearned. Freestyle skiing: bellow expectations, bordering on disaster. First time without a gold medal since 2002, when there were 4 events, compared to 13 now. Only two real bright spots: the very young aerials team performing well, and Cassie Sharpe putting on a heroic performance a year after what should have been a career-ending injury, while the other Canadians in the women's ski half-pipe also did as well as could be expected. I'll also give the women's ski cross team some kudos because they meet expectations. Everything else went badly. Most alarming is our moguls team which is both old and shallow (it's basically Kingsbury, who is ancient by moguls standard, and nobody else). Ice hockey: meet expectations. Women's won and the men did okay given the talent pool available. Luge: meet expectations. The young singles sliders look promising, but the team was obviously in a rebuild phase. Short track speed skating: meet expectations. The women's team was disappointing, but the men winning the relay with relative ease makes up for basically all the other disappointments. Skeleton: meet expectations. A top 20 is actually a good result on the men's side (as pathetic as that is), and Rahneva on the women's side did very well, the only reason it felt disappointing is that she would have won an unexpected medal if not for a disastrous second run. Ski jumping: literally salvaged the entire Olympics. Snowboarding: meet expectations. Speed skating: bellow expectations, mostly because of disappointing results on the men's side. That being said, Laurent Dubreuil's silver medal in the 1000m is going to be one of the few moments at these Olympics that will be added to Canadian sporting folklore. What were the ups and downs, what were the highlights, what were the biggest disappointments? Highlights: Winning bronze in ski jumping. Winning the men's 5000m short track relay, in what is Charles Hamelin's final Olympic race. Women's hockey. Biggest disappointments: Every curling match I watched. Mikaël Kingsbury losing the men's moguls event. The women's short track team. What were the most emotional events for you? Who made a suprisingly good result? Laurent Dubreuil coming back to win silver in the 1000m after a disappointing 500m. Max Parrot winning a gold medal after surviving his battle with cancer. Cassie Sharpe winning silver after her injury.

"Canada matches it's standing from the Summer Olympics" is never a good thing when talking about the Winter Olympics xD

I actually think that wasn't even that odd of a call, I've seen similar advancements in world cups.

I'm going to refrain doing that because it will just make me sad :P

Took a while, but a gold finally :D

Have fun.

Well, for me these were bummer Olympics (for a lot of reason, including the lack of NHLers) but I have to say that both the men's gold and bronze medal games did manage to put a big smile on my face.

is *finally* ahead of in the all time ice hockey medal table.

Also huge congrats to for winning a silver medal in their first ever Olympic tournament!

You predicted the unpopular outcome for both games :P

! A couple good things came out of this NHLer-free tournament after all. Five of the so-called big six hockey nations have now won Olympic gold ( ). is the only one that hasn't yet won it (though of course , Unified Team and OAR have won it).

Is the "I can't believe it's not Russia" team going to have a last second miracle like OAR did four years ago?

Apparently Kripps is the first Canadian pilot to medal in both two and four man.

Lets just hope doesn’t host any time soon.

I preferred having the record for the most golds, but it's something I guess.

Russians won these medals, but Russia did not :P

Peacock was truly the only to watch these Olympics in the US.

Well there was some excitement in the end.

The biggest drama during this race was Johaug trying and failing to wave the flag.

Unless there ends up being an interesting fight for bronze this will go down as the most boring event of the games

Come on now, we all know Russia hasn’t won any Olympic medals since 2016 :P

Kripps pulls off a miracle and overcomes the superior German sleds to win a bronze. This is one of those bronze medals I’m very happy about - tbh even without the equipment advantage beating Lochner was just not going to happen.