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Everyone who skates to Daft Punk should automatically win a medal.

Marin Hamill had an extremely scary fall off the final jump. Really hoping she’s okay. She is getting medical attention. She went down holding her leg, her teammates have gone to console her and her coach is crying.

My reaction to Canadian figure skaters these Olympics (except Messing, Schizas, Lajoie and Lagha) is basically this:

I’m more optimistic about Humphries winning a second gold medal than I am about Canada winning a second gold tbh. And I’ve always done the medal table g-s-b, betraying both my countries in the process :P And ya, a bunch of countries tried to recruit Humphries. She also came very close to competing for before she made the Canadian team. To her credit she picked a country she has an actual connection to. She also had good lawyers because, as someone who has become a US citizen through the same type of immigration process she did, her timeline was *fast*. Like faster than most people think is possible fast.

Depressing results in ice dance btw, except for Lajoie and Lagha.

So heads rolled over the whole Humphries situation, right? I get she’s not the most popular figure in Calgary but she’s far from the first athlete to complain that the Canadian bobsleigh setup is toxic.

Third North American sweep out of six women’s bobsleigh events held at the Olympics.

I acthaly am pretty sure Humphries will finish ahead of on the medal table these Olympics.

It would be way more fun if Dubreuil and Lauzon changed outfit between every visit to the K&C.

Are you sure the judges didn't miss a mistake you made?

They got really mad about their 4th place finish at the Olympics and decided to just coach all the Olympic medalists for the next few decades.

Best dressed Olympian award goes to Lucile Lefevre.

Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon are getting a truly ridiculous amount of kiss and cry time. I think it’s shorter to list the countries they don’t coach than the countries they do coach.

Jones is having things break her way for once these Olympics.

The whole episode is complicated, contentious and it’s not clear we’ll ever know what really happened. But ultimately there was no way she would ever be willing to compere for Canada again.

In case there was any doubt over who the best female bobsleigh pilot in the world is…

Barcelona, but their bid is a bit of a mess and it’s not clear it will get off the grounds. It’s also a bid with venues in three countries ( ) so hard to coordinate.

Nah, Marion Thénault has a world cup win last season and finished second once already this season. She's capable (not favoured, but capable) of making final 3 without much help, and once in final 3 it's basically a lottery. Canada's aerials program is actually in really good shape right now, one of the few that is actually on the upswing.

I feel like this is proof that could be a major power in speed skating with the right coaching and funding. Inline speed skaters can transition very well.

Canada's best shot at a gold medal tomorrow? Women's aerials. Yikes. The drought is going to extend I fear.

Position in group is the number one criteria. Sweden cannot be higher than the 4th seed because they finished 2nd in their group.

This is not an uncommon opinion.

Dubreuil false started but de Jong and McLean didn't? Sure. Some people on Reddit were trying to argue the system was entirely automated so there was no controversy here, I'm having serious trouble believing that.

McLean really went above and beyond to ensure I didn't owe anyone money.

Lol the starter in the women's 500m is incompetent. He held McLean and de Jong for ages, and both of them visibly moved before the gun.