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  1. NearPup
    Only thing I can think of is confusion about how to rank the athlete who had a DNF in the A final (i.e. whether to rank him above or bellow the athletes from the B final). DNFs are very rare in short track.
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    These Olympics would be a bummer even if Canada was doing well tbh. Even Tokyo felt more like proper Olympics.
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    I think the overall number of medals is pretty decent, just the... quality of them is shit. Didn't expect 11, but I felt like 7 was pretty much the worse case scenario. Woops.
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    I actually don't think there was a real surprise in snowboarding - Grondin has been very good all year and O'Dine has been due for a breakthrough for a while. The ski jumping bronze medal really should be considered a 7th place when analyzing performances. It's impressive, but it's a 7th place. The alpine medal is also funky given it was in a dying event that might never be held again.
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    Tough way for Bloemen to end his Olympic career.
  6. NearPup
    These Olympics keep getting worse every day for . Fifth place in men's team pursuit. Probably the last Olympic race for Ted-Jan Bloemen.
  7. NearPup
    Given current form I am bracing myself for a crushing disappointment in the men's team pursuit. At least there is no way I'll owe anyone money because McLean wins the women's 500m.
  8. NearPup
    Radio-Canada talked about that, there was apparently a camera angle not on broadcast that clearly showed fell because of a clash of blades while even with Canada, which makes this the correct call.
  9. NearPup
    I don't want to jinx anything, but base on what we've seen these Olympics and on the world cup I actually think Canada is a slight favourite in the 5000m relay.
  10. NearPup
    Both Gow brothers and Jules Burnotte qualified for the mass start in biathlon. This matches the most entries Canada has ever had in an Olympic mass start. Biathlon is a sport where Canada has actually done very well these Olympics, at least on the men's side.
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    This is actually a really great result for Canada, matches the most qualified entries we've ever had in the mass start. Men's biathlon is one of the few sports where I'm actually really happy with the results for .
  12. NearPup
    Short track has been shockingly clean after the first incident-filled days.
  13. NearPup
    Hopefully will be able to develop a competitive short track team after the Liu brothers retire. I'd imagine they have increased the profile of the sport in Hungary quite a bit.
  14. NearPup
    Nice to see an individual gold medal for one of the Liu brothers. Well deserved.
  15. NearPup
    Sarault is def going to be Canada's best short track skater in 2026 (baring injury or early retirement), these games were just a bit early for her I think. Also the entire relay team dropped the ball with a few laps to go, a few of those exchanges were hard to watch.
  16. NearPup
    So first thing tomorrow, Canadian born athletes who spent most of their careers in the Canadian system will have won as many gold medals as team Canada. Yay. Truly pathetic performance ten days in. I really don't see what can salvage Canada's games at this point.
  17. NearPup
    Force of habit. Amazing that there were no penalties in a 3000m relay final. One of the big upsets of these games.
  18. NearPup
    ‘a disaster Olympics continue. We should have boycotted, it would have saved face from this embarrassment. Amazing wire-to-wire win by , you aren’t supposed to be able to do that.
  19. NearPup
    That relay pass by was laughably bad. Also wtf this is literally the first time I have ever seen an illegal relay penalty. It just does not happen.
  20. NearPup
    and haven’t been on the podium together in the relay since 2002. Will they finally play nice and not commit a penalty on one another?
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    The Paris 2024 twitter account having a laugh over how badly is doing xD
  23. NearPup
    Ya, this definitively felt like an event not quite ready for primetime. I do think monobob (for men and women, actually) would make a lot of sense as a way to protect the ability of countries with smaller bobsleigh programs to compete at the Olympics when the IOC inevitably forced the IBSF to reduce the number of men's quotas.
  24. NearPup
    This is quite an ill-disciplined game.
  25. NearPup
    Being in the same group as is a big advantage in this format.
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