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I mean it's not just big stadiums. My home town's small university has a hockey team (ofc) with an old, small arena (~3k seats) and even that has seats straight against the boards, and even that arena can quite easily be converted for basketball or concerts. I think it's more of a cultural difference than a financial one. In North America it's just a necessity for most arenas to be able to easily transition from hosting hockey to hosting different types of events.

I'm not sure why it seems so rare outside of North America to have fans right up against the glass. It's a bit of a culture shock because in NA basically every arena is built with both hockey and basketball in mind, and when you do it that way it works extremely well for both sports.

TBH I don’t love the “look of the games” so far. I’d say it’s my least favorite since SLC. But that’s of course highly subjective (I loved Vancouver’s, and that one was pretty divisive iirc) and I may change my mind as I see more venues (so far only got a really good look at curling and speed skating).

Anna Hoffmann, winner of the US Olympic trials, got entered in the Olympics after originally being the *sixth* alternate (and after multiple articles were written about the US failing to qualify any woman in ski jumping).

Quick look at the oval all decked out.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Day 1 February 5th 2022 Broadie Summers Mikael Kingsbury X Jimi Salonen Benjamin Cavet Daichi Hara Ikuma Horishima X Kosuke Sugimoto Pavel Kolmakov Walter Wallberg X Ludwig Fjallstrom Cole McDonald Bradley Wilson Any Other Athlete Luge Men's Singles Day 2 February 6th 2022 Wolfgang Kindl Any Other Austrian Athlete X Max Langenhan Felix Loch X Johannes Ludwig X Dominik Fischnaller Kevin Fischnaller Gints Berzins Kristers Aparjods Aleksandr Gorbatcevich Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 3 February 7th 2022 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Han Mei Francesca Lollobrigida Ayano Sato X Miho Takagi X Nana Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Antoinette De Jong X Irene Schouten Ireen Wust Ragne Wiklund Elizaveta Golubeva Brittany Bowe Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Mixed Team Event Normal Hill Day 3 February 7th 2022 Austria X Canada China Czech Republic Finland Germany X Italy Japan Norway Poland ROC Slovenia X Snowboard Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Julia Dujmovits Sabine Schoeffmann Daniela Ulbing Ester Ledecka X Ramona Theresia Hofmeister Any Other German Athlete X Nadya Ochner Any Athlete from Japan Aleksandra Krol Sofiya Nadyrshina Any Other ROC Athlete Ladina Jenny Patrizia Kummer Julie Zogg X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Individual Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 8th 2022 Any Athlete from Finland Lucas Chanavat Richard Jouve X Federico Pellegrino X Paal Goldberg Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Haavard Solaas Taugboel Erik Valnes Gleb Retivykh Alexander Terentev Any Other ROC Athlete Marcus Grate James Clinton Schoonmaker Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 5 February 9th 2022 Stijn Desmet Pascal Dion Any Other Canadian Athlete X Ren Ziwei X Sun Long Shaolin Sandor Liu Yuri Confortola Adil Galiakhmetov Sjinkie Knegt X Semen Elistratov Hwang Daeheon Park Jang Hyuk Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Men's Event Day 6 February 10th 2022 Keegan Messing Han Yan Kevin Aymoz Any Italian Athlete Yuzuru Hanyu X Yuma Kagiyama Shoma Uno Mikhail Kolyada Mark Kondratiuk Andrei Mozalev Cha Jun-hwan X Jason Brown Nathan Chen X Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Men's Combined Day 6 February 10th 2022 Matthias Mayer Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault X Any German Athlete Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete X X Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical Day 6 February 10th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Therese Johaug X Heidi Weng Any Other Athlete from Norway X Natalia Nepryaeva Tatiana Sorina Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson Rosie Brennan Any Other Athlete X Snowboard Men's Halfpipe Day 7 February 11th 2022 Scotty James X Liam Gill Wang Ziyang Andre Hoeflich Ayumu Hirano X Kaishu Hirano Ruka Hirano X Yuto Totsuka Jan Scherrer Any Other Swiss Athlete Shaun White Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G Day 7 February 11th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer X Tamara Tippler Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka Any French Athlete Federica Brignone X Elena Curtoni Sofia Goggia Ragnhild Mowinckel Lara Gut-Behrami X Corinne Suter Breezy Johnson Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Biathlon Men's Sprint Day 8 February 12th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux X Quentin Fillon-Maillet X Emilien Jacquelin X Benedikt Doll Johannes Kuehn Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Pursuit Day 9 February 13th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon X Any Other French Athlete X Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete X Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 3000m Relay Day 9 February 13th 2022 Canada China X Italy Netherlands X Poland RCF South Korea X United States Speed Skating Women's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Hanna Nifantava Tian Ruining Arisa Go Nao Kodaira X Miho Takagi Femke Kok X Any Other Dutch Athlete Andzelika Wojcik Kaja Ziomek Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikova Daria Kachanova Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson X Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Team, Large Hill Day 10 February 14th 2022 Austria X Czech Republic Germany Japan X Norway X Poland ROC Slovenia Switzerland Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Slopestyle Day 11 February 15th 2022 Teal Harle Max Moffatt Any Other Canadian Athlete X Chris McCormick Ben Barclay Birk Ruud Any Other Norwegian Athlete Oliwer Magnusson Jesper Tjader Fabian Boesch Andri Ragettli Mac Forehand Nicholas Goepper Alexander Hall Any Other Athlete X X Snowboard Women's Big Air Day 11 February 15th 2022 Anna Gasser Jasmine Baird Brooke Voigt Rong Ge Enni Rukajarvi Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi Kokomo Murase X Miyabi Onitsuka Hanne Eilertsen Hailey Langland Any Other Athlete X X Alpine Skiing Women's Downhill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete X Ester Ledecka Kira Weidle Nadia Delago Sofia Goggia Any Other Italian Athlete Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami X Corinne Suter Any Other Swiss Athlete Breezy Johnson Any Other Athlete X Speed Skating Men's Team Pursuit Day 11 February 15th 2022 Canada X China Italy Netherlands X Norway ROC South Korea United States X Biathlon Men's Relay Day 11 February 15th 2022 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France X Germany X Italy Norway X RCF Slovenia Sweden Ukraine Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Large Hill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Johannes Lamparter Mario Seidl Kristjan Ilves X Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Johannes Rydzek X Terence Weber Akito Watabe Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber X Any Other Norwegian Athlete Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 12 February 16th 2022 Kim Boutin Courtney Sarault Han Yutong Zhang Yuting Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting Xandra Velzeboer Ekaterina Efremenkova Choi Minjeong X Kim A Lang X Lee Yubin X Kristen Santos Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Women's Event Day 13 February 17th 2022 Olga Mikutina Ekaterina Ryabova Loena Hendrickx Madeline Schizas Kaori Sakamoto Any Other Japanese Athlete Anna Shcherbakova X Alexandra Trusova X Kamila Valieva X Kim Ye-lim Lee Hae-in Mariah Bell Karen Chen Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross Day 14 February 18th 2022 Johannes Rohrweck Any Other Austrian Athlete Kevin Drury X Brady Leman Bastien Midol Terence Tchiknavorian X Any Other French Athlete Florian Wilmsmann Simone Deromedis Sergey Ridzik Any Athlete from Sweden X Joos Berry Ryan Regez Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle Day 15 February 19th 2022 Michal Novak Iivo Niskanen X Hugo Lapalus Maurice Manificat Any German Athlete Andrew Musgrave Francesco De Fabiani Hans Christer Holund Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Simen Hegstad Krueger X Sjur Roethe Alexander Bolshunov X Alexey Chervotkin Any Other ROC Athlete Any Other Athlete Curling Women's Event Day 16 February 20th 2022 Canada X China Denmark Great Britain X Japan ROC South Korea X Sweden Switzerland United States Bobsleigh Four-Man Day 16 February 20th 2022 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps X Francesco Friedrich X Christoph Hafer Johannes Lochner X Brad Hall Oskars Kibermanis Maxim Andrianov Rostislav Gaitiukevich Simon Friedli Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Team [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's Skiathlon Day 1 February 5th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug X Heidi Weng X Tiril Udnes Weng Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other ROC Athlete Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson X Rosie Brennan Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 3000m Day 1 February 5th 2022 Marina Zueva Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann X Valerie Maltais Martina Sablikova Francesca Lollobrigida X Any Athlete from Japan Carlijn Achtereekte Antoinette De Jong Irene Schouten X Ragne Wiklund Natalia Voronina Any Other Athlete Snowboard Women's Slopestyle Day 2 February 6th 2022 Tess Coady X Anna Gasser Evy Poppe Laurie Blouin X Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi Kokomo Murase Miyabi Onitsuka Melissa Peperkamp Zoi Sadowski Synnott X Cool Wakushima Hanne Eilertsen Jamie Anderson Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Moguls Day 2 February 6th 2022 Jakara Anthony X Britteny Cox Any Athlete from Canada Perrine Laffont X Junko Hoshino Anri Kawamura X Kisara Sumiyoshi Hinako Tomitaka Yuliya Galysheva Olivia Giaccio Kai Owens Jaelin Kauf Hannah Soar Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Giant Slalom Day 3 February 7th 2022 Katharina Truppe Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley Marta Bassino Federica Brignone X Alice Robinson X Any Norwegian Athlete Maryna Gasienica-Daniel Petra Vlhova X Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Men's Super G Day 4 February 8th 2022 Raphael Haaser Vincent Kriechmayr X Matthias Mayer James Crawford Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Beat Feuz X Marco Odermatt X Stefan Rogentin Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Benjamin Karl Andreas Prommegger Any Other Austrian Athlete Radoslav Yankov Stefan Baumeister X Mirko Felicetti Roland Fischnaller Any Other Italian Athlete Dmitrii Loginov X Zan Kosir Tim Mastnak Lee Sangho X Dario Caviezel Nevin Galmarini Any Other Athlete Biathlon Men's Individual Day 4 February 8th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen Sturla Holm Laegreid Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete X X X Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 4 February 8th 2022 Bart Swings Connor Howe Ning Zhongyan X Seitaro Ichinohe Ryota Kojima Takuro Oda Thomas Krol Kjeld Nuis X Allan Dahl Johansson Peder Kongshaug Kim Minseok Joey Mantia X Any Other Athlete Luge Women's Singles Day 4 February 8th 2022 Madeleine Egle X Any Other Austrian Athlete Anna Berreiter Nathalie Geisenberger X Julia Taubitz X Andrea Voetter Kendija Aparjode Eliza Tiruma Viktoriia Demchenko Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Big Air Day 5 February 9th 2022 Lukas Muellauer Matej Svancer X Teal Harle X Max Moffatt Antoine Adelisse Ben Barclay Tormod Frostad Birk Ruud Oliwer Magnusson Mac Forehand Alexander Hall X Colby Stevenson Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Snowboard Cross Day 6 February 10th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia Jakob Dusek X Alessandro Haemmerle Any Other Austrian Athlete Eliot Grondin X Merlin Surget Paul Berg Martin Noerl Lorenzo Sommariva Omar Visintin Glenn De Blois Lucas Eguibar Nick Baumgartner Any Other Athlete X Biathlon Women's Sprint Day 7 February 11th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola X Marketa Davidova Justine Braisaz-Bouchet X Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete X Tiril Echoff Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 7 February 11th 2022 Kim Boutin X Courtney Sarault Any Athlete from China X Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting X Xandra Velzeboer Natalia Maliszewska Ekaterina Efremenkova Sofia Prosvirnova Choi Minjeong Lee Yubin Kristen Santos Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Relay Day 8 February 12th 2022 Czech Republic Finland X France Germany Italy Norway X ROC Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill Day 8 February 12th 2022 Jan Hoerl Daniel Huber X Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Ryoyu Kobayashi X Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Any Polish Athlete Anze Lanisek Cene Prevc Timi Zajc Kilian Peier Any Other Athlete X Skeleton Women's Singles Day 8 February 12th 2022 Janine Flock Kim Meylemans Any Athlete from Canada Tina Hermann X Jacqueline Loelling X Hannah Neise Valentina Margaglio Kimberly Bos X Yulia Kanakina Elena Nikitina Alina Tararychenkova Katie Uhlaender Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Steven Dubois X Jordan Pierre-Gilles Ren Ziwei Wu Dajing X John-Henry Krueger Liu Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sandor Denis Nikisha Any Dutch Athlete X Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Hwang Daeheon Kwak Yoon-gy Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Ice Dance Day 10 February 14th 2022 Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen Gilles/Poirier X Wang /Liu Fear/Gibson Guignard/Fabbri Kaliszek/Spodyriev Davies/Smolkin Sinitsina/Katsalapov X Stepanova/Bukin Chock/Bates Hawayek/Baker Hubbell/Donohue Any Other Pair X Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom Day 12 February 16th 2022 Manuel Feller Any Other Austrian Athlete Filip Zubcic Clement Noel Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding X Giuliano Razzoli X Alex Vinatzer Sebastian Foss-Solevaag Lucas Braathen Henrik Kristoffersen Kristoffer Jakobsen Daniel Yule X Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical Day 12 February 16th 2022 Belarus Canada Czech Republic Finland X France X Great Britain Italy Norway X ROC Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Aerials Day 12 February 16th 2022 Ihar Drabiankou Jia Zongyang Sun Jiaxu Any Other Chinese Athlete X Sherzod Khashyrbayev Ilia Burov X Maxim Burov Stanislav Nikitin Nicolas Gygax Noe Roth Pirmin Werner Oleksandr Abramenko Dmytro Kotovskyi Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete X Nordic Combined Men's Team Relay Day 13 February 17th 2022 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X United States Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 13 February 17th 2022 Li Qishi Noa Kodaira Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aidova Antoinette De Jong Jutta Leerdam X Ireen Wust X Andzelika Wojcik Angelina Golikova Daria Kachanova Any Other ROC Athlete Brittany Bowe X Kimi Goetz Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe Day 14 February 18th 2022 Amy Fraser Rachel Karker X Cassie Sharpe Gu Ailing Eileen X Li Fanghui Zhang Kexin Kelly Sildaru X Zoe Atkin Saori Suzuki Jang Yujin Hanna Faulhaber Devin Logan Brita Sigourney Any Other Athlete Curling Men's Event Day 15 February 19th 2022 Canada X China Denmark Great Britain X Italy Norway ROC Sweden X Switzerland United States Speed Skating Men's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Bart Swings X Jordan Belchos X Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Any Athlete from Denmark Andrea Giovanni Jorit Bergsma Sven Kramer Kristian Ulekleiv Ruslan Zakharov Chung Jaewon Lee Seung-lee Joey Mantia X Ian Quinn Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Marketa Davidova Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anais Chevalier-Bouchet X Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Tiril Echoff X Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete X Bobsleigh Women's Two-Woman Day 15 February 19th 2022 Beierl/Onasanya De Bruin/Bujnowski X Any Other Canadian Team Any Team from China Jamanka/Burghardt Kalicki/Buckwitz Nolte/Doenicke Grecu/Wick Sergeeva/Belomestnykh Hasler/Pasternack Humphries/Hoffman X Meyers/Gibbs X Any Other Team [/hide]

[hide] Main Round February 3rd - February 8th, 2022 10 Nations, Every Nation from Group A and the the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-Placed Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 Switzerland 1 5 Canada February 3rd 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 1 3 United States February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 ROC 2 3 Switzerland February 5th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 2 0 Finland February 5th 2022, h. 21:10 United States 6 0 ROC February 6th 2022, h. 21:10 Switzerland 0 5 United States February 7th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 4 0 ROC February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 2 1 Switzerland February 8th 2022, h. 12:10 United States 1 2 Canada February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 ROC 3 4 Finland Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 China 3 2 Czech Republic February 3rd 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 2 1 Sweden February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 Denmark 2 1 China February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Denmark 1 2 Japan February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 3 0 Sweden February 6th 2022, h. 16:40 China 0 3 Japan February 7th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 1 2 Denmark February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 2 1 China February 8th 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 2 1 Czech Republic February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 0 2 Denmark Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Canada United States Finland [/hide]

It’s Brendan Corey, made a mental typo. Corey is from the same small town as I am.

Team New Brunswick New Brunswick is sending a total of two athletes to the Beijing Olympics, both in short track: Brendan Corey and Courtney Sarault. Both used to train together in my hometown. They will try to win ‘s first winter Olympic medal since 2010 when Travis Jayner won a bronze medal in the men’s 5000m (representing ).

I thought seeing Zach Parise, son of hockey great Jean-Paul Parisé, play for the (and almost making Canada lose the 2010 finals) was weird. But seeing Jake Chelois, son of hockey great Chris Chelios, play for is even weirder xD

On the plus side, China having enough depth to leave a world cup winner at home is pretty extraordinary. That program was completely nonexistent a few years ago.

https://twitter.com/katietannenbaum/status/1485673108942077955?s=21

Team Canada Moguls Chloé Dufour-Lapointe Justine Dufour-Lapointe Sofiane Gagnon Laurent Dumais Mikaël Kingsbury Aerials Flavie Aumond Naomy Boudreau-Guertin Marion Thenault Miha Fontaine Lewis Irving Émile Nadeau Half-pipe Noah Bowman Simon d'Artois Brendan Mackay Amy Fraser Rachael Karker Cassie Sharpe Slopestyle and Big air Teal Harle Evan McEachran Max Moffatt Édouard Therriault Olivia Asselin Elena Gaskell Megan Oldham Ski-cross team was previously named.

I was told only NBC did nonsense like that.

I really think she should just shut it down for the season and think about her long term health (both in the sport and otherwise). She already has an Olympic gold, and she'll still be in the prime age range for a downhiller at her home Olympics in four years. But as you say, if someone is going to do it...

I'm not super familiar with these two athletes but it's worth remembering that in park and pipe there is a lot that goes on that isn't captured by FIS rankings.

The only surprise is Zverev losing a three set match :P

The Olympic big air format is quite high variance, but if she lands the jump package she is capable of she will win.

Very glad for Ryding and the British Alpine program. Always great to see a non-traditional Alpine nation win a race. Ryding got close a couple times, too. Really it's great to see anyone who started on a dry slope win a world cup race.

Team Canada Men Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes Matthew Soukup Women Abigail Strate Alexandria Loutitt Boyd-Clowes is named to his fourth Olympics, which matches the great Host Bulau's record for most Olympic appearances by a Canadian at the Olympics in Ski Jumping.

Please don't speak those awful ideas out loud, Bach might hear them.

I think it’s really kept around at the world cup level because the IBU doesn’t want to give up a set of Olympic medals :P

Which would be really stupid because it's actually way more exciting to watch than the sprint. The thing that makes me optimistic about the Individual's long term future is that it requires no additional venues or athletes and biathlon is a high performing sport in terms of TV ratings.