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is sending an athlete with the first name "Winter" and an athlete with the last name "Winters" to the Winter Olympics. Truly a historic achievement.

Team USA Men Bryce Bennett Ryan Cochran-Siegle Tommy Ford Travis Ganong River Radamus Luke Winters Women Keely Cashman Breezy Johnson A.J. Hurt Katie Hensie Mo Lebel Tricia Mangan Paula Moltzan Nina O'Brien Mikaela Shiffrin Jackie Wiles Bella Wright

Canada's best medal chance outside of the team event is in ice dance. It's an extremely close fight for the bronze medal in ice dance between Giles / Poirier and the top two American pairs. If Canada doesn't get a medal in the team event (I'd say Japan is the slight favourite for bronze, but Canada can win a medal if everyone performs well) I think Giles and Poirier will be the clear sentimental favourite to win bronze in ice dance, and in ice dance things like that matter when two or more teams are essentially evenly matches (see also: Virtue and Moir in Pyeongchang, who were undoubtedly helped by the crowd and by being drawn last in the free dance).

Obviously the IOC forcing the FIS to cut the Alpine skiing quota from 320 to 306 was really painful.

Team Canada Men James Crawford Trevor Philip Erik Read Brodie Seger Broderick Thompson Women Marie-Michèle Gagnon Cassidy Gray Valérie Grenier Erin Mielzynski Ali Nullmeyer Roni Remme Amelia Smart Laurence St-Germain

I'm going to gather a guess and say almost every Canadian on the forum, if not literally all of us, is going to say Vancouver 2010 xD

That would be the shortest opening ceremony in, what, decades? I’m actually very on board for a shorter ceremony, especially with the lack of crowd.

A kendama enthusiast? Neat. Also if you’re gonna live in North Dakota you better love driving.

He doesn’t want to switch if he can avoid it.

He was born an American citizen, that’s not quite the same. A better analogy is a large part of the US long distance running teams, which has a lot if athletes who used their running ability as a means to immigrate to the US. Or Bobsleigh for Canada (fun fact: 2 of Canada’s 3 male pilots at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Olympics are Australians, one of whom actually competed for Australia in 2010). That one is kind of funny - since Calgary was arguably the best training environment in the world when it still had an operational track, a lot of athletes from warm climates moved there to train, and a few of them ended up becoming Canadian citizens and switching to representing Canada internationally since that provides better opportunities in terms of funding and available teammates.

They bought the boxer from but they couldn't buy the judges (still bitter Sotomayor lost the final in Rio 2016 totally unfairly, I never thought I'd get so upset to see an Azeri import lose at the Olympics - that was the Olympics where suddenly became the best boxing country in the world for reasons obviously unrelated to corruption)

As part of the new norm Curling is moving to a "mixed sheet" format.

Close to 50:50 on that one. Going to be optimistic and go with Canada, but I expect it will be a close battle either way.

Team Canada Men's event: Blake Enzie Women's event: Jane Channell, Mirela Rahneva

Team Canada Men Pilots: Justin Kripps Christopher Spring Taylor Austin Push athletes: Ben Coakwell Ryan Sommer Cam Stones Mike Evelyn Sam Giguere Cody Sorensen Jay Dearborn Chris Patrician Daniel Sunderland Women Pilots: Christine de Bruin Cynthia Appiah Melissa Lotholz Push athletes: Kristen Bujnowski Dawn Richardson Wilson Sara Villani Nominated coaches are Todd Hays, Jamie McCartney, Elfje Willemsen and Lyndon Rush.

This is approaching Vancouver levels of snow.

I don't think they know what they are talking about. In half-pipe and slopestyle/big air the quotas they rejected show as, well, rejected. They specifically accepted a re-allocation quota in PGS while other countries rejected them. Either they are incompetent or different factions of the organization are at war with each other...

Are you even allowed to accept a quota and them not use it?

Ya, that doesn't make any sense. If they were sending two athletes they should have accepted only two quotas. Someone must have made a mistake somewhere.

It's one thing to prioritize the World Cup when you're in contention for an overall title. It's another thing when you're not. Also Ivica Kostelić would really want everyone to think that the World Cup is what matters most given his results :P

Canada used to take this approach during the dark days, but has since relayed (still requires the FINA A cut in most cases, but nothing as drastic as Australia) and results have actually improved since loosening qualification standards. So YMMV.

I can predict with great certainty that Megan Farrell, Katrina Gerencser, Jennifer Hawkrigg and Kaylie Buck will be named to the Olympic team using one simple trick: Canada has now accepted four women's PGS quotas and Canada only has four eligible athletes for the event.

FWIW the decrease in Biathlon and Speed Skating, along with the increase in Freestyle Skiing, are entirely due to changes in the qualification system rather than due to a change in performance.

Canada isn't in line for the men's PGS quota, has first dibs. Canada also rejected the women's half-pipe reallocation.

There is a philosophy that if you only take athletes who are "contenders" it will motivate athletes to work harder. For example that's what swimming Australia subscribes to (they have very harsh selection criteria). I personally think that's sort of BS, but eh.