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Unfortunately, the loser of their direct match will likely play  in the quarters and there's a good chance you need to reach the semis to get the quota. The quotas likely comes down to the winner of  and the winner of a Pool A team () vs.   
 
This is why having Olympic quotas being decided in a tournament with unrelated teams is a horrible idea.

Wiklund is Norway's first female all round world champion since 1938
 

 
88 years, but still, close enough
 

and that's it!  Canada opens the tournament with an 8-2 win over  Colombia. Colombia drops to 0-2.

Both Dubreuil and Lamarche finish 5th overall in the Sprint world championship standings.

Stage 9 in Lahti (FIN)
 
Women´s Individual Gundersen Large Hill:
 
1.  Minja Korhonen    13:48.8
2. Ida Marie Hagen    13:49.3
3. Alexa Brabec    14:07.5
 
Full Final Result HERE

7th place finish yesterday for Mia Rodger in the 6km sprint at the youth world championships.

I am assuming the FIS will fight very hard to keep it.
 
From a substainability standpoint it also really doesn’t make that much sense to axe Nordic combined as long as ski jumping is in the games anyway. For the same reason that all three sliding sports are basically a package that will live and die together.

Kamila Sellier posted on instagram that she had another surgery related to her eye, that she will have some more visits on ophthalmologist but everything is going on right direction
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVdtd3ODJk-/
 
 

Team for  ISU Allround & Sprint World Championships 2026
 

Just a reminder, the World Baseball Classic starts in a few days (March 5-17) and is the only qualification event for the Americas, the two best nations from the Americas qualify. Results Here
 
For Canada, there's a very very small chance of qualifying if the guys can have the tournament of their life. Mexico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico are the main favourites though. 

Hunter Armstrong is joining the Enhanced Games but won’t be taking drugs. 

10th for Gagnon in women’s sprint free at the Fallun WC!

Last night, I had the privilege to see my first live curling matches.  The USA National Championships were just 1.5 hours away from where I live (not bad in a country the size of ours, and even more surprising since I live in an area where it rarely snows).  I got to visit the 'page final' (i.e. first playoff round), the highlight of which for me was Team Shuster vs. Team Stopera.  Team Stopera ended up winning by 1 point, but Shuster will be able to play one final match this morning to see if they can make it to the finals this afternoon (the winner of which will qualify to Worlds).  None of the current Olympians were there, having declined their spot in the tournament.
 
Got some free swag  

 
These people would yell 'Peel! Peel! Peel' whever someone would peel a stone.

 
Got to see the measuring instrument in action.

 
And yes, Matt Hamilton and Colin Hufman had sleeveless jerseys on.

Some outstanding performances in Day 1 and 2 of the national indoor championships:
 
Women's 60mH: Mariam Abdul-Rashid delivers a championship record in the Women’s 60mH (8.03), rising to the occasion and shining bright on home soil in front of the Canadian crowd.
 
Women's 60m: Sadé McCreath smashes the Championship record with 7.12 in the 60m final, the fastest time in the nation this year and 13th in the world.

Men's 60m: In a thrilling final, Eliezer Adjibi surges at the line to claim the national title, stopping the clock at 6.64 to set a new Championship record. 
 
Women's Shot Put: Sarah Mitton with a 19.97m Championship record secures the national title, now focused on chasing the three-peat at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.
 
In 1st day of  Men’s Heptathlon at the 2026 Canadian Indoor Championships:
Damian Warner leads the standings with 3,429 points.
Pierce LePage sits in second with 3,286 points.
 
Women's Pentathlon: Kendra Leger totals 3,812 points across five events to secure the national title in a commanding all-around performance.
 
 
 

14th for Cam Levins at the Tokyo Marathon, and at 36 years old sets the second best time of his career with 2:06:47! 

Now confirmed by the Iranian government.

It is being reported that the Israeli government believes that they have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

My not a sports fan mom, unprompted, brought up the lack of funding that Canadian athletes are receiving. So it’s definitively breaking through.

Trump is :P

Feels like this calls into question the sanctity of the FIFA Peace Prize

Trump is :P

I hope no one's taking that one seriously.

Kevin Drury has officially announced his retirement 

Like any Brazilian Olympic champion, Lucas met with our president today. An honor. 
 
He also reached 1 million followers on Instagram (he had around 300k before the Olympics).
 

I think the weather gods missed out on the news about Stockholm losing this voting because Stockholm  had the best winter weather for many years during the last weeks, just for it to melt away immediately after the closing ceremony