JoshMartini007

Unless she competes in both events (which are held one day apart in different countries) it would be difficult to qualify. She would probably need to crack into the top 15 if my calculations are correct (and hope Brazil has an average day)

Yes, as long as the athlete met the minimum standards of the FIL

In hindsight, Alberta was a bad choice for a host given their relative lax stance on COVID compared with the rest of the nation.

In terms of total medals, Norway is the big favourite and it's hard to see them not winning the most medals. By golds, Norway is still the favourite, but maybe their biathlon or cross-country skiing team have a horrible games and miss out in a bunch of gold medals which could allow Germany or Russia to finish atop the medal count.

Nice to see a Canadian man winning a medal (that's not a mixed relay) in swimming. Hopefully they will continue to grow like the women.

Based on the qualification document, the Netherlands either needs to finish in the top 12 in the ranking list or have a top 8 World Cup result. They only have two more races remaining and their best result is 11th. Seems unlikely, but possible...

Skateboarding and sport climbing as core sports are not surprising, both have been linked heavily to the modernization of the games. Given the next three hosts are all big surfing nations it makes sense to make it a core sport and then evaluate it in 12 years. The three axed sports all have current issues and while the universality of boxing and weightlifting will be missed I do think it's a ploy by the IOC to force AIBA/UIPM/IWF's hand and make changes just like they did with wrestling.

I agree, I would go with 4 member teams in eventing and jumping and have 12 and 15 teams respectively.

If a sex shop was going to sponsor an Olympic sport, curling makes sense. HURRY! HURRY HARD! HAAARD!!! woah... woah...

I'd argue selecting one of our NHL teams would make Canada weaker overall . Though they would have the advantage of having team synergy vs. hoping everyone gels together by the fourth game...

Pretty much, Europe only gets 3 individual quotas on top of what they qualify in the team events, which is typically 3-5 spots. With taking at least an individual quota it doesn't leave a lot of room for the other nations.

Until the IOC can get its act together and bring back the missing 1000-1500 athletes (or start removing sports) it might be best for fencing to drop the team events. Honestly, events with less than 10 entrants should not be happening

I feel very confident Canada will finish in the top 4, they would have to lose 5/6 games for them to fail, the issue is top 3. We've got Mexico out of the way, but losing to Central American teams is sort of our jam. For example, Honduras has no chance at qualifying, but they can just as easily beat us and deny us three valuable points.

Avoiding CONMEBOL is huge for Canada's chances, obviously I'm hoping we finish in the top 3 to avoid it altogether, but it's nice to have a viable back-up plan. I'm very sad one of Italy or Portugal will miss the World Cup.

Wouldn't be the first time a sport federation doesn't know its own rules/changes them without telling anyone

To be fair, most of our players are also not use to playing in those conditions. With that said, any kind of result against Mexico will be big for Canada. We are already in a very good position to at least qualify to the inter-continental match

It also doesn't help that due to seeding, will all be encouraged to score more in order to have a high goal differential.

While removing the riding portion may make the sport more accessible, adding cycling is a poor choice as it doesn't have much military roots plus as others have mentioned, it would bring the sport too close to triathlon. Something along the lines of archery or a hand-to-hand combat sport (wrestling?) would be more applicable.

There's more to the year than just the Olympics.

Not a huge fan of this, they should have more core sports. At the very least they need to have some kind of list of approved events or else we'll get random sports/events where only a handful of nations are decent at.

I don't think the NHL was too hesitant to try and break into the Chinese market

So we'll have to form two teams

This is a new favourite translation for shot put.

Looks like Canada is back to hating gold medals

Won't be the first time, won't be the last time someone said something is unsafe, but still does it. It's all talk.