JoshMartini007

In Canada and the United States we go by most total medals so Norway has easily won already.

With the Olympics ending who is your choice for flag bearer at the closing ceremonies? No one really stands out in terms of publicity created outside of Virtue and Moir, but there's no chance for them to be the flag bearers again. I personally feel it should go to Alex Gough for winning Canada's first luge medal. Kim Boutin is also a worthy choice for winning three individual medals in short track. Mark McMorris may end up in the conversation (due to his comeback from injury) if he wins a medal in big air and of course there's Mikael Kingsbury. Ted-Jan Bloemen should also get some consideration for winning two individual medals too.

I could say the same thing about us

And mixed curling was suppose to be our least likely medal relatively speaking

Canada is about to lose it curling

Not too surprising, he must have had a lot of pressure to drop his CAS appeal.

Sweden comes prepared while the other teams play catch-up. Also doing well early on may make the players a bit arrogant.

I completely forgot women's ice hockey hasn't been awarded to us yet. I also forgot Harvey in cross-country though that's more of a maybe. Yeah, Germany doesn't have as many opportunities; biathlon (2), bobsleigh (2), ice hockey (1), nordic combined (1), snowboarding (1). Unless I'm forgetting someone anything else would be a huge surprise. Of course they do have a three medal lead over Canada

Gold is becoming scarce for us, there's a bunch of maybes. Men's Big Air Snowboard and Men's Curling would be our best bet so even 1 or 2 more golds for Germany should seal it. We have a lot of chances in total medals. Bobsled (1), curling (1), figure skating (1), freestyle skiing (2), ice hockey (1), short track speed skating (3), snowboarding (4) and speed skating (1). Realistically I can see us finishing with 28-30 medals.

That would have defeated Finland's Winter Olympic record of 9 in 2006 and be second overall behind Germany's 24 in 1952. Sadly they are pretty much guaranteed gold in figure skating, like even if Zagitova completely fails there's still Medvedeva.

After today I feel Canada will finish third in gold and total medals. Catching Germany is possible, especially in total medals, golds will likely require either a great finish by Canada or Germany to stop winning any more.

I heard they may try to make it a U23 tournament like in football. That would at least protect most of the NBA's top stars

Yeah today was a good day for Canada to break its 26 medal record. Men's ice hockey and curling made the semi-finals and we had good results in women's figure skating and men's snowboard big air. That alone plus women's ice hockey would give us 26 (maybe 27 if we win two medals in big air) throw in all of our other chances in bobsled, freestyle skiing, short track, snowboarding and speed skating and it would take something disastrous for us not to break the record.

It's a bit harder to prevent them from going because it's the off-season.

Still on paper a Sweden C team is better than a German A-/B+ team. But that's why you play the game

After the US and Canada, Sweden likely suffered the most due to the lack of NHL players. Typically almost their entire squad comes from the NHL and while they have a good domestic league they still lost a lot of talent. Meanwhile a team like Germany only lost a handful of players.

Germany has the best equipment, Canada has a great driver

So close, but bronze for Canada

United States started strong, and did just enough not to die at the end.

It'll be tight, especially if we completely fail in curling and men's ice hockey.

Canada and China got disqualified so we act as if they don't exist. Netherlands, originally ranked 5th moved up to 3rd.

I feel so, she can clearly do some tricks so obviously she isn't a total beginner. Though to be fair I'm not really angry about all this, she'll be forgotten in a week or so.

I think it comes down to attitude. The athlete is known to act like a spoiled brat. I don't think she bought citizenship (she was eligible to become Hungarian). It would be like if someone made the 100m and decide to casually run it for the publicity. People can tell if someone is trying, even if they aren't good at it. That's the difference.

That's a general issue with the Winter Olympics. If there were quota restraints like in the Summer Olympics these events would be closer to 16-24 entrants than 24-30.

It's been like that since 2010 and I doubt Canada and Russia needed help reaching the quarter-finals . I think it was done so that the players had fewer games to play at the Olympics (6 or 7 vs. 8 in 2006). I imagine the NHL led that charge for the format change.