JoshMartini007

I agree, there's no reason to not have a bunch of events at the World Championship though they should spend a few years introducing it at world cup to increase participation.

Athletics and aquatics are much more popular than track cycling

The elimination race is great to watch. I imagine the UCI doesn't want another long distance event, especially one that would be around the same distance as the scratch race, even if the strategies within the events are different.

Here's a comparison of what GraceNote predicted and what we got. Medals Correctly Predicted Gold - Freestyle Skiing - Men's Moguls - M. Kingsbury (Got Gold) Silver - Ice Hockey - Women's Team (Got Silver) Silver - Speed Skating - Men.s 5000m - T. Bloemen (Got Silver) Bronze - Figure Skating - Pairs - Duhamel/Radford (Got Bronze) Bronze - Short Track - Men's 5000m Relay (Got Bronze) Most of these medals were quite likely Medals Predicted, but Wrong Colour Gold - Bobsleigh - Women's 2-man - K. Humphries (Got Bronze) Gold - Ice Hockey - Men's Team (Got Bronze) Gold - Snowboarding - Men's Slopestyle - M. McMorris (Got Bronze) Silver - Bobsleigh - Men's 2-man - J. Kripps (Got Gold) Silver - Curling - Mixed Team (Got Gold) Silver - Figure Skating - Ice Dancing - Moir/Virtue (Got Gold) Bronze - Freestyle Skiing - Women's Halfpipe - C. Sharpe (Got Gold) Bronze - Freestyle Skiing - Women's Moguls - J. Dufour-Lapointe (Got Silver) Bronze - Speed Skating - Men's 10,000m - T. Bloemen (Got Gold) Six slight overperformance and three slight underperformance wasn't too bad. Medals Predicted, but Wrong Athlete Gold - Snowboarding - Men's Big Air - M. Parrot (S. Toutant, Got Gold) Silver - Short Track - Men's 1000m - C. Hamelin (S. Girard, Got Gold) Silver - Short Track - Women's 500m - M. St-Gelais (K. Boutin, Got Bronze) Bronze - Short Track - Women's 1000m - M. St-Gelais (K. Boutin, Got Silver) Bronze - Short Track - Women's 1500m - M. St-Gelais (K. Boutin, Got Bronze) Boutin really saved short track from underperforming by more than expected and it covers St-Gelais who was expected to win four medals and won zero. Medals Predicted, but Failed to Obtain Gold - Curling - Men's Team (Got 4th) Gold - Curling - Women's Team (Got 6th) Silver - Short Track - Men's 1500m - C. Hamelin (Got PEN in Final) Silver - Speed Skating - Women's Mass Start - I. Blondin (Got 18th) Bronze - Short Track - Men's 1500m - S. Girard (Got 4th) Bronze - Short Track - Women's 3000m Relay (Got PEN in Final) Bronze - Snowboarding - Men's Big Air - M. McMorris (Got 10th) Bronze - Speed Skating - Women's 5000m - I. Blondin (Got 5th) Bronze - Speed Skating - Men's Team Pursuit (Got 7th) Curling was very disappointing as we all know. Short track and speed skating also underperformed, but that happens when you rely too much on a single athlete. Medals Not Predicted, but Obtained Figure Skating - Team Trophy (Got Gold) Figure Skating - Women's Singles - K. Osmond (Got Bronze) Freestyle Skiing - Men's Ski Cross - B. Leman (Got Gold) Freestyle Skiing - Women's Ski Cross - K, Serwa (Got Gold) Freestyle Skiing - Women's Ski Cross - B. Phelan (Got Silver) Freestyle Skiing - Men's Slopestyle - A. Beaulieu-Marchand (Got Bronze) Luge - Team Relay (Got Silver) Luge - Women's Singles - A. Gough (Got Bronze) Snowboarding - Men's Slopestyle - M. Parrot (Got Silver) Snowboarding - Women's Slopestyle - L. Blouin (Got Silver) It's ridiculous that they didn't predict a medal in figure skating team trophy. Everything else you could have argued that Canada may not have gotten top 3 in.

Technically you can catch the golden snitch and still lose if your team is behind by more than 150 points. Mass start does not have that. You might as well make the race into a 2-4 lap race because that's all that matters.

She couldn't outsprint the top athletes, the only way she could win would be to start strong and hope the pack ignores her until it was too late. At worst you'll get fourth with that strategy.

Both teams have won world championships while Koe had two members of Kevin Martin's 2010 gold medal team. Politics may have been at play though. The fact that they forced Homan to change her alternate because "she didn't fit the criteria" was ridiculous. If she was good enough to compete at the worlds, she's good enough to compete at the Olympics.

I'm not sure what can be done outside of forcing our four best curlers into a team and have them compete together. How would you even go on to decide that? I think we have to realize that the rest of the world has caught up to Canada. They may not have the depth, but that doesn't matter at the Olympics since only one team competes.

Only if you follow two sports...

The IOC had no choice, but to stop insurance payments. The NBA and various European football leagues were starting to demand the same thing.

Canada played poorly in the second half of the first period, we're not going to do anything with that kind of play.

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.