JoshMartini007

23 medals for Canada isn't that bad, but yeah, the United States probably needs to shed 10-15 medals for it to be believable.

Canada will be competing in four events on Day -1.
 
In freestyle skiing, the men's and women's moguls will have their first qualification round. In curling, our mixed doubles team will have two matches against and . Our women's ice hockey team will play in their opening match.

Canada will be competing in four events on Day -1.
 
In freestyle skiing, the men's and women's moguls will have their first qualification round. In curling, our mixed doubles team will have two matches against and . Our women's ice hockey team will play in their opening match.

Perhaps by day? We aren't a huge group and it would be easier than jumping between threads...

Perhaps by day? We aren't a huge group and it would be easier than jumping between threads...

Perhaps by day? We aren't a huge group and it would be easier than jumping between threads...

Perhaps by day? We aren't a huge group and it would be easier than jumping between threads...

Looks like inside the game's joke detector is broken

Good to pick up 3 points against Honduras to keep us on top.
 
Big match against the United States on Sunday. Despite playing at home we will have to travel a lot further to get there and then we have to fly back to Central America to play against El Salvador on Wednesday. Who designed this schedule?

Good to pick up 3 points against Honduras to keep us on top.
 
Big match against the United States on Sunday. Despite playing at home we will have to travel a lot further to get there and then we have to fly back to Central America to play against El Salvador on Wednesday. Who designed this schedule?

Good to pick up 3 points against Honduras to keep us on top.
 
Big match against the United States on Sunday. Despite playing at home we will have to travel a lot further to get there and then we have to fly back to Central America to play against El Salvador on Wednesday. Who designed this schedule?

Good to pick up 3 points against Honduras to keep us on top.
 
Big match against the United States on Sunday. Despite playing at home we will have to travel a lot further to get there and then we have to fly back to Central America to play against El Salvador on Wednesday. Who designed this schedule?

Good to pick up 3 points against Honduras to keep us on top.
 
Big match against the United States on Sunday. Despite playing at home we will have to travel a lot further to get there and then we have to fly back to Central America to play against El Salvador on Wednesday. Who designed this schedule?

Long story short: she was on the way from Austria (where she had been in quarantine until today) to Munich, to get tested three times there in the coming five days, starting today. Somewhere along the Austrian/Italian border (Vintl), the transfer we had booked for her (a minivan, her as only passenger) had an accident, a bad one, one might say. Sadly the driver didn't make it, and considering they hit a truck head-on, Bruna sitting in the back (to keep some distance) quite simply saved her life. Transported to the hospital by helicopter.
 
Broken arm, two broken feet and an unknown number of broken ribs seems to be the damage. Which, considering the gravity of the accident, is barely short of a miracle.
 
As for me, I'm at home in the Netherlands, which is where we are trying to get her as soon as possible (when medically allowed, of course). It has been a long day of back and forth contact with insurance and Brazilian federation and everything to see what can be done. But, again, the main thing is she's still with us.

About a year ago I made a prediction on the team sizes, here's the link. Let's see how I did.
 
First the following nations qualified, but I didn't predict.

 
Nations which I thought would qualify, but did not.

 
Overall not too bad, the ones that I missed were not active a year ago and only qualified one athlete. Kenya technically qualified, but the athlete was not selected and I made my prediction before finding out North Korea will isolate itself until COVID passes. Cayman Islands was a bad pick since I thought an already retired athlete would try to qualify.
 
The following nations I underestimated (predicted a smaller team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 59 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 6 athletes
- 5 athletes
- 5 athletes
 
Sorry Denmark, but in my defense they were the first reserves in curling and one win away from qualifying in ice hockey. Unfortunately for me, the nation qualified in those four team events, account for 58 athletes. I kind of knew I was underestimating Australia given its restrictive travel regulations so I'm not surprised that I was off by a lot. I also missed the mark on Jamaica considering how small their team is. I originally only had them qualifying in women's monobob, but they were able to barely sneak in the two men's events.
 
The following nations I overestimated (predicted a larger team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 33 athletes
- 32 athletes
- 12 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 9 athletes
- 6 athletes
 
Originally I had Germany and Norway qualifying ice hockey teams which explains why they are at the top of the list, but even if we ignore that both nations would remain on the list with 10 and 7 athletes respectively. One weakness from my prediction is I didn't take into account whether a nation will decline quotas which is why you see a lot of the big European nation here.

About a year ago I made a prediction on the team sizes, here's the link. Let's see how I did.
 
First the following nations qualified, but I didn't predict.

 
Nations which I thought would qualify, but did not.

 
Overall not too bad, the ones that I missed were not active a year ago and only qualified one athlete. Kenya technically qualified, but the athlete was not selected and I made my prediction before finding out North Korea will isolate itself until COVID passes. Cayman Islands was a bad pick since I thought an already retired athlete would try to qualify.
 
The following nations I underestimated (predicted a smaller team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 59 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 6 athletes
- 5 athletes
- 5 athletes
 
Sorry Denmark, but in my defense they were the first reserves in curling and one win away from qualifying in ice hockey. Unfortunately for me, the nation qualified in those four team events, account for 58 athletes. I kind of knew I was underestimating Australia given its restrictive travel regulations so I'm not surprised that I was off by a lot. I also missed the mark on Jamaica considering how small their team is. I originally only had them qualifying in women's monobob, but they were able to barely sneak in the two men's events.
 
The following nations I overestimated (predicted a larger team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 33 athletes
- 32 athletes
- 12 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 9 athletes
- 6 athletes
 
Originally I had Germany and Norway qualifying ice hockey teams which explains why they are at the top of the list, but even if we ignore that both nations would remain on the list with 10 and 7 athletes respectively. One weakness from my prediction is I didn't take into account whether a nation will decline quotas which is why you see a lot of the big European nation here.

About a year ago I made a prediction on the team sizes, here's the link. Let's see how I did.
 
First the following nations qualified, but I didn't predict.

 
Nations which I thought would qualify, but did not.

 
Overall not too bad, the ones that I missed were not active a year ago and only qualified one athlete. Kenya technically qualified, but the athlete was not selected and I made my prediction before finding out North Korea will isolate itself until COVID passes. Cayman Islands was a bad pick since I thought an already retired athlete would try to qualify.
 
The following nations I underestimated (predicted a smaller team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 59 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 6 athletes
- 5 athletes
- 5 athletes
 
Sorry Denmark, but in my defense they were the first reserves in curling and one win away from qualifying in ice hockey. Unfortunately for me, the nation qualified in those four team events, account for 58 athletes. I kind of knew I was underestimating Australia given its restrictive travel regulations so I'm not surprised that I was off by a lot. I also missed the mark on Jamaica considering how small their team is. I originally only had them qualifying in women's monobob, but they were able to barely sneak in the two men's events.
 
The following nations I overestimated (predicted a larger team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 33 athletes
- 32 athletes
- 12 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 9 athletes
- 6 athletes
 
Originally I had Germany and Norway qualifying ice hockey teams which explains why they are at the top of the list, but even if we ignore that both nations would remain on the list with 10 and 7 athletes respectively. One weakness from my prediction is I didn't take into account whether a nation will decline quotas which is why you see a lot of the big European nation here.

About a year ago I made a prediction on the team sizes, here's the link. Let's see how I did.
 
First the following nations qualified, but I didn't predict.

 
Nations which I thought would qualify, but did not.

 
Overall not too bad, the ones that I missed were not active a year ago and only qualified one athlete. Kenya technically qualified, but the athlete was not selected and I made my prediction before finding out North Korea will isolate itself until COVID passes. Cayman Islands was a bad pick since I thought an already retired athlete would try to qualify.
 
The following nations I underestimated (predicted a smaller team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 59 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 6 athletes
- 5 athletes
- 5 athletes
 
Sorry Denmark, but in my defense they were the first reserves in curling and one win away from qualifying in ice hockey. Unfortunately for me, the nation qualified in those four team events, account for 58 athletes. I kind of knew I was underestimating Australia given its restrictive travel regulations so I'm not surprised that I was off by a lot. I also missed the mark on Jamaica considering how small their team is. I originally only had them qualifying in women's monobob, but they were able to barely sneak in the two men's events.
 
The following nations I overestimated (predicted a larger team) by at least five athletes.
 
- 33 athletes
- 32 athletes
- 12 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 11 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 10 athletes
- 9 athletes
- 6 athletes
 
Originally I had Germany and Norway qualifying ice hockey teams which explains why they are at the top of the list, but even if we ignore that both nations would remain on the list with 10 and 7 athletes respectively. One weakness from my prediction is I didn't take into account whether a nation will decline quotas which is why you see a lot of the big European nation here.

22-26 medals for Canada

Yeah things are tight. 106 quotas went to nations which only used the basic quota while the other 40 basic quotas went to nations who qualified athletes through other criteria which means a few are getting a free ride despite being from a large nation. This only leaves 160 athletes who qualified by merit which averages around 16 athletes per individual event. While athletes do compete in more than one event, that's pretty tight.
 
If I controlled things I would boost it up to 24 unique athletes per event plus 100 for small nations for a total of 340 quotas.

Money is a big issue. Also for some nations funding is tied to performance at the Olympics and it's better to have five top 10 results than five top 10 results + one 30th result.

Winter sports do need a more diverse set of tripartite quotas. Not all nations perform alpine/cross-country skiing.

@heywoodu must be extremely happy and proud now. Congratulations, @brunamoura! So happy for you!
 

She is, as she was part of Canada's junior team and switched.

The tournament is CANCELLED!!!!!!
 
https://www.tsn.ca/iihf-world-junior-hockey-championship-edmonton-red-deer-cancellation-1.1739952