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The disappointments still outweigh the positives, by a mile actually but well…(someone should make a thread for that?)
 
For  Canada, in no specific order;
A lot of these are similar to @Topicmaster1010's, but the same moments are standing out to me, there's also one that I'm not ready to mention yet because even though I'm proud of him, at the same time I'm still very disappointed about it. 
 
- Rachel Homan finally winning an Olympic medal after receiving a lot of hate after Pyeongchang 2018 and Beijing 2022 for not making the playoffs in either, she deserves this more than anyone. Also her triple takeout in the 8th against Sweden
- Entire cross country skiing team, no words to describe their performance, except saying they're easily the Canadian team of the Olympics and my expectations were blew out of the water. 
- Piper Gilles/Paul Porier winning an Olympic medal in ice dance, three years ago, Gilles had a cancer diagnosis which put her dreams in jeopardy. Also very special given how many times they've been screwed over by judges this season. 
- One of the greatest to ever do it in freestyle skiing, Mikael Kingsbury, winning gold in the Olympic debut of dual moguls in likely his last event at an Olympic Games.  
- "Sparky" Mark McMorris, coming back from that nasty hard crash during big air training, to not only compete in slopestyle, but finish third in qualifications and land a run in the final to finish 8th. 
- Brad Jacobs winning gold in men's curling as a big "fuck you" to everyone who has been accusing him of cheating online (I still like Edin but still), mostly people who don't understand curling ofc 
- Kelsey Mitchell fulfilling her dreams of becoming a dual summer-winter Olympian finishing 13th in 2-women bobsleigh, after only 8 months of competing in this sport. Insane! 
- Stephen Gogolev finishing 5th in the men's figure skating event, thought top 10-15 would've been what could realistically be expected.
- Megan Oldham winning her first Olympic medal with a bronze in slopestyle, then later on winning a gold in big air, after finishing 4th in big air in Beijing. 
- Deanna Stellato-Dudek becoming an Olympian after hitting her head during a training accident, which had her and Maxime Deschamps miss the figure skating team event.  
- Valerie Maltais winning three Olympic medals in speed skating at 35, team pursuit gold, and 1500m/3000m bronze. At most you could've hoped for 2, one of the 3000m/mass start and the team pursuit. Her winning a medal in the 1500m, can't have imagined it beyond my wildest dreams, it was her first international podium in this event. It's also likely her last Olympics. 
- Brendan Mackay coming up clutch on his last run to win an unexpected bronze in halfpipe as he didn't compete much this season, that being said he did win an event this season. 
- Laurent Dubreuil's surprise medal in the 500m in speed skating
- Courtney Sarault winning four medals, most medals by a Canadian at a Winter Olympics since Klassen in 2006, even though I choose to try and forget about short track. 
 
Then International Athletes, in no specific order;
 Johan-Olav Botn pointing to the heavens to honour Sivert-Guttorm Bakken   Benny Karl winning back-to-back golds in parallel giant slalom, ofc  Totallympian  @brunamoura's Olympic debut (we are all so proud of you) Men's freestyle skiing big air final, we were blessed with some insane tricks from the boys   I don’t know if I’ll be able to witness that high of a level in a competition in the next few decades  AJ Ginnis' farewell run, because it meant him becoming an Olympian  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo creating history as the first athlete to win 6 Olympic golds in a single games One of the greatest alpine skiers of all time,  Federica Brignone, winning her long awaited Olympic gold, and a few days later winning another one, the more special one to me was the super-G though  Kacper Tomasiak becoming one of the breakout stars of the games with 3 medals  female biathlon team   Von Allmen with an incredible Olympic debut, with 3 golds   Nazgul, the dog, crossing the finish line during women's team sprint qualifications   Suvi Minkinnen and especially  Teresa Vobronikova winning bronze medals in biathlon    winning three medals in ski mountaineering, and especially Oriol Cardona Coll with the gold More on ski mountaineering,  Marianne Fatton winning gold in the women's event, she seems like a nice person and a great ambassador for the sport.   Mikhail Shaidorov upsetting Malinin to win gold in men's figure skating  Sturla Holm Lægrid admitting to cheating on his girlfriend publicly in an interview (kidding)   Nadja Käelin coming from out of nowhere, and having an incredible Olympics  Hassleborg and Isabella/Rasmus Wråna winning double gold for Sweden in curling, continuing their legacy in this sport, very happy for all of them as they are all some of my favourite curlers.  Tirinzoni winning an Olympic medal in what is likely to be her last Olympics after seeing how dominant she's been ever since the 2018-19 season, same with Pätz if she does hang up her broom.   Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara's WR in the pairs free skate   Viktor Thorup medal in the mass start, even though the race was boring  Eileen Gu winning gold in halfpipe, after her grandmother passed away the very same day. She didn't know about it until after the event, but I think to me with how she performed, her grandmother seemed to be giving her that extra bit of strength from above.  Medal for  Henry Sildaru in halfpipe, and not only a final but a top 8 for  Benjamin Lynch   Elina Ieva Bota winning a medal in women's singles luge  Finland’s success in nordic combined with 3 medals, Eero Hirvonen and Ilkka Herola   A few curling shots that stood out,  Mouat's run quadruple in the 7th end against Switzerland in the semifinals,  Muskatewitz's quadruple runback double in the 1st end against China and his spinner in the 5th end against Czechia (definitely a few that I'm missing) Just seeing how happy everyone was every time one of their athletes either medaled, or did better than expectations, definitely was one of them. 

On my way back to Milan now.
Will take a look at the cauldron and maybe a bit more "Olympic tourism" before I have a concert in the evening.
It has been a blast and I'm sure that I'll be back for some biathlon in Antholz some day. More generally this certainly won't be my last time going to winter sports (strongly considering the Worlds in Falun next year).
 
Milano... Well. I guess I'll be back in the future, but mainly to see some of the historic sights and would also love to see a match at San Siro before demolition.
 
And @heywoodu A dane cheered for @brunamoura. Now you can cheer a bit for Anne today  

@brunamoura found me 

So tomorrow our only chance for decent result in Cross Country, with Šimenc and Štern in men's competition, maybe even for top 10.
 
And don't forget, team  second leg, with our member @brunamouraat 10:05, good luck. 

Swedish TV also has a nice interview with @brunamoura lovely emotional stuff! 

Surreal is for sure a correct way to describe it, the entire day  
 
From seeing her, of course (first while she was warming up and we saw each other for the first time there), to sitting waiting for the finals to begin and suddenly someone coming up and "you must be Bruna's family? I'm from the NOS and I am here for Bruna! I just talked to her already and she is coming here she said, now can I ask you a few things?" (NOS is the Dutch public broadcaster)  

So happy for both of you @heywoodu and @brunamoura! It must be a surreal experience in the best way possible!  
 
Proud to be in the same forum as you guys 
 

@brunamoura (and @heywoodu?) featured in a video of our national broadcaster NOS speaking fluent Dutch!
 
Congrats on your Olympic debut, amazing to see those emotions. 
 
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmwTmvD/

@brunamoura hugging evryone in the finish line 
 

Great race!

Whoever was cheering for Bruna and Duda in the stands was fantastic.  Spectacular performance by our athletes.
 
Congratulations @brunamoura. 

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

Go @brunamoura 
 
Enjoy your moment!

Lucas Braathen talking about @brunamoura  
 
After around 60 seconds.
 

In short, last nights Ceremony was quite good, but too long. Mariah singing in Italian was funny, athletes parade was done quite good, though you notice with smaller delegations people are missing, with bigger nations you don't even notice so much place diversity.
 
Nice for Goggia to lite the flame in Cortina, wonder how often active athlete had this honour.
 
And also happy for @brunamourato represent Brazil and also Totallympics community in the best possible way. 
 
All the best to all athletes and to others enjoy those good two weeks cheering and supporting. 

Good luck @brunamoura also from Slovenia, I went on skies in Planica last Sunday and thinking on these courses, what have you went through to live your Olympic dreams. Also, @heywoodu, take care for her, if you ever visit our country, let me know, you are more than welcome. 😊

I think @brunamoura is still enjoying herself somewhat.
 

 

Unfortunately this Moncler thing (the clothing sponsor for Brazil tonight) doesn't let her enter the stadium with the balloon she had wanted for years   (very long story very short, but it's basically her symbol for never giving up even when things get beyond tough, although the fact that she has orange balloons with her of course are also a small tribute towards )
 
She'll make some nice photos at the Olympic rings with it then, later on.

So happy for her, she deserves it more than words can explain 

@brunamoura & paessi bassi amigo @heywoodu this is for you
 

Good luck @brunamoura @heywoodu enjoy the Games! And i keep my fingers crossed for the really good results !

What about some official ? a certain Cross-Country team captain 

Thank you so much 😁 I have no doubts about that!!

Thank you so much 😁 I have no doubts about that!!

Thank you so much!!