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Great! The award is our! :-D

Interesting article: https://www.nhl.com/news/jamaica-aiming-for-goal-of-bringing-hockey-team-to-2026-olympics/c-326898064

have advanced to the Olympic Qualification Tournament.  both came very close, only losing by 1 stone each.

Poland beats Netherlands 3-2 our girls scored all 3 goals in last 8 minutes 

@Hipooo told me in PM that he is in.

have all advanced to the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Mixed Doubles. 

First 3 Beijing 2022 Olympians has been named today.
 
Jaro "Stop" Halák will finally return to the NT 
 

 
 
and also the first Košice born Beijing 2022 Olympian is in the group. Erik "Drago" Černák
 
 

They're already barely ever holding regular relays though, this only seems like something that will cut that down even further.

I actually don't hate this idea for relays because it would make them more competitive esp. for smaller nations. Mixed team sprint seems unnecessary as hell though. CC already has so many events.

Czech Republic: Ondrej Palat (Tampa Bay Lightning), David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins), Jakub Voracek (Columbus Blue Jackets)
 
 Finland: Sebastian Aho (Carolina Hurricanes), Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers), Mikko Rantanen (Colorado Avalanche)
 
 United States: Seth Jones (Chicago Blackhawks), Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs)

Even more bizarre, was the BUL coach decision to pull the goalie for an extra player at score 77-0
 

As qualifying starts in a few days, here's my funniest ever women's ice hockey moment from the 2010 edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RypeKwtL4U&ab_channel=Stecak
 
@hckošice "Anna Dzurnakova, number 14, team Slovakie. Ten minutes for misconduct, plus match penalty" 

As qualifying starts in a few days, here's my funniest ever women's ice hockey moment from the 2010 edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RypeKwtL4U&ab_channel=Stecak
 
@hckošice "Anna Dzurnakova, number 14, team Slovakie. Ten minutes for misconduct, plus match penalty" 

Canada has named its first three to the men's hockey squad.
 
Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby and Alex Pietrangelo. 

This list should give you a good idea of Team  players. All the ones with a Chinese flag next to their name. To China’s credit all appear to have some form of Chinese heritage.
 
IIHF told me they weren’t relaxing the eligibility rules for China and eg. Jake Chelios has no Chinese flag next to his name so I assume no more naturalizations?
 
Question is if that means no waiver for eg. Ethan Werek which is a 4 year case as he once represented Canada
 
 

I meant to share this a few days ago. It provides a short overview of Vatican City sport.
 

Preview of the upcoming Pre-Olympic Qualification Event: https://worldcurling.org/2021/09/pre-oqe2021-preview/?utm_campaign=pre-OQE+preview

Looks like the new IIHF president Luc Tardif has more balls than uncle oberfuhrer Rene.
 
Just two days after his election he threatened to be kicked out of the olympic tournament (if yes, will be then replaced by )
 
Luc Tardif:
 
This question really arises for the men's team, not for the women's team [...] There are going to be games for the China team that will be overseen by an IIHF official and a decision will be made afterwards [...] Watching a team being beaten 15-0 is not good for anyone, not for China or for ice hockey. [...] If it is not possible for China, we need a plan B and it will be (decided) by the 'ranking' of Norway.
 
 
Apparently China will have to play a quasi-qualifying match against an another national team during the October international break, and based on the result it will be decided whether they are fit to take part in the Olympics.
 

 

Should limit it to 8 teams max, and perhaps of the placements being added, the scores maybe? Either way when you do a team event for an individual sport, it will always lead to the predictable result.

Only 10 nations have enough quotas to be eligible for the team event, so we already know which are qualified regardless of rankings.
         
 
Debuts for Georgia and Czech Republic (!). No France for the first time.   

is officially a member of the UCI

Olympic qualification situation after the men’s short program:  /
 
Olympic qualification situation after the pairs’ short program:  /

You can take a test to see if you have antibodies from COVID. Really simple stuff. If you can verify vaccines you can verify natural immunity.

It’s silly how they aren’t giving exemptions for athletes with natural immunity (which is stronger than vaccine immunity).

Look who they've got as næstformand DIF at the Copenhagen half marathon. Looks a lot younger while he's at it!