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Reading and watching videos about this subject, I would love in 3 months we all look back and say it was an overreaction. I just lost my mother and my aunt (my closest relative) in the last year to cancer. Now I live with my dad who isn't super old, but is within the danger zone. To think of losing him to COVID now is painful. Moving the Olympics a year sucks because I was really looking forward to it as always. But priorities have shifted. I am a history teacher. It's not names and dates, it's the people. I always said this to my students, but now more than ever: We are history. What will they read about us? It's never been easier to be a hero. Literally, do nothing. And wash your hands! Stay safe, friends!

Just brought this to the Canada thread. Late as usual!

Happened a week ago, but Laurence Vincent Lapointe has been cleared by the International Canoe Federation of alleged doping from this past summer. She's a gold medal favourite in two events, so that's great for Canada and the sport. Always good to have the best compete, especially in a new discipline. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/canoe-kayak/laurence-vincent-lapointe-doping-verdict-1.5441395

I used to live and work in China, and still have many local and foreign friends there. I lived near Shanghai, so not around Wuhan. It would be like New York City vs Oklahoma City. It is the Lunar New Year holiday there, so people are already traveling all around the country and beyond. Some of my Chinese friends cut their vacations short so they could get a flight back home before airlines/countries discontinued service. They're not too concerned besides now trying to deal with the closed borders. We're all in education, so teachers not returning after break and students staying home is the problem. Local governments have already extended the "holiday" by a week to see what happens, but most schools have started to set up online classes. Foreign friends cannot get back into the country. Maybe are working to extend "vacations". That might sound fun, but it's a mad scramble right now logistically. They left their homes thinking they'd be gone 2-3 weeks, and now are locked out for lord knows how long. Who knows if they'll get paid while this is going on, but they have to arrange flights and hotels and everything else. But the worst is the foreigners who had friends/family visit over the break. Now it's a dash trying to get them out of the country. Stories of Westerners with Chinese spouses and mixed children being torn between being evacuated by their government of staying with their families. Trying to get visiting relatives through checkpoints and to the the airports. All the same, China gets a bad rap but it's a pretty cool place. Sad to see this happening. Racists gonna racist, but the country is beautiful and the people are delightful. People blaming their way of life need to consider that 20% of the world's population lives in China. Chances are poop's going to start there.

She'll always have her bobsleigh bronze medal!

Canada's protest against the USA in the relay has been denied. I would still love to see a replay since everyone saw problems in real time.

Hmmm... That would put 9 teams in the final. It's frustrating that Canada had a better time than both USA and Italy, but they did finish 6th in their heat.

That's great and all, but I wonder why. It'll just move Italy into the final. We'd need someone from heat 2 to get DSQ to make the final.

Canada out by thousandths of a second, ugh. Always suspicious to me when the don't show replays of dsq or near dsq. Maybe I've just watched too much NHL.

I'd like to see the replay on that. The second exchange for the USA looked a bit sketchy. Edit: Maybe it was the 3rd exchange.

To be fair, Yu Wang deserved it.

I also don't like fantasy (I'm more of a hard sci-fi guy myself) but GoT drew me in. It did spin its wheels for a while in the middle seasons and the ending was underwhelming. But there were some great stories along the way. I also think watching them without 1-2 years between seasons would help.

Why do you say that?

Basically, it came down to De Grasse. He won 3/6 of the medals in athletics for Canada in Rio. He's been injured and hasn't really produced since then, so it just depended on whether he was back in form for Doha or not. He definitely seems to be, so going to Tokyo Canada has some good shots at some medals. Warner was expected, but Dunphee in race walking and Ahmed in the 5000 were surprises. Not huge shocks since both of them finished 4th in Rio, but they're still probably not favourites for medals next year. I'm happy with Canada's performance so far. Not just medals, but making finals and semis as well. The only disappointment, if you can call it that, is Warner. But with decathlon, anything can and often does happen.

Not illegal, just impolite. Sorry.

With Mayer out, that was Canada's only real shot at gold here. Unless the 4x100 M team can work magic, which is not impossible given De Grasse and Brown's performances in Doha so far. Still, it's a long shot. Sage Watson could put together a surprise tomorrow in the 400 hurdles since she's been having a great season, but even a medal for her would be incredible. 5 medals so far, and another 1 or 2 would be great leading to Tokyo. For years Canada had nothing in swimming or the track, and Rio gave us 6 medals in each. Canada just got their most medals at the swimming champs this year, and could tie their most in Doha with some break throughs (8 medals). So that's nice.

I think Warner is on his way out. But at least we have LePage!

To go with our 200 silvers from the PanAms.

So basically it's a race for the medals in the 1500m. Whatever order Warner, Uibo and Kaul finish in, that's the medals most likely.

Kind of sad to think that if Mayer didn't get injured Warner probably wouldn't even have gotten a medal here. Heck, Victor may have surpassed him.

Unless Warner has a massive throw in his last try, they're basically tied going into the 1500m, but Kaul has a much better PB.

I think that basically gives him the gold.

Yeah, Warner, Uibo and Shkurenov are all pretty even in the remaining events and tied (or pretty much tied) right now. It'll be an interesting finish for sure.

Kaul is only favoured to win by 45 points right now, but Warner has thrown javelin much better this season than they predict (using his PB overall score). So anything can happen.

There always seems to be someone who steps up against Warner. He had a disappointing discus and pv. But who knows how it'll end.