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Yeah, you can see he glided a bit to avoid him instead of skating.

Well, Canada's time was better than the Italians in the men's pursuit. So that's something.

I'm not sure if having Weidemann lead the whole way is sustainable at the Olympics with multiple rounds, but we'll see what happens.

Very close to the Japanese, too!

Connor Howe, uh, not on form I guess.

Hey, see how the the Dutch guy laid back and let Stolz go when they were about to converge on that exchange? Yeah, that's what's supposed to happen, Japanese dude.

I don't know the rules or practices at all, but if possible they should demand a re-race. That was bullshit. Even after the DQ, the Japanese guy got in his way on the curve.

Drubreuil got totally screwed by his race partner.

Funny that the first pair tied, and Laurent was 0.01 ahead of them, though.

Laurent just got screwed up by his partner there. That sucks.

Canada interrupting the Dutch sweep.

Lamarche with a great PB!

Yeah, but he's 10 years younger.

I know the distance races are often for the older guys, but to drop you PB by that much at 29 is impressive (and surprising). Jilek dropped his by 10 seconds earlier, but he's 19. Sidenote: Didn't realize Bloemen was 39.

Wow, PB by almost 7 seconds. Maybe we'll see it broken again tonight?

Should also add, Alexa Scott got 2nd in the 1000M B division.

Takes almost 3 seconds off her PB! Weidemann takes 5th, Blondin 8th, Hall 13th. Looking good for the pursuit!

Maltais sneaks in for the silver! A bit of a surprise, but not really. She's been rising. 2nd, 5th, and 8th. Canada will take it! Edit: Sorry, and 13th!

I don't know if it was that intentional. It's not like Summer has beaten Ledecky at that distance at a major event, anyway. Like TM said, the 200 fits right into her schedule now, and with Titmus gone, she has a very good shot at gold there. It's not a bad thing to have her focus on that instead, maybe dragging the relay back on the podium. What they should have done, especially with the addition of the 50s, is eliminate the semis for the 200 distances. They are rarely, if ever, necessary given the numbers. If Canada were stronger in the relays, Summer would have a shot at 8 medals in LA (200 fly, 200 IM, 200 Free, 400 IM, 400 Free, 3 relays). But hey, if they banned China like they should have in Paris, she would have had 7 medals (and 2 in Tokyo). It's crazy that the corruption of China/WADA has cost Summer/Canada 5 medals (so far!). Something tells me, if it was the other way around it wouldn't have quite worked out that way. Sorry, had to edit because I forgot about Summer's 400m free in Tokyo. So it's 5 more medals she would have had. 5 medals have been stolen from her. FIVE.

ugh, what a luger....

Jays had multiple opportunities to win it, and just refused to take yes for an answer. The baseball gods seemed to hate them, too.

With the return of NHLers, I bet they're going to go all out. They're going to get casuals and hockey fans screaming at short track.

I'm actually hosting a murder mystery party. The game will be on, I just can't pay attention to it as I would like. But are we arguing that we don't want it wrapped up on Friday? Halloween horror against the favourites! The lore is right there.

Imma need them to finish on Friday, because I'm busy on Saturday. K, tnx, byeeee.

Now it's a 3 game series with the Jays having home field advantage.