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Shohei Ohtani is the first MLB player to ever hit 50 homeruns and steal 50 bases in a season!!!

Probably so that Chinese and Korean viewers can watch at a friendly time, although it's weird that two sessions are in the morning and four at night

Schedule I found this link through Wikipedia so I'm not sure how accurate it is or if it's legit. It didn't show up on the official site or through google search for me. If this is actually the schedule, then it was approved already on March 13. Some things I noticed about the schedule: Alpine Skiing While the last two Olympics mixed the speed and slalom throughout the schedule, these Olympics will go back to featuring the speed events + combined in the first week and the slalom events in the 2nd week Biathlon All events happen in the late morning/early afternoon. Now that the Olympics are back in Europe as opposed to East Asia, there is no need to schedule the biathlon events late at night to accommodate European Primetime Curling Like the previous two Olympics, there's curling every day but the mixed doubles morning session starts at 10:00 instead of 9:00 Figure Skating The order of events in the team competition looks like it's been reversed (so women's short program is first and the men's is last). For the individual events, ice dance comes first followed by the men, pairs, and then women. Notably the ice dance and men's short programs are on back to back days. Freestyle Skiing/Snowboarding All of the big air and halfpipe finals are at night to accommodate US primetime. Slopestyle finals however are still in the afternoon. On the contrary, moguls and aerials events will take place during the morning/early afternoon. They were at night at least for the last 4 Olympics. The snowboarding big air events are the first events to occur and the men's qualification falls before the Opening Ceremony on Day -1. First time it's taken place before slopestyle. Slopestyle events have been moved to Days 11 and 12. On the contrary, for freestyle skiing, the slopestyle events now proceed the big air events. The slopestyle events are on Days 3 and 4 while the big air events are on Days 11 and 12. They basically swapped places from the 2022 schedule. Moguls events are now during the middle of the first week as opposed to the first weekend when it would usually take place. The dual moguls events will make its debut during the second weekend Mixed Team Aerials is now at the very end of the freestyle skiing program on Day 15. The individual aerials events are now in the middle of the 2nd week as opposed to the 2nd weekend/beginning of the 2nd week. Ice Hockey Some of the days have staggered start times as opposed to multiple games starting at the same time Women's Gold medal game scheduled at night once again Luge Both the men's and women's doubles are on the same day Short Track The order of events looks the same but there are a couple of sessions that take place in the morning. In the last two Olympics, the sessions were all at night. Skeleton Mixed team event takes place after both individual events Ski Jumping Women's Large Hill will make it's debut during the 2nd Saturday of the Games. Ski Mountaineering First time this has been held at the Olympics. Both men's/women's sprints are on Day 13 (February 19) and the mixed relay is on Day 15 (February 21) Speed Skating The 1000m and 1500m events have swapped places in the schedule with the 1000m events taking place on Days 3 and 5 while the 1500m events take place on Days 13 and 14

CANADA Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway Using my song entry to pay respects to a Canadian music legend who sadly passed away last year. Gordon Lightfoot has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and a pioneer of 1960's and 70's folk-pop music.

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Much improved performances in athletics and swimming compared to 3 years ago. It feels like Tokyo was the Aurelie Rivard and Brent Lakatos show while this year, the medals have been more spread out.

Worth noting that Sebastian Massabie broke the Paralympic record in the heats this morning

Bronze for Tess Routliffe

Gonna bring back the memes for one day

Also with an Americas record

Mens wheelchair basketball team advanced to the semifinals

Sounds like there could be some MLB players playing in the Premier 12 tournament in November

Bronze for Austin Smeenk!

and it's official! Denmark qualified

Well our summer paralympic medal count has declined every year since 2000 so it wouldn't be surprising

Latvia qualified

After 2 periods, Denmark leads 2-1. Norway was leading for most of the game but Denmark struck quickly for two goals near the end of the 2nd period

Kyle Tremblay heading to the quarterfinals

Silver medal for Rachel Forsyth in the Girls 1500m at the U20 Championships! Finished with a time of 4:17.94

French crowd goes wild as both Portal brothers make the podium

Silver for Nicholas Bennett

I think you mean 8:44. Nearly had a heart attack when I saw that 8:24 time

I'm watching the replay now. Looks like they were both working together for most of the race since they were well ahead of the field. Like what happens in a cycling race.

And Denmark avoids a scare and wins it in overtime

Both Amanda Rummery and Brent Lakatos advance to their respective finals