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Excited for the big stuff to finally begin! What's everyone looking forward to? I will personally be trying to catch all of the medal events but will be most interested in seeing whether or not Kingsbury can defend his title.

Day 1 (February 5) Canadian Schedule *[] show starting positions for events with interval starts * will try to update as the day goes on * bolded events are medal events February 4 21:45: Snowboarding- Women’s Slopestyle- Qualification- Run 1 (Laurie Blouin [17th], Jasmine Baird [20th], Brooke Voigt [26th]) 22:47: Snowboarding- Women’s Slopestyle- Qualification- Run 2 23:10: Ice Hockey- Women’s Preliminary Round- Group A: Canada vs. Finland February 5 1:05: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 8: Sweden vs. Canada 1:20: Ski Jumping- Men’s Individual NH- Qualification Round (Matthew Soukup [14th], Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes [22nd]) 2:45: Cross-Country Skiing- Women’s 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon (Katherine Stewart Jones, Dahria Beatty, Cendrine Browne, Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt) 3:30: Speed Skating- Women’s 3000m (see below) Pair 5: Valerie Maltais, Natalia Voronina Pair 8: Martina Sablikova, Ivanie Blondin Pair 9: Isabelle Weidemann, Ragne Wiklund 4:00: Biathlon- Mixed 4x6km Relay (Sarah Beaudry -> Emma Lunder -> Christian Gow -> Scott Gow) 5:00: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Moguls- Qualification 2 (Laurent Dumais [13th]) 5:45: Ski Jumping- Women’s Individual NH- 1st Round (Abigail Strate [15th], Alexandria Loutitt [16th]) 6:00: Short Track- Women’s 500m- Heats (see below) Heat 3: Kim Boutin, Petra Jaszapati, Corinne Stoddard, Ekaterina Efremenkova Heat 5: Arianna Fontana, Alyson Charles, Zhang Yuting, Michaela Hruzova Heat 6: Florence Brunelle, Kristen Santos, Tifany Huot Marchand, Patrycja Maliszewska 6:10: Luge- Men’s Singles- Run 1 (Reid Watts [14th]) 6:30: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Moguls- Final 1 (Mikael Kingsbury) 6:35: Ski Jumping- Women's Individual NH- Final Round (Abigail Strate) 6:38: Short Track- Men’s 1000m- Heats (see below) Heat 3: Semen Elistratov, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Wu Dajing, Miyata Shogo Heat 4: Pascal Dion, Vladislav Bykanov, Adil Galiakhmetov, Lee Juneseo 7:05: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 9: United States vs. Canada 7:05: Freestyle Skiing- Men's Moguls- Final 2 7:23: Short Track- Mixed Team Relay- Quarterfinals (lineup TBA) Heat 2: Netherlands, Canada, France, Kazakhstan 7:40: Freestyle Skiing- Men's Moguls- Final 3 7:50: Luge- Men’s Singles- Run 2 7:53: Short Track- Mixed Team Relay- Semifinals

No, CBC, I do not want to see the Americans walking for two minutes instead of American Samoa or Virgin Islands

So assuming the official site is right, in order to make the free programs, Madeline Schizas needs to either finish two places ahead of Italy to tie, three places ahead of Italy to overtake them finish four places ahead of Japan to tie, five places ahead of Japan to overtake them finish five places ahead of China to tie, six places ahead of China to overtake them Not sure how the tie breaker rules work but either way, not looking too great

Potentially. Good chance we're only going to get 3 points from the men's short program and if Japan gets 10 we'll be 7 points down. Not an easy deficit to come back from. But then again, there's a reason why they skate. Anyone can have a meltdown on any given day.

Wow, congrats! That's awesome.

Not the greatest skate for Sadovsky

Well, they could've also just had a volunteer carry the flag. It's happened before

Benjamin Maier (bobsleigh) & Julia Dujmovits (snowboarding) https://www.olympia.at/main.asp?kat1=87&kat2=538&DDate=02022022&NID=31572 Richardson Viano (alpine skiing) Arif Mohd Khan (alpine skiing) https://olympics.com/en/news/beijing-2022-flagbearers-opening-ceremony

Brendan Kerry (figure skating) & Laura Peel (freestyle skiing) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-03/beijing-2022-winter-olympics-australian-flag-bearer/100803386 Shannon Abeda (alpine skiing) https://snowbrains.com/athlete-spotlight-eritreas-first-winter-olympian-back-for-round-two-in-beijing-2022-winter-olympics1/ Martin Himma (cross-country skiing) & Kelly Sildaru (freestyle skiing) https://news.err.ee/1608486584/kelly-sildaru-one-of-estonia-s-winter-olympic-opening-ceremony-flag-bearers Francesco Friedrich (bobsleigh) & Claudia Pechstein (speed skating) https://www.dosb.de/sonderseiten/news/news-detail/news/pechstein-und-friedrich-tragen-die-fahne-ins-olympiastadion Marton Kekesi (alpine skiing) & Zita Toth (alpine skiing) https://m4sport.hu/peking2022/cikk/2022/02/02/megvannak-a-magyar-zaszlovivok-a-teli-olimpia-megnyitojan Finn Bilous (freestyle skiing) & Alice Robinson (alpine skiing) https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1118736/new-zealand-flag-bearers Andres Ambuehl (ice hockey) & Wendy Holdener (alpine skiing) https://www.swissolympicteam.ch/de/news/details?pageId=72ebf13b-6073-41e9-9a35-a313fa38f1d5&entryId=S113634 Andre Marcano (bobsleigh) https://newsday.co.tt/2022/02/03/andre-marcano-named-trinidad-and-tobagos-flagbearer-for-winter-olympics-opener/

Day 0 (February 4) Canadian Schedule February 3 19:35: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 5: Canada vs. Switzerland 20:55: Figure Skating- Team Event- Men’s- Short Program (Roman Sadovsky goes 2nd) 22:35: Figure Skating- Team Event- Ice Dance- Rhythm Dance (Pipes Gilles/Paul Poirier go 8th) February 4 0:15: Figure Skating- Team Event- Pairs- Short Program (Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro go 7th) 0:35: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 6: China vs. Canada 7:00 Opening Ceremony

Mixed day overall I would say. Homan and Morris haven't been at their best but it was nice to see them almost beat Great Britain and get a win against the reigning bronze medalists to stay in the hunt for the playoffs. Hopefully they can regain their form tomorrow and be able to work as a team again. Dominant win from the women's hockey team. Unfortunate that Daoust had to get injured but fingers crossed that it isn't too serious. Nice to see Kingsbury and Justine Dufour-Lapointe qualify. I was honestly only expecting Kingsbury to qualify so it's nice to see two Canadians advance. Chloe Dufour-Lapointe should be safe to advance too since they count your best of two runs for the final. Gagnon should also hopefully be safe. Dumais has some work to do though. He seems to like to go really big so hopefully he can tone down his difficulty slightly so that he can be clean.

How bad did it look?

Yeah, definitely not a great game, but Canada also struggled in the first game in 2018 too and went on a tear the rest of the way. Not concerned yet. On the other hand, having Great Britain, Norway and Switzerland as the first 3 opponents is a brutal trio of games to start the tournament.

Yeah, definitely a very interesting theme. I was kind of hoping they would bring back the theme from 2008 to be honest.

Denni Xhepa (alpine skiing) https://www.albanianews.it/sport/diaspora-denni-xhepa-rappresentera-albania-giochi-di-pechino Sarah Escobar (alpine skiing) https://www.wcax.com/2022/01/27/st-michaels-sarah-escobar-becomes-first-woman-represent-ecuador-winter-olympics/ Valtteri Filppula (ice hockey) https://www.yardbarker.com/nhl/articles/valtteri_filppula_named_finlands_flag_bearer_for_2022_olympics_in_beijing/s1_16955_37149509

First day of Canadian action coming up! Day -1 (February 3) Canadian Schedule February 2 (times in Eastern time) 20:05: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 2: Great Britain vs. Canada (Rachel Homan, John Morris) 23:10: Ice Hockey- Women’s Preliminary Round- Group A: Switzerland vs. Canada February 3 5:00: Freestyle Skiing- Women’s Moguls- Qualification #1 (Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Sofiane Gagnon) 6:45: Freestyle Skiing- Men’s Moguls- Qualification #1 (Laurent Dumais, Mikael Kingsbury) 7:05: Curling- Mixed Doubles- Round Robin- Session 4: Norway vs. Canada

My plan is to start with CAN vs GBR curling followed by a bit of CAN vs SUI, sleep, wake up to watch women's moguls, sleep for another hour, wake up to watch men's moguls.

Sweden had a chance to tie and they blew it

Sweden with the steal of two to take the lead

I'm guessing Fillon Maillet will probably be the most popular answer on here but I voted for Johannes. He looked like he was in great shape at the last world cup stage in Antholz and was really fast on the course which like in Beijing was at high altitude. In the end, it'll all come down to his shooting.

Yeah 23 seems reasonable, though they predicted Canada to win 4 of the 6 medals in men's snowboard slopestyle/big air . I noticed that there were some other Canadians medal contenders that weren't predicted to win though like Brendan Mackay and Kim Boutin.

It would be fun to see Charles Hamelin win an individual medal in short track in his final olympics. Also Max Parrot winning a gold after beating cancer or a gold from one of our ice hockey teams.

So here's how AP predicted the medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze-Total) 1. Norway: 20-8-11-39 2. Germany: 10-8-7-25 3. United States: 8-16-14-38 4. China: 8-3-7-18 5. Sweden: 7-7-4-18 6. Netherlands: 7-5-7-19 7. Canada: 6-10-7-23 8. France: 6-7-8-21 9. Austria: 6-5-10-21 (note, this includes a medal for Kramer) 10. Switzerland: 6-4-5-15 11. Russian Olympic Committee: 5-14-8-27 12. Japan: 5-7-8-20 13. South Korea: 4-3-0-7 14. Italy: 3-0-2-5 15. Great Britain: 2-1-0-3 16. Slovakia: 1-2-0-3 16. New Zealand: 1-2-0-3 18. Czech Republic: 1-1-2-4 19. Finland: 1-1-1-3 20. Latvia: 1-1-0-2 21. Belgium: 1-0-0-1 22. Australia: 0-2-1-3 23. Slovenia: 0-1-0-1 23. Spain: 0-1-0-1 24. Belarus: 0-0-4-4 25. Hungary: 0-0-2-2 26. Estonia: 0-0-1-1 Once again, AP is using the strategy of "predicting every American that's a medal contender to be on the podium" and also using the strategy of "I hate Canada".

Yeah, I agree that by day would be better. Also Sindo, I believe you forgot to tag @orangeman