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Down goes Schulting

Looks like it came down to time

Kingsbury!!!

Not the cleanest run for Horishima

Congrats Slovenia! Good chance of another gold in the mixed team event too

Couple close calls but both Canadians through in the 1000m as well

Meanwhile in ski jumping, Strate is through to the next round while Loutitt got DQ'd

Bronze it is, Schouten wins as expected

6-1 now. Sweden absolutely crushing Switzerland

Is it? Brunelle has the innermost lane and I think her only challenger is Santos.

Yeah, that's exactly what they did in Vancouver in 2010. I remember everything being scheduled really early compared to the last few games.

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.