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Some fun facts: With Sarault and Brunelle winning the 1500m and 500m today, Canada has won each event at least once during this world tour season. 8 different Canadians have won an individual medal and 6 of them have won an individual gold medal.

Chiefs got destroyed (don't let the score fool you, it wasn't close) The eagles defense was absolutely dominant. You've gotta give major props to them.

As expected, there've been a few injuries before the tournament began and replacements have been announced. Here's a breakdown: Nation Position Injured Player Replacement Player D Alex Pietrangelo Drew Doughty D Miro Heiskanen Urho Vakaanainen D Jani Hakanpaa Henri Jokiharju D Rasmus Ristolainen Nikolas Matinaplo G Jacob Markstrom Samuel Ersson F William Karlsson Rickard Rakell D Quinn Hughes Jake Sanderson Heiskanen's injury is by far the biggest hit here as without him, Finland doesn't have another offensive-minded d-man to step up in his place.

Yes, I do plan on making qualification posts for other sports as we get closer to the qualification deadlines. Mostly for rankings lists that aren't made public by the sports federations. For now, you can find the biathlon rankings here and olympic allocation lists for freestyle skiing and snowboarding here

It's a bronze in the team relay! First World Championship medal this year

Another bronze for Liliane Gagnon in the U23 10km Interval Start

Embyr-Lee Susko finished 4TH in the women's singles at the World Championships. She had home track advantage but still a very impressive result

Going to be an interesting World Tour stop this weekend with the Asian games going on. Korea did not send a team to Tilburg and it looks like China and Kazakhstan have B teams. Japan looks to have most of their A team here but still missing some top skaters

Cam Alexander is out of the Super-G after crashing in the downhill training yesterday

Good luck to the people who have to select the mens snowboard slope style and big air team. Some world class snowboarders are going to be left off.

In the mens race, 2009 born Zachari Moreau finished 18th out of 71 finishers. He was the youngest athlete in the race.

Yes. I was going to post the list of countries that got a basic quota after the championships were over but I can just keep editing this post as I doubt that there'll be many more countries that earn the basic quota. The following NOC's have earned the basic quota (1 athlete) for the respective gender: Men: Women:

Oh the Tour de Ski Overall counts as well? That would explain the discrepancies then . I'm sure Brazil will be in the top 30 in the end given the top 3 athletes are scored and they have better depth than some of the countries at the bottom of the rankings.

Cross-Country Skiing NOC Quota Standings as of February 2nd These are the quotas that get allocated to NOCs after the basic quota (1 male + 1 female) is allocated to NOC's who have athletes that have the required amount of points. These standings are NOT the same as the World Cup Nations Cup. The Nations cup only gives points to the top 30 athletes in a race while the Olympic rankings give points to every athlete which partakes in a race and also includes World Championships and World Junior Championships results. I attempted to calculate the standings using this document as I don't believe the list has been made public yet. 4 quotas 3 quotas 2 quotas 1 quota Men Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 13185 2 Sweden 9254 3 France 8930 4 Finland 7746 5 United States 7291 6 Italy 6442 7 Germany 6336 8 Switzerland 6145 9 Czechia 4144 10 Canada 4037 11 Austria 4035 12 Great Britain 3434 13 Slovenia 3164 14 Estonia 3007 15 Australia 2129 16 Japan 1587 17 Latvia 1568 18 Poland 1441 19 Kazakhstan 1246 20 Andorra 1170 21 Spain 1170 22 Ireland 1161 23 Hungary 812 24 Ukraine 712 25 China 621 26 Thailand 336 27 Armenia 276 28 Romania 266 29 Slovakia 217 30 Bulgaria 193 31 Mongolia 137 32 Serbia 131 33 Argentina 118 34 Korea 115 35 Croatia 97 36 Chile 80 37 Colombia 76 38 North Macedonia 47 39 Lithuania 47 40 Belgium 45 41 Liechtenstein 39 Women Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 12310 2 Sweden 10634 3 Finland 9539 4 Germany 9529 5 United States 8562 6 Switzerland 6329 7 France 5039 8 Italy 4680 9 Canada 4533 10 Czechia 4298 11 Austria 3636 12 Estonia 2190 13 Slovenia 1885 14 Kazakhstan 1677 15 Ukraine 1304 16 Australia 1203 17 Poland 588 18 Japan 510 19 Latvia 442 20 Chinese Taipei 194 21 Andorra 183 22 Armenia 131 23 Korea 122

Uzbekistan may be able to get a medal in short track. I believe both of their athletes used to compete for Russia.

He's human after all

Also the first person to ever go under 34 seconds in the 500m at sea level

The Canadian site, CBC, put up an article today about the junior phenom Nela Lopusanova @hckošice

I know that. I was just wondering if any users on here have been keeping track of quotas since FIS likely won't make the qualification points list public until spring at the earliest. And judging by the lack of replies on here, it would seem like the answer is no unsurprisingly

At this rate, we'll be getting a retirement announcement from Klæbo by the end of next week.

Has anyone been keeping track of Olympic quotas by any chance? Some guy on wikipedia has been attempting to keep track and has linked which athlete has met the requirements but I haven't had the time to go through each athlete. Assuming wikipedia is correct, then UAE is set to make their Winter Olympic debut and would return to the games after missing 2022.

While the short course world championships were going on, the Ontario Junior International meet was also taking place (also in a 25m pool). 12 year old Shima Taghavi broke 4 national age group records including Summer McIntosh's 200m IM record as well as all the breakstroke events. She even won the 200m breaststroke outright against other 16 and 17 year olds. Meanwhile, 16 year old Madison Kryger also had a big meet winning 6 out of 6 events. Notably, if we compared the times from the world championships, her time in the 100m backstroke would have placed her 13th overall in prelims and her 200m freestyle time would have ranked 15th overall. The most impressive swim might have been the 200m backstroke which would have qualified her for the World Championship final in 8th and was faster than Regan Rathwell's time. 12 year old Huini Xu also broke the national age group record in the 200m freestyle and had some other impressive swims. Results

12 year old Grayson Coulter swam a long course meter 200m freestyle time of 1:54.40! The fastest ever 12 year old. Also had some other incredible swims at the Queensland Championships. 12-Yr-OId Grayson Coulter Of NZL Clocks 1:54.40 LCM 200 Freestyle

So I guess this is what it feels like to be a fan of the Norwegian mens cross country skiing team or German bobsleigh team

and a silver in the 200m freestyle for MSH! So happy for her. Also a Canadian record.