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Summer McIntosh did an interciew with our network, CBC. She says she'll swim 5 events at the upcoming world championships. She also said that this will be the last year she trains at her current base with the Sarasota sharks. She's eying training with Bob Bowman who is currently Leon Marchands current coach.

Loutitt is better at the large hill so this bodes well for her

and we have 5 new basic quotas from the men's sprint qualification: now up to 57 NOC's with a men's basic quota

If my calculations are correct, we have 4 new basic Olympic quotas from the women's sprint qualification: That means that we would have 42 qualified NOC's for women.

You can only qualify through FIS points earned at U23 championships or world championships so this race is the first time an Irish skiier has met the requirements. Maloney Westgaard should help Ireland secure more quotas through the nations ranking because of his World cup results though. Andorra also doesn't have the men's basic quotas yet but they should get it on Saturday.

Unfortunately, I had a very busy day at work so I wasn't able to follow along on here. In total, we had 22 new basic quotas from the men's qualification race

I believe we got 10 new basic quotas from the women's race:

It doesn't matter what place they finish in as long as they finish with 300 or less FIS points in the race. This document describes the calculation process. In summary, the FIS points earned are dependent upon the winner's time, your own time, and a factor level for that race determined by FIS.

Anyone know if the qualification races on Wednesday count towards the Olympic nations ranking?

Excellent! The two teams I wanted to qualify qualified. Both Taiwan and Nicaragua live and breathe baseball and it would've been disappointing to see either of them miss out. I have nothing against Spain itself but having their team qualifying would've been a joke. Only ONE player on the team was born in Spain. The rest are players from the DR, Venezuela and Cuba who had some great grand parent who came from Spain.

I hope they find a way to schedule the gold medal hockey game later. If the final is Canada/USA, then it will start at the unfriendly hours of 4am PST/7am EST

Silver for Laurent Dubreuil in the 2nd 500m Bronze for Ivanie Blondin in the mass start Silver for Canada in the women's team sprint

I've only realized now that Taiwan has just ONE player on their qualification roster that were part of the Premier 12 winning team last November. According to a commenter on reddit, the Taiwanese management wanted to select younger players to give them international experience because they thought that qualification would be a breeze

Day 3 Scores: 9-1 6-0 Nicaragua officially qualifies. Baseball is incredibly popular in the country so I'm really happy for them. Taiwan and Spain will play for one more qualification spot on Tuesday.

With the completion of the European and Four Continents championships, we now have our first sample of what the team standings look like for the Olympics next year. Top 10 teams qualify for the Team Event. Championship = Best Result from 2025 World, European, Four Continents, or Junior Championships Grand Prix = Best Result from 2025-26 Grand Prix, Grand Prix Final, or Junior Grand Prix Rank Nation Points Championship Men Championship Women Championship Pairs Championship Ice Dance Grand Prix Men Grand Prix Women Grand Prix Pairs Grand Prix Ice Dance 1 Italy 2903 756 551 756 840 2 United States 2804 680 756 612 756 3 Georgia 2450 612 756 680 402 4 Japan 2405 612 551 840 402 5 Canada 2246 325 325 756 840 6 France 2123 680 325 362 756 7 South Korea 2092 756 840 496 8 Great Britain 1706 113 362 551 680 9 Switzerland 1689 840 612 237 10 Kazakhstan 1523 840 446 237 11 Estonia 1286 446 840 12 Australia 1184 140 102 496 446 13 Poland 1173 325 402 446 14 Germany 1133 840 293 15 Finland 1092 74 192 214 612 16 Hungary 928 102 612 214 17 China 799 237 237 325 18 Belgium 680 680 19 Spain 677 126 551 20 Sweden 605 293 156 156 21 Latvia 598 496 102 22 Ukraine 579 173 293 113 23 Lithuania 570 74 496 24 Czechia 534 83 126 325 25 Mexico 507 293 214 26 Israel 474 237 237 27 Philippines 451 126 325 28 Romania 446 446 29 Uzbekistan 402 402 30 Slovakia 377 264 113 31 Netherlands 325 325 32 Norway 264 264 33 Austria 256 83 173 34 Bulgaria 214 214 34 Chinese Taipei 214 214 36 Azerbaijan 192 192 37 India 173 173 38 Armenia 156 156 39 Ireland 140 140 39 South Africa 140 140 41 Hong Kong 102 102 42 Slovenia 92 92 42 Malaysia 92 92

I would expect a competitive game that could go both ways. Nicaragua will be riding the momentum from their 2-0 start to qualification and their pitching has been great so far. Taiwan should be the favorite but for some reason, they decided to not select a bunch of players that were on the team that won the Premier 12 tournament and opted for younger players. However, the home crowd will be a huge advantage for them still.

Well, the women's relay got lapped. That was disappointing. Men's relay somehow didn't get lapped and finished in 17th while Kazakhstan finished in last and got lapped so that's good news

Scores from Day 2: 1-2 9-1 Updated Standings: Nicaragua: 2-0 Spain: 1-1 Taiwan: 1-1 South Africa: 0-2

Two golden goals 15 years apart. The torch has officially been passed from Crosby to McDavid. Sidney Crosby Golden Goal - Heard from 16 different TV Broadcasts - Olympics 2010 (HD) GOTTA SEE IT: Connor McDavid Wins 4 Nations Face-Off For Canada In Overtime

Came in 1st place among humans though.

First day of qualification is in the books. 2-1 12-5 South Africa almost completed the upset over Nicaragua and Taiwan had an absolutely embarrassing showing against Spain

CONNOR MCDAVID WINS IT IN OT!!! Also shout-out Jordan Binnington for some incredible saves

Qualification gets underway in just under six hours! First up, we have Taiwan, Nicaragua, Spain and South Africa battling it out for two qualification places in Taipei. Qualification is round robin format.

Lineups for the championship game tonight. Canada Forwards Brayden Point -- Connor McDavid -- Mark Stone Sidney Crosby -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Sam Reinhart Brandon Hagel -- Anthony Cirelli -- Mitch Marner Brad Marchand -- Sam Bennett -- Seth Jarvis Defenseman Devon Toews -- Cale Makar Josh Morrissey -- Colton Parayko Travis Sanheim -- Drew Doughty Goalies Jordan Binnington Adin Hill Scratched: Sam Montembeault, Thomas Harley, Travis Konecny Injured: Shea Theodore (upper body) United States Forwards Brady Tkachuk -- Jack Eichel -- Matthew Tkachuk Jake Guentzel -- Auston Matthews -- Jack Hughes J.T. Miller -- Dylan Larkin -- Matt Boldy Brock Nelson -- Vincent Trocheck -- Chris Kreider Defenseman Noah Hanifin -- Adam Fox Jaccob Slavin -- Brock Faber Zach Werenski -- Jake Sanderson Goalies Connor Hellebuyck Jake Oettinger Scratched: Jeremy Swayman, Kyle Connor Injured: Charlie McAvoy (upper body)

Had some time to check the work of whoever's been updating the alpine skiing olympic qualification page on wikipedia and I can confirm that the list is fully accurate. So we officially have the following nations that have earned basic quotas. Remember that the basic quota is earned by an athlete who has an average result <= 80 points over the skier's best 2 downhill or super-g races during the qualification period an average result <= 120 points over the skier's best 5 giant slalom or slalom races during the qualification period Basic quota for both men and women (50 nations): Basic quota for men only (17 nations): Basic quota for women only (4 nations):