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Brown is more established, but leaving Malinin off the team after that performance is certainly questionable. They represent two very different styles, Malinin is more of spinning top, while Brown is more technically proficient/maturely choreographed skater. In my opinion, Brown is more representative of the past generation of figure skating, while Malinin is more representative of the present/future generation of figure skating.

Bowe has also implied that the 500m isn’t really her focus at the moment. She’s more focused on the 1000m/1500m.

I’m not really impressed by any of the IBSF’s qualification systems. The change I’d suggest would be to switch to to ranking based allocations for multiple sleds. For example, if you have 3 sleds in the top 15 of the world ranking, then you can have three sleds. If you have two sleds in the top 25, then you can have two sleds. Otherwise, you get one sled.

She would have had to establish a national federation though, as isn’t associated with the ISU.

Bahamas Prime Minister announced that all flags will be flown at half-mast in his honor.

40 entires for the two-man at the Europa Cup. Easily the most entires I’ve seen at an IBSF event in a while. It’s definitely crunch time for Olympic qualification.

Also, qualified 5 athletes in Powerlifting

Current total for should be 8 athletes in 7 sports (Air Sports, Archery, Canoe Marathon, Kickboxing, Muaythai, Powerlifting, Finswimming). That’s according to the IWGA qualification tracker + IPF quota announcement.

Happy new year from the last Totallympics time zone

If my count is right, that’s 7 out of 10 teams with positive Covid-19 cases now.

I knew Yellowstone was in Wyoming, and I was pretty confident it was in Montana as well. I knew it wasn’t in Utah, since Utah markets their national parks as “The Big 5,” and I’ve been to all of “The Big 5” and Yellowstone wasn’t one of them. That leaves Idaho and South Dakota. I thought Yellowstone was in the western part of Wyoming, and South Dakota seemed too far east. Therefore, I would have suggested Idaho.

Present!

Aerials is more closely related to gymnastics, Big Air is more closely related to organic freeski. I don’t think anyone doing either would be able to easily transition to the other. The styles are completely different. That said, aerials should really be dropped for 2026. There’s not enough athletes/countries competing to justify its spot on the Olympic program, and it would free up quotas that will be badly needed elsewhere during the next round of cuts. I love aerials, but it the discipline’s days on the Olympic program should realistically be numbered.