[GT] February 22

[CofR]

Our final day has sadly arrived!

Run 3 in the 4-man Bobsleigh starts at 02:00. The team piloted by Taylor Austin is currently in 14th. Jay Dearborn’s team is in 19th. Run 4 should begin at 04:15.

Also at 02:00 the Women’s 50km Classic Cross Country begins. Katherine Stewart-Jones, Sonjaa Schmidt, Jasmine Drolet, and Amelia Wells are the Canadians.

The rescheduled Women’s Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe should start at 02:40. Rachel Karker and Amy Fraser are the Canadians, Cassie Sharpe qualified but will not be competing in the Final.

At 03:05 Sweden faces Switzerland for Gold in Women’s Curling.

Canada plays for Men’s Hockey Gold at 06:10!

Coverage of the Closing ceremonies should begin at 12:00 on CBC

[malcolmk14]

Just want to say thank you for doing this every day! It was great to have everything in one easy to find place.

[Enoch Root]

Your daily posts are my go-to for coverage and times - thanks isn't enough!

These posts are as awesome as Cheese's GDTs!

[TED]

A huge thanks to CofR for his work, and a shout out to Suave as well for the medal projection and tracking! Between the two of them this was by far and away the best source for planning and following Olympic events.

[Finger Cookin]

Speedskaters Valerie Maltais, Steven Dubois named Canada's closing ceremony flag-bearers

[CalgaryFan1988]

Agreed, between CofR's posts and Suave's posts this place has been my go to on a daily basis. Thank you both.

[Suave]

CBC Projected Medals 27
Current Projected Medals 21

�� Gold Medals

Canada (Women) — Curling, Team Feb 22 Finals bronze
Reece Howden (Men) — Freestyle Skiing, Ski Cross Feb 21 Finals
Megan Oldham (Women) — Freestyle Skiing, Big Air Feb 16 Finals
Mikael Kingsbury (Men) — Freestyle Skiing, Dual Moguls Feb 15 Finals
Canada (Men) — Ice Hockey, Team Feb 22 Finals Silver
William Dandjinou (Men) — Short Track, 1500m Feb 14 Finals
Steven Dubois (Men) — Short Track, 500m Feb 18 Finals
Courtney Sarault (Women) — Short Track, 1000m Feb 16 Finals Silver
Canada (Men) — Short Track, 5000m Relay Feb 20 Finals
Eliot Grondin (Men) — Snowboarding, Snowboard Cross Feb 12 Finals Silver
Canada (Women) — Long Track Speed Skating, Team Pursuit Feb 17 Finals
Canada (Men) — Curling, Team Feb 21

�� Silver Medals

Canada (Men) — Curling, Team Feb 21 GOLD
Naomi Urness (Women) — Freestyle Skiing, Big Air Feb 16 Finals
Canada (Mixed) — Freestyle Skiing, Team Aerials Feb 21 Finals
Canada (Women) — Ice Hockey, Team Feb 19 Finals
Canada (Women) — Long Track Speed Skating, Team Pursuit Feb 17 Finals Gold
William Dandjinou (Men) — Short Track, 500m Feb 18 Finals
William Dandjinou (Men) — Short Track, 1000m Feb 12 Finals
Courtney Sarault (Women) — Short Track, 1500m Feb 20 Finals
Kim Boutin (Women) — Short Track, 500m Feb 12 Finals Bronze
Canada (Mixed) - Short Track Relay,
Mikael Kingsbury (Men) — Freestyle Skiing, Moguls Feb 12 Finals
Eliot Grondin (Men) — Snowboarding, Snowboard Cross Feb 12 Finals
Courtney Sarault (Women) — Short Track, 1000m Feb 16 Finals
Blondin (Women) — Long Track Speed Skating, Mass Start Feb 21 Finals
Canada (Men) — Ice Hockey, Team Feb 22 Finals

�� Bronze Medals

Canada (Mixed) — Curling, Doubles Feb 10 Finals
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier (Mixed) — Figure Skating, Ice Dance Feb 11 Finals
Mikael Kingsbury (Men) — Freestyle Skiing, Moguls Feb 12 Finals Silver
Megan Oldham (Women) — Freestyle Skiing, Slopestyle Feb 09 Finals
[ Blondin (Women) — Long Track Speed Skating, Mass Start Feb 21 Finals silver
Isabelle Weidemann Valérie Maltais (Women) — Long Track Speed Skating, 3000m Feb 7
Ted-Jan Bloemen (Men) — Long Track Speed Skating, 10000m Feb 13 Finals
Canada (Women) — Short Track, 3000m Relay Feb 18
Courtney Sarault - Short Track, 500m Feb 12 Finals
DUBREUIL Laurent (Men) Speed Skatin
Valerie Maltais (Women) — 1500m Feb 20 Finals
Brendan McKay (Men) Freeski Halfpipe Feb 20
Canada (Women) — Curling, Team Feb 22 Finals

[ajr4013]

Disappointing Games. Some great moments but a lot of squandered opportunity.

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by ajr4013

Disappointing Games. Some great moments but a lot of squandered opportunity.

Feels like a C- Olympics. We won many of the medals we were supposed to, just not always the placement we wanted. Dandjinou was a pretty big disappointment, but short track is such a crapshoot. Winning men's curling was probably my favourite moment of the games, but feels like we're a few gold's short of what we expected.

Some events (Nordic and sledding) Canada is just a non-factor. I don't know if it's from a lack of funding, but we have a ton of ground to make up there. We're great on the ice and in X-games events. We need to gain ground on those classical events. It seems like many athletes from other countries train in Canada, so why aren't we as competitive with our resources?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I’d give it a B. Maybe a B- due to losing both hockey games and women’s curling.

[powderjunkie]

My most memorable moments:

- Lindsay Vonn crash (feels like that was months ago!)
- That Italian long track run where the crowd seemed to just will her to an amazingly fast run
- Something similar happened for an Italian biathlete, and a bunch of other good/excruciating moments in biathlon races
- Curling drama
- The leading male slalom skier missing a gate on his 2nd run when he was virtually guaranteed a medal (very likely gold) if he just made it down the course. Dude hucked a pole, marched off into the trees and laid down in the snow. I think he might still be there.
- something similar happened in the women's slalom
- Oldham's gold in big air and the men's big air final being incredibly close
- some scary crashes in the halfpipe and a super scary crash in women's short track
- Sarault and the Dutch skater falling on crappy ice

Just gonna forget about the hockey stuff

[Meelapo]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

Feels like a C- Olympics. We won many of the medals we were supposed to, just not always the placement we wanted. Dandjinou was a pretty big disappointment, but short track is such a crapshoot. Winning men's curling was probably my favourite moment of the games, but feels like we're a few gold's short of what we expected.

Some events (Nordic and sledding) Canada is just a non-factor. I don't know if it's from a lack of funding, but we have a ton of ground to make up there. We're great on the ice and in X-games events. We need to gain ground on those classical events. It seems like many athletes from other countries train in Canada, so why aren't we as competitive with our resources?

Any particular reason why Canada has a lot of success in one group of disciplines and completely almost no presence in the others. For example, it seems Canada has always been strong in speed skating. Is it because the funding is just there for that sport or we have the proper facilities for training and nothing for the others?

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Meelapo

Any particular reason why Canada has a lot of success in one group of disciplines and completely almost no presence in the others. For example, it seems Canada has always been strong in speed skating. Is it because the funding is just there for that sport or we have the proper facilities for training and nothing for the others?

Youth hockey (and historically ringette) participation leads to a lot of speed skaters. All roads in Canada lead to an ice surface sooner or later. Including community and backyard rinks.

I'm not sure what the situation is really like in Norway, but I'm guessing nordic skiing isn't relegated to second-class beg/borrow/volunteer status at a few golf courses per city. OTOH hockey would be more niche and less resourced there.

[Strange Brew]

CofR is definitely the MVP of the Olympics for me. Thank you so much for what you do.

Rather disappointing Olympics in the medal haul department, not fun seeing Canada slide down the medal tracker compared to previous years. It's to the point where maybe that is no longer an appropriate metric around the country's performance since the medal allocation by discipline is totally disproportionate.

I'd say men's hockey and Homan not winning gold are rather large disappointments. The athletes that I follow outside the Olympics are men's hockey and the curling teams so those carry more weight for me. Alpine skiing used to be the same and it was awesome when Canada was competitive in the downhills. It's a shame that we have disappeared in those sports.