February 6th to February 22nd

 

Let's hope all the venue's are ready by then

Team Canada's Roster for Hockey has been announced, still waiting for everyone else 

Edited January 1Jan 1 by iHeart

Team Sweden

Team Finland

 

well this is kind of positive news and with three weeks to spare (I just hope the French Alps can learn a lesson from this when their turn comes)

How do you say clusterfuck in Italian? Answer: Merda.

 

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

well this is kind of positive news and with three weeks to spare (I just hope the French Alps can learn a lesson from this when their turn comes)

Lots of room around the rink, they could have made it 200'

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Lots of room around the rink, they could have made it 200'

Not if they didn't put pipes under the cement for the proper dimension and found out about it way to late to do anything about it.

well now I've heard everything

 

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

well now I've heard everything

 

Are these two athletes?  Never heard of them before. 

16 minutes ago, Brandon said:

Are these two athletes?  Never heard of them before. 

they're on a streaming show called Heated Rivalry it's about two players on opposite hockey teams that are having a secret affair or something like that

Opening Ceremonies start at 1 pm central time

Edited January 23Jan 23 by iHeart

Team Canada has their first medal of the games (well we can resize pictures now maybe they'll stay)

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/livestory/olympics-2026-milano-cortina-winter-olympic-games-day-1-team-canada-live-updates-9.7078646

and Team Canada's Womens Hockey win game 1

Edited Saturday at 11:01 PM2 days by iHeart

Sucks about Vonn......

And Canada fails to make the Podium on Day 2 of the competition

Canada now has 2 bronze medals.........are we having a slow start?

On 2026-02-08 at 2:04 PM, iHeart said:

And Canada fails to make the Podium on Day 2 of the competition

That's an embarrassment. We should be in the medals for every curling event.

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

Canada now has 2 bronze medals.........are we having a slow start?

Other than curling & hockey, sometimes randomly, speed skating, downhill skiing or figure skating what sport do we dominate in the Winter Olympics? We'll win 15-20 medals, maybe 3 or 4 gold medals & that'll be it. Since 2006, that's been our medal count history. In the Winter Olys, the Euros like the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians & the States are the countries that win all the medals. The Russians would clean up as well if they were allowed to compete. I think it was the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Canada won a silver & bronze & that's it. Two lousy medals for a winter country. Canadians used to make fun of both our Olympic teams as we did equally as bad in the Summer Olympics. We hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics & became the first host country not to wina single gold medal. We were embarrassing as a country.

4 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Other than curling & hockey, sometimes randomly, speed skating, downhill skiing or figure skating what sport do we dominate in the Winter Olympics? We'll win 15-20 medals, maybe 3 or 4 gold medals & that'll be it. Since 2006, that's been our medal count history. In the Winter Olys, the Euros like the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians & the States are the countries that win all the medals. The Russians would clean up as well if they were allowed to compete. I think it was the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Canada won a silver & bronze & that's it. Two lousy medals for a winter country. Canadians used to make fun of both our Olympic teams as we did equally as bad in the Summer Olympics. We hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics & became the first host country not to wina single gold medal. We were embarrassing as a country.

that's true most of the Euro countries do have a major advantage(my god the 1980 games must have been embarrassing for us)

kind of ironic that all of a sudden Canada is excelling at the Summer Games (not that that's a bad thing I consider that a blessing since we had a little trouble in the Aughts and 2012). Still I wish everyone trained like it was Vancouver 2010 again my god that was magical (though granted I think we exceeded that medal count in 2018)

1 minute ago, iHeart said:

that's true most of the Euro countries do have a major advantage(my god the 1980 games must have been embarrassing for us)

kind of ironic that all of a sudden Canada is excelling at the Summer Games (not that that's a bad thing I consider that a blessing since we had a little trouble in the Aughts and 2012). Still I wish everyone trained like it was Vancouver 2010 again my god that was magical (though granted I think we exceeded that medal count in 2018)

Not winning a gold medal in 1976 was far worse. By 1980, shitty Olympics were the norm & not the exception. I remember in the 70's sometime, they interviewed a Canadian Olympic athlete during one of the Olympic games that decade. Likely 1976 0r 80. She was over the moon that she finished 26th in some Winter Olympic sport. That it was so great to participate. I remember being angry hearing her comments considering how bad we were as a country. I'm thinking my tax dollars go to support that??? Tjhat was the attitude of a lot of Canadian athletes back then. That they had zero chance of ever winning a medal of any kind. Things had to change.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by SpeedFlex27

9 minutes ago, iHeart said:

kind of ironic that all of a sudden Canada is excelling at the Summer Games (not that that's a bad thing I consider that a blessing since we had a little trouble in the Aughts and 2012). Still I wish everyone trained like it was Vancouver 2010 again my god that was magical (though granted I think we exceeded that medal count in 2018)

OBTW, we didn't win a gold medal at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988, either. We won 2 silvers & 3 bronze. Another huge embarrassment. The federal government changed the funding model after the 1988 Winter Olympics fiasco. I know they established a Centre Of Excellence & funding was tied into the number of medals won in each sport. It changed the way the funding model passed the money around.

We also had legacy facilities ileft over from 1988 in Calgary, Canmore & Kanasaskis Country for downhill skiing. Later, we also had the Winter Olympic facilities left from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whisler. Canadian athletes didn't have to spend 6 months training for winter sports in Europe & South American Andes Mountains. Those facilities really helped. But they're getting old. They need to be replaced or upgraded.

I just did some research. Our worst Winter Olympics ever was in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. We win just a single silver medal. Karen Magnussen won the silver in Women's figure skating. That was it. One lousy stinking medal.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by SpeedFlex27

Only Gold medal I care about is in Men's and Women's ice hockey. Rest i could give a rat's patootie about.

57 minutes ago, Piggy 1 said:

Only Gold medal I care about is in Men's and Women's ice hockey. Rest i could give a rat's patootie about.

For just 2 hockey medals I want us to stay home as I don't really care about the Olympics anymore, then. .