Blame Canada for her failure to qualify.
In fairness it sure looks like the canadian coach was acting a bit crooked. Looks like he deliberately gamed the qualification system to make sure a Canadian qualified, and by extension, an american didn’t. Without regard to their performance.
So it’s a problem with the qualification system that it allows this behaviour, and a problem with the Canadian coach that they would take advantage of it.
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The thing I couldn’t quite understand is if she’d even be able to go to the Olympics in the first place. It seemed like the American missed out on being qualified for the Olympics, but further reading suggested there were a limited number of slots per country. My impression was that if not for the Canadian withdrawals she’d be eligible, but it didn’t sound like she was in the top 2 or 3 Americans who would have been selected to go to the Olympics.
And if you haven’t yet qualified this close to the Olympics I would think there is a good reason.
She won gold at the 2012 skeleton world championships and placed 4th at the 2014 Olympics.
Yes, she won this event, but from the sounds of it, it was a development league event rather than a top tier competition. If it was important for her to qualify, the US couldn’t have ensured a bigger field? It would be nice to get a better understanding of what it was costing Canada if more points were awarded at the event. As it stands, I’m a bit lost on motive.
ETA: I found a Toronto Star article that unfortunately I can’t link at the moment. It suggests that Canada was gaming this event as suggested, but also notes that other countries were gaming the event by apparently sending higher level athletes to compete against developmental level Canadian skeleton drivers to collect easy Olympic qualifying points.
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Canada’s getting cheap EVs, and canola tariffs removed, win win imo
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-meeting-xi-china-9.7047880
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Interested to see if byd stock will rise.
Analysis of the benefit to Canada of bribing Trump with crypto
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-investment-9.7047169
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The Canadian airlines have added a lot of seats to their Mexican destinations. I have noticed a large number of Canadian tourists here in Merida and Tulum (unless the folks sporting little Canadian flags are actually Americans pretending to be Canadians).
Maybe ask them what the current temperature is and see if they respond in F or C.
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One thing I do notice in Merida is that people wear no US university t-shirts, US sports team caps, etc. Might be a bit different in resorts like Cancun where the tourists mingle primarily with resort staff rather than with the general public so are less concerned about the impression they make. Staff have to be nice.
I remember in my youth it was seen as really cool to be wandering around the streets of Australia with a US-themed t-shirt.
Same in Canada but those days are gone forever.
This was a really good speech.
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Carney wrote it himself: nice to have a smart, well-educated person leading Canada in these difficult times.
Article also caught the attention of one major US paper.
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Getting a lot of coverage from around the world. Hopefully it spurs on other medium-sized countries.
That may not work, particularly with older people.
FWIW, the headline of an analysis/“analysis” column on the NYT’s front page at the moment is “China wins as Trump cedes leadership of the global economy.”
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