the mad sports man

The Tokyo summer games next year will be scheduled for July 23rd to August 8th. Hopefully the qualifying will continue.

This years summer games in Tokyo have been postponed to next summer. They will be held no later than the summer of 2021. No surprise really. Dates of the games will be announced at a later date. Pretty sure that Canada and Australia pulling out had an influence as well as other nations threatening to pull out if they didn't postpone.

From Piya Chattopadhyay: Canada will not be sending a team to Tokyo for the games due to the COVID-19 virus. Understandable move. Hopefully the games get delayed.

Spring starts at 9:57pm Mountain time (which Prince Albert and Saskatchewan is in). First full day is tomorrow. It's -14c at the moment and is supposed to warm up over the weekend and stay warmed up (hopefully). Time for the snow to start melting.

That time of year where everyone wears green, or tries to. Green beer served at bars (if they're still open), green river in Chicago and St. Patrick's day parades, if there were any. Stay safe out there.

Yup two more are going. Jordan Steen and Amar Dhesi won their respective classes and will be going to Tokyo. Nice.

This time it's Danielle Lapagge of Olds Alberta winning the 68kg class. She will be going to her second games.

Erica Wiebe is going back to the Olympics after winning the 75kg class event. She is the defending Olympic champion in this event.

NHL just got suspended. NBA suspended last night. Junos canceled. Leagues everywhere else suspended or cancelled. Some Olympic qualifications moved or cancelled. This Corona virus is an absolute pain in the ass. Anyone who thinks this is a joke needs to get their heads examined. Don't need to have this spread anymore than it has.

Mo Zhang and Eugene Wang got another Olympic spot in the mixed team event. This after they each claimed a spot - MO in the ladies event and Eugene in the mens event. Excellent.

Brad Gushue and his team from Newfoundland and Labrador beat Team Bottcher of Alberta 7-3 and will represent Canada at the worlds later this month and at next years Brier. This tournament had great shots, very good games and even a 4 way tie breaker. And that's another Brier.

Mo Zhang and Eugene Wang each qualified for the Tokyo olympics in table tennis. Couple of Canadians now in serve.

Allana Yip will be going to Tokyo after she qualified in wall climbing - a new Olympic sport. Nice.

Canada's sitting volleyball team will be going to the paralympics at winning their tournament and going undefeated. Nice.

End of February is here. And a leap day as well. Let's see what happened. Spring training baseball begun, the Brier began last night with Mike McKewan beating Glenn Howard in the wild card game, Kerri Einarson winning the Scotties tournament, Kansas City Chiefs winning the super bowl, NASCAR began and loads of NHL hockey. Canada picked up a few Olympic spots as well. Not bad for such a short month.

Although it's been a cool -9c day today, it was spring like the last two days an is supposed to warm up again to above 0. Melt some more snow. This time last year it was freaking cold all of February and into the first part of March. I will take the nicer weather any time. It helps that spring training baseball has begun. Aaaaahhhh baseball. Season starts March 26th. Rewatched inning 1 of Ken Burns baseball documentary on the history of the game. Plus the Brier starts Friday. I wonder how insane that will get given what happened at the Scotties. Maybe we can ask Devin Heroux. More later.

Yup two more nabbed. Both the mens and womens fencing teams each nabbed one in the foil event. Can July get here soon enough? I wish.

Kerri Einarson gas won her first Scotties final and Manitoba's 11th as the beat Rachel Homan 8-7 in an extra end. Wow. Einarson and her team will be representing Canada at the worlds next month and at next years Scotties.

New Brunswick scored 7 (yes 7) in the 7th end to beat Manitoba 13-7. The 7 is the highest scoring end with the hammer (last shot). This after there were 68 points scored in the evening draw over the weekend (4 games). Thanks to Devin Heroux for the info.

The Nova Scotia women's curling team will be making history when Emma Jones becomes the first deaf player to play in the Scotties tournament of hearts. Not sure if Nova Scotia is playing in the wild card game Friday (?) but yeah that is happening.