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B-Dog absent from the Canadian Olympic Slopestyle Team

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zahava
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Sorry if this is a repost, but I looked on the first page and this was recent so...

http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/story/_/id/7890483/canada-names-2013-slopestyle-halfpipe-teams&f

If your too lazy to read the article:

A Team: Alex Bellemare, JF Houle, Kaya Turski and Dara Howell

B Team: Alexi Godbout, Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Charles Gagnier, Jamieson Irvine, Noah Morrison, Vincent Gagnier, TJ Schiller, Kim Lamarre, and Yuki Tsubota

Okay, well where the hell is Casabon. Charles hasn't competed in years, TJ's been out on injury, I don't even know who Dara Howell and Yuki are? They really fucked up on this one.
May 4 2012 5:21PM
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seebass
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yeah that's him!
May 4 2012 11:46PM
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Poems
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Dat gif
May 4 2012 11:57PM
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Dr.Gonzo
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dude dara fucking kills it, she's from my home mountain, i bet b-dog doesn't even care, he's got better things to do than the olympics.
May 5 2012 1:06AM
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Jibberino
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If the criteria is that you have to have won or podiumed at major comps, there's a lot of those guys that shouldn't be on there.
May 5 2012 2:40AM
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joly.sp
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mistake not having maude on the womens slope team.

if tj is healthy I say hes the best chance in the olympics
May 5 2012 2:43AM
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Jibberino
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Really, he seems quite far behind guys like Houle, the Gagnier's and Bellemare?
May 5 2012 2:49AM
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Gnarbar1
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Who makes the team is solely based on results.
Think about it....when is the last time you saw b-dog anywhere close to the podium.
Exactly
May 5 2012 2:58AM
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tdollo
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wtf, this is my video! im the camera guy!
May 5 2012 8:53AM
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Gharf
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you talk like you know your shit, but you dont. stop being so damn condescendant.

Charles gagnier has competed in quite a bunch of slopestyle comps this year. he was at WSI in whistler in both slope and big air.

so please if you dont know stop talking. your opinion is irrelevant...
May 5 2012 10:21AM
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fruitstick
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Dara Howell is a girl
May 5 2012 10:24AM
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dispatchQ_main
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FUCK YOU! HOCKEY IS THE ONLY IMPORTANT EVENT.
May 5 2012 10:32AM
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Capurnicus
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Has it ever dawned on you people that he doesn't give a fuck about the stupid olympics?
May 5 2012 10:53AM
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corona
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I'd find it incredibly hard to believe that he got asked to be on Team Canada and refused.
May 5 2012 11:01AM
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84891jnf92048
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This is just the Olympic team. He's on the Canadian National team. I doubt Cassabon has much interest in the Olympics, or that the Olympic team has much interest in him, as he's not the kind of skier that would do well in a slope comp.
May 5 2012 11:41AM
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ChasingFlakes
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i almost died choking on my apple you fuck ahaha
May 5 2012 2:26PM
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sneds
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i'd like to see him compete in the olymics so that olympic viewers non-familiar with freesking can get a chance to notice his style and flow on the course, not to see him win gold.
Thats for TJ to accomplish
May 5 2012 3:12PM
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Stose
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stupid comparison. But really this is the olympics, not some video shoot. They could care less is b dog looked sick during his run, it all comes down to whos the most technical and throws the biggest tricks. not style
May 5 2012 4:39PM
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DBL
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My video! He tweaked it too!
May 5 2012 4:59PM
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ldc_
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The release is about the national team, not the olympic team. Olympic team won't be announced for a long time.
May 5 2012 5:58PM
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zahava
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This, I made that mistake with the thread title.
May 5 2012 6:00PM
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Stose
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Somewhere he said that he stopped smoking just to have a shot at Olympics.
May 6 2012 2:38AM
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84891jnf92048
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he stopped smoking to be on the Canadian National Team.
May 6 2012 10:01AM
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Crankset
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Clearly it's because Quebec is its own country and he is skiing for them
May 6 2012 10:15AM
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powder99
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‘A’ Group: “Stars” (LTAD stage: Train to Win):
Athletes will be selected to this group based on meeting both of the following
performance benchmarks:
• Ranked Top 3 on the 2011-2012 HPP Ranking list of their respective
discipline (by gender)o Minimum of one or more podium at X-Games, Euro X, and/or a
Dew Tour event.
o The selection committee reserves the right to add athlete(s) based
on Special Rankings considerations (Appendix A) or Extraordinary
circumstance claus

all selection information is available to the general public. If you dont meet the qualifications you don't make the team.
May 6 2012 12:12PM
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84891jnf92048
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then what was the canadian team that casabon was on?
May 6 2012 12:34PM
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ldc_
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2012 team. http://freestyleski.com/wp/team/slopestyle/
May 6 2012 12:49PM
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84891jnf92048
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ah
May 6 2012 12:54PM
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Ronix
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"I don't think Charles has even competed in slopestyle in the past 2 years"

I never said Charles hadn't competed in the last year, I said that's what I thought. If you can read, it's quite clear I made no definitive statement about him.

I'm not a big Charles Gagnier fan, so I don't know much about him, but I know my shit about freestyle skiing.

Btw "condescendant" isn't a word. The word you were looking for is "condescending".
May 6 2012 1:28PM
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EARL
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I'll throw this out for you guys. (No clue if this is what's happening, but it's just a fact)

He might have been invited to the team and denied it, or he just didn't get invited. BUT, Either way, he can still go to the olympics. You don't have to be ON the National team to qualify for the olympics. Truth.
Example: Shaun White and Louie Vito, Both COULD be on the US National team, but instead they deny the invite and work with Bud Keene as a private coach. As long as you are in the top 30 or whatever it is by the time the qualifying period is done, you will get an invite to the olympics even if you're not "signed" with a national team.
May 6 2012 6:45PM
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BK
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oh lympics, how entertaining this whole first year will be.
May 6 2012 8:36PM
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p-oskier
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Yeah thats why.
But I just noticed that most of the people on the A or B team come from Quebec.
May 6 2012 8:52PM
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Brosiden
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haha i bet she could podium. You wait.....just wait
May 6 2012 9:06PM
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Download-My-Apps
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guys, he can still go, this is just the national team for next year based on last years results.
May 6 2012 9:24PM
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zahava
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I have a feeling this could be the case. In White and Vito's case, they would forfeit they're funding by not joining the american team. Maybe there was a conflict between large sponsor funding (Armada, Full Tilt, Oakley, Orage, B-Dog is on the biggest companies in the industry). Like maybe he wouldn't even receive the funding anyways so not being on the team would open up a spot for someone like Irvine or Charles. Canada's olympic funding is scarce, even when we hosted in 2010, funding was low for athletes. Again, just a though.
May 6 2012 9:43PM
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adamlukowski
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JAMAICA WE HAVE A FREESKI TEAM. Tanner Henrik and B-dog competing for jamaica. Real talk
May 6 2012 11:34PM
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skier_boy26
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Precisely.


Face it, Olympic slopestyle is going to a pure double (maaaybe triple) fest, with really fucking marginal rails.
May 6 2012 11:43PM
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Nadia.
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Yuki's a young 17 year old girl who's been crushing it all year with multiple wins on the North Face Park and Pipe open series, along with a Third Place finish at the AFP World Championships Slopestyle at WSSF.

You're going to end up eating your words, the girl can throw down.


May 7 2012 8:48AM
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Gstrong
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weak
May 7 2012 2:25PM
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123ski
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Yuki:


I wish I were a girl so that I could be in the Olympics.
May 7 2012 2:31PM
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Nadia.
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Have you won multiple competitions this year and ended up on the podium at platinum level AFP events competing as a man? If not, I think it's outrageous to think you would be capable of the same if you were a girl. You would have totally different circumstances/physique/mentality and it's nothing but ego claiming you'd be winning comps and Olympic bound if you were a girl.

PS. For everyone that hasn't clued in yet, National Team does NOT equate Olympic team. Olympic team selections are made only in the months prior to the actual games themselves. A lot can change in 2 years with injuries and progression.
May 7 2012 2:48PM
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falconeye
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When you say he doesnt have the bag of technical tricks, i think you're wrong.Almost  none others can do what he is doing on the rails section. Unless you think the jump section should be all doubles youre right. But if he is doing one double he definitiely has everything to be on the podium.
The canadian team should have him on the B team and just work on what to do. What i can see is that you better live with you're past results and be out to be taken on the team. Anyway if he proves himself next year , he can be on the olympic team. For this he will have to perform each contest where he can get AFP points.

May 8 2012 7:32AM
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andrewmeehan
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you all forgot that you have to pass a drug test to be able to compete.... something tells me casabon won't be passing that one anytime soon.. i could be wrong though.
May 8 2012 9:49AM
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guys, I really want a pulled pork.
May 8 2012 10:15AM
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deet
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^This
May 8 2012 11:28AM
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123ski
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well obviously asshole... it was a joke. chill out


May 8 2012 6:45PM
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