Just first let me say why exactly does the figure skating exhibition exist?

As I sit here updating the leaderboard, I have finished watching all today’s event’s live, and there’s nothing left other than the Closing Ceremonies, and I am bereft. Two years and four months give or take until we feel joy in our lives again.

I’ve gone through and audited all the sports that have concluded as of the end of yesterday, Saturday, February 21. That’s everything except hockey, bobsled, freestyle skiing, curling, and cross-country skiing. This means I’ve looked up each individual athlete and team on the official Olympics website to ensure the point totals are correct for each one. So in theory the points should all be correct.

Remember you can see your team and access the athlete/team point totals here.

If you have any questions about your tabulation, let me know. If you’ve asked any questions about your tabulation, then I’ve responded in the method you asked in (e.g. if you e-mailed, I sent an e-mail back; if you commented, I replied; if you sent a carrier pigeon, I texted back because I do not do birds).

Full update and medals awarded tomorrow. As always, bragging rights are the only award, but everyone should feel proud as usual of their mostly average performances.

SkiMo. What a strange little delight.

Coming to you live from the penultimate day of the Olympics, and the penultimate day of Gold Zone. I’m going to miss these goofy frat boys.

One issue I have had with this Olympics is there seems to be a lot of old people succeeding. And by old I mean generally my age. In fact, a 41 mom of two specifically won a bobsled gold medal. Some of us are just trying to spectate while eating a sleeve of girl scout cookies without all this pressure to accomplish great feats post-40, okay? It’s pretty disheartening even if Nick Baumgartener does have major Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers vibes.

I will not be crass and comment on the age of any Fantasy Olympians. But young and old, we all put too much hope in Lindsey Vonn’s ACL.

Alysa Liu, shown here celebrating an early morning Leaderboard Update.

Brought to you by President Owen of TheOne insisting on going to school thirty minutes early, we have a first thing in the morning leaderboard update. You, the Fantasy Olympians, deserve this special treatment because I have truly been remiss with the updates this week. My sincere apologies.

In great news though, I went through and double checked all the point totals, and you can see what points your athletes and teams have earned by clicking the link on the Submitted Teams page.

Supreme Tony Flags of Tony Flagistan remains at the top of the table. Untouchable? I’d have to do math to figure that out so who knows. First time Fantasy Olympians Other Gianluigi76 of Gianluigi76 and President Czarina Lora of Smileyland are clinging to the other podium spots, while frequent Fantasy Olympians Pope Brian of Barrettania, Her Chillness Ramba Snowpants the First, and The Great Helmsman, First Citizen and Comptroller for Life Rossem Tossem of Vichy Groganzola are currently slated to finish just off the podium and are devastated I’m sure.

Still a lot of Olympics left! Though not really. Several events (Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding) have finished their competitions, but that’s just leaving you much more time to watch SkiMo, which as Czarina Jen of the Warrior State of Greenland pointed out to me, is the only winter olympic sport where you’re surprised they’re not stopping to shoot a gun. Fingers crossed for 2030.

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A double day leaderboard update to finish out your weekend. Or for the middle of your weekend if you work for the US federal government or are US schoolchildren.

I don’t want to alarm you but there’s a woman competing in figure skating right now while, according to the commentators, having the audacity to be over forty years old. Can you imagine? A 42 year old woman just out and about in the world doing a job.

Speaking of elderly Olympians, the second great scandal of the Olympics has broken and tbh it’s even better than the ski jumping one in my opinion. Canada has been accused of doing, and depicted on video absolutely doing, a double touch on a curling stone. DRAMA.

The Fantasy Olympics is, as usual, free from scandal. There has been an unusual amount of activity at the Bronze level, but Supreme Tony Flags of Tony Flagistan remains on the top of the table, riding high on the success of Europeans with difficult to spell names.

Next Gen Fantasy Olympian President Owen of TheOne has passed two of three grandparents in the rankings. Elsewhere, OG Fantasy Olympians Chef d’Equipe KerryO of Beau Rouge Republic, Czarina Jen of The Warrior State of Greenland, and Kristi IceQueen of Yamaguchland are well positioned in the middle of the table.

Plenty more Olympics to go! (Roughly half.)

The agony.

Technically, I’ve been updating the leaderboard every day. I have just been uncharacteristically quiet about it for a lover of yap. But it is updated and here is a post about it.

Two of the most decorated Fantasy Olympians, Pope Brian of Barrettania and Supreme Tony Flags of Tony Flagistan, find themselves in silver and bronze position currently. Curiously, 29th place President Alice also claims to hail from Barrettania, and I am certainly interested to learn more about the religious versus political governing systems of this nation as I’m sure we all are.

Married rulers King FranktheGoatRat of ImaginationLand and Her Chillness Ramba Snowpants the First of Tundrambaland find themselves in a tie for 5th today, along with perennial Fantasy Olympics hopeful The Great Helmsman, First Citizen, and Comptroller for Life Rossem Tossem of Vichy Groganzola. One hopes the Groganzolans will be able to unite in winter success after the post-Summer Olympics revolution in which they must have overthrown their corporate overlords.

This is day six of the Fantasy Olympics, and as usual I, like many of those who have been here for now seven Olympic games, have started to wonder: is it possible to be good at this game?

Yes, that’s correct. Some of you have been playing Fantasy Olympics since 2014. That’s 12 years. Some measure their lives in coffee spoons, we measure in olympiads.

I forgot Biathlon.

Also now you can check out your team by clicking on the Submitted Teams link and then your name! If you forgot your name, let me know.

Hi, it’s ME. Just sliding into your sheet to tell you first, I love curling, and second the Leaderboard is LIVE AND UPDATED through the conclusion of the Sunday, February 8.

There are a lot of people in the league this year. Perhaps the most ever? Who can remember. So I urge you to be patient with me as I am just a one woman/one spreadsheet operation. Maybe this will be the two years I learn to code! (Probably not).

Welcome to all the new participants, and welcome back, old friends. Many former champions have returned to defend, and many former participants have returned to participate. Good luck to all!

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

The Winter Olympics are drawing near,

Starts the 6th of February in Twenty-Six:

So the time is now to make your picks.

You must hasten to click here.

But first, a note about a change to the rules: In order to participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics Fantasy League, you must enter your e-mail address and first and last name on the form. Sorry, bots. You may of course still choose a humorous display name and nothing has changed about country names and leader demonyms. Other than this small change, the rest of the rules remain the same. The Rules: How to Play.

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