OlympicsFan 776 Posted February 22, 2018 #1171 Share Posted February 22, 2018 vor 4 Stunden schrieb Gigs: Two gold medals for sweden in the slalom events. I seriously cannot believe that I agree, add the gold in biathlon and its pure madness. Hirscher already has enough, but i am sad for Kristoffersen. Would have preferred Noel on the podium instead of a fluke like Zenhauser. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 776 Posted February 22, 2018 #1172 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Expected result after the downhill, still incredibly boring event, will hopefully be gone soon. Somehow nice to see Shiffrin only winning 1 gold, after american media talked about 5 golds for her ... Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 776 Posted February 22, 2018 #1173 Share Posted February 22, 2018 vor 4 Stunden schrieb De_Gambassi: When you make 4th 5th and 6th, you do get a consolation prize, a plush or something, right ?a plush arm maybe ? Something, anything... Glad that Faivre wasnt here to see that, considering how mad he was after the giant slalom although france won a medal. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 776 Posted February 22, 2018 #1174 Share Posted February 22, 2018 vor 4 Stunden schrieb dcro: Did he really think he could win with climbing?! Myhrer, wow, what a nice winner! He wanted to get that diploma ... Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 776 Posted February 22, 2018 #1175 Share Posted February 22, 2018 vor 5 Stunden schrieb heywoodu: Well if the other main skier is Beat Feuz... Feuz could be called Doppelmeter as well, just in another dimension. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted February 22, 2018 #1176 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Interestingly, both slalom had podiums. Kirkpatrick 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,133 Posted February 23, 2018 Author #1177 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Mixed Team Event Brackets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigs 68 Posted February 23, 2018 #1178 Share Posted February 23, 2018 I get it, every freakin sport needs a team event nowadays so alpine skiing needs one too. But at one point the fis has to decide whether they want to make a team event which represents the strength of the whole alpine skiing team, or a team event which represents the strength of the nations slalom (or rather parallel slalom) team. Because right now the fis behaves as if the former was the case while everyone with a brain sees in fact the latter is. This leeds to the stupid situation that for the 2nd year in a row one quarter final of the team event will be Austria vs Sweden, or said differently a duel between two of the top favorites while one of the other quarter finals will probably be Italy vs France. Those two teams might have great alpine skiing teams, but their slalom teams this year are simply nowhere near the ones of Austria and Sweden. I actually calculated what a slalom nation world cup would look like and it would be 1.) Austria 2.) Switzerland 3.) Norway and 4.) Sweden. However Norway would only be in front of Sweden because of Jansrud's 15 points which he got at a city event just for starting which brings up the question why the hell points like that are taken into consideration for making the bracket for this event too. Still taking this order to determine the duels for the team event would be so much fairer. I really think Austria has a team with medal potential, but I just don't see how on earth they could beat Sweden as long as no Swedish skier makes a huge mistake. Btw, I don't want to behave as if this problem only exists for Austria. Ofc Sweden is unlucky too to have such a strong opponent early on (although it's imo not as bad for them since I think no team other than Switzerland has a half decent chance of beating them anyway) and Switzerland will also have a pretty strong opponent in Germany or maybe even Slovakia. Talking of Slovakia, too bad for them Vlhova won two races, cause without those 200 points they swap places with Canada and all of a sudden Slovakia has a good chance to get into the semi final. (at least if Velez Zuzulova is in a half decent shape now, otherwise they don't have a chance anyway) I know the fis is currently trying to renew alpine skiing but why the hell can't they use their brain for once. They are making so many stupid things it's unbelievable. Can't wait for the first major championships where we'll have a slalom, a parallel slalom, and a parallel slalom team event, but no super-g and no combined. Kirkpatrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,504 Posted February 24, 2018 #1179 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Curious if my bracket will come true (never mind the numbers) Spoiler If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,504 Posted February 24, 2018 #1180 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I can not wait for Feierabend against Hozmann, who only lost 34 seconds in two slalom runs If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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