OlympicsFan 783 Posted February 6, 2018 #11 Share Posted February 6, 2018 vor einer Stunde schrieb heywoodu: Ah, how could I forget Luitz. And sure she counts, it's nothing formal or official, no problem. Of course the question is how you define it. Are athletes who weren't able to qualify due to injury really "missing" it? We can't know whether they would have been good enough to qualify without the injury. Maybe another addition to the list: Anna Holmlund (SWE) - Head injury (A hint for everyone who takes part in the 2018 olympics bet contest) 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...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted February 6, 2018 Author #12 Share Posted February 6, 2018 7 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said: Of course the question is how you define it. Are athletes who weren't able to qualify due to injury really "missing" it? We can't know whether they would have been good enough to qualify without the injury. Maybe another addition to the list: Anna Holmlund (SWE) - Head injury (A hint for everyone who takes part in the 2018 olympics bet contest) True, I'd say someone like Bjoerndalen wouldn't really belong in a list like this, he just wasn't good enough, whereas someone like Bright had her injury as main reason (much like when a Dutch speed skater would have been injured all pre-season and due to that, finished right outside the qualifying places at the OQT). Right, Holmlund The athlete who makes all other names on this list look like they had only a relatively small bit of bad luck, since broken bones and torn ACL's will heal, but the possiblity of permanent brain damage is a whole different level.. 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...
dcro 10,182 Posted February 6, 2018 #13 Share Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) Pogorilaya it's not just back injury... Also a result of the infamous "Pogo fail". Meaning that Russian selectors probably wouldn't pick her even if she wasn't injured. Edited February 6, 2018 by dcro #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,167 Posted February 6, 2018 #14 Share Posted February 6, 2018 6 hours ago, heywoodu said: I'll start out with what I've got in mind at the moment. There's a lot of torn ACL's in there, feel free to correct me if that's not technically correct since I'm quick to count a knee injury as a torn ACL Alpine skiing Marie-Michele Gagnon (CAN) - Torn ACL at the Lake Louise World Cup Travis Ganong (USA) - Torn ACL at the Bormio World Cup Jacqueline Wiles (USA) - Torn ACL (?) + double leg fracture at the Garmisch World Cup Erik Guay (CAN) - Back injury Felix Neureuther (GER) - Knee injury Steven Nyman (USA) - ? Freestyle skiing Kelly Sildaru (EST) - Torn ACL Lisa Zimmermann (GER) - Torn ACL Heidi Zacher (GER) - Torn ACL Georgia Simmerling (CAN) - ? Ski jumping Severin Freund (GER) - Torn ACL Biathlon Gabriela Koukalova (CZE) - Leg injury? Snowboarding Sabine Schöffmann (AUT) - Fractured fibula + torn ligaments at the Bansko World Cup Simmerling broke both her legs IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted February 6, 2018 #15 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Alpine skiing: Ilka Stuhec (torn ACL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted February 6, 2018 Author #16 Share Posted February 6, 2018 36 minutes ago, Dunadan said: Alpine skiing: Ilka Stuhec (torn ACL) Another one of those "how could I forget that" athletes.. 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...
OlympicsFan 783 Posted February 6, 2018 #17 Share Posted February 6, 2018 vor 6 Stunden schrieb dcro: Pogorilaya it's not just back injury... Also a result of the infamous "Pogo fail". Meaning that Russian selectors probably wouldn't pick her even if she wasn't injured. They don't need to select her, they have Zagitova (Hint: Everyone who participates in the olympics bet contest should look up her age ...) and Medvedeva. I am only sad that Lipnitskaya won't participate, all the other skaters are pretty much interchangeable for me. About figure skating: The question whether any nation will win individual medals on both sides is one of the best/hardest questions in my opinion, whoever came up with that did a really good job. NearPup 1 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...
Agger 1,591 Posted February 8, 2018 #18 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Melanie Meillard - ACL https://www.srf.ch/sport/pyeongchang/kreuzband-gerissen-fuer-meillard-ist-olympia-schon-vorbei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigs 68 Posted February 8, 2018 #19 Share Posted February 8, 2018 vor einer Stunde schrieb Agger: Melanie Meillard - ACL https://www.srf.ch/sport/pyeongchang/kreuzband-gerissen-fuer-meillard-ist-olympia-schon-vorbei Man, this is so sad. Only a few days away from her first olympic race with a chance to maybe even win a medal and then this happens. Another alpine skier unfortunately missing the events is edit miklos. I don't know if you can call her a top athlete but it's just sad that a rather small winter olympic country like hungary loses its only skier with top ten potential and even a small chance to win a medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agger 1,591 Posted February 8, 2018 #20 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Katie Ormerod is the next one out. http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/42993893 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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