Well i did enjoy the Olympics, just like every time. I did have multiple issues
1) Scheduling sucked, i know the blame from you goes to NBC but i dont believe it, hours and hours between events it just bad scheduling
2) The winds were just horrible, the Ski Jupming normal hill final was just horrible, all the Alpine Skiing rescheduling which i think really hurt Shiffrin's chances in slalom.
The best for USA:
1) Chris Mazdzer
2) Women's Hockey
3) Cross Country Team
4) Men's Curling
5) Shaun White, Chloe Kim, Red Gerrard
6) Shiffrin's 2 medals
Dissapointments
- I would put shiffrin here as well, the slalom 4th place is very disappointing, besides i was hopeful for a downhill apperance, however i really put it on the winds and all the rescheduling
- All Skating: Speed Skating is again very bad, just one bronze medal. Short Track one lucky silver medal, figure skating 2 bronze, and no medals for Nathan Chen
- Elena Myers Taylor won silver, but i really hoped for a gold there
Overall i hoped for about 10 golds and 20 total, but in reality it's way less then the 28 total of sochi and 37 of vancouver (even though we had 9 golds every time)
why does Biathlon, Sledding sports need to be in primetime in korea? i understand speed skating and short track, they have medal contenders, but biathlon and sledding ?? (ok besides the men's skeleton)
How is this schedule american fault? alpine skiing is always an early sport, look at sochi, we maybe impacted figure skating scheduling but traditionally winter olympics have much more early start times. why is luge or sledding sports starts in the middle of the night here then? we have some medal chances there, same can be said for speed skating that besides today's session all will start in the middle of the night. The decision like always goes with the host (though i'm guessing nbc will try to persuade tokyo organizers to put swimming finals in the mornings)
And this time around NBC really changed their perspective, no more live delay, blocked events for online, or any of that shit, they are finally doing what's right and letting everyone see the games at their own pace. So beyond figure skating i dont see how any of the schedule is on NBC throwing money around
And when you do it like this and people ask "but who will win those medals?", they don't understand that you can't really answer that, because it's about the big picture and the big picture only, not about specific events
but why is world cup rankings accurate? not everyone participating in every world cup, Lindsey Vonn was out most of the season and look at her now, she is not the favorite according to the rankings, but are you going to bet against her after winning 3 in a row? you dont take into account all the parameters if you include only world cup rankings.
in sochi usa won 9 gold medals, with a horrible performance in speed skating, like i said, i dont expect us to lead the table in the end, especially with not a lot of medals if any to be won in sledding, cross country, ski jumping, curling, nordic combined, biathlon (unless bailey will show up in top form) but between skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboard, speed skating and figure skating i'm fairly confident we will eclipse the 6 gold and 20 total you predicted (again 9 gold and 28 total in sochi with 0 speed skating medals)
After using the 2017 world cup results here to make my own predictive Pyeongchang 2018 medals table, I've done the same with the 2018 world cup reults. A bit more sophistacated this time using either a top 6/8/10 table depending of the sport/events (full detals here)
Golds:
1. 15.5 medals
2. 11.8 medals
3. 9.2 medals
4. 6.3 medals
5. 6.05 medals
6. 5.75 medals
7. 5.65 medals
8. 5.25 medals
9. 4.95 medals
10. 4.6 medals
11. 3.7 medals
12. 3.25 medals
13. 2.95 medals
Medals:
1. 41.3medals
2. 33.75 medals
3. 26.65 medals
4. 20.8 medals
5. 18.05 medals
6. 16.7 medals
7. 16.55 medals
8. 16.15 medals
9. 15.4 medals
10. 15.2 medals
12. 11 medals
12. 9.65 medals
13. 8.7 medals
According to this:
- Norway should easely secure the top place
- Germany and Canada should complete the podium
- Huge fight for the remaining 2 top 5 places with 7 nations competiting for them (8 even, depending of the success of the dutch speed skaters)
how did you get to 6 golds by usa? can be just 3 or more between vonn and shiffrin, then snowboarding and freestyle skiing should bring few more in slopestyle, halfpipe, nathan chen in figure skating, possibly speed skating, i dont think we will get most, but i think 6 is under
Well yeah, we could name the entire NHL roster, but yeah
still not over it, very sad, also scary precedent for basketball for nba players, and probably means will really never see mlb players in baseball, even in the l.a olympics
If I'm not mistaken, part of the field (of 30 athletes) is the top-X of the World Cup and the rest is made up of the best non-qualified athletes in the other events. At least that's how it works in World Cups, I'm not 100% sure about the Olympics
hopefully not, there were only 3 mass start's this year....
I voted him as my greatest moment in sports of 2017, yeah I remember
I know she won a medal in it, but it's still possible that they can't compete in it, same thing for the pursuit (although that chance is significantly smaller).
is the mass start competitors dependent on one of the other competitions prior?
Did anyone play this game? i'm actually quite enjoying it, sure it have a pretty low number of events (downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super g, slopestyle, halfpipe, big air, snowboard/freestyle cross, snowboard slalom) but it's pretty fun from what it does have. Furthermore with ubisoft having this license we can hope for a proper tokyo game that didnt exist in rio
This whole NHL thing is a real bummer, 2 past games for me USA hockey was a highlight of the games, the incredible final in vancouver , or the match vs russia in sochi. But with second rate players i will be interested in that probably as much curling..... that sucks, but i guess at least it will allow more time for all the other sports..... hopefully something will change, but not likely.
oh yea i played every game since barcelona 92, it was always a lot of fun though mostly button mashing, it makes me sad there are almost no proper games with olympic sports, i basically just found handball game that i didnt really like
It's just some skiing with some snowboarding and that's it... That's not a proper Pyeongchang 2018 video game at all
man i wish there would be a proper game but it's a start...... since sega australia closed down we got nothing, not to mention no rio game on ps4 it's a start and hopefully that means a proper tokyo game to take advantage of the current gen of consoles
yes i wish there was sledding, skating, jumping but i think it's better then nothing
If any of you are like me, you were very dissapointed that Sochi or Rio didnt get a proper video game, so Pyongchang 2018 is finally different! Ubisoft announced in their E3 press conference that their game Steep is getting a pyongchang expansion!!!
the trailer showed the following events :
Downhill
Snowboard Cross
Slopestyle
Ski Cross
Halfpipe
PGS
GS
Super G
Slalom
Big Air
Ski Halfpipe
while it's not a huge list, it's better then nothing which we got in 14 and 16
i'm super excited!!
December 5th, if someone here is a ps4 gamer, come join me!
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Is there anyone out there tracking countries that have met the Alpine Olympic standard already? There have been enough SAC races for it to be possible I think.
Karate obviously has lots of problems with officiating. and WKF itself is not a great organization either (most of their rule changes are dumb) but the scoring basic is very simple with only 1 or 2 rare situations.
I know in past IOC (under previous IOC presidents not the current dictator) asked WKF to find a solution, using helmets or something like that to avoid situation like the last Olympic final. and I remember WKF used it for few tournaments around 2000 (1998 Asian Games for example) but nobody (specially the athletes) didn't like it, they dropped the idea.
I totally understand Kata looks very very boring, (as boring as Surfing in my opinion) but that's the heart of karate. even if WKF is allowed to pick 1 event for the Olympics, they will pick Kata (team kata is much better though)
Cross-country is a long standing WA ask. Handball was never going to get Beach, Gymnastics would defo want tumbling, but possibly prefer double mini or trampoline synchro to acrobatic. High diving SHOULD get in and Archery would be better looking at field events, but may be satisfied with the five it has.
Worth noting that MMA was once more or less known as 'no holds barred', the most brutal form of combat sport....but almost immediately, certain holds and techniques were barred! Eye gouging, fishhooking and, more important for this discussion "small joint manipulation" - i.e torture submissions based on breaking fingers and toes. Holds that work in te real world...but are unacceptable in the sport. Any martial art that becomes a sport compromises - what do you think boxing gloves are?
My problem with karate is following the scoring and understanding what scores and what doesn't. The action itself looks interesting, but its hard to read a context.
Under no circumstances whatsoever should we see fierce growling and staring at invisible people - Kata - ever return to the games - the only event more shambolic that B-girl Raygun. What next, Haka?
That was never a controversy for anybody who has watched this sport for an hour.
in Judo you can win by strangulation or something but you can't break the neck I assume.
that's the same with kicking (or punching) to the head in Karate, you can kick but you can't kick with maximum force. that's the first thing they teach you in Karate. the very first thing.
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Well i did enjoy the Olympics, just like every time. I did have multiple issues
1) Scheduling sucked, i know the blame from you goes to NBC but i dont believe it, hours and hours between events it just bad scheduling
2) The winds were just horrible, the Ski Jupming normal hill final was just horrible, all the Alpine Skiing rescheduling which i think really hurt Shiffrin's chances in slalom.
The best for USA:
1) Chris Mazdzer
2) Women's Hockey
3) Cross Country Team
4) Men's Curling
5) Shaun White, Chloe Kim, Red Gerrard
6) Shiffrin's 2 medals
Dissapointments
- I would put shiffrin here as well, the slalom 4th place is very disappointing, besides i was hopeful for a downhill apperance, however i really put it on the winds and all the rescheduling
- All Skating: Speed Skating is again very bad, just one bronze medal. Short Track one lucky silver medal, figure skating 2 bronze, and no medals for Nathan Chen
- Elena Myers Taylor won silver, but i really hoped for a gold there
Overall i hoped for about 10 golds and 20 total, but in reality it's way less then the 28 total of sochi and 37 of vancouver (even though we had 9 golds every time)
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