i think we can win 1 biathlon medal between Bailey, Burke and Dunklee, a bronze in like a mass start or something
15.5 medals
11.8 medals
9.2 medals
6.3 medals
6.05 medals
5.75 medals
5.65 medals
5.25 medals
4.95 medals
4.6 medals
3.7 medals
3.25 medals
2.95 medals
it's a start and hopefully that means a proper tokyo game to take advantage of the current gen of consoles
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By evil betty · Posted
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. -
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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?
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I can understand if they don’t have the multi-events and the walks on the athletic programme, but no javelin? -
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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By De_Gambassi · Posted
Doest it matter ? Should it ? I mean, the vast majority of olympic events are shit TV products anyway that no one watch outside of the Olympics.
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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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