Skeleton 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[LuizGuilherme 333]

Well, im starting to dream with a top 8 

[vinipereira 3,460]

On 11/9/2021 at 12:09 PM, thiago_simoes said:

I'm starting to notice people are getting more and more excited about the Brazilian athlete here in Brazil, and I've even read somewhere people saying she has enough potential to finish in the top 8 at the Olympics, thus surpassing our historical best result -- a ninth place completely out of luck in snowboard cross in 2006. 

It's sad that we kept hoping that Isabel Clark would improve her results in the next editions, when clearly that 9th place was a once in a lifetime thing.

[dcro 10,210]

This is a most curious thing. American athlete Leah Fair is a pretty good starter, but her down-times have been "suspect" all week, as John Morgan would say.

Seriously though, she is half a second faster at start than Galea and Nguyen, and yet her runs are up to one second slower. Is she hitting every wall on course, sliding backwards, or what?

 

https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/502149

[Olympian1010 8,230]

 

[ahjfcshfghb 294]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

 

I get the feeling we will see a lot of COVID withdrawals during the Games.

 

On the plus side... it looks like Katie Tannenbaum  is in qualification position? Because I doubt Sweden will send Leslie Stratton, and the French athlete isn't meeting her federation's internal criteria.

[dcro 10,210]

11 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

I get the feeling we will see a lot of COVID withdrawals during the Games.

 

On the plus side... it looks like Katie Tannenbaum  is in qualification position? Because I doubt Sweden will send Leslie Stratton, and the French athlete isn't meeting her federation's internal criteria.

I wouldn't be too sure... Swedish NOC seems to be rather open minded for debutantes in new sports for them.

[Grassmarket 4,043]

I’m sure the IBSF will tweak whatever rules are needed to get an athlete from the African continent into the Games.